ALSO, America apparently the land of permanent racism
I am wondering if CNN was out of the country last November 4? Maybe it missed that McCain lost the election because, once again, CNN trotted out an Old Media campaign lie aimed at making John McCain "as bad as" the Reverend Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright by using the talking point that in Reverend John Hagee McCain had a "controversial" pastor, too? Not only did CNN fall back on the lie that Hagee is somehow just as bad as Wright -- and thereby smearing John McCain with Wright's racist hatespeak -- but CNN got a twofer with this piece by again portraying America as the land of permanent, unrelenting racism by hinting that Obama will never get a chance because he's black.
News flash to CNN: Barack HAS gotten a chance. He was elected with a comfortable majority of votes.
If anyone wonders what any criticism of Barack Obama will be termed by the Old Media, CNN's headlined "Will Obama have to be better because he's black?" seems to answer to that question. You see, Obama won't be given a chance, CNN tells us, because he's black. Any failure will be made larger because he's black. And any criticism of him is just racism forcing Obama to "work harder than whites" at his job.
Amazingly, sort of like the fable of the boy that cried wolf, as CNN puts out this doggerel there doesn't seem to be a single article from either side of the aisle raising this point except CNN. No one is even remotely using this concept as a bludgeon with which to beat the new president. No credible person is warning that he isn't smart enough or isn't up to the job because he's black.
But, at least this concept which is left over trope from past experience is one that might be legitimately thought not fully dispelled. On some level, we can at least understand the elder black man featured in the piece, a Tuskegee Airman named Alexander Jefferson, wondering if Barack will be subject to similar pressure that he experienced in WWII. Jefferson felt he had to be twice as good as a white pilot to be accepted for his skills in the cockpit and assumes that Obama will be held to a similar over-expectation. Since Barack is the first black president, this fellow's worries are understandable at some level... even though contemporary evidence seems to suggest that such outmoded thinking has long been defeated.
Instead of sticking with the curiosity of Mr. Jefferson, though, CNN had to stray back to a campaign lie that the Old Media used to quash outrage over Reverend Jeremiah Wright's quite current racist hate in order to assist Barack Obama to distance himself from his racist "spiritual mentor" in an all out media effort to get him elected -- a goal the Old Media achieved.
CNN revisited the lie that John McCain's sparse connection with Reverend John Hagee was "just as bad" as Obama's connection to the racist, anti-American ranting of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
Rojecki says people who say Obama isn't going to be held to a different standard because of his skin color didn't pay attention to his campaign.
He says Obama had to deal with challenges that other candidates didn't have to face. Obama's run for office was almost ended by his association with his minister, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose incendiary sermons shocked many.
But Republican presidential nominee John McCain's relationship with the Rev. John Hagee, who was accused of anti-Semitism, never threatened to end his campaign, Rojecki says.
"Obama was held responsible for what his minister said, and McCain was associated with Hagee, but somehow that didn't stick," says Rojecki, a communication professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
This is a blatant lie promulgated by this Rojecki fellow and CNN. John McCain had never met John Hagee before the campaign and had only visited with him a few times once McCain received Hagee's endorsement. On the other hand, Barack Obama counted the racist Rev. Wright as a "member of the family," called him his "spiritual mentor" and sat in his church listening to his racist, anti-American rants, with his children sitting beside him, for twenty years. To say that Obama's twenty year relationship with the racist Wright is exactly the same as McCain's twenty minute relationship with Hagee is the worst sort of lie.
But, here is CNN throwing this lie out there to bamboozle the public once again.
CNN leaves us at the end of this article with another Rojecki lie. This time making it seem as if George W. Bush was unqualified and could not have been elected president were he black.
White candidates for office don't have to have an uninterrupted life of achievement to be considered for the Oval Office, Rojecki says.
"If George W. Bush were black, do you think he would be president?" Rojecki says.
Why wouldn't we expect Bush to have gotten elected if he were black? After all, Obama got elected and he has very little experience compared to what Bush had in 1999. If we elected Obama, a black man with almost no resume at all, why wouldn't we have elected a two time Governor of one of the largest states in the union even if he should have been black?
Obama's election has lowered the bar quite a bit, here. Far from expecting more qualifications for future candidates, his candidacy seems to speak to fewer qualifications being required by voters!
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It's stories like these that make me feel sorry
January 27, 2009 - 02:51 ET by thebutlerdiditfor black people. To me, this whole article is a racist mess, and basically says, no matter what you do, "whitey" will always look at you are sub-standard. Where does this occur?? I am sure the Tuskeegee pilot felt it, lived it. But, in a job environment these days, I just don't see it. My hubby and I own businesses. We spend more time looking for people who can fog up a mirror, than giving a rip what color they are. I haven't got the time, or energy to worry or even think about this kind of crap. If I was black, and read this article, I would want to kick someone's fanny for making me seem inferior.
Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned the dinner, let's get the dog to cook." PJ O'Rourke
Yep
January 27, 2009 - 08:15 ET by 10ksnookerThe Democrats have been doing this racist number on blacks for decades, umm, uhh, well ever since the civil war. Democrats play a good game of "Lucy and the Football" with blacks. What I don't understand, the blacks never seem to be able to figure it out.
Obama's Perpetual Campaign
January 27, 2009 - 03:30 ET by jcharlesIt still amazes me that conservatives still don't get it!! The paradigm of political campaigns has all changed with Obama. There is no longer a "campaign cycle" or a "campaign season.". Don't you get it?!? The game has totally changed while you were asleep. It called "perpetual campaigning." All the campaign machine stays in place. Obama campaigned for the Presidency for two (2) years!! He's campaignng for 2012! He has kept all his support apparatus in place and on message.
The conservatives are as as dumbfounded as to what's going on as they were during the campaign. The Democrates are so far ahead of the Conservatives it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. WAKE UP! At this rate we'll be lucky to elect a conservative in the next 40 years.
The follow up question will
January 27, 2009 - 03:31 ET by FairlightThe follow up question will then be, "will CNN have to fabricate more since they are ratings challenged?"
President Obama: A poor black man in a white man's society.
January 27, 2009 - 04:07 ET by tomchrisI knew it. We all knew it. Less than a week after an Obama is sworn in office- a moment that was supposed to be a triumph for all Americans with its groundbreaking historical signifigance- CNN pulls the race card. As with regurgitating the big lie that Wright=Hagee (right up there with John McCain=George W. Bush), this is disgusting.
Clearly, this "university professer," a term now synonymous with "leftest," is pathetically trying to shield Obama from any criticism by branding our new President as a victim and, of course, branding anyone who opposes Obama's policy stances as racist.
Also, the professor's statement that "If George W. Bush were black, do you think he would be president?" says a mouthful about the mindset of a race -obsessed academic. For if Barack Obama did indeed share Bush's idiology, if he veered from the leftist plantation, even the "messiah" would be sent packing back to Alaska along with Sarah, Todd, and the kids.
It is the left and only the left that sees Barack Obama though the prism of race. THAT is racist.
Obama Memo To Obama
January 27, 2009 - 06:04 ET by RadiomanI. Remind Chris Matthews, one doesn't end an E-mail to the president with "XXX."
2. Michelle is right about those awful girl dolls. Better wait until the second term. Besides, the Obama plates, pictures, and buttons are flying off the shelves.
3. Have the bowling alley demolished. It will make a great meditation room.
4. Remind Joe Biden to stop saying, "She's alive! She's alive!" whenever Helen Thomas asks a question.
5. Michelle must use more black designers and something has got to be done with her hair. The time is right to bring back the old Angela Davis look.
6. Put a "mop detail" on duty after press conferences. I'm convinced all that moisture on the floor is not water.
7. Now that I've given the gays and abortionists a break, it's time to thank all those evangelical Christians for their votes. (LOL)
8. Remind Joe Biden not to use the word "Achtung" whenever I enter a room.
9. Spent time meditating in the study off the oval office ( The Lewinsky Room) yesterday. I was getting in touch with my pure inner self when Nancy Pelosi walked by. My that old broad looks ssooo ggoood in RED!
10. Make sure all Secret Service guys carry a pack of Luckies and one of those Bush novelty lighters. Also, fireplace and ashtrays are a must for my new meditation room.
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No more white gowns/dresses
January 27, 2009 - 06:53 ET by Red JeepNo more white gowns/dresses for Michelle.
Give me a break
January 27, 2009 - 06:27 ET by legacyrepublicanHagee accused of anti-Semitism?
Come on. I don't watch the man, but the few times I have turned the dial and hit on his broadcast, he has been speaking in glowing terms about how we should support Israel and Jews.
That is possibly the only reason I stopped to listen.
Most evangelical preachers I know are Pro-Israel and not against the Jews.
Prove to me the claim of anti-Semitism with facts, not opinion.
I have watched Hagee
January 27, 2009 - 11:24 ET by Tom in NCmost Sunday mornings for the last few years and his passion for Israel and the Jewish people is genuine, This man doesn't have an anti-semite bone in his body.
Jeremiah Wright on the other hand is a raving racist, anti-semite, anti-American SOB!
In Defense of Israel
January 27, 2009 - 15:34 ET by nkviking75Hagee also wrote a book, which I have read, called "In Defense of Israel" which is just exactly what the title says it is. No intellectually honest person could believe that Hagee is anti-Semitic.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
What CNN is really saying
January 27, 2009 - 06:47 ET by Worriedis they know he'll be a failure after only 7 days so they have to start making excuses now. CNN is implying that blacks aren't as smart as white people. I think it should be a crime that a supposed NEWS OUTLET doesn't give the news, just opinion.
THE REAL RACISTS ARE OVER AT CNN.
the Focus
January 27, 2009 - 07:06 ET by Chattychitoyou have to keep the people focused on anything but Obama or you will loose them in the fog of disollusion.
No matter what happens they have to make this guy look good. I would love to see what they do to this guy if he murdered a top MSNBC or CNN Exec.
Maybe run a McCain chose Palin for Running mate reprint just to get everyone off balance
Good Night Irene!
Don't you know, the only
January 27, 2009 - 07:10 ET by motherbeltDon't you know, the only reason that all those people voted for a black guy is to hide the fact that they hate blacks.
CNN knows this....they can see inside them; no point in trying to hide it by electing and even swooning over a black man! They will now release their hatred by disguising it as legitmate criticism!
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men??? CNN knows!!!
\sarc
e-mail flood
January 27, 2009 - 07:17 ET by actionI'm sure the Communist News Network (CNN) has a website with a "contact" option. Why don't we flood their contact site with e-mails every time they try to indoctrinate us?? I've never seen this idea mentioned on NB.
More then 90% of one RACE votes for BARRKY based on ...
January 27, 2009 - 07:25 ET by Jayke... his SKIN COLOR. I would agree that there is RACISM just not the kind CNN proposes.
I can understand why Mr.
January 27, 2009 - 08:21 ET by SeashellI can understand why Mr. Jefferson feels the ways he does. In that time I am sure he did have to work twice as hard to earn the respect of his fellow pilots, but I agree with Warner that today "such outmoded thinking has long been defeated". Most employers today just want someone to to get the job done right, regardless of skin color. I am sure that most here did not vote for Obama, but it had nothing to do with skin color. I would have however, voted for Condi Rice had she run.
I think CNN is just throwing out excuses in case of failure to protect Obama. They see the position he is in with the economy, and they know it will be a long term problem. They are worried about 2012.
Frankly, for me Rev. Wright is old news. I could care less about him now. Obama won. I have a feeling we will be hearing a lot more of this type of "pre"excuse making from the left, and you can count on Bush being the target as well as racism.
Bias up the wazoo
January 27, 2009 - 08:33 ET by sshuffield70CNN couldn't tell anyone the difference between sitting in a pew and listening to the same racist preacher for 20 years vs. one that agrees with you politically but not a member of your church. They NEVER got that straight.
And while we're on the subject of racism, the Congressional Black Caucus has now come out and said if you're not black, you can't join their group. Just ask Pete Stark (D-CA), Joseph Cao (R-LA), and Steve Cohen (D-TN). They're constituents are majority black, but they can't get into the CBC. Nice going </sarc>
So CNN is being racially divisive? Shocking! Appalling! . . ..
January 27, 2009 - 08:53 ET by CKA in Red State USABut that they're a few months behind on the news they're supposed to report?
Par for the course.
Were they right then or are they right now???
January 27, 2009 - 08:57 ET by DontFeedTheTrolls"If George W. Bush were black, do you think he would be president?" Rojecki says.
If Obama were white, do you think he would be President? I say.
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If Obama were white he would
January 27, 2009 - 09:06 ET by SeashellIf Obama were white he would never have made it to the primaries. Probably would not have been a Senator either.
There WAS a white Obama....
January 27, 2009 - 09:25 ET by superconHis name was John Edwards.
"Keep hope alive."
Because with a name like Obama... you know it has to be good.
Yes Obama has had to work
January 27, 2009 - 09:03 ET by eaglewingz08Yes Obama has had to work twice as hard his whole life to get where he is today. I mean look at that legislative record, twice as many bills passed in the US Senate, twice as much success when he was head of the Chicago Annenberg Project, twice as much success in cleaning up Chicago's South Side. I mean how could I have missed that?
Obama: First Affirmative Action President
January 27, 2009 - 09:28 ET by The Smokin Frog"Will Obama have to be better because he's black?" First of all, that's half black. Second of all he is treated like an affirmative action president, he is being protected and the media lies for him, he needs a hand out to succeed. He is hardlyhas to exceed past presidents. He is also our first president about nothing. Nothing is what he has accomplished. No other president was as bankrupt in their resume as Obama. And to compare him to Tuskegee Airmen that gave their life for the America that Obama wants to change is ludicrous.
Obama is getting a pass on everything. He is their special one and they won't let him fail, even is he does. The press, and liberals in general, are quite racist. They think blacks are incapable of succeeding with out their help.
Hagee has many serious theological problems. At the very least he teaches heterodox. But He wasn't McCain's pastor nor did McCain frequent his church. Wright is entirely off of the plantation. He is a heretic. He preaches hatred and calls it Gospel. His is a blend of Marxism/Liberation hooey. It sees Christ as bringing in a societal utopia now. But Christ died for our sins so we would be forgiven and arrive one day in His utopia. Christians call that the resurrection of the dead. Until then, as Christ promised, we will have suffering in this life.
Life is not a bowl of cherries.
Liberal puppets and their blindness...
January 27, 2009 - 09:28 ET by dborschjr68So this is when I would copy and paste this article and send it to the liberal puppet media and ask them, "Who's racist now?"
"Liberate tutume ex inferis, liberal puppets." Me.
Why is racism and all or nothing proposition with conservatives?
January 27, 2009 - 09:33 ET by respectfulconservativeMost people are not conciously racist, but they are not completely colorblind either.
1)Studies where identical resumes are sent out to potential employers with black and white sounding names, reveal that blacks with the same merits are less likely to be considered for jobs.
2)Researchers have taken videos of a person pushing another person and digitally altered their skin tone. Viewers they study regularly perceive the "pusher" with the darker skin tone to be more violent.
3)Researchers gave their subjects a video game where they had to react quickly to "shoot" armed bad guys and avoid shooting civilians. Nearly everyone was more likely to accidentally shoot a black innocent than a white one by accident. Likewise, they were more likely to avoid shooting a white bad guy until it was too late.
There is a reason blacks are ten percent of the population and less than two percent of our elected federal government. It is not because there is a lack of smart young black politicians out there.
Interestingly you use the
January 27, 2009 - 10:06 ET by Dan The Man 2Interestingly you use the same “some people say” as your favorite newsies. This whole exercise is invalid and irrelevant totally because we knew who Obama was. Your “research” is bunk.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
YAWN, disrespectfulliberal is back
January 27, 2009 - 10:47 ET by choselife3x1. Tell me, disrespectfulliberal, just EXACTLY what is a 'black sounding name', as opposed to a 'white sounding' name? Try to be specific here.
As for points 2 and 3, considering that the majority of violent crimes are committed by young black males, using that factor as a risk assessment tool is simply logical.
You're making rational thought a hate crime.
In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.
Hagee
January 27, 2009 - 09:33 ET by GothampcI have listened to many sermons by John Hagee. Believe me when I say, he had no influence on John McCain.
I attribute this story to the fact that the media feels the need to bash Evangelicals at the moment. Last week they've stirred up a new story on Ted Haggard. Obviously they are hitting church people to take the public's interest away from Democrats like Blago.
The media should be ashamed of themselves for dragging Hagee into this now. He has just had open heart surgery and his wife has had a bout with cancer.
And if your white....
January 27, 2009 - 10:06 ET by ForeverOnTheRightyou have to work twice as hard to prove your not a racist if you critisize Obama, and not just Obama, if you say anything negative about someone who is black. I am afraid that the fact of the matter is if a black person is a jerk, or just a nasty person and your white and you call it the way it is, you can and will be called a racist, no proof needed.
infuriating
January 27, 2009 - 10:14 ET by candancewith the Rev. John Hagee, who was accused of anti-Semitism...
Yeah, that's right, it was just an accusation with very little meat on it. Hagee gave a sermon in which he discussed why God allowed the holocaust to happen, picking up straight from the teachings of rabbis who lived through it themselves, and some lefty website turned it all around to make him sound anti-Semitic.
I had a round over this with a troll on NB not too long ago. He brought up the smear, I quickly debunked it, and suddenly that poster lost interest in the discussion.
It's the same tactic they used against Bush to help Kerry in 2004 - start a nasty rumor about Bush derelicting his duty in the military, use phony paperwork to make it look legit, and then forever defend Kerry by saying "Bush was accused of it too."
This is what these people do. They start a lie, ignore those who bust it, repeat the lie to someone new, push it until it settles in as folklore, and then make sure the history books record "he was accused of doing this."
This typical white girl will always embrace what's right.
CNN's lop-sided 'reporting'
January 27, 2009 - 10:35 ET by TN MomCNN's lop-sided 'reporting' used to make me mad; now it just makes me laugh!
1. If Obama were white, do you think he would have won?
2. If Obama were a Republican, do you think he could have picked a Tax Cheat as Treasury? A Commerence Sec who is under federal investigation?
It doesn't matter what color Obama's skin happens to be: From Jan. 20th, 2009, Obama OWNS every Executive Order he signs, every word he says, he is sole responsible for every Cabinet choice, Obama will OWN the stimulus bill (when he signs it). He is no different than the other presidents....
P.S. I am a member of "I Hope He Fails" club!
OHH STUPID STUPID PEOPLE!
January 27, 2009 - 10:42 ET by HuffNPuff1ST OF ALL, THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS FORUM IS QUITE INSIGNIFICANT. FORGET ABOUT WHAT CNN IS DOING WRONG THE PROBLEM IS OBVIOUSLY THE VIEWS OF THE WORLD.
RASCISM: CLEARLY SOMETHING THAT WILL HIDDENLY BE ALIVE FOR EVER, BUT NOW A DAYS ITS MORE SO WHAT STEREOTYPES ARE ACCOMPANIED BY EACH RACE.
YES AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE VIEWED AS INFEREAR (WHICH IS JUST A SMALL AMOUNT OF PERSONALLY VIEWS). BUT CLEARLY IT DOESNT STOP THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. CLEARLY LOOK AT OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT AND MANY OTHER LEADERS OR SUCCESSFUL BEINGS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DESCENT
YES OBAMA MOST LIKELY DID HAVE TO WORK HARDER TO GET WHERE HE IS BUT NOT BCUZ PEOPLE THINK BLACKS ARE STUPID OR INCAPABLE, BUT BCUZ THERE HASNT BEEN A BLACK LEADER YET, SO HE HAD STANDARDS TO SET. THE FACT THAT HIS PRESIDENCY IMPLIMENTED AN OBVIOUS CHANGE CARRIED OUT COMMONLY AMONGST PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS, IT WAS COMPLETELY NECCESSARY FOR HIM TO PUT UP A BIGGER FIGHT , SIMPLY BECAUSE HE NOT ONLY HAD TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR HIM BUT TO VOTE FOR CHANGE IN ALL
ANYTIME A NEW ALTERNATIVE IS PRESENTED , FOR IT TO BE ACCEPTED IT MUST OVER SHINE THE PRESENT
IF PEOPLE HONESTLY THOUGHHT HE WAS INCAPABLE OF HIS POSITION , I DONT BELIEVE HE WOULD BE THERE.
YES I DO BELIEVE LIFE CAN BE HARDER AS FAR AS ADVANCEMENT FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS BUT SIMPLY BECAUSE ITS STILL A PROCESS OF MAKING HISTORY REALISTICALLY IN THE PAST LEADERS WERE CAUCASIAN.
BUT AS FAR AS OBAMA DIRECTLY IS CONCERNED, ALL THAT MATTERS NOW IS HE OVERCAME IT.
AND HONESTLY HIS RACE MAY HAVE EVEN BEEN A POSITIVE INSTEAD OF AN HANDICAP BECAUSE IT WAS DIFFERENT AND IT IS EVIDENT THAT CHANGE IS WHAT THE US NEED RIGHT NOW AND HE IMMEDIATELY BRINGS THAT.
BUT YES INDEED IF HE SCREWS UP IT SETS STANDARDS FOR UPCOMING AFRICAN AMERICANS WHOM ASPIRE TO BE LEADERS. BUT THAT WOULD BE IN THE SAME CASE IF IT WERE A WHITE WOMAN. ONLY BECAUSE ITS THE FIRST IT WILL BE CLOSELY ANALYZED AND GIVEN FEW CHANCES
Please. Obama could snap a
January 27, 2009 - 11:01 ET by KevroyPlease. Obama could snap a babys neck live on television and they would
say, "That wasnt what it looked like folks...the Lightbringer was
just doing his part in helping the economy."
apparently Obama himself
January 27, 2009 - 11:28 ET by TN Momapparently Obama himself realized that Rev Wright's racist comments were, uh, well, RACIST. Thats why Obama finaly threw the reverend under the bus with his 'This is not the man I knew' comment. Of course this was after the racist rantings of Wright came to light...