Climate Change Hearing Turns Stormy [ “That’s condescending and I don’t like it,”.....]

Wall Street Journal ^

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Climate Change Hearing Turns Stormy

Siobhan Hughes reports on energy policy.

A Senate hearing over climate-change legislation took an emotional turn today, when the head of a top black business group accused the chairwoman of being “condescending” and “racial.”

Tensions had been building between the head of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Harry Alford, and Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer, who is seeking to pass legislation to impose mandatory greenhouse-gas reductions.

The California Democrat said energy investments are creating jobs in her state, but Alford testified that he saw no evidence that energy investments are creating jobs. “I’ve been looking - I haven’t seen them yet,” he said. “The last time I checked, California is an economic basket case and these green jobs aren’t going to solve it.”

Boxer responded: “I want you to come with me. Let’s go see these jobs you say don’t exist.”

She then put into the record a statement from a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People related to the merits of energy investment. Alford objected. “That’s condescending and I don’t like it,” Alford said. “It’s racial. I take offense to that.”

He said that “quoting some other black man” is “racial,” appearing to suggest that his arguments about the economic effects of climate change legislation should be taken on their own terms rather than in the context of race. “We’re talking energy,” he said. The “road the chair went down I think is God awful.”

[tina07]

Rush just played the clip on air. Boxer was talking over the man throughout...B*tch!

[aruanan]

[ “That’s condescending and I don’t like it,”.....]

Actually, what he said to begin with was "That's condenscending..."

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[maryz]

Not sure what your point is. Everyone makes slips of the tongue, and I would imagine trying not to swear (or throw things!) in an exchange with Barbara Boxer would tie anyone’s tongue!

[HIDEK6]

Maybe I’m missing something but I fail to see how Climate Change is a racial matter

She was dismissing his arguments by pointing out how the NAALCP had already settled the matter for blacks, so he'd better get with the program or she wouldn't let him be black any longer.

[kittymyrib]

Cruella DeVille’s evil grandmother.....

[mc5cents]

The woman is a horses ass.

Secretariat, Man O' War and all the great horses of history are turning over in their graves with that comment. Please take it back, it is an insult to all of the great and not so great horses that have ever lived.

[kittymyrib]

“If ever someone needed the hell slapped out of them, it is her.”

...and double that for the morons in CA who keep sending this ugly character back to D. C.

[MrB]

“she wouldn’t let him be black any longer”

At first I thought this was hillarious,
then I remembered this is exactly what
the left does to conservative blacks.

[trtdenver]

But did he call her “Ma’am”?

—Yes, he called her Ma’am several times. I loved it.

[aruanan]

Not sure what your point is. Everyone makes slips of the tongue, and I would imagine trying not to swear (or throw things!) in an exchange with Barbara Boxer would tie anyone’s tongue!

It was good, though, to see someone who Boxer thought was owned by her party ream her out.

[dforest]

My apology to all the horseys I may have offended.

[HIDEK6]

I'll be here all week.

Try the veal.

[irishjuggler]

I hope he made sure to address her as Ma’am.

Actually, he DID call her "ma'am." It's in the video.

[Miykayl]

"...How does his testimony differ from whomever was speaking from the Chamber of Commerce? " He brought documented facts to the table. That's how it's different.

[Ramius]

No, that’s not what I was getting at. He represents the *Black* Chamber of Commerce, and is complaining that somebody else is bringing race to the table. It’s the irony of it all.

[mapmaker77]

Stupidity and arrogance is such a fun combination. Add botox and estrogen and it gets even better.

And we pay these people 190K a year? Puleeeze.

[Free State Four]

it is an insult to all of the great and not so great horses that have ever lived.

And to their asses! :)

[murron]

If he doesn’t like anyone playing racial politics, then he shouldn’t be heading a group called the “Black” Chamber of Commerce.

[Spok]

“doesn’t he know his PLACE?”

Liberals only like blacks when they’ve got their ‘mind right’.