I think it is irresponsible to simply put a  strike through on that post you had about the  party . I think it would have been better to come out and say,  I am deleting this because it is not true.

There’s a reason for the strikethrough, Smith. If you take a post down, your detractors claim you’re trying to hide it or pretend you never said it. A strikethrough lets the poster ‘fess up to the error.

An excerpt from a Google Cache of a page that was taken down from Bob Jones University.

Does the University believe that those who choose interracial marriage do so out of rebellion against God? No. It does believe, however, that often the promoters of it do so out of antagonism toward God because they are often the same entities that promote homosexuality, abortion, and other forms of social radicalism.

Huh? I am reading that word for word, but somehow I get the feeling that loving someone of a different race is a form of “social radicalism”. Am I the only one to get that vibe?

Frank,

I really like you man, and I respect your opinion and enjoy reading your comments; but if you can’t honestly say that any elected official, or person who is running for public office, has made a big mistake by speaking at a place like this, then I completely misjudged you.

How about this one? You re speaking at Bob Jones University, because, in spite of the fact that there is a restriction on interracial dating, it is a fine school, and you want to reach out to college – age southern Christian kids?

I am not commenting on anything else, but “restrictions on interracial dating” would not be in existence at a truly Christian School.

@ Oliver,

I think it is irresponsible to simply put a “strike through” on that post you had about the “party”. I think it would have been better to come out and say, “I am deleting this because it is not true.”

So, what you’re all saying is that President Bush (excuse me, but I prefer to call him by his real name — I assume you know who I mean) preferred to speak at the one (are you sure?) Christian college in the South well known for its racist policies. The Bob Jones university whose chancellor referred to Catholicism as Satanic. (He did?) The Bob Jones University that was funded by the Klan. (It was?)

Drum roll, please, here comes one of those “either / or”‘s again… At the very least, it was racially insensitive, at the most, it was a clear signal to the racist base.

I have a third possibility, of course. You are totally full of crap. There are about a thousand ways to “signal the racist base.” Why subject yourself to all that flack? And who did he put his middle finger up to?

People that wouldn’t vote for him in a million years?

These “symbolically racist”, or is it “racially symbolic” gestures are all BS, and you know it. Like that crap about Chris Matthews and Kennedy molesting Mrs. Alito, or Project 21 saying something nice about Correta Scott King now, and something not – so – nice 4 years ago.

Riiight  the Democrats  good guys that they are  only mentioned the prison release program. That s certainly not racially tinged, now is it?

It is, but only if you assume criminals are black. Mr. Gore didn’t imply it.

Do you know anybody who would make that assumption?

How about this one? You’re speaking at Bob Jones University, because, in spite of the fact that there is a restriction on interracial dating, it is a fine school, and you want to reach out to college – age southern Christian kids?

It couldn’t be that, could it?

Of course not, you’re the lefties… You make the rules, you define the terms, you decide everyone’s motives.

In the last half hour, I became a racist – enabler and a liar. The “liar designation” is particularly remarkable, because it precludes falling back to the “mistaken position.” I can’t go there, because the accuser recalls something I don’t: That my mistake is not a mistake, because a) I said it before; and b) it was pointed out to me.

Whether or not this is true ceases to be relevant, because I have “been told.” I have become a “racist – enabler” (and I’m not even sure what that is, or how I became one) and a “liar,” with no recourse.

If I’m ever charged with a serious crime, and you’re on the jury, please identify yourselves, so I can hang myself in prison.

And I know, because I’ve seen it on this site, that you have had what Quaker points out to you here pointed out to you before. Yet you continue to repeat the smear.

That makes you not just a repbulican, not just a racist-enabler, but a deliberate liar.

Not all Republicans are liars, but you are.

Are you paid to do it? Do you at least get a little money in return for your soul?

At the very least, it was racially insensitive, at the most, it was a clear signal to the racist base.

This BJU visit was planned- Shrub had the chance to cancel it, or cite “scheduling conflicts”. Instead, he put up his middle finger and spoke there anyway.

Speaking of smears, how about the “sea of white at the republican convention”? If only 2% of black folks support Bush, where would the black faces come from? You wouldn’t be implying that blacks were excluded, would you? And I noticed you didn’t address the other issues, did you?

Why not?

Do you at least get a little money in return for your soul?
Wilbur, save the drama for your Mama…

it was first used by Al gore against Michael Dukakis.

Wrong again, Frank.

In one–just one–of dozens of debates, Gore challenged Dukakis’ prison furlough program. Never mentioned Willie Horton. Or his victim. Or his crime. Never ran any TV commercials with scary pictures of Mr. Horton.

That was all Lee Atwater’s handiwork, of which he repented before he died of brain cancer.

And Bob Jones University is racist. To go out of ones way to speak there over other universities says something about the speaker, that he’s either ignorant of that fact or somewhat condones the ban on interracial dating.

It’s only when you get tangled up in things like Affirmative Action (to oppose it is racist), school vouchers (to favor them is racist), the death penalty (to favor it is racist), speaking at Bob Jone University (speaking there is racist); that things get twisted.

One can’t define racism as “acknowledging the existence of different races,” and then say, “Let ‘s talk about race.”

Meanwhile, I thought you had said that you had never met a racist republican. All I was saying is they’re not too hard to find.

What about the swift-boat nonsense? In the cases of both Kerry and Murtha, wasn’t it proven that they both did in fact earn their medals? Last I heard, Brent Bozell and CNSnews were still trying to prove that Kerry spent Vietnam sleeping with Jane Fonda and plotting Nixon’s assassination… Never an apology for either of them.

the Bistro looks nice though…

In contrast, the notion that Republicans would engage in the symbolic lynching of a prominent black leader has what your eighth-grade English teacher would call “verisimilitude”.

This particular lie did have “truthiness” to it. If you were skeptical of it, it wasn’t becuase you thought Republicans would never do such a thing, but because you thought that they’d never be dumb enough to publicize it under the RNC imprimatur. Because we all know Republicans who not only would, but have done such things. If you really don’t know a such people, Frank, you have lived a very sheltered life indeed.

And I’m wondering, now that Oliver has retracted the post, if Jay will have the balls to retract his comment about Oliver.

I never will understand people who come on someone else’s blog just to insult them. What a prick move!