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Helen Thomas, Lynne Stewart, a vat of anchovies and me ... indeed!
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Update on a Progressive Racist

Remember the last post about Steve Gilliard, the "progressive" racist hatemonger?  Well, he has just learned that, even for so-called "progressives," actions have consequences.  Tim Kaine, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor who is involved in one of the closest and one of the most important elections in the nation, had bought a blog ad on Gilliard's blog.  When his campaign saw Gilliard's little ode to the greatest hits in American racism, they pulled the ad and distanced themselves from Gilliard faster than Ben Kingsley from a Tom Green movie.  Well, like any self-absorbed racist with a victim mentality, Gilliard went nuts, attacking not only the man who's campaign put money in Gilliard's pocket (money which they didn't ask to have refunded, by the way) but also the nation's most important Democratic candidate in an upcoming election.  He called Kaine, who is running neck-and-neck with Republican Jerry Kilgore, a "coward."  And why, exactly, did Gilliard try to sabotage Kaine's campaign just days before the election?  Did he disagree with Kaine's politics?  Did he want Kilgore to win?  No.  He attacked the man and the hopes of millions of Virginians who support him because, according to him, the Kaine campaign had not talked to him before deciding to pull their ads.  Because the people who had paid him (remember, he did not run their ads out of a sense of progressive good will but for completely capitalist reasons) did not kneel at the throne of some two-bit race-baiting blogger before making a campaign decision.  Because he did not get his props.  Because they dared to disrespect him, a black man.  Well, he'd show them.  He'd do all he could to help get Republican Jerry Kilgore elected governor of Virginia. 

Oh, and Gilliard just keeps spinning and spinning, blaming "spineless Democrats" for not supporting overt racists ... oh wait ... everyone else is racist, not the guy who called a black man "Sambo" because of his political beliefs and depicted him like this:

Posted by: Jheka at October 27, 2005 23:09 | link | comments |
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