Comments on: Michael Steele Declines To Condemn Beck’s Claim That Obama Is “Racist”

By: All Mi T

All Mi T — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:43:57 +0000

welcome to the age of neo-reconstruction not post racial politics

By: oddjob

oddjob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:28:46 +0000

That’s a really elegant story about being careful what you wish for!

By: sbj

sbj — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:13:48 +0000

“We should mandate that everyone marry someone of another race. Then in a generation or two – the problem would be solved.”

Made me recall “The Lathe of Heaven” by Ursula K. Le Guin – when everyone was dreamed the same shade of gray…

By: oddjob

oddjob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:00:10 +0000

When the (Roman Catholic) Irish came over during and before the Potato Famine they were not wanted and experienced intense bigotry against them. We still have a legacy word from that era – “paddy wagon”. When the Italians and Eastern Europeans (not to mention the Eastern European Jews) came in great numbers 100 years ago they also were met with intense hostility.

Now one of the leaders of American hostility to immigrants has a name ending in a vowel (Tancredo)!

By: oddjob

oddjob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:56:33 +0000

Actually, while it may seem to be a way to solve that problem I doubt it would work. There’s always a way of making a stranger an “other”, and I believe it’s very likely to be a “hard wired” feature of humans generally. The dehumanization of “the other” isn’t unique to Americans, or anyone else so far as I’m aware.

By: healthnut

healthnut — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:42:56 +0000

both parties have long histories of racism. It’s a shame that it continues to plaque us. It’s a problem on both sides… and sometimes the racism is shouted when it isn’t the case.

It’s also horrible when you see people deliberatly using it to their advantage. Makes me nauseous. Both sides have been guilty of it. The press has been guilty of it. It’s just a contined shame & blight on society – and it is not black racism – but the same thing leveled at Hispanics, Indians & Pakastani’s, folks from the Middle East etc.

We should mandate that everyone marry someone of another race. Then in a generation or two – the problem would be solved.

Don’t laugh – it’d work.

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:03:19 +0000

The Republicans are for their own version of health care reform, only when they are out of power. When in power, they offered nothing. Their own congressman, Paul Ryan, admitted that was the case.

By: oddjob

oddjob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:02:11 +0000

(”deliberately”, not “deliberating”)

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:01:38 +0000

Now that we’ve established that the GOP is the party of racism and terrorism, I still want to know the Right’s position on health care reform!

Sometimes they’re for it, sometimes against, sometimes 80% agreement, sometimes they want to kill it outright.

Now here we are today with the HEAD OF THE RNC making this comment:

“I don’t think we need a comprehensive overhaul of our health care system.”

So I pose the question: Does the Republican Party think we need a comprehensive overhaul of our health system?

Pretty simple question. I’m at a loss for why we don’t KNOW THIS BY NOW.

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:53:47 +0000

Why Juan Williams, Mara Liasson, and Alan Colmes were hired by FAUX NEWS;

Roger Ailes spills the beans. Fox News was never “Fair & Balanced”.

Roger Ailes explains why he decided to hire Chris Cuomo to do commentary on Fox News.

http://www.vitalmx.com/forums/NonMoto,21/Its-fun-to-see-conservatives-turn-on-their-own-kind,675858

“Klayman takes particular aim at the “strange and petty tactics” of the network’s chairman Roger Ailes. When he asked Ailes about his decision to hire Chris Cuomo, the current “Good Morning America” co-host, to do commentary, the Fox News executive replied: “If I’m going to put on some goddamned liberal, I might as well get the dumbest f*uck I can find!””

Now folks do you understand why Juan Williams, Mara Liasson, and Alan Colmes were hired by Ailes.

He hired them because he wanted three “of the dumbest liberal f*ucks he could find.”

And believe me, he got what he wanted.

By: oddjob

oddjob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:48:23 +0000

Given the GOP’s decades-long strategy of deliberating recruiting racist white Southerners it’s particularly incumbent upon that party to denounce racism if it’s at all serious about being a party that can lead the USA.

By: oddjob

oddjob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:44:17 +0000

And so if you, personally, don’t immediately condemn the racist remarks hurled at Steele, then you, Ethan, are perpetuating racism? It’s now been proven that Steele was called an Uncle Tom. By your logic, if everyone who has now read my comment does not immediately condemn that remark then they are guilty of perpetuating racism, same as Steele by not condemning Beck. I don’t think so.

This will be a relevant assertion when Ethan becomes the chairman of a national political party. Until that time the comparison is a little strange. Steele’s job puts him in a position of responsibility regarding denouncing racism.

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:43:37 +0000

SBJ is a Racist. He gave himself away last week, when he claimed that Barack Obama was a Racist.

SBJ said that Hillary Clinton saying: “Hard Working White Americans” in West Virginia, was not racist, but he had to go out and vote to defeat Obama, to save all White Americans from black racism.

That is what SBJ told us was his reason for voting in the last election, and he said that if Obama was not in the election he would not have bothered to vote.

SBJ is a Racist, and his own words are the proof that he is.

By: msmolly

msmolly — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:30:50 +0000

Someone needs to tell Juan Williams to get off Fox News Allstars.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:28:36 +0000

Even better than the Beck stuff, this is from the same Steele interview:

“I don’t think we need a comprehensive overhaul of our health care system.”

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/steele-we-dont-need-comprehensive-health-care-reform.php

UN-BE-LIEVABLE.