Yeah, pretty much.
What other conclusion is there in
light of this egregious excerpt of the Washington Post editorial in question:
Could it be, as members of the Congressional Black Caucus are charging,
that the signatories of the letter are targeting Ms. Rice because she is an
African American woman? The signatories deny that, and we can’t know their
hearts. What we do know is that more than 80 of the signatories are white males,
and nearly half are from states of the former Confederacy. You’d think that
before launching their broadside, members of Congress would have taken care not
to propagate any falsehoods of their own.
And, to be clear, this is an
editorial by the Washington Post editorial board, not a column from one of
their several crackpot columnists.
To get the full effect of the
sheer outrageousness of this editorial, turn it around. Imagine an editorial criticizing President
Obama and Susan Rice for their Benghazi statements and throw in the following: “We
can’t know their hearts. What we
do know is that they are BLACK, very very BLACK.”
Yes, it would be absurdly bigoted
. . . just like the Washington Post editorial.
And the Washington Post should be
called out for it. And to look at
the bigger picture, the Left should be called out for their increasing bigotry
again and again. But I will have
to leave that subject for another time.
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