The dominant talking point: The allegations, first reported by Politico, are a liberal/Democrat/liberal mainstream media “high-tech lynching” aimed at Cain because he is — gasp! — a black conservative. (No, that doesn’t account for the six months that the press largely blew off covering Cain because they didn’t think he could win, but whatever. Don’t mess with the narrative.)
Then Ann Coulter, who we hasten to add has a new book out to promote, picked up a glass of kerosene, which we believe she keeps in her hip pocket at all times, and flung.
As Talking Points Memo recounts: “She continued that liberals are ‘too dense’ to see the ‘many wonderful qualities’ about Herman Cain, because ‘all they see is a conservative black man.”
“That’s why our blacks are so much better than their blacks,” Coulter said. “To become a black Republican you don’t just roll into it. You’re not going with the flow. You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that’s why we have very impressive blacks in our party.”
“Our blacks?” ….oops, sorry. Thought the calendar just rolled back to 1861.
Check out the video. Go to the 5-minute mark…(and, sigh, risk missing a couple of plugs for Coulter’s book):
Perhaps Coulter would like to debate a fellow Republican on this. How about former Republican Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — herself on book tour. She was asked about Cain in an interview to be broadcast Wednesday on CBS’ “Early Show.” Her advice: Don’t play the race card. Here’s a snippet from her chat with Norah O’Donnell:
Norah O’Donnell: “Herman Cain predicted that he would be the victim of a high tech lynching. What do you think of that when you hear that?”
Condoleezza Rice: “I– I don’t care much for incendiary language. And, I actually am someone who doesn’t believe in playing the race card on either side. I’ve seen it played, by the way, on the other side quite a lot too and it’s not good for the country. We ought to be able to look at people and say, ‘All right, maybe this is a disagreement about policy.’ Everybody goes through their– their time in the barrel, if you will, if you choose to put yourself forward. And so, I’m not much for the race card.”
O’Donnell: “So you think it was wrong for him to use those words?”
The controversial conservative didn’t regret her remarks, standing by her statement in an appearance with Joy Behar Tuesday. Behar quoted Coulter back to herself and asked her to clarify what she meant by the statement, saying “Are you saying all the African Americans who are Democrats are stupid?”
“No,” Coulter answered. “I’m saying Google Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney and John Conyers, or Google Allen West, Michael Steele or Herman Cain. Ours are more impressive. There is no question about that.”
Behar contradicted her, saying Coulter didn’t consider black liberals impressive because she disagreed with their ideologies. She also said that liberals didn’t “despise” conservative blacks,” citing her approval of Steele.
“When Michael Steele was running for Senate, liberals showed up and rolled Oreos down the aisle at him,” Coulter countered. “The only racism you hear is against conservative blacks, and it is vicious.”
Coulter also refused to consider President Barack Obama as a black liberal.
“Obama…is not a descendant of the blacks that suffered these Jim Crow laws,” she said, calling him the “son of a Kenyan” who didn’t go through the American experience.
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