Badge of Honor: I Win Crooks and Liars ‘Worst Pundit Ever’ Award

The Democratic Party’s perpetual sore spot.

Jeffrey Lord

 

Over there at one of the worst race-driven, skin-color judging liberal websites in America I have been awarded a “Crookie” for “Worst Pundit Ever.” As always, the Crooks and Liars rewriting of American history — when not utterly ignoring it altogether — is astounding.  Here’s a sampling from the explanation accompanying their “award” to me, as written by the sites number one apologist for racism, John Amato:..... Oh, my. Where to begin? First of all, the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, not 1965. The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. Apparently Mr. Amato doesn’t even know that basic fact of American history. Typos being typos, I’ll give him a pass.
Here’s something else Crooks and Liars loves to lie about. As noted at this CNN link, 80% of Republicans in Congress in 1964 voted for the bill, compared to just more than 60% of Democrats. To be specific:

153 of 244 Democrats in the House — 63% — voted for the Civil Rights bill
136 of 171 Republicans in the House — 80% — voted for the Civil Rights bill
Over in the Senate?
46 of 67 Democrats in the Senate — 63% — voted for the Civil Rights bill
27 of 33 Republicans in the Senate — 82% — voted for the Civil Rights bill

The real question, however — something Crooks and Liars always tries to brush under the rug — is why the Civil Rights bill of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were needed in the first place. The reason is blindingly simple.

The Republican Party passed the following laws to provide civil rights for the newly freed slaves almost a hundred years earlier — slavery the backbone of the political power of the Democratic Party, a party founded and yes, as evidenced to this day on sites like Crooks and Liars, still devoted, to its obsession with race. Those laws were:

• The Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery.
• The Fourteenth Amendment giving the former slaves due process
• The Fifteenth Amendment granting blacks the right to vote
• The Civil Rights Act of 1866, giving blacks the right to own property, sign contracts, sue and serve as witnesses in legal proceedings
• The Civil Rights Act of 1870, aka “The Enforcement Act,” giving authority to the federal government to enforce the right of blacks to vote, including giving the President the right to use the army and federal marshals against those who used violence to intimidate black voters from using their suffrage rights. This act was also dubbed the “First Ku Klux Klan Act” because it targeted Klan violence against blacks — a violence perpetrated by the Klan in their role as “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party” (Columbia University historian Eric Foner) or as the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party” (University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease).
• The Civil Rights Act of 1875, forbidding discrimination against blacks in public accommodations and public places

Note well that the Democrats opposed every one of these laws in the day, their members of Congress overwhelmingly opposing them. In exactly the fashion their later party descendants — almost 40% in both the House and Senate in 1964 — opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A law that, along with the later Voting Rights Act of 1965, was designed to re-do the legislation that had been enacted by the GOP 100 years earlier......thus the Culture of Racism — racism plus progressivism — that is at the core of the Left and Democrats laid bare in explicit terms.....To Read More...