Black Republican’s Campaign Sign Defaced With ‘KKK,’ Media Yawns

Posted by Warner Todd Huston Nov 20th 2011 at 4:58 am in Democrats/progressives, Featured Story, GOP, Justice/Legal, Mainstream Media, News, Print Journalism, Race, Tea Parties, conservatives, journalism, media bias 

William “Bill” Randall is running for Congress out of the North Carolina 13th. Randall, an African American, experienced what must be called a hate crime in the left’s vernacular. His campaign sign had racist graffiti spray painted on it including the letters “KKK.”



Now, usually this is the sort of story that the Old Media goes wild over. It is prof that racism is alive in America, as far as they are concerned. It is proof that tea partiers, and conservative whites are eeeevil. This is usually the kind of story that would go national, yet the media has delivered a collective yawn to the defacement of Randall’s sign.

Why? Because Bill Randall is not the liberal candidate in his election. He is the conservative Republican!

The Old Media doesn’t care if so-called hate crimes are perpetrated against Republicans. They only care if they are committed against folks on their own, far left, Democrat side of the aisle.

Consider the nontroversy the media made from the story of the painted-over rock on the hunting parcel leased by Rick Perry’s family:

When Perry became a party to the hunting lease from 1997 to 2007, the property was described as northern pasture. His campaign told the press that the Governor hasn’t even been to the site since 2006. And Hugh Hewitt gets it right, “many, many people were interviewed for the story. Only seven recall seeing the rock, and not one of them connect Rick Perry to it, nor do any of the people …”

That’s not journalism.

Anonymous sources tell me that the Washington Post is dying and that race-baiting might accomplish its two objectives: 1) destroy the right-of-center movement, and 2) sell newspapers.

The Randall campaign even made a little parody video about the incident.

Randall is running as the GOP nominee for the 13th District and will face incumbent Democrat Brad Miller in November. Here is his website: www.randallforcongress.com. Make a donation to his campaign, won’t you?

If you’d like some idea of Mr. Randall’s stance on some of the issues, here is a questionnaire he responded to in April.

Also, here is an entry about Randall on a North Carolina political blog that features a Randall ad.

Big Journalism