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Show SjnMiy, March IS. 2008 D A I 1 V HERAID AS TOBIAL EDITORIAL BOARD Craig- IVmns, I'rutmh-n- t & I'iiMisht Randy Wright. K.vivulivc Jim Tynni. I'idliir RICH LOWRY i - u. hj L vi u li n ii.i. k h hv Bonfire of the liberals an Wi former candidate the Demo cratic Party is likened to David Duke by a liberal media hero, the or at least a political apocalypse be suggesting that the kids are about to be attacked by a black man. Only if one of the kids were black could the ad have been saved from this taint (although presumably still open to question Why only one black kid? And why does the blond get so much more s is When Ferraro noted in the midst cataclysm of her imbroglio, "Every time upon us. In one of his sputtering-masomebody says something about the Obama campaign, you're ac"special comments" usually decused of being racist," she sounded voted to damning President Bush to hell, Keith Olbermann of MSsurprised. As if she's unaware that NBC accused Geraldine Ferraro her ideological compatriots have of employing the "vocabulary of long played the race card against David Duke," and of "insidious conservatives at the slightest instiracism that is at least two decades gation. old." Back in the glory days of That the race card outranks the this would have been like gender card has to be galling to Edward R. Murrow calling EleaHillary's feminist supporters, givin other nor Roosevelt a fascist ing some of Ferraro's comments their splenetic edge. The left has words, utter madness. The Demo- long had a holy crats are famous trinity of class, for forming The Obama-Glinto- n gender and race. circular firing As a woman cancontest is merely a didate who appeals squads. But ape to parently the real . If warm-upFerraro voters, Hillary is gunplay doesn't in the begin until evcan get chewed sacrosanct categoery member of the firing squad ries of grievance, up, just wait to see but race is the holy thinks he or she what happens to has been the of holies. victim of racism Clinton's camRepublicans. or sexism. Then, paign and its sup-the smell of gun porters can cry smoke is mingled sexism when she is with self pitying and overwrought sharply questioned in debates and accusations of race or gender bias. loses the Iowa caucus, but it won't have the same resonance as the Ferraro had to quit her role on the finance committee in the Clincharges of racism hurled at them, ton campaign for stating the obvileaving the likes of Gloria Steinem to rue that "the sex barrier is not ous, that Barack Obama wouldn't be in a leading position in the race taken as seriously as the racial if he "were a white man." Clearly, one." Even as victims, women are second-clas- s his campaign is "making history" citizens. because he's an Why can't the two sides tone White senators have run for, down the victimological grudge and even won, the presidency match? Because charging bias has become a convenient political tool before. Indeed, a bevy of them and an ingrained habit of mind. briefly challenged Obama in this campaign, before dropping away Nothing puts an adversary on under the weight of their own the defensive like allegations of dullness. sexism or racism, so Obama and The unhinged trajectory of the Clinton supporters naturally resort Democratic race became clear to them. And the left has cultivated when Bill Clinton got himself aca deeply paranoid worldview that cused of racism well before he did sees everything through the prism In New of identity politics and assumes any verifiable malign motives on the part of Hampshire, he called the notion that Obama had consistently opanyone not the "correct" gender or race. posed the Iraq War "a fairy tale," contest is The Obama-Clintoa charge that black Democrats nonetheless declared , merely an intramural warm-ug Democrat like If a offensive. Ferraro can get chewed up, just On it goes: Harvard professor wait to see what happens to ReOrlando Patterson took to the publicans in the fall. The oversen-sitivitpages of The New York Times to and divisiveness, has just declare Hillary's famous 3 a.m. ad reminiscent of D.W. Griffith's begun. Klan-epi"Birth of a Nation." Because the sleeping child that the ad I Rich Lowry, editorofThe National Review, writes for King focuses on is blond and the others Features Syndicate. are "vaguely Latino," the ad must grievance-politic- d lower-incom- Scandal drags down New York's governor ' "We have a budget to pass, we have a deadline to meet. If ' we can do that, we'll be back on v track." Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who will take over as New York's governor following Eliot Spitzer's dramatic fall from power in a prostitution scandal. '. &&j'iihJf& -- . "I just don't want to be thought of as a monster. This has been a very difficult time. African-America- It's complicated." -Ashley Alexandra Dupre, identified in the New York Times as the woman who went ' to Spitzer's room at a Wash- hotel. -r- - "How could one smart guy get that stupid?" Susan Estrich, a political commentator and activist who was one of Spitzer's professors at Harvard Law School. race-baitin- n race-neutr- p. trail-blazin- c STRANGE,,. CLIENT 10 KEEPS laUMfi, Beehives & Buffalo Chips Beehive to those honored Monday by the Provo People First Council for helping people with disabilities. The honorees included mothers who drive their adult children to events and activities, friends and support coordinators. For instance, Scot and Brittany Bayles take part in the Brigham Young University Best Buddies Program with Willie Jeppson. They meet about once a month for activities such as attending a basketball game. It's great to see people reaching out to help others. Buffalo Chip to a firewood thief in Ogden, in honor of all those lunkheads who mess up a good thing for everyone else. The Little C Tree Service and Snow Removal offered a sale, after hours, on the honor system. That's in the past tense now, because some jerk took $300 worth of firewood and left only a few bucks in the payment box. What makes us mad is that these kinds of people, though few, make the lives of all of us a bit more e "Jt- - Beehive to the staff of the pjp Timpview High School PRAISE ALLAH Thunderbolt, named the best high school newspaper in the state. "We've come in second the last several years, so I'm just delighted," said Louise Durham, the adviser. "These students are who care about the product that they create." We know how tough the news business is, so our hat's off to the young journalists of the Thunderbolt. to an tm Bua'of a Fazoli's WIRETAPS CALtCIRLS Cn'P restau-ran- t in Provo who was convicted on Tuesday of attempting to sexually abuse a employee. J.W. Craig was found guilty on one count of attempted forcible sexual abuse. He denied the charges, but a jury found the young woman's accusations more credible. 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