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Michelle Malkin: Virginia Rep. Jim Moran, Racist Pig
Rep. Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently nonwhite enough. Moran’s an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot. And not one of his civility-preaching liberal colleagues has the courage to call him out.
Responding on cable news to Republican Rep. Allen West’s blunt criticisms of President Barack Obama last week, Moran derided the retired Army colonel, who is black, as “not representative of the African-American community.” Moran then launched into the kind of tired race-traitor tirade I’ve heard from progressives of pallor for more than 20 years.
How dare we “people of color” stray from the left’s ideological plantation? If we choose personal responsibility over entitlement, capitalism over statism or self-determination over identity politics, presumptuous white liberals appoint themselves spokespeople for our forefathers and deciders of our true destinies.
To wit: Lt. Col. West “just seems clueless now that he has climbed aboard ship,” Moran fumed. “He’s climbed this ladder of opportunity that was constructed by so many of his ancestors’ sweat, sacrifice, blood — you know, they did everything they could for his generation to be successful. But now that he’s climbed on board ship, instead of reaching down and steadying the ladder, he wants to push it off.”
West, his father, his mother and his brother all dedicated their lives to military service; four consecutive generations of his family served in the U.S. armed forces. As a freshman congressman, West’s message has been a compelling agenda of self-empowerment. For this, he is savaged by a House colleague as a racial saboteur?
But Moran was just warming up. Next, he contrasted conservative West with big-government savior Obama, who he said acted in proper accordance with his ancestors “by reducing college tuition and training our workers, trying to get a decent job for everybody” and leaving a “constructive legacy.”
Er, how’s the savior’s near double-digit unemployment, record food stamp enrollment, re-inflation of the housing and higher-education bubbles, and massive redistribution of wealth from the working class to the Wall Street bundler class working out for you?
Moran hailed Obama as “our Lion King” and compared his Republican detractors to the “hyenas in the background trying to cause trouble” for the White House. This bumbling chief of political correctness apparently is unaware that those hyenas in the Disney movie have been criticized for perpetuating negative stereotypes about blacks and Hispanics. Dog-whistle politics, anyone?
Do Moran’s constituents in Virginia’s 8th District support his incessant race-baiting? Last year, he accused Tea Party activists of racism for sweeping out entrenched Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. It “happened for the same reason the Civil War happened in the United States. It happened because the Southern states, the slaveholding states, didn’t want to see a president who was opposed to slavery,” he ranted to Arabic-language television network Alhurra. “(A) lot of people in the United States don’t want to be governed by an African-American, particularly one who is liberal, who wants to spend money and who wants to reach out to include everyone in our society.”
Yet, only two short years before, this hopelessly racist nation put Obama in the Oval Office with a landslide victory. Logic never was the demagogue’s strong suit.
The aptly named Moran, an 11-term incumbent, continues to be rewarded by voters for his extravagant spending habits, self-dealing and diarrhea of the mouth. As I’ve reported previously:
» While on the Alexandria (Va.) City Council, he was charged with casting a vote that helped a developer friend win a bid for a lucrative plot of public land. A special prosecutor concluded that Moran had violated the state’s conflict-of-interest law. He sobbed as he pleaded no contest to a felony charge of vote-peddling. He received a year’s probation for a reduced conflict-of-interest misdemeanor charge and was forced to resign.
» In 1995, he had to be subdued by Capitol Hill police when he threw a punch at then-Rep. Randy Cunningham, R-Calif., on the House floor. After the incident, Moran blamed “talk radio” for creating a hostile environment in Washington. That same year, he screamed “I’ll break your nose” at Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., during a hearing.
» In 2002, Moran revealed in financial disclosure statements that he accepted a $50,000 loan in January 2001 from an “old friend,” billionaire America Online co-founder James Kimsey. Moran claims to have paid the business mogul back at 15 percent interest over three months, and his spokesman emphasized the loan came with no accompanying quid pro quo.
» Kimsey’s gift came on the heels of Moran’s disclosure that he had received another Big Business-tied loan: $25,000 from “old friend” Terry Lierman, a drug industry lobbyist representing Schering-Plough. After getting that unsecured loan at a lower-than-market interest rate, Moran co-sponsored a bill that would extend the patent on Schering-Plough’s allergy medicine Claritin — and prevent generic drug manufacturers from offering inexpensive alternatives.
Liberal busybodies are an annoyance. Liberal race-card abusers who lambaste patriotic minority conservatives to cover their own dirty deeds make my brown skin crawl.
— Michelle Malkin is author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies. Click here for more information. She can be contacted at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Follow her on Twitter: @michellemalkin.
» wrote on 02.06.12 @ 09:11 AM
Dear Michelle,
How can you deride others for spewing venom when you do so much yourself?
ron dexter
» wrote on 02.06.12 @ 11:34 AM
Michele is the only child of Filipino ex-pats, Ferdinand Marcos supporters. She was brought up to spout this drivel at every family gathering, and was nurtured into what she is now.
She is a product, not a real person.
» wrote on 02.06.12 @ 12:45 PM
Dear Rambler,
That explains a lot. I should be more forgiving. In today’s dialog that kind of talk is expected. It just seemed to me over the top.
Thanks for the information.
I should reach out to her.
ron
» wrote on 02.06.12 @ 03:05 PM
And yet both of you ignore her claims, how convenient. Liberals are the most insidious racists on the planet. Rather than abide by MLK’s dream of color blindness they instead engage in the racist habit of using skin color at every chance they get. They institute racist policies of apartheid like affirmative action and race based quotas. Basically telling minorities they are too stupid and hopeless to do anything on their own without rich white liberals to help them.
» wrote on 02.06.12 @ 05:17 PM
Thanks for clearing all that up, Bishop ANchove. Of course affirmative action is like apartheid. As you say, it just forced the white bigots to admit stupid people of color into their companies and colleges.
The smart ones were always able to get in. All they had to do was accept jobs as janitors.
Some would argue that affirmative action only gave the smart people of color an even chance against the stupid people of pallor.
Who will stick up for the stupid people, both black and white? Only you, I’m afraid.
» wrote on 02.06.12 @ 05:23 PM
Dear AN50
Is the 50 for your IQ.
» wrote on 02.07.12 @ 05:13 AM
You know if half of what she said about Moran is true, the guy is pretty despicable. To have been accused and convicted of vote-peddling and then get elected to Congress is a complete indictment of the people in his District. If corrupt people like him can be elected, I guess we get the govt we deserve.
» wrote on 02.07.12 @ 09:52 AM
Wow, Ron, what a scintillating response. I guess it takes one to know one, huh? I guess there is no hope in getting these left wing loons to actually discuss anything. Attack the messenger, insult the commenters, never an argument that make sense.
Tell me Ronny, what is it you find objectionable in my previous comment that has you in such a tizzy? Try, if you might, to resist just throwing more inane insults like your big brother, Rambo the witless clown.
» wrote on 02.07.12 @ 10:06 AM
AN50
You are so right. Everyone that disagrees with those who know everything are wrong. I admit, I am wrong. You are right. I am a left looney
Forgive my questioning your infinite wisdom and understanding.
» wrote on 02.07.12 @ 03:34 PM
So I make a comment about an article and you insult me, not addressing the content and what it’s a disagreement? Ronny, what do you disagree with and why? Try that, instead of you are stupid and I don’t like you, which is all we ever get out of Rambo. That’s what I meant, get it? Rambo, you could attempt the same, though I doubt it.
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