"21st century Willie Horton": Right-wing race-baiting and the phony New Black Panthers scandal
Right-wing media have amplified the race-baiting behind the completely unsubstantiated allegations that President Obama's Justice Department engaged in racially charged "corruption" in the New Black Panther Party case. Now, CNN contributor and RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson has called on Republicans to "seize on this issue" and turn the New Black Panther Party into the "21st century Willie Horton."
Adams: DOJ's action in New Black Panther case shows racially charged corruption
Adams: DOJ decision not to pursue charges in New Black Panther case demonstrates racially charged corruption. J. Christian Adams, a GOP activist, penned a Washington Times op-ed leveling accusations of a "corrupt" and racially charged dismissal of the New Black Panther Party case and appeared in a two-part interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly. During the interview, Adams accused the Justice Department of "a hostility in the voting section and in the civil rights division to bringing cases on behalf of white victims for the benefit of national racial minorities." Adams further said that "the decision to dismiss this case was corrupt," adding, "to abandon law-abiding citizens and abet wrongdoers constitutes corruption." In a Pajamas Media post, Adams wrote:
If we had that frank, truthful discussion about race, we'd learn that the Obama administration doesn't believe some civil rights laws protect every American. The Bush Civil Rights Division was willing to protect all Americans from racial discrimination; during the Obama years, the Holder years, only some Americans will be protected. Americans have a right to know and judge the racial policies of the administration they elected in 2008.
A "21st century Willie Horton": Right-wing media turns up race-baiting behind phony scandal
Erickson: Turn New Black Panthers case into Willie Horton ad. In a July 13 blog post, headlined, "[New Black Panther Party member] King Samir Shabazz Should Be 2010's Willie Horton," CNN contributor and RedState.com editor-in-chief Erick Erickson wrote: "Republican candidates nationwide should seize on this issue. The Democrats are giving a pass to radicals who advocate killing white kids in the name of racial justice and who try to block voters from the polls." Erickson added: "The Democrats will scream racism. Let them. Republicans are not going to pick up significant black support anyway." Erickson's employer, CNN, notes that the Willie Horton ad "played to racial fears and portrayed Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis as soft on crime."
Fox's Glenn Beck program: an hour of race-baiting. During the July 12 edition of his Fox News program, Glenn Beck repeatedly added to his already long history of race-baiting:
- Beck claimed "radical revolutionaries," and the New Black Panthers "have ties to the White House."
- Beck claimed, "We seem to be experiencing a government that doesn't care about racism from [The New Black Panther Party]."
Beck: "They want a race war ... and our government is going to stand by and let them do it." On the July 12 edition of his radio program, while discussing the New Black Panther Party, Beck said: "They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are going to poke, and poke, and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it." Beck added, "We must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, 'Kill all white babies.'"
Beck: NBPP are part of Obama's "army of thugs." On his July 9 radio program, Beck claimed that the New Black Panther Party is part of Obama's "army of thugs." Beck also claimed during the show that Obama is sympathetic to the NBPP's hate speech.
Limbaugh: Obama and Holder "continue to protect and represent" New Black Panthers. During his July 12 show, Rush Limbaugh said that Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder "continue to protect and represent" the New Black Panther Party.
Levin: New Black Panthers are part of the "armies of the left." On his July 12 program, conservative radio host Mark Levin falsely claimed that Eric Holder didn't "allow sentencing" for New Black Panthers, and added that the NBPP are part of the "armies of the left." Levin previously claimed that Holder, the nation's first African-American attorney general, "embraces the New Black Panthers."
Quinn: Welfare breeds "indolence" and "hatred." Radio host Jim Quinn said on his July 8 program, in response to an anti-white rant by a member of the New Black Panther Party, that welfare breeds "indolence" and "hatred."
Race-baiting continues pattern. Media Matters previously noted numerous examples of conservative media figures using the New Black Panther Party for race-baiting.
Get it out Limbaugh and crew; lance the boil. Then the real discussions can begin instead of this obvious claptrap
This is all about setting up the November elections. Everything you see now on Fox will be in every Republican ad this Fall.
And Dems have absolutely no fallback position unless they're willing to change David Graham's diapers over at Newsweek.
They'll need to find something more viable than Graham, MMFA and Dolly the Hutt before November. Bankrupt Newsweek probably won't even exist by then.
Did you see the internet video of the guy who was in front of the polling station giving a speech about killing white people and their babies? How about the leader of the Black Panthers praising Saddam Hussein & Osama Bin Laden?
Eric Holder is a corrupt racist hired by a president who rose to the top of Chicago politics, a city known for its absolute & total political corruption.
Say goodbye to your majority! The real Americans are going to make Obama this BIGGEST SINGLE TERM LAME DUCK PRESIDENT IN HISTORY! After his term he can learn how to speak without reading the words of a teleprompter and sell green sportscars with Algore the moron!
Certain parts of the story blow it away if looked at. Still our media fails so often to inform the public of these things.
We have no real input into this. It'd be sweet to see it blow up in their faces though.
Not much chance of that. Look at the stuff Michael Moore dug up that the mainstream news somehow couldn't find. Like the bankruptcies caused by healthcare costs while the main coverage was about how the Tea partiers were angry "real Americans". Or the manipulated intelligence in both Iraq wars. They simply don't want to find it.
Now kids are gonna line up to join these bozos.
This is stretching a little too far even for you.
I think this is the first time I've agreed with you. The Bush/Cheney & Co. regime was disastrous. Thankfully, we are moving past that now.
Pretty amazing how shameless these guys are getting. The Willie Horton ads have long been considered a low and shameful spot on American politics. The conservative movement has been taken over completely by the power at all costs authoritarians. There is very little they won't sink to doing or misrepresenting to advance their Anti-American agenda at this point. If a few groups have to be destroyed, and the American public are continually pitted against each other, then so be it as long as they can shape the media narrative to cover their real agenda.
Say what you're really thinking, won't you? That the You Know Who's are taking over the country unless we be vigilant? Please, just say it instead of these silly dances or letting your shills (Tea Party activists in Fox Speak) do the dirty work for you? At least be honest.
Then we can get those "Whites Only" signs out of the mothballs, those "No Dogs or Jews Allowed" signs back where they belong, and the "No Irish Need Apply" advertisements back in the papers. You know, the Good Ol' Days (TM)
Only descendents of the English and SOME French - but not the ones with relatives north of the 50th.
Is there a pattern here?
But let me ask you this, you say it doesn't matter who does it, voter intimidation is wrong. I agree. But do you agree that the Bush DOJ should have pursued those minutement in AZ?
"In reality, the Obama DOJ obtained an injunction against one individual who was carrying a night stick at the polling location. Charges against the second member at the polling location, the president of the party, and the party itself were dropped due to lack of evidence."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007090047
But the main guy was punished with an injunction. What more do you want? Does he need to go to jail? Should he be executed?
Who else, in your opinion, needs to be punished? What more needs to be done, in your eyes?
If a guy who has committed robbery in the past is sitting outside a convenience store, should he be arrested for robbery because he has the potential to rob that store?
Of course not.
The guy standing outside the polling place didn't intimidate any voters. So how can he be arrested/charged with voter intimidation when none were intimidated? Huh?
Those men WERE punished. Only if you listen to FoxNews and fail to actually read the actual information would you/could you think that there was anything that these guys could have been charged with but weren't!
Just a bunch of left-wing scabs who think MMFA is more than a pimple on Megyn Kelley's derriere.
Or that MMFA is anything more than a dispatched fly in Fox studios (a la Obama but on an infinitesimally smaller scale).
Or that MMFA will have ANY affect this Fall.
Crybabies and complainers never make it. Try to clean up your act. Even Soros has limits.
Someday we will all stand before God. At that time, everything you stand for will be revealed. For those of you who don't believe that, let me tell you this, what you believe doesn't matter at all. Your opinion about everything you thought was important will not make a bit of difference at that time. The only thing that matters in this very short life of ours is what we do to glorify God. Nothing else matters at all. We will meet Christ, and, we must be righteous. If you don't know Christ, you are not righteous. Again, nothing else will make a bit of difference when that moment comes. You may say there is no God, but the fact is, you say that while you breath his air. If you are living like there is no God, you had better be right.
Where are you standing right now? Are you standing on the promises of God, or the lies of man? Are you ready to meet your Maker? I hope so, because nothing else matters.
It's not intimidation because the New Black Panthers are a small insignificant group? If even one person shows up at a polling place dressed as they were and carrying any type of weapon that is intimidation. What type of organization would they need to belong to for you to consider it intimidation? Let me guess. Any type of conservative group will do. The PEOPLE who were there committed the crime. No group membership is necessary.
All of you know that if this had been a Caucasian standing in front of a polling place behaving in the same manner, this site as well as the MSM would be shouting the story from the rooftops. It would be non-stop 24/7 coverage.
FYI...Here is who I am: I'm an Independent (Fastest growing political group - 6 close friends now are independents), Not a member of a Tea Party, I watch "Morning Joe" I get my national & local news mostly from CNN, Drudge, Chicago Tribune, I dont listen to Rush, I do listen to Beck, I voted for Obama, and Im losing faith in his plan and definitely his team.
So what does Media Matters think? (Panthers Issue & Mainstream Media)