Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Well, golly.

The good folks at Sonoran Alliance are attempting to call me out. Apparently, I had a “field day” over George Allen’s “macaca” comment last year. My crack research staff (actually, cracked-out research staff) went through the reams of entries from last year and found a total of one, that’s right one, entry that directly addressed the incident. That entry went after Allen for the lame excuses he and his supporters had given for the comment, rather than the comment itself. Two made off-hand references to the comment (here and here). Here, I wished Allen some holliday greetings, which I considered thoughtful. Oh, yes, and here, I helpfully provided Allen with a possible reason for using the term.

Anyway, the reason for Sonoran Alliance doing this is apparently some state senator in Louisiana called an African-American volunteer working for her campaign “Buckwheat.” I didn’t condemn this incident swiftly or strongly enough in their eyes. In fact, I didn’t condemn it at all. The author of the piece, “Pat,” implies, and one commenter comes out and says it as well, that I am ignoring the racism of a Democrat for political reasons. Not at all. For one thing, I have written about racist statements from Democrats before (here and here). For another, I had never heard of the State Senator in question, and I have my doubts that very many people outside of the three parishes she represents have either.

That is the big difference that “Pat” and Michelle Malkin, who is making hay over this one too, have been missing here. They are claiming that the fact that the uneven coverage of this incident is further proof of some liberal media conspiracy to cover up pervasive racism on the part of Democratic elected officials. What they fail to notice is that when George Allen made his utterance, he was a United States Senator up for re-election and a possible candidate for President, this woman is an obscure politician whose highest office will be the Louisiana State Senate. I know it is hard to believe, but candidates for President attract more attention from the national media than state legislators.

Then again, I guess my writing about Allen’s comment obligates me to spend hours on the internet to find out if a county commissioner in Michigan is insensitive to Hispanics. I don’t know how I am to do this without a serious crimp in my working or social life. I suppose if my brain weren’t so addled by liberal ideology, I would know how.

NB – By the way, the local NAACP has abandoned the state senator in question, and local liberal bloggers have said its time for her to go. Unlike the conservative columnists that came to Allen’s defense, I found no one defending the “Buckwheat” comment.

UPDATE – Sonoran Alliance is now calling me a “hypocrite” for not going after Joe Biden, since he is a presidential candidate (sort of). I did go after Biden, not only that, I linked it in the post above.