tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18370478.post115256275904309700..comments2023-10-23T09:41:22.599-04:00Comments on STONE SOUP MUSINGS: Mongo, DeVos and Hitler - Oh My!Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06875378679299157108noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18370478.post-1153922099012919782006-07-26T09:54:00.000-04:002006-07-26T09:54:00.000-04:00Thank you Thomas. Well put -- twice.Thank you Thomas. Well put -- twice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18370478.post-1152761707759030312006-07-12T23:35:00.000-04:002006-07-12T23:35:00.000-04:00DeVos had Mongo assist Kilgore in Virginia in 2005...DeVos had Mongo assist Kilgore in Virginia in 2005. Of course he knew. It's a second-rate swift-boating -- and I don't use the term lightly. <BR/><BR/>DeVos doesn't seem to have his heart in it. He's letting stupid people run his campaign, and I bet his exiled-from-politics former-Michigan-GOP-chair wife Betsy DeVos has something to do with it. They're both a joke. If Granholm gets any more good job news beyond Google's announcement, she'll end up crushing him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18370478.post-1152670793733450232006-07-11T22:19:00.000-04:002006-07-11T22:19:00.000-04:00Rolfe, the inuendo being repeated was from the art...Rolfe, the inuendo being repeated was from the article, not Mongo's ad. I agree the ad was in bad taste, but in the same way the media focused on Ann Coulter's comments about the Jersey Girls and ignored the point of the chapter as well as the other more poignant points of the entire book, the media will focus on the Hitler/Nazi thing, distract people by asking DeVos if he's associated, and ignore the point Mongo was trying to make.<BR/><BR/>lew - smear and fear is a tactic used by both parties, which is sad. My record is clear, I think, on my opinion of the sad state of affairs which is our nation's political discourse.Tom Gagnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11466965984472091709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18370478.post-1152665009765717202006-07-11T20:43:00.000-04:002006-07-11T20:43:00.000-04:00smear and fear, it's all the Republicans have. The...smear and fear, it's all the Republicans have. They certainly can't run on their abyssmal record of increased deficits.Lew Scannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12788033661013005904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18370478.post-1152646288417398852006-07-11T15:31:00.000-04:002006-07-11T15:31:00.000-04:00Thomas, I don't care about color. Mongo could be ...Thomas, I don't care about color. Mongo could be purple and I'd still think DeVos and his campaign were behind the scenes using him, just like Republicans used people to say Ann Richardson was gay or John McCain had fathered a black child.<BR/><BR/>There's an old saying:<BR/><BR/>If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.<BR/><BR/>DeVos has been hanging out with the junkyard dogs in the Republican Party for quite a while now. Like I said, a person with real integrity would have disassociated themselves from that bunch a long time ago. DeVos continues to run with the pack because he's one of them.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06875378679299157108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18370478.post-1152588280130624932006-07-10T23:24:00.000-04:002006-07-10T23:24:00.000-04:00If enough rumor, conspiracy, inuendo, and speculat...If enough rumor, conspiracy, inuendo, and speculations are repeated over and over eventually people will believe they're true. <BR/><BR/>It's fascinating how liberals suspect any black person that doesn't follow the black-democratic orthodoxy as being a republican operative. Obviously, black people can't think for themselves so DeVos' campaign must be behind Mongo's political activism. Does it matter that Mr. Mongo has been at this longer than DeVoss has been a candidate? Is it possible Mr. Mongo has been re-reading history books or perhaps even recently published and thoroughly researched tomes by Steele and Sowell and discovered democratic social policies have moved blacks backwards rather than forwards?<BR/><BR/>Is it possible the Michigan Chronicle just <A HREF="http://www.wxyztv.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4192033,00.html" REL="nofollow">attracts this kind of controversy?</A> Perhaps the entire paper is a front for the Michigan GOP?<BR/><BR/>I really don't think we should encourage overreactions without first considering the point the authors were trying to make. Afterall, Christians were asked why they reacted so violently to Piss Christ--why not consider the statement the artist was making?<BR/><BR/>In an interview on WJR, Mongo (after insisting his ads are his own) explained how Jesse Owens' treatment after the '36 Olympics seems to parallel how the democratic party continues to treat blacks today.<BR/><BR/>He's not alone. There are plenty of (presumably--but I have no evidence suggesting it) of better educated, better read, better researched, and better spoken authors that have the same view but haven't any connection to the DeVos campaign.<BR/><BR/>Or do you think Steel's book White Guilt was deliberately released in spring 2006 to jeopardize Granholm's campaign?<BR/><BR/>Another vast right-wing conspiracy?Tom Gagnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11466965984472091709noreply@blogger.com