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Reid apologizes

Posted: Jan 10, 2010

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/09/reid-apology-for-negro-dialect-comment/

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Had a Republican said that, he would have been - already forced out of office.nm

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It's all about context. Reid was praising Obama. - sm

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This latest fabrication of phoney outrage is dead on arrival.

Reid - anon

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He would have been CRUCIFIED. But it's okay because it's a lib.

Always a double standard by the liberal media and the libs themselves.

No, it's not okay because he's a lib. - TXMT

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It's okay because of the context from which the phrase "Negro dialect" was lifted and is now being hyped into a bid for Reid to step down by the pubs. This phoney ourage is being hawked as an effort by the republicans to influence the outcome of Reid's upcoming bid for re-election in Nevada, and is no more than a desperate ploy by a party who has to stoop to such levels on account of their bankrupt policies and campaign platforms and the fact that they have no solutions to offer for the country's most pressing problems. Underneath it all, these kinds of actions only serve to reveal that they must be aware of their own shortcomings and the fact that they cannot run a successful issues-oriented campaign.

Let's examine another example of context for the purpose of comparison. Trent Lott. You remember him, don't you? The guy who lamented the fact that well-known segregationalist and Dixiecrat (as in let's preserve slavery) nominee Strom Thurmond (who sired a black daughter with his then 16-year-old household maid) did not win his bid for the presidency in 1948. Thurmond moved away from his segregationalist views later on, sort of in line with other politicians of the day who came to see the error of their ways.Governor George Wallace comes to mind.

Lott: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We are proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either..." meaning all those pesky little dust-ups they had with desegregation and the civil rights movement in the ensuing decades.

The context would suggest political views that were ongoing for him (Lott) up to and including the moment he uttered the words in 2002. To his credit, Lott had the grace to step down as Senate Minority Leader in December that year, in an rare act of republican acknowledgement and contrition.

The context of Reid's remarks about "Negro dialect" were couched in the middle of heaps of praises for then-candidate Obama. You do see the difference, don't you? Context is everything.

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