GOP Candidate Invokes Steve Biko In Defense Of Breitbart

[meegbear]

Joel Pollak, a Republican House candidate running in the ultra-safe Democratic seat currently held by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, is coming to the defense of Andrew Breitbart against Democratic attacks. In fact, Pollak is even invoking the late Steve Biko, the black South African activist who was killed by police 33 years ago and became a symbol of the Apartheid regime's tyrannical rule.

Pollak, whose white family left South Africa during the Apartheid era in 1977, wrote in a post on Breitbart's Big Government site:

My family immigrated to America in the same year that South African police murdered Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko. The racist regime that destroyed him viewed him as a threat because of his simple credo: "I write what I like." Biko understood that freedom of thought and expression were the greatest weapons against tyranny.

Last week, my opponent, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), called on me to denounce Andrew Breitbart and to end any further association with his website, BigGovernment.com.

Her attack was typical of a corrupt Washington elite that believes it is entitled to tell people what to say and where to say it. It was that kind of behavior that convinced me to run against Schakowsky to begin with, after she collaborated with paid organizers in shutting down questions from constituents at her town hall meeting last August.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/gop-candidate-invokes-steve-biko-in-defense-of-breitbart.php?ref=fpb

[AlinPA]

1. Breitbart is becoming a hero for the republicans.

[Vickers]

2. I hope more Repukes embrace Breitbart as their guiding light. n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Biko is rolling in his grave.

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steven Biko

[SpiralHawk]

4. Wow - what twisted logic

Only in the mind of a republicon homelanders could such twisted logic exist...

[malaise]

5. He knows that ReTHUG sheeple

don't know anything about anything. What an insult to Steve Biko. They killed him because he believed in free speech.

The racist regime that destroyed him viewed him as a threat because of his simple credo: "I write what I like." Biko understood that freedom of thought and expression were the greatest weapons against tyranny.

Pollak is beyond simple or just another fugging LIAR.

[truebrit71]

6. What an ignorant fucking bastard..

Steve Biko faked news stories to incite racial hatred?

What a wanker..

[KharmaTrain]

7. More Nullification...

Colbert nailed this last night. It's the right wing game of trying to paint those who attack their racism as being racist and they are the victims. They conflate people like Biko or Martin Luther King as being on their side...turning all sorts of rhetorical hoops to get there, but get there they do.

Yep, Slimebart has become a hero of the great unhinged...he's made fools of the corporate media and now this administration. One would hope that he went one bridge too far this time and his modus operandi has been exposed, but in this short attention span media world, he'll be back again with another scam. It'll only end when it backfires at the polls or in someone's pocketbook.

[RedCloud]

8. The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

Go get 'em Peter!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-8Jxi5aE