Liberals Begin Propaganda Campaign to Save Corrupt Democrat

[NewXD40fun]

Making excuses for a Democrat


The New York Times continues to astonish us with its relentless spin and condescension toward blacks and others it regards as victims. Today’s example falls into the category “candidate for the world’s smallest violin” created by James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal’s online “Best of the Web” column.

Representative William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, has reportedly been photographed accepting $100,000 of cash, $90,000 of which was discovered in his freezer. Does the Times thunder in outrage over this betrayal? Not a bit. It offers excuses, in this article by Christopher Drew and Robert Pear. Some excerpts:

Representative William J. Jefferson has always liked to talk about growing up in an impoverished farm community, picking cotton for $3 a day and hitting the books hard enough to win his ticket out — a scholarship to Harvard Law School. [....]

...a remarkable ascent from the deepest poverty and a quest for the comforts his family never had. [....]

Mr. Jefferson was raised, along with eight brothers and sisters, on a small farm in northeast Louisiana, where, he said earlier this year, “our whole life revolved around that cotton field.” His father left school after second grade, and his mother attended only through eighth grade. [....]

After he graduated from Southern University in Baton Rouge in 1969, Mr. Jefferson has said, he won his mother’s blessing to go to Harvard Law School — she had never heard of it — only by explaining that it had been John F. Kennedy’s college

When the modest backgrounds of GOP leaders like Tom Delay or Dennis Hastert are mentioned at all, usually it is in a sneering fashion. Dick Cheney worked as a youth on electrical power lines, a demanding and hazzardous task. Does the Times ever mention this?

Presumably, Rep. Jefferson enjoyed a scholarship to Harvard Law School, since his family would have been unable to help him with tuition. If so, his turn toward avarice and greed would be all the more worthy of condemnation.

The notion that poor people are somehow exempt from the same ethical strictures as the rest of us is poisonous condescension, robbing the poor of their human dignity as moral actors. At its root, it regards poor people as permanently inferior.

http://www.americanthinker.com/comme...mments_id=5246


I wager that Democrat Congressman Jefferson will get a slap on the wrist....for being caught!



Tom

[one-eyed-fatman]

Now I know who funnygun reminds me of. Remember that guy who was Saddams main speech maker, ya the one who said Iraq was winning the war against America. The one who went into hiding so our soldiers wouldn't find him. Funnyguns the Amer... another version of that guy. He thinks the very same way he does too.

[NewXD40fun]

Sooooo fatboy is offended that a downtrodden Democrat Congressman from Louisiana was accused of breaking the law. I never would have dreamed it.


Sorry fatboy, but a thief is a thief....until he is proven guilty of course.


And I am glad the eyes of truth are piercing your brain.


Tom

[one-eyed-fatman]

funnygun I didn't even read your cut and paste. I was mearly making a comment about you.

[Captain Ray]

YEh OEF.. I am kind of surprised that you don't seem very concerned about this poor ol' former cotton-picker from the south who recieved enough financial aid to send him to a fine IVY leauge college.. who shows his thanks for all that he is given by being as corrupt as every politician you claim to hate.

All this time I just thought you were a cinic.. perhaps I was wrong... you are acting very much like a liberal in this instance.

Raymond

[one-eyed-fatman]

Excuse me but Ken Lay makes one million dollars a year in farm subsidies. He ain't no farmer.

[mgeoffriau]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

Excuse me but Ken Lay...

Odd....were we talking about him?

[one-eyed-fatman]

Originally Posted by mgeoffriau

Odd....were we talking about him?

Sprouted from this...

I am kind of surprised that you don't seem very concerned about this poor ol' former cotton-picker from the south

[one-eyed-fatman]

When the modest backgrounds of GOP leaders like Tom Delay or Dennis Hastert are mentioned at all

Maybe this is because Delay's mother hasn't spoken to him in over 20 years. His own mother doesn't like him.

[Captain Ray]

Originally Posted by one-eyed-fatman

Sprouted from this...

So this poor Congressmen.. subjected to the rigors of free college, and every hand-out he could possibly be given.. including a congressional seat deserves none of that glaring cynicism that makes you such an interesting and popular poster.. but Ken Lay.. well theres a big step onto the soap-box of originality.. gee.. you really came up with a little non-factoid, non-snensical, and un-important... yet glaringly brilliant point with that one.

Reminds me of how liberals play this game.. dishonestly...

Raymond