What is with this affinity between Hillary Clinton's campaign and Fox News? Her most ... um ... nutty?... supporter, Harriet Christian, went right to the Faux News Channel to explain herself after her racially-charged rant following Saturday's Democratic Rules Committee meeting.
During the interview with Neil Cavuto, Harriet adds to her "inadequate black man" comment, parroting the Fox talking points about Reverend Wright, and adding her insight that "99 percent of the blacks don't even know why they are voting for him" (Obama) and then states that she, on the other hand, does know why: because he's black! Harriet fails to explain the irony of her supporting Hillary primarily because she's a woman, adding instead that she very much wanted to see a woman president in her lifetime ... Harriet also claims that because she somehow, opaquely, "worked for civil rights," she is "the furthest thing from a racist." Whatever gets you through the night, dear. Incredibly, Ms. Christian, who apparently now is a John McCain supporter, blythely dismisses the importance of the Supreme Court as an issue for her as a woman. She intends to support McCain, Court be damned, unless her choice, Hillary Clinton, is made the Democratic nominee. Harriet does say that she would support a ticket with Hillary at the top, and Barack at the bottom, "because then, Hillary would be running the country, and not Obama."
Meanwhile, one of her homies claims she really isn't nuts. And in doing so, Will Bower proves that he's as loony as she is:
I have a confession to make. It was I who encouraged Harriet to stay and to face the cameras. Each time she wanted to storm from the lobby in a fiery exeunt, it was I who stopped her, consoled her, turned her around, and told her "Your anger needs to be heard, friend. Don't stop."
Did I think that she could have been more coherent at first? Yes, I did. Did I feel that she was flirting with the edge of reason? Yes, I did. Would I have had her change a thing? No, I wouldn't.
I would like to add that I don't condone any correlation between the words "black" and "inadequate." It is my belief that she was not *equating* "black" with "inadequate." I believe she was saying that *Obama* is inadequate, and that he is where he is because of affirmative action tactics -- much as Geraldine Ferraro has said, and not unlike Joe Biden's misspeak last year. Again, though, not words I personally would have ever chosen.
Many have criticized Harriet for what is being categorized as her "circus antics." What they call "antics," I call the red blood of Democracy. She was angry. She was angry as I was angry. We were angry as thousands of people were angry. That anger needed a voice that wasn't couched behind cold, intellectually dishonest reason.
he DNC had committed an act of war, and Harriet was firing back with bullets of passion. Was she the best marksman? Perhaps not. But did she reveal to America the depth of frustration that many, many people are feeling right now? That she did. ...
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