Shirley Sherrod and the right’s new weapon
Soon, we will forget about Shirley Sherrod. But not the fallout from her smearing.
Sherrod might go back to USDA. She may give more speeches. But, while she has handled herself with aplomb, one could hardly blame her if she’s ready to step out of the Klieg lights.
As for us, we’ll promise not to rush to judgment next time, and to finally have that National Conversation about race. Maybe the president will even convene a Race Summit. Maybe, having already hosted last summer’s Beer Summit to atone for another hasty racial conclusion, he’ll seek the learning end of this Teachable Moment.
But one thing has changed.
Our politics increasingly resembles a cold civil war, and the Sherrod story was like the right’s first successful A-bomb test. Accusations of racism have long been the left’s, and only the left’s, most explosive weapon. No more.
I don’t make this observation with admiration or pride. I understand that this could turn out badly.
It’s not as if the right had unilaterally disarmed when it comes to political attacks. Far from it. But until now, charges of racism detonated only when dropped on the right.
George Allen’s “macaca” moment cost him re-election to the Senate. Trent Lott’s praise for Strom Thurmond cost him leadership of the Senate. Fabricated quotes, approving of slavery, pinned on Rush Limbaugh cost him a chance at partially owning the NFL’s St. Louis Rams.
Joe Biden called Barack Obama “the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”; he became vice president. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid theorized that Americans accepted Obama because he was “light-skinned” and spoke “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”; he kept his job.
A real National Conversation about race would acknowledge that humans often say things that later make them wince, or worse, and that liberals like Biden and Reid aren’t the only ones who deserve the benefit of the doubt, of context, of grace.
In fact, I suspect most of us already reached that conclusion, or would have if not for the political point-scorers.
But there are points to score. And while I don’t condone what he did, I believe right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart when he says he posted the video of Sherrod to make a point about the NAACP, which days earlier condemned tea party groups for their “racist elements,” and that the effect on Sherrod was essentially collateral damage.
Breitbart is clear about his desire to turn the tables on liberal media and activist groups. That’s why he went after ACORN, and why it makes sense that he’d set his sights higher than an obscure bureaucrat.
It worked. Some of the people quickest to denounce others as bigoted, as we saw, do so a little too quickly.
But besides haste, we can detect some defensiveness. Did the administration’s rash reaction betray worries that it’s become vulnerable to charges of reverse racism? That when Obama presumes a white cop “acted stupidly” in arresting a black Harvard professor, and his Justice Department handles the New Black Panther Party with kid gloves, it undermines his post-racial appeals?
In any event, it’s clear that the left’s monopoly on these most powerful attacks is over. Perhaps, instead of retaliations that ensnare more Shirley Sherrods, we’ll recognize our mutually assured destruction. Perhaps we’ll pull back from the brink and let relations thaw.
Perhaps.
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Hootinanny Yum Yum
July 23rd, 2010
8:50 pm
Well said!
barking frog
July 23rd, 2010
9:11 pm
not likely.
Lucy
July 23rd, 2010
9:23 pm
Kyle — I find your reasoning to be appalling.
“And while I don’t condone what he did, I believe right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart when he says he posted the video of Sherrod to make a point about the NAACP, which days earlier condemned tea party groups for their “racist elements,” and that the effect on Sherrod was essentially collateral damage.”
Well,. of course, Andrew Breithbart posted the video of Sherrod to make a point. He posted a segment of a video in order to vilify her and the NAACP and the Obama administration.
And, it worked for Andrew Briiethart (liar and champion of hate) because of people like you.
I so hope Shirley Sherrod sues Andrew Briethart.
Lucy
July 23rd, 2010
9:27 pm
And you.
Dusty
July 23rd, 2010
9:44 pm
Kyle,
Editors are made of sticks & snails & puppydog tails and you have been given the puppydog tail. This story is completely worn out. Bookman hit it at least a half dozen times or so. PBS Newshour mentioned it. Washington Week in Review was on toiight. The subject was :Sherrod. Doing the huming and hawing , not once was the racist line mentioned. Sherrod herself said it in her speech. She had said (as part of her job) she helped a farmer some but not all she could because he was white. Much later in her speech she said she was changed and did not feel that way any more. OK.. A changed person!!!
She is a reformed racist. Sen Byrd was a reformed KKK. How many reformed racist are going to show up for Democrats? Will Rangel turn up as one who only stole from whites but is now changed and steals from everybody??? Why don’t we leave things as they happened and not spin happy housr over politically correct conversions?
I dont consider this pro or con for Republicans. Not even a weapon. The Democrats, long on predjudice against any Republican, can wiggle in their own wanton ways on this one. Republicans should sit back and stay silent. This is not our can of beans.
Let this penitent Democrat lead a great charge against racism, as was suggested today. Fine. The Democrats need to get rid of a whole lot of hate of all kinds. We’ll be watching. Good luck!! And I mean it!!
Real American
July 23rd, 2010
9:52 pm
Seriously? This nut is defending Breitbart? SMH
"Rush" To Judgement
July 23rd, 2010
10:09 pm
If the right is trying to frighten White America it must be close to an election. The Mexicans are coming, the Mexicans are coming….the N…gers are coming, the N..gers are coming, the gays are coming, the gays are coming. One if by land, two if by sea!
Demopublican
July 23rd, 2010
10:19 pm
Imagine! I hope someday you’ll join us
killerj
July 23rd, 2010
10:26 pm
Go tea parties and demopublican may god find a thunderbolt for you to ever bring him into a political bout,.my middle finger to you from Uncle John! ST. Andrews forever.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Bob
July 23rd, 2010
10:31 pm
“In any event, it’s clear that the left’s monopoly on these most powerful attacks is over. Perhaps, instead of retaliations that ensnare more Shirley Sherrods, we’ll recognize our mutually assured destruction. Perhaps we’ll pull back from the brink and let relations thaw.”
I can only wish that I were wrong to imagine that your newspaper would not hire a Black reporter of your equal writing and reasoning skills, however, I seriously think not. I am certain that if hired a Black reporter would never be so demented as to see and attempt to sell Mrs. Sherrod as a racist right wing republican weapon. You guys have super weapon Sarah ‘refudiation of common sense’ Palin, remember? As one great fictional american philosopher once said, “stupid is as stupid does.” Thanks for sharing auch an honest gaze into the mindset of American White Racism.
Steve
July 23rd, 2010
11:02 pm
The truth is they are loosing in Obama the excuse to play the race card when convenient. Yes, all the races are coming after whitey, and just as all the races have a right to defend themselves, so does whitey because after all white is a race too. Only, the reality is no one, not shirley or Obama or anyone else gets to play that old woa is me card anymore. Why?
Because sooner or later, race doesn’t matter, at all.
So, all you African-Americans, and you Latinos and you Asians, and you whites… Wake up nag join the American Race. We are afterall Americans, just that, nothing more. And if you don’t, well then I say it’s fair game to go ahead and be discriminatory. Because if one group can, all can and we all lose.
And that goes for everyone on this chat room, and all the other rooms labeling themselves as right or left, up or down. Your Americans dammit, start acting like it.
Rucka
July 23rd, 2010
11:02 pm
Kyle, you must have missed that B’s original posting of the video referred to showing a “federal employee being racist” or some such hooey. His target was clear. His intentional misunderstanding of what the NAACP resolution actually said, and that he HAD THE TAPE SINCE MARCH and says he didn’t vet it?! show his true intent was to firebomb Sherrod, embarrass Obama, and then shame the NAACP as an after thought, which also didn’t stick. You CAN believe him, but I doubt I’ll trust you or your ‘opinion’ ever again!
Florida
July 23rd, 2010
11:08 pm
The political atmosphere in this country is so thick I don’t even think you can cut it with a knife.
I’m afraid the United States is going down in flames and this administration is more and more
taking all of us with them.
I have now some friends who lost their homes but saved enough money and are now moving to Costa Rica, It’s very sad.
Mama Says
July 23rd, 2010
11:31 pm
Kyle,
what is this all about ? haven’t you learned racist are only on the right ?
racist on the left, come on, we have been told several times that to be a racist you have to have power—oh I forgot Obama is the President, I don’t guess the race baiting libs mean that kind of power do they ? Only the conservative kind !
Steve Savage
July 24th, 2010
12:15 am
There was a satirical song not so long ago that said, “we’re all a little bit racist, sometimes…”
Kyle is fair to point that out and to call for some “grace.” As for folks that intentionally fan the flames of our common weakness (and this happens from the right and left), there is no real excuse. There is no noble explanation of what Breitbart did here any more than for those that posted the carefully edited clips from Obama’s former pastor. There is also no excuse for how the media (right and left) and the administration responded. I’m not saying we should all become cynics, but we should be slow to judge based on ANY single source.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:26 am
“In any event, it’s clear that the left’s monopoly on these most powerful attacks is over. ”
According to the left wing retards in the media, Obamao was supposed to “heal the racial wounds” but instead he’s nothing more than Jesse Jackson with a law degree.
It’s gotta suck to be a left wing retard these days.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:27 am
I wonder what Cynthia will do now that the race tactics are no longer working?
Scout
July 24th, 2010
12:31 am
Kyle:
Headline: “Ousted ag official finds new cause – “We’ve gotta get beyond this black vs. white issue,” Shirley Sherrod says.”
So why did she call me a racist (a Republican who opposes Obama’s health care plan) ?????
vuduchld
July 24th, 2010
1:08 am
So, you’re a “journalist” huh!? Tell me, did you lie and fabricate when you were in college? I bet you did, Did you lie on your resume when you got this gig. I surely think so. Like I have told you time and again, you do readers disservice with your inexperience. For you call yourself a “journalist” is a scam. You’re no better than that scum bag Bretibart. This piece of trash, like yourself IS NOT a journalist or even a media wonk. He. like you, is a fraud full of crock pot pseudo junk gobbleygook and for you to “try and understand” why he did what he did shows your lack of credability and trust to be a journalist.
Like I have said before, if you are the best AJC can do then God help the city of Atlanta and the AJC. Tell you what, why don’t you do the David Taylor thing and go into the Holocaust denier business because that is where hypocrites like you and Bretibart belong!
Mama Says
July 24th, 2010
1:31 am
Kyle,
I didn’t know you were into holocaust denying—-come to think of it I should have known, after all you are a conservative. Oh to be a liberal–maybe one day we can all be perfect.
John
July 24th, 2010
3:18 am
What’s so sad about all of this race garbage is that everyone in this country will wave flags and claim that this is such a Christian nation founded on Christian principles and pray before political gatherings, sporting events, etc. But when it comes to issues of race, they act anything but Christian, both black and white, democrats and republicans alike. In fact you couldn’t pay black and white Christians to even worship together. Now you’ve got so called Christians who endorse Brietbart’s gutter tactics. I’m assuming the writer of this article professes the Christian faith. If that is correct, I would highly encourage him to not think along party lines for just once in his life, and follow the teachings of Christ on this one.
Dave
July 24th, 2010
5:08 am
I look forward to a day when I can express my republican conservative views without the perception that it equates to I therefore must be against minorities, ect…
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 24th, 2010
5:25 am
It’s over in November, Democrat fascists.
A CONSERVATIVE
July 24th, 2010
5:36 am
LORD……even when you speak the TRUTH…the left bring out the long sharp knives of condemnation….via political correctness…the right is suppose to remain silent on race…too many people & groups existence depends on keeping the rift alive….NAALCP for one..
A CONSERVATIVE
July 24th, 2010
5:38 am
THE OBAMA campaign will use the RACE card in the 2012 elections…you can count on it..
AJC_is_Joke
July 24th, 2010
7:34 am
Sherrod a Georgia resident, was never supported by the AJC. I didn’t find an original article from the AJC during this whole experience.
This news paper is biased. I watched and waited for a REAL JOURNALIST from the AJC to get the truth behind the story. Unfortunately the AJC is full of cowards, propagandist, entertainers, and right-wing supporters. Where are the reporters and journalist? I guess I shouldn’t expect anything from a newspaper in a RED state. If anyone would’ve found the truth, you’d think the AJC would’ve been the first to discover this horrible incident was false. Instead in the fallout you report about how the right has ammunition. I’d love to give you the famous slang two word expletive AJC(F..Y..). Instead I challenge you to stop taking sides and report facts and search for truth. At least leave your office for a story.
Yes race is an issue. Here in Covington I here my white freinds, neighbors, and coworkers use the N-word like it’s oxygen. Why would I expect unbias debate from this newspaper, when the whole state is corrupted by race? This is a disease. We must dialogue with each other, other races, remain open minded, listen, continue dialogue, and be honest about our feelings. This is the only way we can heal this. Black people are hurt. White people instead of helping heal the hurt they throw salt on the wound, then spit on it, then they step on it. So until white people decide to let this issue go, it’ll be here forever. You must ask black people for forgiveness and we can all move on. It’s all just plain ignorance.
PS I’d like to thank Darwin for all his contributions to this topic
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
8:34 am
It was a shame as to what happened to Mrs. Sherrod this week. Regardless of how the onion is peeled, this was a straight smear job on the part of andrew breitbart and his zest to discredit the NAACP. But he knew that Mrs. Sherrod was innocent, but he and his cronies at fox/false news wanted to run the story. As any cub reporter knows, why didn’t breitbart take the tape to all networks. No, he know that by going to fox the firestorm that would be created. And with the pure society at fox, they are looking for anything to whet their appetite that a black president only cares about black people. It’s not like fox and other channels wanted to find out the truth, they deliberately ran with this angle.
It is a well known fact that many whites aren’t happy with a black man being president of the United States. Yet we continue to see the evidence of white privilege rearing its ugly head every day and false new pushing the southern strategy across the nation.
As for a dialogue on race, AG Holder said it best when he stated that this nation is a bunch of cowards when it comes to talking about race. The talk of the nation getting past race when President Obama was elected was a smokescreen. His election on heightened the fears of those whites who feel that minorities do not deserve to serve in certain positions and when there is not a white man in the White House, most whites are highly upset. It is well known that the sanctity of the WH does not hold the image of a non-white sitting in its seat.
I am still trying to find when bush went through the EXACT SAME TREATMENT that President Obama is undergoing. bush was mainly hit for his zeal to go to war (favorite tool of the neocons), but being challenged about where is was born, being called a monkey, is not something bush encountered.
If there is ever a REAL discussion on race, let me know and I’ll be there.
Scooter
July 24th, 2010
8:34 am
AJC_is_Joke
July 24th, 2010
7:34 am
It sounds to me like you need to let it go. Whew!
MarkV
July 24th, 2010
8:39 am
The great outrage of the aftermath of the Sherrod affair is that most of the attention is on the administration’s mishandling of the event rather than on the perpetrators. It is as if someone was mugged, and everybody criticized how the victim had reacted, rather than the mugger’s actions. AJC’s coverage has been cowardly to an extreme. All they could write about Breibart was that he was “controversial.” Where is the criticism of those dregs of the journalistic sewer, the Fox news, who spent an evening denouncing Sherrod without any checking, and now are attacking the WH for not checking?
Scooter
July 24th, 2010
8:44 am
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
8:34 am
If it weren’t for white people voting for Obama he wouldn’t even be in the White House.
Don't forget
July 24th, 2010
9:02 am
Kyle,
There’s a lot that could be said about this subject and although I don’t agree with every point you make I think there is validity to some of it. What is missing is an equally robust condemnation of the exploitation of racial fears, a major tool of the right.
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
9:05 am
Scooter,
You are providing a fact that is not only well known to me but to many, including blacks. Also, there were blacks who voted for mccain.
My blog stated “many white” and “those whites”, not “all whites”.
To Steve Savage
July 24th, 2010
9:12 am
Amen to that brother Steve. Why can’t we all live together with judging?
Hank Williams Jr.
July 24th, 2010
9:12 am
Vote em out and racisism will be OVER..
DO YOU HEAR ME NOW ??
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
9:14 am
Kyle,
I commend you for the writing of this article. You pretty much stayed down the middle and addressed many items, but when you went for the comparison and contrast with the left and right politicians, you placed the argument once again on the right.
Next time, just stay in the middle when discussing this type of subject. You will still keep your fans on the right without compromise and you could also gain some on the left.
S. Mullen
July 24th, 2010
9:33 am
Politicians throughout our nation’s capital regularly use the scathing accusations of racism, greed and ignorance to discredit middle-class Americans in an attempt to further their own political careers or deflect attention from their own shortcomings.
The true cause of the hurried dismissal of Shirley Sherrod from the Agriculture Department was not a lone Internet blogger, but an attempt by the administration in Washington to quickly distance itself from racism, by swiftly branding another American citizen as racist.
Sound bites are used to paint Tea Party activists as racists who are ignorant of the complexities of national legislation, undoubtedly because they are questioning the legislation of our entrenched two-party system. Business leaders and employers have been labeled greedy and self-serving in an attempt to distract the public from elected officials’ inability to resolve our nation’s economic problems.
And all the while, Americans, black and white are losing jobs in record numbers. This isn’t a race war, it’s a civil war between the people and a government who no longer cares about the people. African Americans need to wake up! They are being used and abused just like White Americans are being used and abused.
Scooter
July 24th, 2010
9:39 am
Mr Attitude,I agree with some of what you say. If you will go back and read your post,you will see it says “most whites are highly upset”. Not tring to pick a fight,just don’t agree with that!
citizen
July 24th, 2010
9:49 am
I have come to realize through this debacle that the real ‘deal breaker’ is education. Being well informed helped Mr. and Mrs Sherrod become successful in thier lawsuit against USDA and win a $13 Million dollar settlement in the Pigford vs Vilsack case that was settled in 2009. Without the sophistication that comes with being smart and connected with other intelligent individuals, this financial windfall may have been rewarded to some other group. Surely, there are other individuals who deserve this settlement as much as Mr. and Mrs. Sherrod as there are still more former farmers that haven’t been successful in their attempt to be a part of this movement.
@@
July 24th, 2010
9:50 am
DANG, Kyle, you left out the “best” comment made by Harry Reid. It pretty much summed up how democrats feel about ALL Americans. It went something like this….”YOU SMELL BAD!!!!”
Well, Harry…RIGHT BACK ATCHA, LITTLE MAN!!!!
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
9:50 am
Hey Scooter,
No prob with your post and I never viewed it as trying to pick a fight. Just a good discussion on our parts. I like your points of view and that you are letting me know what you don’t agree with some of the blog. I see nothing wrong with that at all.
Scooter
July 24th, 2010
9:54 am
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
9:50 am
@@
July 24th, 2010
10:05 am
being called a monkey, is not something bush encountered.
WRONG!
“Chimperor in Chief”…a title bestowed upon GWB by the left-wing blogosphere. That, and “The Shrub”.
KiknUSquareWell..UKnow
July 24th, 2010
10:39 am
@A Conservative feels that “the right is suppose to remain silent on race”. This is B-S and you know it.
The REAL desire is for you to NOT “remain silent on race”, rather to deal with it on an OPEN AND HONEST LEVEL. You however want to deal with it on YOUR terms, which are too often:
1) Denial and exclusion of historial context and its implications on the present.
2) The inability to acknowledge the inherent PRIVILEGE enjoyed by the majority group as opposed to minority groups.
You would rather instead try to find evidence of reflected racism in order to justify your own. And trust that it IS reflected racism.
Until these first two hurdles are overcome, the conversation will never happen and you will remain “silent”.
joe
July 24th, 2010
10:43 am
If you take the politics out of it, here’s what we are left with…we have poor uneducated white folk, who are more often that not rural dwellers who often are called red necks. Then we have poor uneducated urban black folk who are often are called N word or thugs. Then we have poor uneducated hispanics who are often illegal aliens.
We also have educated white, black and hispanic folk who live good lives and are contributors to society. they live in good homes, raise families, are hard working and want a better life for their children. We also have some uber rich white black and hispanic folk who employ a lot of the others groups previously mentioned.
The two key words here are “education” and “hard working.” If you are in any of the above groups and demonstrate a drive to get an education and become a sensible hard working adult and stay off drugs, you will have a good life. If you choose the other path, you end up with out of wedlock kids, a drug problem, can’t find or hold a job and will live a hard life. These two main attributes take the race out of the equation. We need to do the same with our politics and realize that the rest don’t matter.
And small governments mean we keep more of what we have…for us and to pass on to our children. Remember that come November.
Rafe Hollister
July 24th, 2010
10:55 am
Kyle, great post, you really brought the left wing out from under their rocks. They complain that you are no Journalist, what they mean is they prefer the JournOlist. I believe you to be a commentator rather than a journalist anyhow. They like their news sanitized to be palatable for their sensative side.
And since no one else defends Breitbart, I would like to point out that he posted both ends of her speach. The part everyone played that inferred she was a racist and he posted the end of the speach where she claimed to have seen the light and took the redemption. Legal Analysist that I saw seemed to think she had no basis to sue as both sides were posted and Breitbart had no control of what was played by the networks. Thank goodness we have a new media where the truth has a chance to eventually get out and is not surpressed, as before.
citizen
July 24th, 2010
10:57 am
Joe @ 10:43am
I absolutely agree with you. When all the layers are peeled back, it is a simple matter of education and hard work. Mrs. Sherrod and her husband are success stories due to their education and hard work. This fact has been overlooked due to the politicizing of race to create an atmosphere of friction to rally the voters.
WAR
July 24th, 2010
11:14 am
i’ve taught mixed (high school) classes with black, white, hispanic. i’ve taught classes that were majority white or majority black. the mixed classes had more more open discussions about race, culture, stereotypes, prejudices, and bias than the majority classes. funny too that many of the thoughts the majority classes had about others were baseless. many of the majority would admit they had no/little interaction with others outside of their comfort zone. i didn’t agree with everything in this blog… but i am glad we are addressing race. i wish we didn’t do it as libs/dems and conserves/repubs but as Americans.
WAR
July 24th, 2010
11:18 am
i don’t want jews to let go of the holocaust. i don’t want blacks to let go of slavery. i don’t want southerners to let go of the civil war. i don’t want native americans to let go of the trail of tears. i want us–Americans–to remember all that makes us Americans… our history, our culture, our differences, our likes. wanting others to let go of who they are and what makes them/us Americans.
WAR
July 24th, 2010
11:19 am
last… then i’m gone.
education is freedom.
interested observer
July 24th, 2010
11:24 am
I’m left of center, but no political movement or race is free of bigotry. It’s human nature to look askance at those who differ from us, and too often we use that difference is a basis for false and negative assumptions.
I suspect that much of the hatred of Obama stems from his race, but I’m not about to presume that any particular criticism is race-based unless I’m aware of some persistent race-related behavior of the individual or group making the criticism.
Maybe we need to ask ourselves how worked up about “immigration reform” we’d be if the bulk of our illegal immigrants were Caucasian instead of brown-skinned Hispanics. Now there’s a group against whom racism is still largely considered acceptable.
ViewFromMidtown
July 24th, 2010
11:41 am
Kyle,
I continually wonder whether you’re hopelessly naive or deliberately obtuse. Breitbart’s and Faux News’ attacks and fraudulent charges against Shirley Sherrod and ACORN (a video also subsequently found not to be what it was made to appear) are merely the continuation of the GOP/right wing’s Southern Strategy – “FEAR the black people! They’re going to take your homes and rape your women!”
Of course, it’s still working well in the South and is becoming more and more successful in other parts of the country where economic upheaval has left many already nervous about their livelihoods and looking for someone to blame susceptible to being manipulated with their fears of the different or unknown.
The question once again is whether you’re actively pulling the levers for the right-wing propaganda machine or simply a mindless cog.
hsn
July 24th, 2010
11:55 am
Andrew Breitbart has his right to make a point about the NAACP, BUT HIS POINT MUST BE BASED ON GENUINE OCCURRENCES, and facts, NOT EDITED VIDEOS, illegal wiretaps (in LA), and fake stories.
That is called fabrication, and when you do that you lose your credibility. The guy was wrong, call him on it and stop the useless excuses. That’s like making up a story that a cop who wrote you a speeding ticket was drunk himself, when that wasn’t the case. But you say it is okay because YOU WANTED TO MAKE A POINT TO THE COP.
“BrightBat” is an attention-seeking fool, and should go away!!
hsn
Scout
July 24th, 2010
11:55 am
Kyle:
Well, well, well ………….. I just heard old Roy Barnes will be in South Georgia come Monday and just won’t be able to be here for “Che” Obama’s visit to Hotlanta and the Democrat fund raiser. How sad and how convenient !
HA ! HA ! HA !
P.S. to you libs. out there …………. what say ye ?
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:05 pm
“I am still trying to find when bush went through the EXACT SAME TREATMENT that President Obama is undergoing.”
Bush went through far worse than Obama.
Here, let’s take a trip down left wing retard hypocrite lane shall we.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
Scott
July 24th, 2010
12:05 pm
Breitbart is a liar and a criminal. He is everything most Americans think is bad and frightening about the Tea Party Radicals. He lied and thought nothing of ruining someones like to make point like some 5 year old saying “see! they do it too!”, and Kyle after all that this has been through…you’re still buying into it too. Breitbart is to be nothing but condemned for the scum he is, but I believe God has already taken care of that…at least his soul
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:07 pm
“but being challenged about where is was born, being called a monkey, is not something bush encountered.”
Isn’t it interesting that to this day, Obama has never released his birth certificate! Yet, left wingers call us all racist for asking. Idiots.
Who cares if someone calls Obama a monkey. Left wingers believe in evolution so that should make you retards proud since you all believe we all came from monkeys.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:08 pm
“Breitbart is a liar and a criminal. ”
Then go arrest him.
“but I believe God has already taken care of that…at least his soul”
You obviously don’t know God.
Scott
July 24th, 2010
12:09 pm
Grand Forks…enough with the childish “Bush did it too”. Sure he did, but that didn’t make it right then and its not right now. I spoke up about it being wrong then even though I didn’t support his policies. These are all human beings. We all forget that sometimes. Just because you dont agree politically with someone doesn’t mean they aren’t good people.
Scott
July 24th, 2010
12:10 pm
…and you do Grand Forks? Tell him I said hi since you have his ear and know I’m wrong
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:11 pm
More bad news for the Bozo in the White House.
Obama’s Soft-Core Socialism
A comedian or satirist could not have come up with the recent scenario of Treasury Chief Timothy Geithner and other Administration officials suddenly trying to reassure corporate chieftains that the Obama Administration is pro business and loves free enterprise. A close and powerful Obama aide, Valerie Jarrett, sent Verizon CEO (and Business Roundtable chairman) Ivan Seidenberg a letter declaring: “While we may disagree on some issues, we have an open door and are always willing to consider input and ideas from everyone, including the business community.” That’s like Dracula saying he prefers bottled water to blood.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/21/fact-and-comment-opinions-steve-forbes.html?boxes=opinionschanneleditors
Scott
July 24th, 2010
12:12 pm
and your a birther…that truly is enough said. It makes it easier when you know what you are dealing with lol
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:13 pm
“…and you do Grand Forks? Tell him I said hi since you have his ear and know I’m wrong”
You claimed that God has already decided the fate of Breibart which leads me to believe that you have never read the Bible.
If you had you’d know that God is a forgiving God and anyone can ask for forgiveness through his son Jesus Christ.
Scout
July 24th, 2010
12:13 pm
“AND SO HE BOWED”
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:14 pm
“and your a birther…that truly is enough said.”
Your words not mine. I just claimed that left wingers HOWL and SCREAM when anyone brings up the birth certificate yet he’s never produced it. Just saying.
“It makes it easier when you know what you are dealing with lol”
Trust me, ma’am. I’m MUCH MUCH smarter than you are.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:15 pm
“Grand Forks…enough with the childish “Bush did it too”.
Your words not mine.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
12:16 pm
Hey left wingers, it’s going to be hilarious when your own party extends the Bush Tax Cuts.
Each and everyday, Bush is vindicated.
Iraq War continues
Afghan War continues
Gitmo is still open
LOL
@@
July 24th, 2010
12:39 pm
Grand:
A comedian or satirist could not have come up with the recent scenario of Treasury Chief Timothy Geithner and other Administration officials suddenly trying to reassure corporate chieftains that the Obama Administration is pro business and loves free enterprise.
Early on, it became apparent to me that Obama talks to much. He says things that will benefit himself, without giving thought to the far-reaching impact that his words would have.
He’s what I call “loopy”….say it….suffer the consequences, and then go back and try to repair the damage. He’s overexposed himself. He stands nekkid before the American people, and the majority ain’t likin’ what they’re seein’.
He’s hopeless.
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
12:45 pm
Grand Forks,
If you are going to pull my quotes, the least you can do is attach my name to them.
I see that you are working directly from the right wing’s playbook. bush did not encounter the EXACT SAME TREATMENT as President Obama. Are you still looking for the monkey comments as well? And why should President Obama show his birth cerficate? What other sitting president was challenged to show his birth certificate. And read the question carefully.
bush never encountered any racial hatred that President Obama has and continues to encounter.
Amazing how right wingers have been screaming socialism when President Obama is in office when socialism has been going on for years before this president took office. Truth be told, none of them really understand what socialism is really about. Just take a conspiracy and run with it.
And to this day, right wingers/neocons/dittoheads/tinfoil hat brigade can’t differentiate between racists and racist elements.
Since bush is still popular in your eyes, why isnt he on the stump for the gobp candidates?
Still hard for many white men to believe that a black man is President of the United States. That’s why the senatorial white caucus (aka senate gop) is so pissed.
Scout
July 24th, 2010
12:57 pm
Grand Forks:
“AND SO HE BOWED”
hmmmm
July 24th, 2010
1:04 pm
Mr. Attitude is quickly devolving into who he really is. A hard leftist who would support Obama no matter the circumstances. It’s not about race, it’s about need.
Beware of wolves in sheeps clothing.
BADA BING
July 24th, 2010
1:18 pm
Daddy, what is ‘our own kind’?
Mr Attitude
July 24th, 2010
1:21 pm
Hey hmmmm,
Don’t confuse providing the truth in how my thoughts are aligned. It is not my fautlt that your sensitivity meter is pinging very high today.
I see you are following the dittohead’s playbook. Why don’t you show me where I stated that I would support President Obama’s agenda no matter what.
While you are at it, tell me about this needs things.
“Beware of wolves in sheeps clothing”. Isn’t that the phrase that was uttered during the bush administration? Remember, the saying “compassionate conservatism”? Yep, the right certainly got snookered with that one.
BADA BING
July 24th, 2010
1:31 pm
Hmmmmmmm……… it’s more like ‘beware of wolves in wolves clothing’.
DEWSTARPATH
July 24th, 2010
1:32 pm
hmmmm – July 24th, 2010 – 1:04 pm
“Mr. Attitude is quickly devolving into who he really is. A hard leftist who would support Obama no matter the circumstances. It’s not about race, it’s about need.”
- The same can be said about “Forks” on the right & Pres. Bush no. 43. Just
look at the last five or six forums. But you made an excellent point regarding
the last sentence of your post. Priorities always have to take precendence
over preference.
Herman Cain
July 24th, 2010
1:34 pm
obozo may not be a monkey but he is a jacka$$.
BADA BING
July 24th, 2010
1:39 pm
Support AZ. The Park Sevice has dropped entrance fees this summer. Go take the family to the Grand Canyon for free and spend a lot of tourist$$ in AZ. Boycott L.A., CA, S.F., NYC, naacp, and alphabet soup.
BenFranklin
July 24th, 2010
1:43 pm
After looking at this story from every conceivable side, I have realized that there is almost no racism left in this country. In the true classical definition of the word, there are few people who believe in the inherent superiority of one race vs another. I refuse to acknowledge race anymore. I refuse to feel guilt or shame or pride because of my melanin content. There is only one race – the human race.
I acknowledge that there are prejudices held by every single person. This cannot be helped. We prejudge people based upon our sum total of experiences and beliefs. Ms. Sherrod was prejudiced in the video. No matter how anyone can cut it, she referred to taking the farmer to “one of his own kind.” The President has shown his prejudices as well.
I had a good deal of respect towards her up until she made the comment that Foxnews and Breitbart want to re implement slavery. That statement is patently absurd.
Ms C Tucker goes on and on how right-wing talk show hosts are racists. This is also absolutely absurd. I don’t believe she even listens to their shows or watch their tv programs. If she did, she would recant that statement.
This so-called discussion of “race” is a major distraction from what is really going on: an out and out war of the classes. Ms. Sherrod is a CLASSIST. To paraphrase her on the tape: It is about black and white. It is about the “haves” and the poor. At what tax bracket do we define the “rich”? Families that make $100K? $150K? $200K? What is the “middle-class”? Families with $75K? $100K? The “Haves” are not obligated to the “Have-nots”. The HNs do not own the Hs. The Hs are not slaves to the HNs. By demanding their money, the HNs are demanding the life of the Hs. The Hs spend their time, their lives to EARN money. It is THEIRS, no one else’s.
I give to charity. Unfortunately, if my taxes keep going up, I will be giving less. I refuse to part with my life willing when I have to do so unwillingly at the point of a federal or State gun.
End the classism. End all claims on the “rich”. End on claims on the “haves”.
hmmmm
July 24th, 2010
1:58 pm
DEWS, no matter what you call or Tucker want to call it–class or race–the need is highest among blacks and hispanics. Same demwitted game, different name. Keep them on the plantation so the democrap pols can take their dumps in high cotton.
Mr. Attitude, I can see the hand you’re playing in waters you’ve muddied.
BADA BING
July 24th, 2010
2:02 pm
The obama administration puts the DA in USDA.
get out much?
July 24th, 2010
2:29 pm
I am just waiting for Michael Steele to ask Andrew Breibart to help him in his efforts to recruit more minorities to the Republican Party.
Breitbart Jr.
July 24th, 2010
2:30 pm
S. Mullen
July 24th, 2010
9:33 am
“…Tea Party activists… are ignorant…, undoubtedly because they are greedy and self-serving… and need to wake up! …They are being used and abused.”
Now you know how Ms. Sherrod feels as a victim of selective editing.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
2:36 pm
“Still hard for many white men to believe that a black man is President of the United States. That’s why the senatorial white caucus (aka senate gop) is so pissed.’
Ma’am, keep playing the race card. It’s the only thing you left wingers have left.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
2:38 pm
“If you are going to pull my quotes, the least you can do is attach my name to them.”
Make me.
“Amazing how right wingers have been screaming socialism when President Obama is in office when socialism has been going on for years before this president took office.’
Whatever you say, ma’am. James Carville says differently. Eat crow, left winger.
James Carville Poll: 55% Think Obama Is A Socialist
A new poll from James Carville’s firm, Democracy Corps, says that 55% think Obama is a Socialist. They likewise think Obama is too liberal and a big spender, too! The poll, which was 115 questions long and surveyed Likely Voters for 2010 and who did vote in 2008 may be the most accurate reading on the nation’s pulse to date. Carville has become quite the critic of the Obama Administration.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
2:40 pm
“I am just waiting for Michael Steele to ask Andrew Breibart to help him in his efforts to recruit more minorities to the Republican Party.”
You mean like these minority GOPers?
Nikki Haley and Tim Scott win GOP nominations in South Carolina
South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley cruised to the Republican nomination for governor tonight, a victory that makes her not just the frontrunner for the office this fall but a likely national GOP star.
Haley crushed Rep. Gresham Barrett in the runoff race, an expected result given that she took 49 percent of the June 8 primary vote — narrowly missing the chance to win the nomination outright. The Associated Press called the runoff race for Haley at 8 p.m. eastern time.
“This is a story about determination, and a story about a movement,” said Haley in her victory speech tonight. “This was the best grassroots, underdog campaign we have ever seen.”
Haley also credited former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who endorsed her candidacy, for giving the campaign a “boost we needed when we needed it.”
State Rep. Tim Scott (R) also claimed victory in the 1st district runoff; Scott’s likely victory positions him to be the first black Republican in Congress since Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts’ retirement in 2002.
http://anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com/2010/06/nikki-haley-and-tim-scott-win-gop.html
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
2:42 pm
@@
Obama is a liar plain and simple.
Candidate Barack Obama ran as a moderate. He promised a “net spending cut.” Health reform was not, we were assured, intended to take over the insurance industry or feature an individual mandate. Taxes would go down for anyone making under $250,000 a year. “Too big to fail” was to be a thing of the past. Our nation was to become post-racial by the long-awaited election of a black man to the White House. And so it goes.
Instead, we got… more of everything. Taxes, spending, regulating, mandates, racial division — the entire liberal waterworks turned up to the max and pretty much all at once.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
2:44 pm
Gotta love left wingers! No pun intended
15 killed in mass panic at Germany’s Love Parade
DUISBURG, Germany – A stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans crushed 15 people to death and injured dozens at the Love Parade festival in western Germany on Saturday.
Other revelers initially kept partying at the event in Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, unaware of the deadly panic that started when police tried to prevent thousands more people from entering the already-jammed parade grounds.
Police are still trying to determine exactly what happened at the event that drew hundreds of thousands of people, but the situation was “very chaotic,” police commissioner Juergen Kieskemper said.
He said just before the stampede occurred at about 5 p.m. (1500 GMT, 11 a.m. EDT), police had closed off the area where the parade was being held because it was already overcrowded. They told revelers over loudspeakers to turn around and walk back in the other direction before the panic broke out, he said.
Emergency workers had trouble getting to the victims in the large tunnel that leads to the grounds.
A young man told WDR television that he was among those caught up in the crush.
@@
July 24th, 2010
3:22 pm
Grands:
I always knew he wasn’t a moderate. His past was there for all to see. All anyone had to do was look to where the bulk of his campaign financing came from. Aside from the big corporate donors, MoveOn, headed up by Soros, the globe’s biggest hedgehog brought him to power.
You’d think those who voted for him would have it figured out by now.
Question: How much attention do you pay to what’s going on in Afghanistan and the areas surrounding–Pakistan and India? There’s a reason I ask, but there may be a delay in my responding. I’ve got a dozen things going at once.
Also, are you familiar with General Kayani? He’s been given a three year extension on his retirement deadline.
@@
July 24th, 2010
3:24 pm
Schnirt!
I just posted that link to the killer “LOVE” Parade over at bookman’s. People are gonna think we’re the same person.
Scout
July 24th, 2010
3:41 pm
BADA BING:
Boy, I sure could have used you lastl night on Tucker. It was me against about seven of them.
But just like bayonet training I kept circling to the one on the far left and took them out one at a time !!!
@@
July 24th, 2010
4:00 pm
Scout:
You are incorrigible.
(ISH)
CJ
July 24th, 2010
4:02 pm
Kyle: “Accusations of racism have long been the left’s, and only the left’s, most explosive weapon.”
Oh dear. In fact, racism has long been the right’s, and only the right’s, most explosive weapon.
Kyle appears to be willfully ignorant of the Republican Party’s explicitly stated strategy of winning elections by exploiting racial divisions. The “Southern Strategy” isn’t a phrase manifested in the imaginations of those on the left. The phrase was used by Nixon’s political strategist to describe his approach to campaigning in the South and elsewhere. Since Nixon, the Southern Strategy has been a staple in the playbook of Republican office holders and Republican strategists everywhere.
Perhaps he’s just a unwitting pawn in their game, but Kyle is playing his part in executing the Strategy beautifully with his continual references to the New Black Panther issue and his false implications that Obama seeks to win elections by, well, cheating with the help of scary black people. Kyle will never inform his readers that it was the Bush Administration that made the decision not to press criminal charges in this case. Kyle will also never provide the reasons given by the Obama Administration for dropping civil charges against three of the men and reducing the charges against one of them (again, perhaps he doesn’t know). In truth, gathering and providing the whole story would hurt Kyle’s cause and conflict with the narrative running through his head and spewed into his column.
So, if we want to get all sides of the story, then we’re on your own. But if we believe that we have all sides of the story, better still.
If truly interested, one might start with PolitiFact.com, where the story is rated as “FALSE.” In the meantime, Kyle might consider pulling his head out of the sand.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
4:45 pm
“How much attention do you pay to what’s going on in Afghanistan and the areas surrounding–Pakistan and India?”
A lot. Just like I’m paying attention to China as well.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
4:46 pm
“People are gonna think we’re the same person.”
That’s because all the left wingers are paranoid dope smokers.
Fang1944
July 24th, 2010
4:59 pm
One more time, Kyle, it was BUSH’s administration that decided not to go after the pitiful Black Panther in Philadelphia. Repeat after me: Bush is Bush. Obama is Obama.
tscali
July 24th, 2010
5:15 pm
prosecution of the new black panthers began as a civil case within the doj for two reasons 1) to gain an immediate injunction in an attempt to deter racial tension and 2) because it takes time to prove criminal wrongdoing.
bush’s intent was to have it progress through procedural channels in order to spare the country racial division following the possible election of america’s first black president. he was doing obama a favor and holder pays the country back by turning a blind eye to blatant voter intimidation.
democratic strategy is to use thugs like the new black panthers to get the unwanted votes out.
Rusty Rivers
July 24th, 2010
5:27 pm
It’s a new day. I hope bloggers like Andrew Breitbart continue to expose the equally racist left. It’s long overdue. Cameras should be taken into every meeting that the NAACP or ACORN conducts. I’m sure Mr. Breitbart would have plenty of material.
When I turn the tv on and here black people calling white people all sorts of names and marking it down as artistic liberties with no ramifications, it concerns me. Also, what concerns me about Ms. Sherrod speech was the fact that when she admitted withholding services to the white farmers, the mostly black audience chuckled. Real understanding!
The handling of the matter looked like something from a sitcom! Our country is in one of the biggest financial messes ever and our leaders are jumping around acting like the stooges.
I am not surprised that the left is racist just like the right…it’s that we are just now exposing it!! Mr. Andrew Breitbart got the results that he was hoping for with the video. Hopefully there’s many more. Maybe then we can have a “Serious” Beer Summit.
CJ
July 24th, 2010
5:56 pm
“bush’s intent was to have it progress through procedural channels in order to spare the country racial division following the possible election of america’s first black president. he was doing obama a favor and holder pays the country back by turning a blind eye to blatant voter intimidation…”
Complete rubbish.
On the other hand, former Bush officials are open about the fact that they couldn’t prove that the guys in the video did anything criminal that they could convict them of. Despite such lack of evidence, former Bush assistant attorney general for civil rights, Hans von Spakovsky, still argues that Obama didn’t reinstate criminal charges because “radical career lawyers shared the apparent view of the Obama political appointees that no civil-rights cases of any kind should be brought against blacks.”
Bizarre.
tscali
July 24th, 2010
6:10 pm
On the other hand, former Bush officials are open about the fact that they couldn’t prove that the guys in the video did anything criminal that they could convict them of.
which is why it was to progress through the criminal division. See reason #2) because it takes time to prove criminal wrongdoing.
holder chose to sweep the rubbish under the rug, refusing to take it out. it looks bad for your side.
Yankee in Gooberville
July 24th, 2010
6:16 pm
Since when is it new for the right wing to use race?? Nixon’s ’southern strategy’? Helm’s ‘black man got my job’ ad?
As Eugene Robinson’s column this week states:
After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African-Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=953440&category=COMMENTARY#ixzz0udmBXaaq
Scout
July 24th, 2010
6:18 pm
@@:
Thank you. You made my day !
KiknUSquareWell..UKnow
July 24th, 2010
6:36 pm
@Rusty
I suddenly harken to a now famous quote of Jon Stewart’s – “we most certainly would not want reality to get in the way..”
Are you even awake junior?
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
6:50 pm
“As Eugene Robinson’s column this week states:”
Eugene is a racist.
Grand Forks
July 24th, 2010
6:57 pm
Is there anything Obama doesn’t lie about?
President Obama Said Sec. Tom Vilsack ‘Jumped the Gun’ on Shirley Sherrod’s Ouster
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2010/07/obama-vilsack-jumped-the-gun-on-sherrods-ouster.html
@@
July 24th, 2010
7:56 pm
Geez, you’d think government bureaucrats would get tired of Obama washing his hands of the whole affair…slinging the mud in someone else’s direction.
Look, Mommy, I washed!
Grand:
About Afghanistan…everything I’m reading indicates we’re about to turn Afghanistan over to Pakistani influence. I really didn’t expect Obama would hang around long…just wanted to make a he-man showing for his adoring leftists. He pretty much defeated his own efforts, what with his restrictive rules of engagement and date for withdrawal.
You’ve been watching China, so you know the close relationship building between Pakistan and Beijing. They tout trade as the main objective. Whaddya think?
India’s on edge, but then they’re known for their schizophrenic and paranoid nature. I can’t imagine China would want a rise in insurgency given their own terrorist threat in the region.
I’m confused, as always. There are so many players moving around that board, it’s hard to keep up with whose interests lie where.
Stratfor is reporting this recent statement:
Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who on any given day announces alleged Taliban successes on the battlefield, came out and said the Afghan Taliban were fighting for the independence of their country and did not pose a threat to anyone except foreign forces present in Afghanistan. He said, “We want to live as part of society in the world. We are not a threat to a person or a country. We are like an oppressed person, whose house was attacked by thieves and he is compelled to defend his house.” Ahmadi went on to say that if the Western forces really wanted to withdraw from Afghanistan, “then the Taliban will not create problems for you,” but instead “will help you in the process of withdrawal.”
Karzai is gonna do whatever it takes to protect his own interest. I’ve always seen the Taliban’s commitment as national, while Al Qaeda’s is global. Do you think negotiations would serve to separate the two?
I honestly think Bush was successful in isolating Al Qaeda prime. They haven’t carried out another large scale attack with much success since Sept. 11th. The handful of unsuccessful attempts have likely been carried out by wannabes with loose ties.
Bottom line…what’s the worst that could happen if it plays out as I suspect it will?
I’m still juggling so expect another delayed response.
@@
July 24th, 2010
7:59 pm
Oh, and Scout?
I’ll make it a point to call you incorrigible more often. My goal in life is to make people smile.
UGA Barbie
July 24th, 2010
8:15 pm
This has to be one of the most ignorant opinion columns on ajc.com. Who is this weasel?
Cutty
July 24th, 2010
8:44 pm
Funny, people who’ve never experienced a lick of racism are now experts on the subject. It’s so chic now to accuse someone of being a racist, when those accusers such as Breitbart, Wingfield, et al don’t have a clue. Holler at me when you’ve been pulled over, handcuffed, had your car search by dogs, all becauses you were on the wrong side of Alpharetta.
I honestly thought Wingfield would bring a fresh view of conservatism when he started here. Turns out he’s nothing more than Thinking Right Deux. Shame.
Cutty
July 24th, 2010
8:50 pm
Kyle forgot about the Southern Strategy.
AtticusFinch
July 24th, 2010
9:59 pm
OMG please call the wahhhhmbulance for crybaby Kyle. His poor (or rather well-off) lily white ass has never experienced one iota of racism. In fact I’m willing to bet his proud fore-fathers might have been part of the jury that acquitted the shooter in Sherrod’s fathers death. If Sherrod was racist at one time I could totally understand why growing up in a Jim Crow south where whitey could literally get away with murder. But this woman learned and grew and changed. Something the slime-bag Rethugs will never ever do. May they roast in hell.
Dusty
July 24th, 2010
10:33 pm
Well, here we have three would-be racists, Atticus, Barby & Cutty. Poor babies. Racists against white people. Somebody dun done you wrong and the whole world is to blame and gives you an excuse for doing anything you want. Why don’t you look around for a change?
There are successfull black people in all parts of American and they are not crying like a bunch of sissies.. They are too busy tending to business and taking care of themselves and their families. It’s a bunch of losers like you three (who sound like one) that make racist a common word .Did you notice you have a black president? Overlooked that little number?
You have overlooked a lot. Everybody in this world has hard times one way or another. Some grin and go on. Others just rather babble and blame. Wake up, babies. When you grow up, you can be president too. First you got to stop crying, complain’ and insulting people. That is not the way to move ahead in any way.
KiknUSquareWell..UKnow
July 24th, 2010
11:06 pm
…and so Dusty proves my point EXACTLY! By the way, I am one of those “successfull black people” referred to in her (or his) post. Shows a lack of real/honest/informed/etc perspective or understanding, though I am not surprised. Someone else said it earlier, until you have been under the thumb of oppression you simply have difficulty in relating and oftentimes no desire to.
But then again, I estimate people like Dusty think people like me should just be happy that we achieve and maintain IN SPITE OF all the RACISM and other social obstacles that we overcome on a daily basis and SHUT UP. So in Dusty’s mind anyone who does speak out are most certainly (*what was the word? “losers”?), shiftless welfare queens, thugs, or general riff raff just looking for a way to blame and burden the white man. Puhleeease..
BADA BING
July 24th, 2010
11:13 pm
Scout……it’s a no-can-do on c tucker. I got banished. Saw tucker on Chris Matthews today. I swear she looks like wanda sykes but with worse hair. Check it out one day. I got back on tuckers blog after she banished me when I got a new comp, used a different name for a while. One day I used BADA BING and she dropped me again, HAHA.
This is Mrs.Norman Maine
July 24th, 2010
11:17 pm
Weapons? Are we at war Kyle? You sound just like a white man with a sense of entitlement. You’re fighting for “your” country, job, political office. When African-Americans air honest grievances about race, you view it as an attack in a war therefore Breitbart the liar was right to volley his attack. After all he was just defending his team, right Kyle? It was only bad luck that Mrs. Sherrod was innocent of his charge. Too bad she had the whole video to exonerate her. That was disappointing wasn’t it Kyle? Oh well, your team will get them next time (and we know there will be a next time because you’ll keep trying).
Sheesh………
AtticusFinch
July 24th, 2010
11:25 pm
Sorry Dusty, white bread here. I however understand how a group that has been crushed at the institutional level for hundreds of years could take a little while to grow and learn not to resent their former “overlords”. The former overlords, or at least some of them take the “Why how could they ever harbor any feeling of distrust or resentment against my holier-than-thou persona?” Ms. Sherrod is a person that as I said grew and learned. I’m not saying all African-Americans are there and some may never be. But in the end it was my ancestors and yours that is the cause of this. YOU have never experienced racism and neither have I but I can empathize with those that have, something Rethugs just don’t have the capacity to do.
AtticusFinch
July 24th, 2010
11:27 pm
You are right about one thing, President Obama is my president. He is too, even if you don’t like it.
DawgDad
July 24th, 2010
11:28 pm
“Ms C Tucker goes on and on how right-wing talk show hosts are racists. This is also absolutely absurd. I don’t believe she even listens to their shows or watch their tv programs. If she did, she would recant that statement.”
Ms. Tucker knows exactly what she is doing. She gets paid well to do it, she knows the views she pens are hard-slanted and at times she is outright defamatory, and she’s not about to change. Neither are the “right wing” talk show hosts.
This is a front in the never-ending political war of ideology and quest for power and influence. It’s not important who says what – after all, we have constitutional protections for free speech. What’s important is who obtains and wields power and influence because that can at times mean the difference between tyranny and freedom, prosperity and demise, life and death.
B. Morris
July 24th, 2010
11:37 pm
AF said: YOU have never experienced racism and neither have I but I can empathize with those that have
Try telling that to a black person. They will set you straight real quick like. You can’t and will never be a part of their experience.
AtticusFinch
July 24th, 2010
11:41 pm
They have every right to say that. I said empathize not experience. Unless I had a sudden race switch that is impossible. I also have no desire to be enslaved, have my relatives used as chattel and farm animals or any other aspect of slavery. So I can’t truly experience it and have absolutely no desire to.
B. Morris
July 24th, 2010
11:47 pm
AF said: So I can’t truly experience it and have absolutely no desire to.
In other words, you wouldn’t buy a slave, just like to borrow one when it’s convenient.
AtticusFinch
July 24th, 2010
11:52 pm
WTF are you talking about? I see you not human. You can’t imagine the pain and suffering they went thru and don’t care. At least that’s what you’re post is saying. Please explain how you can extrapolate my wanting to have a slave from my post about the evil of slavery. Slavery is perhaps the most heinous crime human beings can commit. You sir (and that’s too kind) are a sick f*ck.
AtticusFinch
July 24th, 2010
11:52 pm
lol spelling errors galore, but it’s late. Oh well it’s posted now.
B. Morris
July 24th, 2010
11:58 pm
I’d like to offer my family as slaves. I know it wasn’t that bad. Ok a beating or rape here or there, but hey one meal a day and plenty of work out in the beautiful sunshine. What’s not to like?
B. Morris
July 25th, 2010
12:00 am
White boy here, slighty used, sorta flabby but ready to whip into shape. Bidding starts at $1
Cutty
July 25th, 2010
1:11 am
Dusty just removes all doubt that she doesn’t have a clue.
Recovered Demoholic
July 25th, 2010
1:57 am
Having watched the full NAACP video twice and a CNN interview with Sherrod, most of my sympathy has waned.
blaming fox which didn’t air until well after her firing/resignation
racism, class warfare, desire of some for return to slavery
throw in the money settlement and her take as well as an appointment
Harry Reid
July 25th, 2010
7:22 am
Only the Democrats welcome and harbour the KKK and the New Black Panther Party and still get 99 per cent of the Black vote!
Joel
July 25th, 2010
8:23 am
It’s said that if you have enough monkeys typing on enough typewriters for long enough you’ll eventually get Shakespeare. Well so far we’ve only gotten some blog comments…
Jack
July 25th, 2010
8:23 am
Clearly all sides are guilty of a rush to judgment and we all have much to learn and be humble about, but the blogger Breitbart and the FOX news network must take responsibility for setting the trap with a long record of spinning the facts, distortion and intentional provocation to incite fear and loathing for ideological gain. Shame on them, pray for us all.
Hank Williams Jr.
July 25th, 2010
8:43 am
Igot banned on C. Tuckers blog THE FIRST DAY !!!!
Imagine that!
She hates country music and I hate her !!
She is an advocate of the Black Panthers………..Imagine that !!
SHE IS TROUBLE !!
Go on her site and mention Glenn Beck………
You’ll get run faster than Bobby Cox………..
Tim
July 25th, 2010
8:55 am
Well I have some ideas for this “national conversation” on race:
1) The greatest thing about being white is that no one hobbles your future with the excuses of the past.
2) People don’t typically sit around thinking of ways to screw other ethnic or racial groups. There is a very small minority of people who enjoy breeding racial conflict. We need to stop stereotyping everyone based on these people.
3) A white person can never truly fully understand the experience of a black person. And a short person can never understand the experience of a tall person. And so on ad nauseum. This is the ultimate cop out–”we’ll never get along because we can’t mind-meld.
Hank Williams Jr.
July 25th, 2010
9:07 am
Tim likes and agrees with C. Tucker……..
We see which way he hangs…
steveb
July 25th, 2010
9:27 am
What is not seen is Ms. Sherrod labeling everyone as ‘racist’ who dare oppose King Obama’s health care fiasco. So, Shirley is ignorant, to say the least. The White House deliberately used the NAACP to stoke racism among blacks to get them angry enough to vote. This racist coward Obama is the most racially divisive president in our country’s history. To attempt to stir up racism to get votes is deplorable, and par for the course for the worst president this country has ever elected.
Dave C
July 25th, 2010
9:43 am
Love it! FYI, Fox news didn’t cover the Sherrod story until AFTER she was fired. o’Riley did, but his show didn’t air until after the firing. While everyone is blaming Fox along with Breitbart, it didn’t actually happen any more than Palin said she could see Russia from her house (That was SNL).
I read Breitbart’s original post, he was highlighting the NAACP’s positive reaction to Sherrod saying she didn’t do everything she could for Whitey. For him, she wasn’t the story. Hey, at least there was some kernel of truth to his story, which is a little better than the congressmen’s lies that hey were spit on, attacked, and called names while walking outside the Capitol building. For that widely reported incident of supposed racism, with a hundred cameras in tow, they couldn’t produce one shred of evidence, so they just made it all up. The rabidlamestream media ate it upend reported its fact. The double standard is glaringly obvious.
Don't forget
July 25th, 2010
9:48 am
Trent Lott’s praise for Strom Thurmond cost him leadership of the Senate.
It wasn’t his Lott’s praise for his leadership it was saying he should have won at a time when Thrumond was still a segregationist. I don’t think that Lott meant it in that way and the issue should have died once he clarified his postition but his statements weren’t taken out of context.
Harvard Delende Est
July 25th, 2010
9:57 am
“Accusations of racism have long been the left’s, and only the left’s, most explosive weapon. No more.”
Not to worry. While the left may have lost their mojo on the race thing, it’s pretty evident that they still have a lock when it come to TREASON; a situation not likely to change any time soon. (with out the aid of a whole lot of rope, that is
delmar Jackson
July 25th, 2010
10:00 am
The future may be grim for america, but at least, with so many chickens coming home to roost , we should never go hungry.
Why is Breitbart and drudge so popular? I have no definitive answer, but as a person that for 40 years have wanted less legal and zero illegal immigration and watched year after year my papers and radio and tv portray me and those like me that wanted less immigration as racist, zenophobe, nativist, etc, I naturally gave up my democrat,liberal and environmemntal leanings and turned towards those that vindicated me.
I am not alone. America is waking up and demonize the right all you want, I see no reason to increase oour population to a half a billion via immigration just to please those that benefit from immigration while they pass social costs onto the communities.
Shirley shirrod got fired and the media on the right caused it. BooHoo. My country has been stolen by the media on the left via massive unending unlimited immigration.
Don’t play with fire if you don’t want to get burned, this stuff is not even started yet.fasten your seat belts.
citizen
July 25th, 2010
10:13 am
A Democrat dominant Senate just approved $3.5 Billion dollars for Pakistan but took out $1.2 Billion for the black farmers that didn’t get their share of the money when Ms. Sherrod and her group won their lawsuit, Pigford vs. Vilsack. How can they spin this information?
Blame it on the Republicans. Obama’s fans will tell this as a fact and not see that if the Democrats had been for this sham, they would have kept it in the Defense budget.
TommyJack
July 25th, 2010
11:07 am
Kyle, I bet you have to eat lunch alone at the AJC. Great work. (surely you must be a racist, slave-owning, KKK’er) Tongue firmly in cheek.
Deal? Get Real.
July 25th, 2010
11:37 am
Yup, Biden and Reed’s comments were just like George Allen’s and Trent Lott’s. Great work Kyle.
Your words:”But there are points to score. And while I don’t condone what he did, I believe right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart when he says he posted the video of Sherrod to make a point about the NAACP, which days earlier condemned tea party groups for their “racist elements,” and that the effect on Sherrod was essentially collateral damage.” Tell us all we need to know.
And yes, of course, the NAACP’s TRUE statement that there are racist ELEMENTS in the Tea Party movements equates precicely and justifies Breitbart’s lying smear on an African American women whose father was murdered by racists. Keep up the crappy work Kyle.
Ayn Rant
July 25th, 2010
11:56 am
Kyle, you just don’t get it! You live in a world of “left vs. right”, “liberal vs. conservative” and “Democrat vs. Republican”. You perceive an ugly incident as a balance of wrong-doing in politics You avoid the principles of right vs. wrong and sincerity vs. deceit.
Rascism is real. It’s one aspect of the natural human propensity toward tribal clannishness, an innate need to distinguish between “we” and “they”. It’s not just a figure of speech or a political ploy; it’s a deep down suspicion and hatred that clouds rationality.
I grew up in the segregated south, when blacks couldn’t live in the same part of town, drink from the same water fountain, ride in the same section of a public bus, attend the same church or movie theater, or stay at the same hotels as whites. Black children got an even worse education than Southern white children: they rode to school in second-hand school buses to be taught by underpaid and unqualified teachers in leaky second-hand school buildings. White priests and preachers even cited Scripture as justification for segregation. I have a feel for racism; I know it when I see it.
Southern politicians were once Democrats who gained and clung to public office by “out-ni***” one another. These same politicians and their successors split with the northern Democrats to become Dixiecrats. Then they joined, and eventually took control of the national Republican Party.
Many white southerners have come to accept that we live in a multi-racial nation that works better if each person is judged and treated as an individual rather than as a member of a racial group. Overt white vs. black racism is viewed as impolitic, ignorant, and unpatriotic. Although racism is always denied as a motivation, it manifests itself in subtle ways. It is still a powerful force in politics, which is the art of division and deception.
In the Sherrod and ACORN flaps that Andrew Breitbart instigated, Breitbart uses a common dirty political trick: he takes snippets of conversations or paragraphs out of context, and misconstrues them into pure lies. The popularity of his lies is due to white racism, pure and simple. The knee-jerk reaction to the popularity of his lies is oversensitivity to racism. These are ugly, divisive incidents; balance is not needed, and justification is unwarranted, Kyle.
fistbiscuit
July 25th, 2010
12:07 pm
Breitbart was completely in the right.
And this just shows how out of touch with reality that the racist left really is.
The racist in the video says
“it’s not about black and white….it IS about black and white, but it’s really about those who have versus those who don’t”……THAT is supposedly her “turning point”.
Watch the whole video.
The woman is a racist. Just because she’s less of one than she was twenty-something years ago means very little.
The left is just carrying on a tradition of turning races against each other.
The only difference is this administration’s preference toward minorities, and it’s belief that whites are the oppressors who have been keeping others down.
This is the reverse end of the same spectrum of politics practiced by Woodrow Wilson, nearly 100 years ago. Wilson wrongly believed that blacks were intellectually inferior, whereas today, Wilson 2.0 apparently believes that blacks are long-standing victims of wrongly advantaged whites. It’s the only way to explain the belief that whites must be kept down, in order for minorities to achieve success.
Comments like this one from Mark Lloyd, of Obama’s FCC explain it best:
” we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem.
We’re in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.”
No consideration of merit, there. It’s all about race with these people
This administration believes that in order for minorities to have success, whites must be removed from power, and separated from their wealth. One can only assume that it’s because they think that most Americans are as racist as they, themselves, apparently are…..or else they agree with Wilson’s low opinion concerning the abilities of blacks to succeed and prosper..
Regardless, the current batch of race-obsessed leftists believe that minorities should be given higher paying federal employment, while the private sector needs to be destroyed, because it’s what allows whites to oppress these minorities, while enriching themselves.
Leftists really don’t care about prosperity, or a decent standard of living.
It’s all about punishing imaginary villains invented by politicians to keep Americans at each others throats.
As long as they can make us believe that we are all surrounded by bigots, the longer we empower them to portray themselves as saviors (from ourselves) rather than responsible leaders who want the whole country to prosper
V. Powell
July 25th, 2010
12:07 pm
Tea party remind me of little kids having the time of their life teasing the weak kid. They should help the country move ahead instead of just saying no to anything they fell will Obama.
V. Powell
July 25th, 2010
12:11 pm
Shirley Sherrod’s rights have been violated. She should seek damages.
Dusty
July 25th, 2010
12:26 pm
If anyone thinks “whites” are the only ones continuing racism. Read the racist remarks by a few black bloggers here and a liberal “white” from last night.. I mentioned. (after reading some of their “down on everything”comments) that successful blacks were not crying and babbling but busy making life successful. Then I suggested they notice that we had a black president. That they could do the same.
For that I was told I had never been a slave! (Neither have these bloggers.) That I did not like the president because he was black. Then, without any truth at all, they said I had called blacks “shiftless, thugs, general riff raff. looking for a slave”. Then the white liberal said that I was responsible for the slaves of a 125 years ago.
So I tend to stay away from “racist” discussions . Why? Because most of the time I don’t need to. Black friends and coworkers are mostly busy and congenial We simply work and live with each other as human beings..
Black friends from Africa, mainly Liberia, have sometimes mentioned racism cominig from American blacks. So it goes. There is racism but it does not come from just one source. It is a joint effort by those who cannot rid themselves of hate.
Karen
July 25th, 2010
12:39 pm
Thanks Yankee in Gooberville for your comments and the link. This entire blog response is amazing and terrifying. What have we become? As an astute observor of politics in the country, fearmongering has reached a level I’ve never seen. There were many things said about GWB, and in the end, he was vilified by many including his own party. However, the vitriol being spued regarding BHO is unprecedented. There are personal attacks on the man himself, not just his policy. One cannot help but think this is motivatied by race. The birthers, Tea Party Express, Breitbart, Fox News, and others have become catalysts for a kind of vocal hatred not seen in a long time. There may have been a time when many of us chose to keep our feelings on race under a seething exterior; we understood that publicly voicing our deepest feelings would not be acceptable, unless we were “safe” amongst like-minded peers. And therein lies the problem. As my mama often quoted, “As a man thinketh, so is he.” We’ve got to change the dialog in this country. I am fearful for my country if we don’t.
Kyle does Crazy Elvis and does it well
July 25th, 2010
1:05 pm
“Our politics increasingly resembles a cold civil war, and the Sherrod story was like the right’s first successful A-bomb test. Accusations of racism have long been the left’s, and only the left’s, most explosive weapon. No more.”
Successful? A bomb blows up in your face and you call it successful? Who knew Kyle was auditioning to be Crazy Elvis’s successor in North Korea!
Dusty
July 25th, 2010
1:10 pm
Karen,
One statement you made is incorrect. You said “The vitriol being spewed regarding BHO is unprecedented. There are personal attacks on the man himself, not just his policy.”
George W. Bush governed for eight years with vitriol of every kind being poured upon him. From the beginning, hIs election was disputed as stolen when it was all legal. He was called a “monkey” and portrayed by cartoonists as a monkey. His mililtary records were counterfeited to look bad.. His wife was accused of “killing” someone because long ago she was in an auto accident with a fatality. He was ridiculed for reading a book to children when 9/11 happened at which time he stopped for a minute and then left discretely. He was ridiculed when he choked on a pretzel. Although he had a degree from Harvard and an MBA from Yale he was called “dumb”. When the CIA & British Intel & Congress all agreed that Iraq had wmd, he went to war. Even though a dictator was removed and Osama was sent to desolate mountains, it is called Bush’s war with derogatory terms. America has had only a few minor terrorists attacks since then.
Yep, Obama has a way to go before reaching the poisonous state that Bush endured. It was the state in which liberal meant to keep him. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen again. It was an American disgrace..
KiknUSquareWell..UKnow
July 25th, 2010
1:10 pm
LMAO at the last string of posts. Just goes to show you just how much of a sickness lack of a proper perspective can be. Specifically though..this Dusty chick definitely needs some meds, but she is not alone in her deficiency. To demonstrate how in the dark she really is in her myopic view, she states “Black friends and coworkers are mostly busy and congenial. We simply work and live with each other as human beings..”
(ROFLMAO) yeah..MY white friends and co-workers would tell you the same about ME! I can guarantee you if you presented them with the B-S you too often splatter all over AJC blogs, they would gladly hand you your @@$$ on a silver platter. Don’t be fooled. Of course you think you have it all figured out, that the good little Black folk in your world are properly in their place because they are just fat and happy that they get to sit at the table. In fact you never know, I could very well be one of your “co-workers”.
Chris Salzmann
July 25th, 2010
1:22 pm
7:00 pm July 23, 2010, by Kyle Wingfield SAID…….and his Justice Department handles the New Black Panther Party with kid gloves, it undermines his post-racial appeals?
_______________________________________________________________________________________
CHRIS SAYS: Nice job pushing the non-story of the New Black Panther Party. First, the Bush administration investigated the incident in question and did not press charges. Reason: No one could find a SINGLE voter who felt intimidated and wanted to file a complaint. Second, the “New” Black Panther Party consists of a dozen or two of racist idiots who have nothing better to do than act like idiots. Like that Baptist church in Kansas that keeps showing up at funerals of soldiers killed. Also, interestingly, the ACORN “conspiracy” that all you on the Right were pushing ALSO turned up to be a NON-STORY because they were also investigated by the Justice Department and no “conspiracy” was found.
In light of your above idiotic defense of what turned out to be complete non-issues, that you are actually defending Rush Limbaugh isn’t a surprising at all. The only defense of Rush Limbaugh is the same defense of those idiots in the New Black Panther Party and those idiots from Kansas: Everyone has the right to free speech, even idiots like Rush and certain columnists here at the AJC.
AWM
July 25th, 2010
1:33 pm
I’m glad I am white – although I was raised to know we are all pink on the inside.
Being white, I don’t have to make excuses for my failures, despite my anscestors are buried in shallow workers graves in New Orleans and in graves from tyrants, in Ireland.
Being white, I don’t have people looking down on me because I am “suspected” of being on welfare.
Being white, I had to compete for a job like everyone else until I started my own business. Which is getting more impossible to sustain as the costs of Govt regs and witholding and taxes and HC are beginning to bury us.
Being white, I had to compete for a job, only more so, when “hiring preferences” or “affirmative action” pushed me to the end of the line behind all the ethnics and females. Despite my merits as a man, an individual.
Being white does make a difference. I make for easy target identification and acquisition in a world where some are more equal than others, where I am not judged by the content of my character but by the color of my skin and where the Govt has decided that this is how it is.
Chris Salzmann
July 25th, 2010
1:55 pm
BTW Kyle, http://www.politifact.com rated this notion of yours, similar to Bill O’Reilly’s, as false. But don’t let facts get in your way, right?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jul/23/bill-oreilly/bill-oreilly-blames-obama-administration-not-pursu/
AWM
July 25th, 2010
1:58 pm
What Dusty fails to mention (intentionally) about the guy in our White House and his cronies in Congress:
“Many have thoroughly documented Obama’s radical left roots, from his openly communist father, to his Marxist mother, to the Communist Party’s Franklin Marshall Davis who mentored Obama through adolescence, while his parents were off pursuing the cause around the world.
Obama’s own books disclose that he was drawn to radical left Marxist professors in college and law school. And all of this was before Obama the adult hooked up with 1960s Weatherman bomb thrower Bill Ayres, the anti-American preacher Jeremiah Wright, and the far left radical front group ACORN.
This is all well-established public information, as hard as that should be to believe.
But Obama is not the only one.
Ultraleft San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi, a nice lady whose feet are not firmly planted in the real world, serves as House Speaker.
Far Left Henry Waxman, the Congressman from Hollywood, serves as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Uberliberal Barney Frank, the Congressman from Boston, serves as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee.
Leftover ’60s liberal David Obey, a self-described Robert La Follette Progressive from Wisconsin, serves as Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Charley Rangel, the Congressman from Harlem, serves as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. John Conyers, the Congressman from Detroit, with his own past Communist Party ties, serves as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Until recently, ultraliberal Howard Dean from Vermont served as Democrat party national Chairman. Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont, as liberal/left as they come, serves as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Even these folks are not left enough for Vermont, with the other Senator being openly socialist Bernie Sanders.
Calculated Deception
The American people never voted for such a radical left takeover of America.
Barack Obama ran on a net spending cut at the federal level, a tax cut for 95% of Americans, a promise of a new era of post-partisan political peace, and a pledge to sweet talk Iran out of “unacceptable” nuclear weapons.
Obama was greatly aided by the history of Bill Clinton, who after 1994 mostly just went along with the Gingrich Congressional majority Republicans, resulting in solidly conservative economic, defense and foreign policies. Many voters were consequently deluded into thinking Obama and the Democrats would just be a reprise of Bill Clinton and the 1990s.
But what should be brutally obvious by now is that Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton, and those analysts who think he may be on the same political trajectory as Clinton are badly deluded as well.
The Democrats took over the Congress using the “Blue Dog” Democrat trick. In district after district, Democrats ran claiming to be pro-life, Second Amendment, tax and deficit cutting, fiscal conservatives, more Reagan than the Republicans.
But all they have done is empowered the above radical left takeover of the Congressional leadership. And when their votes were necessary to pass the radical left agenda, such as with the socialized medicine bill, or the unjustifiable cap and tax House bill, just enough of them voted for it to pass, with the rest still trying to maintain their cover. Even enough of those supposedly “pro-life” Democrats in the end sold out on abortion in the health care bill to the ruling left-wing party leadership.
The Blue Dog Democrat scam was aided by the above-noted history of Democrat Congresses run by Southern conservative committee chairmen. Too many voters thought as a result that the Democrats could be trusted with majority congressional control again.
Winning power through such consistent, thorough deception, the Democrats have no mandate for their left-wing extremism, and are just further angering and rousing voters as a result. That is another huge dark cloud indicating the coming political tsunami.” The American Spectator
Dusty
July 25th, 2010
2:24 pm
To Kik@1:10 from Dixie Chick
Don’t worry about my coworkers.and friends that are black. THEY have character,
You, my friend, are a boiling pot of unhappiness filled with hate at those who “ruin” your life. Better do something about it. Hypertension is a prime health hazard for blacks and you are running yours higher than a kite. Take it easy, Bud, before you blow a gasket!!
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:33 pm
“OMG please call the wahhhhmbulance for crybaby Kyle. His poor (or rather well-off) lily white ass has never experienced one iota of racism.”
Like I said, left wing retards have low IQ’s.
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:34 pm
UGAY Barbie,
I’m shocked that you can even read. Your inbred folks must be so proud that their inbred daughter can read. Can you hold a newspaper with your webbed fingers?
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:36 pm
“However, the vitriol being spued regarding BHO is unprecedented. There are personal attacks on the man himself, not just his policy. One cannot help but think this is motivatied by race. The birthers, Tea Party Express, Breitbart, Fox News, and others have become catalysts for a kind of vocal hatred not seen in a long time. There may have been a time when many of us chose to keep our feelings on race under a seething exterior”
Just another example of stupidity on the left. If Obama was white, they’d say that the Tea Party etc are Nazi’s.
Hey Karen, go sell stupid somewhere else.
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:37 pm
“You are right about one thing, President Obama is my messiah.”
FYT
Grand Forks
July 25th, 2010
3:39 pm
“Ms. Tucker knows exactly what she is doing.”
Most race pimps do know what they’re doing. Just ask Jackson and Sharpton. They’ve been living off of MLK since the 60’s even though MLK hated Jackson and said that he was an extreme nut job.
ImHappynBP
July 25th, 2010
3:42 pm
If the media wasn’t so blatantly biased, there would be no reason for Breitbart to exist.
Skep41
July 25th, 2010
4:16 pm
Isnt it funny that no one in the Journo-List left-wing media questioned that a black government official would have the attitudes wrongly ascribed to Ms. Sherrod? The mainstream media and the White House and even the NAACP (which presumably had a copy of the entire tape and didnt bother to go back and look at it) immediately assumed that the charges were true. Meanwhile Limbaugh and Beck, both victims of dozens of out-of-context smears, backed off. What the left knows is that racial resentment is part of the liberal curriculum at most universities and the words of Ms. Sherrod and those of people like Rev. Wright, Farrakhan and Al Sharpton are just reflections of an entire culture of resentment. The ongoing pattern of reverse racism by the Obama Administration, or its perception by a growing number of white voters, has the Demos a little gun shy so they jumped all over Ms. Sherrod to try to show that it wasnt true. It is true. Its true until the Obamunists prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation.
BIll Norton
July 25th, 2010
4:28 pm
I have friends both black and white. When I am with my white friends, the subject of racism never comes up. When I am with my black friends, it almost never comes up. When I watch TV news, it’s everywhere.
A friend of mine from Cameroon asked me why everthing in America is about race. My answer to him was that everything in America isn’t about race. Except for black politicians and opportunist journalists, I rerely hear anything about it. After some thought, he agreed.
elephant4life
July 25th, 2010
4:57 pm
I don’t care how “reformed” Sherrod is now trying to present herself. She LAUGHED at having had power over Whitey, and she basked in the applause and adulation of the NAAColoredP after having said it. And her speech didn’t happen twenty years ago, it happened less than six months ago. If a White person had done the exact same thing, whether twenty years ago, or fifty years ago, he would be pilloried and run out of town on a rail – especially if he was a Republican or Tea Party member, that is – and he wouldn’t even have had to gloat about it in front of a group of his “own kind”. The left would have dug it up and hung him with it. Why not just admit that she is not only of the correct skin tone, she is of the correct political affiliation? This racist person deserved to be fired for not having left her racism at home when she went to work. Period. But I suspect that the USDA official’s job was threatened if he didn’t do a mea culpa and grovel at the feet of the poor oppressed black civil servant.
Julie
July 25th, 2010
4:58 pm
Your comparisons are not equal. For example, what Reid said was not racism – it was fact. Reid did not mean to harm anyone.
elephant4life
July 25th, 2010
5:46 pm
“When I turn the tv on and here black people calling white people all sorts of names and marking it down as artistic liberties with no ramifications, it concerns me. Also, what concerns me about Ms. Sherrod speech was the fact that when she admitted withholding services to the white farmers, the mostly black audience chuckled. Real understanding!”
Few weeks ago, was called an f—ing white bitch by an out of control black woman who was, I have to admit, an EEO aggressive driving ahole in a local shopping center, nearly running over me and my kid and nearly colliding with a couple of other vehicles and shoppers However, when I called her a n—– in return, she ran across the parking lot to attack me and my kid from behind, screaming I had no right to “disrespect” her. Now, I really want to know – why should someone feel that because of their race they should be permitted to abuse and endanger others with impunity, feeling they cannot be called to account, and then have the effrontery to act offended and attempt violence when they are called on their behavior and/or treated in kind?
John Custis
July 25th, 2010
5:49 pm
Well spoken. First, we need to define racism. It is a term that is often thrown around when one seeks to disparage another. Better to have a clear definition. Then we can actually investigate to see if the charge is true. Then, we also might be able to be more forgiving about statements when there is no intent to promote or express a racist view and when there is no track record or context for racism.
emperorclothes
July 25th, 2010
5:52 pm
I think there is reverse racism, and I think that is what people are trying to claim when it seems this emerges as a common forward accusation. A huge new number of African Americans went to the polls in 2008 and voted for a black man for President. And they voted for him because he is black. There are several members of Congress who are there because they have black districts (Guam is going to tip over if too many people inhabit it?). You can deny all you like, but I believe racism could clearly have elected whites at times as well. I don’t think anyone is color-blind. Blacks and whites must acknowledge this. Havving been the victim of racism does not make you immune. In fact, at times it does the opposite.
elephant4life
July 25th, 2010
6:02 pm
AtticusFinch ;”it was my ancestors and yours that is the cause of this. ..” Sorry, Atticus, it was not. My ancestors were Native American, and the United States was paying the Buffalo Soldiers to slaughter my people when we still were not regarded as humans, only “nits” who “make lice”. Tell me any black man who can recount in his ancestral folklore regarding his peoples’ decimation babies being smashed against rocks, women whose private parts were cut out and stretched over saddle horns as trophies – this list of atrocities against my people goes on forever. Don’t blame me and mine for the enslavement of the black man that originated in his native land, perpetrated by men of his own race who sought to profit thereby. And, lest anyone forget, Obama’s blood never set foot on American soil until he came here to preach how to undermine our way of life, and found a gullible white woman to do his bidding. Since his people remained untouched in Africa, it is probably likely they were on the business end of enslaving their own race. Maybe that’s why he’s so busy making reparations at our expense.
goonie
July 25th, 2010
6:05 pm
It’s so much fun to listen to these liberal/progressive Slimes talk about how the right lies simply by uttering a word. They have no argument to debate their side so they call us racists, I mean, used to call us racists.
Bill
July 25th, 2010
6:25 pm
Probably the best commentary I’ve read about this whole sordid affair.
Middeek
July 25th, 2010
6:29 pm
All you liberals and straight journalists should be apologizing to Sarah Palin for conspiring to demonize her and her family with the Pro-Obama, journ-O-list email server.. you shoul dbe shamed of yourselves.
valwayne
July 25th, 2010
6:32 pm
Playing the race card worked so well for Obama during the the primaries against Bill and Hillary Clinton, that they may be forgiven for trotting it out so often. It was already losing it effectiveness from constant overuse when the NAACP decided to join in and use the race card against the Tea Party movement. Let’s hope now that fanning the flames of racial politicis has blown back and burnt the White House so badly that they will retire that card from the deck. Its doubtful since the left plays that card so automatically that they may not even know how to play without that card, but we can hope!!!
Ed Driscoll » ‘Our Politics Increasingly Resembles a Cold Civil War’
July 25th, 2010
6:32 pm
[...] Wingfield, presumably one of the few self-admitted conservatives writing at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes: Our politics increasingly resembles a cold civil war, and the Sherrod story was like the [...]
JDW
July 25th, 2010
6:40 pm
I’m still baffled as to why Obama spending 20 years in a church whose preacher is a black nationalist anti-semite who obviously resents America (”Amerikkka”) was no big deal.
Maxbert
July 25th, 2010
6:53 pm
The Republicans didn’t fire Sherrod; Obama did.
Wil
July 25th, 2010
6:55 pm
Mr. Breitbart did not smear Ms. Sherrod. He simply showed people what she said, as she said it, in her own words, with no editing, commentary or misrepresentation of any kind. Since when is showing a video of a person giving a speech, considered smearing that person?
On the other hand, liberals routinely smear conservatives by dishonestly putting words in their mouths, or by making viscious, completely unfounded and unsupported accusations. Liberals can’t show any videos of conservatives making racist speeches, because those speeches simply do not exist.
Liberals constantly expect the freedom to speak and act in extremely racist ways, and then they are astonished and angered on the few occasions when they don’t get away with it.
JTower
July 25th, 2010
7:01 pm
Lucy
July 23rd, 2010
9:23 pm
Clueless.
J.
July 25th, 2010
7:25 pm
The rights first test. Bull. Test based on a lie. I remember back in the 1960’s when the right had Dr King on a bill board telling a lie that he was a communist. If one tell the history of America, and some nut, pick out a few second part, you want get the correct picture of America. If you stop the story after, “at a certain point in history, African were slave.” That would not be the whole story. That clown publisher knew he was telling a lie.
VIETNAM VET
July 25th, 2010
7:28 pm
Statement and question to those who look for AND ACCUSE BLACKS OF reverse racism. It is a proven fact fact that the AG DEPT has for YEARS DISCRIMINATED against BLACKS. Question: HOW MANY WHITE PEOPLE AT THE AG DEPT WHO DISCRIMINATED AGAINST HAVE BEEN FIRED?
Dusty1
July 25th, 2010
7:42 pm
Breitbart may have been sleazy in his approach, but the reaction speaks to an endemic characteristic of the Obama Administration, and that is a rush to push through an agenda or response without taking the necessay required time. Whether it be a stimulus bill or health care bill (both of which neither Party had time to review) or last years police/professor affair leading to the beer summit, this Administration shoots first and asks questions later.
Dan
July 25th, 2010
8:01 pm
very well written. Don’t let these idiots get to you, probably nutroots plants and union thugs. Your absolutely right, and I hope we have this discussion soon. Republicans have, and always will be, the party of real colorless civil rights.
Freedom
July 25th, 2010
8:06 pm
There is one point missed in all of this. While Sherrod was telling her story about how she limited her help to a white man and sent him to his own kind, the members of the NAACP were openly laughing. The loved the fact that she stuck it to whitey. Now if someone was telling a similar story at a tea party event, this would be used as evidence that they were all a bunch of racists. The fact is that the NAACP is a racist organization. They see everything as black and white and make race issues worse not better. This origination was useful at one point. Now they are an obstacle to progress.
Recovered Demoholic
July 25th, 2010
8:08 pm
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KiknUSquareWell..UKnow
July 25th, 2010
8:15 pm
Well Dusty here is my life of “ruin” if it will make you feel better:
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No really what it’s more like is helping you to realize that there is nothing you can do to stop me from making my way, and I owe you no thanks either. Like I said, throw some of your garbage some of your co-workers way and notice the results. I scan AJC boards from time to time and you are by far one of the most ignorant people I have seen on these boards. You win the most miserable person award HANDS down. We all know it is YOU who are angry. In all honesty, I take great joy and humor in the whole situation, because when it’s all said and done you know you are miserable. That’s why your rants are of all the same theme on every board that I have seen.
bflat879
July 25th, 2010
8:18 pm
I would love to think that the warning Breitbart sent to the left would actually stick, but to the left, this isn’t a charge of racism, it’s merely a tactic to be employed to win elections. They could care less about the lives they hurt and the people they tear down, no it’s just politics.
If we think it’s bad now, just wait until 2012, anyone who answers a poll that they are voting for someone other than Obama, will be accused of being a racist. In the long run, we’ll have 2/3 of the country being accused of racism.
What an opportunity this president has wasted. He had a chance, when he entered office, to address all of this stuff. Instead, he chose to shut out Repubicans from the process, even saying their policies were the policies of the past and had caused all the problems we had. He had a better idea and he wasn’t going to listen to all those tired ideas.
Are you better off today than you were the day Barack Obama took office? That question is coming and, if he doesn’t start listening to some republicans soon, he could be on the hind end of that question in 2012. Perhaps he can ask the president some people are reminded of with his policies, President Carter, how it feels to be there.
Dusty
July 25th, 2010
8:20 pm
Dusty1
Dusty1 is not DUSTY. So quit using my ID in yours. I speak for myself, thank you.
Bob Dobalina
July 25th, 2010
8:27 pm
Sadly, Ms. Sherrod’s subsequent comments – that Brietbart “want to take blacks back to slavery” illustrates that she too is a garden variety race baiter. This article makes a great point – that using the race card has been a favored tactic of the left, particularly when it is too lazy or ill-inclined to engage in a serious debate of the issues. Brietbart’s target was the NAACP, which had inflamed the issue with its own ill-advised resolution condemning Tea Party activists.
Maybe we can start judging people by the content of their character. I know a lot of conservatives that live that maxim as well as liberals too. As far as I am concerned the NAACP and the White House created their own problems, Breitbart played the left-dominated media like a fiddle.
EGB
July 25th, 2010
8:28 pm
Kyle,
You address this subject very evenhandedly, unlike some of the over-the-top commenters here. The use of the race card is simply a tactic used to shut up your opponent and you are right that the Liberals have mostly, incorrectly, thrown it at their political opponents unchecked for a long time. Now that Obama has been elected President, Liberals can no longer use it with impunity and not expect to be held accountable for it. What goes around comes around.
I do not think in terms of race when it comes to politics or anything else. I judge people on their work ethic and their character. I look forward to the day when the race card is made irrelevant. You can’t constantly talk about the past as if it still applies today. Liberals like to say that the constitution should be interpreted to today’s reality. Well, I say, the issue of race needs to applied to today’s reality.
Those of you who attack others with race, sex and other stupid narratives are irrelevant to serious discussions about the direction our country should head towards. I honestly believe that you get your kicks out of just typing that drivel.
Karen
July 25th, 2010
8:29 pm
Kyle, Excellent piece except for your use of the expression “reverse racism”. By using this term you continue the inaccurate narrative that word “racism” is the exclusive domain of whites. Racism is racism no matter who is doing the judging or discriminating. There is no such thing as “reverse racism”. Blacks have a long history of bigotry and discrimination towards Jews, Asians and Hispanics. It’s about time they get called out on their racism.
Dusty1
July 25th, 2010
8:34 pm
Dusty1 is not DUSTY. So quit using my ID in yours. I speak for myself, thank you.
Well, I was going to use “Hyberclym Vibersteen”, but that was taken.
CJ
July 25th, 2010
8:36 pm
Enter your comments here
Rhymes With Right
July 25th, 2010
8:53 pm
Kyle, I happen to agree with you on 90% of what you have written here — all except for your defense of Sherrod herself. Her words in the whole video — and her subsequent call for censorship of media organizations that don’t support Obama and accusation that Breitbart wants nothing less than a return to slavery — are evidence that she still carries the malignancy of racism deep in her soul, even if some of her best friends are white.
But setting that aside, the reality is that the Left has not learned from this incident. As such, the MAD analogy that you propose is flawed. So I stand by my suggestion — http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu/archives/303827.php — that the Right play the race card with brutality and ferocity (and without apology) every time we find liberal hypocrites engaged in speech and behavior they would not tolerate from the Right. Only by making the Left so frightened of the backlash that they will only cry “racism” in cases where it is clearly appropriate will we get beyond the worst racial climate of the last 40 years — a racial climate created and exacerbated by Obama and his supporters.
Illinois Rez
July 25th, 2010
8:53 pm
If tea-party racism is so easy to find, why then does lefty media have to doctor evidence?
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Contessa Brewer, c r o p p e d out the black TEA party member with the gun, trying AND failing to paint TEA Party as racist with guns:
http://www.tiny.cc/kxr4f
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THINK PROGRESS Caught using Liberal-Manufactured Signs from “Crash the TEA Party” as Evidence of TEA Party Racism:
Video
http://www.tiny.cc/hhswq
John Podesta anyone?
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Crash the TEA Party p o s i ng as TEA Party m e m b e r s trying to p a i n t them as racist:
VIDEO
http://www.tiny.cc/ogray
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The man was a supporter of fringe DEMOCRATIC activist Lyndon LaRouche,
http://www.tiny.cc/ccyva
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Inconvenient links of the week: Obama and the LaRouche poster
http://www.tiny.cc/ipmt0
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TEA Party Racism?
GREAT video from the TEA Party.
http://www.tiny.cc/mx1yf
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The Photo the MSM won’t show you:
http://www.tiny.cc/gifke
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I urge ALL OF YOU to look at that entire page on my link.
It will open your eyes to the HATE on the left.
SCROLL THE ENTIRE PAGE:
G.W. PROTEST SIGNS
http://www.tiny.cc/aysm2
Mr. Nads
July 25th, 2010
9:07 pm
I totally agree with ”AWM ”………..
I am sick and tired of Affirmitive Action………….
Have exoerienced it and had enough….
The current regime and their cronies must go…And they will..
CJ
July 25th, 2010
9:14 pm
“the reality is that the Left has not learned from this incident.”
I’d be curious to know what “Rhymes With Right” thinks the left is supposed to have learned from an incident in which a right-wing blogger edits a video with superimposed lies to make it look as though the woman is discriminating against whites in her current position as a federal employee.
If the lesson is that the Southern Strategy is alive and well, then lesson learned.
CJ
July 25th, 2010
9:35 pm
For fun, go to Breitbart’s original post of the video and read some of the comments responding to his post and the video:
“I guess this is reparation time with the Kenyan man.”
“I hope Megyn Kelly get’s a crack at the racist Shirley Sherrod.”
“People like [Sherrod] deserve to lose their pension or worse for dereliction of duty.”
“Remove this obviously bigoted person from her employment and replace her.”
“I’m from Albany, GA. Shirley Sherrod is from here. Her & her kind have destroyed the great little city of Albany.”
“This type of overt state-sponsored racism is nothing new.”
“That woman needs to be fired and her whole department investigated right now,…”
“That is criminal,to say the least! I’m shocked that this could be happening in this day and age,Obama wants to take us backward,and that Black Liberation Theology might work in Africa where the blacks way out number the whites,won’t work here,I have to hand it to Obama and his crew,they are giving it a nice try,”
“Not only is this woman a moron, true bigot , corrupt she is also a criminal. I hope she has lost her job and done some time. ”
This idiocy goes on for pages and pages. Yet, somehow, the left didn’t learn their lesson? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Glenn Koons, Long Beach, Ca
July 25th, 2010
9:39 pm
It is a fair article but remember, the Left has been using this for decades with racism against Bob Bork, Justice Thomas, and of course, Ronaldus Magnus. The Left’s blogs are filled with smears and hatred each and every day but finally, some people are realizing that all this race baiting is counter-productive. I will still bet that the Dems will use some of it in 2012. Perhaps with the Journo list , the obvious policy failures of Obama and his Dem minions, people will not have leverage to use such stuff on any side and issues of the economy and international dangers will prevail. If so, Dems do not stand any chance with common sense voters.
Lucas
July 25th, 2010
9:49 pm
So you are asking the left to not falsely use the race card anymore? Dream on. That’s the only “argument” they have. What else are they going to talk about?
Afghan Whig
July 25th, 2010
9:49 pm
Summary: “Now that progressives have felt first-hand the damages that can be done with cynical and irresponsible charges of racism, they’ll stop, allowing the racial divide to slowly heal.”
Judging by the comments section, I doubt it.
fistbiscuit
July 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
The racists are losing this argument, and that’s a good sign for this country.
Posts like some above just shows the desperation in the hearts of leftists.
They are grasping at straw to keep the race card as a weapon.
Prime example:
“I’m from Albany, GA. Shirley Sherrod is from here. Her & her kind have destroyed the great little city of Albany.”
interesting that CJ’s mind went straight to race, on that comment.
When I read that, I understand that “her kind” refers to the race-baiting leftists, like CJ who are poisoning our culture with their hatred.
“I guess this is reparation time with the Kenyan man.”
Ah…the old “birther” attack.
The only thing that I don’t agree with in that statement are the words “Kenyan man”, even though he could be, for all anyone knows. It really doesn’t matter when your a year and a half deep in to an assault at his hands, now does it?
I have absolutely no problem with any other comment quoted, as they are all either valid opinions, or verifiable…thus true
Chief Diversity Officer
July 25th, 2010
10:10 pm
Honk if you’ve had your diversity training today! Honk honk.
Gary D
July 25th, 2010
10:16 pm
This is unbelievably idiotic. For months many dozens of pictures of racist signs at tea party gatherings have been available. Conversations with many tea party members have revealed a majority of racists. But now the Right gets to level the charge that the “uppity” NAACP is racist for asking the tea party to do something about this? I call BS.
fistbiscuit
July 25th, 2010
10:18 pm
“For months many dozens of pictures of racist signs at tea party gatherings have been available.”
Well, then you’ll have no problem posting a link to confirm what you just alleged.
Thanks
Thinking Beyond
July 25th, 2010
10:21 pm
A powerful black president threw a lowly black employee under the bus to protect himself. When will you people get a clue? It’s not about US, it’s about government circling the wagons to protect THEIR power.
GM
July 25th, 2010
10:24 pm
Breitbart is only doing what journalists used to do. Don’t worry they will return again when a conservative is again back in the WH and BO is utterly refudiated.
Dusty
July 25th, 2010
10:46 pm
DearKikn @8:45
Congrats on your achievements. Sounds good to me. Why aren’t you happy? All you need is a bit of an attitude adjustment. Try it. You might like it..
setnaffa
July 25th, 2010
10:50 pm
It has been so funny to watch the leftwits twist and squirm trying to figure out how to blame Bush/Cheney/Halliburton for the kneejerk reactionary racism from the White House, the USDA, the NAACP, and Sherrod herself.
Granted, Democrats in the past treated blacks badly (as slave owners, KKK, etc.); but trying to blame Fox news for something they reported on after it happened is ludicrous.
And so it seems they insist on making Breitbart look like he’s either 100% correct about their racism–or enough smarter than Obams/Vilsack/NAACP/Sherrod to compel them to act like morons…
Jan
July 25th, 2010
11:48 pm
Mr Attitude
Your comments are all about “attitude,” and misinformation.
Breitbart got only a clip of Sherrod’s speech, not the complete speech. I have heard many times that he posted it to show the laughter in the audience, when Sherrod first started her story, about her racist attitude — before she cleaned it up because of a reappraisal of her own “racist” beliefs. The people in the NAACP showed open racial glee in her opening comments, something “whites” would have been condemned for if the reverse had happened in a “white” crowd, denigrating a black person, at first.
As for Fox’s part in it, they did not report the story until after the WH had done it’s knee-jerk firing of Sherrod. All the way around, the adverse racial tones are owned by the NAACP and Obama and his incompetent administration/advisors.
Get real and honest, Attitude!
Karen
July 25th, 2010
11:50 pm
Thanks CJ for posting quotes from the Breitbart blog response. This shows how dangerous the consequences are when information is manipulated for a desired effect.
Grand Forks, you are just the kind of person I referred to earlier; one who spews vitriol to fan flames. It’s amazing what the anonymity of the internet allows people to write. Your anger precludes any meaningful and prodcutive discussion of anything. Your anger and bitterness will consume you and your ilk.
ghostwriter
July 26th, 2010
7:09 am
Kyle,
You must be young. The right doesn’t have a history of exploiting race? Huh? Are you familiar with Strom Thurman, Jesse Helms, Southern Strategy? Who exactly tried to use race against John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary?
Nice try anyway.
Bill Johnson
July 26th, 2010
7:10 am
When it’s your side doing it, not a word from you. When it’s your side losingit, it’s suddenly time to step back?
Good try. We’re not stepping back until we destroy utterly the weapons you use to advance your cause.
You, sir, are a racist. Yes, you are. Cause I said so. Cause your momma. Damn, those liberal arguments feel good on the tongue. Get ready – the storm’s a-coming, and you deserve it.
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
7:25 am
Karen
July 25th, 2010
11:50 pm
Thanks CJ for posting quotes from the Breitbart blog response. This shows how dangerous the consequences are when information is manipulated for a desired effect.
Rachel Maddow: “Fox News ‘ginned up’ these events……”
……..when information is manipulated……..quite right.
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
7:28 am
ghostwriter
July 26th, 2010
7:09 am
Kyle,
You must be young. The right doesn’t have a history of exploiting race? Huh? Are you familiar with Strom Thurman, Jesse Helms, Southern Strategy? Who exactly tried to use race against John McCain in the 2000 South Carolina primary?
Nice try anyway.
Really? Who tied GWB to the Texas dragging death of a man in Jasper, TX in 1999?
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
7:36 am
VIETNAM VET
July 25th, 2010
7:28 pm
Statement and question to those who look for AND ACCUSE BLACKS OF reverse racism. It is a proven fact fact that the AG DEPT has for YEARS DISCRIMINATED against BLACKS. Question: HOW MANY WHITE PEOPLE AT THE AG DEPT WHO DISCRIMINATED AGAINST HAVE BEEN FIRED?
Proven by who?
Show us the proof that you and only you know of.
Karen
July 26th, 2010
8:55 am
No More Progressives!,
I’ve never watched Madow’s show….not a fan of MSNBC. You’re making assumptions, which is what created fodder for this blog.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
9:25 am
“Grand Forks, you are just the kind of person I referred to earlier; one who spews vitriol to fan flames. It’s amazing what the anonymity of the internet allows people to write. Your anger precludes any meaningful and prodcutive discussion of anything. Your anger and bitterness will consume you and your ilk.”
Karen, I just like to point out and make fun of left wingers like you. No anger here, ma’am. In fact, people like you like to play the “holier than thou” card all while repeating the same old Kieth Olbermann BS.
Like I tell other left wingers, go sell stupid somewhere else.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
9:26 am
“This shows how dangerous the consequences are when information is manipulated for a desired effect. ”
Are you insane? Breibart didn’t do anything wrong. Obama fired her.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
9:27 am
“Are you familiar with Strom Thurman, Jesse Helms, Southern Strategy?”
Ever heard of Robert Byrd?
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
9:45 am
Hey everybody, Obama is going on The View! WOOOOOOOOOOW
Maybe he will explain to the fat ladies of The View about how he created 2 million jobs!
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
9:49 am
The DNC has absolutely no idea what it’s doing.
Dean: Fox News “racist”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0710/Dean_Fox_News_racist.html?showall#
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
10:03 am
Karen
July 26th, 2010
8:55 am
No More Progressives!,
I’ve never watched Madow’s show….not a fan of MSNBC. You’re making assumptions, which is what created fodder for this blog.
Well, I did watch her show, and I heard her say it live on the air. It is not an assumption that she “manipulated the information.”
HDB
July 26th, 2010
10:30 am
As has been mentioned before. too many on the right do not desire to remember their historical perspectives with race. The right fails to remember that the GOP was co-founded byu black people received the preponderance of the black vote until Barry Goldwater, the Dixiecrat migration into the GOP..and the generation of racist elements into the party in 1964. Few wish to remember the Nixon “Southern Strategy” in 1968….designed to marginalize the black vote in the South to create a monolithic white voting bloc for the GOP; few wish to remember Ronald Reagan’s support for “states’ rights” in Philadelphia, MS, Reagan’s record in dismantling the Civil Rights Division, his denigration of black women by calling them “welfare queens”; many wish to forget George W. Bush’s Justice Department ignoring numerous civil rights violations. In North Carolina, many remember Jesse Helm’s racist campaign against Harvey Gantt; many remember how Bush41 used WIllie Horton to scare white people!! MAny people also remember how Jesse Helms, John McCain and Ronald Reagan led the opposition against the MLK Holiday; few have forgotten how John McCain spearheaded keeping the MLK Holiday from being observed in Arizona…but when threatened by the NFL by moving the Super Bowl, the state acquiesed. Many remember how GWB aslo slighted black people by not addressing the NAACP Conventions for several years!!
Many here will bring up the fact of Robert Byrd’s being a member of the KKK as evidence of the left’s hypocracy; granted, race has been used as an issue on BOTH sides….but the racial animus from the right is a more RECENT occurrance. Many see how the black conservative is being used by white conservatives as a wedge in the black community, in that when black conservatives parrot white conservatives while allowing racist sentiments from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge, Michael Savage, et. al., not to be challenged!!
SInce this is RECENT history….within the past 50 years, it has a much stronger bearing upon attitudes. Each side attempts to uise race to its advantage…but conservative/Republican idioms use race moreso than not to fracture Americans rather than to solidify the nation.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
10:42 am
“Many here will bring up the fact of Robert Byrd’s being a member of the KKK as evidence of the left’s hypocracy; granted, race has been used as an issue on BOTH sides….but the racial animus from the right is a more RECENT occurrance. ”
Byrd died three weeks ago, HDB. Is that not “current” enough for you?
Name one GOPer that was in the KKK. One.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
10:43 am
“while allowing racist sentiments from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge, Michael Savage, et. al., not to be challenged!!”
State ONE racist statement from the people you listed above. One.
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
10:45 am
Here’s another thing for you to cogitate over, Karen.
Mike Wallace interviewed Howard Dean this weekend. You remember Howard; he’s the unemployed proctologist from Vermont that Lefties hold so much stake in.
He told Mike Wallace that “Fox news was clearly racist………..” and that Fox News was reporting on “…..all that Black Panther crap.”
Since you didn’t hear it, does that mean the information wasn’t manipulated?
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
10:48 am
No More Progressives!
I posted the Dean comment above. Truly astounding how ignorant left wingers are.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
10:50 am
“Many see how the black conservative is being used by white conservatives as a wedge in the black community,”
No, the black racists like HDB, Jesse, Al, Obama, Farrakhan and many others hate the fact that black people don’t need them anymore.
Remember, MLK didn’t like Jesse Jackson.
Oh, and HDB, people like Herman Cain, Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas are 100% smarter than you and everyone of your race baiting buddies.
Have a nice day, ma’am.
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
10:53 am
………..but the racial animus from the right is a more RECENT occurrance. Many see how the black conservative is being used by white conservatives as a wedge in the black community, in that when black conservatives parrot white conservatives while allowing racist sentiments from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge, Michael Savage, et. al., not to be challenged!!
Put the crack pipe down, HDB. You have absolutley nothing of substance (hyperbole, yes) to offer, as usual.
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
10:53 am
Missed it in my haste, GF.
Bobby from Texas
July 26th, 2010
11:00 am
These tactics are not new. They are the same tactics used by the Klan during Jim Crow and the civil rights movement. Deception, lies and smears against those who challenge their warped thinking. The National Enquirer, which has been sued successfully one time in it’s history, would be out of business if it reported like Fox Media (I refuse to call it news anymore).
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
11:07 am
Bobby from Texas
July 26th, 2010
11:00 am
These tactics are not new. They are the same tactics used by the Klan during Jim Crow and the civil rights movement. Deception, lies and smears against those who challenge their warped thinking. The National Enquirer, which has been sued successfully one time in it’s history, would be out of business if it reported like Fox Media (I refuse to call it news anymore).
Well, that begs an obvious question: why do you watch it?
You sound like a typical Rush/Beck/Hannity critic; you’ve never once listened to their shows, but yet you know they’re wrong.
Peter
July 26th, 2010
11:17 am
Weapon Kyle…….what are you saying here ?
ghostwriter
July 26th, 2010
11:33 am
Grand Forks,
You made my point for me. Robert Byrd was also part of the Southern “right”. Notice in my earlier comments that I did differentiate between Dem or Repub.
ghostwriter
July 26th, 2010
11:34 am
Sorry,
That should read that I did not differentiate …
HDB
July 26th, 2010
11:44 am
No More Progressives! July 26th, 2010
10:53 am
!) Don’t smoke!
2) Note this from Sophia Nelson….a black conservative:
“Most black conservative commentators are largely viewed by blacks as opportunistic, attack dogs for the white conservative establishment. This perception is entirely unhelpful in a community that understands that its core interests are in equal access and opportunity, health care and community redevelopment.
In short, black conservatives often can’t get a hearing on important issues among blacks because they have positioned themselves as hostile to the interests of black people.
Ward Connerly, who describes himself as “one-quarter black, the rest a mixture of Irish, French and Choctaw,” may be the most despised. Connerly became a wealthy and influential man in California and then used his influence to attack such programs. He is the mastermind behind Proposition 209 and is the founder of the American Civil Rights Institute(which is opposed to so-called race and gender preferences).
Bill Cosby, on the other hand, can be viewed as a “populist conservative,” if you will, and he is generally respected by blacks, even if he has taken heat for some of his more controversial public statements. President Obama has preached very conservative family values—and the need for our black men to become responsible fathers and partners. The reason these two men and others can go into the pulpit or stand on a national platform and command respect on these sensitive issues is because they have proven their connectedness to the community.”
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
10:43 am
As you’ve requested – racist statements from Rush Limbaugh:
1. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
2. “Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.”
3.. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
4, “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
5. “We need segregated buses… This is Obama’s America.”
Will find more when asked…….
ghostwriter
July 26th, 2010
11:53 am
Good job HDB! Remember Rush is an political consultant who hides behind the “entertainer” label when he is called out. Also a person who holds up a picture of 12 year old girl (Chelsea Clinton) and calls her the new White House dog has issues with their own self esteem. After all, 3 ex-wives can’t all be wrong.
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:04 pm
……and for NMP and Grand Forks who feel that I am the only one who feels as they do about black conservatives (and I think I can hold my own with any of them!)…..
http://www.alternet.org/story/33493/
…..and to further clarify my point: ” Ironically, John L. Wilks, a black Republican who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations,dismisses the idea that black conservative gains derive principally from merit: “They merely say they’re conservative, say they’re opposed to affirmative action and are immediately picked up by a right-wing white sponsor,” he was quoted in the New York Times (12/22/91).” Reference: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/241.html
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:11 pm
“You made my point for me. Robert Byrd was also part of the Southern “right”. ”
ROBERT BYRD WAS A DEMOCRAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Geez, you left wingers are RETARDED.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:13 pm
1. “Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
How’s that racist?
2. “Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders. You go to Ethiopia. You do the same thing.”
How’s that racist?
3.. “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
How’s that racist?
4, “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
5. “We need segregated buses… This is Obama’s America.”
You don’t get sarcasm, do you race baiter?
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:14 pm
“……and for NMP and Grand Forks who feel that I am the only one who feels as they do about black conservatives (and I think I can hold my own with any of them!)…..”
You must suck at reading, HDB. I said LEFT WINGERS say crap like that. Geez dude, don’t let reading get in the way of your “facts.”
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:15 pm
“Also a person who holds up a picture of 12 year old girl (Chelsea Clinton) and calls her the new White House dog has issues with their own self esteem.”
As opposed to Kieth Olbermann making fun of Palin’s special needs kid? Or how about David Letterman saying that Palin’s daughter should be gang banged by the NY Yankees?
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:19 pm
HDB,
I’ve moved on to the next blog but in case you come back here: You don’t know what the word racism means. To you, all white people who don’t vote democrat are racist. To you, all white people who don’t approve of affirmative action are racist.
Bottom line: Grow up and try gaining some self-esteem.
ghostwriter
July 26th, 2010
12:26 pm
Grand Forks,
Again you make my point. The right, whether Dem or Repub has a long history of making race an issue.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:30 pm
“The right, whether Dem or Repub has a long history of making race an issue.”
Huh?
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:31 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
12:19 pm
Falso….A person who feels that white people are superior to anyone else is a racist; a person who feels that slavery did not exist and the preponderance of black people are lazy is a racist! Those who feel that remedies are not needed to promote equality can be racist….but are primarily bigoted and classist!
…..and you failed to notice that I brought forth a quote from Sophia Nelson, a black CONSERVATIVE about the problems that black conservatives have!!
Check the prescription on your glasses; mine are fine…and my self-esteem is not an issue in ANY case!!
Limbaugh isn’t sarcastic…he’s a racist!! To isnult a caller by telling her to take the bone out of your nose…is pure racist at the core…….
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:41 pm
“Falso….A person who feels that white people are superior to anyone else is a racist; a person who feels that slavery did not exist and the preponderance of black people are lazy is a racist! Those who feel that remedies are not needed to promote equality can be racist….but are primarily bigoted and classist!”
Not sure what that has to do with Rush Limbaugh.
“…..and you failed to notice that I brought forth a quote from Sophia Nelson, a black CONSERVATIVE about the problems that black conservatives have!!”
Huh?
“Check the prescription on your glasses; mine are fine…and my self-esteem is not an issue in ANY case!!”
I don’t wear glasses, ma’am.
“Limbaugh isn’t sarcastic…he’s a racist!!’
HDB, you’re a racist. You talk about it everyday on every single blog by every single columnists. You are a racist.
“To isnult a caller by telling her to take the bone out of your nose…is pure racist at the core…”
Not sure what “isnult” is. Is that new ebonics?
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:42 pm
HDB
I noticed that all of your Rush quotes came from Media Matters.
Do us all a favor and post what he REALLY said!!!!!
Retard much?
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:43 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
12:13 pm
1) To say that all composites pictures of criminals look like Jesse Jackson is basically calling him a criminal!! Limbaugh looks like John Wayne Gacy…..and has NO earthly resemblance to Rev. Jackson\
2) Associating black politicians to communists is a racist tactic that J. Edgar Hoover used with MLK in the Nixon Administration……a revamp of that strategy plays here…..
3) Would Limbaugh have said this: “The GOP should have Klan meetings; let them take over country clubs and recruit!” Similar vein…….
Racism by any name still stinks like a skunk!!
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:45 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
12:42 pm
Didn’t go to Media Matters; went to NewsOne for Black America…….
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:47 pm
“Didn’t go to Media Matters; went to NewsOne for Black America…….”
Like I said, you’re a racist.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:47 pm
HDB @ 12:43 pm
Post the full transcript, please. Not just cut and paste from a racist “black” website. Thanks
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:49 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
12:41 pm
Limbaugh has a superiority complex; if you don’t agree with him, you’re cut off on his show (know that from EXPERIENCE!)
If it’s racist to bring forth facts, experience, and/or opinion, so be it; I know different. My experiences are different from yours….since you haven’t been in the South as long as I have……
Made a typo….the word is “insults”
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:51 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
12:47 pm
As you requested: http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
It’s as racist as Fox News……
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:52 pm
“If it’s racist to bring forth facts, experience, and/or opinion, so be it; I know different.”
You didn’t post any facts. You never do.
“My experiences are different from yours….since you haven’t been in the South as long as I have”
And you know this how?
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:52 pm
…and the quote from Sophia Nelson can be found here:
http://www.theroot.com/views/black-conservatives-listen
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:53 pm
HDB
You posted comments from a racist black website yet you claim that other people are racist.
“It’s as racist as Fox News……”
I watch Fox News everyday, HDB. If you called me a racist to my face I’d knock your damn teeth out.
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:56 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
12:52 pm
“And you know this how?” — From what you’ve told me….since you are from ND…and NOT a native Southerner, our experiences MUST be different! FACT! That also counters your argument that I never give facts…plus…..when I DO post facts, you tend to discount and marginalize them…..
C’est la vie……
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:58 pm
“when I DO post facts, you tend to discount and marginalize them…..”
You don’t post facts, HDB.
HDB
July 26th, 2010
1:00 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
12:53 pm
The vantagepoint that information is getting disseminateed to you has racist elements!! I have yet to call anyone racist…..those are YOUR words!! You’ve made MY point!! As I’ve stated…the websites I read are as racist as Fox News…….and I watch Fox, CNN, BBC. MSNBC, ABC every day!! I read AJC, NYTImes, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Boston Globe, Forbes……just for a few……and they are as racist as FOX News…..
Get the point!!!
HDB
July 26th, 2010
1:02 pm
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
12:58 pm
“when I DO post facts, you tend to discount and marginalize them…..”
You don’t post facts, HDB.
In your humble opinion…….I just posted one that you have yet to counteract……
ghostwriter
July 26th, 2010
1:02 pm
Grand Forks,
You keep making my point; Keith O. and David Letterman are also entertainers (and pretty disgusting to boot). However, unlike Rush the pretender, neither has ever addressed the faithful at a national political party convention.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:03 pm
“I have yet to call anyone racist…..those are YOUR words!”
No not really HDB. You claimed that Rush is racist. I listen to Rush everyday.
You claimed that Fox is racist and I watch it every night.
Every single topic on the AJC gets turned into a race topic by you. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
“and they are as racist as FOX News…..”
HDB, you’re a racist. Anyone who reads your crap assumes that as well.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:04 pm
“neither has ever addressed the faithful at a national political party convention.”
That’s because they aren’t powerful people.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:06 pm
“In your humble opinion…….I just posted one that you have yet to counteract……”
????????????
HDB
July 26th, 2010
1:06 pm
ghostwriter July 26th, 2010
1:02 pm
Don’t forget…FOX News and Hannity were sponsors of the Tea Party….and FOX News made Hannity stop promoting it as an inherent conflict-of-interest……
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:10 pm
“Don’t forget…FOX News and Hannity were sponsors of the Tea Party….and FOX News made Hannity stop promoting it as an inherent conflict-of-interest……”
Did you get that from your black only website?
HDB
July 26th, 2010
1:13 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
1:03 pm
“You claimed that Rush is racist”……from my treatment when I called in , the experience lends credence to that statement…..and I stand by that!!
“You claimed that Fox is racist and I watch it every night.” It has it elements…..Glenn Beck called Obama a racist when he’s not; Hannity called Obama racist….when he’s not! Limbaugh called him racist…when he’s not!!
“Every single topic on the AJC gets turned into a race topic by you. EVERY SINGLE ONE” – False….I never said the BP oil spill was a racist entity! (All it takes is ONE to disprove your logical statement!)
Remember….when you point ONE finger at me…there are THREE point back at you!!
Remember what is said about assume…you’ll make as @$$ out of U and ME!! I’m not like what you portray me to be…….
The fact that I posted: you and I have different experiences………
HDB
July 26th, 2010
1:14 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
1:10 pm
Nope…..from Fox and CNN!!
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:16 pm
“The fact that I posted: you and I have different experiences………”
You’re a racist, dude. Grow up.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:17 pm
“Nope…..from Fox and CNN!!”
Uh huh. Again, get a life.
HDB
July 26th, 2010
1:22 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
1:16 pm
Am grown…got a life…enjoying it…..and like Jack Nicholson said: “You can’t handle the truth!”
SMILE…it’ll make your day better…….:)
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:26 pm
“SMILE…it’ll make your day better…….:)”
I don’t smile at people like you, HDB. People like you are a cancer on society.
HDB
July 26th, 2010
1:47 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
1:26 pm
I’m not a cancer…..people tghat don’t admit that there are problems in this nation….and many of them are racially based — those are the cancers! Those who continually put the problem out there to be discussed….and hopefully solved…are attempting to heal the land!! The more we’re talking about it…the closer we’re getting to solving it…….
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
1:55 pm
HDB
You’re a racist.
No More Progressives!
July 26th, 2010
2:06 pm
HDB
July 26th, 2010
12:04 pm
……and for NMP and Grand Forks who feel that I am the only one who feels as they do about black conservatives (and I think I can hold my own with any of them!)…..
Herman Cain, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams would have a field day with you.
HDB
July 26th, 2010
2:08 pm
No More Progressives! July 26th, 2010
2:06 pm
Had my bout with Herman Cain….I held my own!! Williams and Sowell are interesting….but not afraid of the challenge!!
HDB
July 26th, 2010
2:12 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
1:55 pm
“HDB — You’re a racist.”
I know I can’t change YOUR opinion…but the facts speak otherwise!! The more we talk about issues….the more insight we can find to solving them……the more you are in denial, the more you can’t see all sides…….
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
2:21 pm
“Had my bout with Herman Cain….I held my own!! Williams and Sowell are interesting….but not afraid of the challenge!!”
Don’t care. They’re all smarter than you.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
2:24 pm
“I know I can’t change YOUR opinion…but the facts speak otherwise”
You’ve never posted facts and it’s sad when a person calls his own “opinions” facts without backing them up.
You called the Tea Party racist and therefore you called me a racist since I’ve been to them.
SO, since you called me a racist I will now refer to you as a racist.
“the more you are in denial, the more you can’t see all sides”
Oh, there’s no denying that you’re a racist, DB. No doubt about that.
HDB
July 26th, 2010
3:49 pm
Grand Forks July 26th, 2010
2:24 pm
1) You’ve never posted facts and it’s sad when a person calls his own “opinions” facts without backing them up.
I have backed my instances up….as facts…with factual correlations! If you wish to ignore them, that’s on you!
2) You called the Tea Party racist and therefore you called me a racist since I’ve been to them.
Is this “guilt by association”? From the experiences I’VE had, there are racist elements in the Tea Party! When I attended the one, I had a sign in support of the President….and I was called every prejorative in the book!! No one was willing to debate….just name calling!! Sorry if that irritates you…but that’s the facts!!
3) SO, since you called me a racist I will now refer to you as a racist.
Call me whatever you want….doesn’t matter….for those that know me (and you don’t)…know the truth!
4) “Had my bout with Herman Cain….I held my own!! Williams and Sowell are interesting….but not afraid of the challenge!!” Don’t care. They’re all smarter than you.
They’ve made more money that I have…but I’m not afraid to confront them with my experiences and ideology!! Unlike many here that tend to marginalize………
Many can’t handle the truth……many don’t want to see the truth…..but the truth will set you free…..
As Spike Lee said in “School Days”" WAKE UP!! (…and I’m wide awake!)….
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
“I had a sign in support of the President….and I was called every prejorative in the book!”
Like what, HDB?
“Call me whatever you want….doesn’t matter….for those that know me (and you don’t)…know the truth!”
Oh I can spot a race baiter from a mile, and you sir, are a race baiter.
“ut I’m not afraid to confront them with my experiences and ideology!! Unlike many here that tend to marginalize………”
You for instance.
“As Spike Lee said”
Spike Lee hates white people.
Grand Forks
July 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
“I have backed my instances up….as facts…with factual correlations!”
You’ve never backed anything up with facts. You posted a link to a racist all black website that took 10 Rush Limbaugh quotes out of context.
Gene716
July 27th, 2010
11:47 am
Kyle, you pinched a few nerves, pushed the hot buttons, and ruffled the feathers. The “lefty” responders could be spotted light years away in the distance. They are consumed by their rage. I needn’t name them, anyone with a grain of good sense can read ‘em like a book.
Keep up the good work.
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