Ashbrook Center blogger Julie Ponzi posts this on No Left Turns.
The 6-minute video is well worth watching, especially the staffer trying to save Senator Boxer by whispering instructions in her ear. At one point, Mr. Alford indicates that he was in the army. My guess is that he was a Master Sergeant or Sergeant Major by the way he “dresses down” Senator Boxer’s for her racist badgering. Senator Inhofe also gets in on the fun.
Progressive Condescension
This exchange between Senator Barbara Boxer and National Black Chamber of Commerce President, Harry Alford (and my new hero) is priceless. She really cannot understand why Mr. Alford does not back off once she quotes from a memo of the NAACP and cites the opinions of another group of black businessmen about the impact of Cap and Trade. All of the independent research and work that he and his group have been conducting for the last 13 years on the impact of global warming legislation on business are supposed to be thrown out the window because Barbara Boxer is now setting him straight on the way black people are “supposed to think.” But he will have none of it. I really cannot think of a more vile representation of the condescension that characterizes so much of “Progressive” ideology. Do note, also, the way that Mr. Alford repeatedly refers to her as “M?am”… she didn?t dare tell him to stop and please use the title she had “worked so hard” to get.
