"Flaming" also implies "over-the-top" or "hyper" .. thus a flaming neocon would be considered an over-the-top or hyper-neocon .. which Goldfarb certainly appears to be.
They Need More White People
By Micheal Goldfarb
The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon's student newspaper, reports on a campaign event featuring Michelle Obama:
While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”
“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.”
The Obama campaign discriminates against people of color, and their own supporters no less, in what is presumably a misguided pander to white voters. Very strange, but perhaps Obama's candidacy really has transcended race in America (surely this is a first). Alternatively, the campaign may just plan to stage-manage it out of public view.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/04/they_need_more_white_people.asp
Could it possibly be news to Mr. Goldfarb, who is jewish by the way, that politicians stage the backdrop to their events .. including people behind the candidate?
McCain staged his speech yesterday with the one black person that appeared to be in the audience.