(Below details of well-known incidents from various web sites)
Cubs manager Dusty Baker "We were brought over here for the heat. Isn't that history? Your skin color is more conducive to heat than it is to the lighter-skinned people. I don't see brothers running around burnt."
PC penalty: nothing
Rush Limbaugh: On Philadelphia Eagles' Donovan McNabb: "I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he really didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."
PC penalty: forced to resign by ESPN
Jesse Jackson: In 1984 comment to a black reporter called Jews "Hymies" and New York "Hymietown."
PC penalty: nothing
Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder: In 1988 after he said that a black athlete was better than a white athlete because "he's been bred to be that way because of his thigh size and big size."
PC Penalty: fired by CBS
The Reverend Al Sharpton:
- According to the Associated Press, the lawyers of Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley (a young black girl) asserted "on 33 separate occasions" that a local white prosecutor named Steven Pagones "had kidnapped, raped, and smeared with feces" Brawley. There was no evidence, and Pagones was soon cleared, and won a defamation lawsuit against Sharpton for $65,000. According to NR, Sharpton has never paid up, claiming poverty.
PC penalty: nothing
- 1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.
PC penalty: nothing
- 1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.
PC penalty: nothing
This is the person the dems trot out on the convention podium and schmooze with.
There's a double standard, no ifs, ands, buts, perhapses, or maybes.
