His Master’s Voice
By Mitch Berg
Walter Mondale, who spent four years as background scenery in the worst entire Presidential administration of my life so far, barks on command and echoes his worthless former boss:
Former Vice President Walter Mondale joined his old boss Jimmy Carter Wednesday, arguing that some of the opposition to President Obama’s agenda is fueled by racial animus.
Asked at an event in Washington whether he agreed with former President Carter that racism was behind some criticism of Obama, Mondale took a long pause before answering: “Yeah.”
“I don’t like saying it,” Mondale continued. “Having lived through those years, when civil rights was such a bitter issue, and when we argued those things for years … I know that some of that must still be around.”
“I know it must be there. Somewhere. Maybe next to my keys?”
“I don’t want to pick a person, say, he’s a racist, but I do think the way they’re piling on Obama, the harshness, you kind of feel it,” he said. “I think I see an edge in them that’s a little bit different and a little harsher than I’ve seen in other times.”
Riiiight, Fritz. Eight years of “Smirking Chimp” and Stewart and Colbert (comedy is borne of anger, as is whatever it is that Colbert does) and Randy Rhodes (among many others) openly joking about killing the President – with not a whiff of pique, much less self-righteous outrage from irrelevant lefties like Mondale – but now the climate is bothering you?
At a screening of a new documentary on his life, “Fritz,” at the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs, the 1984 Democratic nominee for president lamented what he called a coarse tone in political life today, telling the audience: “It’s been discouraging to watch this health care debate.”
Patricians like Mondale pine for the days when starchambers of DFL powerbrokers (and a few pseudo-Republican castrati who’d been selected for their mute compliance) made all those calls for all the dumb peasants.
So Walter – when a lot of people, myself included, voted emphatically against your nannystatism and tax mania and America-last-ism 25 years ago, in history’s biggest landslide, were we just a bunch of anti-Norwegian bigots?
September 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Al Franken at a screening of “Fritz”:
http://content.usatoday.net/MediaGallery/The-day-in-pictures/G165,S75118
September 24th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Mondale says: “some of the opposition to President Obama’s agenda is fueled by racial animus.”
Mitch argues: “Stupid Mondale claims all of the opposition to President Obama’s agenda is fueled by racial animus.”
Your approach is as dishonest as it is transparent. Carter’s right, Mondale’s right and you can only make them wrong by pretending they said something different.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Mitch argues: “Stupid Mondale claims all of the opposition to President Obama’s agenda is fueled by racial animus.”
Your approach is as dishonest as it is transparent. Carter’s right, Mondale’s right and you can only make them wrong by pretending they said something different.
That would have been a good point if you actually quoted something Mitch had written.
Since you made up the quote your comment makes you you look like an idiot.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
AC likes his strawmen served over easy, like Carter and Mondale.
September 24th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
You have to remember that Clownie is racist down to his core.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Mondale: “you kind of feel it”
He’d have to, because he really doesn’t seem to support his claims in any other way. Reminds me of angryclown.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Fritz and Clownie, fellow racists.
September 25th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
If you oppose The One you are a bigoted racist!!!!!
Therefore, if you don’t want to be called a bigot or racist, you better support Obama, or else!