Listen…I’m no fan of Obama, and like Mark Levin, I’d vote for a can of orange juice before I’d vote for Obama in 2012. Somewhere along the way, just because our president is black, videos like this are becoming more mainstream and more acceptable on YouTube and other sites, and it should not be.
This is tastleless to the n’th degree, but if it’s okay for black people to do this, how is anything ANY of the Republican candidates do remotely deemed racist at all?
If this country ever truly wants to progress and become a more civilized nation, why is trash like this even tolerated? I’m not asking for this garbage to be censored, but I’d love to see at least SOME condemnation of things like this to be more prevalent. Can we please all agree this is unacceptable in a civilized world? You cannot condemn one group of people for being allegedly “racist” while simultaneously approving of another group of people for creating videos such as this, villifying a single race of people in the process of glorifying the creators of these videos? One need only search certain terms on YouTube to find thousands of videos like this one. And they’re all equally disgusting.
What say you, Eugene Robinson, Goldie Taylor, Donna Brazile, Marc Lamont Hill, etc., etc.? I’m waiting for you all to openly condemn videos like this on YouTube. If you don’t, then I have no reason to listen to your small and petty complaints of racism from Fox News, Republicans as a whole, and GOP candidates in the 2012 primary. Your silence about videos like this are tacit approval of them.
Even though this video was created by blacks, it doesn’t mean it cannnot be deemed as racist and offensivve. It’s demeaning to blacks and minorities everywhere. Why is crap like this celebrated by anybody? Who in the black community will speak out against it?
I’m waiting and listening. I won’t, however, hold my breath.
As is said in many places, “hilarity ensues” (h/t Mediaite):
Frances Martel does a fabulous write-up about it, and I couldn’t have said it any better, so here it is direct from the Mediaite post:
“Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.”
O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this– namely, something that happened in 2008. Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.” Harpootlian finally replied, blaming Republicans for injecting race into the matter by calling this “the most important election since 1860.” “We in the South have a little different version of that election,” he noted, suggesting that talking to Southerners in such a way was a sort of dog whistle. O’Reilly disagreed and just asked Harpootlian to give it up, adding, “you’re getting killed here!”
Ouch! That’s GOTTA leave a mark! Great piece, Frances.
This is a direct quote from tonight’s NH debate, when asked about his anti-semitic, racist newsletters in the past:
“One of my heroes is Martin Luther King because he practiced the Libertarian principle of peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience, as did Rosa Parks did. But also I’m the only one up here, and the only one in the Democratic party, that understands true racism in this country that’s in the judicial system, and it has to do with enforcing the drug laws.”
Whether she is or not, I’m using her own tactics and words against her (and her fellow co-hosts). On the upcoming Barbara Walters “10 Most Fascinating People” special, one of the people Barbara interviews is former GOP primary candidate Herman Cain. Also interviewed in the special is Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. When Barbara brings that up to discuss with her fellow View co-hosts, Joy immediately leapt at the chance to disparage Herman Cain, asking Barabara of whom she was most afraid …Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad or Herman Cain? Apparently Joy Blowhard is more afraid of a black man than she would be a brutal Hezbollah terrorist.
Joy, when are you going to realize that you are not funny? Bashar al-Assad is a terrorist leader and sympathizer of Hezbollah, a proxy terror group for Iran, and you are trying to equate someone like that to the unfairly maligned Herman Cain, who is a devout Christian, married for 43 years to his wife, Gloria? Assad’s goon squads have killed thousands of dissidents in Syria who have protested the dictator’s decades-long rule, yet Herman Cain is merely being ACCUSED of inappropriate behavior with mostly unknown women, all of whose claims can be clearly disproved given the chance for an appropriate investigation.
You are so painfully hypocritical and I could not let this jab by you go without a response. You are not funny; you are a foul woman who believes she is too clever by half, and I am not surprised your HLN show is going away. You are a “comic” who is intellectually and morally bereft of any redeeming characteristic qualities to whom I can ascribe. I give up watching The View altogether now.
I give up on you as you and the whole panel have jacked up every non-existent complaint about the Tea Party, yet the entire panel of The View has YET to cover one single criminal event at any of the Occupy Wall Street camps, be they rapes, molestations, drug-dealing, murders, overdoses, assaults, and all other sorts of miscreant activities that are well documented for anyone to see. The only mention I remember of anyone on The View was from Whoopi, stating that the OWS camps stood for everything that defines what it is to be an American. I hope she (Whoopi) and the rest of The View co-hosts, including you, are oh so proud of these events that have occurred so far. You must be because I have yet to hear one single person at the table discuss any of the #OWS crimes discussed.
And I won’t hold my breath waiting to hear it either. But I can bet you a thousand dollars that if ONE of those crimes at an #OWS camp had occurred at a Tea Party event, the entire View crew would spend every single “Hot Topics” segment discussing it for weeks on end.
You women are weak, and I’m frightened by the very fact that the show and your opinions and takes on the news are the only thing that some people see or hear all day. It’s people like you, who are morally bankrupt, that lead a nation to believe that Sarah Palin actually said she could see Russia from her house. No wonder our country is in such trouble. The dumb masses are just that – dumb asses.
If The View were to go off TV tomorrow, I’m sure I wouldn’t be the only one who didn’t miss it. I dare say, in fact, womens’ IQs would dramatically increase across the country.
And Joy, I have one more beef with you. Did you not find it ironic in the least that one day you were slamming Herman Cain for his alleged moral short-comings, yet the next day you were a slobbering fool all over your progressive, Democrat whore hero, Bill Clinton, when he sat on the couch next to you? It was obvious you were hot for Bill, but I noticed you did not once ask him what he thought about Herman Cain’s personal “female” troubles. I suppose it can be attributed to the fact you were hoping you might get lucky with him afterwards, regardless of the fact he is a married man, and you a married woman. But being a secularist like yourself, I guess morals and ethics only apply to people other than you.
On Meet the Press this weekend, David Gregory interviewed Newt Gingrich about his presidential run. One of the things he tried to pin on him was that he was racist because he said Obama has presided over an economy where 47% of Americans are on food stamps, and that the ultime run would be about paycheck vs. foodstamps.
Then if that wasn’t enough, E.J. Dionne in the panel discussion went one further – Newt said we need to follow the economic policies of Texas, not Detroit. We all know what a miserable failure Detroit has been, do we not? Well, apparently to E.J. Dionne, Detroit is code-word for “Motown,” which OBVIOUSLY makes Newt even more racist.
Now I’m no huge fan of Newt, but folks, this is just a preview of coming attractions. ALL those who oppose Obama’s policies or positions are going to be called “raaaaacists” for it. Let’s hope this outs those in the race-pimp industry for who they are – demagogues for Obama.
And if you really consider what both Gregory and Dionne said, they just outed THEMSELVES as racists. Really, David? “Food Stamps” automatically means “black people” to you? And E.J., “Detroit” automatically means “Motown” to you, which also somehow signifies “black people” to you? You guys are really dumber than you look. You should think about your words before they come out of your pie holes.
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