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Sunday, July 23, 2006
Kevin McCullough :: Townhall.com Columnist
Bamboozled Obama's big black lie
by Kevin McCullough
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But it was the Democrats who took these rights away in the early 1900's.

From 1896 to the early 1960's nearly every party platform the Republicans voted in had specific language banning all forms of lynching, and Klan violence. The Democrats have never mentioned the lynching started by their party in any party platform to this very day.

And in 1965 it was the Democrats who fought to get a "sunset provision" added to the Voting Rights Act; meaning that Democrats only wanted blacks to have the right to vote for a certain period of time. If they had truly believed that blacks were equal - fully equal - they should have never included such a provision.

This is part of what makes Barack Obama's willful misleading of the attendees to the NAACP so laughable, so sinister, and so evil. President Bush campaigned on the guarantee of renewing the Voting Rights Act, he argued to make it a permanent extension. And when the Congress passes it, he has promised to sign it into law.

Instead of implying otherwise Barack Obama should be in the Senate helping for the completion of the legislation and pushing for final vote. And instead of lying to proud African- Americans he should apologize for grotesque and unequal history his own party has exercised against people who have much darker skin than his milato hew.

And while he's at it - would Senator Obama be able to cough up an explanation for his willingness to assist in fundraising for former Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan - Robert Byrd?

It appears to me there is someone bamboozling black people, but his name is not George W. Bush.

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Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "'Xtreme' Radio and columnist based in New York. He blogs at www.muscleheadrevolution.com. His second book "The Kind Of MAN Every Man SHOULD Be" is in stores now.

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Reply # 1
Date: Jul 26, 2006 - 2:10 PM EST
Well..
Well..

Those who marched for black's civil rights, which I mentioned above, did a very good thing, whatever their skin color was, nationality or political persuasion.

My point was, Liberal media often skews the sides people are on and almost deifies some, though they are, obviously, mere mortals. There is also often the suggestion that just one party mainly champions such important causes.

I have to wonder about questioning Mr. McCullough's honesty here though.

Were these readers aware that he has an adopted Haitian American son, with skin darker than most African Americans?

I have listened to Mr. McCullough’s radio show since its start in Greater New York, in the summer of 2003.

He doesn’t seem the kind of guy to talk about much anything unless he's really sure.

I know he can be kind of a stickler about that with others too, making sure their sources are accurate and correct.

I doubt he is more lenient with himself. Which is not to say he never makes errors, clearly, we are all human.

I am just wondering though. What possible motive could Mr. McCullough have in posting this story, his feedback, other than as a public service, and maybe even, more so, for the benefit of his son?

Doesn’t intelligent observation and a bit of balanced insight show that, at the very least, he would want to be as fair and accurate as possible on these topics, because he does have a very vested interest?

Wouldn’t it make sense that an issue so close to his heart and so important to his family and their well being would be one he might be especially careful about researching and presenting to the public?

It is often easy to come to grand stereotypes about people in power and the choices they make to champion and speak about. This one however, seems to be a no brainer, that just a small bit of pause and sensitivity can glean.

Whatever you think about political parties, please don’t loose the forest for the trees.

I have come to take most of what Mr. McCullough writes as, almost always, or very much so, as close as possible to fact. And when he’s thought of as wrong, he does not seem to shy from those who say so.

This said, I should think Mr. McCullough would be one of the first to find accurate feedback from on such featured stories, and not the last.


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Reply # 2
Date: Jul 26, 2006 - 1:15 AM EST
To John Galt
I can't imagine a dumber response to my entry. You wrote
five paragraphs defending the honesty of Bush when even
numerous right-wingers realize by now that we were bam-
boozled. Bothering to defend Bush is like beating a dead
horse. My entry was about the honesty of McCullough,
the columnist. While he may not have flat out lied, he
is certainly not telling the truth, or he is very
ignorant of American history.

By the way, the first paragraph of your response to me
was a great indication of just how bright you are.
"By definition liberals are creatures of emotion and feelings, to whom logic has no meaning." I couldn't find
that definition in my dictionary. But I suppose if you
say it often enough you begin to believe it.
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