When leftists/Democrats get backed into a corner, you can always expect them to play the race card. We now have allegations from a few Democrats that racial and other slurs were shouted at congressmen by a few people in the crowd protesting against the impending takeover of America’s health care system. The Democrats’ propaganda wing of leftist blogs and media outlets like MSNBC have gone into high gear pushing the story, trying to smear all the protesters as extremists, bigots, etc. A few thoughts:

• Without evidence, we don’t accept the allegations. The Democrats and their media allies have not provided any evidence. There’s lots of video of the protesters, and none so far backs up the charges.
• We don’t know who the people are who allegedly shouted these slurs. They could have been plants from some left-wing group. Anyone can show up at a public gathering.
• If the allegations are true, the people who shouted are despicable. The (not alleged but actual) attempts to smear all the protesters and the entire tea party movement based on allegations about a few people in a public crowd are also despicable. Calling a black congressman the “N word” because he supports a bad piece of legislation is evil. Calling people racists because they oppose a piece of legislation is also evil.
• None of this has anything at all to do with the massive fraud that the Democrats in Congress appear ready to inflict on America.

Via Yahoo Finance:

The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would cost $208 billion over 10 years. If added back to the health care overhaul bill, it would wipe out all the deficit reduction, leaving the legislation $59 billion in the red. The so-called doc fix was part of the original House bill. Because of its high cost, Democrats decided to pursue it separately.

This is just one more example of the total fraud and gimmickry that make up Obamacare. This is like saying that if I have a $300 per month car payment, it will be cheaper if I send two checks for $150 each. It’s a total scam. This is the kind of financial trickery that people in the private sector go to jail for.

At a rally today in Ohio pushing for his planned health care takeover, President Obama said:

“…this proposal would make preventive care free so you don’t have to pay out-of-pocket for tests that keep you healthy.”

Does the president, who is known for saying anything to make a point without regard for the facts, really believe that, or does he know it’s ridiculous, but is saying it anyway? Which is the scarier proposition?

This has to be one of the most biased “news” items ever from the AP, and that’s saying something.

It begins:

“A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.”

Really? A “far-right faction”? Sounds almost like there’s going to be some sort of military coup at the next Texas State Board of Education meeting.

Later in the article:

Ultraconservatives wielded their power over hundreds of subjects this week, introducing and rejecting amendments on everything from the civil rights movement to global politics.

Oh my! Not just conservatives, but “ultraconservatives”! You can almost smell the extra evil.

This “news” item reads almost like a post on some nutty left-wing blog like the Daily Kos or Think Progress.

So what does this sinister, “far-right faction” want to teach our kids? According to the AP:

Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation’s Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a “constitutional republic,” rather than “democratic,” and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard.

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According to the AP, “Another amendment deleted a requirement that sociology students ‘explain how institutional racism is evident in American society.’”

Just try to find an AP news item, referencing events in the United States, that refers to Democrats or liberals as “far-left” or “ultraliberal”. Notice that the writer doesn’t seem to find anything politicized or “far-left” in teaching children about “institutional racism.” For liberals, liberal views are just normal and apolitical, it’s only conservative (or simply non-left) views that are suspect and need to be labeled or critiqued. That would be just fine in an editorial piece, it has no place in a supposedly objective news item.