Slim Smith Tries To Make One Point, Makes Exact Opposite Point But Is Too Stupid To Know

Slim Smith, the resident liberal at the online version of the Commercial Dispatch (Columbus, MS) apparently had a quota to meet this past week. You can always tell when a liberal is short of ideas and needs a quick column to keep his job because the column is ALWAYS the same: racism and conservatives/Republicans. Smith spares no effort at making himself look like a complete tool. 

Fifty years ago Friday, the President of the United States was shot and killed in Dallas and some of the schoolchildren in segregated schools throughout the South cheered the news. 

So he gets off on the wrong foot. After all, I'd be willing to bet some children in integrated schools other places also cheered. The cool thing about anecdotal evidence like Slim is going to use to make his case is that when the evidence doesn't exist you can simply make it up.

Children cheered in Oxford, recalled Lloyd Gray, the editor of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, who was a fourth-grader there. 

Children cheered in Columbus, said Birney Imes, the publisher of The Dispatch, who was a junior high student at Joe Cook Junior High. 

It happened throughout the South. 

Note this slimeball tactic. Slim takes two alleged eyewitness accounts of events fifty years ago and extrapolates them across one specific region of the USA. So let me make this point: I attended Caledonia Elementary School in that sewer known as Lowndes County and I can attest that on March 30, 1981 there were children of both races in the sixth grade class at Activity Period who cheered the shooting of President Reagan. I'd be willing to bet this also happened at some all-black schools, too, but since it doesn't fit Slim's narrative, he ignores it.

It wasn't as though entire classrooms rose in one voice to celebrate the tragedy. 

No, that was reserved for folks who cheered the acquittal of a black former NFL running back who killed two white folks and got away with it.

By most accounts, it was the reaction of a handful of children, who cheered, then quickly fell silent, as though they were embarrassed, perhaps even surprised, at their spontaneous reaction to the news. 

But the fact remains, a president was shot and the first reaction of some children was to cheer. 

That seems hard to fathom today. 

Or does it? 

No, because kids are kids who generally have no understanding of death and who tend to believe pretty much everything they're told at home. The dumb ones grow up to go to Ivy League schools and run for office and never once learn to question what someone is telling them. 

For all of the progress that has been made, I wonder if, were the unthinkable to happen today, some of our schoolchildren might react much as those schoolchildren did on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963. 

Yes, but it has nothing to do with what you're building towards, so this is a pointless claim.

In the years since JFK, all presidents have had their share of bitter critics. Some have been despised and over the years the respect that was normally accorded to office of the President of The United States of America has disintegrated.  

Nothing like dealing with a historical ignoramus. Does Slim not know that Rutherford B Hayes was called "His Fraudulency" by the self-appointed party of the people? Does he know that John Tyler was nearly impeached and that Andrew Johnson actually was impeached? This mythical "respect my generation had for the office of President" is a pile of garbage that Slim and his liberal cohorts need to abandon in favor of reality.

But there is a level of hatred reserved for Barack Obama that hasn't been witnessed in this country since JFK and before that, Abraham Lincoln. 

This is hogwash Not only can you not prove this but this is wrong on so many levels as to make me question whether you're back off the wagon.

1) I'm guessing nobody hated James Garfield or William McKinley. Sure, they were assassinated, but those weren't hate crimes, just good Democrats gone bad.

2) Since the assassination of Kennedy there have been THREE total assassination attempts. NONE was against Barack Obama. Two were made against President Ford and a third (and most dangerous one) against Ronald Reagan.

3) If this is true then why haven't Obama's approval ratings sunk as low as Carter or Bush 43? 

Some Americans may have wanted Nixon or Reagan or Clinton or Bush driven out of office, but those who openly wished for their deaths were confined to psychotics who lived on the ragged edges of the political sphere. 

I'm guessing Slim considers Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams part of the lunatic fringe. In 2007, Williams came to Bush's home state of Texas and said, "Right now, I could kill George Bush." She went on to say "not really" and then modified it by saying she would love to kill him in a nonviolent way. Or what about the recently terminated Randi Rhodes, who in May 2004 advocated the murder of President Bush? Or what about Air America being investigated in 2005 for a skit where Rhodes again talked about shooting Bush?

Are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that Air America was only the home of the left-wing lunatic fringe? If so, then you have a serious problem since one of those former hosts is now a U.S. Senator.

The fact is that this whole paragraph is a pile of garbage with no factual basis.

But the hatred that manifested itself in the impulsive cheers of children upon first hearing of JFK's shooting in Dallas was not confined to the deranged few, especially not in Mississippi.  

Now you're contradicting your earlier claim that it was a "handful" of children. You've gone from a handful of kids to the entire South and now back to the entire white population of Mississippi. No wonder you like Obama so much - your rhetoric comes from the same ill-informed and dishonest sewer pipe as his.

It had been a little more than a year since Kennedy sent in federal troops to squash the riots that had broken out in Oxford in the immediate aftermath of James Meredith's enrollment as the first black student at the University of Mississippi on Oct. 1, 1962.  

I don't know how to break this to you but Kennedy didn't even carry Mississippi in 1960. It's not like he was a popular guy in the first place.

Kennedy's decision to send in federal troops was widely viewed a humiliation among white Mississippians, who bitterly opposed integration. It was a breach of state sovereignty and a slap in the face to the people. Well, it was a slap in the face to the white people, who were then the only people who mattered.  

Fair enough slam but given the reaction of Bostonians to forced busing over a decade later, this is an amusing anecdote at best. Apparently, what was good for a Bostonian to impose on Mississippi was not such a good idea when it applied to them. And THAT was the entire point.

While Kennedy, a liberal Catholic from Massachusetts, was never popular among white Mississippians, it wasn't until the troops descended on Oxford that he became a figure of burning resentment, even hatred. 

 Ah, the myth of the liberal Kennedy. The late Teddy White, who actually knew and admired JFK, wrote at the time that Kennedy was the perfect example of an "enlightened Tory" while Teddy represented the "unabashed liberal extreme." Kennedy was by no means a Reaganite, but he was not an Obama prototype, either. And dare I point out that Kennedy's views on civil rights apparently did not extend to the private life of Dr. Martin Luther King?

And so it was, on that awful November day, children too young to understand why their president should be hated, hated him anyway and cheered the tragedy, if only for a fleeting instant. 

They acted like innocent kids who don't understand death, you moron.

Are things so different today? 

No, kids are still kids. They've gotten stupider via the Smart phones but they're still kids.

There is a segment of our country that actively believes Obama not only isn't an American, but is decidedly anti-American.

Now why would that be, Slim?

1) His attending church for 20 years sitting under the instruction of an American-hating pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Either he never went to church or he heard that bozo spouting that stuff and implicitly approved.

2) His wife saying in 2008 after the Wisconsin primary that this was the first time she was proud of America?

3) His not even knowing how many states we have

4) His stated willingness to kill American citizens with drones outside of war zones

5) His ALWAYS siding with the black guy in a black/non-black situation (Henry Gates, Trayvon Martin)

I've got more, but you can chew on those for awhile.

 Considered from a view that can only be described as a function of paranoia,

In other words, all those things above combined don't really mean anything. Right?

 every policy has an ulterior motive, every act is a willful effort to destroy the Constitution and each move, no matter how innocuous it might appear, is a progression down the slippery slope to tyranny. 

Do you seriously think Barack Obama is the first President this has ever been said about? I heard the same things for eight years about George W Bush, starting with his election and continuing on into his retirement. The Patriot Act, the wiretaps, heck I even heard it said by many that the reason Bush failed to evacuate New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was because he hated black people. Sound familliar, Slim?

The government isn't simply inept, unresponsive or misguided: The Government is the enemy and Obama is the head of that government. 

You need to read more of the founding fathers if you think this is a recent sentiment.

Past presidents have been despised for being dishonest, immoral, inept or even pawns. But they have not been perceived as the enemy. 

You are out of your mind if you believe this. 

That status was once reserved for JFK and is now affixed to Obama. 

 Because they're Presidents and that is what happens to Presidents - period. It's not because Obama is black or a special case. 

Fifty years ago, children who had learned to hate a president at their parents' knee cheered when an assassin found his mark. 

I am not at all certain a similar event would not evoke a similar response today. 

It was shameful in 1963. 

That it could occur today, 50 years later, is all the more shameful.

Ah, here we go. You see, this is how it is with liberals. Since Barack Obama is darker skinned than Ronald Reagan, it is MORE shameful that someone might cheer if he was shot by an assassin. It's a bigger tragedy because those are the liberal rules of the game. Any non-white gets special status because of years of racism/slavery/tyranny that none of us now living had anything to do with. The fact is that it is no more (nor any less) of a shame than Kennedy's murder or Reagan's being shot. The only shame is that the Dispatch actually let this asinine column run.