By now you're certainly familiar with the race friendly liberals using "blackface" imagery to attack their opponents. Most noteably it's the Dems eatting their own, Joe Lieberman, simply because he has the conviction to not go with the polls on the Iraq war, even though he's a liberal all the way around. From time to time I don't even cover these type of stories, partly because the racism coming out of the left is such a regular occurance that it would be full time job, and partly because it would be overkill sense the everyone else blogs about it. The only thing unique in this case is that Lieberman is a Democrat.

If you have been following the story, you know that nutroot and Huffington Poster Jane Hamsher who originally used the Lieberman "blackface" in a piece she wrote, took it down and tried to distance herself from who she supports, Lieberman's primary opponent Ned Lamont. And if you've managed to stay out of the lefty Kool Aid zones you'd realize that despite Hamsher's claims that she's not affiliate with the Lamont campaign, and his distancing himself from blogs, she is VERY tight with the campaign. In fact, she seems like she's practically an unpaid campaign manager! Michelle Malkin has the details here, here, and especially here.

Well now some liberal blogger I've never heard of is crying selective conservative outrage because he didn't hear anyone throw a fit about my Hillary / Roots photoshop. I created the photoshop following Hillary's comments to a black Harlem audience on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, comparing what slaves endured to what Democrats in Congress endure:

The House "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about," said Clinton, D-N.Y. "It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

I'm not ashamed to show the image again because it's totally different than the "blackface" images that everyone is upset about.

First of all, the "blackface" that the liberals have been using to attack opponents is deeply rooted in the racist history of America (see here). The liberals are using no context just drudging up painful memories of the racism of this country's past while taking cheapshots at political opponents. My image is clearly photoshopping Hillary in to a position that she claims to be in.

Look, I DIDN'T paint Hillary as some black slave, SHE DID. She had the nerve to devalue what the slaves went through by comparing it with whiny Democrats in Washington not getting their way! SHE DID THAT! I mocked her by putting her on the cover of roots, sarcastically saying essentially "really, is it this bad Hill?" Please explain to me how you can interpret that any other way. What else could I possibly have been saying?

Well, leave it to the libs. They are claiming that his is a "blackface" like any other. First of all, it's not the "blackface" that we've seen, referencing the "blackface" of our history. It's a Hillary face on the cover of roots, where I simply painted over her face with some semi-transparent brown to make it blend with the hands and body from the original image. With her normal pale white skin color, the image just didn't "fit". Admittedly even with my coloring job, it's not the greatest, but I don't have any real photoshopping software.

Somehow liberals see me using color to blend the skin on Hillary's face to the body I put it on, the same as they see people using the ages old "blackface" that is used to mock black people. My image has nothing to do with "black people". It has to do with Hillary playing slave!

A blogger Steve M. at RogerAiles.blogspot.com took it upon himself to expose what his misguided childish mind thinks is a double standard. He opens with these three paragraphs, with my Hillary photoshop after the first:

I didn't like Jane Hamsher's blackface Lieberman, but does anyone recall a similar reaction when RightWinged.com, a favorite of the conservative blogosphere, ran this?

(my photoshop)

*crickets*, as I recall.

(That was in reaction to Hillary's comment that the GOP-controlled House of Representatives "has been run like a plantation.")

First let me mention that Steve M. cross-posted the entire entry over at some place called "No More Mister Nice Blog". And in both locations he hotlinked my image, instead of doing the normal internet courtesy move of saving it and hosting it on your own. Steve M. wasn't amused when I replace the image file that he was hotlinking, with a giant George Bush photo, throwing his page all out of whack. He adds this update to his post:

UPDATE: Randy, you tried to pull the picture so I couldn't link it, but it's back in a non-hotlinked version. You created this. You should be proud of it. Grow up.

Where did I pull a picture? As annoying as your spinjob is, I didn't pull anything, I tought you a lesson in internet etiquet and hopefully lyou won't be hotlinking anyone else. You must be new to this. You're just lucky I didn't decide to be a real ass and replace that image file with pornography. I saved the original Hillary image under a new name, and made the changes to the post so that it was still there just as before, so nothing was pulled bud. All that happened was anywhere that you hotlinked under the original filename, you had a giant Dubya photo. Again, you must be new to how this works.

Anyway, this clown has take other comments I've said out of context to use in his updates, and he and his trolls have been arguing with me in the comments. Perhaps you'd like to join the party at Roger Ailes or No More Mister Nice Blog.

One last point to keep in mind... Steve calls me "a favorite of the conservative blogosphere". As much as I wish that were true (if I had time to blog regularly anyway), this is ridiculous. Just look at my site meter. I'm averaging like 200-something hits right now, and I barely blog. How can he say that there were crickets chirping (vs. outrage at my photoshop), when the crickets were actually my traffic. How do you compare little me with Jane Hamsher. Hamsher, who used the Lieberman image, writes at the Huff post and her own blog Firedog Lake averages over 62,000 hits per day!!!

Liberal honesty at it's best, eh? Where was the outrage at my image? Well, I don't think it would be justified, but even if it were, the outrage is lacking because the readership is. Eh, I'm bored with this for now. I feel like I'm explaining it to death, because that's what I feel I have to do after dealing with the 5-year-old like minds of the libs commenting at these blogs.