LA Times' Kaplan Equates Former Bush Staffer to a "House Negro
March 16th, 2006 12:56 AM
In one of the more ugly and mean-spirited op-ed pieces in the Los Angeles Times this year, opinion writer Erin Aubry Kaplan likened former Bush staffer Claude Allen to a "house Negro" from the days of slavery. (Claude Allen, a black man, resigned as President Bush's senior domestic policy advisor in early February. He was arrested on March 9 for theft of items from a Target and other stores.)…
NY Times Doesn't Care About Black People
March 2nd, 2006 4:56 PM
While the New York Times preaches to us about the shameful lack of diversity in schools, politics and redistricting, while they talk down to us about the "race ceiling", write about those who call our President a racist, or just generally paint conservatives as racists themselves, it appears that they have a little house cleaning of their own to do. An article from The New York Observer talks…
Olbermann Raises NewsBusters & Gumbel's “Paucity of Blacks” GOP-Ol
February 21st, 2006 12:20 AM
On Monday night's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann devoted a segment to Bryant Gumbel's race-baiting admonition on HBO, about the Winter Olympics, to “try not to laugh when someone says these are the world's greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention." Olbermann aired a video clip of Gumbel playing "an unusual race card," and given its…
HBO's Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics 'Look Like a GOP Conventio
February 16th, 2006 12:58 AM
There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. According to a transcript posted by a television columnist named Seth Frelich, Gumbel said the following in his closing monologue last week (emphasis mine):"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them ... Because they’re…
