Juan Williams says Michelle Obama "sometimes uses" a "kind of militant anger"
SUMMARY: Fox News' Juan Williams asserted of Michelle Obama's upcoming speech at the DNC: "Well, she's got to be herself, but I do not think she can go for it all out in terms of this kind of militant anger that she sometimes uses." Williams gave no examples of what he claims to be "this kind of militant anger" that Michelle Obama "sometimes uses."
During the August 25 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, NPR news analyst and Fox News contributor Juan Williams asserted of Michelle Obama's upcoming speech at the Democratic National Convention: "Well, she's got to be herself, but I do not think she can go for it all out in terms of this kind of militant anger that she sometimes uses, you know. She can be, it seems, rather cynical or dismissive of people," adding, "I don't think she wants to get anywhere near the race issue, anywhere near the militance issue." Williams gave no examples of what he claims to be "this kind of militant anger" that Michelle Obama "sometimes uses."
Earlier in the segment, co-host Megyn Kelly asserted that "there's been all sorts of rumors about Michelle Obama, and controversy around her, whether it was real or imagined, including what was her college thesis about; did she use the term 'whitey' -- something that was never substantiated." Kelly then said, "But a lot of the nation, because you get these emails, may believe that stuff about her." But Kelly did not note that, in addition to "emails," Fox News has provided a platform for a Republican operative to spread the rumor that Michelle Obama "use[d] the term 'whitey,' " and Fox News host Sean Hannity has repeatedly distorted the content of Michelle Obama's college thesis.
During the June 1 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ, Republican strategist Roger Stone asserted that "there is a buzz, which I believe now to be credible, that some indelible record exists of public remarks that Michelle Obama allegedly made, which are outrageous at worst -- but at best, but could be termed racist, including some reference to white people as 'whiteys,' allegedly." No such "indelible record" has ever surfaced, as Kelly noted during the segment; the Obama campaign has stated that "no such tape exists"; and, as the Obama campaign noted, the day after appearing on America's Election HQ, Stone admitted on the June 2 broadcast of Sean Hannity's nationally syndicated radio program that he had "not yet spoken to anyone who has eyeballed the video."
From the August 25 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom:
KELLY: You know, Juan, there's all -- there's been all sorts of rumors about Michelle Obama, and controversy around her, whether real or imagined, including what was her college thesis about; did she use the term" whitey" -- something that was never substantiated.
WILLIAMS: No.
KELLY: But a lot of the nation, because you get these emails, may believe that stuff about her when they walk -- when they see her take to the stage tonight. Does she even try to deflate that? Does she go anywhere near that? Does she just try to seem like an empathetic, kind, and laudable potential first lady?
WILLIAMS: Well, I think she stays away from that kind of the "whitey" stuff altogether -- doesn't give any credence to it. To the contrary, what she wants to present is that she is a family person: talk about her dad, talk about her kids, you know, talk about how this is a family that's trying to hold together in a new way, in a new generation -- the more pressures on families where two people are working. And to say to people, "You know what, this -- I understand what is going on in your household. Just as I admire Barack Obama, I want you to know he's like your husband." And that is the way she wants to tell this story. She wants to come across as one of us.
KELLY: How hard is it for her and, for that matter for Cindy McCain, sort of stepping into the shoes potentially of Laura Bush, who is demure, who the nation loves? Notwithstanding President Bush's approval ratings, Laura Bush is still through the roof. But Michelle projects as a strong personality, and that has the potential to alienate some. Does she tone that down, or does she just go for it? She's a different person than Laura Bush.
WILLIAMS: Well, she's got to be herself, but I do not think she can go for it all out in terms of this kind of militant anger that she sometimes uses, you know. She can be, it seems, rather cynical or dismissive of people. In fact, I think that's one of the things she's going to say tonight is, when she first met Barack Obama, she didn't think much of this kid who was from Hawaii, although they both were Harvard Law graduates. And so she's going to say, "You know what? I got to know him, and then I was impressed, and that is how you can get to know him, and you'll see that there's real substance to him." That's going to -- but to come back to her own issues. I don't think she wants to get anywhere near the race issue, anywhere near the militance issue.
KELLY: What about the patriotism issue?
WILLIAMS: I don't think she -- you know what, it's just got to be that she's talking about family, she's talking about love of her husband, and that people will pick it up.
KELLY: But what about love of her country? Do you expect to hear themes of that tonight?
WILLIAMS: No, I think it's going to be all around her, though. I think you're going -- I mean, obviously you've seen that backdrop that we've shown here on Fox. The flag -- she's going to be draped in the flag, literally, and that's going to be part of the effort to try to transform her from this angry face to someone who is in fact the face of a new and more diverse America.
From the 2 p.m. ET hour of the June 1 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ:
GERALDO RIVERA (anchor): Let's talk about that and about the future going forward and the rest of the controversies with Democratic strategist Michael Brown and Republican strategist Roger Stone. Roger, I want to start with you because I think you have some news, or at least your own incendiary prediction, on Michele Obama's alleged vulnerabilities. What do you know, or at least, what do you think you know?
STONE: Well, there is a buzz, which I believe now to be credible, that some indelible record exists of public remarks that Michele Obama allegedly made, which are outrageous at worst -- but at best, but could be termed racist, including some reference to white people as "whiteys," allegedly. And there's been a race here, Geraldo, between --
RIVERA: Wait a sec -- wait a second, Roger. You can't -- Roger, you can't just say that and say you have no proof for it and make a comment like that.
STONE: No, no, let me finish. There's been a race here between the Clinton research people, who are seeking this -- seeking this tape -- and the Republican opposition researchers at the Republican National Committee. I now believe that a network has this tape; I believe that reliably. Something like that could roil the race, which explains why, to me, Hillary Clinton is staying in this race. What other reason is there for her to stay in this race, other than hoping that there is a bomb? And high-level Clinton operatives say there is a bomb of this nature. I have heard that from people I believe to be credible.
RIVERA: Hold it there. Hold it -- OK. We hear that you heard it. Let me go to Michael Brown for his response and also let me point out that Roger Stone was the person who said he heard that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was using the services of prostitutes. At least in that incendiary allegation, there was facts behind it and ultimately it was proven true. But Michael Brown, I want you to respond to what you just heard from Roger Stone.
BROWN: I'm not going to question whether he believes what he's saying is true, but I will say that Republicans are up to the usual stuff -- when they cannot beat Democrats on issues, they always go personal negative. That's what this is all about. We're going to see this for the next six months from the Republican Party. This is what they do. I don't know why we should be shocked, Geraldo. This is -- I think they're starting a little early. They're probably off their timeline a little bit, but I'm not surprised by this. It has nothing to do with anything except flat-out politics, and it's ugly, and these are the kind of things that don't help the American people come to the polls to vote, they don't keep people inspired, and I'm sure the Obamas will obviously prevail on issues like this and stay focused on issues, assuming he's the nominee.
STONE: This is really more about --
RIVERA: OK, Michael Brown, Roger Stone, if you two -- you guys hold by, hold on. I'm going to bring you back after this quick commercial break, so you two stand by.















African-American professor Dr. Boyce Watkins http://www.yourblackworld.com of Syracuse University correctly labeled Juan "I Hate Black People So That Authoritarian Racist White Conservatives Will Love Me" Wlliams "...the Happy Negro" and I can't remember the rest of what Dr. Watkins said.
Hey juan, in the words of your hero figure, Dick Cheney, " so " .
Juan is NOT a Democrat, Juan is a right wing Republican liar.
He's the second most hated black person on black talk radio.
Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice are tied for being the 2 most hated blacks on black talk radio right now.
Juan Williams is not just a partisan Republican tool, he is also, as Dr. Boyce Watkins called him, GOP-Fox Lies' Happy Negro.
Williams also attacks black talk radio and/or black professional organizations whenever they criticize him and/or his anti-black colored Negro conservative peers so he can stay in the good graces of racist white conservatives.
Republican passion is somehow endorsed by the media.
Democratic passion somehow always distrubing to them.
Where the heck is Republican passion? I have to give it to the Dems when it comes to being passionate - and, as you said, it is unfortunately reviled by the media, primarily because they would prefer it if they possessed the same level of passion as the Republicans.
Well, some people confuse fanaticism with passion when it comes to republicans. And for a perfect example of that fanaticism one needs look no further than Not Brand Blech!
Didn't Rush do this last convention telling his zombies in California to turn on all of their energy sources and hopefully cause a blackout when Clinton was going to speak? something like that. Enron anyone. And if they had done that, hospitals would have lost power for a few minutes, people at home with respirators could've died and traffic signals and blackouts would've occured which could bring about civil unrest. Yes, these morons on the right are just so f'in funny. And who can forget the Republicans spitting on anyone who was awarded a Pirple Heart when they wore purple band-aids. You a-holes keep following Rush and Rove and Beck..they make you look like idiots and you don't know it.
As for Williams, when did he get his degree in psychology?
Republican passion is usually expressed as anger. There's plenty of it arround. From welfare mothers to people with funny last names. Its expressed quite freely by some of our more comonly, seen here, media types.
OT, anyone else see the new addition to MMfa "county fair?" Eschaton had a link. I assume it will be accessible from the main site sometime?
T-Hone, Michelle Obama, or black talk radio host "The Black Eagle" Joe Madison, or black talk radio host Beverly Smith, or Warren Ballantine, or black talk radio host, or any other black that criticizes the white establishment and/or blacks that are puppets of the white establishment and/or talks about race when they don'twant to hear it, they are "militant".
The dis-likes of self-hating anti-black Negroes like Williams who attack prominent blacks and/or black talk radio and/or civil rights groups and/or black professional organizations are "subordinate" or "subservient".
I don't consider Michele Obama to be a militant anything. She appears to be a smart, well-educated woman, a good mother, and a devoted wife.
You, on the other hand, are so filled with anger, rage, and aggressive combativeness, that militant would be an appropriate descriptor, in your case, from what I've read.
Exactly right. Black talk radio hosts like Joe Madison and/or Warren Ballantine pointed tat out.
Note that Williams isn't planning to appeari on black talk radio to defend this or any o his other anti-Obama and/or anti-black comments.
The Daily Howler has debunked that right wing lie about Al Gore inventing the Internet so many times I'v lost cont.
Black Commentator.com http://www.blackcommentator.com Issue 84, and black talk radio have mentioned that Condoleeza Rice denounced MLK and other civil rights leaders as "...troublemakers who upset the good white people o the South" in a 2001 Washington Post interview, and when I mention that, the right wingers become silent about it.
Interesting, but I'm still waiting to see an example of "militant anger".
Do you have one or not?
Zamfir: You have swallowed whole a baseless troglodyte talking point.
Michelle did not say this was the first time she was proud of her country.
She said , "For the first time in my adult life, I am REALLY proud of my country."
Head for the nearest ER and have your stomach pumped. God knows what other poisonous crap you might have absorbed.
Honestly, even if she did say it, what difference does it make? You can still love something and not be proud of its current actions.
You parents out there, you're probably not particularly proud when your kid does something boneheaded or mean, right? But you still love them. I'm guessing that for Michelle Obama (and a lot of progressives), we're not particularly proud of our country right now, because it's not living up to what we believe it can be. We still love it, but we're disappointed by its actions.
Granted, that's probably too complicated for the average right-wing a$$hole to comprehend, and doesn't fit their narrative of ZOMG! Black People!!11eleventyone!!
Well that's honest Zamfir. The first step is admitting the problem. We're NOT VOTING FOR THE WIFE. And if we were, an articulate brilliant lawyer trumps a CINDY every time.
And Juan Williams' self-hating and anti-black comments and demeanor represent the historical display of accomodating subservience that he and other self-hating anti-black Negro conservative Republicans like Williams have when they bash other black people just to curry favor with the racist white supremacist conservative establishment and/or win favor amongst the racist whtie supremacist conservative masses.
Methinks h was waiting for racist white supremacist aproval and praise from the right wing racist white supremacist hate hag Megyn Kelly for his sel-hating anti-black actions.
No problem:
"Methinks he was waiting for racist white supremacist approval and praise from the right wing racist white supremacist hate hag Megyn Kelly for his self-hating anti-black actions."
That means that right wing racists, or right wing racist hate hags in Megyn Kelly's case, have a racist wite supremacist "respect" for black people who bash their own race, and/or choose to be subservient to them and other racist whites like them.
I WAS KIDDING!!!!
I did actully get what you were saying.
NOW you tell me!
I'm just kidding, too, I missed your joke. Should have realized you got it the first time.
As it stands, the point needed to be made for other posters' edification, anyway.
Just like you guys we have dumb people over here too, and amazingly they all have their political views given to them by the Murdoch print press.
The right wing affliction of SBMS and SBWS isn't as bad over here but then we are far behind you lot with a person of colour running for leadership of one of the main parties.
I feel enveloped by the love demonstrated on this site. I have come to understand the willingness to tolerate dissention, an openness for diversity and above all, to judge a man solely on the quality of his character by the morally high-minded leftists who speak here.
I am appalled when I hear people uncovering their racist tendencies when they claim that , "you can't go into a 7-11 without hearing an Indian accent.", or that bad white people are called "whiggers" by a Senator and former member of the KKK or that Juan Williams is a self-loathing negro.
It is unconscionable that someone, especially one who is an american of black african descent, could have their own ideas and not be considered to have left the reservation and deserve the most reprehensible name-calling for speaking those opinions aloud. He should know his place on the leftist plantation first, correct?
Why no, not us leftists, we would rather accept the person for who he is, never bring race into the discussion and only disagree on with the comments on their merits alone. It has to be the right alone that would do otherwise!
I feel enveloped by the love demonstrated on this site. I have come to understand the willingness to tolerate dissention, an openness for diversity and above all, to judge a man solely on the quality of his character by the morally high-minded leftists who speak here. - Proud
Dissent is easily tolerated, stupidity is not. Blind sycophants and zombie mouthpieces do not provoke courtesy. When one's comments consist of the regurgitation of the morning's limpaugh program or the opinion column from the National Review, one should expect derision. Respect derives respect, and sweeping generalizations and labels such as "Marxist" and "Socialist" indicate such a lack of considered analysis that the one flinging these worn-out cliches not only doesn't display any respect, but he loses credibility. The "morally high-minded leftists" here, like anywhere else outside Hannity's America, judge your character by what you display of it. If you've got a reserve that you're not exposing I'd suggest revealing it.
A good way to start - be an adult. Realize that not everybody debates with the graciousness you possess, and set an example instead of being a whiner.
swampgas,
Are you speaking of me or Juan Williams as the one having a gracious manner?
Warning - concern troll attempting sarcasm!
Thanks for the warning, Kyle. Why do they always have to post their 5 or 6 practice paragraphs? It would be less sad if they just opened a Word document and tuned it up for a few weeks where nobody could see.
dearkernal,
Remember that sarcasm, when understood, makes an accurate point. Sorry I used 5 or 6 paragraphs but it was required to demonstrate the hypocrisy of those attacking Juan Williams, not for the quality of his character but their insistence on commenting on his race as a means of further derision.
Was that plain enough?
PC, I just watched an extremely articulate African American woman, wife and mother give one of the best speeches I've heard in a VERY long time!
I don't have a problem with Juan Williams being a Republican, in fact I don't have any problem with any African American who choose to vote and support the Republican party.
What I have a problem with is African American REPEATING the ignorant crap the Republican party spits out around election time, every 4 years. Without bothering to use one ounce of the common sense God gave them, Juan repeats every lie like a dummy!. I expect African American Republicans to be leaders, NOT "follow the Republican party leader". My husband used to tell our children, be a leader, take yourself where you want to go. If you follow, you'll fall off a cliff, and THAT'S what Juan and others are doing! Juan knows damn well that Michelle Obama is not militant, but the Republican party "talking points" say label her a militant, and there goes Juan, playing follow the party leader. Not a lick of common sense in sight!
I responded to a "Hip Hop Republicans" blog last night. There I found more of the Juan Williams type. African Americans willing to repeat the Republican talking points, racist commenta included. They seem to have forgotten, they're African American too. When one makes racist statements about African Americans, being a Republican DOES NOT exempt you!
So this African American woman would like Juan Williams and other African American Republicans to own up to the racial problems Republicans have with the African American community. Stop repeating every insane lie that the party tells you to say. Stand up, grow a set and STOP ignoring what you know is wrong and incorrect!
The Republican party has so few African Americans NOT because of policy but because of the racism that still exists in the Republican party.
pearlsbeforeswine,
"I responded to a "Hip Hop Republicans" blog last night. There I found more of the Juan Williams type. African Americans willing to repeat the Republican talking points, racist commenta included. They seem to have forgotten, they're African American too. When one makes racist statements about African Americans, being a Republican DOES NOT exempt you!"-minnie pearl.
I am intrigued by your statement that they somehow 'forgot' that they might be Americans of black african descent.
So being of a certain race requires that you posess a certain set of beliefs?
I am intrigued by your statement that they somehow 'forgot' that they might be Americans of black african descent.
So being of a certain race requires that you posess a certain set of beliefs?
There is a reason that Juan Williams is front and center on FOX, he's African American. The idea is to show that Republicans have African Americans in their party too.
I have NO problem with Juan's conservative beliefs, he's entitled to believe what he wants to believe but he should NOT sit by and ignore the racist crap that comes out of the Republican party. He's on the show in the first place BECAUSE he's African American. He should at least have the balls to put a stop to the racism that the Republican party and it's blowhard conservative talk radio displays.
You wouldn't expect adults to stand by and ignore mistreatment of children, would you?
Silence means you agree.
And by the way PC, you might enjoy your childish name calling crap, but I'm tired of it. You want another response, call me by my correct name, or ignore me.
You said,
"What I have a problem with is African American REPEATING the ignorant crap the Republican party spits out around election time, every 4 years. Without bothering to use one ounce of the common sense God gave them, Juan repeats every lie like a dummy!."
Your disagreement with his comments is one thing, and a valid basis for discussion. My argument with you and others is that somehow his thoughts make him an uncle tom, a sellout or a lying dummy because as an American of black african decent he somehow has left the left's plantation. And that is the furthest thing from tolerance but instead outright racism at it's heart.
And it's PROUDCONSERVATIVE, in caps and bold, just like it shows up on any posting thank you.
"I responded to a "Hip Hop Republicans" blog last night. There I found more of the Juan Williams type. African Americans willing to repeat the Republican talking points, racist commenta included. They seem to have forgotten, they're African American too.
When one makes racist statements about African Americans, being a Republican DOES NOT exempt you! So this African American woman would like Juan Williams and other African American Republicans to own up to the racial problems Republicans have with the African American community. Stop repeating every insane lie that the party tells you to say. Stand up, grow a set and STOP ignoring what you know is wrong and incorrect!
The Republican party has so few African Americans NOT because of policy but because of the racism that still exists in the Republican party."
Not only that, but the few African Amercans that are in the Republican Party often remain silent about, and/or approve of, and/or become complicit parties to, some of the racism and/or racist acts of the Republican Party and/or the racism of some individual Republican Party members.
Example #1: the dis-likes of Ward "Con Man" Connerly has actively SOUGHT OUT the support of the KKK, the Council of Conservative Citizens, and other white surpemacist groups, for his pro-segregation/pro-racism state ballot initiatives.
Example #2: When in both the 2000 and the 2004 presidential elections, Bush refused to do interviews with the African-American news media, and also rejected invitiations to appear on black talk radio, then through his campaign henchpeople and/or his black conservative Republicn apologists told the lie that he had never received any such requests or invitation in the first place. I think that some of the black conservative Republicans TOLD Bush to snub the black press and to snub black talk radio.
Example #3: When the dis-likes of Republican U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California knowingly accepts campaign contributions from the Pioneer Fund, a Neo-Nazi connected white supremacist group in California, most of the African-American Republicans either remained silent, or they defended Rohrabacher's accepting of the contributions.
Oh, and PC? We're real familiar with conservative love and tolerance...
DENVER - Federal authorities are looking into reports that a man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck may have made threats against Barack Obama, officials said Monday.
Two other men were arrested in the case.
Update
Denver's CBS affiliate reports that "at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama" and one of the suspects reportedly told authorities that they were "going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle … sighted at 750 yards."
Amazingly, thanks to Fox news, right wingers can't even make up their own plans to assassinate Obama. This one came right out of the movie "shooter". Y'all know billy bob and company were totally drunk and stoned when they saw the movie and said "Hey Earl! What a great idea!"
Hmmm, maybe McCain was connected somehow...
In 2007, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced legislation giving the Justice Department the discretion to prohibit gun sales to terror suspects. The legislation was supported by gun-control groups as well as the Bush administration.
Siding with the gun industry in opposing closing this “terror gap” was Randy Scheunemann, now Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) top foreign policy adviser. Newsweek reports that Scheunemann lobbied against the bill on behalf of the National Shooting Sports Foundation:
"I am appalled when I hear people uncovering their racist tendencies when they claim that , "you can't go into a 7-11 without hearing an Indian accent.", or that bad white people are called "whiggers" by a Senator and former member of the KKK or that Juan Williams is a self-loathing negro.
It is unconscionable that someone, especially one who is an american of black african descent, could have their own ideas and not be considered to have left the reservation and deserve the most reprehensible name-calling for speaking those opinions aloud. He should know his place on the leftist plantation first, correct?"
Actually, what's unconscionable, and what's in more ways offensive, is when conservatives take their authortarian white racist stance that they have the right to tell black people that they need the permission of white conservatives before they can criticize blacks who speak against them and/or against their interests, whether it's a Juan Williams on the right, or as some blacks are saying that about Sheila Jackson-Lee.
Second, it's even more racist from the authoritarin white racist conservaives, who only deem blacks to be of good moral character andor only has the right to speak if they either kow-tow to the racist stereotypes that white conservatives have about blacks, and/or they atack other black people, and/or if black conservatives attack black talk radio, and/or attack black social organizations and/or attak black professional organizations, just to curry the racist white spremacist "respect" and "approval" of racist white conservative who only like black people who are racist against their own race. Most of the attacks on Juan Williams are coming from black talk radio, both some black talk radio hosts (Matt McGillof Chicago's black talk radio station WVON-AM 1690 http://www.wvon.com) and black talk radio listeners, not white liberals who are afraid to criticize black conservatives, while black talk radio doesn' hesitate to go after black conservatives or any other black that is defending white racist words and actions.
Third, while you pretend to be outrged about Sen. Byrd's "whiggers" comment about bad white people, I will let you know that in 2002, YOUR Racist Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama called a white civil rights lawyer in his state a "race traitor" because this lawyer represented blacks in civil rights cases in his state. No white conservatives, and no black conservaties, denounced Sessions' racist white supremacist comments.
Fourth, I am also going to tell you that the dis-likes of 2 black conservatives have politicial alliances with present-day whte supremacists. The dis-likes of anti-black Negro conservative Walter Williams is a friend and political ally of right wing white supremacist Jared Taylor and Taylor's white supremacist group American Renaissance, and the dis-likes of anti-black Negro conservative Jesse Lee Peterson is a friend and political ally of right wing white supremacist Glenn Spencer and Spencer's white supremacist group, The National Alliance.
Who Plays The Race Card
Why does the media get a free pass when the question who is playing the race card is asked? Without the media, race would be but a small problem. With the media, it is always looming in the background waiting to pounce on its next victim.
The MSM, MSNBC, CNN, and as you just viewed, Fox news actually create, sustain, and drive the dynamics of race. They then have the nerve to set by and evaluate the topic as to who would dare use race as a political tool. This third party position they take is never talked about, confronted, or clarified to be a direct product of the MSM's need to sensationalize everything they think will improve their ratings.
I am committed to exposing this and other dynamics associated with unspoken negatives of the MSM.We need a counter drive of sorts. However, it is hard for the Democrats to address this issue head on. Recall the more Hillary and Bill Clinton asserted the media was behind race dynamics, the more the MSM attacked their campaign as a whole.
I truly look forward to a day when the media of old returns to claim its earlier glory. At present, each major network holds and exerts the right to have their resident racist. Pat Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Tucker, and Glenn Beck all walk up to the door of racist intent while claiming it is their right to tell it like it is. CNN actually was a true leader in network news, commentators and special commendation. Today , they have did all they can do to distort whether commentators have the right to attack others under the banner of free speech. There is not time more evident then now for the need of a fair and balanced media.
Joseph
justalotofmarlkey,
Calling Juan Williams a sellout is just the kind of racial bigotry that exists in the left. It's knowing your place and standing, including race.
The only way to compare is to consider those who call him a sellout black, as a slaveholder of the 1860's calling John Brown a 'sellout white', saying we know what being white means!
Your comments are racist to the core!
The correct word is "sellout", but you're still right about Williams.
The newest term used to describe black conservatives from black talk radio is now that they're called "rent-a-Negroes", for the GOP and the corporatist conservative Republican news media rents the rent-a-Negro conservative Republicans to come on TV and bash Obama and/or other black people.
hearingitfaked,
Rent-a-negro? Now who would dare think that a racist term?
shameful regressive,
Take your complints to black talk radio. They don't regard this label as being racist at all.
touchingitphoney,
Oh, I guess that makes it all better. I misunderstood the loving comments above to be indicative of how the left views those Americans of black african decent who have left the plantation. Thanks for clearing up where on the left, racism lives strongest, on radio. We'll get that all fixed when the fairness doctrine is reinstituted.
shameless fascist oligarchic regressive,
Faux congrajulations on revealing yours and other conservatives' authoritarian racist view of the fact that African-Americans do not have the right to speak unless you give them permission, and also do not have the right to criticize your side's chosen self-hating Negroes without your racist whte supremacist permission. As I recall don't you and other regressives oppose the fairness doctrine? Oh, wait. You prefer the corporatist censorship where you give tax breaks" and/or other corporate welfare goodies to Clear Channel and other corporate conservative Republican Party controlled news media to buy up radio stations for the purpose of silencing both progressive talk radio and uncompromised black talk radio.
Next, shameless fascist oligarchic regressive, returning to your authoritarian racism, you just revealed your oligarchic racist desire to have right wing conservative Repblicans silence uncompromising black talk radio through either manufactured and contrived right wing controlled FCC actions, and/or by directing right wing conservative Republican corporations to buy out radio stations in the black community for the purpose of doing away with the black talk radio format, but either way, you seek to silence the black community, among others.
shameless regressive,
Black talk radio does not consider that label regressive. That's what Chicago's Black Talk Radio Station WVON-AM 1690's http://www.wvon.com Clifford Kelley has called them (he's called black conservatives much worse than this),and Kelley correctly called Rush Limbaugh a "dope fiend". Kelley's colleague, Matt McGill, called boh Juan Williams and Larry Elder a "...buck dancing, Yes Massa, House Negro."
The term "rent a Negro" is meant to describe the way that black talk radio hosts and black talk radio listeners see black conservatives and/or other black critics of Obama, because the news media has no interest in nor any desire to hear from black conservatives otherwise. Also, most of the black conservatives place their desire to collect mercenary checks from the corporate conservative Republican Party controlled news media and/or the right wing conservative Republican think tanks to go on TV and bash Obama and/or other black Americans.
No, we are saying that at the present time, the present African-American membership in the Republican Party are Uncle Toms or Sellouts, or they are very close to it.
The Edward Brookes of the past Republican Party have been replaced by the anti-black buck dancing House Negro types like Juan Wiliams, Rashonda Barber, or Larry Elder, or Ward "Con Man" Connerly, or Harry Jackson, or Clarence Thomas, among others, who either work against black causes and/or play themselves as the "victims" of attacks from black columnists and black commentators and black talk radio in order to score good favor from racist white conservative masses.
I can tell you some local black Democratic politicians, and even some present ones that I will name right now,namely the dis-likes of the anti-black Denise Majette and Artur Davis, who are just as big or bigger Uncle Toms that Elder and Clarence Thomas are put together, but there's to many to name in this post.
That being said, when these and/or other black conservative Republican politicians consort with present day racist white supremacists and/or court the support of present day white surpemacists (Jesse Lee Peterson, Ward Connerly, Walter Williams), and/or when other black conservative Republicans such as Condoleeza Rice who in a 2001Washington Post interview denounced and condemned MLK and othr civil rights leaders as "...troublemakers who upset the good white people of the South", it has to be expected that in the black news media, and on black talk radio, that some black columnists, black talk radio hosts, and black talk radio listeneres, will be calling them "Uncle Toms" or variations therof.