My friend Barbara Espinosa

Right now a lot of peo­ple are pil­ing on my friend Bar­bara Espinosa over some ill cho­sen words con­cern­ing the president.

Hey that’s part of free speech, Bar­bara said what she said and if peo­ple want to hit her over it, she’s a big girl, and can take care of her­self. (She is also an armed girl any­one mak­ing vio­lent threats against her who are think­ing for one sec­ond of car­ry­ing them out is announc­ing their can­di­dacy for a Dar­win award.)

Let me tell you about my friend Bar­bara Espinosa:

Bar­bara was one of the peo­ple who helped get me to CPAC for the first time.

When I ended up on the Tea Party Express she put me up for the night when I came knock­ing near 3 a.m.

She was one of the ear­li­est sup­port­ers of my radio show.

I have stayed at her house, been on her radio show and she has been on mine (and will be again if she is willing).

I also remem­ber her on blog­ger row sit­ting with Ver­non Parker sit­ting next to her next to Black GOP can­di­date Ver­non Parker Jerome Hud­son lis­ten­ing to the CPAC keynote and work­ing hard for his elec­tion and as Stacy McCain tweets she has strongly sup­ported black GOP can­di­dates.

Any­one who knows Bar­bara knows she is no racist.

Bar­bara was, is and will always be my friend, PERIOD! If any­one ANY­ONE thinks for one moment that is going to change or I am going to denounce her or jump on any kind of anti-​Barbara band­wagon they are out of their minds.

Update: Talked to Bar­bara I was wrong it was Jerome Hud­son not Ver­non Parker who was there.

Oh and I’m sure to fit Bar­bara into the racist stereo­type they have cre­ated in their mind the left will con­clude that she like Naomi Schae­fer before her, secretly dreamed all her life of hav­ing a per­son of color as a manser­vant so she came up with the cun­ning plan to marry the very Span­ish Mr Espinosa and remained with him for thirty years till his death.

Sim­ply diabolical.

Update 3: Bar­bara has sent me this e-​mail

“When it comes to talk radio both the left and right can, unfor­tu­nately, employ a lit­tle too much free speech. It is a medium for inspi­ra­tion and robust debate, not gra­tu­itous insult. I apol­o­gize to any­one that was offended by my com­ments. It was a poor joke off the cuff that deserves apol­ogy not exam­ple. I am a proud sup­porter of numer­ous African-​American repub­li­cans that have run for office and will con­tinue to do so.”

I’m sure this apol­ogy will be accepted with all the speed that they accepted Rush’s. I expect they will go full tilt on this as it beats talk­ing about Obama’s record or fast and furious.