THE PARTY OF MAXINE WATERS

The Party of Maxine Waters

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Maxine Waters in her shining, glittering intellect actually said, while she was there on Sunday, "Well, I have to march because my mother couldn't have an abortion." Are we to conclude, Maxine, that you are marching for your mother's right to have not had you? If we were like the people at this march, we'd be sitting here, "Yeah, Maxine, your mother should have aborted you." But I guess we don't have to say it because Maxine herself said it at the anti-Bush, pro-abortion rally yesterday in Washington, D.C. from the Rushlimbaugh.com website, April 27, 2004 Also, in addition to the above remarks she said that Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft "can go to hell": great comments for a Congressperson, aren't they?

By Michelle Malkin
October 26, 2000

She is one of the most self-serving, hate-filled, race-obsessed politicians in America. The Democratic Party doesn't just embrace her. It kneels at her feet.

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She is one of the most self-serving, hate-filled, race-obsessed politicians in America. The Democratic Party doesn't just embrace her. It kneels at her feet.

Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters reigned supreme when Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman appeared before a black audience to "explain" himself [in August 2000]. The Connecticut senator's sins? Opposing affirmative action and supporting educational vouchers that benefit minority children. Lieberman, once a courageous voice for equal opportunity, has now been schooled: Pander hard and keep your dissenting thoughts to yourself.

After throwing a hissy fit in the press because she had not been personally consulted about Al Gore's veep picks ("I never had the opportunity to talk to anybody about it before he was decided on as the vice-presidential choice," she whined), Waters gave her benediction. The skilled publicity hound dissed and then kissed Lieberman for the cameras; a cheek-to-cheek photo of the couple appeared in newspapers across the country.

Waters is not a marginal figure in Democratic politics. She has been at the center of the action for two decades. She has served on the Democratic National Committee since 1980. She led the Congressional Black Caucus. She was a key leader in five presidential campaigns and seconded the nominations of Sen. Edward Kennedy (1980), Rev. Jesse Jackson (1984 and 1988), and President Bill Clinton (1992).

Yet, in contrast to the media's wide coverage of GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush's primary-season visit to Bob Jones University, hardly a word was seen or heard reminding Americans of Waters' ugly history of race-baiting rationalizations and rhetoric.

This is a woman who excused the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a "rebellion."

This is a woman who called the violence in L.A. "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration."

This is a woman who, instead of coming to the aid of Korean grocers and other minority business owners in her district whose lives were destroyed by looters, made sympathetic statements such as this:

"There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. Maybe they shouldn't have done it, but the atmosphere was such that they did it. They are not crooks."

And this: "One lady said her children didn't have any shoes. She just saw those shoes there, a chance for all of her children to have new shoes. Goddamn it! It was such a tear-jerker. I might have gone in and taken them for her myself."

This is a woman who danced the electric slide with Crips and Bloods gang members, and then noted in her official biography that "Many young people, including those in the hip-hop music community, praise her for her fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression."

This is a woman who visited the home of Damian Williams, the infamous thug who "expressed himself" by hurling a chunk of concrete at white truck driver Reginald Denny and performing a victory dance over the innocent bystander.

This is a woman who rose to power by badmouthing the white "Establishment," and then shamelessly abused it to secure an ambassadorship to the Bahamas for her husband -- a former pro football player and car salesman whose main qualification was having traveled to the island for a vacation.

This is a woman who repeatedly excoriates "the white press" whenever negative stories about black politicians appear.

This is a woman whose main accomplishment in Congress after five terms has been to bully the House Veterans Committee into hiring two black members to its staff.

Democrats spent much of their national convention in L.A. deriding Republicans for fostering an "illusion of inclusion." But at least the GOP doesn't include in its leadership a snarling bomb-thrower who exploits every opportunity to play the race card and cash in on collective guilt and fear. Some liberals may try to distance themselves from Maxine Waters' extremism, but Sen. Lieberman and the Democratic Party don't have the guts to wipe the lipstick stains of racial demagoguery off their trembling cheeks.

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The "B" word and disrespect

Wednesday, March 27, 2002
By Larry Elder

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif. – offended!

At a recent meeting, Los Angeles Police Commission head Rick Caruso allegedly referred to Waters as a "bitch." Others attended the meeting, but no one confirmed or denied that Caruso made the remark.

Waters pronounced the remark "disrespectful," and urged Caruso's resignation. "If it's all right for the president of the police commission to refer to women in such a foul manner," she said, "he should never be in a position to make policy about disciplining police officers who use the same type of language."

Let's go to the videotape.

In a 1995 Los Angeles Times article by Waters, she offers a defense of rap music, despite its demeaning, graphic lyrics. "Do I like all rap music?" wrote Waters. "No, I do not. Do I like some of it? Yes, I do. I am moved by some of the stories told by rap artists such as Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog about their lives, their families, their mothers and their surroundings. It sometimes sounds like a cry for help." So Snoop Doggy Dog's CD "Doggystyle," with a cut called "For All My Niggaz and Bitches," actually serves as the artist's plaintive cry for group therapy.

What about the use of the "B" word by Marion Barry, the former mayor of Washington, D.C.? On Jan. 18, 1990, authorities filmed the then-mayor of Washington, D.C, smoking crack and attempting to sleep with a woman. When confronted by the police, the angry, embarrassed mayor said of his female companion, "I'll be G--------. She set me up. The bitch!" After the disgraced mayor served jail time, he resurrected his career when elected to D.C. city council, before his triumphant re-election as mayor. Did Congresswoman Waters suggest that Barry's use of the "B" word indicated "disrespect" for women in general, for black women in particular? Indeed, after Barry's return to office, Waters and he worked together. If Waters condemned Barry and his remark, it didn't make news.

Did Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., demonstrate disrespect when, of the Republican party's takeover of Congress in 1994, Rangel said, "It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' any more. They say, 'Let's cut taxes'"?

Did a black former Al Gore aide, Donna Brazile, show disrespect when she referred to the Republican party as "white boys"? And what about the disrespect shown black Republicans J.C. Watts and Secretary of State Colin Powell when Brazile said, "They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them"?

Will former California State Sen. Diane Watson apologize to University of California Regent Ward Connerly, the black man who pioneered California's initiative to rid the state of race- and gender-based preferences? Of Connerly, a black man who married a white woman, Watson said, "He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black. I said that."

To this day, black activist Al Sharpton refuses to apologize for falsely accusing former Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones of rape. After a multiracial jury found him unanimously liable, Sharpton said he would not pay. Sharpton's friends eventually ponied up most of the money, but Sharpton still won't offer an apology. In the mind of the apparently sensitive congresswoman, does a false accusation of rape disqualify one from running for president, as Sharpton intends? Apparently not.

The black mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, for 15 years California's powerful speaker of the assembly, once described a successful legislative battle this way, "We beat those old white boys fair and square." And NAACP Chairman Julian Bond described President Bush's Cabinet appointees as belonging to the "Taliban wing of American politics." Bond made the remark both before and after Sept. 11.

Apology for displaying disrespect? Congresswoman Waters once referred to the elder President George Bush as a "racist." She routinely refers to the Republican party as "the enemy." In 1973, the former Black Panther Joanne Chesimard shot and killed a New Jersey state trooper. Found guilty of murder, Chesimard later escaped from a New Jersey penitentiary and fled to Cuba. But Congress passed a resolution urging Castro to expedite her to this country. Congresswoman Waters wrote Castro a letter, urging him to keep this escaped murderer and likened her to Martin Luther King Jr., since Chesimard had been "persecuted for her civil-rights work"!

Quite simply, Waters wants Caruso out. Caruso, Waters fears, intends to vote against the retention of Bernard Parks, Los Angeles' black police chief, a man Waters supports for a second term. This is local politics, period, having nothing to do with any "disrespect" toward Waters.

Too bad Caruso didn't put the alleged remark to music. Then he could say, as Waters said about Snoop Doggy Dog, the term merely signified a "cry for help."

Larry Elder, controversial radio talk-show host from Los Angeles, is the author of the libertarian blockbuster "The Ten Things You Can't Say in America." Get your autographed copy now in WorldNetDaily's online store!