If You Really Loved Me You'd Let Me Eat Your Brain

Multimillionaire tree hugger Ralph Nader was in Washington, DC last week raising funds to retire the debt from his 2004 presidential campaign. He complained about being left off the ballots in some Southern states, saying "I felt like a nigger." This was reported by Evan Gahr on his chimpstein.com Web site then picked up by the New York Daily News.

Nader gets no sympathy from me. I doubt that he's ever been in the minority of anything (rich white heterosexual Jewish non-disabled male college graduate (Princeton and Harvard Law)) and wouldn't know discrimination from a toffee apple. Comparing ballot access politics with the rape, murder, and owning of human beings just because their skin was dark? Does not compute. Taking away a person's name, ancestry, and age (by denying them the knowledge of when they were born and who their parents were) and treating them like livestock isn't even in the same universe as maneuvering within a legal system to prevent someone from being on a ballot.

At times like this, and especially with anything involving the concept of race, I like to ask myself, "What would Al Sharpton do?" Not much it seems. From the New York Daily News article:

"If Ed Koch had said what Ralph Nader said, we'd be marching," Sharpton noted. "This [scolding] doesn't rise to the level of a march. It rises to the level of a wrist slap."

Does Sharpton realize what he's saying? That there is a double standard at work? I'm baffled by the quote above because I can't tell what Sharpton was trying to get across. I think he may just be the stupidest person to ever have been a thought-leader at the national level for an major ethnic group in America. Jesse Jackson was a crook and shakedown artist, but at least he was smart.

Let me back up a bit for the bigger picture and my main point. Faithful readers know that Manual Override would never blog something if it wasn't true, or could have been true if the facts were totally different. We have high blogolistic standards here and it pains us to rely on a gossip rag like the Daily News for our sources. Why the Daily News and not the New York Times? Simply put, liberal media outlets aren't interested in stories about their own kind using bad words. They save up their outrage for the day a conservative says "nigger" or, in the case of Trent Lott, just mentions the South. Ralph Nader gets a pass. Former KKK Kleagle and current Senator Robert "white niggers" Byrd gets a pass.

I did a lot of searching to find out if any other MSM outlets reported Nader's comments but found none. Lots of blogs, but no MSM outlets. That's pretty sad.