Posted by
CRB on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:47:37 PM
Guilt by association is a popular way to indict your opponent. In politics the "race card", "race-baiting" and "racist" terminology reigns when wackjobs on the Left consider the Right. Take Max Blumenthal's recent comments, for example. Nowhere in his column does Blumenthal quote anything racist that Huckabee has reportedly spoken. Nowhere. If Huckabee can be quoted making clearly racist remarks, I will denoune those remarks and that position. Instead, Blumenthal argues from inuendo, but has nothing more than that. Blumenthal's criticism of Huckabee reaches its core value when he says that "Huckabee has never rebuked the CofCC." That's a fair criticism. But does that make Huckabee a racist? No. Just poor judgement. Darwin was a racist, but does that make racists of all evolutionists? No. It's a weak guilt by association but one that Max hangs onto as a regular method. Back in May, 2007, he did the same thing to Joe Carter and Tony Perkins. In an inescapable piece of lunacy, Blumenthal disregards positive black-white relationships in the most disgusting of terms, painting those "pastors as nothing more than useful idiots." Max Blumenthal appears to be nothing more than a self-loathing racist, willing to deride those (both black and white) who have won over this sin. Cross-posted at
Evangelical Perpsective.