Two incidents happened yesterday at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida:
1. Mia Love, an African-American Republican woman, gave a speech and received loud cheers and a standing ovation from almost every single one of the thousands of white Republicans in attendance.
2. Two bozos, of unknown identity, “threw peanuts” at an African-American woman camera operator for CNN, while purportedly saying “This is how we feed animals,” and were ejected from the convention.
Furthermore, there is video proof that the first incident (the standing ovation) happened; while the only evidence we have for the damning details of the second purported incident (at least as of the time of this writing) is the word of a partisan left-wing blog.
Now, considering all this: Guess which incident received the most media coverage?
Bing! You are correct: The peanut-throwing incident (and purported racist comment) is now the hot news story of the day, cited on essentially every liberal site and many MSM outlets as proof of universal Republican racism, while the standing ovation by the entire convention hall for an African-American woman just a few hours earlier got very little coverage, and no headlines.
The peanut-throwing story first appeared in a tweet by liberal reporter David Shuster, and was from there first published as a news story on the far-left blog Talking Points Memo. Because basically everything that appears on TPM is picked up and repeated by the mainstream press, within hours the story became part of the national news feed, and by now has been repeated by basically every news outlet in the country (and around the world):
- USA Today
- The New York Times
- Washington Post
- The Telegraph (UK)
- CNN
- The Hill
- BET
- Huffington Post
- Politico
- New Jersey Star-Ledger
- Houston Chronicle
…and countless others
Why are you letting the MSM drive even the racist motivation narrative? It’s as equal a chance in my mind that they were upset at liberal bias in the media, irrespective of the race and gender of the CNN staffer. After all, the reporting of the MSM as described here certainly does portray them all as animals,
I’m not “letting the MSM drive the racist motivation narrative.” I question that narrative repeatedly in the article. In fact, I’m questioning whether or not these people were even delegates. Until I see proof that they are actual delegates, I’m going to assume that they are progressive agents provocateurs. I’ll change my mind on that point if evidence emerges, but this seems like too much of a set-up job.
Exactly.
The media has been known to get left wing plants through event security precisely to create and incident. That’s how Code Pink was able to disrupt events during George W. Bush’s administration.
Most of the people on the left are plants. I mean in the literal sense, vegetation. Only difference is, they don’t exhale anything we can use. Like a productive plant or tree can.
I think agents provocateur, too. My reasoning? Because it’s something that ideologically bent Leftists think Conservatives would do. It’s something Conservatives simply wouldn’t do.
This incident was “staged” by LIBERALS ANARCHISTS, to blame Republicans of “racism”. They go to this LOW of MANIPULATION.
So, CNN is lying that their camera women was racially attacked?
I mean, if that is true, shouldn’t the RNC sue CNN? Do you see them suing? Of course not. So, why not?
How would this be actionable?
Thanks for this, was thinking the same thing all morning.
The only game left in the left’s bag of tricks is to play the race card, regardless of the consequences. In fact, a race war would suit them just fine.
Therefore, the Radical-in-Chief has tasked his AG Racist-in-Chief to create a totally racially-bent department of injustice.
‘The Racialist POTUS Seeks ‘Transformation’ Via Race-Based Classroom Edicts.Say It Ain’t So?’ – http://www.adinakutnicki.com
Minor correction: Mia Love is not African-American, she is Haitian-American.
Same difference. She’s the descendent of African slaves brought to the Americas.
She’s an American citizen, born and raised here, just like any other African American.
“African-American” is the standard term to refer to any American whose ancestors originated in sub-Saharan Africa, whether or not they spent time in Haiti for an interim period. If a person’s African ancestors were first brought to either Brazil, Cuba, Haiti or anywhere else, and then later emigrated to America, they still count as “African-American,” since Africa is their original point of origin.
Well, that’s not entirely true.
Remember the flap when Theresa Heinz Kerry identified herself as an African-American because she had been born in Africa?
The term “African-American,” according the socially accepted common usage, refers to people whose original ancestors come from Sub-Saharan Africa.
It very specifically does not refer to the descendants of European colonists who settled in sub-Saharan Africa (such as Theresa Heinz-Kerry’s ancestors). It also very specifically does not refer to people who come from the northern coast of Africa (because they are mostly of Arab, Greek, Phoenician, Vandal and/or Roman descent, and are therefore techically “white”).
I didn’t come up with these definitions — like it or not, they are what has emerged as the commonly accepted definitions in American English.
Until recently, the term African-American specifically referred to the descendants of African slaves brought to North America; but in recent decades it has been expanded slightly to include African people (like Obama’s father) who came to America voluntarily in the post-slavery era, and also to the descendants of African people who originally were brought to the Caribbean or South America, and then later moved to the United States.
The term “African-American,” according the socially accepted common usage, refers to people whose original ancestors come from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Go back far enough and that includes all of us, at least according to the scientific evidence. Likewise, I’m a native American because I was born here.
If you believe Louis Leakey and pretty much all modern paleontologists, all human beings original ancestors came from Africa. Biblical literalists, of course, have a different opinion.
The term “black” seems to be a more precise word for the concept that gets lost in definition minutae when using the term “African-American”. When last I paid attention to that sort of thing, “black” was still an acceptable word without the insulting implications of other terms or the imprecision of “African-American”.
Well, I am totally confused by now, frankly.
Let us review history:
1940s:
“Hello Sir. Are you a colored person?”
“No, that’s a racist term. I’m a Negro.”
1960s:
“Hello Sir. Are you a Negro?”
“No, that’s a racist term. I’m Black.”
1980s:
“Hello Sir. Are you a Black person?”
“No, that’s a racist term. I’m an African-American.”
2000s:
“Hellow Sir. Are you an African-American?”
“No, that’s a racist term. I’m a person of color.”
Isn’t ‘person of color’ exactly the same as ‘colored person’?
What was the whole rigamarole for?
No, colored was acceptable, even encouraged, at the time. I don’t think you will get in trouble today for saying Black. But you are correct, you have to stop sometime.
Believe it are not, there were times in American history when Jews were referred to as Hebrews, for example. (In our (Jewish) legal literature, the term is almost always “Israel”.)
The entire reason for all this rigamarole is to ensure that YOU and I are always racists. We cannot ever NOT be racists, because we are pink people. We cannot even be people of color, even though we are pink (kinda). Unfortunately, it will be several thousand years before this stupidity is exsponged from the current scenes of civil debate and intercourse. You just gotta take it and like it or lump it as you see fit, BUT neither you nor I have the right to protest this stupid abuse of ourselves. If we do, we are automatically racists. To even think it makes us racists. So, I shall take my racist butt to the polls and vote for the guy that tries to rape me the least just as I have for the last thirty years. Remember — All white people are racists. They have always been racists. They will always be racists. Even if there were only white people on this planet, we would all be racists. If you dont believe me, check it out in Libfacs 101.
It seems to have gone down the memory hole that “African American” came into common use when Jesse Jackson announced in Chicago that henceforth that was who blacks would be termed. It was, he said because they are Africans in America. I was appalled at how quickly most flipped for this, and at the evil nonsense of hyphenating a group house ancestral presence in the U.S. ante-cedes that of most white Americans.
I remember this, but here’s a link that credits Jackson( yeah, it’s the Blaze, but so what)
Prior to that there was the term “afro-american,” more of an anthropological term. Ambrose Bierce defined it as a n****r who votes our way, which is still pretty much the way the Democrats look at black folks.
Sorry, here’s the link: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-the-term-african-american-accurate-in-2012/
How do you embed?
I like African-American, because it is a neutral term like Irish-American. I don’t like Afro-American, becuase ti is linked with 60′s militancy.
I don’t use Jewish-American, because it puts God before Country, and I don’t worship the State. C.f. the Boy Scount oath.
To: “NoThreat2U” – By your logic, we should refer to our temporary potus as “African-Pacific_Islander-American.” Yet that’s not what he nor his disciples call him. I’m with Zombie. We have no control over what others wish to call themselves. But if they are going to insist on the convention of “slave blood” ya gotta go by the bloodlines. We’re just trying to get along!
What’s that make Obama? Haole?
If Obama is Haole, maybe those Greek columns he trotted out four years ago indicate he wants to be the Haole Roman Emperor.
Considering his moving to and growing up in Indonesia, and early travels from Hawaii to Pakistan, LA, and NY, perhaps Haole Roamin’ Emperor is more apropos.
Oh, Buzz and Zombie, I love you both. I miss Andrew Breitbart terribly, but you two provide help and comfort on a regular basis – not to mention frequent welcome belly laughs!
Howwwwwllll! Gasp! HAHAHAHA OH OH OH OH…..
[....I loved that one, thanks...]
Buzzsawmonkey;
To call Obama any kind of Roman is offensive to me and all other Italian descendants.
In fact, all Americans should be offended that Obama is considered American in any way. He has proven he hates bona fide Americans.
Obama has always been Roamin’. Since Labor Day of last year he’s been roamin’ around the country campaigning, fundraising, partying and golfing. Anything but governing and that may be a good thing considering what a wrecking ball his policies are to this nation.
Wahine
….how about, weeenie ?
How do you say “pendejo” in Hawaiian?
“Cabron”
Okay, riddle me this. When is an African-American not an African-American? If the person in question happens to be a white person born in Africa to parents who were also born in Africa to grandparents born in Africa.
African-American doesn’t really describe race – it describes where someone was born who is now an American citizen. If you disagree then you are a racist. bwaa ha ha ha.
As I say in the comment above, neither you nor I get to determine the meaning of African-American. There is a commonly accepted definition, which we must abide by, whether we like it or not. And in that definition, “African-American” basically does refer to race, since it excludes Euro-African colonists, and excludes North Africans as well.
Conceeding control of the language is the first step towards defeat. What gives them the authority to define what words mean? Who made them the word gods? This is the root of political correctness.
The “they” in this instance is just “people” in general.
My British friends really hate being called African-Americans by us yankees.
(pause for comprehension)
No, she is an American-american. And HOT! Anybody got her cell number?
She was the top search on Google last night so a lot of people seem to be impressed. I checked and when I typed first mia and then love into Google the first auto prompt in both instances was Mia Love.
She is neither! Mia Love is an AMERICAN!
There is NO PLACE in this country for hyphenated, divided loyalty citizens.
We are either Americans or we are not.
Or maybe these two nut-jugglers don’t even exist.
On a related not, I’m still waiting for the MSM to report on the vandalism of Love’s Wiki page.
This is so far like the infamous “n” word and spitting incident that supposedly happened to Congresscritters going in to ram Obamacare down everyone’s throats. There exists no video evidence of it even though you can see the Congresscritters staff person following him in with two cameraphones clearly taking video. Surely those phones would have caught that ugly incident had it occurred?
Until the video appears, it’s hearsay.
Isn’t it obvious?
The videographer and recording techs involved were the same people that faithfully recorded for all posterior — er, um — posterity the blatant(!) racial epithets that the dozens of other video cameras and audio recorders somehow failed to capture (Nixon’s secretary’s famous 18.5-minute tape-recording gap, anyone?).
If it fits the warped, tinfoil-hat meme, it MUST be true….or something.
Even if those bozos said “feed the animals”, isn’t a bit racist to assume that they were referring to her skin color instead of her profession, i.e., the “animal” was a camera operator for a network seen as openly hostile to the GOP?
That was my thought as well – ‘animals’ refers to journalists, pretty much all of whom act as performing animals for the Democrats.
Skin color, gender, religion, etc. had nothing to do with it, if it had in fact occurred.
Orion
I am a liberal and a democrat. Earlier in your story you gave a few examples of what scenario may or may not have occurred. Have you ever heard of Akum’s Razor. Basically… Often, the simplest answer is the correct one. Now, I was not there and cannot say with 100% certainty what ACTUALLY occurred. However, why did you not offer an alternative scenario such as… maybe they were republican and racist. Now anyone who deems the entire republican party racist based off that, is wrong. However, why do you need 100% proof to state that it was the republicans but don’t need it to say this was a democratic attack? Is it because this is a conservative website? Thank you for your time!
To quote my essay above:
Next.
Unless you deliberately misspelled his name as a subtle joke, the correct reference is “Occam’s razor.”
Occam’s (or Ockham’s) razor is a principle attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.” Isaac Newton stated the rule: “We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” The most useful statement of the principle for scientists is “when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.” Occam’s razor is often cited in a stronger form than Occam intended, as in the following statement: “If you have two theories that both explain the observed facts, then you should use the simplest until more evidence comes along.” This is not what Occam intended.
Same thought I had — “animals” referring to CNN and “journalists”, not skin tone.
So, using that logic, why don’t we refer to white Australians as British? Or at least Europeans?
Why? Because of linguistic conventions over which we have no control.
Besides, people do refers to “white” Australians as “European-Australians,” to distinguish them from Aborigine Australians.
It is interesting indeed that there appears as yet to be no footage of this alleged incident, when the person supposedly targeted was a camerawoman.
I was thinking the same thing. An attack on a camera operator and there’s no footage?
CNN should be raging that she missed such a big story.
If I had to bet quatloos, I’d bet that something happened, but not what was reported. OTOH, after going around with some of these Akin supporters, bozos in the GOP doing exactly that are not beyond plausibility.
Obviously something happened. Seems pretty confirmed that peanuts were thrown, at least.
Where things start getting vague and unsupported is:
Exactly what did they say in conjunction with the peanut-throwing? If you trace ALL the articles, the ONLY source for the “animals” comment is David Shuster.
Nor do we know what their motivation was.
Nor do we know who these people were exactly.
This is how fake memes spread: take a real incident, which can’t be denied, and then embroider the necessary unproven details on top of it. If the details are questioned, you fall back on pointing to the veracity of the underlying (politically neutral) incident.
Obviously something happened. Seems pretty confirmed that peanuts were thrown, at least.
Lacking evidence, it seems far from obvious that something happened. Show me some evidence. All we have is a camera operator’s claim that something happened. Given the anti-Republican bias of the media in general and CNN in particular, they’re lucky no one threw rocks at them.
The RNC itself confirmed that “something” happened, but they gave no specifics — they just said that two people were ejected for unruly behavior. No mention of peanuts, or what they did or did not say.
However, there does seem to be multiple witnesses to the peanut throwing, though the reliability of those witnesses remains unknown.
Where the story really veers into the Evidence-Free Zone is the “This is how we feed animals” claim, which is based entirely on the testimony on a single “progressive.” No confirmation whatsoever. But, you see, the story lacks any racial element without it. Otherwise, it’s a non-story. But all the headlines highlight the one unproven aspect right up front.
The camerawoman has made no claims, and has not come forward.
Um, don’t you feed peanuts to elephants? Could this have been anti
GOP?
Just like the spitting incident (obamacare) if here is no audio or video it didn’t happen. Period.
The lefties are fuming because CNN is, in their view, “taking the high road” and declining to “make themselves the story.” This is all CNN has to say:
Racially speaking, I think there’s no there there.
Yeah – pictures or it didn’t happen.
Demunist Shuster is the source and CNN the confirmation agent? Odd is an understatement. This “incident” could be described as preposterous. The onus is on Shuster and CNN to prove this highly unlikely event actually happened. If they can’t prove it, they should apologize to us and the RNC, which seems to have purchased a stinky fish.
if you have ever witnessed cameramen/women in action-the term “animal” is an apt description
It had to be Republicans throwing those peanuts because everyone knows that the elephant is the Republican symbol and everyone knows that elephants eat peanuts. So there. Republicans are Eeeevil Raaacists. Voila.
Unless, of course, they were Spanish peanuts, and it turns out these were “white Hispanics” who randomly targeted a black person to engage in a wholly inappropriate demonstration of solidarity with George Zimmerman.
And why are they referred to as Hisspanics anyway? Isn’t that sexist? Shouldn’t they be referred to as His/Herspanics instead. Out of sensitivity of course.
YaaaaAAYYYY! Go!
I have always been a volunteer to clear up this oft misused term Hispanic. A Hispanic is a resident of the island of Hispaniola or a legal or illegal citizen of the US descended from such a person or persons. I thank you.
Based on my brillaint deductive reasoning above, I believe I should be awarded an honorary degree in journalism from Columbia.
With points removed for poor, less than brilliant, spelling.
To LGoPs: Totally mangle the term and label them *PerSpanics*.
It has a certain,… Savoir Faire’, yes/no?
PerSpanic: the feeling that comes over a person when he/she realizes that his/her purse is missing.
Heh.
As a cynical landlord who is used to being fed lines of bull all the time, I’ve got to say this story really has a familiar odor to it. So what are we to believe:
1. These guys went into the convention hall with peanuts in their pockets, like that is some kind of normal thing to do?
2. They are handing out bags of peanuts on the convention floor because of the elephant theme?
3. There are so many black camerawomen at the convention that no one reporting on the story can find which one it was to interview her about it.
4. The news organization this phantom black camerawoman works for does not realize that they are in the middle of a big news story and therefor has not put the story on the air with their employee to back it up.
I may be wrong, but I think this story is a rent check that is going to bounce.
While we are all reciting whoppers told from a Progressive viewpoint, think back to the untold number of falsehoods promulgated over the last twenty years or so.
From AlGore and Tipper being written up in a famous novel, to Barry’s parents meeting due to a program Kennedy never could have had a hand in,
{time-line wise} this is just more of the same.
Progressives continually make up ‘their own facts’ when they do not have any.
Stop and reminisce about all those ‘really believable Liberals’ who are proven to be bald-faced liars.
The gent quoted hangs with KEITH OLBERMAN, for cryin’ out loud.
Peter Wolf of J.Geils used to shout:
“If The Cops didn’t see it, I didn’t do it.”
Somehow, this memory is ‘speaking’ to me, and it is whispering :
“Awww,… BullS-hit.”
Most people have forgotten, but back in 2008, there was a media feeding frenzy (albeit, a short-lived one) over the purportedly widespread overt racism displayed the crowd at one of Sarah Palin’s campaign stump speeches in Ohio. According to the media narrative, Palin supposedly implied that then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama was a terrorist, and a mob of seething, racist white males in the crowd allegedly responded by chanting “kill the ni**er!”
The alleged Palin-ginning-up-a-crowd-of-seething-inbred-racist-white-males-in-Ohio incident was dutifully given wall to wall coverage by the Washington Post and the New York Times … and then by the rest of the Mainstream Media (print, electronic, television, radio, etc.).
But there was never any evidence that Palin’s alleged insinuation that Obama was a terrorist, nor the the allegedly seething crowd’s corresponding “kill the ni**ger” chant, ever actually occurred.
As best as anyone could tell, the news of alleged incident originated at the Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo (IIRC). Then Dana Milbank ran with it at the Washington Post. But when skepticism over the veracity of the claimed incident began to build on conservative websites, blogs and talk radio, Mr. Milbank, who had briefly swapped his previous WaPo assignment as the top in-house snarky/snot-nosed left wing agitator and columnist for the estimable post of “objective political reporter” for the 2008 campaign, claimed to have heard the chants himself.
It’s important to note that, aside from Mr. Milbank, no reputable (or supposedly reputable source) who was present at the Palin event ever claimed to have heard the crowd’s racist chants.
Both the local Ohio police and the Secret Service investigated the incident fully. Agents and officers who had worked the event had no knowledge of the incident, and the audio experts who analyzed audio and video of the event could not find a shred of evidence that the alleged incident ever actually occurred.
Both the local Ohio police and the Secret Service concluded that the alleged incident probably did not, in fact, occur.
The only person who claimed to have witnessed/heard the incident was the Washington Post’s left wing columnist and provocateur-turned “objective reporter,” Mr. Milbank.
But the media blew the event up for several days, and the narrative of racist crowds at McCain/Palin campaign events chanting racial slurs at the mention of Obama’s name stuck for the remainder of the campaign.
None of that proves that the purported incident at the Republican convention did or didn’t really happen. But the media and the Obama campaign need to stoke these kinds of fires to keep black voters (and liberal white “young people” who might otherwise neglect to vote) “energized” to get out to the polls and give those damned cracker-azz RethugliKKKlansmen their comeuppance.
Did anyone expect less than slander from the main stream media? The New York Times, the networks are like circus dogs. All one needs to know is what kind bone they will sit up for. And of course it was an obscure shill who broke the implausible story to start the ball rolling. Well, well! Still it is a story only meant to entertain and reassure the die-hard leftists who dominate the media and the black American racists who have been making excuses for themselves for decades–no votes will be lost because of this crap.
Mia Love’s presentation last night was fantastic! It certainly belies the LSM narrative that “zero” percent of blacks support Romney. Kicking out the peanut throwers was a good move, it shows that our side will not tolerate the racialists among us. And who cares about the media? Watch Fox, read PJ, you will know all you need to know.
Ah, David Shuster–fired from both Fox and MSNBC. Definitely worth listening to.
Roger, your suggestion that the media is now describable in psychiatric terms is on the mark.
Liberals can’t win without lying, cheating or stealing. But it comes naturally to them since that is also the basis for their ideology.
Really? Cheating? Did you miss the first time Bush “won”. Recall, where… FL. Who was the governor Jeb, his brother. Who first stated he won, i dont remember his name but his cousin! Yeah, that election was fair. And by the way, did you know that Gore recieved 500,000 more votes than Bush and still lost. You can thank the beautifully fixed electoral college on thato one!
Unlike, of course, the GOP rules committee, eh, my fellow True Americans? Long live the neoconvict syndicate.
So, let’s see if I understand your argument. The media, which has pretty much allowed Romney to run wild with distortions and lies, should now focus squarely on Love’s speech which was pretty much the same red meat rhetoric articulately polished. And they should keep all eyes on this and avoid any coverage of the “peanut-throwing incident (and purported racist comment)” because you didn’t actually see that, or something. Aside from convention spokesman Kyle Downey saying “two attendees tonight exhibited deplorable behavior. Their conduct was inexcusable and unacceptable. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated”, since you didn’t see it, the media should look at this as a tree that never fell in the woods, or something.
The irony is that the peanut ordeal has somewhat exploded when so much has been overlooked. I mean, where has the media been on Romney’s dishonest welfare attacks? How about the Romney campaign admitting “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers”. Or where are they now that Gov. Sam Brownback has admitted that the welfare attacks have no basis in reality? Why aren’t they covering S.C. State Rep. Alan Clemmons on his racist emails on voter I.D.? Why did NBC’s Andrea Mitchell let Rick Santorum slide by claiming Obama refused to enforce our immigration laws? And we just saw CBS anchor Scott Pelley give Romney an exit from questions about his abortion in the case of rape. And you’d think the news would be covering Romney’s sister Jane saying “Mitt’s much more in the middle” on abortion. And I could go on and on as this is mostly just today’s stuff alone. Why hasn’t the Ryan budget been dissected and exposed for what it is.
And here’s the kicker. In the midst of all the distortions, the myths, lies, rhetoric, and blatant spin, at the end of Love’s speech, the audience stood and cheered “WE BUILT THIS” which was exactly what Obama had originally said, only to be dishonestly distorted. And the media sits on their hands.
For the $22.50/hour that the Obama campaign pays you to troll these threads, I’d expect a better class of mobyism. Up your game!
– winner: close the thread.
Remember, Eli Manning did not win the last Super Bowl on his own, he had a teacher, school bus driver, and a road construction worker which helped. Using Obama’s word which mean something today!
You are right, he did not have a teacher, school bus driver … on the field with him. He did have running backs, tight ends, receiver, and linemen on the field with him. He did not win alone. Had Manning walked on the field alone, he would have gotten clobbered.
The premise of the post was fair. There have been a few partial truths uttered by the Romney people and other organizations. I would like to know if there is any evidence that would dispute these claims.
Hilarious post. I haven’t laughed that hard in days.
There’s something about liberal slapstick routines that just cracks me up.
Ronald or whatever your name really is, here is what you need to do. Repeat the mantra “it’s all Bush’s fault” for 15 minutes, take 2 aspirin, go to bed and you will feel better in the morning. By the way, I have a question for you first, where is all the free stuff Obama promised me??? I haven’t seen it yet.
Comrade Ron, what a liar. Just maybe after you convince yourself that the Earths graviatational force pushes outward and that the only thing keeping your sorry ass on this planet is the weight of your feet. Sorry to inform you Ronnie, Obama is losing! Why? Because he’s just not that bright! There is a really good reason why we haven’t seen bambee’s transcripts, because it would be hard to explain why the most brilliant, the smartest, the most qualified man to have ever walked in Presidential shoes is really a slacker who was lucky to graduate. Google Affirmative Action and Harvard Law Review Bio’s
Wow.. deflection AND distortion in your opus. Good on ya!
As per the INTENT of this Zombie piece, stay focused with me Ron – WHERE are other witnesses to this insofar fictional act other than a Keith Olbermann lapdog (I heard the guy was to work for Olbermann or wait for ESPN 8, ‘The Ocho’ to come to fruition.) and CNN journalistas?
This will garner, and respectfully so – as ‘much’ believability as the CBC saying someone behind a grassy knoll said the n-word to them passing by a Tea Party shindig with NO EVIDENCE. NADA.
The Tea Party people are apt enough to confront and point out via signs of impostors at their events. Come on..!
This is the digital age. Camera’s are anywhere and everywhere. EVERYBODY’S got 1 or more on their person at such an event.
Dollars to donuts the act WOULD have been captured if purported to occur.
omg!, Yahoo! News and Al ‘Love the perm’ Sharpton’s pinhole would be scrutinizing this alleged action caught on tape simultaneously suing the wrongdoers.
How Illiberal’s bill themselves as, ‘more intelligent’ when over-the-top fiction such as this comes down the pike.
>>>>>.And here’s the kicker. In the midst of all the distortions, the myths, lies, rhetoric, and blatant spin, at the end of Love’s speech, the audience stood and cheered “WE BUILT THIS” which was exactly what Obama had originally said, only to be dishonestly distorted.
Of course he did. What he really said was, “you built that”, and the “didn’t” was added to the speech by mind-control alien zombies. Or something. Surely, however, the problem is not how the media dislikes or likes Obama, but how good or bad a job he did as a president. It seems to me he did a rather lousy job.
Ronald Ward — You are absolutely certifiable. If Algore had of won Tennessee, he would not have needed Florida. Ever wonder why he lost his home state? The citizens of Tennessee are fed up with his and his dad’s BS. Look at their combined congressional record and see the money that they stole from the public. Algore = POS.
Zombie,
Your quote:
I’m going to assume that they are progressive agents provocateurs. I’ll change my mind on that point if evidence emerges, but this seems like too much of a set-up job.
My sentiments exactly. That was the first thought that entered my mind. It’s going to get worse.
Or not! This would have been a GREAT opportunity to have the police detain those two OBVIOUS Occupy-type plants (I mean, really, could the stereotype be any more outdated and cliched? what’s next? “Republicans” in top-hats and Snidely Whiplash moustaches berating the homeless outside?) just enough to get their names. Once those names are released, I have no doubt that it will only be a few clicks for our side in the blogosphere to establish that these so-called “Republican racists” are deep, deep, deeply affiliated with the Dems. THAT then becomes The Media Story that, try as the MSM might, will still get out to “the swing voters”. Smoking guns are everywhere with these assclowns – let’s snag one and use it to our advantage, jiu-jitsu style.
My first thought was, “Those guys must not like CNN.”
Sounds like a setup. If it happened at all, it was by leftist operatives.
And here’s the kicker. In the midst of all the distortions, the myths, lies, rhetoric, and blatant spin, at the end of Love’s speech, the audience stood and cheered “WE BUILT THIS” which was exactly what Obama had originally said, only to be dishonestly distorted. And the media sits on their hands.
Uh, no. Obama was sneering contemptuously at those who think their own effort and ingenuity is the main source of their success, because he doesn’t think people deserve what they earn.
Obama scorns individual initiative. He believes that government should choose winners and losers, and that government owns everything that people earn, and that anything the government allows people to keep is really a “handout” or a government expenditure.
By contrast, the cheering audience was saying, in effect, no, it isn’t the government, it’s people who build their own success, and the government should stop interfering so much because it’s dragging people down.
Very well stated.
Anyone that believes Obama wasn’t speaking, as always, from his fascist poverty pimp core is fully in denial. ABO.
On the other hand, anyone that believes there is any significant difference between the budgets of Obama and Ryan is also in denial. And if one understands that Mia Love is a devotee of Bastiat then her RNC standing ovation can only be seen as either a vocal opposition to Romney’s big government ticket or a cynically staged tribute to racial and ideological tokenism. No other explanations allow for an ideological awareness of the floor, though the dismissal of GOP delegates as an ignorant teeming neocon mass writhing to the tribal drums is plausible. ABO.
I also enjoyed Clint’s schtick. That it induced equal fear and loathing in Romney’s handlers as in mouthpiece likes of Al Hunt is yet another measure of their equivalence. Unidad en la diversidad.
Viva la Comité de Reglas.
Me? If I’m running the convention there would not be ONE reporter from NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSBS, etc. But I would invite Tass, Pravda & Al Jazzira. At least the are not full time propagandists for the rats & have SOME pride left…
Even if these two guys are card-carrying Republicans, so what? Gee, thousands of delegates, two morons among them. What a shocker.
Don’t forget – One Todd Akin = millions of Conservatives/Republicans.
And while llstening to Ms. Rice on ABC last night, they decided it was more important to have talking heads speak, and ignore Ms. Rice.
And for anyone with a brain, and a desire for America to succeed one has to listen to Artur Davis and his message, which clearly told us that obozo was a mistake.
His comments to the convention”
Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.
Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don’t end well.
Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.
But in all seriousness, do you know why so many of us believed? We led with our hearts and our dreams that we could be more inclusive than America had ever been, and no candidate had ever spoken so beautifully.
But dreams meet daybreak: the jobless know what I mean, so do the families who wonder how this Administration could wreck a recovery for three years and counting
Mia Love was great.
David Shuster is a left-wing Obama media network fabulist. Obama is a Marxist, a fabulist, and a common liar as well.
So let me get it – an Afro-American speaker (white ones, at that!) receiving ovation from Republicans is a news item?
Suspicious echos of the mythical 2010 Capitol Hill “spitting incident” that the MSM was quick to spread despite lack of evidence. Despite Andrew Breitbart’s offer of a cash reward for proof, no one ever came forward. Lefties traffic in lies; they know no other way.
The important thing abot Mia Love is that she is an American and seems quite proud of it.
Those of us old enough to remember the simple “dirty tricks” of which Richard Nixon was accused in 1972 will recognize a similar pattern in the Obama campaign’s attempt to malign the Republicans, except that the Democrats have ramped up their accusations against Romney to include murder, miscellaneous felonies and massive tax evasion. I certainly wouldn’t put it past them to hire a couple of bozos to throw peanuts at a reporter, nor would I put it past the MSM to focus upon a staged incident they knew to be bogus. The socialists of the world are in a tight fight to reelect their man Obama, and you must never expect them to act fair. After losing Russia and China, socialists certainly don’t want to lose America too, having acquired it so recently.
Just looked for this story on Huffington Post and Crooks & Liars – no mention of this incident. COULD YOU CONSERVATIVES PLEASE STOP LYING?
Oh really?
Behold:
Crooks and Liars: RNC Evicts Attendee for Throwing Nuts at Black Camerawoman
Huffington Post: Republican Attendees Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Called Her An ‘Animal’
COULD YOU LIBERALS PLEASE STOP LYING?
I stand corrected – but this story is by no means “the hot story of the day” – the Crooks & Liars was 2 days ago and this is the first time I’ve heard it.
and I did hear about Mia’s speech – but you prolly think I’m lying about that
Just because you haven’t heard of something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Would you quit calling fascist thugs liberals? You’re besmirching the good names of Reagan and Jefferson.
Are you Cynical Wonder too?
Dude. Go get an IQ.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/28/republican-cnn-attack-animal-peanuts-racist_n_1838249.html
Clue: it’s linked in the post ^^^.
thanks for you cordial correction – can you show me where this story appears on Moveon.org? BTW everybody has an IQ – even dumb people.
Moveon.org in not a news blog — it’s an advocacy organization. They don’t keep abreast of or report on every random breaking news story.
We’re not going to sit here playing your childish and transparent time-wasting game. I provided enough links to shows that the story got wide MSM and leftist-blog coverage.
Want more? This should keep you busy for a few hours:
Google blog search for “peanuts” + “CNN” + “Republican” = “About 265,000 results”.
Don’t think we’re naively unaware of your strategy — we’ve seen it before. If a blogger is seen as too effective and hitting the mark in a way that can’t be gainsayed, then the fallback strategy is to neutralize that person by assigning them endless pointless busywork tasks. it’s not that you’re an incompetent Google user, it’s that you are feigning total incompetence in order to simultaneously “prove” a point through absence of evidence and also to compel me to do your work for you, as a way of forcing me to squander my time running around trying to disprove your baseless and cynical claims.
Sorry — I don’t play that game.
You want to know which blogs covered the story, then entertain yourself by researching it yourself. Have fun on your own wild goose chase.
but you are playing that game – and you story misrepresents reality – the peanut story was very small – nobody in my office had heard of it and we are mostly left and far-left here – if you’re too busy don’t reply – I’ll understand
(applause)
AAAAAAAAHAAAAAA!
“Lonnie Wild” has an “office”? Can’t be much work being done with all this distraction.
YeeeeeeeeHAAAAAWW!!!! Here’s a live one!!
One obvious difference is that the Love speech and reaction was scripted, while the peanut throwing incident was not. Many people often assume that these kinds of unscripted incidents say a lot more about an organization than scripted events designed for public consumption.
…because everyone knows that NOTHING about Obama, his campaign, his strategy or his supporters is scripted.
As with the original now increasingly faux-seeming peanut incident claim, your claim that the standing ovation for Mia Love was “scripted” has no evidence, no proof, no anything other than your baseless and unproven/unprovable assertion of its veracity.
The days when people can just repeat Big Lies over and over and expect to be believed are long past. Get with the program.
Make no mistake, the Democratic convention will be tightly scripted too. However, that’s irrelevant to what I said.
It’s common knowledge that political conventions are heavily scripted, and standing ovations are part of the script. These conventions are infomercials for the party, not real political events. For instance, the 1972 GOP convention script was leaked, and included scheduled times for “spontaneous laughter.” Obviously this was embarrassing, so since then the scripts for the conventions have been closely guarded secrets.
Since I don’t want to play a childish and transparent time-wasting game, I’ll let you Google this topic and learn for yourself. If you want to write stories about political conventions, it wouldn’t probably be a good idea to learn how they work.
Hi there Alice in Cynical Wonderland. Is this your new ID? looks like another throw away of the moment.
Gotta Change your pattern anf Hope.
Did you invent lameness too?
Just because time is allotted for something doesn’t mean that it’s being done because people were instructed to do it. The Marx Brothers used to go on the road with their movie scripts and do them as stage acts so they could time the laughter and pace the movie to allow for it. That doesn’t mean that they then sent people to the movie theaters to cue the mandatory spontaneous laughter. They just knew that people were going to be laughing at certain points and wanted to allow for it.
I love that the world still contains people as innocent and optimistic as you.
Like WMD’s? For 8 years thats all i heard from the Bush administration. They’re supposed “proof”???? A picture of a building! Dont you think if Saddam saw himself trapped in a corner, he wouldn’t have used them, or tried to? Now, he was hiding in a hole. When we went into Iraq, we found NOTHING… yet, most of us, gobbled it all up. Wheres your self righteousness during those days? Oh i forgot, Bush was a conservative.
This Troll Trainee is obviously now in the middle of the “Changing the Subject” class.
You are naive indeed.
Mia Love appears to be an American – first and foremost. A person I am proud to be an American citizen and woman along side of.
So an African-American woman receiving a standing ovation at the GOP Convention is news? If so maybe there are now racist elements in charge of the party.
What needs to be considered is the entire body of work and the fact that certain elements have continually blocked civil rights legislation in various areas. If this exact same incidence took place at the Democratic Convention (I’m sure racism in some form has and will take place) I’m sure it would still be big news.
Mike,
Racism is by their own admission one of the defining platforms of the Democratic Party, i.e. affirmative action, which is racism against white males and often Asians. Not to mention exploiting and misinterpreting events (Trayvon shooting) for their own deceitful ends, while ignoring/whitewashing genuine acts of black-on-white violence (do a Google search on Knoxville horror, flash mobs, Eve Carson, Mobile Alabama drive by, and an infinite number of other examples). I could go on but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Exactly.
The dimz are union thugs and fascist poverty pimps. Straight up. Nothing else. Their use of terms like “fairness” and “social justice” achieve the same ends as “security” and “free enterprise” do for the ABO neoconvicts. Both are hollow demagogic cover for tyrannical corporatism on which both the dimz and the neoconvicts thrive.
Viva la Comité de Reglas!
What I am not seeing Mentioned here (and I confess reading all these comments Has me bleary eyed) is this…
Assuming the peanut incident is completely true, including the “animals” comments, how does this become racially derisive? I could honestly see myself in the same position after a couple Tanquerays with lunch, but my animal reference would be due the CNN is tag, not the color of her skin (or gender, for that matter). Employees at Constantly Negative News are more likely to act like animals than any person of black African american negro colored person I have ever known.