Update on the Party of Racism

Yesterday, I blogged about a racist rendered photo of Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele that was published in a left-wing blog run by a guy named Steve Gilliard. I presented this picture as a typical example of how the political left treats black people who don't agree with them. I received a comment from Howard Davis, who also runs a blog, disputing my characterization as being just an isolated incident; that the blogger was some insignificant crank. Well, today, I come to find out that the blog in question was running advertising that was purchased by Lt. Governor Tim Kaine, the major Democrat candidate in the Virginia gubernatorial election. So much for being an insignificant crank. Lt. Governors and Gubernatorial candidates don't pay for advertising on a blog run by a crank. The fact that this blog is read by enough people that it warrants advertising kills the notion that this Gilliard is insignificant.

I will concede this, though. As soon as word of this "minstrel photo" made the rounds on the blogs out there, Kaine's campaign staff pulled a month's worth of advertising off of Gilliard's blog. The Democrats may be insane, but they are not stupid. Or are they? Now that Kaine's campaign has pulled that advertising, not just Gilliard, but also the most influential left-wing blog of all - the Daily Kos - is calling Lt. Governor Kaine a coward for pulling the advertising from Gilliard's blog. So it appears many on the left don't have a problem with making a black person look like Al Jolson as long as that black person is a conservative. Again, I ask: which party is the party of racism?

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