I Know You're Out There...

So far, zipski from the mainstream press and most liberal bloggers on the Corrine Brown affair. The link indicates what I fear will become standard talking points from the left:




1. What Brown said wasn't as bad as what Trent Lott or Jim Moran said. The former expressed esteem for an old segregationist and seemingly suggested that said segragationist, had he been elected, would have prevented "all these problems." Brown simply said that U.S. policy towards Haiti was a racist conspiracy of white men and said that all whites and Hispanics looked the same to her. To make racist comments is not as bad as to backhandedley suggest that things were better in the old days.


2. Not every member of Congress who says dumb and offensive things is punished (a fact which has kept Ted Kennedy afloat many times). This one time, in band camp, this one Republican said something really mean and bad, and nothing happened to him/her. So, nyah.




I'm not looking for Rep. Brown to lose her leadership positions, should she have any, or resign her seat (though I won't yell too loud if that happens). All I want is for the silly twit to publicly apologize for her statements, the way Lott did (repeatedley, I might add). Barring that, I'd simply like to believe that the Democrats give a rat's ass. Thus far, it appears they don't.




UPDATE: Oh, look, she did apologize. In the most un-convincing, legalese manner imaginable. David Bernstein has it exactly right. What's truly at issue here isn't whether she offended Secretary Noriega, but the entire ingrained habit of many black politicians to engage in racial spitting and clawing at the drop of a hat. It's utterly vile behavior, and it is the enemy of good race relations in this country.