Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D. Tex.), whose idiocy has made these pages numerous times before (I recommend reading through the old posts for fun), decided to waste some time and money by protesting a rather funny Super Bowl advertisement by Pepsi in which a woman chastising her husband about dieting throws a can at him when he smiles at another attractive female, misses and hits her, knocking her out.
Representative Lee's contention was that it is racist because the jogger was white and the couple was black. She is apparently channeling Al Sharpton...or Jessie Jackson (aren't they they same people? Sharpton is Jackson in a fat suit like Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor). This would not have occurred to me in a million years. Only people who view life through a prism of the preconception of racism (i.e., prejudiced?) could have come to this conclusion.
I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. Many on the left are obsessed with utilizing the politics of identity to maintain power. After all, if someone believes they depend on you for their survival, they aren't going to vote for someone else, no matter how bald the lie. Maybe it's time we expand the concept of censure so this kind of idiocy is discouraged.
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