Comments on: Obama, Drudge, Rush, and the Final Nail

By: Racism in America Doesn’t Stop With Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly & Their Followers – It’s in Our Health Care Debate Too | PoliticalArticles.NET

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:32:17 +0000

[...] from the obvious targets of a Joe Wilson or Rush Limbaugh, the problem of racism infests every facet of the American experience, including the ongoing health [...]

By: Michael Roston - Newsbroke – Get ready for Rush Limbaugh, the worst pro football team owner in the world - True/Slant

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:33:10 +0000

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By: Bill Stephney

Bill Stephney — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:41:54 +0000

In the age of the “viral video,” along with the obvious racial dynamic present, and the brutality of the beating (over a backpack…), this IS news today, and that will not change anytime soon.

Anybody with kids in today’s schools (I have three…) knows that if you’re child even points their index finger the wrong way, it could be interpreted as mimicking “a gun” – an act worthy of an immediate suspension for the student. So when a bus camera catches an act like this (this is not the first one to make the news or YouTube…), its news.

My beef is that when we shrug off this type of violence as it is to be expected, it escalates. Over twenty Black, Chicago schoolchildren have been killed this year amidst neighborhood violence. Not in one “blaze” of school shooting “glory” — but as part of a pattern of environmental violence that we tragically accept for these children.

The kids who do the “beatdowns” today, without intervention, do the drivebys tomorrow. That cannot be ignored.

By: daveskatingfan

daveskatingfan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:59:22 +0000

Limbaugh, Drudge, Coulter, Hannity, Levin, Schmidt, and the new low, is this thing named Beck are speaking for your party. The tea baggers, birthers, health care “grass roots” crazies. They are financed by corporations. They are becoming a larger part of your party every day. When some form of Obama’s plan passes, you will see these people screech even louder…..just like the wicked witch from the wizard of Oz, at the end of that film, melting in to a pile of goo. The percentage of people calling themselves Republicans is getting smaller every day. It’s all in the recent polling. These are crazy nut-jobs who talk about Texas seceding from the Union, (Their Governor wants that) I’m not worried at all about 2010 or 2012. It might wind up Dems vs. Independents at the rate the Repubs are going.

We have Rachel Maddow, a P.H.D. in polyscience. She is all we need. Watch her on MSNBC if you want to see who financially backs most of the crazy-right organizations. The well meaning, informed Republicans who I know, the ones who Nixon called, “The silent majority” HATE the people who I mentioned because they are wrecking your party. The ignorant, and uninformed listen to them, believe every word that they say, then show up in lock step with guns within a few hundred feet of the President. It is absolutely DISGUSTING that Glenn beck would use 9-11 as a launching point for his 9-12 rally. That kind of crap will finish the Republicans once and for all.

By: Michael Roston - Newsbroke – NBC newsman spreads the sickness around the White House press corps - True/Slant

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:36:37 +0000

[...] if we can just get the White House to scold news organizations that spread the virus of RACISM. Is there a Sesame Street/Elmo video about [...]

By: Ryan Sager

Ryan Sager — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:38:35 +0000

I think that’s good perspective. I think this sort of fighting was eventually going to have to happen, whenever we got our first black president. As heated as we can all feel about it, perhaps it will mostly be pretty mild (in a historical sense).

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:28:36 +0000

incident, not innocent.

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:28:01 +0000

I said nothing about excusing the innocent, I said it’s not a story that warrants national news scrutiny. I think the ugly fire storm it’s generated proves my point. Kids get beat up everyday in school, it’s not right but it happens. The real story here is the jackass bus driver, not some pubescent teen losing it. If there’s a teaching moment here it’s that MSM shouldn’t be taking it’s marching orders from the likes of Matt Drudge.

By: Bill Stephney

Bill Stephney — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:35:57 +0000

I get you, but let’s not act like a group of Black kids beating on a White kid because he moved a backpack is an everyday occurrence. That was a severe attack, and should not be excused or tolerated in any way.

By: libtree09

libtree09 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:09:31 +0000

The recent spat over racism has me laughing, many years ago the fight was in the street with dogs and shop owners with axe handles and buses bombarded with eggs and threats, it wasn’t too funny. Now we have two groups integrated standing in the school yard shouting, “You’re a racist!”…

“No…you’re the racist”

“What I’m black!”

“You hate white people”

“What! I got a white guy right here and he says you’re racist!”

“Yeah…I got a black guy here and he thinks you’re racist!”

“You’re just a big stupid white elephant!”

“You’re a stupid black jackass!”

“You stink!”

“No you stink.”

As long as the dialog like this continues we are in pretty good shape.