Buckwheat Harvest

Well, the media hounds may not have been loosed on this, but locals sure voted. The candidate for office in Louisiana (a democrat) who called a black volunteer for her campaign "Buckwheat" has been defeated. Don Surber points out that the Associated Press buries that little detail until far down into their coverage of the election.

I doubt AP would have downplayed a Republican losing over a racist remark.

As a member of the MSM for most of my adult life, I should resent charges of a pro-Democrat bias in the media. Really, I should.

But then Melinda Deslatte of the Associated Press and her editors in New York do something like this: Downplay the election loss of a white Democratic State Representative in Louisiana who had called a civil rights leader “Buckwheat.”

The loss by Democratic Representative Carla Dartez, D-Morgan City, was briefly mentioned in the 7th paragraph.

It should have been the lead in the national story.

Don has the full text of the AP article. While the Democrats hold a majority in both houses of the legislature, the margin is very slim in the lower house. With a new Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, it could get interesting.

I'm glad that Carla Dartez, D-Morgan City, got cut loose by the voters, though. It shows that the voters have a bit more sense than some pols give them.

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