According to Lorie Byrd, Bernard Goldberg, author of the new book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Bias), included a quote in his book from one of my American Daily (and America’s Voices) columns:
I can hear Dan Rather now, called out of semiretirement to chase one more hurricane, in his yellow slicker, blowing around in 135-mile-per-hour winds, hanging on to a telephone pole, for dear life, microphone in hand, Dan parallel to the ground several feet below: “This vicious, killer storm–Shaniqua–is barrelling through Pensacola at this very moment, destroying everything in sight. I’ll bet you a ten-pound bag of unsalted goobers to a sack of horse feathers that no one in his right mind wants this big, bad girl Shaniqua anywhere near where they live.”…Here’s a news flash for the congresswoman: Hurricanes are bad. They’re deadly. People don’t like them…
“What could she have been thinking?†as La Shawn Barber (a black woman) asks on America’s Voices, a conservative Web site. “That black children watching ‘Hurricane Denzel’ wreak havoc in their neighborhoods would gain higher self esteem? That seeing a family member lost in a flood brought on by ‘Tropical Storm Tanisha’ would fill them with racial pride?â€
If I’d known company was coming, I would’ve cleaned the place up a little…
