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Liberal Radio Hosts Decry Jan Brewer's 'Blatant Racism' Toward Obama, Imagine Violence Against Her

By Tim Graham | January 28, 2012 | 06:52

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With a little more outrage than the liberal news media, the liberal talk-radio hosts lunged at Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer for merely being pictured accusingly pointing a finger at President Obama. The same people who hated reading too much into a picture of Obama not having his hand over his heart know everything about this scenario.

Al Sharpton declared “This is only one case in point of a lot of disrespectful ugly behavior, some of it motivated by just blatant racism in regard to this President and those that support him.” Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer found Stephanie Miller accusing Brewer of “playing the fragile white woman scared of black man card" and cited the movie “The Help.” She also imagined how LBJ would have violently shoved Brewer’s finger where the sun doesn’t shine: (Audio below)

 

STEPHANIE MILLER: You know it is Exhibit, you know, 6,002 of the unbelievable disrespect for this President. You know it’s like she [Gov. Brewer] almost was posing for that picture on the tarmac of her with her finger up in the President’s face you know it’s like Lyndon Johnson would have broken that off and shoved it up your bleep.

Maloney wrote that Brewer explained what happened, "But who needs facts when emotional calls for violence and childish race-baiting tactics are so much more effective?"

In the Bush years, Miller could have titled her own show "Unbelievable Disrespect for This President." Now liberals who prize their right to express disrespect  insist everyone must bow, scrape and hail the chief. In the next hour came the movie analogy, even if I expected "Driving Miss Daisy" as Miller's movie of choice:

MILLER: What did someone on my Facebook page say? She’s playing the fragile white woman scared of black man card? Yeah.

CHRIS LAVOIE, sidekick: Yeah.

MILLER: Six minutes after the hour yeah the white woman must be right.

JIM WARD, sidekick: [using southern accent] He [Obama] took the note and threw it in the car.

LAVOIE: She [Brewer] doesn’t like it when "the help" talks to her that way.

MILLER: No! I just got a DVD copy of The Help, I’ll watch it again in honor of Jan Brewer again this weekend.

On his radio show Thursday, Rev. Al Sharpton declared that "Given her references to the President, given her fighting the Justice Department on the immigration laws -- which are racial profiling -- I think she wanted a confrontation. She went out there to give him a letter and she wanted a confrontation. But this is only one case in point of a lot of disrespectful ugly behavior some of it motivated by just blatant racism in regard to this President and those that support him."

Earlier, Sharpton's buddy (and co-author Karen Hunter) asked where are the Democrats in defending Obama?

KAREN HUNTER:  Okay we don’t expect Republicans to come out and say this is wrong, even though I think fundamentally it (Gov. Brewer finger waving) undermines our nation so if you care about this country anything that disrespects the office of the Presidency disrespects out country. But where are the Democrats?! Where are the Democratic people who are supposedly supportive of this President to say this is wrong? And they don’t even have to call it racism, even though you and I will cause it is what it is. But, where are they?

SHARPTON: Well and see, let me tell you this several things come to mind. I think that you are absolutely correct. Where are the Democrats? I think that the tweeter or the I guess the one tweeting would be the twitter is right when he also says where is the Congressional Black Caucus since some of them were so vocal on the President? And a lot of people that I get personal with is people that didn’t understand why I was out in Arizona fighting this same Governor.

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That took longer than I thought, one whole day

Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 7:08am.

Reductio ad racio. Similar to Godwin's Law (reductio ad hitlerum).

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"Reductio ad racio"

Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 7:26am.

LMAO I love it!!

Actually, though, it didn't take a whole day for racism to rear its head; just the "white woman/black man" thing.  In fact, Noel had a posting yesterday about someone on MSNBC (big surprise, huh?) comparing it to the faceoff in Little Rock in the 60s!

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Oh yes, black virile fear

Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:14am.

I forgot about the new twist by the spinners (weren't they a Motown group?) about the petite flower of white womanhood cowering in front of studly Mandingo.

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Sharpton and his ilk are very, very ugly

Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 7:17am.

Any white person who criticizes any Obama policies is automatically racially profiled by the left as being racist.

I am almost, almost, sorry I was involved in the drive for civil rights in the 1960's. Some of our 'brothers and sisters' don't want equal rights, they want superior rights.

Americans keeping their own earnings is a Civil Right! Demand your Civil Rights!
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Gov. Jan Brewer

Submitted by packman on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 7:25am.

may be the only person who ever spoke to this arrogant elitist loser to his face and actually told him something he didn't want to hear. Certainly, no one else has. Perhaps her "pointy finger" is a prophetic message representing what the electorate will do to ZeroBama in November. We can only hope.

"...Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread..." ~Thomas Jefferson

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She has more guts than

Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 8:05am.

She has more guts than Bonehead or Can't do it when she tells him his policies towards Arizona suck.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing. Aiden Wilson "AW" Tozer
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Gov Brewer

Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:42am.

She may be a white woman, but she definitely ain't fragile. She's also twice the man that Obama will ever be.

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Don't Give Up The Ship!

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Al Sharpton

Submitted by Bourbeau on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 7:46am.

So Al Sharpton is complaining about ". . . . blatant ugly behavior".?????

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.

Talk about a blatant, fear mongering, despicable human being; what gives him
the gall to talk about anyone's ungly behavior when he's made a pretty nice living
off of his constituents, doing exactly the same thing.

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Racist?

Submitted by HudsonRiverGirl on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 8:07am.

Can we then assume that Obama and his entire administration hate Mexicans.

The thousands and thousands of lives lost thanks to gun walking were over 99% Mexicans.

If that isn't pure racism then what is?

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Gun Runners

Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:14am.

America's drug users are directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands in Mexico's drug wars. Get high, kill a Mexican national.

White race baiters are white race traitors.
Obama, The President of America's white trash.

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White Race Traitors

Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:08am.

White race baiters are white race traitors.

White race baiters are white race traitors.
Obama, The President of America's white trash.

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Just wait

Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:42am.

I suspect it won't take too much longer before ANY criticism and I mean ANY criticism(not just the legit ones like how this country is going to crap because of him), hell, even just voicing his name in conjunction to the upcoming(we hope) election is considered racist.  In other words, to consider an election where he's one of the (presumed) candidates is racist.

It's going to get a whole lot more ridiculous, you just watch.

That's why I've adopted the title of neo-racist conservative, what the hell, I'll wear it proudly since the original meaning of being a racist has been long lost 4 years ago.  So all you conservatives, get used to being called a racist or beat them at their own game and call yourselves racists, there ain't no getting away from it.  And make it fun, that ought to really piss them off.

-Jon, neo-racist conservative country boy

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We're already there, Jon.

Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:01am.

Any and all criticism of the malignant narcissist and his attention-seeking borderline personality disorder sycophants in the press is at least "racist", and all of the other "-ist/ism's" that are applied by the left wing hypercult of victimization. No criticism of them or their POTUS is legitimate in their eyes because they are true believers in the cult and therefore the rest of us are just heathens who don't see the halos of light that surround their master of miracles. And anything not even closely related to the Miracle Master suddenly becomes associated with him through the thinnest tissue of lies.

The press has a massive comeuppance to be had, and it will be extremely ugly when it happens.

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I'll just bet Janet Himmler is hovering with the PTB at FEMA...

Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:12am.

...at this very moment, laying plans for the soon-to-be-built Jan Brewer Federal Correctional Facility.

I wonder where they are going to put it?

-Dave

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves - Edward R. Murrow
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Where the sun don't shine?

Submitted by michael lofrano on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 10:39am.

Where the sun don't shine? Would that be your brain, Steph?

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Wow

Submitted by ant on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:40am.

The finger of a Governor 'undermines the Nation', but illegal immigration and a Constitution violating President doesn't..interesting.
And referencing LBJ while making accusations of racism? Isn't that the President that referred to the Civil Rights movement as 'nigras getting uppity'?

And Sharpton's just a loser. Check this out, it's funny and frustrating;

http://chicksontheright.com/2012/01/27/al-sharpton-demonstrates-how-sill...

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Finger??

Submitted by Joe W. on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:39am.

What about all the times that King Barack I stands at the Presidential Podium, waving his finger in America's face, as he spews his arrogant, condescending lies at us? Respect is EARNED. He respects us not. We respect him not.

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That would be his spindly,

Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:38pm.

That would be his spindly, effeminite, ET-like finger, Joe.............and that doesn't include the other finger that he has shown to various political opponents. I've got less respect for Boy Barry than the ZERO in his name.

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⇒ Of course it's racist

Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 11:47am.

And when Whoopi Goldberg walks out on Bill O'Reilly?

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Sharpton

Submitted by mmilesll on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:02pm.

If it weren't for racism Sharpton would be selling suits in a store in Harlem. He has made millions off racism and certainly doesn't want our country to change. He and Jackson have done more to incite racism than anybody but nobama.

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I've listened to Stephanie

Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:35pm.

I've listened to Stephanie Miller and her dopey co-host before, and they both sound like ADD teenagers on a combination of meth and horse-tranquilizer............and I have to say that I never learned ONE THING by listening to them either.

This 'racism' hype is actually kind of fun for me..............I like to play it up a little bit - with good cheer and humor - and watch the libs that I know get all flustered and uncomfortable - because they KNOW that it's all BS, and there's no way they can defend it, other than to keep talking about it. So I just throw it back at them, and encourage them to prove it to me - which they can't.

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HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 1:21pm.

Seriously...they really are funny.

By the way--who actually benefits from "racism" these days?

The Race Industry rolls on....

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Well jeese Mom, He did it first!

Submitted by gailannr on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 1:15am.

http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/talk_about_no_class_b...

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