One of the biggest concerns most conservatives had about a Barack Obama presidency was that any criticism of him or his policies would be reported by liberal media members as an act of racism.
Sadly, such fears ended up actually being understated, for since Inauguration Day, the left-wing punditry have routinely depicted anyone with the guts to question the new President -- from Tea Party goers to town hall meeting protesters -- as wearing white robes and burning crosses on folks' lawns.
The latest example is New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who in her most recent screed attributed Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) "You lie" outburst during Wednesday's healthcare speech to the ignorant notion that "Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it":
Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.
But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!
Yep, that is what Dowd heard. And that's what really is the point: to liberals like her, any criticism of a black man by a white man MUST be racist.
The congressman, we learned, belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led a 2000 campaign to keep the Confederate flag waving above South Carolina’s state Capitol and denounced as a “smear” the true claim of a black woman that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the ’48 segregationist candidate for president. Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber.
Rebuked? Was this a touch of honesty on Dowd's part, or a mistake?
After all, moments before Wilson's outburst Wednesday evening, Obama said:
Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.
As such, was Dowd admitting, unlike most of her liberal colleagues, that Obama did INDEED "rebuke" Wilson and other Republicans BEFORE Wilson replied?
If so, then maybe the Congressman just didn't like being called a liar who was spreading "bogus claims...to kill reform at any cost," and Obama's skin color had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Unfortunately, Dowd didn't "hear" it that way:
But Wilson’s shocking disrespect for the office of the president — no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq — convinced me: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.
How disgusting. But it got worse:
Barry Obama of the post-’60s Hawaiian ’hood did not live through the major racial struggles in American history. Maybe he had a problem relating to his white basketball coach or catching a cab in New York, but he never got beaten up for being black.
Now he’s at the center of a period of racial turbulence sparked by his ascension.
Actually, Maureen, Obama's the precipitate of this period of racial turbulence, not the victim.
He used the race card to defeat Hillary Clinton in the primaries, and did it again to win the White House. Even former President Clinton said this about candidate Obama, several times in fact.
More importantly, when President Obama was faced with his first racial issue during the Gates-Crowley episode, he haplessly enflamed the situation by saying the Cambridge police acted stupidly.
As such, blaming the current racial turbulence on Obama's ascension, to quote the President himself, is a lie, plain and simple.
Unfortunately, we've grown to expect nothing else from Dowd and her ilk, and I must be racist for saying so.
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"Some people just can’t
September 13, 2009 - 00:16 ET by GregE"Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it"
Some people, such as Dowd and many in the MSM, just can't believe that someone could possibly disagree with viewpoints that are Socialistic and of big government control of our lives.
Oh, well, yea I know, mine isn't nearly as substantive as Dowd's. How silly of me.
It's okay for a Black man
September 13, 2009 - 09:12 ET by Gat New YorkIt's okay for a Black man like Obama to call 60% of Americans liars (which he did in his speech just prior to Wilson's remark). But heaven forbid we should call a liar a liar without running the risk of being labelled a racist. This is getting old and Obama is causing dangerous divisiveness with his arrogant and angry rehetoric.
Well, Gat
September 13, 2009 - 09:19 ET by FeynmanFanIf Obama thinks that 60% of Americans are liars and white policeman are automatically stupid, maybe he needs to take a little time for some introspection and review of his opinion of the majority of the Americans people.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
You are right!
September 13, 2009 - 17:34 ET by Patriot III am another that can't believe a black muslim communist born in mumbasa kenya is president! DO YOU? Even tho he is temporarily filling the seat, he is about as much president as that cigar smoking bimbo chaser that was in the oval office a few years back.....respect the office? respect the man............gimme a break!! I can respect any man out here working his butt off to support his family....but I don't respect lying phonies!!!
this is old news
September 13, 2009 - 00:17 ET by candancethe MSM needs to moveon.org and find another excuse to bash conservatives.
Disgusting
September 13, 2009 - 00:17 ET by DurdenWhat amazes me is that even when hit in their pocket-books Liberals still sink lower and lower. These disgusting people will spew their ignorance regardless of the consequences to them or their organizations.
At what point do these people stop and look around to realize just how low they have gone?
They will continue to race bait
September 13, 2009 - 00:22 ET by richb313They will continue to race bait for two reasons. One is that it has always worked so well in the past to shut up any opponent and cower them into silence. Two is because they do not have any real counter arguments.
Not working anymore...
September 13, 2009 - 00:28 ET by AgentAmericanThis utterly myopic rant by Dowd is a sample of the left wing completely imploding. Race baiting does not work anymore.
Did anyone see the picture of Obama today at that "rally"? You talk about someone who is scared sh*tless! He is losing his composure by the day.
Awake the sleeping giant...and that giant is WE THE PEOPLE!
AA, you bet
September 13, 2009 - 14:06 ET by boomerconit ain't working any more. I'm actually starting to take pride in being called a racist by those lefty loons. Mainly because their overuse of that term and their targets, have pretty much nullified the stigma that they wish were still attached to it.
Call me a racist. Call me a teabagger. Call me a poodle. I just ain't buyin that guy's crap, or the SRM crap anymore!
Get ready
September 13, 2009 - 00:33 ET by AndanteWhen Obama is Ogonna in 2012 the title of her first article will be:
Racism is Back
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." --Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's like I hear that word every day now.
September 13, 2009 - 00:34 ET by superconIt's the only trick they know.
" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him...." -Sen. Jim DeMint
The real racists
September 13, 2009 - 01:21 ET by SeftonOther than the lame excuse it's become, I would also offer that people like Dowd and other leftist pundits are ashamed to admit that what they're doing is actually projecting their own racism.
It's become such a ludicrous and false claim when trying to slander the opposing side that they have labeled themselves as racists. They, in fact, see the color of the president's skin as a perpetual counter attack and thus - without realizing it - reflect the racism back onto themselves each time they use it.
It's actually kind of humorous to watch them self destruct in this way.
oh. my. gosh.
September 13, 2009 - 01:27 ET by katainkentI just scrolled down the homepage. I see 4 more racism stories since I went to dinner and a movie.
I'm done people. This is rediculous. Race card - DECLINED.
To quote Jack Bauer - from post-racial to most racial in 6 months!
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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ~Thomas Jefferson
(if you think healthcare is expensive now - wait
thanks kk... even I'd
September 13, 2009 - 04:42 ET by Jack Bauerthanks kk... even I'd forgotten that one. It's really rather good, n'est pas?
OBAMA, STOP HIDING. SHOW US THE LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!
September 13, 2009 - 01:28 ET by Captain SteveDowd can't help it. You'd be angry too if you were that ugly.
OBAMA, STOP HIDING. SHOW US THE LONG FORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!
MS Dowd
September 13, 2009 - 01:38 ET by Joe CamelIt is NOT true what they say about black men...please...please..move on. Sure you can hire one to take care of your "guilt" out there babe..cuz I sure would not..
Politico's Ande Coller is so upset at Joe Wilson's outburst that
September 13, 2009 - 02:13 ET by Rush Fanshe wrote an article inferring that Republicans are "cranks", "crackpots", and racist.
In an article titled GOP 'cranks' dominating debate Coller writes with the help of some "Republicans" the following:
Coller ends her piece with a question only a liberal "journalist" would ask:
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“The media is a disgrace. You have forfeited any notion that you once had of respect” ~ Rush Limbaugh
Wow...not only racist, but
September 13, 2009 - 06:42 ET by motherbeltWow...not only racist, but cranks and crackpots, too!!
“The image of a bunch of white guys booing an African-American president is about as bad as it gets.”
The Democrats are in their glory. Finally they have a President who is untouchable! No more having to make a lucid argument trying to defend his policies. No more needing facts to back up anything he says.
No more can anyone disagree with him when he says he will provide health care to millions more Americans without added cost, without increasing the deficit, without rationing!
If you do, you're just a racist!!
MB
September 13, 2009 - 07:28 ET by FeynmanFanObama's only untouchable if people allow themselves to be cowered by the Dems/MSM's accusations that they are racist. The best response to that charge is to laugh at them, ask what's racist about wanting to make government better and keep going forward. Dems and the MSM are trying to instill guilt in the conservative movement and the only way they can do that is if conservatives play along.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
I love it when these pseudo
September 13, 2009 - 02:33 ET by G. MayI love it when these pseudo intellectual elites do this stuff. I used to get mad. Now I realize that these people are shooting themselves down far more effectively than any opponent could.
US versus THEM... and them is unhinged
September 13, 2009 - 04:39 ET by Jack BauerPRIME EXAMPLE ns --
the excerable and whiter than me Geraldo opens his pathetic show Saturday with -- grainy footage of the KKK in the 1960s as he talks over about the DC protest.
He later questions Ann Coulter with, I paraphrase, "isn't this all really about race".. meaning yesterdays dissent.
It's vile, in your face bigotry. FROM GERALDO. Designed to demonize the citizenry. And it's a Democrat/Obama tactic, marching order.
But in a way this is good. They are losing it big time.
It is finally raising the political consciousness of a quiet, decent populus who just want to lead their lives of quiet dignity, be left alonne by big government, and who haven't been politically active before, outside the PTA.
They are not "racists." And this is not the segregated 1950s.
And they resent being vilified by pasty-white assed types like Maureen Dowd, who, no doubt, would have been a Black Panther groupie at Leonard Bernstein's Upper West side pad, 40 years ago.
Bend over Lennie's dining room table Maureen and prove your pallored revolutionary zeal in public. Lay down and think of Che. Mo' better screws.
Get Over It MSM
September 13, 2009 - 04:43 ET by mountainman08The race card is not working any more MSM. The American public is becoming more united each week when they watch the MSM trying to spin the truth and they call their Mom's and Dad's, Brother's and Sister's RACIST. For disagreeing with Obama and his agenda. People like dowd and the rest of the liberal commentator's think if they play the race card it will help their weekly ratings, well that's not working anymore.
oh god
September 13, 2009 - 05:20 ET by OldJoenot her again.
Obama is black, Maureen?
September 13, 2009 - 06:12 ET by Red JeepNot African-American? Mulatto is correct.
I think you'd like
September 13, 2009 - 06:38 ET by topdog729this video I sent to david schister!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKqSHn0SUvw
Interesting, Thanx
September 13, 2009 - 13:24 ET by Red JeepSee Shuster continually refers to Obama as African-American. Regarding what Willis Leon Johnson wrote below maybe BO is the first Octaroon Hawaiian-American President.
Red Jeep
September 13, 2009 - 13:24 ET by FeynmanFanLMAO.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
No, not mulatto
September 13, 2009 - 09:44 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonWith only one eighth Negro bloodline, he would be an octaroon.
HOWEVER, he is Arab, NOT a descendant of slaves in the US.
His ancestors sold slaves to slave traders, who in turn SOLD THEM WORLDWIDE, not just in the US.
HE should pay those reparations.
http://gjresult.com
opposite of antithesis
September 13, 2009 - 06:21 ET by CatherwoodI think this puts all this media bias discussion into perfect perspective. Maureen has it exactly backwards. This is not about racism at all; it's about socialism, the redistribution of wealth--taking money from those who work hard everyday and giving it to those who rise at noon to smoke pot and shoot pool. Neither Maureen or the Change Joker get it. Why should we work so hard to support Acorn and provide medical care for illegals? That's what this is all about. That the Change Joker is black doesn't bother me at all. Now, Joe Biden being an alien does bother me, but Maureen doesn't know that either.
Don't suppose it could be Obama is actually lying
September 13, 2009 - 06:37 ET by political mavenThe race card doesn;t work anymore. Obama thought that would be his eternal get out of jail free card, sorry MZZZZ Dowd, just doesnt fly anymore
"Some people just
September 13, 2009 - 06:53 ET by MidAmerica"Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it":
Heck, barack has it easy. Just try being a Republican President. The left has not accepted the legitimacy of any Republican President since Eisenhower.
Wow, it couldn't possibly
September 13, 2009 - 07:12 ET by wiwfWow, it couldn't possibly be that we disagree with him. No, that's impossible!
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
Does this woman have one
September 13, 2009 - 07:23 ET by suzycreamcheeseDoes this woman have one original idea in her walnut-sized brain?
No, she's a follower..
September 13, 2009 - 08:07 ET by JAJTNo, she's a follower.. Always has been and always will be...JAJT
"But, fair or not, what I
September 13, 2009 - 07:42 ET by Average_JoeMN"But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!"
The reason you heard this, Maureen, is because YOU'RE THE RACIST!
JoeMN
September 13, 2009 - 07:51 ET by FeynmanFanThat's true. One would think that as soon as she realized that she "heard" a racist remark when none was made, she would have stopped and said "Whoa! Maybe it's me!"
Nah, never happen in a million years.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
MoDo just "knows" what
September 13, 2009 - 08:19 ET by motherbeltMoDo just "knows" what Wilson was thinking!
Yeah, that's one of the oldest racist taunts in the book!
"You lie, boy!" has never, ever been a typical racist taunt, Mo....it's one you created in your over-active, under-powered brain!
And your inferring that says more about you than about Joe Wilson!
You and your liberal buddies got away, during the campaign, with making points by predicting what Republicans would do....how many times did candidate Obama and his friends say that Republicans would make racial attacks? They never did. You spent over a year hearing "unspoken words." You all got your jollies by claiming racism would occur, not that it had!
And you know what? No one cares what you think any more. You're completely irrelevant.
It's based on her assumptions that
September 13, 2009 - 08:57 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonA. All Black People are liars, and it's genetically impossible for them not to lie.
B. All other races never lie because it is genetically impossible for non Blacks to lie.
Under those assumptions, it would be a racist statement to POINT OUT the genetic strain in a derogatory manner.
On the other hand, she is non Black, and she disproves her own assumptions every time she opens her mouth.
http://gjresult.com
I see how it is...
September 13, 2009 - 07:48 ET by i was just thinkingDisagree with President Obama = Racism
Disagree with President Hillary (had she won) = Chauvinism
Disagree with President Bush = Patriotism
This whole race thing is beyond silliness. The very act of playing the race card is a statement that they are losing the debates.
If this sleazy Chicago pol is not re-elected to the Presidency, it won't just be the race card, it's gonna be "52-Card Pick-up"! Every leftwing nutjob (MSM included) will be crying "racism" from the mountaintops.
So Dowd wants to join in
September 13, 2009 - 08:05 ET by JAJTSo Dowd wants to join in the racism game...
whatever-... **YAWNS** JAJT
What will they do....
September 13, 2009 - 08:20 ET by John WIWhat will they do...(hypothetically speaking)...if there comes a day when a Republican conservative black man...or woman...runs for President.....and all of us right wing extremist vote for them...and they win in a landslide?
It will be funny too watch their little short circuit and fizzle out.
But I'm sure they will come out with some lame brain excuse.
John WI
September 13, 2009 - 08:27 ET by FeynmanFanIf a Republican conservative black man or woman runs for president and wins in a landslide, they will start using the phrase "Uncle Tom". It's happened before.
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
Uncle Tom?
September 13, 2009 - 08:46 ET by RayRaylet's not forget that Obama was initially labelled as 'not black enough'
but after losing New Hampshire, he dispatched his troops to claim that he was the victim of whitey's 'racism'. Then it instantly became a matter of "us vs them" for blacks, and of course the liberal white media followed suit and threw in nearly 100% for Obama.
Dowd being the real racist here
September 13, 2009 - 08:42 ET by RayRayshe will turn every story into her liberal brand of anti-white bigotry
those people cannot conceive that the days of automatically winning every argument by saying "you're a racist" are over
Uh maureeeeennnnn?
September 13, 2009 - 08:45 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonYou lie girl.
I am MALE, and I am WHITE.
Now you tell me girl, am I a racist?
Am I a chauvinist?
Or, are YOU a liar?
Maybe your leg tingles just a tad too much to be able to concentrate?
http://gjresult.com
It's the old ...
September 13, 2009 - 08:53 ET by mytwocentsIt's the old "Little boy who cried 'wolf'! story. People have totally stopped paying attention to this pap. We don't see skin color you ignoramous! We are protesting against his freaking policies!
Following the Democratic Playbook
September 13, 2009 - 09:12 ET by BW222The media is following the Democratic Playbook - any criticism of Obama is racist.
Maureen Dowd is dhowing the years. Her face has more lines than a map of Cleveland.
BW222
Me doth protest too much?
September 13, 2009 - 09:13 ET by sam12663"Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black(emphasis added) president presiding over the majestic chamber."
Hey Maureen, couldn't this comment be considered 'racist and stereotypical'? By chosing to use the term 'brainy black', aren't you implying that most black people are not intelligent? Perhaps it is not those of us that simply reject President Obama's policies that are racist, it is indeed you, Ms. Dowd, that can't come to grips with the fact that your 'brainy black' president is totally in over his head, and you need to distort the facts to keep the lemmings from realizing this. Well look around, Ms. Dowd, IT IS NOT WORKING! The American people are much smarter than you give them credit for, and we can see a snake oil salesman when we see one. Color is not the issue; it is policies and spending.
President Obama is nothing more than a lying empty suit; a Hollywood
style special effects smoke and mirrors show that has shown itself to
be a total fraud.
WAKE UP AMERICA! SAVE OUR CONSTITUTION!
Obama media lead race to irrelevancy
September 13, 2009 - 09:15 ET by Jack BauerTo Maureen Dowd, Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, David Shuster and all those who have constructed an elaborate conspiracy of racism concerning the mildest criticism of their cult leader Barack Obama...
I now officially dub them and their movement to be...
As in... "Oh that Bill Maher... he's just a RACER conspiracy nut."
Please use at you discretion.
thanks
September 13, 2009 - 09:55 ET by charlietexasgood term...racers....hope it catches on....mom
His outburst was not about racism. It was about lies.
September 13, 2009 - 09:20 ET by ThalpyHis outburst was not about racism. It was about lies.
→ Thalpy
September 13, 2009 - 09:53 ET by Cool ArrowWe have an addendum to the Liberal axiom that it's impossible for a black person to be racist.
It seems now, liberals believe it is also impossible for a black man to be a liar.
Van Jones is a Quitter - FS
White Elites Represent Blacks?
September 13, 2009 - 09:33 ET by slickwillie2001Don't black folks ever get tired of the thousands of privileged whites in the old media that profess to speak for them?
Isn't this another form of the liberals racism of low expectations? "Those poor black folks don't know how to speak up for themselves, so we have to help them?"
→ You got it slick
September 13, 2009 - 09:47 ET by Cool ArrowMoDo is just reminding you that everything said or done by a black man must be considered through the liberal filter of "Didn't you notice he's black?"
America seems to have been confused during the last election. In their haste to overlook the Candidate's skin color, they did the same in judging the content of his character.
Van Jones is a Quitter - FS
Typical
September 13, 2009 - 09:54 ET by charlietexasTypical liberal response. When in doubt.....play the race card. Mo is probably one of the obama supporters that regrets her vote, so... try to put it on everyone else. PLAY THE RACE CARD. Sorry MO....not working. The only people that have ever brought up race are the democrats, including your leader........barry.
mom
RACE? BALONY!
September 13, 2009 - 10:18 ET by finmillRSF in Downstate Illinois
THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS!
I am confident that this RACISM theme will be repeated for a long time, I can only hope so.
Where to begin
Which way to approach this silly accusation
1) I think most sensible people feel that the only one involved in defining RACE as it has been in the past is the PRESIDENT. I do not think he can help it. It happens. Remember Howard Dean's comment to banquet room workers.
2) I think that the people that are gathering are protesting threats to their way of life, including my Mom. I do not think that anything other than policy and taxes are involved.
This Administration and those that fall back on RACE will be short in power. They are losing any credibility left.
Leftist downfall
September 13, 2009 - 10:59 ET by GalvanicI'm beginning to believe that the instinctive impulse to play the race card against any and all who disagree with the Left is having a cumulative effect on average Americans. Dowd, Maher, Matthews, and others are as predictable as a sunrise when it comes to countering criticism of this President, but rather than chilling dissent, I think dissent is coalescing and intensifying around the anger over having it played on them.
So let these MSM dweebs play the race card. It isn't working to their advantage.
What a loser.
September 13, 2009 - 12:06 ET by WorriedDowd is relegated to working for the New York Slimes and is still using his race as an excuse for those of us against his policies.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed but I saw through the huckster before he came on the big stage.
Maureen, ask Barbara Boxer what happens when you keep using race against the American people.
Mzzz Dowd has officially,
September 13, 2009 - 12:27 ET by celatorMzzz Dowd has officially, permanently entered the Media Kook World. There is no hope for her. Sad, in a way.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
I
September 13, 2009 - 12:46 ET by jessieHI can accept a black man as president. I can not accept anything reported by the new york times. Useless waste of paper.
Even the WH is not buying
September 13, 2009 - 12:55 ET by JAJTEven the WH is not buying Dowd's claim that Joe Wilson outburst was race motivated.
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Poor Maureen
September 13, 2009 - 12:56 ET by justbob223She hasn't been in touch with reality in decades. Only the left is obsessed about race. Conservatives couldn't care less. What matters to us is principle and character. You know, kind of like Martin Luther King.
I think they are trying to
September 13, 2009 - 13:24 ET by RR GOPI think they are trying to make sure that Ozero's poll numbers never go below 30% by playing the race card.
Lessee here:
% 11 for African -Americans
% 10 for the hardcore DU/Kos types
% 10 for the clueless/low IQ bunch
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
MAUREEN SAID: "But, fair or
September 13, 2009 - 14:13 ET by redmikeMAUREEN SAID: "But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!"
What I heard was someone telling truth to power. If that is what Maureen actually heard, then she is, without a doubt, a hard-core racist.
Lefty mindreaders . . .
September 14, 2009 - 00:19 ET by GalvanicDowd hears things she hoped she would hear. Apparently, she reads minds.
Reminds me of Eleanor Clift quoting Sarah Palin on The McLaughlin Group last Janaury: "I can see Russia from my house."
Both McLaughlin and panelist Pat Buchanan immediately corrected her by accurately stating that it wasn't Gov. Palin, but SNL comedienne Tina Fey who uttered the line.
Clift replied, "Well, that's what she (Palin) meant to say."
It's just shameful that he
September 13, 2009 - 15:10 ET by AlanaIt's just shameful that he shouted out, "You lie, boy!" I don't see how in this day and age anyone in Congress could say such a racist and demeaning thing.
Oh wait, he didn't? He shouted only, "You lie"?
No matter! He COULD have called the President "boy"!
It's just shameful that in this day and age, anyone in Congress could shout out something that COULD have been something else!
→ Interesting observations
September 14, 2009 - 00:29 ET by Cool ArrowWhat's interesting here is that MoDo automatically attaches the term "boy" to President Obama.
This is nothing more than Liberal Tourettes Syndrome. She just can't look at a black person without objectifying him or her as inferior.
Then she blames her blurted thought on a conservative, believing herself safe in the mantra that liberals, given their copious condescension, can't possibly be racist.
MD and her ilk are a JOKE
September 14, 2009 - 07:30 ET by mchris65How ugly and frankly, stupid. Anyone who resorts to racism attacks when the public is merely voicing gov't unhappiness is betraying their own racist bent. They don't see Obama as a man first!
without the RACIST vote-BHO would not be in the White House-
September 14, 2009 - 08:06 ET by JIMMY1660keep calling wolf-and wolf will no longer have impact, and when wolf is real-you will get nothing.
keep it up. you are doing race relations a disservice.
BHO- THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE
Dowd's a dolt
September 14, 2009 - 08:11 ET by Stop2thinkWow! So, Ms. Dowd has made a specious connection between protesting a president and racism. Interesting! Well, Ms. Dowd, since you are making such ludicrous claims, let me add one: your insipid, hysterical screeds are most likely due to your impending menopause. I mean, what else could it be, ya know?
Please leave hoods in trunk!
September 14, 2009 - 10:44 ET by kengieTea begging is a non-issue, a grain of sand on the beach! What is at issue is the whitty righties just want to whine because they lost! They are not protesting the issues; they just don't want a black president! "White Power!! Dave Chappelle
Kengie, WTF is 'tea begging'?
September 14, 2009 - 10:51 ET by SickofLibsAnd did you mean 'whitey' instead of 'whitty'?
And just remember, you're still on double-secret probation, so watch yourself today. We'd hate to see you go to Davy Jones' Locker.
→ kengie
September 14, 2009 - 10:55 ET by Cool ArrowFor you, I'm sure tea bagging is a non-issue. What you and your man do behind closed doors isn't my business, I guess.
I don't engage in such acts with a member of the same sex, so I don't understand your affinity for it.
And since you're probably too young to remember Jimmah Carter as President, maybe it's forgiveable that you believe another dynamic is at work between the American public and this President.
But it ain't so.
Obama - South Chicago Racist Of The United States.
why beg for tea?
September 14, 2009 - 11:13 ET by katainkentI am sure you can get them with food stamps.
Maureen you ignorant Slut
September 14, 2009 - 10:46 ET by grumpyoldbYou have to realize this. A LIAR, is a LIAR regardless of their color, You are a LIAR, and so is B.O. REGARDLESS of what your races are...
leftie racism
September 14, 2009 - 12:35 ET by rfpzzzzzIt amazes me that the left are so obsessed with seeing racism behind every tree. They see racism in shadows and minds everywhere they look.
They can't seem to see the ballooning deficit, encroaching government and wierdo associates and advisers. They only see racism.
I have come to the conclusion that they are racists in the deep recesses of their minds. They are like reformed drinkers who look for alcoholism in every casual beer. They are running from something by continually shouting racism.
Most of us discounted Obama's half-blackness long before the election. Have they noticed Michael Steele....other than to make fun of him? I have watched them mock Condi and characterize her lips, butt and hair and they call us racists. They are a compilation of twisted mental and emotional complexes. They are walking jokes... Ms. Dowd included.
The NYT echo chamber of irrelevance
September 14, 2009 - 12:42 ET by southc0astIt is at once amusing and embarrasing to watch the NYT organization in its death spiral. These people regard themselve as sophisticated and highminded but in reality are just what they claim not to be, just with a better vocabulary. The organization is more like a wounded animal which while dying from self inflicted wounds does everything it can to strike at anyone around it. These people are no longer mainstream and have for years been drifting off the road into the gutter of irrelevance with the rest of its like minded in the same herd. These same people all sit in the same ditch gunning the liberal engine in the mud while the rest of normal America drives on. Hopefully this organization and its little parasites like the Boston Globe with fade away.