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    What Really Bothers Liberals about Hershel Walker? Bernie Goldberg

    With just a few days before the midterm elections, let's imagine that a Black man is running for a seat in the United States Senate — a liberal Black man who believes in the things liberals believe in: taxing the rich, pro choice on abortion with few if any restrictions, and, of course, telling the world how much he hates Donald Trump.

    But let's also imagine that this liberal Black candidate has trouble speaking English without sounding incoherent. In other words, let us image that whatever his actual intelligence, he sure doesn't sound smart.

    Now let's imagine that a white conservative political commentator — someone like the late Rush Limbaugh or maybe someone from Fox News like Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson — says that the candidate is "so clearly unintelligent" or that he's an "embarrassment" and "one of the most unqualified political candidates in recent memory" — or that he "is an absolute butcher of the English language," that he's "devastatingly inarticulate," that he's unable "to convey ideas in complete thoughts or sentences." And then crosses a very bright line and says: And so, "like a child, when his words fail, he fills in the gaps with energy and emotion, hostility and humor."

    Imagine if Limbaugh or Hannity or Carlson compared a grownup Black man to a "child."

    Well, I think we know what would happen next. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, or any other white conservative would instantly be called a racist. Yet all the words I cited were not written about a liberal Black man running for office. They were about a conservative Black man — Hershel Walker.

    And all of those words came from liberal Black men and women, the most prominent among them, Charles Blow, columnist for the New York Times — the one who wrote that Walker was "an absolute butcher of the English language," and that he's "devastatingly inarticulate," and that when words fail him he behaves "like a child."

    Now let me be clear: Charles Blow and the others are right. Hershel Walker does at times come off as rambling and incoherent. He didn't attend the University of Georgia to learn how to speak properly. He went there to play football. And Charles Blow is on to something when he says that, "Republicans now want a fighter above all, even if the fighter is of questionable character and of loose allegiance to the truth."

    My point is simply this: A Black, liberal commentator can tell harsh truths about Hershel Walker, but a white conservative commentator would be on shaky ground if he called any person of color "clearly unintelligent" and "devastatingly inarticulate."

    I have no problem with Charles Blow focusing his attention on Hershel Walker. But you'll forgive me if I'm not at all sure he would be so honest, would say such hurtful things, if Walker were a fellow liberal.

    In 2010, during a House Armed Services Committee meeting Rep. Hank Johnson, a Democrat from Georgia who is Black, questioned Adm. Robert Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, about the impact of U.S. troops on the tiny island of Guam.

    "My fear is," Johnson said in all seriousness, "that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize."

    To be sure, Johnson's grammar was correct. He spoke clearly and articulately. And yet, his comment is one of the dopiest in the entire history of the House of Representatives. I understand that he was a "mere" congressman and not running for the U.S. Senate in a race that may decide which party controls the Senate. Yet, Black liberals didn't pounce on him the way they're pouncing on Hershel Walker. They didn't question his intelligence the way they're questioning Walker's intelligence. Did I mention that Hank Johnson is a liberal Democrat — and not a conservative Republican? You think maybe that's why he got a pass from other Black liberals?

    And then there's John Fetterman, who's running for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania. He had a stroke a few months ago and now he makes Hershel Walker sound like Laurence Olivier by comparison. But Fetterman is a progressive Democrat, so it's no surprise that liberals aren't screaming about his incoherence or his fitness to serve in the Senate.

    So, let's get back to Hershel Walker and end with this: Are liberal Blacks troubled mainly by how inarticulate he is or is there something else going on here? Is what really irks them is that Hershel Walker is a Black man who has the audacity to be conservative? Would they pound him if he were a liberal Democrat running against a conservative Republican — with control of the Senate on the line? I don't think so.

    It's no secret that many Black liberals loathe Black conservatives, who they see as fools and traitors — as witless front men and women for white supremacy. If you don't believe me ask Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas or U.S. Senator Tim Scott.

    Walker's critics, as I say, have a legitimate point about his incoherence at times. But I suspect it's not really his inability to conjugate verbs properly or his "command of the English language or the issues," as Charles Blow puts it, that really bothers them — not as much, anyway, as Hershel Walker's conservative politics, especially when his victory might give Republicans control of the U.S. Senate.

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    This fight is one to get behind and push. Push hard. Herschel exposes all of the Leftoid lies. He embarasses them and bad.

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