"Black Tuesday???"

The following is a portion of the transcript from Larry King's show post-convention coverage, Tuesday night/Wednesday morning east coast time. The comment that leapt out at me was made by Jacque Reid of BET Nightly News.

Read the whole thing (I wanted to paste her whole answer, not just one part), but note the bold print. Had a Fox News white woman said this, people would want her out of a job and deported....



KING: Jacque are blacks going to turn out?

REID: You know what, African Americans turn out when their passionate and the majority of...

KING: Are they passionate?

REID: They're very passionate with their dislike of President Bush and there's a lot of get out the vote campaigns going on and what we're hearing is that a lot of African Americans are going to go to the polls this time around.

KING: The lieutenant governor of Maryland didn't touch a lot of blacks tonight or did he touch whites who want to be impressed with the feeling of appealing to blacks?

REID: Well, it was interesting to see him in prime time and Rod Paige was out here tonight. We talked earlier about the former Miss America. She's African American. We had the Harlem Boys Choir. We jokingly around BET called this Black Tuesday.
It seemed to have a black theme with the compassionate conservatism and maybe it was part of that outreach to the African American community. We say we hope there are some things for us to cover for the rest of the week. They might have used it all up tonight.

But, you know, Michael Steele, he gave a good speech. I mean the crowd was a little distracted but if you listened and especially towards the end, it was very strong and he talked about the civil rights agenda of the Republican Party and how it started with Lincoln and just continued on and he talked about how African Americans broke away in 1964 but now it's time to come back. So, he hit on some very good points.

End of transcript....

BLACK TUESDAY??? Yeah, let Rush Limbaugh have all black guests and black callers one Tuesday, call it Black Tuesday, and see what happens.....

Yeah, I know, she said, "jokingly"....the point here isn't whether she meant it or not, the point is she gets a free pass, and a conservative "jokingly" doing this would be asked to kill themselves for the betterment of our society.


Hypocrisy...gotta love it.


Rob