Speaking of Hypocrisy…
Hypocrisy seems to go hand in hand with intolerance. As pointed out here and here, the far-Right radicals and racists are getting bolder by the day about expressing intolerant ideas publicly and have coalesced into the Tea Party Movement, among others. And while there are a few hapless souls who have yet to figure it out, that which forms the basis of the movement is the anger that the very idea of a Barack-Obama-as-President engenders in the hearts of middle-of-the-road, old-fashioned, traditionalists. I imagine many people don’t even know or either cannot articulate what exactly upsets them so much about this president. They just know how he makes them feel. They have the feeling like something in the world has changed on such a fundamental level that it has robbed them of the sense of security they once derived from their understanding of how the world functions.
You can try to cover it up with smoke screens like objections to high taxes, big government, or elitism but little by little, people within this camp are coming around to what really bugs them. Consider, the United States has had Democrats as President before. The United States has had liberals as President before. But it has never had an African American as President before. I am sure they try to suppress it; but it is there—every time they look at him. So when they all get together at conventions like CPAC, they are more open than they would normally be in mixed company because they are among “like-minded” people there.
That is what leads them to say things like what Jason Matera said in this Media Matters clip (below). I have pointed out hypocrisy, after hypocrisy, after hypocrisy over conservative support of Glenn Beck, the czar nonsense, and a host of other things but you be the judge:
Despite these kinds of blatant attacks, you still find black people in denial, who are willing to ally themselves with radicals like these. Given my background as a conservative and having put my life on the line time and again for what I thought were conservative principles, I wonder why my road has taken me to such a radically different place. I welcome your comments.
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Most of you have seen these clips. I include them just in case you missed them.
These are the most interesting unedited sections:
1. Notice that around conservative blogs they tap dance around these issues. One was asked about the lack of minorities and he of course, equivocated. Conservatives in these movements never answer the question, why are radicals allowed to represent and speak prominently at every single one of their meetings? The jist of their reasoning is usually, ‘We honor their constitutional right to free speech’ but why does that mean that you can’t distance your organization from the more radical element and definitively state that they do not accurately reflect what your organization is about?
2. They can’t logically defend their hypocrisy. They can only say, “You guys do it too.” I would probably agree without demanding any proof that Democrats have done this as well at other times (taking credit for things they voted against), aside from blatantly lying about it like Republicans. Taking opposing positions is what we expect. But the lies… It makes the people who believe such nonsense look truly gullible.
I reluctantly agree with much of what you say John, however I must disagree with your assertion that Tea Party attendees are all racists. Many of them just feel passionately that the government is no longer working for the people. What are we to do, just lay down and take it?
This movement could have happened at any time. Are Republicans to be silent just because the President happens to be an African American? It’s like what he said on the tape you linked to, you are damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Stephen, I was very careful not to say the word “all” in fact it’s a word I rarely use. As I pointed out in some of the articles linked to above, conservatives have typically chosen to cede their voice to radicals because when they make crass and bigoted statements (also linked above) how many conservatives step forward to say they disagree with that.
Republican leaders are given one opportunity after another to say they do not agree with the extremist rhetoric. They simply refuse to do it. If you can point to rhetoric this hateful going mainstream in previous Democratic administrations, I will modify my stance. Until then, let the chips fall where they may.