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Dan Rather: Obama Couldn’t Sell Watermelons
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Ah Dan – how your self-respect has eroded . . . along with any lingering shards of same I might still possess for you!
Mike,
You had better quickly save that video to something other than YouTube.
MSNBC has the brushes out and they are scrubbing away on the Interwebz to get rid of that clip.
I can save it to my home computer, but that won’t be until after 5pm EST.
Even more striking is how the narrative has changed. During 2008, The Zero was packaged as the mesianic figure who would cure all of America’s non-existent ills. Rather was part of that very establishment who coronated this boob and hid the truth of his arrogant inneptitude in every facet of their, “reporting.” Outside of the occasional viewing of the sports section, I haven’t read a newspaper in years. The reason has nothing to do with the Internet. We are now in a race to limit the damage before November. I will tell you this my GOP leader friends, I will no longer be content to merely see a slowing down of big government encroachment, I want this nonsense reversed. If this health care debacle passes, repeal it. Then get rid of the worthless beaurocracies of Education, and Energy.
As a side note, I seem to remember a poll conducted during Bush 41′s term, about how people’s lives were affected by the government shut down. The only people who affected were government employees. A sure sign that the government is mostly useless.
Never go full retard, Dan! Wait… too late.
This is just Priceless. Can you imagine if Beck or Limbaugh used this flavorful expression?
There’s be lib’s with flaming torches and pitchforks outside the studio.
Wow…
@Aye Chihuahua: Good idea Aye. I saved a copy.
Hmmm. So Dan Rather is on Chris “I forgot he was black” Matthews’ show and makes a statement about a black person selling(or not being able to) watermelons. And the TEA party is racist!? Anyone who can’t see the incredible bias by any network other than FOX is either an idiot, an unapologetic ideologue or at the least, a very uninformed citizen.
Oh brother. Rather is right, the Republicans can and will make the case Obama isn’t competent.
Geez, give the guy a break.
@Ivan:
Are you purposely ignoring the racial overtones of what Rather had to say or did the comment slip past you?
@Ivan:
Are you purposely ignoring the racial overtones of what Rather had to say or did the comment slip past you?
I’m willing to over-look something as insignificant as this comment.
Let’s not engage in hysterics like the the left does, okay?
Mike I read the headlines here and I said, “What in the world are they talking about?”
Then I realized, racial stereotypes! Rather is a closet Racist!
If Chris Mathews would have cut him off any faster, he would have needed a hammer.
These are really classy people, sort of like looking at your dinner plate and finding a dead fly.
@Ivan said: “I’m willing to over-look something as insignificant as this comment. “
And yet when Sarah Palin sneezes you go into hysterics!
I wonder whose side you are on?
Even though I detest Rather from his TANG exploits, I think cluelessness is to blame here, not racism. That being said, it doesn’t take much imagination to think what would happen if MSNBC had tape of a Republican saying something that stupid – they wouldn’t be hiding it! Hell, they would have it playing on endless loop!
I quite frankly have a hard time believing that the dialogue came from Dan Rather’s pie hole. However I do have a sense of understanding the point that Rather may have been trying to make.
It’s all about misplaced or out of focus priorities. Medicare, broke, Social Security, broke, no COLA for either Social Security recipients,or Disabled Veterans, States running budgets drowning in a literal sea of Red Ink but a POTUS, Congress and Senate are pushing another deficit buster as a signature issue.
I understand that the $250.00 payment to SS Recipients and Veterans Pensioners was shot down in the Senate last week.
China balking at buying more US debt, unemployment that is staggering and things that are truly broke not being fixed. Priorities missing the mark here. Spending borrowed Trillion$ on non-issues with a Two Front War going on and I’m getting the distinct impression that there is no one minding the store in DC. Perhaps that is Rather’s point. Misplaced Priorities.
I despise racism in any flavor, shape or form and hope that Rather did not intend to throw that kind of slag about with that intent. Obama makes very impassioned speeches but I do feel that the priorities are way off course. The Economy should be the focus right now, not keeping signature issue campaign promises that the Nation cannot pay for. I feel that Public Service should carry a degree of humility, honesty and respect for Retirees, Disabled Veterans and folks that have invested with their money, service and their lives in the Nation and need old promises kept.
Misplaced Priorities. Big Time.
OMG! This absolutely made my day. The left is coming apart like I never imagined before!
Apparently Chris didn’t feel the same tingle up his leg when Dan speaks, or if he did, he didn’t allude to it…
Otherwise that video is a freaking classic!
I’m getting sick and tired of people looking for racist remarks in the most ordinary words. Watermelons? Is this an exclusively black fruit? How about fried chicken? Or turnip greens? I got tired of it when the left was doing it and I don’t like the right doing it. This is all so PC to watch our words carefully. Now, if he had said “Obama couldn’t sell chitterlings”, the PCers would have a point. That food is probably exclusively black, but I enjoy the other three tremendously and regard it as everybody’s food.
I think Dan Rather is mad at everybody since his lawsuit was dismissed.
And yet when Sarah Palin sneezes you go into hysterics!
I wonder whose side you are on?
Poor Mike. Any time you’d like to see my bona-fides I’d be more than willing to show you via private email.
Of course, I would expect you to publicly apologize for your comments, not that I would expect you to actually man-up and do the honorable thing though.
Barbara S, I was careful not to use initials like I often do, Claiming Racism is not typically a Conservative method. However, when sanctimonious Liberals flash their Freudian underwear at us, what is wrong with enjoying the hypocrisy and irony?
I’ll wager that most of us enjoy watermelon and fried chicken; but if we wrote about a Conservative barbecue that served fried chicken and watermelon, a bitter and Liberal backlash would ensue. One of our most potent weapons is to point out Liberal lies and hypocrisy at every opportunity. Dan Rather has more than this little episode in his deficit column: every time he opens his mouth and makes the slightest mistake, he should have unremitting ridicule and scorn thrown his way, for obvious reasons. He has and continues to create his own problems: a situation that is clearly different from creating problems for other people.
I have to cut Dan some slack on this one. I’m so sick of the language police. So how many words and phrases are there that you can’t say around black(Obama is only about 10% black,mostly white and arab) people? I figure it must be around 65,312. If a black person axed me what we had for dinner last night, am I allowed to reply truthfully, fried chicken and watermelon(the wife is Swedish and has watermelon for dessert at least 3 times a week). I’m mostly kraut and love fried chicken. Treating grownups like overly emotional 7 yr. olds is not treating them as equals.
Hmm . . . better tell Dan Rather about how to be a “non-racist” like this kind fellow:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/conservative_activist_forwards_racist_pic_showing.php
What Dan Rather said was racist. But this is not racist:
http://cafearjun.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/barack_obama_buck_food_stamp.jpg
This, too, is not racist. Get a clue, Dan Rather and stop being a racist liberal!
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/15/racist-image-eyes/
Skookum –
You are so right! The racism of liberals is simply repulsive! They should not be so race concious. Conservatives have it right: there is no room for racist rhetoric in the political discourse!
http://wonkette.com/409162/your-latest-racist-anti-obama-gop-facebook-outrage
Liberal simply will not quit with their racist commentary and imagery! Disgusting!
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021162.html
And the very worst is the stuff they put on posters at their rallies! Liberals are simply uncivilized!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/10-most-offensive-tea-par_n_187554.html
Ivan…Dude!
No one cares about your “bona-fides”.
Your words here speak volumes regarding what you are all about.
First: You couldn’t stand Palin because of some position that you conjured up in your own addled mind and then attributed to her.
Second: You cannot stand Palin now because of positions that you found out about, supposedly after the election, even though the very things you’re bitching and moaning about now were in the public domain BEFORE YOU VOTED FOR MCCAIN/PALIN.
Third: You refer to McCain as “one of the biggest traitor[s] to our conservative cause”…yet you voted for him.
Fourth: You say you could support Palin if she was the leader of a third party even though all smart people recognize the reality that a third party would be nothing more than an easy way to split the Republican vote thus making it easier for Obie and MeChelle to live at 1600 for another four years.
What happened to all that vim, vigor, and sexist vitriol you had in your earlier comments regarding Palin?
Suddenly, in a role that is sure to lead to GOP defeat, you can support her? How convenient.
Fifth: By your own admission, you have no problem giving Rather a pass for his racist hypothetical in which Republicans are the people purveying the racism toward Obie.
Sixth: Since you’ve been posting here, you’ve made multiple comments referring to “English as a second language” or “ESL” which is an abbreviation of the same.
Those comments, mixed in with your clearly expressed hatred of illegal immigrants paints a picture of you that no amount of “bona-fides” would help to offset. Frankly, the repetitive ESL stuff makes you come off as a bigot.
Combine all of your prior postings together and a pretty clear, and rather unflattering, picture of you comes into focus.
Brob,we are not likely to discuss face book pages that may or may not be posted by Republicans. Believe it or not, many Progressives have been crafty enough to covertly try to give Republicans a bad name by subverting the message. Gasp! What a novel idea.
We have even had racists post here, whether they were Republicans or clandestine Socialists we have no way of knowing, but their vile hatred quickly vaporizes. There are kooks and nuts in every political niche, even among Progressive Socialists. I doubt that you want to apologize for each deviant, like the ones who show up at polling booths with billy clubs, we try to maintain an anti-racist forum here and since we represent a wide spectrum of the human race, it is a forum of ideas and not ideological hatred like that espoused by the New Black Panthers.
Rather made a fool of himself and Mathews compounded the problem by trying to mask the issue, all in 30 seconds. Whether it was a slip of the tongue or an internal bias will take time to decipher. Rather is looking older, perhaps dementia is setting in; are you having trouble remembering where you put your keys or do you walk into a room and forget why you walked into the room? I am not a therapist, but sometimes your non-directional rants lead people to wonder.
@Ivan: I don’t hide my “bona fides.” And if you were as proud of being a conservative as I have been then you wouldn’t either.
You can always tell when the freakin idiot-moron-other-side-of-Obama’s-butt-sucking-BROB is standing stupid with his panties around his ankles…
6 posts in a row saying nothing but what his masters tell him to say.
Wazzamatter Butt-rub? The “lawyer” in you can’t come up with a defense of your own”?
GAWD watta P.O.S. of a human.
SKOOKUM i must say,did you read my mind ?,i know that we certainly must have some who being vulnerable are easy to beleive thoses who deceive with words while taking care of them using their position to sell their crooked ideas to an easy prey…bye
Hey Rebar,
Work a little slow on that “lawsuit”?
Dan’s right but racist like many liberals including many who make a show about being non-racist. In fact make of The One was proving to the world & themselves how non-racist they are.
Obama got and is getting a free ride because he is a clean black guy who reads well from a TelePrompTer words they agree with. He is not and never was The One and is not our brightest president just another left wing lawyer hired by others to push their program who now needs to be fire for his failures. Bush was at least his own man and seems to be brighter.
CK i find your comment so funny forvive me,i thought only me can use the [ ax ] on other in my comments,,,bye
This is hotter than a Laredo parking lot!
i just don’t see rather as being racist. i look on it as an unfortunate choice of words. you see i am sick and tired of looking and trying to find some racism in everything we say and do. geez geez, give it a frigging rest. now i am disappointed because there are much better terms he could have used selling ice in a texas heat wave comes to mind. the truth is in my humble view racism isn’t racism now but simply a weapon the so called oppressed are using on the new oppressed(us). thanks
Maybe this will help……….
http://xe2.xanga.com/157f51e428231264863230/t211199023.jpg
I give seminar poster BRob an A for effort. Still a complete retard like all lefties are. But good for a laugh……
First: You couldn’t stand Palin because of some position that you conjured up in your own addled mind and then attributed to her.
Conjured up? Sorry, I’ll get the quote for you, again, oh feeble one:
As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
There is no way that in the US we would roundup every illegal immigrant -there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants- not only economically is that just an impossibility but that’s not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration.
Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants?
No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They’ve got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides.
To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.
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I know her own words are very, very hard for you to swallow, but there it is, linked via
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/22/palin-i-support-a-path-to-citizenship-for-illegals/
She is:
A. For allowing illegals aliens to reside in MY NATION.
B. She is for allowing them to become citizens.
Shes two-faced and people such as yourself are easily fooled by her good-looks and big hair.
She’s a neo-con to the core. An internationalist.
Her words, not mine.
Read it and weep.
@Ivan: I don’t hide my “bona fides.” And if you were as proud of being a conservative as I have been then you wouldn’t either.
You’re not a conservative, you’re an internationalist neo-con.
You were schooled in their schools and you have breathed the rarefied air the establishment wonks have.
You are, in fact, a Peggy Noonan Country clubber.
@Ivan: Only an ignorant fool would say such a thing.
Ever heard of John Ashbrook?
Probably not. But then, you’re not really a conservative are you?
If Rush said the same thing as Dan would it be racist?
Oh Rather is right. He’s saying the oblunderer can’t do Jack shut if he had team to do it for him even. Just like now.
Ronald Reagan in 1961 gave a speech about socialized medicine and how to defeat it. I think it is as relevant today as ever. Ronald Reagan is 50 years later spot on.
As if we’re not already overextended enough financially, the issue of National Health Care is now on the table once more vote. Here’s some perspective you might find interesting.
Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.
Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly rejected this.
Let’s take a look at social security itself. Again, very few of us disagree with the original premise that there should be some form of savings that would keep destitution from following unemployment by reason of death, disability
or old age. And to this end, social security was adopted, but it was never intended to supplant private savings, private insurance, pension programs of unions and industries.
Now in our country under our free enterprise system we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world. Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be envied any place. The privacy, the care that is given to a person, the right to chose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor to the other.
But let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses. A doctor would be reluctant to say this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.
This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being. All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it is a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay and pretty soon your children won’t decide when they’re in school where they will go or what they will do for a living. They will wait for the government to tell them where they will go to work and what they will do
What can we do about this? Well, you and I can do a great deal. We can write to our congressmen and our senators. We can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms. And at the moment, the key issue is, we do not want socialized medicine.
Former Representative Halleck of Indiana has said, “When the American people want something from Congress, regardless of its political complexion, if they make their wants known, Congress does what the people want.”
So write, and if your representative writes back to you and tells you that he or she too is for free enterprise, that we have these great services and so forth, that must be performed by government, don’t let them get away with it. Show that you have not been convinced. Write a letter right back and tell them that you believe in government economy and fiscal responsibility; that you know governments don’t tax to get the money the need; governments will always find a need for the money they get and that you demand the continuation of our free enterprise system. You and I can do this. The only way we can do it is by writing to our congressmen even we believe that he is on our side to begin with. Write to strengthen his hand. Give him the ability to stand before his colleagues in Congress and say “I have heard from my constituents and this is what they want.”
Write those letters now; call your friends and them to write them. If you don’t, this program I promise you will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until, one day, as Normal Thomas said we will awake to find that we have socialism. And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.
Ronald Reagan was a truly great American. America misses this great man. I hope another Reagan comes along and soon. America needs a hero in this darkest hour. I don’t think Obama is the man.
Please fish out my long quote out of the spam box.
Dan may not be worth all our input. I wonder if we should be talking more about the man who Dan says can not sell watermelons? Any thoughts about THE ONE’s current status and the Chicago pols who came to DC with him?
To clarify for everyone on my post, #6, and specifically to Barbara, I am not claiming that Rather is a racist, and I do not go in for the “word police” and all the PC crap going around. My point is that the bias exhibited by the lamestream media against conservatives is outrageous when conservative comments are taken out of context and the howling of the left goes on for days, weeks and months, yet when the lefts puppet media elites make similar remarks, nothing is said negatively about it (except on conservative blogs such as this one). That is why I referred to them as hypocrites. And BRob comes on and devotes 6 straight posts to proving my point entirely.
Perhaps Dan is just a nice old man who forgot he was on the air but he sure sounded racist. If Rush says it tomorrow will all of us be as understanding.
johngalt, the one thing that I did notice was BRob’s flurry of examples of racist material that he posted here. Do you think that is just a coincidence? What keeps racism alive is the perpetual race baiting that some folks seem to be indulging in. For me that is as equally annoying as folks that practice overt racism.
I do not listen to Limbaugh but I never liked Rather’s take on anything either. The broadcast and print media seem to offer a partisan flavor on everything these days so my news comes from multiple sources and my personal BS filter generally sifts out the wheat from the chaff but I do not waste time with what I call the alphabet networks as they are by far the worst regarding partisan spin. AFN is usually good and BBC World Band is fair at times.
This is more coverage than Rather should get.
Rather is from Texas and maybe it’s a local expression, who knows, who cares. It was Pissy Chrissy that gave me the giggles – I thought he was going to ‘jump’ Rather in his angst moment. Heaven forbid that anything less than ‘glowing and luminous’ was said about The Zero.
Old Trooper
You’re correct of course in placing the race baiters alongside those true racists in society. Those who make hay of everything and paint it in racist tones are just as culpable in the perpetuation of racial divides in the US as those who practice hateful racism. As for Rather and Matthews, I believe that neither one of them has a true racist bone in their bodies, however, they are in league with those like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in highlighting supposed “slights” towards minorities and playing the race card at everything they can in order to support their views, wrong as they are, that conservatives and TEA party people are, in fact, racist. The real damage is that many of our side then tempers everything they say in order to not “offend” anyone, and in doing so, their stands on issues, especially those affecting race, are watered down and ineffective.
I know it makes those on the “progressive” side feel good to their would never be truely racist but it is simply not true. Historically some of the most racist acts have come out of the left. Racism is not limited to one political belief or one color.
It would have been much more effective with a banjo player and Mr. Bo Jangles doing some soft shoe in the background.
johngalt –
I have to disagree with you wholeheartedly. Nothing that I posted was racist in anyway! You are full of it!
First, none of the individuals who put together those things claimed they intended to be “racial” in any way; ergo, they were not racial, since the intent is all that counts. Second, none of the people who put them together admitted to being racist, so they obviously are not racists. Otherwise, they would have admitted it, wouldn’t they?
Third, and most important, they people who made those graphics were all conservatives. As Mata has noted many times, conservatives are not racist and there are no racists among the conservatives. The conservative movement was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement, with Barry Goldwater leading to way to passing the Civil Rights Acts, fighting off the liberal racists Dems efforts to keep Black people in a state of quasi-slavery. That is why minorities do not trust the Democrats and will not vote for them! Dems have shown time and again their racist stripes!
The Democrats are racist and are obsessed about racial grievances, etc. You don’t see conservatives saying anything about Obama’s race, do you? No! It is the Dems who are obsessed and making racist posters and fliers! Not Republicans. In fact, I defy ANYONE to point out a single racist flier created by a member of the Party! Republicans are just so above that!
And the Dems are led by the president who, as we all know, is an anti-White bigot and a racist, like Glennn Beck said. And his wife is, too. Obama has totally frozen White people (especially White males) out of all the decision making positions! Look at that White House . . . there are so few White people there, it should be called the Black House! They have installed minorities and women, instead of promoting on merit. So you get people who are absolutely unqualified like racist Sonia Sotomayor on the bench . . . poor grades at a second rate law school, no experience in the private sector, and no judicial experience whatsoever. THAT is what we need to stand up and fight, people!
I hope you all join me and stand up against Obama! He is putting together concentration camps to lock all the White people away! He must be stopped!
I love that two of the biggest ‘holes in news media continue to make every attempt at how much of their feet they can fit into their stupid mouths. POMs. Bot’ of ‘em.
BRob
As usual you simply do not get it. We, as conservatives, know there are racists in every walk of life and most of us will call them out on it, regardless of who is is. My point concerning my post, and specifically about you, was that you and the majority of the media, claim racism against conservatives at even the slightest slight perceived, and many times when none was intended, but do not hold yourselves to the same standard. Your posts proved my point entirely.
Anyone who wants to see examples of liberal tolerance should go to http://zombietime.com/
Hmmm, does anyone else see what I see? BRob = B(a)R(ack) ob(ama)
The Progressives Boogie Man = Glenn Beck….
johngalt –
I totally disagree. If you follow every one of the links that I put up, you will note that (a) the people who created them denied the posters, etc., were racist; (b) the people who created them denied that they had any racial component; and (c) the conservative side refused to condemn them as racist. Obviously, the conservative side did not see those images as racist because I am SURE you would have opposed them if they were racist . . . wouldn’t you? So from a conservative perspective, they weren’t racist at all!
In addition, the conservatives see the obvious racism and anti-white bigotry in Barack Obama’s policies, as Glenn Beck was brave enough to point out. So conservatives know racism when they see it. And I have yet to see any conservative admit that there is racism on the conservative side, thus, there must be none. Likewise, there was no condemnation of the links I have above, so they are either not racist in the eyes of conservatives or they are not otherwise worthy of condemnation.
hardright –
We don’t need to review your links because everyone knows that the real racists are on the LEFT, not the right! That is all they think about. The right wing, though, the real Americans, are no s obsessed, as my links above show.
johngalt –
That was fun playing conservative! Now I know why Henry Fonda wanted to play Frank in “Once upon a time in the West.”
But I hope you got MY point. It is that the conservative side needs to tend to its own garden before criticizing the other side on racial issues.
You cons jumped up and down in indignation that “the media” did not jump on Dan Rather for talking about Obama not being able to sell watermelons if the state highway patrol was directing traffic to him (not sure what the racial connotation is with being unable to sell watermelons, but let’s assume it is racist). Yet you cons sat by and said nothing when Glenn Beck called the president a racist, or when the most juvenile and vile racist fliers and posters were created by your people. Party leaders sent racist jokes and the GOP said nothing, but tried to compare it to anti-Bush jokes. A GOP congressman refers to the president as “uppity” — no commentary or condemnation from the conservatives. People brought machine guns to rallies where our duly elected president was present, yet nothing from the cons.
I know full well what you cons are against . . . but your complete silence in the face of even the most vile racist imagery also tells me what you are for.
You might want to consider taking your own advice, billy bob.
BRob
The point is obviously over your head then, and as usual, is completely lost on you.
“cons jumped up and down in indignation that “the media” did not jump on Dan Rather”? I would say that most of us don’t care what he said, but we do understand that if a GOP or conservative said the same, he or she would have already been convicted by the lamestream media of racism and been forced to give an apology. You give the perfect example too. “A GOP congressman refers to the president as “uppity”. The left is the ones that related referring to the president as lecturing to people like a professor, as being “uppity”, and demanded an apology for perceived racism. After reading through the comments here again, most of us have railed against the PC nation we have become, yet the notion is apparently one-sided, as I pointed out, since the left will castigate nearly everything the right says as being racist, yet when the opportunity to show they are fair in their views comes along, they fail miserably, as always, and choose to look the other way when it is one of their own.
Mata
As usual since I’ve been posting here, your points are so much quicker and to the point than mine are. Thank you for them.
Rather’s column today:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-rather/watermelons-washington-an_b_492890.html
@Cary: That was a “Rather” interesting read. Good old Dan says: “What saddens me is what this experience has made all too clear. Much of what we call news, isn’t. Much of what we Tweet, or post, or chat away at under the guise of news, are distractions. “
This the same guy who tried to sink George Bush by reporting FAKE national guard documents. And the only way the nation discovered the truth about this fraud is because of the internet he slams for being a source of so much that he feels is a “distraction.”
Dan and his fellow traveling comrades long for the day when they controlled what stories Americans would see and ignored the rest.
That day is over Dan and this story is legitimate BECAUSE of what you and your fellow “reporters” would have said if a Republican had said the same thing.
@Mike’s America: Well, we CAN actually agree on something! =)
@Cary: We’ve agreed before as well.