Ruth Marcus launches liberal slander campaign against conservative Republicans.

Ruth Marcus, a liberal Democrat who is a columnist for The Washington Post, launched today what may be the first salvo of a two year-long binge against the Republican Party and potential Republican presidential candidates. In a column published today in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Marcus attempts to destroy the reputation of Mississippi Republican Governor Haley Barbour for comments he made in two conservative publications, Human Events and the Weekly Standard. In a typical example of liberal hypocrisy, Ruth Marcus, who’s own Washington Post bio says is: “A boots-on-the-ground columnist who reports first and opines later.” and then says: “Although she leans to the left, she is not captive to any party or orthodoxy.” (snicker, snicker) starts off with a lot of opinionated statements and party hype. Notably, she writes about her all-women, all Democrat book club that has just been discussing Kathryn Stockett's book “The Help”, a novel about white women and their black maids in Mississippi in the 1960s.

I can tell you from personal experience about the time when I first saw white women and their black maids and it wasn't in the South, it was in a wealthy suburb of New York City. I was living in Long Beach, Long Island in the early 1960’s and had taken my wife for a drive through the nearby Five Towns area in Nassau County. We happened to pass through the very exclusive and predominantly liberal Democrat, Jewish communities of Hewlett Harbour and Hewlett Bay Park in southwest Nassau County in Long Island, New York, that also has one of the highest per capita incomes in the United States. As we enjoyed looking at the beautiful mansions with their huge manicured lawns and stately trees we saw several black maids pushing strollers along the sidewalks.

Wikipedia elaborates on Ruth Marcus’ background by saying she was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Livingston, N.J.. She studied at Yale University where she wrote for the college newspaper. She is a journalist who currently writes an op-ed column for the Washington Post. In March 2007, she was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in commentary. The Pulitzer board cited "her intelligent and incisive commentary on a range of subjects, using a voice that can be serious or playful." Marcus is married to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz.

If Ruth Marcus was so concerned about segregation in the South why didn’t she do more research and write a truthful, unbiased article on the subject instead of trying to slanderize a popular Republican governor who didn't enter politics until after segregation ended? There just happens to be a qualified source for that information, the National Black Republican Association.

On the National Black Republican's web site I have read a very informative article on the origins of segregation and the connection between the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Democratic Party. I strongly urge you to read the rest of this article. Here are the opening paragraphs.

KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party

By Frances Rice

History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.  This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University.  As a further testament to his impeccable credentials, Professor Foner is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. 

Democrats in the last century did not hide their connections to the Ku Klux Klan.  Georgia-born Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wrote on page 21 of the September 1928 edition of the Klan’s “The Kourier Magazine”: “I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat.  My father … never voted for any man who was not a Democrat.  My grandfather was …the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days….  My great-grandfather was a life-long Democrat….  My great-great-grandfather was…one of the founders of the Democratic party.”

Dr. Foner in his book explores the history of the origins of Ku Klux Klan and provides a chilling account of the atrocities committed by Democrats against Republicans, black and white.

The National Black Republican Association also has a little History Test that you might want to browse through. It contains a whole lot of surprising details that our liberal education system conveniently ignores. I’ve always wondered what kind of people would graduate from our colleges and universities had they been exposed to unbiased knowledge instead of leftist dogma and propaganda. Would Ruth Marcus be a liberal Democrat today if she was educated with the truth about American History or would she still have sold out her principles for fame and fortune to the liberal mainstream news media?

HistoryTest

BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY
NOTE: All answers are "b."

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party

2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party

3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party

4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party

5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party

6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X]  b. Republican Party

7.   What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party

8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party

9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history and who spent record money education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?

            [  ] a. Democratic Party   [X] b. Republican Party


BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

NOTE: All answers are "b."

10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party

11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party

12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party

13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president and the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party

14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina while governor, and Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party

15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party

16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party

17. What Party is against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

            [  ] a. Republican Party   [X] b. Democratic Party