Ralph Nader Makes Us All Proud
Now that he's become culturally irrelevant, I love Ralph Nader. Take a look at some of his more interesting comments from the other night:
Speaking Wednesday night at a Washington fund-raiser to retire the debt from his 2004 presidential campaign, Nader complained that Democratic Party powerbrokers had kept him off the ballot in such Southern states as Georgia and Virginia - which reminded him of the oppressive Jim Crow laws that denied African-Americans equal rights."I felt like a [n-word]," remarked the 70-year-old white multimillionaire graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
Now, I think everyone knows Ralph Nader's a dick. Who knew he was so racially oppressed too? Nader seems to think the troubles he had from Team Democrat getting onto the ballots last year is a huge personal injustice. Nader seems to forget the whole reason why "the N-word" is so offensive: it conjures up images of how so many regular Americans were (and are) denied access to society because of something they had no control over, namely the color of their skin. Ralph Nader is unpopular because of his chosen political strategy of not caring whether he helps ruin the mainstream politicians most closely allied with his own stated ideology. So, whatever reason he wasn't allowed on the ballot, that's a path he chose. He wasn't born that way.
Thanks to Lloyd Grove at the New York Daily News for the writeup (Hamptons news too!!!), and for this witty rejoinder:
Yesterday, Nader told me he was using the word in the same spirit as the Black Panthers of the 1960s - "as a word of defiance."But Sharpton retorted: "He's not a Black Panther."