Fox News ought to buy a copy of Monday’s Democrat debate on CNN to play over and over during the general election campaign. At this point, the Democratic candidates need only appeal to their nut-base. So on Monday night, the candidates warmed the hearts of loser liberal bloggers by endorsing crazy conspiracy theories that frighten normal Americans.
B. Hussein Obama got the party started by claiming he couldn’t get a cab in New York because he’s black. This line was a big hit with white liberals in the audience who have never been to New York.
Even writers for The New York Times don’t drag this canard out anymore. Last year, a black writer in the Times pointed out how much things had changed in New York in the 10 years since he had been out of the country. Not only did he have no trouble getting a cab, but he cited statistics from taxi sting operations that showed a 96 percent compliance rate among cabbies in picking up blacks. (Remarkable, considering that New York cabbies’ compliance rate on daily bathing is less than half that.)
As the Times writer noted, even 10 years ago, “most of the drivers who refused to pick me up or take me to my destination during that time were of African descent.” When he asked one cabbie — 10 years ago — why he avoided picking up black customers, the driver displayed a scar across his neck, a souvenir from a black customer who had robbed him. “I have to choose which is worse,” the driver said, “a fine or death.”
Thanks to Rudy Giuliani, cab drivers in New York no longer have to make that choice. Under his mayoralty, New York City became a lot safer for cab drivers — and everyone else. The murder rate went from about 2,000 murders a year under Mayor David Dinkins to about 700 by the end of Giuliani’s term. The last time a cab driver was killed in New York was in 1997.
In addition to making it safer for (mostly African-American and Muslim) cabbies to pick up African-Americans, Giuliani made it costly for them not to. He started “Operation Refusal” in 1999, sending out teams of black undercover cops and taxi commissioners to hail cabs and give fines to those who refused to pick up blacks.
Even back in 1999, in the first 12 hours of “Operation Refusal,” out of more than 800 cabs hailed, only five cab drivers refused to pick up a customer — one of whom was a white woman with children. And by the way, I’ve had dozens of cabs refuse to stop for me on Fifth Avenue. Sometimes they forget to turn on the “off duty” light, or they’re daydreaming or maybe they’ve read my columns on Muslims.
Next time, B. Hussein Obama ought to tell us the one about Kool cigarettes being owned by the KKK and causing impotence in black men. There may not be as much evidence disproving that one as there is for the yarn about blacks not being able to get a cab in New York City.
Overall, Hillary appeared to be the only Democrat even dimly aware that there will eventually be a general election. But she too played to her audience with wacky conspiracy theories. Oops, I mean she “discussed the Democratic platform in detail.” No need for me to get judgmental.
Hillary raised the Bush-stole-the-2000-election fairy tale, saying: “I think it is a problem that Bush was elected in 2000. I actually thought somebody else was elected in that election, but …” (Applause.)
On Nov. 12, 2001, The New York Times ran a front page article that began: “A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year’s presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.”
Another Times article that day by Richard L. Berke said that the “comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots solidifies George W. Bush’s legal claim on the White House because it concludes that he would have won under the ground rules prescribed by the Democrats.”
On Nov. 18, 2001, notorious pro-abortion zealot Linda Greenhouse wrote in the Times that the media consortium’s count of all the disputed Florida ballots — in which the Times participated — concluded “that George W. Bush would have won the 2000 presidential election even had the court not cut the final recount short.”
If three prominent articles in the Treason Times isn’t enough to convince Hillary that Bush won the 2000 election, forget the White House: ABC ought to hire her to replace Rosie O’Donnell on “The View.” I know that’s a big seat to fill, but maybe Hillary can finally convince Elizabeth Hasselbeck that 9/11 was an inside job.
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