Additional Reasons Why Mark Halperin's Omissions of Herman Cain at Time Are Inexcusable
Congrats to NB's Tim Graham for writing up a post ("Are Time and Mark Halperin Racist? Herman Cain Omitted Twice in GOP Oddsmaking") linked by Matt Drudge (headlined "Time Magazine Ignores Black Candidate in Race") pointing to an egregious and arguably deliberate omission of Herman Cain's name in Mark Halperin's coverage of the race for the GOP presidential nomination at Time Magazine. Tim noted that Halperin has handicapped the race twice (May 23 and June 6), but has left Cain out each time.
Tim pointed out that Cain's omission is hard to forgive, given that Cain, whose background includes extensive business turnaround experience, a stint as Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve in Kansas City, and a number of years as President of the National Restaurant Association, as well as more current involvements with talk radio and Tea Party activism, "participated in the first presidential debate on May 5 to high praise and formally announced on May 21."
There are two additional items which especially make Halperin's second exclusion of Cain appear virtually smoking-gun deliberate:
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In a Gallup survey released on Tuesday, May 24, more than likely a week before Time's June 6 issue was put to bed, Cain, as reported by Juana Summers at the Politico the next day, "Cain leads all his potential rivals in "positive intensity," calculated by measuring the difference between the potential candidates' strongly favorable and strongly unfavorable ratings." Gallup's graphic intensity representation is as follows:
- For those unimpressed with intensity ratings for supposed unknowns, there's an IBOPE Zogby poll released on Monday, May 23, which shows Cain with an outright lead over the rest of the GOP field. Cain, Chris Christie, and Mitt Romney came in with 19%, 16%, and 11%, respectively. Every other candidate in the field polled at under 10%. Kerry Picket's reaction at the Washington Times: "Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain star meter is rising among the field of GOP presidential primary candidates undeclared Republicans."
The point here isn't to assert that the items noted or Cain's debate performance prove that the Georgian is the front-runner. The point is that in the face of the data noted by Graham and now yours truly, you have to possess a special combination of one or more of the following four items -- ignorance, arrogance, deliberate bias, and/or outright racism -- to ignore Cain's presence in the race. Ignorance would appear to be a long shot, as it seems virtually inconceivable that a political reporter at Time Magazine would be completely unaware of all three items (the May 5 debate performance, the Gallup intensity poll, and the Zogby poll) demonstrating Cain's legitimacy as a candidate.
So, Mark Halperin, which one or more of the four items just mentioned -- to refresh, they are ignorance, arrogance, deliberate bias, and/or outright racism -- explain your blatant, unprofessional omissions?
Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.
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I love Cain!
Submitted by Order270 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 8:54pm.
He blows that half a race card of theirs out of the water. I loved it when he said Obama couldn't run a pizza store. What a great rip that almost no one else can get away with in the MSM. It's really sad that it has come to something like this but in the fight of "fight fire with fire", it's a beautiful thing.
Herman actually descended
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:26pm.
Herman actually descended from slaves that were sold to Americans by Arab moslem slave traders.
Probably some of obammies ancestors.
And Cain does not require a teleprompter to address the nation, or even a handle of staunch supporters.....
No wonder the media, and the republican party refuse to mention his name aloud, lest the voters hear....
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
President Obama's ancestors sold slaves?
Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 5:55pm.
First I heard of this. Kindly tell us more. Or wait. No. Don't. What does this have to do with anything at all? This has some bearing on the President and his actions? Or is it just you trying to slur the President of the United States by pointing out so long forgotten ancestor of his?
Yes. This is what is wrong with our President. He has some skeletons in his ancestral closet.
Or so we would believe from Willis_Loony_as_an_Outhouse_Rat_Johnson. Hey Loon, still waiting for you to tell us how the Birth Certificate released last month was faked. You never did lay out that case.
Yes. Do tell us how our SOLE FOCUS on this President should be his ancestry. Please. We do so want to hear more.
Oh now vet, you know that
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 10:40am.
Oh now vet, you know that this is the first time you heard that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
Your ability to play troll and attack others for no apparent reason is well known and obvious.
I'll even give you an example of the Bible you attempt to adhere closely to.
"RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420684/posts
BUT... in order for it to be effective, your target has to care what you think of him/her.
You have nothing of value to offer in response to my giving a rats behind on what you think.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
Hmm
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:23pm.
"You have nothing of value to offer in response to my giving a rats behind on what you think."
Which is why you devoted about 140 words (including quotes) to your apathy.
Tom,
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:28pm.
'the vet' is a troll that follows people around and attacks them at will.
obamas lineage seems to upset him, so he attacks me.
I respond.
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
I'm other words . . .
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:29pm.
Vet: 1
leon: 0
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
I'm quite familiar with ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 9:29pm.
... Vet's venerable vetting, thank you very much.
Claiming "racism" is bogus.
Submitted by ajkrik on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:23pm.
Their omission of Mr. Cain is liberal racial prejudice against a conservative candidate. It's political ideological bigotry and is BS, but it isn't motivated by the belief that blacks are inherently inferior to Caucasian (?) candidates.
They're ideological bigots. They believe that true black politician have to be a liberal. It's foolish to feed the liberal idiocy by perpetuating the misuse of "racism" as a word. You can't get past their misuse of that term if you institutionalize the misuse yourself.
Agreed
Submitted by GregE on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:56pm.
It's not racist. What it is is making the claim, as you say, that anyone of the black race must be liberal, period. Anything else is unacceptable. Anything else must be, at the very most marginalized, but preferably ignored so as not to make anyone of the black race, who keeps with political expectations, begin to think about anything other than the god called liberalism.
It isn't so much
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:04pm.
that Halperin "...thinks that blacks are inherently inferior to Caucasian (?) candidates."
Like most liberals, he doesn't consider Mr. Cain to be "black" black. He had the audacity to leave the liberal plantation and any smear of him that would be labeled as racist to a black liberal, is ok to be hurled at Mr Cain, with impunity.
Thank you
Submitted by Dave81 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:58am.
I made a similar remark on the previous article about this. The word "racism" is getting thrown around too much lately and people have forgotten what it truly means to be racist. The media isn't ignoring Cain because he's black, they're ignoring him because he's a black Republican, and even then that's an assumption. We need to be careful about presuming to know the intentions of others, something the MSM is more than happy to do.
2-1=1
Submitted by ClintACK on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 9:54pm.
Assuming it's true that Cain was omitted from the list because he's a black Republican...
We have two qualities leading to the omission: (1) race; (2) party membership.
It's a list of candidates for the Republican nomination, so quality (2), membership in the Republican party, is a fixed given.
That leaves only one quality which distinguishes black Republicans when compiling this list.
I'd certainly agree that "racism" has become extremely overused in recent days -- but that really, really, really isn't because of conservatives calling out liberals on it. That's not something that's being done "too much lately."
Time is a racist Leftwing
Submitted by Van Halen on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:31pm.
Time is a racist Leftwing publication run by people who hate blacks.
So Now There's Two
Submitted by Bourbeau on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 9:33pm.
So now we have two people the MSM absolutely despise - Sarah Palin and Herman Cain. Yep, they never want you to forget how much they're for breaking that glass ceiling or opening up opportunities for minorities, except when they're conservative. We all know how much they admired Condi Rice and Colin Powell, either one who easily could have been Presidential timber and rightfully deserved to be. And here we're left w/the community organizer and his food policing spouse. Yep, we're all over fixing that economy.
Cain is your status quo big
Submitted by ONUV on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:09pm.
Cain is your status quo big government conservative.
~Contradiction in terms
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:18pm.
If the first two apply the last one can't.
Reply to Onuv
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:21pm.
So you agree with Halperin that it is correct to leave Cain out of the article because he is a status quo big government conservative? Perhaps we should just cancel the election and keep on keeping on with the Messiah's socialistic agenda! That should make a keyboard jocky bandwagon hoppping liberal like yourself happy!
And your pet politician would
Submitted by Willis_Leon_Johnson on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:29pm.
And your pet politician would be "status quo" big union, screw the producers candidate?
Your buddy took the property of the shareholders and awarded it to the otto wirkers union as a thank you for putting him in office.
Nothing quite like murdering large corporations for political purposes is there?
End 'gun violence in America' - Require training and MANDATORY "Shall Carry" by every Citizen.
If harry reid is the best person to lead the senate, what does that say about the other 99 senators?
who is racist?
Submitted by c5then on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:20pm.
The group who argues with someone over their views and ideas, or the group that trys to totally ignore someone?
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Do I think Mark Halperin is "racist" who knows?
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 10:55pm.
But according to the liberal version of the word he's very racist for this intentional omission. Before you know it he'll be spouting like his Dear Comrade Leader Obama and ask Cain to do like other republicans. Sit at the back of the bus.
That remark :Sit at the back of the bus has amazed me.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Sat, 06/04/2011 - 11:01pm.
Such commands are reminders of the racists that fought to hold back black people. That the Totus uses this expression was shocking, horrifying, and oh yes, RACIST.
I still think one of the most racist connotations spoken freely
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:13am.
by white liberals is calling black conservatives "Uncle Tom." Yet no word from the NAACP for whom are supposed to be the purveyors of racial equality for blacks. Hmmm any room at the back of bus Rosa?
NAACP means
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:15am.
Not for African American Conservative Politcians
Sounds like the same old
Submitted by Zippy on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:41am.
Sounds like the same old racism. From Andrew Johnson to Lydon Johnson.
The Defeatocrats are trying to keep the front runner down. Or as they would say " just trying to keep a black man in is place."
Why fear Herman Cain so much?
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 2:14am.
If Halperin is that scared of Cain, perhaps I should consider him more carefully. -bidn-
Herman Cain
Submitted by Rose Spice on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 3:22am.
I don't care whether anyone includes Cain or not - he's a Federal Reservist who has stated he didn't think the Federal Reserve needs auditing - and he was a long-time advisor to Robert Dole, then to the Dole Campaign.
He brags on not being a politician - without mentioning the many times he ran for office - and the moves he made to make those runs.
I'm not voting for him. No matter what.
Wrong on two out of three assertions
Submitted by Prester John on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 10:58am.
A week and a half ago on Glenn Beck he clearly stated he was not against auditing the Fed.
And while he supported Dole his political mentor was Jack Kemp.
Oh, and as far as I know he's run for office once--in 2004 for the US Senate in Georgia where he finished 2d in the GOP primary--that hardly counts as running for office "many times".
Rose Spice
Submitted by JRL0912 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:13am.
Generalities again....almost every time someone lacks facts and blasts with general statements, they are not correct.....please list just some of the "MANY" times he ran for office.....it is continuously reported that he did so only once....please provide support for your obviously different statement. The rest of your rant sounds ominously close to either a liberal, or a closet racist. Herman is worth consideration by everyone.....if you have not heard his life story please look it up, then compare his American upbringing (not perfect, but real life in America) to Obama's "American upbringing and see which is closer to 98% of us.
As I said yesterday, they
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 8:33am.
As I said yesterday, they "know" Cain isn't a "real" black man, just a house slave allowing Republicans to use him in order to pretend that they don't hate blacks.
(Don't forget...Liberals know the truth. The facts are a conspiracy).
So they don't have to treat him as a serious candidate.
And THAT is the most damning proof of their own racism.
Great expectations from Mark Halperin?
Submitted by Thalpy on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:05am.
Mark's father, Morton Halperin, is a pillar of America's Left. What should be expected?
I'm going to go with "What is
Submitted by ironchefofmunchies on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 11:08am.
I'm going to go with "What is 'Deliberate Bias" Alex!
Next-I'll take "DUH" for 400.
Cain is problematic for the MSM . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:16pm.
. . . much the way Alan Keyes was a few years ago.
I think it's worse than an ideological rejection of conservative black Americans. I think they fear the repercussions from both the Civil Rights Industry and the Democrats should they give him a lot of visibility.
Expect them to continue to ignore or downplay Cain's candidacy -- until he drops out of the Republican race. At that point, the front page headline will read:
REPUBLICANS REJECT BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
My Instinct-ometer ...
Submitted by Tom Blumer on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:21pm.
... is starting to show indications that we may not ever see that headline.
The "racism" charge is empty
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 7:29pm.
The "racism" charge is empty and inane. There's absolutely nothing unusual in this sort of treatment of Cain--those in the corporate press always single out, for the cold shoulder, those considered unelectable, and, in doing so, make those candidates unelectable, all the while pretending they have no active role in the process. They do the same thing with policy they consider unrealistic. This is the normal treatment the press reserves for liberal politicians and proposals. It's good to finally see some more conservative concern about this beyond the Ron Paul fans (he's always treated the same way, and his supporters rage against it, as they should).
classicliberal---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 2:07am.
" This is the normal treatment the press reserves for liberal politicians and proposals."
Do you navigate using radar?
You are either as blind as a bat, a whopper teller, or a moron.
Then again, your username does answer any question that might arise.
MD
Trolling trolling trolling
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 5:22am.
Keeps those liberals trolling...
You just don't realize that your liberal hogwash won't wash here, pun intended.
If it's "empty" and "inane" as you state why bother posting a response on a conservative blog in the first place? You're not going to change anyone's mind here other than trolls like yourself so what's your point?
However, I will make sense of your ignorant post. If it's "empty" and "inane" like your liberal soul than the same can be said about omitting Cain as a contender in the first place. Either way your original point is not valid whatsoever.
"However, I will make sense
Submitted by classicliberal2 on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 3:42pm.
"However, I will make sense of your ignorant post. If it's 'empty' and 'inane' like your liberal soul than the same can be said about omitting Cain as a contender in the first place. Either way your original point is not valid whatsoever."
And yet you don't even try to refute it; like most of the other conservative regulars, here, you have your insults down pat, but little else.
My "original point"--which you didn't seem to understand at all--is that the press always does this sort of thing. And guess what? It does. Just today, the blog of FAIR (a liberal org that does actual press criticism) mentions a similar recent NY Times snub of Ron Paul:
http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/06/07/ron-paul-gets-covered-in-the-new-yor...
The press always does this, though it's usually against the left, and FAIR is one of many groups that have complained about it for years:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2725
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1153
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1598
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3148
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3560
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1714
" --though it's usually against the left"---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 1:55am.
See, classicliberal, it is stupid statements like that which make you an insult magnet.
You insult conservatives with your liberal tripe and then try to play the victim when called out.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
MD
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