Friday, April 22, 2011

And the bleat goes on


     APEGATE: In an update, R. Scott Moxley now reports that
     The executive committee of the OC Republican Party voted today 10-2 to send the Marilyn Davenport matter to the ethics committee, says … Jon Fleischman, a prominent local Republican who supported the motion. He identified the two "no" voters: Pat Shuff, a GOP activist in Fullerton, and the party's first vice chairman, Deborah Pauly, who caused a huge mess earlier this year when she made anti-Muslim statements in public. The ethics group will meet on Saturday.
     Moxley also noted that Davenport (and her handler, Tim Whitaker) showed up today on conservative talk-radio bloviator Larry Elder’s talk show. Evidently, Elder, who is African-American, encouraged Davenport to go on the offensive
     [She blamed] Democrats for having a "double standard" about racism and Republicans for not keeping her email a secret from the media.
     Elder, a prominent black conservative talk radio host based in Los Angeles, got Davenport to agree that the "real racists" are Democrats and to credit Republicans for insisting on the nation's civil rights advancements.
. . .
     Tim Whitacre, the fellow Orange County Republican Party official and former U.S. Marine who is aiding Davenport with the media, also appeared on the show, defended the email as a non-offensive joke, called Davenport "of sound mind and reason," and declared, "We are not going to let the [political] Left dictate this."….
     Earlier this week, Davenport acknowledged that, when she sent the chimp-Obama image, she knew that it likely would offend some—to whom she therefore did not send it. She also seemed to acknowledge that, in view of the use of ape images in the country’s racist past, the image should not have been sent—to anyone, I guess.
     Davenport is mighty confused.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good lord; Elder seems mighty confused, as well. Is there an "insanity" requirement for becoming a conservative talk-show host?

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