Dateline Tampa: Racists of the Mainstream Media
The left/liberal need to think Republicans and conservatives racists is more than just projection. At this point, it is nothing short of a mental illness. It is so far divorced from reality, it has to be pathological. No longer are these people able to observe reality with anything close to impartiality. We are not in the world of politics, ladies and gentlemen. We are in the world of Freud, Jung, Adler, and people bouncing off walls.
In his own bizarre way, David Chalian has become the poster boy for Election 2012. His story has gripped this convention because everyone knows he is not all that exceptional. That is what they think.
The executives at Yahoo, and ABC, where Chalian once worked, are obviously in damage-control mode. But they would be better advised to examine the culture (their culture) that allowed this to happen. What is most horrifying about Chalian’s comment was that there was nothing surprising about it. If Yahoo, ABC and all the others actually consider themselves news organizations, it’s time to take a serious and lengthy look in the mirror.
Also read: MSNBC and The Big Narrative Lie
The Left obsess over the physical because they have no ideological diversity. They all support BIG government and are all of them, statists.
They have long run out of ideas and have substituted “more government” for real solutions.
They are pathetic but still dangerous. Their goal is to enslave us all to the state as either dependents or funders of dependents.
Let’s face it. Chris Matthews, Bill Maher and his ilk would label as racist any white male that goes to a restaurant and chooses to order sauteed spinach over collard greens and blackeyed peas (a wonderful dish by the way, to disabuse those who might think that I am playing a race card here of that notion). It is just insane. What they fail to realize is that by denigrating as racist those who condemn Obama for his policies they are committing the most racist of all acts: They are suggesting that the President, because he is African American, is incapable of standing up for himself and/or being judged simply as a MAN, not as a BLACK MAN. It is not that I don’t like the President; I don’t like his ideas and fear for the country if he is permitted to continue leading it in the direction of socialist Europe. I judge him on the content of his ideas, not of his character or skin color. The liberal media should do thes same for his critics.
Roger – You wrote: “The left/liberal need to think Republicans and conservatives racists is more than just projection. At this point, it is nothing short of a mental illness.” My sentiments, (almost) exactly. My only quarrel is with your use of the term ‘left/liberal.’ They’re not liberal, in any sense of the word. They are, as you pointed out to me, reactionary. We cannot allow them to corrupt the English language by (ab)using terms to describe themselves as something they are not.
Yes Jack, they are lefty fascists, if there is anything like that!! What is so liberal about not even wanting to listen to anyother view point besides their own??
All fascists are lefty. Noone believes what Marx wrote.
Lenin changed Marxism to permit Communism in Russia without going through the preliminary stage of bougois capitalism. Millions were murdered as Soviet Union attempted to create state industry thought necessary to support state socialism.
Mussolini changed Marxism by asserting that he could build a socialist state without having all other states reach socialism at the same time. Of course the Italian trains never did run on time.
Hitler changed Marxism by convolving it with Darwinism, asserting not only that the state could/should pick winners and losers in industry, they should also pick winners and losers in a struggle for the best genetics.
You said what I was going to say. Somewhat different words than I would have used, but the same thing.
What is comes down to is that Nazism and Facism are just name-branded communism.
I would say the difference between facism and communism is simply how they came into power. Facism: they got elected and then ruined the government. Communism: a coup and over through and ruined the government. The policies are the same just the route to power. I would call Hugo Chavez a facist because he was elected and then got rid of the government after being in office.
Nazi is an abbreviation of the National Socialist Party (Nationalsozialismus). ‘Nation’ in German is pronounced NAHtzee-OHN, abbreviated NAHtzee, or Nazi (the ‘z’ is pronounced tzee). The idea that they are right wing is fantasy. They were socialists, plane and simple.
Jaladhi — All leftists are Facists, or Socialists, or NAZIs, or Progressives, or Greenies, or Full-blown racist wacka-looney tunes. No person to the left of the political spectrum has ever, to my knowledge, shown any disposition to be otherwise. In my haste, I forgot Communists and Marxists. (sorry)
IMO the primary reason for the Left’s extremism is that their politics is their religion. Being basically atheistic (or at least anti-religion), the Left had to come up with something to fill their spiritual vacuum. They filled it with their politics. Their politics is literally like a secular fundamentalist religion. It makes sense; look at how the Left is similar to religious fundamentalists on the Right. They have dogma, blind faith, rejection of reason, pathological hatred of dissenters (they are evil), and for true believers, the promise of redemption and utopia once they have total power and MAKE everyone else conform.
You wonder why Leftists are such enraged haters? Try going to the middle east and telling a devout muslim that there is no Allah and see what response you get. It’s the same as challenging the political beliefs of a Leftist.
While you are accurate in you assessment, I’d say you are inaccurate in your comparison.
Christians should be Ashamed in the presence of Liberals.
Jesus admonished Christians to have the “Faith of a Mustard Seed.”
Liberals, without fail and on a Regular Basis, when faced with Reality, Demonstrate that they have the “Faith of an Avacado Pit.”
This is exactly what I have been thinking. Thank you for expressing it so well.
You’re just arguing semantics. Everyone understands what is meant by “a Liberal” in this country. Yes, they do not promote anything like a classical liberal agenda. But, it’s understood that when someone is called a liberal you are saying they are for big government. The word has become anathema to the public. So much so that Liberals do all they can to avoid association with the term. I think it causes less confusion than what would be caused if one tried to use another term. I think “Progressive” is a worse word because that is granting them the notion that their ideas will move the country forward.
I tried to straighten out the terms we use to curse the opposition here: http://clarespark.com/2012/08/30/political-hate-speech-in-the-media/. I see why Roger Simon refers to a pervasive mental illness in some political quarters. Here I take ideology and equate it with certain types of delusional thinking brought on by an imprecise mass media and politicians too.
Oh boy, Democrats are showing and oving their mental illness everyday. The new democrats are sullying the name of a fine party that existed a long time back. The present day democrats should change their party’s name to anything but “democrat” or just the “insane party” because that is what they have become!!
The former Democratic Party is now under the complete control of the Progressive Party of America. (I have read interviews with the self admitted Progressives who founded the Soros supported MoveOn.org where thay stated they were going to use the Democratic Party as a stepping stone to power) This they have now achieved. I don’t know what ism would correctly describe it perhaps it is a new one. But it is clear that their goal is a single party, statist control of everything. So totalitarism would fit. Their model would seem to be modern China where party loyalty is the basis of decisions.
The race card; the last refuge of a scoundrel who’s run out of an argument.
How truly tragic and sad, as this kind of abusive language hurts the entire minority community when actual racism occurs.
Thank you, Roger… for helping to shine the light on this shameful behavior.
Listen to the sound of his voice.
We are being pushed around by an “effemetocracy”.
Really? You’re making fun of him (or trying to invalidate his point) because you think he sounds effeminate? That’s stooping to the same level as the Lefty who can’t make his/her point and says “racist” in order to win the argument.
Wrong. Men are intended to be masculine. Women are intended to be feminate. Look up the roots of the words.
Meant to say “Women are intended to be feminine.”
BTW, listen to the audio. SunsetD is 100% on the mark. If anything his comment is restrained.
If nothing else, this comment taught me a new word…’feminate’.
Racism or perceived racism is the only issue that the democrats have to run with. They have no real policies and no real accomplishments, so like the perverted TV personalities who like to call Republican women by scurrilous names they call names. What a pathetic party and what a bunch of pathetic Americans who support this scum culture. Oh I almost forgot the democrats have another issue; it involves a thirty year old rich white women and student at the most exclusive university in Washington who is whining about not being able to afford her need for contraceptives. What a ridiculous country. O tempora O mores!
As a recent refugee from Hollywood – I can’t count the number of times I found myself in otherwise professional situations where this kind of sewage ( and sometimes far far worse – like bulging-veined explicit promises to murder or dismember and rape) spewed forth without any question or self-awareness from my respected peers. I began life as a (old fasioned) liberal… Id’ say I remain a liberal today – but the term has been so mutilated and hijacked by radicals that I won’t. The execs who deny that this sewage is not what passes for everyday dialogue in their back rooms are abject, bold-faced liars. Those denials are every bit as fraudulent as Obama was when he denied ever hearing Rev Wright’s incendiary anti-American and anti-white hatred over twenty years.
These are not journalists – they are propaganda shills and apparatchiks – and they are every bit as vile, cowardly, and dangerous as the filth and scum who shilled for Stalin and Mao In their day. They are the moral and ethical equivalents of Baghdad Bobs.
There doesn’t seem to be any sort of “like” button to press.
If there was, you’d get a “like” from me.
I tend to think the increasing wildness of comments from the media leftist is in reaction to what one can easily derive from the results of their laughable polls where oversampling is now at a cartoonish level.
Oversampled by 10% in favor of dems and Obama is up by 2%. Oversampled by 12% and Obama up by 1%.
One not need employ a calculator to see that they’ve lost the middle and a 8% – 10% of their own party.
They’ve wagered everything on an Obama second term and they’ve lost.
The decades it took to infiltrate our schools, our newsrooms, Hollywood and and television. They finally get a true socialist in the Whitehouse and it’s all falling down around thier ears.
How fine and comfortable to be so right, so perfect; how excellent to have such stumbling, racist, idiotic opponents, whose aim (to destroy America and turn it into a Stalinist gulag) is evident; to have such good and decent candidates for high office. How exactly is it that you are always behind in the polls, and unless you win Florida and Ohio, which you won’t, you are going down yet again?
We all knew that this election cycle would be ugly, but even I didn’t believe that the Obama minions in media would be this transparent.
Comcast, the relatively new owner of NBC, must be wondering what to do with MSNBC. It has sullied the name of NBCNews brand that had been forged by Huntley, Brinkley, Chancellor, McGee, Vanocur, Quinn and Valeriani.
Actually, I would bet Comcast and NBC are quite happy to have MSNBC be their “front” for their 24/7 conservative hatred. I’m sure they think they get plausible deniability (“Who, layers-of-fact-checkers us, hate conservatives? Nuh uh, it’s those guys over there who are hate central”) It’s truly amazing how despicable the Lick Spittle Media have become in their desperation to protect The One.
Murray Rothbard Origins of Progressive Regulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62rI8OYFzGg
“Chalian, not surprisingly, was fired almost immediately when the word got out”
It certainly surprises me. I thought he would get a promotion.
That’s MSNBC
He’ll fit right in at NBC’s Tape Doctoring Division.
Propagandists. They are the enemy. They are on the other side. They mist be defeated.
When my truth becomes laughably absurd, that is comedy. It opens a window into the soul. I remember the photo of Governor Dukakis riding atop a main battle tank. He, an anti war politician of minimal stature, almost fit inside his military helmet. The purpose was to exhibit his martial strength, but it destroyed him politically. He looked absurd. If the Republicans were smart (admittedly IF) they would trash the”I built it” signs and emblazon the hall with Mr. Chalian’s quote. Replay the tape behind an empty podium. And have only black Americans on the stage, rebutting him, all night. Command network coverage, by offering nothing else.
In so many issues, the Republican’s natural constituencies are blacks, Hispanics, and soccer moms. Yet they lose these people election after election. This too is absurd.
I gave up on MSNBC years ago when Mr. Tingles started peeling off the wall. That aside, I usually watch a Fox broadcast, Biz preferred, News as an alternate.
During the Ted Cruz speech I was watching Neil Cavuto who had already started interviewing the Goldwater guy. Cruz continued to speak. Someone laid an announcement on Cavuto’s desk… Ted Cruz is speaking… from which Cavuto announced the same, and continued to interview Goldwater.
I switched to Fox News – the Hannity hour – there was a small box with a picture of Cruz speaking, but a larger box with a commercial.
I checked TV guide and there was no NBC so I switched to PBS. There was Cruz – for whom I voted – giving the remainder of his speech.
This is not the first time Fox has failed, unfortunately, they were only mimicking MSNBC.
If you stand vanilla, I suggest C-SPAN
Yeah, thanx. Tried it. The HDTV pic was better on PBS than C-SPAN. After the Cruz I switched back to Cavuto.
I watched it on the BlazeTV, saw and heard every speach in their entirety.
Sorry Roger, this isn’t mental illness, its just math. If Republicans ever got 30% of the black vote and 50% of the hispanic vote, they would own this country. At that point they would implement some form of free-market capitalism.
If that included school choice and minorities greatly benefited, that wouldn’t matter, because it would be so terrible.
That is how liberals see things. In their view, a nation run by conservatives for a generation would be hell on earth. No amount of dishonesty or unfair play is too much, if it prevents that from happening. They just try not to get caught. Which is hard when everyone does it. Someone gets caught once in a while.
I’m looking forward to the start of that ‘hell on earth’. And it begins in 70-some days. I’ve about used up my time on earth but seeing the country I’ve fought for and defended in good hands for a generation would give me great comfort.
At that point they would implement some form of free-market capitalism.
Ummm, no, not even close.
We’d be a lot better off than with Obama, but we’d be heading for the brick wall at, maybe 75 mph instead of 100, I’d guess. That’s just the Federal budget and the end of our ability to borrow and print money to cover it, but a whole lot of that is “corporate welfare” and the like. One of the world’s highest corporate tax rates, with plenty of exceptions. That whole game provides the national politicians the money they need to win elections and desire for their lifestyles.
You’re asking them to give up a lot of power as well as wealth; the national Republican party as it stands today doesn’t seem at all inclined to do that. Google rnc rule 12, they just changed the way the rules can be made to make sure they have tight control over who becomes a presidential nominee. Note who decided the “ayes” won without a real vote.
Yep. The Establishment isn’t about to start tearing down their feeding trough.
The sad irony is, the fiscons despise the socons and worry and fret that socons will lose elections for The Big R, and moan and groan that only the economy matters and we have to lower taxes and reduce spending.
All the while history shows that it is the socons who act with integrity and fiscal responsibility once they get in office, who fight to lower taxes and spending, quite UNLIKE the elected fiscons who promise to fix everything but wind up “selling out” and just going along to get along and become very much part of the problem.
Lina Inverse,
You may be right that the republicans don’t have the stomach to start taking apart the government. But alas, we will never know. In order to get anything done, the Republicans need 60 votes in the Senate. That hasn’t happened in a very long time.
My suspicion is that the Republicans would take apart far more than you realize – but then my opinion is based on the same thing as yours – just a guess.
To give one very small example. During the first Bush term, the Republicans tried to change the rules behind Flexible spending accounts for health care. They tried to make it so that the money would not be lost at the end of the year if a person still had some left. They wanted the money to build up over time so that a person would have a safety stash for medical purposes – sort of a personally funded insurance policy.
In the end, they failed. They tried to do it administratively during the Bush years. They tried to pass legislation through congress. The courts shot down the administrative changes, the Senate blocked the legislation through filibuster. Democrats don’t want independent people to have their own means to solve their own problems and were very diligent in blocking the change.
Finally, the Republicans passed Health Savings account legislation, which Bush signed. But that was only because the Republicans attached it to Senior prescription drug legislation. That was the price the Democrats demanded for the possible independence of its citizenry. Then Obama passed Obamacare, which killed Health Savings accounts again.
My point? You don’t know what the Republicans will do without the Democrats in the way. You may never know – as the Republicans getting to 60 votes is pretty remote. Then again, I don’t know either.
If Yahoo, ABC and all the others actually consider themselves news organizations, it’s time to take a serious and lengthy look in the mirror.
But they won’t.
After decades of indoctrination by el-hi education, undergraduate college and j-school, combined with the echo chamber of the MSM newsrooms, it’s in their genes.
ExRat – The MSM (more properly, LSM) = Ministry of Propaganda and Lies.
MSM = Ministry of Socialist Mindwashing
Leftstream Media
DNC Media Complex
MiniTru
State Media
Pulitburo Media
For MSM, I prefer Main Scream Media
“But they would be better advised to examine the culture (their culture) that allowed this to happen.”
Yeah, good luck with that. You’re asking pigs to fly. And let me stay on my animal theme — no original insight here, I know — and say that we can’t ever forget that we’re dealing with a miserable, gutless herd. You’re right: He said it because he was comfortable saying it; because he knew he would not be called on it; because his audience thinks the same way. He was affirming his group identity in saying it. Why else say it — because it was “news” to the group? Not a chance. This same kind of “conversation” goes on in newsrooms all over this land, every day.
Look at the Obama narrative they’ve put forward and continue to keep alive in this campaign — the 1 percent, tax felon, Bain Capital — peddling the “heartless rich guy” story, in the complete absence of facts and despite Romney’s appealing personal history.
I doubt that enough of the viewing/reading public gets it. Sure, polls show journalists are down at the level of lawyers and other peoples’ Congressmen in terms of trustworthiness, but I don’t think there is widespread recognition about just how much these charlatans skew our political debates.
This crap’s been going on since well before the Nixon presidency, and it’s going to continue because a lot of people still watch their broadcasts and read their papers and accept the narrative.
We’ve had some pretty despicable characters appear on stage in our history, but very few more so than these people. They’re shameless, and loathsome.
The left/liberal need to think Republicans and conservatives racists is more than just projection. At this point, it is nothing short of a mental illness.
That belief (more accurately self-delusion) along with a whole lot of other required components of the Leftist mindset, an around the clock struggle to reinforce each other and make their narratives true.
I’ve been arguing for the duration that these people are not well.
– but PJM still doesn’t block “joke” Comments which compare the GOP to the Klan.
It has truly reached a new level. I don’t know whether to feel angry or sympathetic towards the comic book characters on MSNBC. The media have become the politicians.
Meanwhile in Louisiana, the city of New Orleans, where the vast majority of blacks live, is fine, thanks to the $15 billion spent by the feds since Katrina. Outside of the new levee system, Cajuns are being flooded out. But they don’t count, do they?
Firing Chalian accomplishes nothing. They are all like that.
On the other hand, having his words on tape forever accomplishes a lot. I predict that this will go down in history as one of thee clips that gets used over and over to prove our point about media bias.
I like that he was fired, gives me a small blip of confidence that we’re not completely lost.
Yet.
He’ll be back. Just look back at how many liberals have been fired for statements made on air and a few months later end up with another media job.
It’s true, Bill Maher was dumped. Chris Matthews lost his show.
Then they’re back, and you wonder how.
I guess there’s a real shortage of leftists who can walk and chew gum at the same time and they have to keep recycling the same mouths.
If Romney wins and the economy turns the lsm will lose all their credibility. This is their last hurrah. This is it for them and they know it. That’s why they’re so desperate.
Well, let’s be honest…they’ll only lose credibility with TODAY’s people…tomorrow’s people will have to learn the lessons the hard way all over again. Sigh.
That is the conundrum. Who would have thought after the monstrous inhumanity of Stalin and Hitler, and after the implosion of the Soviet Union, that within a short few decades, our republic would be struggling for its life against insidious inner forces that loathe freedom and individual initiative?
I find the image of Freud, Jung, Adler, and people bouncing off walls to be very disturbing.
You must have been watching MSNBC last night…
Jaladhi:
“The new democrats are sullying the name of a fine party that existed a long time back. The present day democrats should change their party’s name to anything but “democrat” or just the “insane party” because that is what they have become!!”
The Democrat party has never been a “fine party.” Go back to your history books. With the election of Andrew Jackson, the first Democrat President, the Democrat Party became the party of ethnic cleansing forcing Indian tribes to migrate to the worst regions of the country along a series of “Trails of Tears”.
Leading up to and including the Civil War, the Southern branch of the party was the party of slavery while Democrats in the North were the Copper Heads who spied for the South, l;ynched and murdered Blacks, and rioted against the effort to free the enslaved Blacks held captive in the Democrat-controlled states. The northern Democrats obstructed the war effort at every turn.
Following their defeat in 1865, the Southern branch of the Democrat Party created the Jim Crow laws and actively assisted the Ku Klux Klan that would hold down Blacks, Jews and Catholics for the next one hundred years. All the while, their northern brothers turned a blind eye to their terrorism.
At the turn of the 20th Century, the party splintered with one group renaming themselves “Progressives.” It was the Progressives who created “Planned Parenthood” with the express purpose of reducing the Black population first through birth control and forced sterilization and now legalized abortion.
With the election of first Woodrow Wilslon and then Franklin Roosevelt, the Democrat Party began chipping away at The Constitution in order to create a statist America of Big Government and small liberties.Their destruction of The Constitution went into overdrive with the election of Barrak Obama. In the 1940s, the Democrat Party resisted the American entrance into World War II until Nazi Germany turned on the Soviet Union, its ally in crime against humanity.Then the Democrat Party couldn’t wait for our participation in the war.
Indeed, the left wing of the Party would continue to support the Soviet Union until it imploded in the 1990s, all the while,remaining blind to Soviet and Chinese Communism’s state-sponsored liquidation of 100 million human beings. As the Pulitizer-winning Moscow reporter for the New York Times explained, “You have to crack some eggs to make an omelet.”
From the 1960s to the present, the Democrat Party would sponsor a host of laws and regulations that would destroy the traditional Black family and enslave millions of Americans in a cycle of dependency that guarantees votes for the Democrat Party.
So, Jaladhi, I’m wondering when it was, exactly, that the democrats had a “fine party”?
The idea of going forward with the republican convention while Issac hits the gulf has been a recurrent democrat theme for at least a week. Chalian’s comment is an extension (a wild one) of that mentality.
Chuck Todd (Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News) suggested republicans cancel another day of their convention (yesterday) out of “sensitivity” to NOLA and memories of Katrina.
They hate that republicans should get positive air time and have been doing everything in their power to shut that off.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I think the Campaigner-In-Chief is out on the hustings today, performing what has been his main task for 3 1/2 years.
Have you no shame, Barry ?
“he would make such an insane statement”
There is nothing insane about: kulaks, untermenschen, ox ghosts and snake spirits, capitalist roaders, it’s normal, acceptable, and typical Leftist speak. Their hatred is unbound. Their desire for blood unslaked despite a hundred million dead.
He only got fired cuz he got caught. Otherwise they’s all nodding their heads along with him.
Holy crappola….what’s the big deal here? This Chalian guys goes and says something stupid and all you neocon reactionaries want to somehow use that as evidence that ALL progressives have the same mindset? Please! That’s like saying all Republicans believe womyn are physically constructed to “reject” rape, ala Todd Akin. Or that a womin should NOT have the right to abortion if raped, ala that guy in Pennsylvania running against Casey for the Senate.
Actually, those are pretty poor examples, because all Republicans do hold such beliefs. Further, you want evidence of real racism? How about rolling out a few politicians of color at your convention in an attempt to deceive people into thinking that the Republicans ARE NOT the party of white people? Progressives are not the racists here, we don’t dwell on “race”. YOU neocons are the race obsessed. You must be, you are all white. It’s a white thing. Whether of French or Polish or English descent, it’s a thing embedded in white people. White. White.
I’m not entirely certain whether or not this was satire. If it wasn’t, you inadvertently made a fairly good attempt at it – particularly in the second paragraph.
The author did not imply that every progressive has Chailan’s mindset – only that most of the media shares a particular bias. Chailan saying something partisan does not support that implication – everyone laughing along with him does.
The rest of your comment, if intended seriously, is beneath contempt and not worth responding to.
Pretend it’s a game, like trying to make a You Tube comment that is so ridiculously excessive that everyone can tell it’s satire.
Try to make a comment here that is so extremely left (or right) that it’s obvious you are being sarcastic.
The farther I got into his comment, the more it seemed like satire – but the left does such a great job at unintentional self-parody, you can never be entirely certain!
Good to know that’s what it was
Lovely Earth is the resident satirist in these parts, and a fine one. The hippie handle should be a giveaway.
Funny – if we are the racists how come its the progressives that are always talking about it? Progressives like this Chalian feel free to talk around other progressives like this – WHY? We don’t see or hear examples of conservatives talking like this – thats why you boneheads have to come up with ‘code’ – then proceed to ‘interpret’ that ‘code’. You and I both know that ‘code’ is BS.
Progressives remind me of a pack of thieves – who view all the world as a pack of thieves. You can insert ‘racist’ in place of thieves and the sentence is still true.
FYI, Earth is a bit of a wag. A dead-on satirist. Give him/her/it a break.
Somehow, it’s only the lefty progs who hear racist dog-whistles in words like “food stamps” or “welfare” or “crime.” When lefties hear those words, they think “black people.” And then they call conservatives “racists” for talking about the abuse of welfare and food-stamps. Weird.
Republicans don’t impose racial quotas for their convention delegates, as Dems have done. They let people join freely.
Republicans don’t insist that blacks and Latinos all have to think and vote the same way. It’s lefty Dems who do that.
Republicans don’t say “You need to join us because you can’t survive without our special patronage and because the other side wants you all to die and because black people who support the other side aren’t really black; they’re race traitors.” It’s Dems who say things like that.
Republicans treat racial minorities as normal people, not as victim groups that need special coddling. Republicans appeal to racial minorities on the strength of their ideas, not by constantly calling other people racists, as Dems do.
When “people of color” explain why conservative ideas appeal to them, the all-white commentators at MSNBC cover their eyes, plug their ears, and keep mindlessly chanting “racist, racist, racist.” Because that’s all they’ve got.
Blacks who embrace conservatism are seen as traitors by the race baiters.
They’re also seen as traitors if they’re successful, hence the extreme hatred held out for a Clarence Thomas, an Uncle Tom in the race hustler’s eyes.
‘Progressives are not the racists here, we don’t dwell on “race”.’
LMFAO!! There is nothing you idiots do more.
Hopefully it will be a “LovelyEarth” after the divider in chief is shown the door after the elections. Another four years of him will most certainly require that you come up with another “cutesy” PC name to reflect actual conditions on this planet and in this country.
Fantastic comedic meme. You have a gift for humor.
/s
No one actually believed the left when they said after Obama’s election that we were now a “post racial society,” did they?
I certainly hope not. It was blatantly obvious from the start that the left would use race as a hammer against anyone who opposed The One’s policies no matter how dismally they failed. They are just at it very openly because, honestly, they don’t have anything else. Obama certainly hasn’t done anything positive in his term but has done plenty of harm with the worst yet to come.
It was blatantly obvious at Obama’s first remarks in the HL Gates affair.
Obama had been in office about 6 months when he offered up his knee jerk diagnosis that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly”.
You know he wanted to come off on similarly on the Travon Martin (“If I had a son, he’d look like Travon”) fiasco, but held himself back after getting it so wrong in 2009.
Combine a lack of any sort of positive record with this president’s natural proclivities, and you’ve got nothing but playing on divisions, racial and any other kind you can trump up.
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The liberal media is freaking out over the possibility that The First Black President ™ might end up in the history books as a failure. (Presidents who are defeated for re-election end up in the history books as failures.)
And left-wing columnist E.J. Dionne wrote that he believes it would be a disaster for race relations in America if that happened. All the liberal media feels that way.
They’re practically begging the country to let Obama win re-election.
The First Black President ™
“The first President of mixed race.” (well, known anyway)
Obvious correction thanks to Morgan Freeman.
Maybe EJ (idiot) Dionne won’t be upset if we unseat Obama’s mom genes.
Bad for race relations..hmmm. What could he mean? Is he subtly hinting at what we used to hear a lot years back when blacks were on the offense? What was that phrase? Oh yes! “A long hot summer”.. Are we being threatened then? And what shall we do to maintain the peace? Let’s just all agree that the threat of a race war is so terrifying that we all give up our right to vote and agree to continue to suffer whatever afflictions Obama metes out. Just for racial harmony. Is that the game plan now? To start mentioning the threat of black violence to keep the rest of us in line? Sounds like it to me. Bet we hear a lot more in the weeks to come.
Unfortunately, fellow lefties like PBS’s Gwen Ifil support Chilain and his idiot comments.
http://twitchy.com/2012/08/29/istandwithdavid-gwen-ifill-and-other-real-journalists-express-support-for-disgraced-david-chalian/
So the Republicans have four minority governors, five if you count Puerto Rico, and the Dems have one. These MSM clowns are just getting desperate since people aren’t falling for their lines so easily.
MSNBC is warming up a seat for David Chalian right now.
Roger,
All this screaming of racism is not the left’s way of preparing for their defeat in the election.
It is their way of preparing to win it by cheating, or if that can’t be done, then by nullifying it.
Spot on. And this incident and the liberal reaction to it, showcase two of the defining features of the left: their acute moral vanity, and the infinite elasticity of their double standards. Yes, Chalian was sacked, that had to happen, but otherwise the the left have been muted, or even defensive. Imagine the loud, sanctimonious moralizing and editorializing if a journalist of the right had done something like this.
And at the risk of laboring my point, the headline over the report in the WaPo:
“Yahoo editor fired over anti-Romney joke”
Ah, so it was just a joke. He was fired over a joke. The real villains in the affair are those mean, vengeful conservatives.
“Happy to have a party while black people drown?” I absolutely CALLED IT! In the comment section for the article about MSM’s “Katrina” narrative, I said they were itching for another disaster because it would allow them to say Republicans played politics while poor black people suffered.
Actually, it wasn’t that hard to predict. I knjow the narrative as well as the rest of you do.
Our opponents are vile. Considering the moral bankruptsy of the MSM, the Hollywood limosine liberals, and the apparatchniks that infest the Democrat party, attempting to work together with those across the aisle is sheer nonsense, delusional. As this campaign progresses, one marvels at the new moral lows achieved by the Left. Let us not be sidetracked. There is no substitute for victory. Total victory.
Sadly, this episode will fall into the dustbin as a resolved issue because he was fired, but your point about his comfort level in making such a statement is (or at least should be) the real story. Absent some form of tourettes, he likely wasn’t expressing this view solely to hear himself talk. It was meant to be heard, and appreciated, by his fellow media “professionals.” The fact that he thought this private comment was appropriate for whatever audience it was intended, merely reinforces what we already know about the msm. You could even say, he merely voiced what Wolf Blitzer snidely alluded to all evening. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the rabid hypocrisy in the comment since President Obama was out fundraising.
Well said. The top management at the news agencies and the network are u=entirely cullpable for the decline in civility and the outright Alinsky-style ldemonizing and mockery of the “enemies” of their wan a-be-single party.
But could you please bring yourself to calling them Socialists or Social Democrats rather than using the wimpy “left/liberal”? These people are not Shavian intellects: they pride themselves on their gutter techniques. They think dirty tactics are fun and effective. They need to be called out in serious terms, valid attacks that will put them , and their masters,on the defensive.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Madness of
Democrats is now accomplished. Let’s hope that the promised destruction promptly ensues.
According to a report in the Daily Rash, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews claims to have a photograph of the Republican racial code book. http://www.thedailyrash.com/chris-matthews-unveils-photograph-of-republican-racial-code-book
You’re a racist is the default setting for the contemporary American leftist. Completely incapable of forming a rational, reasoned response to criticism or disagreement they immediately begin flinging poo like agitated chimpanzees. Sad. It used to be fun to have good natured political arguments with folks that had different points of view. Those days are long gone it seems.
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But could you please bring yourself to calling them Socialists or Social Democrats rather than using the wimpy “left/liberal”? These people are not Shavian intellects: they pride themselves on their gutter techniques. They think dirty tactics are fun and effective. They need to be called out in serious terms, valid attacks that will put
“It is so far divorced from reality, it has to be pathological.” IT IS.
Chalian wasn’t fired because his comments were inconsistent with his employer’s viewpoint – - – he was fired because he revealed it.
Which is more indicative of their respective philosophies or more embarrassing, David Chalian or Todd Akin? Just sayin…
No surprise who’s defending him, either.
PBS NewsHour host Gwen Ifill tweeted in support of Chalian, who left her show to work for Yahoo.
gwen ifill
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@pbsgwen
One mistake does not change this. @DavidChalian is God’s gift to political journalism. #IStandwithDavid
29 Aug 12
So did the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza:
Ryan Lizza @RyanLizza
Terrible, cowardly decision by Yahoo! to fire @DavidChalian, 1 of the best and fairest political journalists in this business. RT if u agree
29 Aug 12
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/08/29/yahoo-editor-fired-over-anti-romney-joke/
Roger, your column is frightening because of its perceptivity. You recognize what those of us who yearn for good will, well intentioned logical argument, intellectual honesty and concern for the best interests of the citizens of a free republic have been worrying about at least since the second term of George W. Bush. There is a large element of what is often referred to as the main stream media that will stop at nothing until this country submits to national socialism (fascism) or until there is a revolution. If a conservative, or even a true moderate is elected to the presidency, this powerful element of the media will continue unceasingly, day after day, to whip up class, race, sectional and sexual turmoil and hatred. This element of the media, and a large element of academia, are driving this country toward its greatest tragedy.
May God help us all.
That tragedy may very well be the breakup of the Union as we have known it. I’m not so sure it isn’t already beginning to occur.
What one has to remember is there is not ONE reporter in the MSM that, in the words of someone else, is worth a pint of sour owl urine. These people must make Stalin proud in his grave…
I,ll paraphrase Ben Hechte’s “Nothing Sacred” “to tell you briefly what I think of the lamestream media:the hand of God,reaching down into the swamp, couldn’t elevate one of them to the depths of degradation”.
Come on Roger. It’s not the MSM that thew nuts at the CNN black camerawoman. It’s not the MSM who has thrown themselves in with the birthers, like the Romney ticket. Who has called Obama “foreign” and “unamerican” code words for not white. Romney’s campaign has encouraged racism with their all white, no-one welcome GOP policies, that even Jeb Bush is appalled by. The MSM has let them get away with it and finally they are being called on it. They are race baiting with blatant welfare ad lies. It’s the whites vs everyone else election circa Willie Horton. We are going back in time with Romney and American is better than that.
Sally, I disagree. It is apparent that the extremists of both parties are in control and have painted each other unrealistically. In reality, the majority of the U.S. population is a “middle of the road”, fair and objective people that wish to be color-blind, unbiased, respectful of each other and other opinions, and thoughtful about the future of our country and our children. We wish for the freedom and opportunity to succeed, but also don’t believe that those down on their luck should be left to go hungry and without help. In truth, we want leadership that finds intelligent compromise with regard to our nations problems. Have you ever realized that you don’t hear accusations and slander towards the self-proclaimed “Independent” voters? It is because ultimately, we decide. We make our political choices independent of the two polarizing parties. And we refuse to submit ourselves to gutter politics. In spite of the pandering, slandering, and stereotyping by Democrats and Republicans, we will remain independent with our affiliation and choices. Be an “Independent” and make your own good decisions, form your own opinions, and be free of the garbage politics of our two current “major” parties. We are the majority.
It isn’t so much that David Chalian got fired. It’s that he said what he said and others laughed along. It’s that for libs and Dems, it’s OK when among others of the same ilk; in fact it’s encouraged, to make “witty,” rude, or even outright coarse or vulgar slurs against the other side. (It is also stupid — if only Chalian knew the mic was still live…maybe he was fired for being stupid.) A few moments on HuffPo is eye-opening to those who haven’t yet had the “pleasure” of seeing this in its purest and rawest form. It reminds me of mean girls, only larger, much larger, and much more harmful because there is such malicious glee.
It isn’t *just* the race card, which is bad enough. It is the coarsening of our society.
This joker’s comment is so very typical of the constant banter amongst the lib’s. They live in a closed-circuit atmosphere, breathing the rancid, stale air of racism, prejudice & out-right hatred of ANYONE who they believe is ‘wrong’, i.e. anyone with the slightest hint of conservatism.
Read any of the lib-press, from the NY Times, to WaPo to Huffy-Puffy or listen to the off-center rants of Chris-I’m-off-my-med’s-today Mathews, & it’s not difficult to see why these lib’s are so embued with what most in the real world, consider a ‘sick’ view of the world.
Time to expose ALL of this putrid hypocrisy on the left. It’s TIME TO END THE ERROR OF OBAMA, too.
Its not the drowning – we GOP felonious homophobes celebrate giving people cancer, throwing grandma off a cliff, and our hate for women.
See? Our bias is universal, not racial!
I probably would have a better handle on just how Republicans would think of blacks, if we ever bothered to take notice. See, ive been watching the convention on MSNBC – so I KNOW blacks are excluded from our party.
But if we GOPers did have any elderly, black, gay, female members- she’d look just like – well, I’m not exactly sure. I do know we’d want to “put y’all back in chains” though, as soon as possible.
(BTW, for all you Lefties who are so blinded by your bigotry and hate – the above is sarcasm)
“What is most horrifying about Chalian’s comment was that there was nothing surprising about it”
I dont know why I dont become a gambler and bet
about Liberal Media predictability. Maybe I could be a millionaire.
On Tuesday, as the convention was starting while the media was making sure to share the screen with the news on the storm, I told my husband: I bet on my life someone somewhere will say “the Republicans celebrate the death of black people”. They blamed Katrina on Bush, and now blame Isaac on the Republicans, because we all know that “GOPers” are “gods” that control the weather.
I also bet on the media distording the speeches, hiding the key lines and emphatizing and agrandizing the small ones. They “decide” that Christie speech was bad (it wasnt) and immeditely proceed to “state it as matter of fact”. With that they influence people’s own first opinions and impressions, and then psychologically intimidate them – so if someone thought that x or y speech was good, then read the media and finds the media is telling something different, then the person feels intimidated, or stupid for having thought otherwise.
The media has an immense control on American’s minds.
“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
Chevy Chase mocked Jerry Ford. Dana Carvey mocked George Bush, Bill Maher tears at all that is good, Tim Tebow is treated as strange and the Media brutalized W. Bush. And what do we get? Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barry Obama and Jesse Jackson, truly men without chests.
The worst they can say about Mitt Romney is that for his family trip he put his dog in a carrier on top the car, so his kids could have their dog.
“…they would be better advised to examine the culture (their culture) that allowed this to happen.” RS
Liberal/Progressive media types are truly like the bigots of yesteryear: they live this attitude day in and day out. It is the ocean in which they swim.
And like the bigots of yesteryear, when confronted with their offenses they ardently deny them, circle the wagons, and go on like nothing happened.
Welcome to the progressive Klu Klux Klan: CBS, NBC, MSNBC, ABC, PBS, NPR….
Anything to get their guy elected is acceptable.
I got into it with a couple of Democrats (I suppose) at USAToday website regarding the story about the CNN camerwoman, who is black, having peanuts thrown at her by “attendees” at the RNC the other day. In those persons’ minds, the GOP is a racist party, case closed.
One of their arguments is that only 18 of the 50 states’ delegations in Tampa have a black delegate. I pointed out that its difficult to have a large black representation when 1) 90+% of blacks vote straight line Democrat and 2) blacks only make up ~13% of the population and the percentage of those that vote reduces that number to what, 5% of the population? Less?
They’re having none of that argument.
Right on every account. Liberal groupthink is deranged. I think that Ann Coulter’s assessment is spot on as well, the Left is engaged in the politics of the mob. Mobs are the left hook of a tyrrant and lies are his right cross. With a big enough lie and a strong enough mob, you can beat down anyone.
For proof of the wide-spread psychopathic nature of the Liberal Party, one only has to go back 24 hours to Chris Matthews’ sputtering rant against the GOP chairman.
There is no more rope for the mainstream media. Their days of favoritism of the Lefties and ignoring the legitimate give and take from both sides of the political spectrum are done. The reason they are done is because the American people have finally come to the conclusion that the racism, divisiveness, hate speech, and bigotry come almost exclusively from the Left, at least at the point where communication to the public is concerned. Though it continues to happen far to much, the Lefties are not getting a free pass no matter what crazy thing they may say, or outlandish idea they might express about clear thinking Conservative ideas or actions. Regular folks in the country want the elected officials to talk and act in support of the American worker, business owner, retired person, child and anyone else who lives in the US. They have pinned us down under such oppressive financial and regulatory burdens that the economy cannot recover. The sad thing is that somewhere deep down you just believe they don’t support this Liberal thinking in their hearts, but cannot bear the idea that being honest might cost them their cushy Senate seat, or congressional slot. The best examples are Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. These two nut jobs know exactly where their bread has been buttered their entire careers in government, and will do and say anything to hold their slots regardless of what they honestly and truly believe.
Unfortunately Roger, it is too late. The Cultural Marxist coup of the MSM is complete. This is the ‘new normal’, and Americans will just have to live with it.
The fact is, their indoctrination started far before their professional lives in media. One only needs to check out a public school, an American university liberal arts curriculum or the current pablum fed daily to the masses on TV to know why.
They are in charge of managing America’s decline, and they are just getting started.
Sadly, in the case of liberals/most democrats, there is no cure for stupid. Why anyone continues to watch or listen to main stream media is an exercise in futility although it is heartening to see MSM viewer numbers plunge beyond abysmal.
If the left realy cared about diversity, there would be affirmative action for conservatives in the media. Conservatives in the mainstream media are an endagered species, if not extinct. The left are like ostriches with there heads buried in the sand, refusing to view the light of day and accusing the right of turning out the lights.
“If Yahoo, ABC and all the others actually consider themselves news organizations, it’s time to take a serious and lengthy look in the mirror.”
Roger, they won’t do it. They can’t. It would result in one of two things:
1 – No change.
Their thought process would remain as delusional as it is and they would remain “secure” in their view of “reality”.
2 – Utter destruction of their worldview.
If anyone in the “Lefty/Liberal” camp were to HONESTLY examine what they themselves and others that “think as I do” have become, it would inevitably lead to a realization that their view of reality is so skewed, so hateful, and so utterly wrong, well, their heads would just explode. And they would be left with nothing. People don’t do that to themselves – it is too frightening a prospect.
That analysis is based on giving them “the benefit of the doubt”. The other possibility is the person doesn’t actually believe all the cr*pola the Left spews out, but they want to get ahead in the world & see that as they only vehicle – so they spout the same garbage back at the people “who matter”.
If he had worked for MSNBC he would have gotten a promotion. MSNBC, CBS, NYTIMES, WAPO have all become politically irrelevant because of this type left bias that is endemic.
The Lefty blogs are going berserk this morning. Paul Ryan must have hit the mark last night! Here’s some sample bile from Mike Tomasky over at The Daily Beast (08/30/12):
“Analysis of the fact that Ryan can lie the way he does requires the skills of a psychologist. All I can say is that we’re in new territory—a Republican trying to own a Democratic issue, and doing so on the basis of a couple of lies so blatant that he’s practically saying to the Democrats and the media: ‘F*ck you, come and get me. You can’t touch me.”—Mike Tomasky
One word – JURNOLIST.
Simon’s point lacks logic.
Evidence of racists among ‘mainstream media’ doesn’t mean there are no racists among Republicans at the convention. He’s provided no proof that it’s an either/or situation.
If anything Simon’s ‘analysis’ merely clouds the issues with the same garbage true racists give us — few facts, too much emotion, awkward logic and no clarity.
Simon — Try again.
The mainstream media can pretty much be described for the last 4 years as Obama’s Poodle Press, but with the campaign in full swing they really have become unhinged as they fight to keep Obama’s failed Presidency from going down in flames in November. Mr Chalian’s remarks, while chilling and dispicable, were not really much more extreme than what you can see almost hourly over on Obama’s reelection network NBC/MSNBC. ABC at least has some responsible journalists like Jake Tapper who work at being fair. I wouldn’t be suprised if Mr Chalian resurfaces over at NBC/MSNBC. However, we shouldn’t be surprised with Obama setting the tone by calling Gov Romney a Felon, and accusing him of killing a woman who died of cancer. How far is it from that from accusing Republicans of partying while black people drown? Not far at all, and the mainstream press hasn’t held Obama accountable for that? So it will get worse, because Obama can’t run on his failed record, so this is what he and his Poodle Press have left!
I tuned in to MSNBC periodically and it was like hanging out in the Day Room at the county psychiatric hospital.
maddow, mathews and o’donnell are either acting nuts because they get paid so much to do so or we can tune in and watch these people actually going crazy.
I watched maddow interview McCain and then afterward summarize her understanding of the conversation. The conversation she “heard” did NOT take place
The media is now partnering with the Obama campaign and Media Matters to produce and blast email phony “FACT CHECK” articles. We’ve seen two this week. AP has Ed Founy’s daughter present a phony fact check of the obama 2016 media. Both AP and Sally Kuhn printed identical phony fact checks on Ryan’s speech
I’m stunned! Not about what Simon said, which is well known fact, but that he said it at all, at least in public! It is the first article I can recall where Simon said anything I could agree with. I will admit (without shame) that I would not normally read anything he said, but the headline could not be ignored, for that reason.
At least 93% of the media are Journolist/Presstitutes. The public schools and colleges are similarly infiltrated, as is Hollywood. No wonder our young people don’t come out of the leftie mindset until they are 30 or so.
there are a lot of 20-30 something’s in media. this liberal bias is so widespread that it’s become an echo chamber. it will put the final nail in the coffin for daily newspapers and the major network news organizations will be close behind.
The time is long past for Obama’s media to look in the mirror. The media is a joke, a very distasteful, disgusting joke.
As Savage said, “liberalism is a mental disorder”, and every day the media validates Savage’s view.
The media cannot be trusted, respected or admired. It’s sad the profession of journalism means next to nothing now.
Hows that electoral college looking for you Cons? lol
Get your typing fingers ready for four more years of anti-obama rhetoric.
Liberals have proven time and again they are without faith, avocado pit or no. Proven once again by removing any semblance of God from their policies, their platform and the total disregard of the sanctity of our beloved Israel.