Media: Cranking up the fear
I listened to an hour or so of Sean Hannity this afternoon as a ran errands before I had to go to work.
Good Lord. Were it not for the fact that I knew better, I would assume that Barack Obama was an armed militant who wanted to round up all the white people and put them into camps.
Folks, it does not surprise me that there are some black ministers out there saying dumb and stupid things. Just as their white counterparts who say dumb and stupid things.
Please try to recall the last time Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck denounced, rather than defended, the likes of Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson.
Obama has spent his entire public career trying to help the community (whether or not I agree with his politics) and by promoting honest discussion about race and racism.
And also remember that it was only after it started looking like Obama was going to win the Democratic nomination — and after the Clintonites started playing the race card — did some of these black leaders and ministers started cozying up to Obama.
And Obama has not strayed from his message of putting race-based politics behind us. The fact that these others who have made a profession of race politics are cozying up to him is a good thing, not a bad thing.
And wouldn’t Obama’s election but this sort of nonsense out of commission, anyway? As comedian Wands Sykes said recently on the Tonight Show, you can’t complain about “The Man” when you are “The Man.”
Hannity and his kind are just trying to convince voters on the bubble that Obama really isn’t safe. He is safe. Argue against his politics. But all this other nonsense just reminds me of what they did back when Harold Washington first ran for mayor of Chicago.
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Thank you for your comments and for pointing out who the dangerous ones really are!
As much as I hate Rush Limbaugh, he is not a stupid man. And, at some level, he knows what he’s doing.
Sean Hannity is a true moron.
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And the number of media outlets in the bag for the Omama Nation increases by one.
Obama – sorry.
“And also remember that it was only after it started looking like Obama was going to win the Democratic nomination — and after the Clintonites started playing the race card — did some of these black leaders and ministers started cozying up to Obama.”
Heh, an improvement over saying he’s “not black enough,” eh Guv’nah?
Seems Barry lied about that whole “fear of black men who passed by her on the street” thing.
The real story is in his own book. Ha!
Barry is a genuine Clinton. Lies thru his teeth with a charismatic smile and loads of people eat it up.
Etu Billy?
I’m reading his first book right now Vonster. I’ll let you know when I get to that part.
Look for where he talks about the ONE black street person she was sure was about to mug her before the bus came.
One. One time.
I’m not sure I get the point you’re trying to make. He lied and said it never happened, or lied by saying it did happen, and whatever he said, it’s contradicted in his book, supposedly? Gotta know what I’m looking for.
Also, was it in reference to his mother or his grandmother? Both women are talked about in the book.
Nevermind Reno – just the ramblings of a fascist.
“It would seem that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print.” – George Orwell
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. Cheers!
Um, no, he didn’t lie. I went and listened to the speech, then skimmed ahead seven pages and found it. What he was referring to can be found on page 88 of his book,”Dreams from My Father.”
Looks like Vonster’s B.S. gets flushed again.
If you say so….
No, really guy. You don’t even have to buy his book. Just go to a Barnes and Noble (that’s the place where they have “books” for “learning,” even by whackjobs like Ann Coulter). Go to page 88. Read–I know you can do that much.
They only seem to have a sample available up to page 8.
Haha, Vonster, actually going to Barnes and Noble might mean stepping away from your computer for a bit. I totally sympathize.
So why don;t you post the text except?
Truth is a journey, not a destination. So journey your ass down to B&N.
Here you go Billy
Back on Sept. 13, Pat Robertson, host of the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “The 700 Club,” welcomed Jerry Falwell as a guest. Falwell went on the air no more than 48 hours after the initial attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., to angrily place blame:
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way—all of them who tried to secularize America—I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen.”
After receiving widespread admonitions in editorials, letters to the editor, and even from George W. Bush, both Falwell and Robertson issued so-called apology statements. Robertson tried to back out of the controversy by claiming Falwell’s comments were “frankly, not fully understood” by himself and co-hosts. This, despite his nodding head and comments like “I totally concur” as Falwell ranted on. Falwell himself, far from recanting, merely said he regretted the “bad timing” of his remarks and that he “had no intention of being divisive.”
Rush Limbaugh surprised just about everyone when he castigated Falwell and Robertson, telling his radio listeners he was “profoundly embarrassed and disappointed by their comments,” and that “their words are indefensible.”
This came from the NOW site
Reno:
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/03/obama-throws-his-own-living-grannie.html
You are now free to spin
Referencing that article, you’re one to talk about spin. My response is here: http://blargen.com/blog/2008/03/19/national-institute-of-gop-conservatives-eradicating-racism/#comment-66
Keep it to one or the other. Preferably mine, since this is an old post.
Yes, I am one to talk about spin as I’ve experienced so much over the years from lefties.
And Vonster continues the blame game……on everyone but the right, of course.
No, there are plenty of people on the “right” that I have issues with too. You don’t need my help to attack them though.