Pinkerton: The media "like brown people" and "black people," but "what they really dislike, of course, is white people"
Referring to news coverage of the May 1 "Day Without Immigrants" demonstrations on Fox News Watch, Newsday columnist James P. Pinkerton claimed that "[t]he media like brown people, but they like black people more." He then added: "[W]hat they really dislike, of course, is white people."
Asserting on the May 6 edition of Fox News' Fox News Watch that a "racial typology -- brown, black, white -- was visible" in media coverage of the May 1 "Day Without Immigrants" demonstrations that took place throughout the country, political analyst and Newsday columnist James P. Pinkerton claimed that "[t]he media like brown people, but they like black people more." He then added: "[W]hat they really dislike, of course, is white people." When other panelists on the program challenged Pinkerton's "racial typology" allegation, he stated that he "stand[s] by it completely, in terms of the way the [volunteer border patrol group] Minutemen were covered."
From the May 6 edition of Fox News' Fox News Watch, also featuring host Eric Burns, American University professor Jane Hall, and media critic Neal Gabler:
HALL: I think there are a couple of things that I would like to see the media cover. One is the businesses that hire these workers. I mean, there's an unusual alliance here. And President Bush actually called this a "guest worker program." So if you're going to talk about language, he was presenting it that way. A lot of these people have stayed on past legal visas. That's a different category. And I think there's a lot that we're not seeing in the coverage only of this march.
PINKERTON: The media like brown people, but they like black people more. And so, therefore, the -- when Jesse Jackson and his -- some of these people are starting to worry about immigrants cutting away jobs from African Americans, that's one thing. But what they really dislike, of course, is white people. And so --
HALL: Oh, Jim. Oh, please. Please.
PINKERTON: -- in that sense, the -- the racial typology -- brown, black, white -- was visible there, and I think --
[crosstalk]
PINKERTON: I stand by it completely, in terms of the way the Minutemen were covered on this coverage. And anybody can watch --
GABLER: The Minutemen got a favorable article on the front page of The New York Times.
PINKERTON: The Minutemen get slammed --
[crosstalk]
HALL: And The New York Times covered the black question --
[crosstalk]
BURNS: Cal [Thomas, panelist], because you've been -- because you've been --
HALL: -- inaccurately.
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i was actually watching this episdoe (don't ask why). when i heard what he said, i had a hard time believing he had actually said what he said. i guess he really did say that.
wow. what an idiot.
The Minutemen are synonymous with "white people"? Oh?
...they were bigoted white guys with beer bellies. Whodathunk.
does that mean I have to join and wear that pointy hat if I'm 2/3 of the stereotype? Dang!
was in the civil rights era, when the national media dared to take MLK's side relative to the likes of George Wallace and Bull Connor. Thank you Jim Pinkerton for reminding us what the liberal media complaint still means at the core: white supremacists can't get an even break from the MSM.
When will someone stand up for the down-trodden whites? Haven't they suffered enough?
Poor white guys. Picked on by that mean old media. Pass me a tissue.
Pinkerton demonstrates proudly that he is a racist. I guess that should gain him an brownie point -- excuse me, WHITIE POINT -- for honesty.
..but the fact that this guy is named PINKerton is pretty funny!
WILSON OUTED WILSON'S WIFE
The Valerie Plame non-scandal has now taken another turn. By the way, did you hear that Valerie Plame is writing a book? She got something like a $2.5 million dollar advance. Not bad for someone whose (non)cover was supposedly blown. Seems like she has made out quite nicely. In fact, if her bank account is any guide, she's probably quite happy that her cover was blown,
At any rate, there was big news over the weekend, but the mainstream media completely missed it. --- or they just ignored it. There is that template, after all. Scooter Libby's defense lawyer stepped forward and announced that he has five witnesses that will testify that Joe Wilson outed his wife as a CIA agent before Robert Novak did in his July 2003 column. Uh-oh. But wasn't it Scooter Libby? Or George Bush? Or Karl Rove? Or Dick Cheney? Once again, the press gets caught with their pants down.
Patrick Fitzgerald's case against Scooter Libby is now in complete shambles. This is just the latest hole blown in his theory. You can expect the charges to eventually be dropped in what was never a scandal to begin with. But the media won't care. They'll just let the story fade, never updating people with the facts they've so conveniently chosen to ignore.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
If by that you mean that neocons have no legitimate response to charges against them, and tend to immediately switch topics entirely (what connection is there between what you're bloviating about here and what Pinkerton said?), then I suppose you're right.
"Scooter Libby's defense lawyer stepped forward and announced that he has five witnesses that will testify that Joe Wilson outed his wife as a CIA agent before Robert Novak did in his July 2003 column. " Wow, I thought I knew which thread I was reading, then BAAM! this gets posted.
So, 3 YEARS later, he finds witnesses?? Where were these people DURING THE INVESTIGATION? Didn't they watch the news? Did they miss the importance of the info they had? So many holes, so little time before they pull this post.
What's with this 'by the way, did you hear' stuff?
If you're going to shamble over here with winger talking points, at least make believe you're writing it yourself.
And we moonbats are perfectly happy to watch Fitzgerald pursue the tattered wreckage of his case as he goes along.
He's already taken out the first White House official since the Grant administration--which Georgie's is beginning to resemble in eerie detail.
And Pinkerton is one of the reasons why the Republicans are going to be the minority party for the next thirty years.
This sounds suspiciouslythe same as some talking points I heard that fat blob rush puke out (was it yesterday? or Friday?). Think for yourself. I know it's hard work, but even Bush tries it once in a while...
You draw some absolute conclusions, and some odd connections, from "facts" that have yet to surface.
First, now that Valarie Plame has been thoroughly "outed", what difference does it makes if she now writes a BOOK about one of the highest profile events of our time? You seem to snarkingly suggest that her outing benefits her, so are you suggesting somehow she outed herself?
Or, maybe she set her husband to outing her, so she could write this book? But wait -- there would be no market for her book if Wilson outed his own wife! The STORY is the White House's actions.
And you would claim the White House's actions are of no consequence. How predictable for a NeoCon, believing your minions can do no wrong. Well, guess what? It's WRONG to expose our intelligence assets.
So, Libby's lawyers claim they have FIVE people to claim Wilson outed his own wife. Big news, or old and discredited news? In November of 2005, WorldNetDaily "revealed" that one General Vallely claimed Wilson "outed" his own wife on "at least three occasions" in the FOX green room. Guess what? It was reported, and was "big news" -- until Vallely started changing his story. The number of times, and WHAT Wilson actually said. Being put under oath had a sobering (and impeaching) effect on the General. He lost all credibility. His "story" went by the wayside as an aborted attempt to prop up a White House in distress.
If Libby's attorneys have five guys like Vallely, they have a whole lot of NOTHING.
Fitzgerald is playing his cards very close to the vest indeed. Things he knows that will come out in trial are sure to be very damning indeed. For example, the RESULT of an outed agent are stark and drastic. All who associated with the outed agent are considered "burned", and their work is effectively terminated. Plame reportedly was working on an issue which is currently volatile: IRAN's nuclear ambitions. We LOST that line of intelligence gathering long ago, and America is much less safe as a result. SOMEBODY has damaged America's national security.
Apparently, you, NeoCon, are much more interested in protecting the Bush Administration than in defending America herself. As Fitzgerald's prosecutions unfold, and indictments are added, I expect you will fade from sight, no longer able to portray these extremely serious issues as no big deal. Your NeoCon brethern are GOING DOWN. And that's a GOOD thing for America.
I'd thought we were talking about Jim Pinkerton's silly assertion that white people are the downtrodden stepchildren of the liberal media.
I was just about ready to set-up a march on Washington, when I somehow started reading about Valerie Plame writing some book.
I've contact Symantec. I think my computer has developed a virus or something.
it was just an off-topic visit from our newest troll who was successful in drawing Tex off-topic. His reward? A smackdown. He is probably off at Townhall.com trying to find some more lies to spread over here. Go ahead and tell me about how many people Bill Clinton has killed Mr. NeoCon.
Yes, the media sure do hate white people. If only FOX News or CNN would provide some coverage when a pretty white girl goes missing. Yet such stories are routinely ignored.
As one of the preferred darlings of the media that has benefited from the favorable press that my people has received through the years and ALL the bad press heaped on you guys, I apologize. As you and Pinkerton probably know, it’s hard out there for a White guy.
On behalf of all of us downtrodden white males, apology accepted. :^)
But of course!
That would explain why the media paid so little attention to that missing white girl in Aruba and we never did get the followup on that runaway bride story in Georgia, did we. That's because she was a white woman, I'm sure.
Hey, did they catch that brown guy with the bad teeth and his girlfriend who took turns molesting her in that graphic and detailed manner she described to the authorities? Oh wait, no - that was a lie told by Ms. Wilbanks. I'll bet the pro-brown media never even believed her.
Oh, but wait, they're more biased in favor of black folk, aren't they. Remember that white lady, Susan Smith, who claimed that a black man drove off with her children? Who can forget how skeptical the media was back then, giving the benefit of the doubt to that black guy. Oh wait - you say she drowned her kids herself?
Long story short: Pinkerton's a friggin' idiot at best.
I'm NOT quite sure what Pinkerton is getting at or objecting to here...but IF I'm reading him correctly, I guess he's whining about the media not getting their priorities in [what he believes is] the "correct" pecking order. That would be White...then Black and Brown.
Maybe the media is FINALLY starting to be a bit more FAIR in their reporting? I've never thought of Pinkerton as a racist, AND I don't like to use that term too loosely or often (as I think is sometimes done), BUT in this instance that's exactly the way his comments come off sounding.
Calling card is making over the top statements - with the kind of dry smugness of somebody who just hauled off and hit a little old lady because, "everybody knows wrinkles make people slap them".
Tex- that's one of the best posts I have seen on a political site. As for Pinkerton, it sounds as though he got stuck saying something that didn't pop out of his mouth as he expected, and instead of changing his verbiage and risking embarassment, he sticks to his guns and hopes for a good outcome. The problem is, without this website and people like Tex, these sort of comments would be passed off as viable points concerning the media's bias.
The media focuses their attention on one of the biggest immigration issues of our generation, and this guy has the tenacity to question the bias of the coverage? How many minority child kidnappings has the media covered over a 7 month period? Of course two white girls come to mind really quick.
It's really surreal to watch a MEDIA outlet that features WHITE MEDIA talking heads and hear them say things like "I, and the people who do the same job as myself, hate me and the people who are the same color as me." or "I don't give myself a fair shake." What media is he talking about? I still don't know what the media thinks of yellow or red people. Do they think of them?