NYT's Maureen Dowd on 'Wacky Black Conservatives' Like Herman Cain
Well, Maureen Dowd’s Wednesday New York Times column on anonymous accusations of sexual harassment against Herman Cain, “Cain Not Able,” certainly shows she has no fear of causing racial offense, at least when writing about conservative political figures: “Even Barack Obama couldn’t be lucky enough to waltz past two wacky black conservatives, first Alan Keyes and then Cain.”
We have the starchy guy -- tall, handsome, intelligent and rich, with a baronial estate -- who’s hard to warm up to. And we have the spontaneous guy, who’s charming and easy to warm up to -- until it turns out that he has an unsavory pattern with young women and a suspect relationship with facts.
It’s the Republican primary. Or “Pride and Prejudice.” Take your pick.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that it’s not the scandal that kills you; it’s the cover-up. Herman Cain has added a corollary: It’s not the cover-up that kills you; it’s the cascade of malarkey that spills out when you try to cover up the cover-up.
Sure, the dalliance with the grandfather, gospel singer, motivational speaker and self-made millionaire in the black cowboy hat was fun while it lasted, just as it was with Ross Perot, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and The-Rent-Is-Too-Damn-High dude.
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Even Barack Obama couldn’t be lucky enough to waltz past two wacky black conservatives, first Alan Keyes and then Cain.
The Herminator was just a raffish passing fancy, like Mr. Wickham, a place for Republicans to store their affections while they try to overcome their aversion to Mitt Romney’s Mr. Darcy.
Dowd then took a surprising turn, giving credit to...Ann Coulter! (Though Dowd has made Coulter’s point about feminist hypocrisy before.)
Ann Coulter has a point when she says that feminists rewrote their own rules on sexual harassment to support Bill Clinton. It is never right for any boss, especially the president of the United States, to mess with an intern, even if she’s the aggressor.
But Coulter falters when she charges that, like Clarence Thomas, Cain is the victim of a high-tech lynching, that “if you are a conservative black, they will believe the most horrible sexualized fantasies of these white women feminists.”
This isn’t an incendiary story about race. It is the most hackneyed story in Washington -- another powerful man who crossed the line and then, when caught, tried to blame the women.
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An enema might help
Submitted by greydawg on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:38pm.
When a person is so consistently hate-filled as Dowd, there's got to be something seriously wrong with her digestive system. An enema might help.
maybe
Submitted by jimtrees on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 10:20pm.
A lobotomy might be just the thing she needs. The Kennedy's could recommend someone.
Oh heck
Submitted by theduck6 on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 7:17am.
Have another scotch Mo. Watch that last step, it's a real dooooozie.
1984 anyone?
crazy train
Submitted by rowdygirl on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:40pm.
She calls him a "wacky, black conservative" and it's not about race?
If it wasn't about race, why include the color of the conservative?
Tam
No kidding.
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:27pm.
Would Dowd, or anyone else, for that matter, DARE to call Barack Obama a Wacky Black anything??
To her, any black conservative is, by definition, "wacky." Because, you know, any "normal" black is a liberal.
And if MoDo is interested in a "cascade of malarkey" she needs to start listening to The Obama.
Did you hear it?
Submitted by ant on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:46pm.
I heard "wacky, black conservative boy".
Wacky to Blackie
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:49pm.
What is MoDo smoking these days?
wacky?
Submitted by Curly on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:53pm.
The whole damned left is "wacky!" This bitter woman leads the pack!
Dowd is Dowd
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 2:56pm.
With no more facts than any of the other Leftist pundits, Dowd proceeds to write off black conservative Cain.
The only "unsavory pattern with young women" (Dowd-speak) in the news is the endless speculation of the nature of the complaints.
But why deal with facts when truth can be so inconvenient?
The Maureen Dowd...
Submitted by PJRyan on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:17pm.
...that wrote that when Joe Wilson shouted that Obama was lying, clearly meant "you lie, boy!"? That Maureen Dowd? She's got a whole deck of free-pass, race cards.
Maureen just hates the fact...
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:36pm.
...that Herman would not deign to sexually harass her. But come to think of it, who would?
Dowdy is a dried-up prune who
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 1:14am.
Dowdy is a dried-up prune who hasn't been laid since sometime in the last century................and even though she has a crush on Boy Barry, he's too much of a girlie-man to satisfy her..............and Cain wouldn't give her the time of day.
Let's get real
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 3:46pm.
Two things; Dowd is a fvcking moron and this clown Obama couldn't carry Herman Cain's jockstrap when it comes to being a man of substance and accomplishment.
This is Liberal racism at its finest.
Submitted by Order270 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:01pm.
21st century lynching protocol requires the sprinkling of "code" words to implant stereotypes to invite an unsuspecting society to fill in the blanks.
Ahhh liberals, eternally optimistic.
Submitted by Djinn1975 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:02pm.
Note all the past tense verbiage, and the loose inclusion that at no time existed for or included any liberal in any way, shape, or form in the Cain Train. The left already has their black poster boy.
Exhibit A: Sure, the dalliance with the grandfather, gospel singer, motivational speaker and self-made millionaire in the black cowboy hat was fun while it lasted, just as it was with Ross Perot, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and The-Rent-Is-Too-Damn-High dude.
Exhibit B: The Herminator was just a raffish passing fancy, like Mr. Wickham, a place for Republicans to store their affections while they try to overcome their aversion to Mitt Romney’s Mr. Darcy.
And the classic admission by denial: This isn’t an incendiary story about race. It is the most hackneyed story in Washington -- another powerful man who crossed the line and then, when caught, tried to blame the women.
You mean like Bill Clinton?! Two major differences between Bubba and Cain, 1. Herman Cain won't have the media to cover his ass, attack and ostracize his accuser(Bubba had several) into humiliation and submission, and 2. Herman Cain has yet to be proven to have crossed any line, other than the black conservative one.
The liberal playbook, racism and personal smears taken as fact for conservatives, subterfuge, deflection, maginalization, denial, and distraction from the facts from their own.
Utterly pathetic what liberals are and what they become all to en vogue, part of the 95% of the time wrong cause, and light between ears propaganda brought to life mouthpieces.
She is still around?!? I
Submitted by inquiringmind on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:08pm.
She is still around?!? I just assumed she was at the OWS Flea Baggery looking for a new boyfriend.
So sayeth the bitter, has-been shrew in a dying medium.
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 4:21pm.
MoDo must have been dumped yet again.
Cain
Submitted by jefdov on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 5:46pm.
It's important to racists like Dowd that Cain is "black". That's why she makes the distinction.
Cain is trying to rearrange the chairs on the titanic.
Submitted by cbeyer on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 7:56pm.
New reports from people familiar with the sexual harrassment case say it was a serious issue. I like Herman Cain and am sad to see the end of his candidacy but its a foregone conclusion. CAIN'S CANDIDACY IS OVER.
Wacky black is racist, she
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:04pm.
Wacky black is racist, she must be fired for her vile comments against a full (not half) black American. Anyway, I'd take a "wacky conservative, black or white" over a wacky black or white liberal like Obama, any day of the week.
The plagiarist speaks. Thank
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 9:32pm.
The plagiarist speaks. Thank goodness she reminded us all that he was 'black'. After all, with all of Cain's successes, I sometimes forget he is black.
Racist little bitch, isn't
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 10:23pm.
Racist little bitch, isn't she.