{"id":361,"date":"2004-02-29T00:48:33","date_gmt":"2004-02-29T00:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:31","slug":"racism_redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Racism, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to my earlier blog post on Our Watchful Media<\/a>, I just made a quick pass through the newspapers and blogs, and noticed that the flap over Rep. Corrine Brown’s racist remarks seems to be overwhelming the newspapers – or not.<\/p>\n

New York Times – still nothing
\nLos Angeles Times – still nothing
\nWashington Post – still nothing [See Update, below]<\/b><\/p>\n

And because I’m feeling kind of snarky…Josh Marshall<\/a> – nothing (actually he quotes her in a 2000 post<\/a> about the Florida ‘undervote’ brouhaha, so he knows who she is…<\/p>\n

Kos<\/a> – nope<\/p>\n

Tbogg<\/a> – nope<\/p>\n

Atrios – yes<\/a>, kinda – the comments were ‘intemperate’. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the reader to go Google his comments about Trent Lott, and see if he excuses them as ‘intemperate’.<\/p>\n

Calpundit, absolutely stood up<\/a> on this, and since we all read each other’s stuff, it’s damn unlikely that none of these bloggers knows about it; they just think it’s unimportant, or ‘intemperate’. Sadly, they’re wrong.<\/p>\n

This isn’t some community organizer, struggling against The Man. This is a woman who speaks with the authority of the House of Representatives of the United States, and who writes laws that I have to live under.<\/p>\n

And so far, she’s gotten a ‘bye’ on it. Someone explain to me how I can demand, with a straight face, that Dixiecrat Trent Lott or Jew-baiter (and MBNA shill) James Moran be punished when she isn’t, or how I can give moral – as opposed to political – standing to those who only bust one side for the same crime.<\/p>\n

[<\/b>Update – just got pointed to a 2\/27 mention<\/a> in Al Kamen’s column in the Post; I have no idea how my site search for “Corinne Brown” missed it, but I have to admit it did. Digesting this now to see if it changes my views…]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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