Subject: Paul Begala editorial

Sent this to you because of your fondness for Begala.
From the Newport News Daily Press, Newport News, VA
 

If you want to know what's wrong with the Democratic Party, closely inspect Paul Begala ,
a Clinton-Gore factotum and familiar face in connection with the theft of the election in Florida.

Begala is a typical Potomac pantywaist who looks like he can't lift anything heavier than a
glass of Chablis, but who is capable of one thing: Peddling poisonous opinions on the
predominantly pro Gore networks.

Actually, poisonous is too weak a word. Slanderous and despicable are better.

With Al Gore's chances to win the White House fading, bitter-ender Begala recently
unbosomed the following opprobrious remarks on MSNBC.com, brought to this writer's
attention by a scribe in the Washington Post:

"Yes ... tens of millions of good people in Middle America voted Republican. But if you look
closely at that map (showing states won by George W. Bush in red) you see a more complex picture.
You see the state where James Byrd was lynched—dragged behind a pickup truck until his body
came apart—it's red.

"You see the state where Matthew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the
crime of being gay—it's red.

"You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal office building and
murdered scores of federal employees—it's red.

"The state where an Army private who was thought to be gay was bludgeoned to death
with a baseball bat, and the state where neo-Nazi skinheads murdered two African-Americans
because of their skin color, and the state where Bob Jones University spews its anti-Catholic
bigotry; they're all red too."

The Gore states went blue, and Begala conveniently forgot to mention California, where police
beat the daylights out of Rodney King or New York, where cops rammed a broomstick up the
rectum of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.

Begala might say the cops came from Texas or Wyoming, but in any event, his amnesia isn't the Point.

Point is, he did what desperate liberals always do when they're losing: They call someone
a racist or level of a general charge of bigotry.

One of the first Gore supporters on the ground in Florida, for instance, was that voice of
calm and reason, Jesse Jackson.

Jackson hadn't dropped his bags at the hotel before making the preposterous charge,
with absolutely no evidence, that blacks were denied the right to vote not only in Florida
but also across the South.

Begala simply followed suit. Bush voters are racists and gay bashers, he says and his
disingenuous disclaimer at the beginning of his tirade doesn't wash the malignant bile out of it.

One wonders what Begala would have said if just one of those states had gone blue,
again as California and New York did. Would he have advised Gore to forswear the
presidency because bigots cast a vote for his chief?

Not likely.

As well, the states that went for Gore in 2000 except Minnesota, went for Ronald Reagan 1984.
Perhaps Begala the Bigot Detector can explain that.

Maybe the bigots in New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa and the rest of the 49 states that went
for Reagan moved to Texas, Wyoming and the other Bush states in 2000.

The proper thing for Gore to do is tell Begala to apologize and shut up, but that,
of course isn't going to happen.

And forget about the media even discussing it.
Most journalists, after all, agree with the weenie from Washington.

It will have to suffice to note that liberals such as Begala readily vilify anyone who gets in their way.

Bush voters, Begala says, are evil.

That's a lie, but it's no surprise to uncover a liar in a den of thieves.