MSNBC's Bashir Again Gives Platform to Columnist Slamming Herman Cain As Self-hating Black Man
If it's Friday, it must be Call Herman Cain an Oreo Day.
While neither the terms Uncle Tom nor Oreo were deployed, for the second Friday in a row MSNBC's Martin Bashir brought theGrio.com columnist Goldie Taylor on his eponymous program to slam GOP presidential candidate for essentially being a self-hating black man.
"He said in an interview just over the last week that he could appeal to 30 percent of African-American voters. How is he going to tell that 30 percent of African-American voters that when the civil rights movement came right to his doorstep, he wouldn't open the door?" Taylor complained on the October 7 Martin Bashir, adding later in that segment, "I think it's insulting that Herman Cain had his bedroom slippers on in 1963 and wasn't involved in the civil rights movement even though he was living and working right here in the city of Atlanta."
Today Bashir brought Taylor on air again to attack Cain, this time for his stating that he believes that racism is no longer "rampant" in America.
Taylor insisted Cain was attempting to coax racist Republican primary voters to support him, that there's little chance Republicans really would if it came down to it, and that Cain is a sell-out who would shed his skin if he could:
MARTIN BASHIR: Goldie, it's a great relief, isn't it? Racism no longer exists in America. Do you agree with Mr. Cain?
GOLDIE TAYLOR: You've got to wonder which country Herman Cain is living in or which planet, for that matter.
BASHIR: Planet Cain!
[...]
TAYLOR: I think at the end of the day Herman Cain's um, you know, the way that he raises his candidacy is that he placates a base. And the base that he believes he's after is a right-wing ultra-conservative base that does not want to either see racism as a dilemma or see it as an attack on them.
BASHIR: Goldie, you're almost saying that he's trying to denude and diminish his own ethnicity in order to win that base, is that what you're saying?
TAYLOR: That's exactly what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that if he can shed his ethnicity today, if he could become what I would call the color of water, he would do it. He would do it in an effort to prove that he and people just like him could fit in anywhere and have the same level of success no matter what their race, ethnicity or gender happen to be. That just doesn't happen to be the case. And so, would he shed it? I think he would.
In addition to Taylor, Bashir included Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart in on the discussion, who is a liberal African-American and agreed with Taylor that Herman Cain is "indeed trying to placate his base" that "does not want to hear any accusations of racism against it." But, Capehart insisted, Cain's base is "perfectly fine" with "hurl[ing] charges of racism against Democrats" and liberals.
Later in the segment, Bashir cited Cain's anemic fundraising numbers as evidence that the Republican base was at best just "entertained" by Cain, a notion with which Taylor agreed.
Bashir, of course, failed to include a black conservative in the discussion to offer a differing point of view.
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muppet bashir is..
Submitted by kata on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 4:40pm.
the replacement for muppet olbermann and muppet shuster.
Racism cannot cease to exist. Several people on MSNBC would be out of a job.
Oh. My. Gawd.
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 4:45pm.
People like this are the ones who stereotype blacks; lumping them all together in what they should do and think.
Should they all like fried chicken and watermelon too?
Goldie, are you a self-hating liberal?
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 4:48pm.
Seems you despise anyone who does not think like you do or anyone who makes their own decisions. Why do you hate yourself for your own gullibility and indecision?
Far from it.
Submitted by Dbak61 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:20pm.
She is instead, the Dem plantation apologist who's job it is to label Harry's (Belefonte) 'bad apples' when one like Herman falls off 'Massa's" tree, landing in the soil of sanity, and rolls off their grounds. If she served as a Rep and in the CBC she'd be just another House Ni**er; (excluding West, another sane person and surely not the norm of that group), even as her own remarks reveal just how uncomfortable she is in her own skin. Once again a libtard projects, and we see true racism, as the other side, while in denial, is chock full of it. That's why they think they know it when they see it.
As Ann once said: If you want to know what liberals are up to just listen to what they accuse their enemies. (paraphrased)
→ Bashir again?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 4:50pm.
Is this the same Bashir who was so emotionally moved to see how Michael Jackson interacted with his 100% white children, that it "almost made me weep"?
Don't guess Bashir bothered to ask the question "Michael, do you hate your own ethnicity so much that you would bleach your skin and have a white man sire your children?
Nope, but let there emerge within America, a black man who succeeds scholastically as well as financially, and he must hate himself.
Bashir is the racist trying drag a black man back to the plantation.
What does the left have other
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 4:50pm.
What does the left have other than hate, bigotry and racism? So tolerant and diverse except toward, blacks, Jews, Christians, and anyone else who disagrees with their hate cult dogma.
The power of self-hate
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:01pm.
So, the power of self-hate, especially over one's own skin color, is so strong that, instead of driving people to solitude, despair and suicide, as one would expect, it drives them into success and public service? It drives people like Cain to seek the Presidency? Yea, and modesty drives people to expose themselves in public.
Hay, racists, Cain isn't trying to change the color of his skin. YOU are trying to do that. The question is: why? WHY can't you just accept a Black Conservative? Is the idea really that appalling to you?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Note to Basher....
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 4:59pm.
Your snotty British accent doesn't make what you say worthwhile, nor does it add an iota of class.
You are still a hate-filled poisonous wretch.
Just my opinion, you understand.
Isn't it amazing
Submitted by NDanielson on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:05pm.
how the self loathing Ms. Taylor elaborates so vividly on her daddy's participation in the civil rights movement??? Oh, wait...
With what little information I can gather about her, it appears that her parents are currently living in Atlanta. Hmmmmm. Wasn't Atlanta a hotbed of civil rights activities? Maybe she is still putting together all that personal information for another of her many books??? Hopefully it will be titled something like: What my daddy did for civil rights that Herman Cain didn't?
This disgusting slug...
Submitted by KyWriter on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:06pm.
...needs to crawl back under whatever Middle Eastern rock he sprang from.
Yes, Racism Lives
Submitted by greydawg on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:06pm.
Don't doubt Goldie Taylor's expertise on racism. She sees it several times a day, every time she looks into a mirror. MSNBC has an unlimited supply of these haters that it can dredge out of the sewer at any time.
Racism id alive and well in the US
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:14pm.
It comfortably resides in the hearts of Irrev Jackson, Irrev sharpton, Muddy Waters. Error Holder Chick Matthews etc. etc. etc. and on and on -demon rats all.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
MLK must be shaking his head
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:25pm.
MLK must be shaking his head at these people. We will never realize the dream if we don't put race aside. And in my opinion because we are people and have the taint of sin, we will never put it aside.
Too stupid to believe
Submitted by russedav on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 5:31pm.
The usual stupid and asinine antiGod bigotry where the subhuman barbarous fascist whores conveniently forget that no one is "white" or "black," only shades of brown, all being descended from Adam and Eve.
Enemic fundraising?
Submitted by Prester John on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 6:19pm.
Wait until Ba$hit sees Cain's numbers for last quarter.
Goldie Taylor is just another plantation overseer
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 7:16pm.
Like I have said before, the Civil War did not end slavery, it only shifted it.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
The ultimate...
Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 7:20pm.
The ultimate proof of racism on the left has been coming out since Cain topped the polls.
The left feels like the black man is their property, to train, and to tell how to think. When one steps up and speaks independently, the liberal white establishment enlists their current crop of slaves to step up, and "whip" the unruly one back into submission.
I hope that the public sees what's happening here, especially, the blacks in this country, maybe they'll wake up, and remember that Lincoln, a republican, freed them a long time ago.
Cain/Palin (and all we have to do is remove the "Mc," so signage is cheap)
I give up.
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:36pm.
I freakin' give up. I no longer will expend any effort whatsoever trying to convince anyone that I'm not racist.
Does it get any more ridiculous than this: Republicans and America is so racist that they would support a black man for President just so that they can get the black man out of the office of President.
BASHIR: "Goldie, you're
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:47pm.
BASHIR: "Goldie, you're almost saying that he's trying to denude and diminish his own ethnicity in order to win that base......."
Why is Bashir still talking about Obama 2008 campaign?
So Bashir is obsessed with a nude Herman Cain?
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:51pm.
Just kidding. Thought the headline would be interesting.
Bashir needs his mouth washed out with bleach and rubbing alcohol just for mentioning Herman Cain. Surprised his head didn't explode from pronouncing Herman's name.
You can't get much more of an endorsement for being a good conservative than to have Martin the Moron complain about you.
For once I would like to see this douchebagger Bashir
Submitted by djwolf12 on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 9:57pm.
bring on someone that is African-American that actually agrees with what Cain believes in: hard work, educational justice, and the belief that someone that is African American and can actually think for themselves, not what Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the rest of the insane asylum in the CBC thinks.
I am white, and this honkey is for Herman Cain 2012! Suck on that Bashir!
Leftist Projection
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 12:28am.
She transfers her own feelings about herself to Cain. Self-loathing is a liberal thing.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Liberals hate Mr. Cain because he's self-made.
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 3:12am.
Herman Cain will be the first US President who was a mathematician/scientist. As a mechanical engineer myself, I can appreciate the animosity directed at him by the elites, with their liberal arts degrees, and their inability to pass even an introduction to algebra class. Barack Obama and his 57 states. Dianne Sawyer and her 1000's of countries. Joe Biden and his three letter word J-O-B-S.
This woman got her job/jobs
Submitted by Delsa on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 11:53am.
sayin," Ya sa boss. Eyez gwoin down fo ya". I be kissin yo feet fo evah.
Never could spell in Ebonics!
Herman Cain, on the other hand, didn't and doesn't cow tow to anyone. He is his own man! This must drive suck ups like this woman, nuts.
These people are shinning examples of the Democrat Plantation. Just let them continue to speak.
Herm Cain
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 1:14pm.
Nothing is more threatening to guilty white liberals than a black person who wanders off the liberal plantation and finally figures out that he can do just fine on his own, without his condescending white liberal overseers and their family destroying policies.
Therefore.......Herman Cain must be destroyed, at all costs!!
The Race Industry must be preserved, at all costs!!
Race baiting leftists
Submitted by Upland_Patriot on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 2:25pm.
You know, the truth of the matter is, much more Caucasians would love to shed their ethnicity than Blacks, Hispanics, etc. because of so-called white-guilt (which I do not suffer from). Look at all the liberal progressive appeasers who cannot stop talking about "race." Most of these nitwits voted for Obama precisely because he is black, in essence showing their true racist tendencies.
another useful idiot*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 2:36pm.
Here's the proof...She thinks Cain would like to be "the color of water", this from a woman who thinks HER favorite black man WALKS on water...
Another example of Democrat stereotypes!
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 10:52pm.
Those of us of color (Latino) are expected to stay in our place and vote consistently Democrat and not say anything unless our white liberal guilt-ridden and neurotic (OOOOLD term, but useful in this context) handlers tell us its okay to speak.
How dare this idiot tell ANYONE how they are supposed to think. She can be a brainless automaton addicted to victimization status and the money and attention that it brings to her otherwise dull existence. I would rather think for myself, express my own opinions and not have some liberal termagant telling me what my beliefs should be.
Senora Goldie...I won't even type the Spanish insult as someone here might be offended, but it involves a physically impossible act that says you should keep your damned liberal trap shut if you think we Latino conservatives are supposed to follow the hacienda rules.