Goldberg: Liberals "love the fact" Obama is black because if "you criticize his policies, you run the risk of being called ... a racist"
September 14, 2009 8:56 pm ET
From the September 14 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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Ms Cleo meet your match!
I guess I'm going to have to put the funny face behind my posts for you! :) :) :) :) :) :)
BUT when you have people standing out there at a Fox News hyped protest with signs mentioning Kenya, birth certificates and 99.9% of the white people there are screaming about taking America "back"...YES its about race
Really?
You might want to check-in with teabagging leader Mark Williams.
Our choice this November is between a man who has fought and suffered for our flag – John McCain or a man who considers our flag to be trash – the former Barry Soetoro, Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug turned anointed.
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Or THIS real gem:
Barack Obama, Racist in Chief?
In the 1960s it was white domestic terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan weilding nail studded baseball bats standing between Black Americans and their Constitutional Rights.
In 2008 it was a 1960s black domestic terrorist organization, the Black Panthers wielding clubs and Democrat Poll Watcher credentials standing between White Americans and their Constitutional Rights.
In the 1960s a White President of the United States stood up to the White Racists and a second enacted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 when the first was assassinated.
In 2009 a half-black president halted a United States Department of Justice enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and slam-dunk prosecution of the Black Racists who violated it and happened to be early supporters of that president.
Then he nominated a Hispanic Racist to the United States Supreme Court, while calling her a “Latina” thus declaring the Brown Latin American victims of 4-centuries of attempts at genocide to be the same people as the White Europeans from Spain who exerted such effort to exterminate them.
Barack Obama, Racist in Chief?...
You used to be a big time broadcast television reporter and now here you are on cable as HillBilly's flunky.
It's really kind of sad.
Same thing with ACORN, if you speak badly of those crooks, you are labeled a racist. Dispite the visual proof of their corruption. Did you happen to catch the new video that came out today showing another ACORN office promoting prostitution and fraud. They should be prosecuted under the RICO statutes. Another fine dimocratic organization.
That's the point you so easily gloss over.
And when I see "Monkey See, Monkey Spend" signs and when I see people keeping their kids home from school so they don't have to listen to the president and when the crying teabaggin' woman says she wants her country back...
It's racism. And while not all Republicans are racist, most racists are Republicans.
FairLiberal - the typical GOP victim.
I think being black is the main policy they oppose.
Like the Kommandant said when Schindler was being reprimanded for kissing the Jewish girl;
"This isn't just good old-fashioned Jew -hating... it's policy."
The whole thing on Saturday was so ugly (including Beck's values/missions/whatever they were), which seemed to say to me that if you are a white, Christian, god-fearing, conservative American, you're cool. Anything else is a scar upon the land. (Beck, not me - according to Beck's laws I am a horrible American!)
I'm still wondering if there will ever be real legitimate evidence of any of the hundreds or even thousands (or millions, if your Fox Noise) made up figments of those few ACORN sub-contractors imagination who will ever actually show up and vote?
Ever notice how the right-wing loves to overlook the fact that ACORN is obligated by federal statute to hand in every single application given it by all those sub-contractors.
ACORN, is also obligated by federal statute to do its very best to go over each of those applications, trying to catch ones like Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck are rather easy, but some using legitimate sounding names are hard to catch.
Yes, is ACORN responsible in some way, yes. But at no time has ACORN itself been convicted of any purposeful fraud, some of its past sub-contractor have, with ACORN being witness for the prosecution.
But since the right-wing is more than willing to use guilt by association where ever they can... this is just such an example!
The major problem that I see is that there's a simplistic definition of racism being thrown around. It's not simply the idea that white is better than black, which I think is where Goldberg is coming from. It's not wearing white sheets or joining a group or the language one may use. I think when, in reference to the opposition of Obama, the term racism/racist is used it's in a cultural context. One can not have lived in the U.S. and not have picked up certain ideas, stereotypes, and knee jerk thinking that have been swirling around this country for ages. It seeps into your subconscious through osmosis and no one is so pure as to be immune. I truly believe that most don't want or desire it. I trust and believe in the American people to know that's true. But it's there and it takes work to expel.
That work is examination of yourself, your thinking, your actions and of your country. When you see these hand made signs, and hysterical words being spoken like 5th column, "they are coming to take it all away", Manchurian candidate, radical liberal/fascist/communist/socialist(which are usually used at the same time which is very funny) you can't help but wonder how much of that cultural baggage is swirling around in the people saying it.
I know I'm not a racist, but do I have some stereotypes and negative racial ideas picked up over a lifetime? Of course I do. That's where I start.
Conservatives pounced on comments by new Senate minority leader, labeled him a racist
i mean, i dont think the attack by wilson, for example, on obama during his speech had a racist factor to it, but majority of attacks on him, esp the ones documented by MMfA, have been extremely derogatory and prejudice.
The right loves to blow everything up when you're talking about 2 or 3 people in a group who are holding up racist signs. They jump and say that we're calling everyone one racists.
I personally think that you can criticize Obama's policies and not have it be about race. The right is making it seem like you can't do anything without being called racist. They're playing the fear and race card very well. If its not really there then make people think that it is.
Nah, sorry Bernie.
Liberals -- well, THIS liberal, anyway -- love the fact that Obama isn't a complete MORON like his predecessor.
The fact that he's black -- well, to THIS black man, anyway -- is just gravy. :-)
Personally, I have never had a problem with Clarence Thomas because he's black - I have a problem with him because he's stupid.
It continues to be a weak argument about little or no racial basis for the criticism of President Obama.It is just not rational for such hate to emerge from just 8 months of the new administration that has given most Americans a Tax cut and have saved many state budgets from causing massive lay offs of public positions( Firemen,policemen,Teachers).Why such impatience at Obama knowing what he inherited from George Bush...There are almost no anti Bush or anti Republican signs at these Tea Party rallies.There are many racist and other dispicable taunts of nazi/marxist/communists/implied violence,etcand almost exclusively at the New President ..WHY???WE didn't get here overnight.These uniformed people are being used and indoctrinated to blame him..not Government in general as some apologists want to say!!!Why does that work so easily??WE are never going to move towards a "more perfect uinon" when so many refuse to acknowledge our flaws and racism is one of them.It is flourishing because people like OReilly and Goldberg give the positions of racists a legitimacy by defending the conduct we are seeing.Sure there are opponents who are mainly about policies but not who we see at the rallies and the townhall meetings.Does anyone really think these people know the differences between socialism,communism,marxism..There is nothing so radical happening now to explain these positions.WE will spend far more on Iraq than for Healthcare...no street protests for the spending then. Anti -war protestors barely got any coverage in the news.The highly secretive,arrogant,power grabbing,unapologetic Bush administration got no such protests in 8 years and we already are on the verge of violence in just 8 months of Obama.You cannot explain the irrational ,radical fear and anger as just usual partisan opposition.WE know what it is and it is being fueled by people who know how to do it..Elected Republicans continue to be afraid to call it what it is.The media is reluctant to do so either....so on it goes ..but how will it end..?