Perriello Supporters Catch (and Use) the “Racism As Political Weapon” Meme
By Shaun Kenney | Sunday, October 31st, 2010 | PoliticsNOT SAFE FOR WORK. You might want to keep kids away or turn the volume down… or up, if you want to get the full effect.
Police actually arrived in the first instance… and did nothing. Much credit goes to the second instance where the officer actually confronted (and defused) the Obama supporter.
Welcome to Charlottesville.
I bring this particular video up for a reason — and not because of the “gotcha effect” but for two serious questions: (1) Here we go again with “racism as a political weapon” again — doesn’t the attack (or at best, baseless claim) in these instances cheapen what is still a very real problem? (2) If it was a Republican or Tea Party volunteer doing something similar in downtown Charlottesville that afternoon, would this have been headline news?
Of course, I know the answers I’ll hear. They are the same ones trotted out in every discussion regarding the different standards conservatives and progressives are held against. And I have little sympathy for the vast majority of those arguments.
At some point, this sort of behavior deserves universal attention and universal condemnation. So long as the MSM refuses to address the issue, people will continue to sidetrack themselves from the important stuff (deficits, education, transportation, economy, creating opportunity, etc) and simply brood on the bad play calls from the self-appointed referees. And that goes for both sides.
(h/t Fifth District Watchdog)
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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18 Responses to "Perriello Supporters Catch (and Use) the “Racism As Political Weapon” Meme"
While watching your video, I observed the police officers doing their jobs. I don’t know how you can claim they did nothing when they clearly stopped both incidents from going further.
And I did notice the video taker and his buddies acting like children to increase the reaction of both the sign attackers. Two wrongs do not make a right. Frankly you all should be happy it didn’t turn ugly and somebody got hurt.
And I do not support the sign attackers but your video doesn’t exactly leave you all looking very professional either. The video makes all parties within looking like dumb sh*ts… I if that is what you intended to show, then well done.
Mostly I see more Shaun Kenney drama that is intended to fire up some voters who are in all likelyhood to be going to the polls to vote anyway. Like your non- disclosure Mailer article, this video has no impact on the election and is just more Kenney drama… LOL Grow up Son…
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William,
Watch again. The Jeep Wrangler cop pulls up and parks. Doesn’t even get out of his vehicle. If that is considered “doing their jobs” then you probably think that Obamacare doesn’t fund abortions.
The officer on the bike did handle the situation. The first cop did not.
I can’t be certain, but the C’ville police who are in those jeeps are usually just traffic enforcement people. They are checking whether cars are parked too long and writing tickets. They are not police officers armed or trained to deal with an obviously unhinged person screaming in the street.
The idea that the C’Ville police would not do anything because the guy screaming was a Democrat is absurd on its face.
As for how the media would have handled it, I don’t think even in our little burg a guy yelling would warrant media coverage, whether a Democrat or Republican, but whatever.
Drama…
Relax William…Shaun didn’t identify these sign trashing thus as “THE UNION”.
As before, the second officer on the bike? Did exactly the right thing to defuse the situation.
Officer in the Jeep? Wrong decision. I’m sure there are policies and procedures for that, but in events such as these, sometimes the very presence of a uniformed officer does a world of good.
Beyond that, the “racism as a political weapon” stuff is getting mighty old, and it’s taking away from the things we ought to be talking about.
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Did Perriello (or his surrogates at some Union) put these Negro morons up to this? Was their plan to incite a brawl, then try to fan the coverage of the brawl into a Rodney King extravaganza, in order to mobilize the Negro vote?
Desperate times must call for desperate measures, at least in the Perry-Yellow camp.
While I suppose that the wimps at AFP should be commended for having shown restraint, the Republicans still come off looking like a bunch of wimps.
I guess all of the Neocons were waiting for some woman, like Palin, to come along and fight their battles for them.
Good job in not taking the bait from gay-boy Perriello, but you still looked like a bunch of wussies.
Yeah, completely shocking that any black person would call us racist, huh Clairese
@Clairese- way to live up to, well, almost all of the stereotypes the liberal left has of us.
Wow, Clairese, that has to have been one of the most disgusting and ignorant things I have read in a long time…
Ditto what Jason said… naturally, there’s an instinct to remove that from Bearing Drift, but I’d rather let ignorance stand where it is for all to see (and mock).
Leave it up there. That kind of ignorant behavior needs some sunshine on it.
When you look up ugly race-baiting troll in the dictionary…there’s a picture of Clairese…or the troll typing this from Perriello’s basement…
See, one comment Clairese and you might have been believable. But you overplayed your hand.
I agree. Leave it up there.
lol at the commenters on this site shitting their pants because clairese said “Negro”
I thought the “gay-boy” comment was the worst, but the whole thing is pretty bad. But hey, when you’re as paranoid as she is, everything you say is going to be nuts.
mike, that you think we’re afraid of words just shows either that
1) you have a lower understanding of reality than Clairese, OR
2) you ARE Clairese.
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