Archives for the 'racism' Category

Beer Summit II

Published on 29 Oct 2009 at 10:40 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Obama, academia, cops, racism.

Gates and Crowley share informal suds. I’d love to know what they talked about. Because I have a dream. Boston Herald: 

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The Audacity of Hope-Ocrisy

Published on 28 Oct 2009 at 10:10 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under Obama, racism, sexism.

Helen Smith, from her unique position as a non-swooning, conservative woman,* examines Obama’s discriminatory business socialization practices … playing golf and basketball with dudes … and counsels attacking the enemy with his own rules. Pajamas Media: 

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Low-Road Lynching

Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 8:20 am. No Comments.
Filed under racism, sports.

In the high-tech era. Take it away, Mark Steyn, “Monday Morning Quarter-Backtrack,” and Andy McCarthy, “So Much for the Post-Racial America.”  ESPN: Bogus Sharpton/Jackson smear campaign gains yardage on Rushing. Rush Limbaugh to withdraw from a partnership to buy the St. Louis Rams due to his status as a negative publicity magnet. OK, that’s not exactly how ESPN put [...]

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Yeah, What They Said …

Published on 29 Sep 2009 at 8:09 am. No Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Steyn, channeling Marcus Lloyd, on the left, racism and allowing one’s hypocritical adversaries to set the terms.

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Post-Racial Yuks

Published on 22 Sep 2009 at 8:20 am. No Comments.
Filed under Obama, racism.

I appreciate the homespun humor. CBS, “Obama tells Letterman: I Was Black Before The Election.” Maybe it’s even enough to put a lid on the rampant race-baiting and opposition-smearing that started with a gutter comedian, worked its way through the press gallery and the back benches of Congress, and reached as high as a former president of the [...]

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In Which Obama Takes My Advice …

Published on 19 Sep 2009 at 10:36 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Obama, racism.

Again, half-assedly. Obama says its fear of big government, not racism, that fuels the opposition. Thanks, Mr. President. He gets points for clarity of thought and something like honesty that bucks his party’s prevalent views. Points off for the gutlessness. They had to drag the half-hearted dismissal of the race card out of him in interviews, [...]

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Bait As We Say, Not As We Do

Published on 18 Sep 2009 at 9:56 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under media, racism.

Some gall* on the part of the race-baiting Associated Press. Analysis: “Racist” claims defuse once-powerful word. 

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In Which The White House Follows My Advice In The Usual Manner …

Published on 16 Sep 2009 at 9:52 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Obama, racism.

Which is to say, half-assedly. NYT, White House flack Gibbs says Obama doesn’t share Carter’s views: 

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Race Card

Published on 16 Sep 2009 at 9:33 am. 16 Comments.
Filed under Obama, racism.

The moment has arrived for President Obama to start working on his legacy as the first post-racial president. Either that, or to face a legacy of having the most racially divisive presidency in modern American history.  

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Yeah, What He Said …

Published on 8 Aug 2009 at 10:30 am. No Comments.
Filed under Obama, mockery, racism.

David Boaz at CATO(at)LIBERTY:
It cannot be the case that every parody of a president who happens to be black is racist. And it is not good for democracy to try to counter every opposing argument with such a blood libel. The good news for advocates of limited government is that our opponents are displaying a [...]

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We Have A Winner!

Published on 6 Aug 2009 at 1:10 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under media, moronocy, racism.

In the “Political Criticism of Obama is Inherently Racist” competition! It took a while, which is encouraging. With the exception of the reaction to the NY Post’s drunken-bloated-dead-chimp-as-economic-stimulus cartoon … political mockery that was actually aimed at the drunken, bloated Congressional leadership that authored the porkulus … it almost seemed like we had have entered a blissfully post-racial period [...]

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O, Cruel Snarkery

Published on 1 Aug 2009 at 11:13 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under Obama, academia, cops, racism.

Lifson at The American Thinker sums up this picture’s thousand words:
Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio, helps the handicapped  Professor Gates down the stairs, while Barack Obama heedless of the infirmities of his friend and fellow victim of self-defined racial profiling, strides ahead on his own. So who is compassionate? And who is so [...]

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In Which We All Just Get Along

Published on 31 Jul 2009 at 8:42 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under America, Bush, Obama, academia, cops, racism.

The beer thing went off well enough, I guess, though it had already jumped the shark before they actually sat down, even before a Boston cop got himself in hot water by firing off a racist email.* My only comment on that thing last night is … which White House protocol genius forgot to tell everyone the appropriate [...]

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It’s A Small World After All

Published on 29 Jul 2009 at 10:42 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under Britain, Irish, Neanderthals, Obama, ancient mysteries, history, racism.

Here’s something for three Irishmen to marvel at over beers on the White House lawn. Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley may be related, according to ABC, sharing descent from a legendary 4th century Irish warrior. O’Bama, of course, hails from Moneygall.
Anyway, the racism thing didn’t pan out, but if anyone wants to find some [...]

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Change!

Published on 28 Jul 2009 at 12:02 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under Obama, beer, education, racism.

Via HotAir, female black Cambridge cop to CNN re Obama: “I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again.”
Kelly King doesn’t appreciate the president of the United States taking sides in support of a friend without the facts. Me, either. About the president’s friend, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., she doesn’t appreciate the ”rush [...]

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Total Victory

Published on 24 Jul 2009 at 11:24 pm. 6 Comments.
Filed under Obama, cops, racism.

Chalk one up for law and order, and a civil society.
The President of the United States doesn’t invite racial-profiling bigot cops to the White House. Or say things like this. Boston Herald:
I actually just had a conversation with Sergeant Jim Crowley, the officer involved. And I have to tell you that as I said yesterday, [...]

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A Teaching Moment

Published on 24 Jul 2009 at 8:16 am. 17 Comments.
Filed under Obama, cops, racism.

It’s starting to look like Harvard professors Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. and Charles Ogletree, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and President Barack Obama picked the wrong white cop to mess with, to paraphase Skip.
It’s not just that Sgt. James Crowley has a backbone.
Boston Herald: Crowley teaches the racial profiling class at a local police academy, in [...]

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Sensitivity Training Now

Published on 23 Jul 2009 at 7:36 am. 17 Comments.
Filed under Obama, cops, law & order, racism.

The Cambridge cop accused of a racist arrest on Harvard Prof Henry Louis Gates Jr says he’s no racist and he won’t apologize. Gates has called James Crowley a “rogue cop,” though it’s not clear whether he knows much about this cop or his history. Meanwhile, the president of the United States, while acknowledging that he [...]

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It’s All Over …

Published on 22 Jul 2009 at 8:40 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under academia, cops, law & order, lawyers, racism.

… except for the recriminations.
Harvard Prof Henry Louis Gates Jr’s lawyer, Walter Prince, and the Cambridge cops negotiate a “just resolution,” in which the cops and the DA drop the disorderly conduct charge, and both sides agree it was a “regrettable” incident. 
Later in the day, Gates and his other lawyer, Harvard Law Prof Charles Ogletree, apparently working from [...]

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He Said, She Said …

Published on 21 Jul 2009 at 8:14 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under cops, racism.

… The Rev. Al Sharpton said.
Harvard Prof. Louis Gates cries racism most foul after someone spots him pushing in his own front door and calls the cops, who show up and ask Gates to identify himself. And that’s where the stories diverge. Gates’ friends say he showed them his ID. The cops say he refused to, instead started [...]

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Fact Check Fact Check

Published on 15 Jul 2009 at 8:37 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Obama, media, racism.

The AP spanks Sen. Patrick Leahy for his “creative rewrite of history.” AP stops short of spanking itself, but never mind, this is astonishing enough from a press agency, where coverage of matters such as the Sotomayor nomination, the 2008 presidential election, the Iraq and Afghan war, our nation’s efforts to combat terrorism, and transgendered matters has been, [...]

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Wannabe Wolf Goes Sheepishly

Published on 14 Jul 2009 at 8:55 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under Israel, illegals, racism.

Violent KKK fugitive surprised, goes quietly when arrested in Jewish homeland by Israeli immigration cops. OK, that’s all kinds of ironic, that a raving racist American nutjob thought Israel was the place to go to ground. Can’t wait to hear why. I bet all the other white supremacists will laugh at him. Either that, or they’ll think he [...]

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Sacrifice

Published on 11 Jun 2009 at 11:22 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under America, Holodenial, guns, racism.

Stephen T. “Big John” Johns joins the long line of men and women who have given up their lives for others.  Washington Post suggests he didn’t have time to react before he was shot by a deranged, hatemongering killer. Two fellow security guards opened fired and took down the gunman. The guards’ union had been pushing contractor [...]

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Racism = “Nonsense”

Published on 30 May 2009 at 7:21 am. No Comments.
Filed under Obama, justice, racism.

It’s coming from Obama, so you know it’s good. It’s a PC-approved position, loaded with wholesome well-intentionedness. MSNBC:
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama called criticism of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor “nonsense” Friday, telling NBC News that while Sotomayor would probably rephrase her eight-year-old comments on race, she would be “a good judge.”

“I’m sure she would have [...]

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Blood Sport

Published on 27 May 2009 at 9:40 am. 9 Comments.
Filed under Obama, justice, racism.

I don’t have much to say about Sotomayor at this point except that I’m looking forward to the hearings, Supreme Court nomination hearings being one of the bloodier American political gladiator events. Chinks in her armor include some disturbing decisions, such as the New Haven affirmative action ruling, though the reporting generally suggests she has more that are [...]

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Sky, Not Falling?

Published on 3 May 2009 at 10:57 am. 6 Comments.
Filed under impending doom!, medicine, racism.

What a disappointment. First, it started cooling off. Big problem no one’s quite ready to deal with yet.* Great Depression fears … Shiller at NYT, tell us something we haven’t heard before. Now this, swine flu … petering out?
Well, the great thing about impending doom, is it’s never too soon to panic … or to start capitalizing [...]

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Garofalo Fun!

Published on 27 Apr 2009 at 8:05 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under Obama, racism.

The girl likes to mix it up and in bluest Beantown,* of all places, Janeane Garofalo’s looking at a hostile crowd! Boston Herald’s Inside Track: 

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Immigrant Minority Persecuted

Published on 27 Mar 2009 at 9:08 pm. 8 Comments.
Filed under Germans, Nazis, money, racism.

Swiss anti-discrimination authorities move to protect a minority immigrant population from vicious discrimination and hate speech. Germans are being cruelly stereotyped by native Swiss as “boorish” and “domineering.” They have even been mocked as “Nazis.”
In tough economic times, some of the cheese-gobbling yodelers see the spike-topped sausage-eaters as competition and wouldn’t mind seeing the Auslanders the heck [...]

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On Being Redeemed

Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 7:18 am. No Comments.
Filed under America, racism.

Shelby Steele at WSJ looks at ”redemptive liberalism”  … punishing Americans today for the sins of the past … and its lure to minorities as an obstacle to GOP growth among same. 

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Praisism

Published on 15 Mar 2009 at 2:18 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Obama, moronocy, racism.

You know, when I suggested during the 2008 campaign that we were facing the disturbing prospect of not being able to criticize our president without fear of being slammed as racist,* I got it wrong. 

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Re Racism, Cowardice

Published on 23 Feb 2009 at 11:26 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under America, racism.

American Thinker essayist goes to town on Eric Holder.
LTC (ret’d) Allen West does likewise.

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Losing Self-Control

Published on 20 Feb 2009 at 8:58 am. No Comments.
Filed under academia, racism.

Is good for you. Sounds like great news for Congress, but this bizarre study out of Tufts isn’t about behaving like a bloated, rampaging chimp with other people’s money. Unlike the notorious cartoon that has everyone’s shorts in twist, this study is actually about race, and suggests it would be better for everyone … whites, blacks and society … [...]

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Go To Work Straight, White & Male Day

Published on 10 Dec 2008 at 9:08 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under griping, racism, sexism.

I need to know how that “Call In Gay Day” thing is going, whether the economy’s been shut down and if anyone gives a damn. Because I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling pretty unappreciated, rights stepped on, all that, and it’s time to take action.  They might be on to something.

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AQ’s Race Card

Published on 19 Nov 2008 at 10:25 am. 7 Comments.
Filed under Obama, al qaeda, racism.

It’s a bit of a double-reverse, double-blind poker bluff. Al-Qaeda’s No. 2, piping up at last, calls Obama the “House Negro.” Nice. Gateway with links denounces the racism.* We already knew they were bigots* as well as murderers, and what is more interesting is that AQ has begun its campaign of establishing that the Great Satan is still the [...]

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Racism Alert!

Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 11:25 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under pols, racism.

Schwarzenegger calls Obama “skinny.” via Yahoo: 

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Obama Support Growing

Published on 30 Oct 2008 at 11:25 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Obama, pols, racism.

Among the hoods and bedsheets crowd. Esquire:

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Nonsense

Published on 27 Oct 2008 at 3:25 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under pols, racism.

So wicked no one can figure out whether its satire or not. Philly Inquirer op-ed: White people shouldn’t be allowed to vote: 

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Code Words For Racial Setback

Published on 22 Oct 2008 at 11:05 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under America, pols, racism.

Lots of good PC-bashing fun over that KC Star race-baiter who informed us that when we discuss Obama’s politics, we’re racists. “Socialist” = code word for “black.”
But as ridiculous as that sounds, the unfortunate truth is that rather than bringing us forward in race relations, the candidacy of Barack Obama has brought out some of [...]

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Etymoronology

Published on 21 Oct 2008 at 8:09 pm. 7 Comments.
Filed under linguistics, racism.

Apparently “socialist” is another code word for “black.” Kansas City Star:

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Third Rail

Published on 18 Oct 2008 at 11:45 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

They just can’t stop touching it. Politico trots out polling that indicates that some people who hold at least one negative stereotype of blacks still plan to vote for Obama. Correct me if I wrong, but that pretty much means that holding stereotypes doesn’t a racist make.

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One Man’s Thought-Provocation

Published on 14 Oct 2008 at 8:58 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under pols, racism.

… is another man’s race-baiting. Or it would be, but this festive Halloween depiction of John McCain in KKK robes chasing Barack Obama with a baseball bat has the local NAACP’s OK.  Star-Gazette of Elmira, NY: 

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Wrong Again

Published on 7 Oct 2008 at 12:36 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under money, pols, racism.

No, Barney … the conservatives haven’t been blaming poor blacks. They’ve been blaming you. Boston Herald:  

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Racially Tinged

Published on 5 Oct 2008 at 2:25 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under media, racism.

AP “analysis” deems Palin’s “palling around with terrorists” hit on Obama to be “racially tinged.” There’s nothing actually approaching evidence to support this bizarre claim. It takes the AP fully seventeen paragraphs to get around to the speculative leaps and aspersions that pass for an argument.  

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In Comedy Veritas

Published on 3 Oct 2008 at 9:33 am. 4 Comments.
Filed under moronocy, pols, racism, sexism.

“Gang-raped by my big black brothers” unfairly soundbitten, Sandra Bernhard protests. “Out of context.”  
Fair-minded people everywhere should suspend all judgment until we find out what kind of context makes that sound better. Let me guess … a room full of lefty Palin-bashers?
Either that or she never said it. Hurtful lies target Bernhard’s anti-cyncism crusade. We’ll get to [...]

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Gang Rape Yuks

Published on 1 Oct 2008 at 8:05 pm. 8 Comments.
Filed under moronocy, racism, sexism, women.

A Boston women’s shelter, not amused, drops Sandra Bernhard from its fundraiser lineup over her Sarah Palin “big black brothers” gang rape joke. Boston Herald: 

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Perfect Storm

Published on 23 Sep 2008 at 1:05 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Dennis Prager at RCP warns of liberal rage vs. America if Obama loses. It’s the racism thing. Liberal rage is a pretty impotent thing and not terribly worrisome. Look at how well that worked in the abandonment of Iraq, the exercise of the big mandate in Congress. Aside from a handful of so-called anarchists who [...]

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It’s Obama!

Published on 20 Sep 2008 at 10:58 pm. No Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

Strangest thing. A pointy-headed post-doc at Harvard studies the so-called Wilder Effect … when black candidates significantly poll better than they perform at the polls, due to lying poll subjects, named for Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder’s experience in 1989. Harvard post-doc studies all elections of blacks and women for gubernatorial or senate office since then. Determines [...]

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Narrative Suggested

Published on 20 Sep 2008 at 9:51 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under pols, racism.

AP-Yahoo poll: Dem bigots will croak Obama run. Weird study that appears to apply vague, generalized racial stereotypes to attitudes toward a particular candidate, “suggests” a critical percentage of Dems will veer off over race. Subtext for future reference: McCain-Palin, choice of bigots. One problem pollsters failed to correct for: Their own prejudice. via Yahoo: 

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Race-Baiting

Published on 17 Sep 2008 at 11:26 pm. 3 Comments.
Filed under Obama, racism.

By the Obama camp. Shocking, I know.* Spanish campaign ads twist Rush Limbaugh’s words to P.O. Hispanics: 

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Room Contents

Published on 17 Sep 2008 at 1:10 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Obama, media, pols, racism.

Michael Grunwald at Time: “Race is the elephant in the room.” I dunno. Looking at this pile of an article, I’d say the room is full of warmed-over primary bullshit:

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