I've always said that nothing infuriates a liberal more than havint his words quoted accurately.

Here is the context:

It seems to me that infrastructure spending is a very important and
good way of stimulating the economy. The challenge will be to do it
quickly, to find projects that can be done that have a high social
return that also can be done with the greatest speed possible.

I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply
go to high skilled people who are already professions or to white male
construction workers. I have nothing against white male construction
workers. I'm just saying that there are a lot of other people who have
needs as well. And therefore, in my remarks I have suggested to you,
and I'm certainly happy to talk about it more, ways in which the money
can be -- criteria can be set so that they money does go to others: the
long term unemployed, minorities, women, people who are not necessarily
construction workers or high-skilled professionals.

He just wants "criteria" to be set...so that it doesn't go only to white male constuction workers.

I don't know why anyone would translate that to mean he doesn't want the jobs to go to only white males!  

\sarc

Perhaps Reich needs to have someone point out that there are actually "working" cameras in the House and Senate.  Maybe he has been sitting too low to the table to be able to see them properly?

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."

Another pathetic attempt by a pug who sees itself as a Rottweiler with dog dish cred yipping at anyone who takes anything he says to task. Malkin really spooks him. That speaks volumes about the color of his spine.

2010: A GOP Hill

No one has distorted anything about his comments. He sat there and said what he did right in front of God and everybody.

This was a major brain fart on his part, which gave us all a glimpse of what this man truly thinks. If he had not been thinking along those lines, he would not have said what he did. The fact that he later attempted to "revise" his previous remarks shows that he knew he had screwed up.

He can cry and moan all he wants, but its a little too late to be trying to put that genie back into the bottle.

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -While there is still time.

In a time like this, when tempers are riding high and many Americans are close to panic about their jobs and finances.. it serves me well, and gives me strength to remember that because millions of Americans felt the exact same emotion in the early spring of 2000, we are famalier. We've been here before - and therfore we will survive.

..complaining about --  Limbaugh, Hannity, and Malkin's; 1/2 of the gang of 6. An administration, the Democratic party, the national media -- all against a handful of voices; the gang of 6 (Limbaugh, Hannity, Malkin, O'Reilly, Coulter, Kristol [we can rotate the last position among a limited few].  

Some leftist critters just don't know when to shut-up...even when they aren't ahead.

"Never put a mic up your nose, it will dislodge a liberal's brain."

Sorry, the picture was too good. 

This little troll has gotten away with far too much for far too long.  He needs to go crawl back under the bridge he came out of.

...this is part of a coordinated effort to impose the Fairness Doctrine...

Pretty soon, Katie is going to start her newscast: There is growing agreement that talk radio has simply gone too far. More and more people agree it's time to bring back fairness to this one-sided and (some will say) admittedly racist and hateful language on the nation's public airways....

Notice the code words: "Growing agreement"; "More and more people agree"; and "Some will say". These are the same words she used a day ago to call Israel a nation of racist war criminals. These same words will be used in a daily drumbeat to push the fairness doctrine. All she needs is the "go signal" from her masters to begin the onslaught.

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The challenge is to follow a consistent plan despite inconsistent prices - Sarah Palin, State of the State of Alaska speech

And stop nipping at our heels. Go put on your big-boy pants and let the grownups do some work now!

BTW you little twinkie, I read the comments several times and nobody pulled them out of context. Hey white male contractors that voted for NEO (the One), how this workin' out for you?

 I have a question...would dwarf tossing be considered torture?

 "You Knucklehead!" Moe Howard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhjRUKCKIG4&feature=related

probably hates white construction men as they represent those who tormented the lil fella when he was just a sprout. You just know this guy got pantsed a lot and received many wedgies.

I could of swarn I heard this dwarf say that WHITE construction workers shouldn't be allowed to benefit from the stimulus spending. Reich is a real idiot for thinking anybody misheard his racist comment.

I'm offended these socialists running the country are treating their opposition like we are so stupid. Case in point: The GOP can't think for themselves, they all have to listen to Rush. That angered me so much I wrote to my Dem Senator Udall in Colorado and told him I demanded that Obama apologize to the GOP. I'm sure there will never be an apology, cause Obama shouldn't have to apologize to anybody you know.

    THE GOVERNMENT IS THE ENEMY

NewsBusters,

I think this will be the last article of yours that I read. I've appreciated your perspective when you spoke simply and truthfully, pointing out things I would not have otherwise noticed ( especially the "name that party" series), but this article ties together guesses and speculation as if it were truth, and for that I'm going to have to pull you out of my RSS reader.

I already do not share your viewpoint that Reich's comments are racist. Making a point that he wants more than just white people hired in future construction projects does not justify such an accusation. I view it as quite the opposite, trying to take into consideration all people of color when dealing with the public's money. But then, I don't believe aiming for a colorblind society will eliminate racism as (I think) you do, so on that we must agree to disagree.

The accusation that Media Matters routinely takes quotes out of context is fine, but I don't agree with the implication that you, Hannity, Limbaugh, and Malkin don't do the same (particularly with regards to Reich's comments here). You are all partisans, and the reason I have you in my newsreader at all is because I know you'll always see a story from a particular, biased viewpoint.

However, the last point in this story is where you've lost my readership. You've extrapolated from Obama's offhand remark about Limbaugh, who can hardly be called a consensus builder, and started to baselessly drum up fear about the return of the Fairness Doctrine. When Obama makes a suggestion not to listen to someone, his words don't carry the weight of law, and in all my reading I've seen no substantive effort made to revive the Fairness Doctrine. To say otherwise is to speculate out of thin air, crossing the line from bias detector to conspiracy theorist, and I don't put crap like that in my newsreader.

I just thought you might like to know why you're losing a reader.

-David