I Didn't Clutch My Pearls

My technorati watch list revealed a link to my blog from this blog. Apparently some wingnut is upset that not too many black bloggers are in outrage because Julian Bond, at some event or another, made some derogatory remarks about members of the Republican Party.

When a black family gets up and walks out on your speech you know, or should know that you have a problem. Bond equated the Republican party to "Nazis", called President Bush's Supreme Court nominees the "Taliban", Secretary of State Rice and the former secretary Powell "tokens", president Bush a "liar" whose lies were more serious than Clinton's lies because Bush's lies "killed people", and called former Attorney General John Ashcroft "J. Edgar Ashcroft".

The talk so infuriated at least one black family in attendance among the 900 in the auditorium that they got up and walked out in protest.

"He went on and on name calling," said Lee Wilson. "I walked out in the middle of his speech with my wife and three kids"

Okay, gees! Never even heard about the remarks. He found the quotes in some wingnut publication that, cough, I don't frequent. Aside from the fact that Julian Bond is not really a key figure these days, I hardly think outrage is merited by anything he said. Nazi analogies are getting old no matter who makes them - and both sides do. The other remarks were passe too and not worth getting worked up about. However, even if I had been taken aback by them, this guy quoted that "Forrest Gump slow," tie tongued, lackey for the far right, Jesse Lee Peterson so I knew to read no further.

Oh, and dude, one black family walking out of a speech means what? Had the entire crowd booed, there would have been a possible issue. But, one Bush lover who was "appalled" by Bond's cliche' remarks does hardly a problem make.