Def Jam mogul backs Steele

I wonder how many wing nuts will post in admiration of black people.

Over the last couple of days with the Obama stories,you've seen the CCC(KKK)come out of them.

Now,we like em because they gonna vote for a wing nut.

What was that you said about entitlements Terry?

You did mean welfare for blacks didn't you?

I have no idea why Russell Simmons would endorse Steele,but that's his business.I'm sure after they way the pros and cons,most blacks will vote Dem,because the Republicans can't back the CCC and hope to attract black voters.

Actually, Loon, a poll taken by the DSCC's own firm found out that 40% of black voters in Maryland would be willing to vote for Steele back in June. That 40% has the DNC shaking in its boots because without nearly half of the votes of the african-american people they've kept in thrall for the past 40 years, their already dwindling base would become virtually non-existent.

I can't speak for Terry, but when I say entitlements are bad I don't mean welfare for african-americans. I mean all entitlements. Corporate welfare, farm subsidies, abuses of social security disability and people (no matter race, color or creed) who compulsively abuse the welfare system. I believe in Bill Clinton's "hand up, not a hand out" policy. Or maybe Simmons just saw how a political hack like Toddler Stroger received the entitlement of an election that his father won and thought enough is enough.

As for why Russell Simmons would endorse Steele, I'll give you some clues. He could be one of the millions of African-American entrepeneurs who is sick and tired of being told what and how he should think and vote by the DNC. He could be sick of white democrats questioning the "blackness" of men like Bill Cosby and Clarence Thomas because they don't rubber-stamp their political philosophies. He could like Steele's positions on the issues affecting citizens of Maryland. He could agree with Cosby about how destructive the dissolution of the family unit is to young black men and not think that Kweisi Mfume and Ben Cardin have addressed this issue as aggressively as Steele has.

It could be any number of reasons, really. The failures of the democratic party to truly help African-Americans are well-documented.

Raving Loon, you are one sick, demented mental midget. You are a racist in every sense of the word. You're a moron in every sense of the word.

As a "wing nut" I have voted for two blacks in my life, and one a Democrat. If Mr. Steele was running for Senate in Illinois, I would proudly and gladly vote for him. And despite being an Illinois resident and he running in Maryland, I have donated to his campaign.

Us "wing nuts" knock the media's coverage of Obama because it's subjective fawning over him. It has nothing to do with race.

Ken Blackwell, also a black man, is running for governor of Ohio. I have donated to his campaign as well. And to Vernon Robinson who is running for a House seat in Virginia. And to Lynn Swann's campaign in Pennsylvania.

You are so full of hate and so sick in the head, you really should be embarrassed by the racist and hateful nonsense you post, and you really should seek some counseling.

Bill,your party can't be in bed with the CCC and still expect black voters to vote Republican.

I'm sorry if the truth hurts,but that's your party,not mine.If the Dem party has failed to help black people as you constantly suggest,why do they overwhelmingly vote Dem.Are you suggesting they don't know why they vote Dem?

Maybe Rev Jackson will have you address an operation push meeting and you can explain to the people what your party can do for them that the Dems have not.I'd pay for that!

Have you given any more consideration about joining the Marines,so you can go over and get yourself some of those Islamic fighters?

No,I didn't think so.

Hate to bring up the elephant in the room, but I wonder if this will trigger claims of reverse racism? What if Bruce Springsteen endorsed a white Repub over an African-American Dem even though the Dem was fairly moderate and had a decent chance of beating the Repub? The Boss would catch some hell from the African-American community I think.

Not that African-Americans should automatically think Democratic but you know some people are going to say "Simmons cares more about race than issues or principles". Yes, he could have endorsed Kweisi but it looks like he went with the better odds.

Just a viewpoint.

Crazy Duck,

I'm not sure what exactly you are referring to as far as entitlement post, but the entitlements that the fed gov't keeps handing out (social Security, medicare, welefare) are what is running this gov't toward bankruptcy. It will be forcing our children to have a tax rate higher than any generation ever has had and because of those higher taxes, the economy will tank.

As far as black people (or white people), I look at the person and their ideas. People like Jesse Jackson and his larger gov't philosophy don't appeal to me. Folks like Walter Williams and his libertarian view of economics do appeal to me.

Hey Raving Loon, you wouldn't know the truth if it hit you upside the head. Read the above story and all about the african-american voters who've said they're willing to vote for Steele. That's the truth.

Living up to your name, I see. How about this, I'll join the marines when you do. We can go through basic together. It'll be fun. Not holding my breath over here. I don't even know what "in bed with the CCC" means. When the dems push Robert Byrd to publicly apologize for filibustering the civil rights act of 1964 and renounce the KKK then I'll think they're ahead of the republicans in the protection of civil rights business. Seriously, where was the pressure from Sharpton and Jesse when he used the N word on national TV?

I don't know why more black voters vote GOP. I can't get inside their heads. If I were one of them I would NEVER vote for the party of George Wallace. I do know that the facts (again, read the story) show the dems won't be able to count on them as they have in the past if Blackwell and Steele win. Especially if Steele defeats Kweisi Mfume.

If I were to address operation Push I'd first ask them politely for my tax dollars back. And I wouldn't need Jesse Jackson's permission to do it. Let me ask you this, loony, what office have democrat "black leaders" like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton ever been elected to? Even by the african-american community? What about the masses of african-americans who don't agree with their "leadership?" Where's their voice heard? Like when Jesse uses their Push dues to pay for one of his illegitimate kids? Perhaps these are the 40% that are supporting Steele.

Before everybody jumps down my throat, I meant to say I don't know why more black voters don't vote GOP. That was a typo. I regret the error.

Bill & Terry,I surrender.You guys are right.
Just explain to us over spending,tax wasting Dems,what your party,who has full control of govt.,has done to reduce the size of govt.,end the entitlements you guys distain,and to reduce the deficits that will buden our children.

Please take as much space as needed,the Swamp has given the ok.

Bill,I think you know what the CCC is.

Raving Loon, distain and buden? C'mon spell-check. I really didn't know what the CCC was when you mentioned it at first. City Colleges of Chicago? Copyright Clearance Center? If you're talking about the council of conservative citizens, it's a group that, as I understand, is not endorsed by any Republican leadership conference and only individual office-holders (particularly in South Carolina and Mississippi) have accepted money or support from. In both parties. The group has given support to some southern democrats, too. A simple web search found that one of its founders was Lester Maddox, a democrat. This seems to be one of the many awful political groups out there. Just like the Earth Liberation Front and any number of other extremist groups.

Bill,once again,I apoligize,that in my haste,I miss-spelled a couple of words.How tragic is that.

But you my friend,continue to miss-lead and flat out lie about your party's afiliation w/CCC/(KKK).

While you keep bringing up racist from 40 years ago,I'm talking about today,2006.The CCC exist today as a Republican group(Conservative)that most of your National candidates will pander to either directly or in-directly(including McCain).

They need the white southern vote to exist(not all white southerners are racist),but they're still must be quite a few for an organization like this to exist.

You've learned well from your mentor(Cheney)about miss-leading and flat out lying.How many times has Cheney repeated his assertion about Iraq and Al-Qaida?

Just today,there's an article about a white bus driver in Louisana,who makes the black kids sit at the back of the bus.Surely he's not a Dem.

You guys give yourself away when you start foaming at the mouth on stories about Obama,or when you mention Jackson,Stroger,Sharpton etc.

I know I don't spell as well as the "Foie Gras" crowd,and i'm thankfull for that.

Bill,
You seem to be taking things personally lately,what's up with that??

It's going to be a full contact sport up until the elections.
Dems are FINALLY realizing that in order to win they are going to have to confront Karl Rove,George W.,and Cheney on their on terms.

Thanks to W.,I don't beleive there has been this much "excitment" in politics since the Vietnam era.

Loon, you're really grasping at straws here. Saying the CCC is a republican group (the word conservative accurately reflects millions of southern democrats, for instance) is the equivalent of saying the Earth Liberation Front is a democrat group. Just because extremists exist in both parties doesn't mean they represent the millions of Americans that belong to the two major parties.

I don't know if that bus driver you speak of (and first, I'd like to see if it even happened) in Louisana was a republican or democrat. Do you? You're assertion that he "surely" must not be a dem shows your bias.

I dislike Stroger's politics because he robbed the people of Cook County of their right to choose who runs for county president. Jackson and Sharpton, as I've previously stated, were elected by no one and are irrelevent as "leaders." Leadership is derived in our electoral system by a mandate from the people.

I actually like Obama. I just don't like substanceless photo ops whether it's Obama getting an AIDS test or Bush wearing a flightsuit, they both accomplish nothing.

P.S. There is no foie gras crowd here. It's illegal. You have to go to the suburbs for that.

Here you go Raving Loon, even Howard Dean admits failing inner city blacks.

"Later in his speech Tuesday, Dean appeared to backtrack. "I'm not asking to go back to the '60s; we made some mistakes in the '60s," he said. "If you look at how we did public housing, we essentially created ghettoes for poor people" instead of using today's method of mixed-income housing.

Another mistake Democrats made in the '60s, Dean acknowledged, was that "we did give things away for free, and that's a huge mistake because that does create a culture of dependence, and that's not good for anybody, either," he noted, a reference to the Great Society welfare programs created by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s."

Congratulations. You were all part of a failed "feel good" social experiment that made things far worse.

Doesn't sound very Progressive to me.

Hey, just keep throwing the racist label around to avoid direct attacks to your ideas. It seems to work for most.

Loon,

I wouldn't eat "foi gras" is it was the last thing to eat. It seems to me though that the liberal limousine crowd is the group most up in arms over the foi gras ban anyway!!

JD,as the only integrated party in this country,we are big enough to admit mistakes.What Dean says is true,but at least we tried.

What would have been the alternative,segregated schooling and housing that the wing nuts wanted.

As you look at Chicago and the suburbs today,I see many black families living in the suburbs and in very nice houses.

They are obviously getting better education and jobs,thanks to the efforts of Dems.

As far as giving away things for "free",you must be oblivious to your own party,which likes to give hand outs to farmers,oil co's,etc.

JD,did you know we spend more on defense spending than the next 20 largest countries?

Also,many more white people collect welfare than blacks.

As far as the racist label,your party has earned it.

Remember,your party tried to pass off ketchup as a vegtable to under privileged kids.

The Dems have a big tent,open to everyone,not the white,angry,old man(Bob Novak)party.

By the way,what does JD stand for,JUST DUMB.

Ah, Loon's "kindness" has come to a halt!!

Hmmm, I hardly think that black people living in nice homes has anything to do with the Democratic party. I think these folk worked hard for those homes and got them on their own.

Dems have a big tent? Tell that to the pro-lifers, not liberal crowd. The Dem tent doesn't include them.

But your "rationality" also points to a problem with libs life yourself. You see that the minorities only can make it with the help of the "loving" liberal and government. Without those, the minority can't make it.

Me, Republicans and conservatives believe the minorities can accomplish their own success. That is given the chance and inspiration, the minority can own their own home, can make it on their own. We can be there to help nudge and even to "have their back" but we believe the minority has the wherewithall to succeed on their own or with little government assistance.

You're like Groundhog day Loon. You say nothing new and revert back to the same tactics which got you nowhere to begin with. Yeah, everyone who doesn't agree with you is an angry white racist.

You're definitely buyin' what the left is selling.

Do you sign up for magazine subscriptions over the phone too?

How does is feel to be bamboozled for the last 50 years by the left?

Your comments and attitude perpetuate the very mistakes you agree that the left has admitted to.

We spend more on defense? More whites on welfare than blacks? Big deal. It has nothing to do with the fact that the left and "believers" like you have created an institution of need and dependance, while thinking any black achieving anything is an "uncle tom" of "trying to be too white"

Look where that's gotten you....now you actually take Spike Lee, and J.J. seriously. You've also created an entire new species known as the guilty white male who are nothing more than annoying enablers.

You're not the only minority trying to make it in this world, yet people who come to this country who are as brown as you, don't speak the language can run circles around you. Why is that?

Admit it. The left has failed you.

JD,your rambling,making no sense,didn't answer my respones to your dumb points,and justifying your name.JUST DUMB.

JD,the magazines I buy over the phone are the dirty ones,and I'm not black or brown,just a white Irish boy from Bridgeport.

I guess i'll start using a new post name,maybe Raving"Black"Loon.

Little Johnny D.,

SEPERATE,OR UNITED??
HEALTHY,OR INSANE??
BE YOURSELF JOHN D.
IT'S ALL THAT YOU CAN DO
YOU CAN'T FIND THE HELP........ANYWAY

The next time I see a little bunny that needs help along side the road,I will call you at the neo-con hot line.

Now pour yourself a slurpee,and crawl back into your hole.

Wow, we've learned so much about you Loon.

I'm sure all the blacks around Bridgeport apprecitate you keepin' it real, and standing up for what is right!

All that left wing failure so close to home.
All you had to do was look across the Dan Ryan.

I guess you couldn't see the forest through the trees.

What does Raving Loon stand for? White Irish Bridgeport alter ego?

Stay Strong Loon.

Boy Loon the wheels are really falling off over there.

Here's some excerpts from one of your recent posts:

"They are obviously getting better education and jobs,thanks to the efforts of Dems."

INCORRECT. I'd attribute that success to hard-working educators and the minorities, themselves, who wanted a better life.

"JD,as the only integrated party in this country,we are big enough to admit mistakes.What Dean says is true,but at least we tried."

INCORRECT, the party of Lincoln is an integrated party. The Bush administration has appointed the most people of color to cabinet positions of any president in the history of this nation. If you don't it's integrated, just ask Michael Steele. And saying Howard Dean admitted the party has failed inner-city blacks "but at least we tried" is unacceptable in this day and age. Still stuck in a cycle of dependence? Oh, sorry, we tried. Ridiculous.

"What would have been the alternative,segregated schooling and housing that the wing nuts wanted."

This is incorrect if by "wing nuts," you mean republicans. Loon, surely by now, after all the remedial lessons I've given you on this blog you have to know that the people who fought against integration the strongest were NOT republicans. They were Lester Maddox, George Wallace, Robert Byrd, Strom Thurmond (still a democrat back then) and other southern, white, democrats. The voting rights act of 1964 had support from the republican minority in the senate throughout its legislative life. It was the Byrds and the Maddoxes who fought to stop it.

As chief justice of the supreme court, former republican governor of California Earl Warren, fought one of the most difficult legal battles in the history of our nation to ensure that his first case, Brown vs. Board of Education was decided unanimously and correctly in favor of the NAACP so it would abolish "separate but equal." I'm sorry if it's inconvenient to your rant but these are the facts.

"Also, many more white people collect welfare than blacks."

You're right on this one, but I say "so what?" Did you know that there were also more white people in this country than blacks? A whole LOT more? Hence the term minority. I believe it's the percentages of black people on public assistance that concern people like Mr. Cosby and Mr. Simmons.

"Remember,your party tried to pass off ketchup as a vegtable to under privileged kids."

Tomatoes aren't a vegetable now? I don't think it's good for underprivileged kids to count on it for nutrition but, then again, neither is tubs of peanut butter and most of the stuff passed off as "nutritious" to those living in poverty. Quite frankly I would NEVER trust the federal government to create a competent program for nutrition or a bunch of other things, too. The key is not to rely on the government for such things.

"The Dems have a big tent,open to everyone,not the white,angry,old man(Bob Novak)party."

Oh, REALLY? Why don't you ask Bob Casey, former two-term democrat governor of Pennsylvania who wanted to speak at the 1996 Democratic National Convention? But Bob Casey is pro-life so the party leadership put the kibosh on his planned speech. Casey appealed to all his friends in the party (including James Carville) but they all said if he wanted to say anything about being pro-life there was no room for him on that stage.

Speaking about his beliefs at the national convention of his party was Casey's dream. But he never got to see it fulfilled. And, incidentally, today we can't ask him about it because Bob Casey died before the next convention. He never got to speak to the party he was faithful to for his entire life.

And do we even need to get into what Robert Byrd (only senator to vote against both Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall for the Supreme Court) has done and said? Seems like there's plenty of room in that big tent for old, pro-segregation demagogues, as well. I can't imagine why Michael Steele or Ken Blackwell would want no part of that tent.

John E.
I'd refute you point by point, but that would assume that you had a point.

Something tells me you and "loon" were the inspiration for Malibu's most wanted.

OK, sooo why would I post under JD and John D. when their would be no reason for me to?

It's no wonder you can't figure out how Saddam's removal fits into the war on terror.

It's also no wonder you fall for Michael Moore's fairy tales.

Bill,that was a whole bunch of spin.I know you like to take this issue back 40+ years with Byrd,but the real issue w/Byrd,is he a racist today.I think not.

Try this on for size.

Haley Barbour,a long-time Republican Natl.Committee Chairman and later a candidate for Gov.of Mississippi,spoke at a CCC rally.A photo of Barbour with CCC members appeared on the CCC webpage,and a firestorm of media demanded that Barbour ask for his picture to be removed from the site.Barbour refused.His popularity rose shortly after that and he became Mississippi's current Govenor.

From the CCC,"the whites were the creators of civilazation,the blacks it's destroyers".

This is current reality Bill.

One other item in your post was quite disturbing,your defense of using ketchup as a vegatable for under-priviledged kids.

Bill,i'm sure they would rather not rely on govt.help,hence the under priviledged part.These kids aren't being dropped off in BMW's.

While your party is the party of not a womens choice,I find it interesting that after the child enters the world,your party looks for ways to not help the needist ones.

Yet,when these children grow up,they are the most likely to enter the Armed Services to try and better themselves,and go fight your wars.

I'm thinking that you're a better person that that.