All Posts Tagged With: "racism"
They Just Can’t Help Themselves
If you watch the news media very much (especially Fox), you’d think that Obama is a terrible failure and extremely unpopular. The truth is that Obama remains fairly popular, around 50% approval, despite the terrible economic conditions. He’s more popular than Reagan was at this point in his term (Reagan eventually hit 37% [...]
8Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
John Mayer’s Penis
Singer-songwriter John Mayer did an interview with Playboy magazine recently that he may have wished he didn’t do:
“My d–k is sort of like a white supremacist,” Mayer went on. “I’ve got a Benetton heart and a f—in David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my d–k.”
Oh my.
Tea Party Racism
Former Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Tom Tancredo opened the Tea Party Nation convention. In his speech he said the U.S. had elected a “committed socialist ideologue” because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”
5Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
Another Dispatch From The GOP Braintrust
It’s been a pretty depressing week for Democrats, watching their supposed leaders turn into lumps of useless jelly because they are actually supposed to do something instead of just talking about doing something. Then along comes NRO’s Mark Krikorian to remind us that, yes, Republicans are worse.
Today, Krikorian is arguing against the U.S. taking [...]
Stars and Bars
Close to 150 years ago, the United States quelled a rebellion which cost the lives of 500,000 men and boys but which also led to the freedom of some 4,000,000 African Americans from the shackles of slavery. (Note that the number of slaves does not include the generations of African Americans who died in slavery’s [...]
20Jan2010 | nemski | 41 comments | Continued
Why Colbert Rules the World
Stephen Colbert takes on Harry Reid’s “negro” comment. Do not drink liquid around this clip.
12Jan2010 | liberalgeek | 2 comments | Continued
Race and Speech Patterns
Harry Reid has come under fire for his statements about the benefits of President Obama’s speech patterns. The statement in question is that then-candidate Obama didn’t speak in “the negro dialect” unless he wanted to.
I am a little torn on this issue. There is a dialect, one could call it an accent, that could be [...]
Some Tea Partiers Are Just Bad Spellers (and Racists)
Remember this past summer, when we were all debating whether or not the tea-party movement was racist or not? One of the interesting parts of the movement was creative sign spelling.
Today brings us news that the two issues are related (as if we didn’t have some supicions all along).
4Jan2010 | liberalgeek | 4 comments | Continued
Hal Turner, FBI Informant
[Warning - this post contains some offensive language. -- UI]
Hal Turner is a rightwing radio host known for his extremist, far right views. He has a small, hard-core following among white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Hal Turner was named one the “40 To Watch” by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2003:
Just when some [...]
Are You A Good White Person?
Fox “News” commissioned Zogby run a poll for them regarding free speech reports FAIR Blog. Here’s one of the questions:
Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for more African-Americans and gays to [...]
Speaking Of Marriage…
Does Senator David Vitter support interracial marriage? He has avoided commenting on the Judge Bardwell incident. Liberal bloggers finally cornered Vitter’s spokesman:
Greg Sargent spoke to Vitter spokesperson Joel DiGrado, who said:
“First, Sen. Vitter thinks that all judges should follow the law as written and not make it up as [...]
I’ll Believe It’s Not About Race When Pat Buchanan Does
In his latest column Pat Buchanan explains why the white working class is so upset.
America was once their country. They sense they are losing it. And they are right.
I’m really tired of all the good old days pining, because those days weren’t good for everybody. Note: Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It To Beaver were [...]
Where Cries of Socialism Meet Racism
Christopher J. Lee, assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has an interesting op-ed piece in the Christian Science Monitor looking at the racist undertones of the rightwing shouts of socialism.
Yet, as seen at various town hall meetings and the Tea Party rally in Washington Sept. 12, a deeper sign of [...]
Limbaugh Won’t Get His NFL Team
Several groups have now spoken out in opposition to the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams. First, there’s the player’s union:
NFL Players executive director DeMaurice Smith on Saturday made a move to solidify the union against a bid by conservative talk show radio host Rush Limbaugh as part of a [...]
State Of Pennsylvania Rules Against Valley Swim Club
The state of Pennsylvania has ordered the Valley Swim Club to pay $50,000 to the family of one child who was thrown out of the club in July, ruling that racial discrimination was the cause.
24Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | Comments Off | Continued
Michael Steele Is A Genius…
…Or not
With that in mind, it’s hardly a surprise that the White House hopes that Paterson decides not to run next year. What is a surprise is that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele apparently wants voters to think President Obama doesn’t like black people.
Michael Steele said it was “curious” on why the White House [...]
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Sept. 20 Edition
LEAD STORY: McClatchy Papers: Anti-Government Protests Racism By Another Name
Of course it is, and it has been since the beginning of the Obama Administration, but the ‘respectable’ media has failed to tell the story. Until now:
At about the same time (Nov. 5 after Obama had been declared the winner), newspaper Web sites were filled with [...]
20Sep2009 | El Somnambulo | 6 comments | Continued
Teabaggers on Parade
The other night Anderson Cooper had Mark Williams on his show. Mr. Williams is one of the leaders of the tea party protests. Unfortunately for Williams, Cooper had done some homework before the interview.
Cooper: What you’re saying makes sense to me here when I’m hearing what you say but then I read on your blog, you say, you call the President an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief.
Williams: Yeah, that’s the way he’s behaving.
18Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 11 comments | Continued
A Conservative Calls Out Other Conservatives For Race-Baiting
So, is a backlash finally starting to happen? Rod Dreher, a conservative columnist, has called out Rush Limbaugh for his inflammatory rhetoric. But first, a little background. Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh discussed a story about a white student beaten on a school bus by a black student, blaming it on President Obama:
Rush Limbaugh [...]
Birthers Causing A Problem…For CNN?
CNN’s Lou Dobbs is a crazy birther. Jon Stewart ridicules him, while CNN repeatedly debunks the birth certificate nonsense.
24Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 31 comments | Continued
They Just Can’t Help Themselves
Tea party activist and neurosurgeon Dr. David McKalip thinks a picture of Obama depicted as a witch doctor is “funny stuff.” He thought it was so great he sent it to his fellow tea partiers.
23Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 38 comments | Continued
Obama Calls It Like He Sees It
President Obama commented last night on the Henry Gates arrest a few days ago in Cambridge.
Now, I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the [...]
Rachel Maddow Corrects Pat Buchanan
Rachel Maddow addresses the errors in Pat Buchanan’s remarks on Sotomayor from last week.
21Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Valley Swim Club Invites Kids Back To Pool
Earlier this week we read about the Valley Swim Club in Philadelphia which turned away 65 mostly African-American kids from a day camp. Today the Valley Swim Club announced that they were reversing the decision.
Duesler said the club canceled its contract with the Creative Steps day-care because of safety, crowding and noise concerns, not racism.
“As [...]
Audra Shay Wins Leadership Of Young Republicans
Remember Audra Shay? She’s was the candidate for chair of the Young Republicans groups that had this exchange on her facebook page:
Two minutes later, Piker posted again saying “Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.”
Eight minutes after that, at 2:02, Shay weighed in on Piker’s comments: “You tell em Eric! lol.”
She then de-friended some Republicans who dared to complain.
Well, she’s now the leader of the Young Republicans.
11Jul2009 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
