CNN Asks If Romney Is 'Kissing Off' Black Voters
The media is beginning to investigate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith and its racial history, and CNN continued the race narrative on Wednesday morning when it wondered if Romney is simply writing off the African-American vote.
Apparently, CNN never got the memo that Herman Cain all but officially endorsed Romney on Tuesday. Citing a Daily Beast report that Romney has no high-profile African-American endorsements or staffers, CNN's Carol Costello went ahead and asked if the candidate was "kissing off African-American voters". [Video below the break. Audio here.]
A presidential candidate would be foolish to write off any particular voting bloc. Yahoo! News reporter Chris Moody admitted that President Obama will overwhelmingly win the African-American vote, but added that Romney will still reach out the black community. "I think over the next several weeks and months you're going to see lots of black conservatives coming out, coalescing around Mitt Romney," he maintained.
The Daily Beast piece cited unnamed political observers and Democratic consultants among its sources for the story "African-Americans Nowhere to Be Found in Romney's Orbit." It even quoted Lee Siegel's New York Times piece with the racially-charged assumption "Mitt Romney is the whitest white man to run for president in recent memory."
A transcript of the segment, which aired on April 11 on Newsroom at 10:39 a.m. EDT, is as follows:
[10:39]
CAROL COSTELLO: Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, Mitt Romney shifts into attack Obama mode. But, as the Daily Beast reports, Romney has attracted no notable black endorsers, surrogates, or high-ranking campaign staffers. So, is Romney kissing off African-American voters? Boris?
BORIS EPSHTEYN, Republican strategist, fmr McCain-Palin aide: No, he's not. And here's the reason. Barack Obama simply has not delivered to his African-American base. That's why his approval among African-Americans is down almost 10 percent. Unemployment among African-Americans – whereas the national number is 8.3, among African-Americans it's almost 15 percent. So there's unquestionably a worry among Democrats that African-Americans A, will not support Barack Obama as much and B, will not come out to the polls as strongly as they did in 2008. What Mitt Romney needs to focus on is not hiring an African-American staffer or getting an African-American surrogate, but delivering a message of how he's going to help African-Americans. That's what matters most.
COSTELLO: Chris?
CHRIS MOODY, political reporter, Yahoo! News: In 2008, Barack Obama, I believe, won 96 percent of the black vote, and I don't think people expect him to drop below 90 here. I don't think Mitt Romney is ignoring that vote. I think over the next several weeks and months you're going to see lots of black conservatives coming out, coalescing around Mitt Romney. And there's a growing chorus of them, more black Republicans running for Congress and running for positions of office. But I think certainly Mitt Romney could reach out to that community, and we'll see, and I'm sure he will, before November.
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"more black Republicans
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:01pm.
"more black Republicans running for Congress", this will confuse many liberal blacks and cause problems for liberals white or black that are racists and race baiters.
MSNBC and the other Leftist's
Submitted by jakee308 on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:01pm.
don't believe Cain is a "real/authentic" Negro/Black/African American/Afro American/Person of Color.
Only "approved" blacks are counted and those can only be those adhere to the Leftist agenda.
In 2008....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:03pm.
...95% of all black voters approved of Baracko's skin color...
I think Romney might attract some of these voters who actually look at BO's record this time around.
I've always heard (from Liberals, of course) that it's racist to select a candidate based on his skin color....Hmmmm?
NO NO NO......
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 2:58pm.
Thats only when the waskly wepubwicans do it!
The alternative GOP response
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:28pm.
CAROL COSTELLO: Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, Mitt Romney shifts into attack Obama mode. But, as the Daily Beast reports, Romney has attracted no notable black endorsers, surrogates, or high-ranking campaign staffers. So, is Romney kissing off African-American voters?
GOP ALTERNATIVE RESPONSE: The Romney campaign realizes that thanks to biased media reporting, the vast majority of black voters will once again vote for Obama no matter what our job-creation agenda offers. So we'll continue to focus on jobs FOR EVERYONE and hope that at least some black American voters will see the hope our agenda offers.
What black Americans is he
Submitted by malcum on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:54pm.
What black Americans is he ignoring? The 99.9% that are voting for BO?
Why is it...
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 1:58pm.
That in this day of supposed "post racial" utopia that the media is making everything all about race all the time?
Hmmmmm?
The liberal media has made it abundantly clear that ANY African-American who even thinks about supporting or voting for a conservative will be keel-hauled and virtually "lynched". There are VERY few who are willing to stand up and subject their family and freinds to that treatment.
They need to check out Barrack Obama's reelection campaign staff. That too has virtually no minority represntation. Is Obama "kissing off" the black vote?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Hopefully Mitt can at least lock up the white hispanic vote.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 2:03pm.
He is one, you know.
;)
LOL They didn't comment on the other Daily Beast story did they
Submitted by stunned on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 2:17pm.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/11/poll-question-does-the-...
The lily-white photo is all the more puzzling given that the president’s staffers have consistently managed to find persons of color to be on stage behind him at campaign events. How could a supposedly savvy political operation assemble such a monochromatic room? The photo is a testament to how overlooked diversity is in America. It doesn’t simply happen on its own, but has to be worked at. ... So the line for volunteers and paid staffers is very long, and the competition fierce—but all of those selected could not have just happened to be white absent racism on someone’s part.
To be sure, Romney's campaign also suffers from a similar problem. According to the Daily Beast:
After a long primary season, Mitt Romney begins his contest with Barack Obama without having attracted any notable black endorsers, surrogates, or high-ranking campaign staffers.
One would, think, however, that a Democrat campaign would make a greater effort to employ a staff that reflects the American population, especially when its core support often stems from the African-American community. And for a campaign as famously savvy and cutting-edge as the Obama team, this photo seems to reveal some potentially puzzling internal dynamics.
tired of liberal lies
Black Vote
Submitted by serfer62 on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 3:38pm.
1) Only 11% of blacks vote...but do that several times.
2) 94% will vote for OHbama & the Kommiecrats
3) The GOP is losing the base to get more "independants"
4) There is NO reason to squander more of the base to get maybe 3% of the black vote & black conservatives only vote once.
BUT then we're talking about The Establishment, the manufactors of dole & mcnasty
interesting Carol posed the question to...
Submitted by OffTheLows on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 4:03pm.
an all white panel. Maybe CNN is kissing off black voters to speculate on whether Romney is kissing off black voters.
LOOK WHO MADE THE COIMMENT - CNN'S TED-BAXTER-IN-A-BRA
Submitted by Sgthulka on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 4:32pm.
Or, more appropriately, CNN's dumb version of Contessa Brewer.
LOOK WHO MADE THE COIMMENT - CNN'S TED-BAXTER-IN-A-BRA
Submitted by Sgthulka on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 4:32pm.
Or, more appropriately, CNN's dumb version of Contessa Brewer.
How much of the black vote did Hillary get versus Obama in 08?
Submitted by krendler on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 6:44pm.
How much of the black vote did Hillary get versus Obama in 08?
Answer: single digits.
So why on earth *wouldn't* Obama write off the black vote?
The real question...
Submitted by TSM on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 9:56pm.
The media makes so much out of "well we know the conservative base of the republican party won't vote for Obama...but will they stay home?" Yet, they are afraid to ask the flip side, which should be a bigger concern to democrats..."we know the majority of African Americans won't vote for Romney, but will they stay home?" If Obama can't get them out in the numbers he did in 2008, I don' think he can win. (And add to that the apathy of the twenty something age group.)
Well, they understand this
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 04/11/2012 - 10:07pm.
That is why they are getting them and the squatters all wound up.
The Resurrection of "Nigger"
Submitted by berlet98 on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 12:51am.
The Resurrection of "Nigger"
Five years ago, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other leaders of the black community staged what had to have been one of the most fatuous exercises in the history of language: They “buried” the word “nigger.”
As with anything buried alive, the word has scratched and clawed its way to the surface once again proving that premature burial is usually not permanent or productive.
It was a selective internment anyway since most African-Americans never participated in the funeral and hip-hop “artists” never ceased using “nigger” as well as “bitch,” ”ho,” and other less-than flattering terminology toward women in their “art.”
At the 2007 ceremony in Detroit, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gravely intoned, “Today we’re not just burying the N-word, we’re taking it out of our spirit. We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the ‘pimps’ and the ‘hos’ that go with it. Die N-word, and we don’t want to see you ’round here no more.”
Perhaps Kilpatrick wasn’t the ideal spokesman for the obsequies. He wasn’t exactly a role model either before or after he became Detroit’s mayor, what with a plethora of corruption, perjury, obstruction of justice, bribery, extortion, and fraud scandals and serving time in federal prison.
The first evidence that nigger was making a comeback fortunately didn’t happen on FOX News which would have been castigated by the left wing media had someone on FOX employed the term.
Last month, CNN special investigator Drew Griffin was reporting on an alleged hate crime in Mississippi and cited a cell phone call by one of the suspects: “At the end of this, Deryl Dedmon is laughing with his friends and actually called on a cell phone and, pardon my language but there’s no other way to say this–‘I just ran over that f—ing nigger.’ ”
Of course, there were myriad other ways of saying it but none had nearly the shock value of Griffin’s usage of a buried word.
Likewise, there were various other ways for Susan Candiotti, a CNN correspondent, to report on the recent Tulsa shootings than by quoting a Facebook entry by one of the accused on Easter Sunday: “And it reads like this: ‘Today is two years that my dad has been gone, shot by’–and please excuse the language, it’s very sensitive–‘Shot by a fucking nigger.’ “
Apologies were duly accepted for both the use of the F-word and the N-word . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21297.)