I've appeared on a number of radio talk-shows discussing the Project 21 press release from earlier this week. The release condemns an early July political cartoon by Ted Rall, a cartoonist syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

A letter went out from Project 21, with my signature on it on Monday of this week, asking that they reconsider Rall's standing with them, in light of his cartoon, which depicted National Security Director Condoleezza Rice being referred to as a "house n-----."

Also on Monday, letters were sent to the NAACP, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the PUSH/Rainbow Coalition, asking that they take a look at the case, especially in light of their participation in going after commentator Rush Limbaugh last fall, after comments that disparaged Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. After all, they have stated that they would be interested in righting wrongs where they exist in terms of black individuals.

Richard Prince, with the Maynard Insitute for Journalism Education, went to Universal Press directly and asked for some sort of comment on our press release, and presumably our letter (to which we have yet to receive a reply).

Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, said Rall was carried by about 50 newspapers, and is also picked up on Web sites. She said she had received no complaints about the strip.

In response to a query from Journal-isms, Lee Salem, editor and vice president, Universal Press Syndicate, issued this statement:

"When we distribute opinionists -- writers or cartoonists -- to op/ed pages, it is with the knowledge that editors of those pages edit by selection. Most newspapers print only a few releases of any one cartoonistÂ’s or writerÂ’s work because of space constraints, subject matter, viewpoint expressed, or other editorial considerations. We know that every client will not like every cartoon or column we distribute, but we do not prejudge the editorial diversity for subscribers that range from strongly conservative to strongly liberal. We assume the editors who buy the features we distribute know what works in their market and what [doesn't].

"The criticism of Ted Rall's depiction of Ms. Rice obscures the fact that it is part of a larger, hyperbolic context. In the cartoon, Rall is clearly imagining unlikely scenarios that might befall a number of key people in President Bush's administration. That he exaggerates both the language and the events is a time-honored tool of satirists. Anyone who takes it literally is missing the point."

Ted Rall says that Dr. Rice is a second class citizen because she is a black woman who dares to be conservative. And by your passive and limp-wristed acceptance of Rall's cartoon, you have planted your seal of approval on it.

This week, I've been told things from "get a thicker skin," to "she deserves it because she is a 'house n-----'," to "you don't have the right to ask anyone to support this because you are conservative," and "black conservatives are second class citizens; their opinions don't count."

On WAOK radio in Atlanta this afternoon, I was verbally excoriated for three hours for having the unmitigated gall and audacity to dare to even suggest that this was an "issue worth discussing." One caller suggested that I needed my head examined, while another said that because I was "stupid enough" to support conservatives and Republicans that I couldn't "survive in the 'real' world" as opposed to the "fantasy world" that he insisted I live in.

On WVON radio in Chicago this morning, similar feelings were expressed, with one caller going as far as to say that Rall must have meant it as a "state of mind" and that as a result it was OK.

Now to their credit, some callers from both stations understood and agreed with me; even going against their political ideologies. I insisted that this was a case that transcended politics, and that it was a matter of simple "right" and "wrong." That no one, politically correct or otherwise, deserved to be talked about in such vile terms. And that if a more "politically correct" individual were spoken of in such terms, that the subsequent uproar in the mainstream media and otherwise would certainly dwarf my efforts here; and that Rall's severed head stuck on a pike in the middle of Times Square would be the only thing to satisfy the Salmon Rushdie-esque fervor of those who would call for his head.

Political correctness has run amok, and this is the part of the result: that there are two "classes" of blacks in America -- those who follow the public edicts of the Jackson-Sharpton cabal with lemming-like zeal, and enjoy the "spoils" of their so-called bounty, no matter whether rightly or wrongly; and the conservative blacks who march to the beat of a different drummer, and are publicly excoriated and privately shunned because of it.

As I emphasized on radio shows across the nation all week long when being interviewed in relation to this issue, the left can walk boldly this week, because it is not one of their own who was wronged. But next week is a different time, and that next time, one of theirs may be the one who is in need. Do I dare to help one who refuses to help me?

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice? Uh....no. No thank you.

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The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) has a new study out that suggests that whites are responsible for "global warming."

The study, conducted by Oakland-based Redefining Progress, says that America's black population will be "unduly burdoned" by health effects of global warming; that blacks are "less responsible" for contributing to global warming than whites; and that governmental policies geared toward alleviating global warming can create large health and fiscal benefits for blacks, depending on how they are implemented.

"We are long past the point where global warming is considered a myth," said U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chairman of the CBCF. "We are seeing its effects all around us."

"Time and again, the world's leading atmospheric scientists have warned us about the devastating impact of climate change," said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas. "We now have irrefutable proof of its impact on our economy, our way of life, our health and our children."

The study alleges responsibility for the problem does not lie primarily with blacks, stating, "African-American households emit 20 percent less carbon dioxide than white households. Historically, this difference was even higher."

So, as always, the jury is out on global warming.

But leave it to the CBCF to shoehorn the old newspaper headline joke in with their voodoo science: "World Ending, Minorities Affected Most."

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Notorious moonbat and former congresscritter Cynthia McKinney won the Democratic primary in Georgia's 4th District this week. Her win in the predominantly Democratic district all but assures her return to the US House of Representatives in the general election in November.

At the victory celebration Tuesday night, Jihad Cindy's bodyguards shoved a reporter for local radio station WSB toward the exit with a snarl. WSB host Neal Boortz takes the story from there...

On Tuesday night Ms. McKinney had a little celebration for supporters. The media was there to chronicle and report on the event .... including a reporter for our flagship radio station, Atlanta's News-Talk 750 WSB. When Cynthia's bodyguards noticed the female WSB radio reporter in their midst they swung into action. They approached our reporter and physically shoved her toward the exit with the words "Get your WSB ass out of here."

Our reporter is still waiting for an apology from Cynthia McKinney, but ... she isn't holding her breath.

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Country singer Bonnie Raitt, on the tail end of a concert swing through Europe, took time out of her concert to take a crack at President George Bush. She received a loud ovation from the audience at the Stockholm Music Festival this week.

"We're gonna sing this for George Bush because he's out of here, people!" Raitt crowed Tuesday night before she launched into the opening licks of "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)," a cover that was featured on her 1979 album "The Glow."

Raitt's comments resulted in a round of applause and even whistles from among the estimated 3,000 concertgoers at the Swedish capital's annual jazz event held on the banks of the downtown Skeppsholmen island.

Swedes are skeptical of Bush and the Scandinavian country refused to support his efforts in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The nine-time Grammy award winner is no stranger to political activism. Her Web site urges fans to learn more about preserving the environment and she was a founding member of MUSE, or Musicians United for Safe Energy.

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1 They're dropping like flies form my book. These people should keep their opinions to themselves to appeal to a wider audience, because their rants color and ruin their performances for me, whether dramatic or lyrical.

Posted by: Jane at July 21, 2004 06:35 PM (PcgQk)

2 These people may be very talented - but, business persons, they are not. Too bad for them.

Posted by: Deb at July 21, 2004 08:22 PM (6aoDM)

3 Yes you are famous.... Perhaps you have a little intelligence... No, you are not a walking PSA....

Posted by: dmiller23462 at July 22, 2004 01:16 AM (GSdIn)

4 Let her say what she wants. It's essentially noise as long as she's talking to Swedes. It's amazing how courageous people are when there's no chance of consequences. Has anyone heard from the Dixie Chicks after it became clear that record buyers and radio stations would exercise a little freedom of their own?

Posted by: Gib at July 22, 2004 03:29 AM (PsC2M)

5 After selling 6 million+ of their first three albums, the Dixie Chicks "Top of the World Live" CD only went gold (500,000). Usually, live albums don't sell too well, but the Chicks were one of the top 3 acts in country music at the time (heck, Garth sold over 3 million of his live CD). They are now on what they call 'maternity' leave and plan to make a new album in 2005. But I don't think they have a chance in country anymore. Of the 15 or so country stations in the Kansas City area, I've only heard one station play them, albeit sporadically, since their 'coming out'. And I don't see a fiddle and banjo competing with Usher anytime soon. But besides the Chicks, have any of these moronic musicians been big in the past ten years? Bonnie Raitt, Linda Rondstat, John Mellencamp, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle? Lord, take me back to the '80s! Any publicity is better than none, I guess.

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US Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) is requesting that Secretary of State Colin Powell officially request the United Nations monitor the November general elections in the US, and particularly the Florida election.

13 Democratic Congressmen, led by members of the Congressional Black (Democratic) Caucus, requested UN intervention previously, and were turned down by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

"As legislators, we should guarantee the American people that our country will not experience another nightmare like the 2000 presidential elections," the members of Congress said in their letter to Annan.

The U.N. immediately responded that such a request could not be accepted unless if came from the U.S. government. Otherwise, a spokesman said, it could be considered "intervention in a countryÂ’s sovereignty."

In her letter to Powell, Johnson expressed grave concerns regarding electoral system reforms that were not undertaken after the 2000 election.

Recalling the contentious Florida vote count in 2000, the lawmakers urged the U.N. to "ensure free and fair elections in America."

"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," Johnson said in the letter. "This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself."

Florida election officials have already announced that the foreign officials are not to be allowed access to polling places, and would have to remain at a distance of more than 50 feet from polling places.

Other than Johnson & Brown, signing moonbats of the initial UN letter include Julia Carson of Indiana, Jerrold Nadler, Edolphus Towns, Joseph Crowley and Carolyn B. Maloney, all of New York, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Corrine Brown of Florida, Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, Danny K. Davis of Illinois, and Michael M. Honda and Barbara Lee of California -- all Democrats.

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UPI has a story this morning that indicates that nuclear weapons may have been found in Iraq.

Iraqi security reportedly discovered three missiles carrying nuclear heads concealed in a concrete trench northwest of Baghdad, official sources said Wednesday.

The official daily al-Sabah quoted the sources as saying the missiles were discovered in trenches near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

"The three missiles were discovered by chance when the Iraqi security forces captured former Baath party official Khoder al-Douri who revealed during interrogation the location of the missiles saying they carried nuclear heads," the sources said.

They pointed out that the missiles were actually discovered in the trenches lying under six meters of concrete and designed in a way to unable sophisticated sensors from discovering nuclear radiation.

UPDATE: The Iraqi Interior Ministry calls the earlier report of possible nukes found in Iraq "stupid."

Iraq's Interior Ministry dismissed as "stupid" a report in a local newspaper on Wednesday that said three nuclear missiles had been found near the town of Tikrit.

A senior U.S. military official told reporters he had no information on the report in the newspaper al-Sabah. He said officials were checking the report.

Asked by Reuters about the report, a spokesman at the Interior Ministry said: "It's stupid."

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Saudi security forces, during a raid on on the house of Saudi Arabia's Al Qaeda leader, found Paul Johnson's severed head stored in a freezer, according to Saudi authorities today.

Authorities said the head was found as Saudi security forces raided the home of Saleh Mohammed al-Aoofi. Two militants were killed and three were wounded in the sweep, but it was not clear if al-Aoofi was among them.

In a statement, broadcast on Saudi al-Ekhbariya television monitored in Cairo, the Interior Ministry said the head was found in a freezer in the apartment. The statement said the rest of the body was not found.

Johnson had been kidnapped outside his apartment in Saudi Arabia. AQ terrorists demanded that American forces leave Iraq, in exchange for Johnson's life. After their demands weren't met, the terrorists brutally murdered Johnson.

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Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, is traveling the highways and byways of America, with a 12 foot tall effegy of President George W. Bush, complete with flames shooting out of the back end, in tow.

Ben Cohen says it's an acceptable way to point out what he calls the president's lies. "In a polite society, you don't go up to a person and look at them in the face and say, 'You're a liar,"' Cohen said in a telephone interview before arriving in Spokane, the next stop on the Pants on Fire Tour.

"We think it's a lot more dignified and there's a lot more decorum to say, 'Excuse me sir, your pants are getting a little warm, don't you think?"' Cohen said.

The "PantsOnFire-Mobile" is a trailer pulled behind a car. The Bush character wears a flight suit with the words "Mission Accomplished" emblazoned on the back, a reference to the president's declaration aboard the deck of an aircraft carrier that major hostilities had ended in Iraq. An electronic ticker on the front displays what Cohen says are Bush's lies.

The head is a rotating cylinder with various Bush facial expressions.

I'll stick with other brands of ice cream, thank you very much.

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Michael "Get Outta The Way! He's Gonna Eat The Whole Raw Bar!" Moore is upset over the action taken by Aladdin Casino president Bill Timmons this week.

After headliner Linda Rondstadt tried to dedicate a song to Moore and his propaganda movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, patrons booed the singer. Timmons had Rondstadt not only escorted offstage, but completely out of the hotel, and told not to return.

Anyway, Fatass, bitching like the PMS sufferer he is, sent a complaint letter to Timmons.

"What country do you live in? Last time I checked, Las Vegas is still in the United States. And in the United States, we have something called 'The First Amendment.' This constitutional right gives everyone here the right to say whatever they want to say. All Americans hold this right as sacred. Many of our young people put on a uniform and risk their lives to defend it. My film is all about asking the questions that should have been asked before those brave soldiers were sent into harms way," he [Moore] wrote.

"For you to throw Linda Ronstadt off the premises because she dared to say a few words in support of me and my film, is simply stupid and Un-American. Frankly, I have never heard of such a thing happening. I read that you wouldn't even let her go back up to her room at your hotel! Are you crazy? For crying out loud, it was a song DEDICATION! To 'Desperado!' Every American loves that song! Sure, some people didn't like the dedication, and that's their right. But neither they nor you have the right to remove her from your building when all she did was exercise her AMERICAN right to speak her mind."

She was hired to sing, not pontificate!

My advice to Linda Rondstadt: Shaddap and sing! You wanna preach, go pay for your own damn pulpit!

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The Raegan Butler story from earlier today now has another chapter added to it.

As I mentioned in the original piece, the actual "mark-leaving" piece that went out was yanked by the AP. But WLWT's President & General Manager, Richard Dyer, has provided an apology to viewers as well as to Ms. Butler.

On Monday, July 19, language was added to a news story on channelcincinnati.com that was offensive and hurtful toward one of our staff members and was an egregious violation of the standards of this news organization. As soon as the posting was discovered it was immediately removed from channelcincinnati.com and a company-wide effort was mounted to remove all references to the story from Web search engines.

This posting was the result of one individual's actions and that individual has been terminated.

We regret the trouble this has caused for the individual named and our entire staff and we apologize to viewers of channelcincinnati.com.

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The New York Times has weighed in on the Annie Jacobsen piece from WomensWallStreet.com, and their predictably skeptical.

The piece skews toward the Nothing Happened camp and concludes with a quote from Federal Air Marshal spokesman Dave Adams saying: "They gave their little performance in the casino and two days later they flew out on a JetBlue flight from Long Beach to New York."

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Reports this afternoon say that Michael Jackson is going to be the father of quadruplets.

Pop star Michael Jackson, facing a trial on child molestation charges, is about to become a father to four more children -- quadruplets -- by way of a surrogate mother, Us Weekly magazine reported on Tuesday.

Citing unnamed sources close to the self-proclaimed "King of Pop," the magazine said Jackson recently spent time with the pregnant mother-to-be in Florida, where he stayed in a $4,000-a-night luxury hotel suite in Miami Beach.

Jackson, 45, already has three children -- Prince Michael I and daughter Paris Michael by his former wife, Debbie Rowe, and Prince Michael II, the child he notoriously dangled from the balcony of a Berlin hotel in November 2002.

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S-Train's partner-en-blog T-Steel weighs in on the Congressional Black Caucus "meeting" with Ralph Nader a few weeks back, where they read him the riot act and basically cussed the man out for getting in the way of their plans to get rid of President Bush.

when you organize to harrass a third party candidate into not running, your using the same tactics that were used against us by some sick white folks back in the day. We don't owe the Democratic Party (or any party for that matter) so much that we have to become an attack dog for them. And CBC, you want to claim the moral high ground on racism and discrimination yet invite Nader to a "dozens party"? You are an 100% fool for doing that CBC. And once again, you minimalize and marginalize yourselves. I pray that when my children grow up, black organizations like yours are GONE and new, progressive, and RELEVANT black organizations take your place.

And CBC, the plantation always has room for 100% fools. Why don't all of you check-in?

And that's what happens when you let your hatred blind you (as the CBC's has) to what's really important.

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Raegan Butler of WLWT-TV/DT Cincinnati was the target of an editor's ire this week in a piece that went out on the AP wire. The story, an otherwise average story about the identification of a dead body, was "run-of-the-mill" until you got to the final paragraph.

Investigators are not sure if Powell died where her body was found or if she was killed elsewhere, WLWT Eyewitness News 5's most-overrated, obnoxious, annoying, stick-like, ho-bag, sperm-receptacle staff member Raegan Butler reported.

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Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger is now under investigation for swiping documents out of the National Archives. The documents in question related to the investigation of the 9/11 Commission.

Berger and his lawyer said Monday night he knowingly removed the handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket and pants, and also inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio.

"I deeply regret the sloppiness involved, but I had no intention of withholding documents from the commission, and to the contrary, to my knowledge, every document requested by the commission from the Clinton administration was produced," Berger said in a statement to the AP.

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I'm quoted prominently in a new release from Project 21; the release goes after Ted Rall's strip that refers to Condoleezza Rice as a derrogatory racial slur.

At the same time, the silence over this from the "Soul Patrol" is deafening.

Because of the racially-insensitive content of a recent cartoon, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are asking Universal Press Syndicate to cease the distribution of comics drawn by Ted Rall. Project 21 also is challenging several other civil rights-oriented groups to join in the demand.

A July 1 comic by Rall suggests "appropriate punishments for deposed Bushists" that parodies alleged treatment of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. The panel featuring Bush Administration national security advisor Condoleezza Rice has her saying "I was Bush's beard! His house nigga. His" She is interrupted by a character wearing a shirt reading "You're not white, stupid" who says, "Now hand over your hair straightener."

"Is it OK for Ted Rall to use such vile language because he's using it against a black conservative?" asks Project 21 member Michael King. "I'm beside myself with anger over this comic."

Project 21 is asking Universal Press Syndicate, the distributor of Rall's comics, to immediately terminate their relationship with him. Project 21 is also asking the NAACP, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to make similar demands based on their past involvement in pressuring ESPN to fire radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh in 2003.

Last year, in his capacity as a football commentator for ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown," Limbaugh criticized the performance of Philadelphia Eagle's quarterback Donovan McNabb, saying, "The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." Afterwards, NAACP president and CEO Kweisi Mfume called Limbaugh's comments "bigoted and arrogant" and called for his removal. The NABJ demanded ESPN "separate itself" from Limbaugh. Rainbow/PUSH Coalition president Jesse Jackson called the remarks "not accurate andinsulting." Limbaugh later resigned.

"From radical poet Amiri Baraka to singer Harry Belafonte and now cartoonist Ted Rall, too many people feel they have free rein to insult the dignity of Condoleezza Rice and have no problem injecting race into that abuse," adds King. "It's time for the civil rights establishment to stop allowing this assault on an accomplished black woman or they put their credibility at risk."

So what's the difference?

What makes it right here and wrong at any other point?

If I get no reply -- or worse yet, a negative reply from the NAACP, Rainbow/PUSH and the NABJ, then, at least as far as I'm concerned, they will have shown their true agenda to the world: that if one is black and conservative, that we are to be treated as blacks were treated at the beginning of last century. That we are lower than human. And that it is OK to treat us in such a fashion.

I, for one, won't take it lying down. Will you?

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Three days after US forces suspended searches for his body, the murder by decapitation video of Paul Johnson, Jr. was released on the internet on a web site associated with Al Qaeda and other terrorists.

Images of an American hostage being decapitated surfaced Saturday on an Internet site known for carrying the statements of Islamic militants.

The gruesome videotape appeared three days after U.S. authorities announced the search for the body of Paul M. Johnson Jr. had been called off.

Still photographs of Johnson's beheading had been posted June 19 on some of the same militant Islamic forums that on Saturday provided links to the newly released video footage.

Johnson, a 49-year-old engineer for U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin, was kidnapped June 12.

The video, which ran almost two minutes and included images of tanks and destroyed homes apparently in Iraq, carried the title "The Voice of Jihad: Get the infidels out of the Arabian Peninsula."

Voice of Jihad is the name of a periodical issued on the Internet twice monthly by the al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia, which claimed Johnson's killing.

Americans are a patient lot. But there is a limit to that patience that is rapidly approaching.

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Five months ago, Bubba "The Love Sponge" Clem was a morning radio host for Clear Channel Radio in Tampa, and syndicated to several other cities. Today, he's planning on running for Sheriff of Pinellas County, FL.

"For over a decade I've been the voice of the people," Clem said during a news conference Friday at the DoubleTree Hotel Tampa Westshore. "Now, I want to give the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office back to the people."

This will be the second time Clem, 38, has campaigned for the office. He was not an official candidate in 2000, but this time, because he paid the $8,584.86 filing fee, he will be on the ballot as the lone Democrat.

Clem will await the winner of the GOP primary between Chief Deputy Jim Coats and Tim Glassburner, a retired Ohio sheriff's deputy.

A registered Republican until he registered with the Democratic party 60 days ago, Bubba says he's "fed up with Republicans."

As opposed to his more famous radio name, the ballot will read "Bubba Clem," his real name.

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1 I am not sure I would want "the voice of the people" (which people exactly?) running the Sheriff's department. He already has shown he advocates a liberal application of the law. I'll bet he's fed up with Republicans like Ken Lay is fed up with Republicans.

Posted by: Joel (No Pundit Intended) at July 17, 2004 06:31 PM (IW50W)

2 It would sure make voters in Fulton and DeKalb counties look bad if voters in Florida reject Spongy for sheriff. Speaking of which, I'm hoping voters here in Coweta don't fall for the challenger in our sheriff race. The more I see from him the better I like the incumbent.

Posted by: McGehee at July 18, 2004 04:29 AM (WcMFl)

3 I live in Pinellas Co. and Bubba has my vote.

Posted by: alacet at July 18, 2004 12:59 PM (PcgQk)

4 You must know the facts,, and one is that Bubba is an actor. He did it well and made lots of money doing it. He has my vote

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Black voters across the state of Georgia are starting to look at the Republican Party, as a result of the candidacy of Herman Cain for the US Senate seat being vacated by Zell Miller.

Cain, owner of the Godfather's Pizza chain, has been running for the Senate on the Republican side of the ticket against current US Congressmen Mac Collins and Johnny Isakson, with the primary coming up this coming Tuesday.

A caller to Rush Limbaugh yesterday emphasized this swing to the right by some black voters.

RUSH: Now, look, I've been doing this show for 16 years, and every day -- well, not every day, but every week in these 16 years -- there will be an event happen that has made us think, "You know, the tide may be turning. There may be a shift going on, black votes going to Republican candidates," and it really hasn't happened. There's a percentage of 10-to-12% of the black population, which is middle and upper class, which has broken away from the traditional prescriptions of the civil rights coalition, the NAALCP, but the percentage isn't really growing. You're just hearing from different people in it. Now, I'm not trying to be negative about it. I think it's gonna happen at some point, because, like everybody else on the left, they're old. Their playbook is dying out. They haven't put any new plays or pages in it, and at some point, you know, being a membership of the Democratic Party power party table is not going to be that big a deal. I don't know how soon that's going to be, but the NAALCP is more firmly partisan than they have ever been.

CALLER: That's all they are.

RUSH: And to the extent that they're able to go out and marshal the traditional 88-to-90% of the black vote for the Democrat candidate, they still have that power.

CALLER: Well, the message that Herman is giving in black churches is asking them, you know, "Are you against abortion?" and they raise their hands, and "Are you for lower taxes?" and they raise their hands. He says, "Congratulations, you're all conservative Republicans," and when we get that message out that our core values are akin to their core values, and we get the real truth past the media, I think that turn will come and I hope it's now.

As I said on a local Atlanta radio station this week, we are the same people standing next to them in line at the supermarket or the bank, sitting next to them in church and at the local PTA meetings.

And we know that black America wants the same things as the rest of America wants: safe streets, good schools, low taxes and a place to get a decent steak once in awhile.

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