What if William McKinley had been gay? I guarantee you this posthumous indignity would not have been visited upon him.
I mean, when it comes to political correctness, doesn’t President McKinley measure up?
He was a veteran of the Civil War — that means he fought to free the slaves.
He was assassinated, in other words a victim of senseless gun violence.
He twice defeated a rabid anti-Semite by the name of William Jennings Bryan — remember the “Cross of Gold” speech? Bryan pioneered the use of the ethnic slurs that MSNBC calls dog whistles — “Rothschilds!” was his favorite. Bryan later became secretary of state under fellow Democrat racist Woodrow Wilson, and still later he was the lead prosecutor in the Scopes monkey trial. In other words, Bryan was a bitter clinger.
But none of the above matters. McKinley was a Republican, which means he must be evil. President Obama would no sooner cut McKinley slack than he would attend the funeral of Deputy Darren Goforth.
Obama yesterday officially renamed Alaska’s Mount McKinley as Denali, the original Native American-inspired name for the tallest peak in North America.
Doesn’t matter that the mountain has the same name as an SUV — this was Obama sticking it to the Man, even though he is the Man.
So when do they start changing the names of all the rest stops and community centers in West Virginia named after former KKK kleagle Robert Byrd? How about those Nimitz-class aircraft carriers named after his fellow Congressional segregationists John Stennis and Carl Vinson?
Oh, that’s right, those crackers were Democrats. They won’t be erased from history.
Obama’s decision to once again thumb his nose at Congress comes less than a month after his EPA absolutely devastated the Navajo Nation by breaching the walls of an old gold mine in Colorado and dumping millions of gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River, which runs through their land.
The feds couldn’t even be bothered notifying the state authorities about the catastrophe they’d unleashed on our Native-American brothers. And when Obama’s slugs at the EPA finally decided to send a few tank loads of water to the Nation so the Navajos could irrigate their crops, the EPA sent in oil tankers, which they didn’t bother to clean out, so the water was polluted — how BP is it?
And all through this, not a peep out of the only Native-American in the U.S. Senate — Elizabeth Nighthorse Warren.
You do understand that Obama knows as much about Indians as he does about practically every other subject, which is next to nothing. Remember, he thinks the Penn State football team’s mascot is the “Nittaly Lion.” (It’s Nittany — an Indian word meaning, of all things, “single mountain.”)
But once you start this sort of ethnic cleansing of running-dog capitalist roaders, where does it end?
In New Hampshire, the Presidential Range is devoid of PC peaks.
Mount Washington — named after a slave owner. Mount Jefferson — already expunged from the Democrat calendar. Mount Madison — his top general in the War of 1812 was the other half of the now-banned Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. Mount Monroe — commemorating the author of Amerikkka’s first imperialist manifesto, the Monroe Doctrine.
So many racist mountains, so little time to change their names. How about Trayvon Mountain? Rapper Ridge? Gentle Giant Peak? Sharpton’s Summit? Alcee Hastings Heights?
Poor William McKinley. Is it too late to change his first name to Caitlyn?
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