Heartfelt Apologies… and the Other Kind
This would be one of the other kind:
An African-American congressman from Florida is apologizing for his comment that black and Jewish voters should not support Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.”
“I regret the comments I made last Tuesday that were not smart and certainly not relevant to hunters or sportsmen,” Rep. Alcee Hastings said in a statement issued Monday.
What’d it take, a week? We reported it six days ago.
We’re not impressed.
Last Friday, the NJDC announced the launch of a new campaign of pro-Obama ads that will appear in Jewish newspapers across the country. The first ad in the campaign is timed to coincide with the Rosh Hashanah issues of the publications, and focuses on Obama’s support for Israel. “Barack Obama is committed to a safe and secure Israel” and “believes that Israel must be preserved as a Jewish state,” the ad reads.
The Republican Jewish Coalition has already launched its own series of election-related ads in Jewish newspapers throughout the country. The latest ad refers to some Obama’s advisers as “pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, and even hostile to America” and states that “You can know a man by the company he keeps.”
Our Jewish readers can and will think for themselves. But that last line is sound advice.
Carol said,
September 30, 2008 @ 10:29 am
He’s apoligizing because his remarks were not SMART???? What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? (Was that racist?) His comments were vicious and wicked; “smart” isn’t relevant. What a pig.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
September 30, 2008 @ 10:46 am
See Carol, these are the rules:
If you make anti-Semitic comments, it’s ok.
If you make anti-Christian comments, it’s ok.
If you demean white, working-class people, it’s ok.
If you make comments that are perceived as anti-African-American or anti-certain-people-of-color, it is a hanging offense.
Those rules are codified and we should all just formally acknowledge them.
- Aggie
Carol said,
September 30, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
Thanks ever so, Aggie, but I’d rather be a guns-n-religion-clinging racist.
What would happen if I started making the Sign of the O with my middle fingers only extended?
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
September 30, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
Maybe you should try it and see what happens? Can you run fast?
- Aggie