Roger L. Simon is appalled that US Secretary of State Rice feels the need to hop on Reverend Al’s latest I-got-you-you-racist bandwagon:
"We live in an increasingly pathetic media culture where pretty soon, like the proverbial sheep, we will all have to think and talk the same way."
Sharpton and the other vultures of the race industry, abetted by their media clones, are pushing for it. As for Rice, it just underscores how pathetically little this woman acually has to do, let alone to think about.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Count me as a Condi fan, but this was a huge mistake. And since she didn’t bother (in any of the accounts I’ve read) to comment on whether this is or is not administration opinion, it lends support to those who suggest she’s just not up to the job.
The “Angel’s Advocate” take on it would be, she thought like a chess-player and anticipated she didn’t have any middle-of-the-road way out of this. Had she taken a pass, it would have been seen as an endorsement of positions like mine.
Now, I think that’s just great. I know I’m right, after all. But she’s certainly entitled to disagree, since it’s a matter of taste and (I think) that’s how she intended her comments to stand.
The spirit of freedom of speech is what is at issue here. She would have served herself well to at least speak to that. What we have going on here is a subtle split in the conservative plank. The litmus test is, if the Jeffersonian value of local sovereignty is to be sacrificed to make sure the “culture war” is won, would you leave the feds in charge of the most intimate details of our lives to make sure the “wrong” decisions aren’t made? Dr. Rice belongs to the side of the schism that would go ahead and make that sacrifice. I think a lot of Republicans are more like me, figuring the local authority is what it’s all about. America is a place where I can miss church, go to Hooter’s and watch South Park, or else it doesn’t exist anymore.
Republicans will unite those two camps and win in ’08, or else they won’t, and they’ll lose. It all comes down to that.
I liked her when she was appointed secretary, but since then I have come to realize she has brought nothing new except her race and gender to the office, which she has now demeaned.