Josef Goebbels once gave us the biggest rule of PR, spinmongering, and the general art of getting the untrue accepted as truth; if you tell a big lie often enough, the stupid accept it as truth.

Are Cedar Rapids leftybloggers Sara and Brian Brandmeyer telling the big lie, or have they merely accepted it as truth?

He asks us to imagine if the Tea Parties were run by and mostly attended by black people:

So let’s begin.

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition.

If they were following the law, why would I care?  Skin color is (to me, at least) irrelevant; I have guns of my own.

And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government?

If those protesters – color irrelevant – were speaking from constitutional principal?  Why would I have a problem?  I share those principles.

If they were not,then – color irrelevant – I’d speak out against them.

It’s really fairly simple.

Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic?

If they – color irrelevent – were protesting in favor of constitutional principles I recognized?  I’d support ’em!

What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.

Right.  In the same way Thomas Jefferson once did.

Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired.

That’d be bad.  Of course, not a single “white” protester spat on Representatives Cleaver and Lewis; even they are backing away from the claim as fast as is politically prudent.

Imagine that a rap artist were to say, in reference to a white president: “He’s a piece of shit and I told him to suck on my machine gun.” Because that’s what rocker Ted Nugent said recently about President Obama.

Then I’d put Ted Nugent in a ring with Harry Belafonte, give them both machine guns, and make the whole world a better place.

The rest of the piece is, improbably, not even as good as the excerpt, and can be best answered as follows:

THE BRANDMEYERS:  “What if black people said things that bothered you?”

MITCH:  “I’d use my First-Amendment-fu to make them look like idiots”.

It’s how that “free society” thing is supposed to work.  I don’t know why some people find that so scary.

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