Newsbusters has more on this Maher show interview with Andrew Breitbart but the one segment I wanted to highlight is this one:
Georgetown professor and liberal talk radio host Michael Eric Dyson, elaborated on why Limbaugh is a racist, Breitbart pointed out that nobody was a bigger defender of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas than Limbaugh.
This elicited uproarious laughter from Maher and his audience.
Breitbart then deliciously acknowledged the crowd’s response: “Thank you MoveOn.org, I appreciate that.”
Maher disgustingly replied: “Clarence Thomas, a, a black man who does not represent 95 percent of black people.” Once again, Breitbart correctly took offense:
That’s bulls**t…You’re allowed to have independent thought in this country. And this kind of intimidation by the black studies intelligentsia crowd that, that intimidates black people who are conservatives…
Maher then asked an amazingly stupid question: “You think black people are intimidated from being conservative?”
That question actually elicited my own laughter. Of course they are intimidated because of just the reaction you and your fellow liberals gave at the name of a conservative black man.
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What could be more racist than to believe that among black people there cannot be as much diversity of thought than among any other race?
There was a video going around the Internet with a great analogy for blacks and their relationship with the Democrats/Left (of course, I can’t find it now). It went something like this:
It is a fairly well-known fact among fisherman that captured crabs can be left in a barrel with no lid. The reason for this is that any crab on the verge of climbing out and escaping will be pulled down by his brethren. Ironically, the same crab that just pulled one down will eventually make the same attempt at freedom only to be met with the identical fate. The counter-productivity of this is self-evident. Aren’t most people more prone to pull others down, as opposed to helping others up?
This is an unbelievable reaction of the mindless drones in the audience, but what would you expect at Bill Mahr show.
Another great example of intimidation is how Bill Cosby was treated for speaking the truth about Black fathers. Or, what about what Rev. Jackson said about a particular part of Obama’s anatomy (his “onions”, if you don’t remember) after Obama made a similar comment. Hey, what about the “colorful” or racist cartoons of Condi Rice and Collin Powell. I could do this all day, coming up with the Left’s intimidation of Blacks being conservative or speaking out against the Black’s politics.
Let’s see if I can find any from the Right…uh…hmm…huh, I can’t think of a recent one.
http://franklinslocke.blogspot.com/
Right now everyone is intimidated out of being conservative.
Wow, further proof that Maher is retarded, his audience is just as much so and Breitbart knows what he’s talking about. The only strike I give Breitbart here is that he went on that shriveled weasel’s show in the first place.
I think Maher looks down on blacks. He feels that they are too dumb to think on their own and rely on their dimocrat superiors to think for them. Remember-the dims even have their own grand kleagle in the Senate!
Michael Steele – terrified (of pissing off Rush Limbaugh)
Ken Blackwell – quivering with trepidation
Alan Keyes – frightened into silence (that’ll be the day)
Maybe black people in general don’t want to be fisal conservatives. As a matter of fact, many blacks are social conservatives.
Can’t be us, say the Republicans. Blacks would flock to us if the scary liberals didn’t intimidate those timid blacks.
If D. L. Hughley was a conservative, he’d go on Bill Mahr and give him a run for his money. He just isn’t a conservative, by his own choice.
I have been largely around conservatives my entire adult life. I still am. But I was never intimidated to be liberal.
What a pile of self-serving, self-pitying baloney.
>>I have been largely around conservatives my entire adult life. I still am. But I was never intimidated to be liberal.>>
That’s because conservatives don’t harrass and intimidate. Liberals, on the other hand…do.
You really pointed out the difference between them nicely.
It was one of the most silly Maher shows I’ve ever seen. Bordered on pathetic. Dyson was a loud mouthed jerk. Bad manners, combined with stupid rhetoric. He proudly proclaimed himself to be “articulate,” but he articulated mainly hyperbolic cheese whiz. Breitbart did conservatism proud. Even Sarah Silverman laid an egg, and “New Rules” was lame.
It’s like the LA Lakers showing up flat, underestimating their opponents, and getting blown out by the Bulls.
I’m sure that Maher’s show will live to entertain another day.
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach
@George: that is an alfonso rachel video, he ahs a bunch of them on youtube. he also has machosauceproductions.com. he tells it like it is as a black man. love him. he also has a whole thing about how in the ghetto there is a planned parenthood on every corner and many others, he is very bright.
Yes! That’s the guy. Here he is:
BTW I’m Voting For Mccain / Palin
Oh, no, Suek, you have got to be kidding.
No, you’re right, conservatives are a bunch of sweetie pies:
DicK Cheney told Patrick Leahy “I beg to differ with you, Senator.”
And Bill O’Reilly told Jeremy Glick that he regretted the loss of Jeremy’s parents, but,
“I feel I have to disagree with you, sir.”
What alternative universe do you live in?
Do you still believe in the Easter Bunny, Suek?
If it weren’t for Bill Mahr hanging out in the playboy mansion he would be a nobody on TV.
@Dave Noble
I think you are missing the point. It isn’t the white liberals who are intimidating blacks away from fiscal conservatism, it is the black “identity politics” profiteers who continue to tar black conservatives as “Uncle Toms” and white conservatives as racists in order to maintain their influence. They do not intimidate individuals towards liberalism, they tear down and denigrate African Americans who succeed outside of their own formula of victimhood. As George described, they want to pull any crabs who try to escape back down into the barrel. Your average citizen, regardless of color, is not informed about any selfish reasons for such tactics. They only see, hear, and read about the media appointed “leaders” of the black community accusing successful, non-liberal, blacks of somehow betraying their “race”. Before they can begin to question such accusations, the next titillating sound bite is on screen, or the white liberal establishment is congratulating the accuser, and the “fact” of such traitorous behavior is embedded in their subconscious. Do this over and over again for generations, and it is no wonder that blacks who have literally grown up being brainwashed this way never stop to examine the hard economic facts of what the liberals have done to African Americans and their family structures with every condescending program since “the Great Society”.
Or do you honestly believe that
because they truly agree with the liberal Democrat message that they are incompetent and incapable of succeeding without government handouts? The Conservative message I believe in says that they are just as capable of success as anyone, and that to coddle them (or anyone), or give them special treatment, not only insults their ability, but weakens it through disuse.
Dave Noble,
Do you think that maybe Maher was referring to average “black people”, as opposed to the few brave ones who side with conservatives? There are exceptions to every rule, and the general rule in America (especially urban America) is that blacks are liberal. The question is “Why?” In spite of his sarcasm, Maher asked a damned good question.
My daughter attends a predominantly black public high school (~70% black, the rest mostly an even mix of whites and hispanics [tans? – just joking!] Any black kid who dares identify with conservatives is given the “What you doin’, man? Why’re you stickin’ up for the enemy?” treatment.
Nah – no intimidation there.
Maybe it’s time to join the liberals and call for the return of the Fairness Doctrine?
Jeff V
Well, Dave… that’s 2 specific horrific intimidating comments by conservatives.
Wow.
Suek,
Not horrific at all, but they certainly show, as you well know, that conservatives are not all sweetness and light.
And if I turned to Rush himself and people like Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage this thread could go on ad nauseum.
Lightbringer and Jeff, I will address your comments shortly. Thanks for the discussion.
Jeff, I believe the phenomenon you describe is real and it is a substantial problem within the black community. Bill Cosby has bravely and eloquently addressed this problem.
Lightbringer,
The crab anallogy in addtiion to being an ugly generalization of a real problem identified by Jeff,
is a white person’s view of black behavior. In that, it has an inherently racist message -black people don’t want to succeed. That is not true. I am not accusing either you or George of personally being racists. I have no reason to believe you are. But your are promulagting a view of blacks that is fundamentally racist in its generalizations.
My work puts me in government buildings in inner-city areas. During the campaign I saw t-shirts and heard comments that indicated how proud blacks were of Barrack Obama. Whatever you may think of his politics, how is he he not a symbol of success to blacks? Why don’t they want to pull him back into the barrel?
Finally, there is a basic flaw in your reasoning. This thread is about blacks being intimidated against being conservative. Along the way, you have conflated success with being conservative.
That is an invalid equivalency. In the last election those with annual salaries over $200,000 voted for Obama over McCain.
Dave Noble-
I never stated that blacks do not want to achieve. I stated that those who profit (both monetarily and by gaining national prominence) from black “victimhood” have a vested interest in the majority of the African American population continuing to feel oppressed. You yourself stated the 95% Liberal/Democrat voting block of blacks. Do the Democrats maintain this margin by constantly telling blacks that racism is dying and that they have more and more opportunities open to them than they did under Jim Crow laws? No, they maintain it by having black “leaders” (Al Sharpton types) constantly portray America as a racist hellhole. They maintain it by repeatedly passing laws that grease the skids towards welfare dependency or that give special treatment to blacks. Laws like Affirmative Action that not only elevate some candidates beyond their natural competency until a severe case of the Peter Principal catches up to them, but also tar the truly gifted African American achievers with the same brush as those who took advantage of a free ride. The basic message of Affirmative Action is that blacks can not succeed unless Uncle Sam makes it easier for them. The Liberal leadership does not want to “pull Obama back into the barrel” because he is useful to them in pressing forward with socialism. The liberals do not mind a few crabs climbing out, as long as they stand around the rim of the barrel keeping the majority of the crabs inside (so to speak).
By the way, I do not think that the Progressives are simply racists trying to keep the black man down. They are working towards making as much of the population into “crabs” as possible, regardless of color. They simply had a head start in the African American community because of the socio-economic conditions that were prevalent. Conditions, I might add, that were started and kept alive from the civil war until the civil rights movement primarily by the Democratic party.
If I made it sound like conservatism=success, then that is only because, to me, no matter how much money you make, if you owe your success to the government, and must obey your government masters to keep it, then your are not a success, you are a slave.
Finally, let me summarize my main point regarding the actual topic. I do not think that blacks are intimidated into being liberals. I think that blacks who are not liberals are intimidated and harassed, and I think such harassment is explained to the black community dishonestly and in such a way as to portray conservative blacks in a very negative light in terms that are very emotionally charged inside the black community.
(I am out of lunch break… respond if you wish, and I will elaborate further when I can.)