Anderson Cooper Brings Back Racist Tea Bagger Mark Williams to Comment on Jimmy Carter's Remarks on Racism
By Heather Wednesday Sep 16, 2009 11:00am
Following these remarks by Jimmy Carter...
"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man," Carter said. "I live in the South, and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that share the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African Americans."
...who does Anderson Cooper think deserves another spot on his show to weigh in on the subject of racism? Racist Tea Bagger Mark Williams of course! Who else could he have possibly had on besides Williams after that insightful commentary we just had from him on the previous show?
If you're as disgusted as I am with Cooper for bringing this guy back on you can weigh in at his blog, or contact CNN here.
Transcript below the fold.
COOPER: President Jimmy Carter saying that racism not only exists in America, but it's bubbled up because many white people believe an African-American president cannot lead the country.
With us now, Mark Williams, a chief organizer of the Tea Party Express. Also joining us tonight, CNN analyst Roland Martin. Mark, is racism a factor in these protests and the kind of anger that we have seen directed at the president, which is what President Jimmy Carter is saying?
MARK WILLIAMS, ORGANIZER, TEA PARTY EXPRESS: A tiny fringe.
And, you know, by now we're used to Jimmy Carter spouting stupid stuff that puts this country in a bad light.
What I would like to know from Jimmy Carter is, how do you explain the fact that President Obama is president and that his approval numbers are dropping through the floor? Did America wake up one day and decide that it's a racist country?
It's absurd. There's a fringe that says that. But, if you -- if you look out over the sea of signs at these tea parties, you will see a handful, a tiny handful, of anything that even -- even strikes of racism or even the color of the man's skin.
And -- and, of course, that's -- you know, you're going to get that. And I don't know how you -- short of repealing the First Amendment, how do shut -- how do you shut up a bigot?
COOPER: Roland Martin, what about that? Should Jimmy Carter have said this? Is he accurate? Is he right?
ROLAND MARTIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I believe that the president, the former president, is indeed accurate, because he is speaking to what is a strong perception out there, not just from African- Americans, but also from whites as well.
When you talk about a fringe -- Mark speaks of a fringe element. And when you have conservative radio talk show host Tammy Bruce, who calls the first lady trash, when you have Glenn Beck, who says he has a hatred of white people, when you have Sherri Goforth, who worked for the Tennessee GOP state senator, who sends an e-mail out depicting the president like a spook, does not apologize initially because of the racism e-mail, but she says, I sent you the wrong e-mail list, what you have here, you do have individuals who have a problem with this.
You have four -- according to reports, 400 percent increase on threats on the life of the president. What's the difference between him and the previous 43? It is certainly his skin color. I think we cannot deny the reality...
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: Well, there is another difference, Roland.
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: There's another big difference.
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Let him finish. Then Mark can go.
MARTIN: ... that race -- there are subtle elements of race. Everything is not so overt, so out there in terms of colored drinking signs and signs for white only, but you do have subtle instances of race that we cannot deny that exist every day in American society.
COOPER: Mark?
WILLIAMS: Well, given that I have been a radio talk show host for 30 years almost, to cite the hyperbole that we sometimes engage in to make our point, take it over the top, is kind of lowering yourself there, Roland, because...
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: Well, actually, I hosted a radio show...
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: ... you know, don't forget, we have an entertainment aspect to what we do.
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: ... Mark, and this is an example.
WILLIAMS: But -- but to say that any of that, with the exception, perhaps, of the spook comment, is race-based is to ignore the other major differences in this administration.
And that is this administration is doing everything it can to dig into the pockets of the working Americans, steal from them, and steal from future generations, while borrowing from the Chinese today, to undermine this country.
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: Why is he out there bowing to Saudi kings, apologizing for this country wherever he goes?
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: Here's the reality, Mark.
WILLIAMS: Obama, do not apologize for me.
MARTIN: Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, here's the reality.
The fact of the matter is, if you look at the facts, the deficit increased in President Bush and President Clinton. That's a fact. But the point here is, we have to -- we cannot deny the reality. When you look at the -- the viciousness of parents, mostly white, objecting to the president speaking to...
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: You try to take children's futures away from them, and their parents are going to object, Roland. It's that simple.
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: Mark, Mark, Mark. Excuse me, Mark. Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, one second.
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: When we have people who are objecting to the president...
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Guys, guys, there is no point in talking over -- guys, really, there is no point in talking over each other. Viewers just turn it off.
So, Roland, finish your thought. Then Mark can talk.
MARTIN: When you have the viciousness of people objecting to the president speaking to schoolchildren, and then I look in Arlington, Texas, where they say, we're not going to show the kids, but we're going to bus to go see the former president talk about education as well, you cannot...
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: But, Roland, there are people who will say, well, look, in past years, and under President Bush, we saw people demonstrating, showing signs saying President Bush was a Nazi, saying he was a fascist. Why is this any different?
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: Because you also look at the level of criticism.
When you hear people say statements like, you know, I want to take my country back from this man, it's also how you're looking at it. When I look at Jimmy Carter, 85 years on this earth, he has seen things through his eyes as a white man from the South that, frankly, I cannot necessarily see.
He has a different point of view. The same thing, I may see something as a man and say, I don't see what the big deal is with that, but a woman may say, I have a different experience because I'm a woman.
COOPER: So, when you hear somebody -- Roland, when you hear somebody say, he is changing our country, I want to take my country back, you hear...
MARTIN: When I hear someone say, he's not one of us, when I hear them say, I want my country back from him, I'm saying, wait a minute. What do you mean from him? He's the president, elected by 50-plus-one percent of the country. We cannot deny those sole elements. Again, I think there is an effort to make him a delegitimate president. We cannot deny the subtle pieces there. And I think about John Murtha, when he was a congressman during the campaign when he spoke about the people from his district, the issue of race. People said, how dare he say that? He represented the district for 35 years.
WILLIAMS: Roland, I would like to ask you then what was -- what is racist about the boos and the catcalls I got every time I mentioned Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid across country?
What was racist about my having a role in the unseating of conservative Republican white man John Doolittle, who was number two at the trough after Jack Murtha? What is racist about the vitriol directed at Barney Frank, the vitriol directed at Jack Murtha and the administration in general...
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: I'll tell you this, Mark.
WILLIAMS: If you think for one minute this tea party thing is about Obama, I have got news for you. This started during Bush.
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: And, as I have said repeatedly, President Bush planted the seeds, and all President Obama did was come along with a sack of fertilizer and a bottle of water to make it flourish, and then surround himself with these wack nuts, these czar nuts that he's got around him...
MARTIN: Mark, Mark, Mark, here's the difference, Mark.
WILLIAMS: ... who are bound and intent to do...
MARTIN: Mark...
WILLIAMS: ... what they can to disrespect the people who pay the bills.
MARTIN: Mark, here's the difference.
When I -- when we speak about these issues, it's amazing. When I begin to get the e-mails, Anderson, from people, all right, and we could be talking about the president picking who should win the Super Bowl. And, all of a sudden, race is injected. Race oftentimes is attached to this president, not just in terms of people out there speaking.
And when you begin to read blogs, and you begin to read comments...
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: Where did you see this? Where did you see this...
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: Mark, Mark, Mark, one second. Mark, one second.
I often -- I get tons of e-mail every day. I will respond to people and say, wait a minute, how did you jump to the issue of race? How did that even come into the conversation?
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: Roland, you're -- you're better than Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. You're engaging in...
MARTIN: I'm making a broader point.
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: Mark, excuse me.
I'm making a broader point. And that is, I'm not in denial about race in America. Just because we elected an African-American president does not somehow mean race simply left this country. We cannot ignore that.
What I'm saying is, we, as African-Americans, as whites, Hispanics, Asians, whatever, we have to be willing to call people out for what it is, and not ignore it, like you choose to do, Mark.
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Mark, Mark, let me ask you, you said in the beginning of this that there is a small fringe element in some of these demonstrations...
WILLIAMS: Sure.
COOPER: ... a very small element, you said.
A lot -- as you know, a lot of play has been given in the media to some of the signs that people have held up. There is this witch doctor sign that -- that has gotten a lot of play. We're showing it right now.
Is that something, when you see, you think, OK, that is -- do you believe that is racist? And, if you do, is that something you would tell people in your movement who come to your rallies, look, don't be -- don't be bringing that sign?
MARTIN: Yes. Obviously, I would. And, yes, it is -- it detracts from the -- from the actual discussion. And it's engaging in the same kind of demagoguery that Roland is engaging in and that the others in the race-baiting business, who make their check off of -- off of perpetuating racism, like the Jacksons and the Sharptons do.
But the fact of the matter is, I'm also in the media. And I understand what makes a good picture, a TV picture. And those signs, face it, they make the camera, because they're unique. There -- you don't see picture after picture of little kids holding up signs saying, "President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, don't spend my future," because there are thousands of them.
MARTIN: But, Mark, have you come to them and say, take it down, that is not -- we do not want to have -- have you done that?
Have you called on your supporters and say, that is not allowed here; take that down?
MARTIN: I don't determine what people believe or feel or express, Roland.
MARTIN: No, no, no, answer the question, Mark. Have you done it? Have you done it?
WILLIAMS: Unlike you folks on the far left, I do not mandate to people what they should feel and believe.
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WILLIAMS: I don't have to agree with people who say it. Why should I?
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: I'm supposed to find one guy in a crowd of 10,000 and say, hey, take that sign down? What does that make me? That makes me no better than the -- than the onerous, odiferous philosophies we're trying to fight.
(CROSSTALK)
MARTIN: Mark, the difference between me and you is, I'm willing to fight racism if it's coming from African-Americans or from whites or anybody else.
WILLIAMS: Well, the difference between me and you is, you make...
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: ... on perpetuating racism. I don't.
WILLIAMS: You, sir, are an apologist for them. And you allow them to move forward.
And that's the problem, Anderson.
COOPER: I want to give Mark the final thought.
WILLIAMS: Well, the difference between me and a lot of people is, there are people in the professional race-baiting business who make a good living off perpetuating racism.
I don't happen to be one of them. I'm an American. And what I see happening to my country scares me, because we are headed down a path that we have seen before in human history. And, if we go to the end, we know how this book ends.
COOPER: We're going to...
MARTIN: And I have seen racism before, as well. That scares me.
COOPER: Mark Williams, I appreciate your time on the program.
WILLIAMS: Thank you.
COOPER: Roland Martin, as well, thank you.
MARTIN: Thank you.
COOPER: Good discussion.
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why do hate mongers continue to get air time?
I'm tired of these idiots taking up so much air time. Ignore the fucktards already!
I haven't watched CNN regularly for 5 years. Perhaps I have watched CNN for 2 hours maximum since 2005. I consider CNN right wing heavy with conservative Democrats.
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It isn't the R's or D's that we have to worry about in Congress, it is the neo-liberal elements. These are the ones allowing the corporations to dictate how laws are written to benefit themselves and screw the public at large.
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.............actually had a FCC? Fairness doctrine? Before Murdoch?? Those days will never return because finally, Prescott Bush has had his coup de etate, and the Nazi Sympathizers now rule the world, along with BLOODYISRAEL. $$$$$$ sure makes strange bedfellows. BLOODYISRAEL/NAZIS/SAUDIS ........
wanting the racists to be exposed for their horrid beliefs and wanting them to be censured at least from the MSM...This may be the chance to get this objectionable vile behavior and thoughts on the table so they can not be denied but but I HATE HEARING AND SEEING IT!
I had such hopes that we as a Nation, were getting past racists but it is not true..it is there and the ugly head of the snake MUST BE CUT OFF! In PUBLIC!
I know how you feel; it's so disgusting. But it's like lancing a boil (or supply your own horrid metaphor). As Jimmy Carter said, this has to come out and be faced in the light. Only then can we cure it.
This discussion about race is long overdue in this country. Here's another metaphor: It's like a bruise on an onion. You keep peeling the skins of the onion and find that the bruise continues down several layers.
We have to keep bringing out these racial issues time and again. Many people thought the 1960s and '70s got the whole thing out, but the progress we made then only went down a few layers.
Since then we've been integrating, educating, and legislating to cure the most obvious crimes of racism -- the right to vote, to have equal opportunity in housing, schools, jobs, and so on. Now we've elected a black president, and we see that the bruise is still there even though we've come a long way.
We just have to keep working on it. In each generation we make a little more progress than the old dinosaurs do -- the racists trying to prevent their children from being educated, the homophobes trying to keep gays from marrying, etc. It's slow and deeply frustrating, and many of our best people won't get to see the dream become a reality, but we have to keep on working.
Good advice.
Williams calling what Carter says, "stupid stuff" is so typical of those who cannot respond in an intellectual way to what has been asked of them. Not to mention that he is tailoring his comments to those who would agree with him. Clearly, this man is no intellectual, and that reveals much about the validity of his arguments. I want to know what these people are saying.
"...we're used to Jimmy Carter spouting stupid stuff that puts this country in a bad light."
Oh, I suppose that's why we send him ALL OVER THE WORLD to represent America diplomatically.
I can only remember Carter being incredibly well-spoken, intelligent and, most of all, honest. I suppose we'd better send this ass instead, so he can insult world leaders by calling them "stupid."
Might as well ask why most of their guests and pundits are mostly on the right. Look at Wolf Blitzer's show. He has mostly right-wing conservative guests on, regardless of the topic.
Why do they give this moron air time?
Because he fits the corporate line. Look at this giy's eyes and face. Can't you see the insanity?
I would love to shove my foot down williams throat!
republicanism is a mental illness!
He would encourage people to do anything that he thought would get what he wants. These people enrage me.
I am so sick of their stupidity and willingness to be led and to follow that I could scream. I don't like the anger I feel toward these morons.
republicanism is a mental illness.
All this williams turd is doing is trying to make a buck. The problem is we have so many people that don't care what they have to do to make a dollar. You see the whores on the screen every day.
Shamefull. Truely a crying shame and what is worse is they appear to have no shame! Anything for a buck. Watch them get on their knees every day!
CNN is just looking for fireworks, so they can get ratings. They put on these extreme views. Why not some smart logical commentators that can really de-construct what is being said?
All CNN and the other MSM outlets want is confrontation. They are just like Jerry Springer.
Problem is it is not doing the country and the national debate any good.
Cooper at times seems like a good guy, but I am sure he is being dictated by the network and his producers about putting these extreme guests on. Although I am sure Cooper is looking for big ratings and dollars himself, although you would think being a Vanderbilt, he would care less about the money.
like clockwork, the Republicans have distracted everyone with a made up issue (by my count, we're now commenting on people's comments about people's comments on people's comments) and no one is discussing policy.
The proof is they except and defend the Talking Monkey bush the White Trailer Trash with a IQ 2 points below his show size. I listen to what these White Supremacist, Racist Nazis making outlandish statements. As far as CNN they are part of the problem you know if it bleeds it leads, well how about lets make it bleed so it can lead.
It's been a fun day listening to Michael Steele defending white folks honor.
Country's getting weirder every day.
Gee. A closet-case had no problem selling out his airtime to the pseudo-opposition...? Who would have imagined?
Anderson should join Lindsey Graham in SC.
Mark Williams is a racist. Pure and simple. That is why I am glad a major media outlet let him speak.
The best way to deal with racists is to give them the biggest bullhorn possible. The more they speak, and the more people hear them, the more people will realize that they are racist, crazy, and deserve to be ignored.
Please, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, ABC, everyone please put Mark Williams on your shows. The more you do, the faster he will be exposed for the racist idiot that he is.
Clowns like Williams rarely behave on programs like this as they do on their radio shows where anything basically goes. They act like angels on these shows.
Yes, expose him for what he is, but do it by attacking their premises. Don't play nicey with them. This alone will consistently expose their hypocrisy and double-standards. When clowns like Williams, Beck, Hannity, or O'Reilly bring up the debt and spending and the Obama administration, ask them how many hours a week is spent on their radio programs discussing the debt Reagan left this country strapped with, or where their anger was when Dubya broke the treasury by going to Iraq, etc. Take it to them. The facts are on our side.
When Bush wan in office most of us that did not agree with his policies... that is what we attacked. Now 9 months into office they are personally attacking our president with this whack-job signs and birthers & bagges & deathers. These people not only lost a election.. they lost there minds. They truly have a problem with a multiracial man running the country. Why does the networks keep given a voice to these crazies?
Teabaggers are 99% conservative white folk. 95% of them aren't too bright. The remaining 5% are bright enough to know how to use the other 95% and con them and scare them into voting against their own best interests.
If this is all about policy and Bush sowed the seeds, where were these people then? Ok they were asleep under the trance of BushCo. If this is about policy, then why all the interviews’ with theses "policy haters", barely one of them can actually describe a policy, healthcare, they have no idea, czars they have no idea Reagan had the first, nor Bush had them also, czars they have no power, they are advisors only, some are even confirmed all have real titles. They have no idea, insert thank you Fox News here. Therefore, they are "policy haters" that have no idea of the actual policies they hate, only what Boss Limbaugh or Hannity, or Beck told them. That makes them stupid by their own admission.
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I honestly believe the reason these nuts are given air time is because they validate the feelings that many of the higher ups behind the scenes in the media. Of course they cannot get on tv and say these things themselves but if they get some lunatic psychos like this guy to do it under the guise of "fair and balance reporting" then it serves their purpose.
Mark Archie Bunker Williams "Unlike you on the far left I don't tell people how they should feel or think"
Gay marriage? Pro-Choice?
Yea, wingnuts would never tell....or legislate...how people should feel or think!
is not only a racist but a lying asshole too.
The smug needs to be slapped off these people's faces.
Who the fuck do these anti humanist, pro dumbfuckery and generally not good people think they are?
Look ma! I'm on teevee, hyuck hyuck.
Glad I do not watch news on the tube.
(except for Rachel of course)
Orly Taitz chief birther got bitch slapped by a judge today. She was representing another person trying to weasel out of deployment using the "he was born in Kenya" argument. Here's the written decision, It's a really good read. Enjoy
http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wtvm/ConnieRho...
but you're really going to have to start lowering your expectations. You keep tuning into shows like this expecting some sort of public policy debate or old fashioned journalism and you seem constantly surprised to be watching some bizarre journalistic version of the WWE.
Williams is the polar opposite of someone like Carter and is exactly who CNN would select for this match. It stopped being about debate along time ago. This is entertainment and it is staged for the very same audience as the WWE.
I do have a problem hearing from an idiot perspective. And Mark Williams is an idiot. Look at his blog. Airtime is precious. Put on insightful people who are not lobbyists speaking talking points. Then I might watch again. AC, you are a huge disappointment.
If Hillary had been elected Democratic President we'd now be talking about Good Old Boys who just can't accept a woman as President. FOX has stirred up the latent racism in America for their own Republican reasons. In Canada we don't have the same kind of racism but there's an undercurrent of French/English hostility. We have scratched that itchy problem by electing alternate French and English Prime Ministers. Problem solved.
Americans moving up there en masse when things get too crazy to live down here?
Liberal blogs constantly play into this right wing rhetoric game and so it continues.
Liberal blogs make superstars out of the Joe Wilson's, the Orly Taitz, the Joe the Plumber's and this racist pig.
You ask why did Anderson Cooper have him on?
I ask, why did you report it and give the bigot even MORE PR?
Many people do not watch TeeVee, visit right-wing blogs, or listen to hate-spew radio. So how are we supposed to fight an enemy that we can't see?
I consider ignorance and hatred my enemies regardless of the root of the 'ism', or the person spewing.
what is the name of this blog?
but I'm grateful to C&L for letting me know just what the corporate hegemony is spewing these days.
And I have the benefit of reading the insights of like-minded people.
Thanks C&L.
Can't he find a more worthy subject for his rotten show?
Cooper Anderson will entertain the indefensible. All the while he will feign naivety. This is open mindedness to a fault.
They sandwich themselves between the democrats and the republicans and that has taken them clean out of the center of the screen and out of the true picture of the situation. The Situation Room now has one foot squarely in the dark universe of the Repugs. They did so willingly, because it was the path of least resistance. The problem now is, the widening gap between right and wrong is about to leave CNN without anything to wedge itself between.
I wonder if Cooper Anderson thinks about how he is part of the false MSM 'Dems vs Pugs' dynamic that is about to cave in? 'Dems vs Pigs' is a false dichotomy - a profitable narrative for cable tv producers.
On this interview. Try researching C&L before posting.
AC had Williams on TWICE.
sort of interview (with mark williams)makes america look like they're still stuck in the 50's and 60's. I thought when obama won your election things would change for the better. I guess I was wrong
We'll see. Slow and steady wins the race. The neighborhood bully [Repigizan] never wins in the end.
I gave up on Anderson Cooper long ago.
The wingnut that is.
i have a hard telling the difference
fuck cnn
I'm so sick of these Archie Bunker types running around screaming "Sharpton!" "Jackson!". Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are products of racist white American history, not the other way round.
n/t
Tea Baggers Against Frenching!!!
"Greek Teabaggers get it both ways!"
this williams asshole need to do even less tv that orly taitz did.
Or is having them show up for all America to see what right wingnutistan racists look like?
Where were you when your sugar daddy bush 43 LIED US INTO 2 WARS at a cost of 12 Billion PER WEEK (in 2008)! Do you think this cash just comes from heaven or something? You STUPID HYPOCRITE BIGOT!
Obama is in for almost 9 months and the right wingnutistan losers are all aflutter with accusations already.
Seems they may be "blowing their wad" a little too soon or, do they have something even loonier up their sleeve?
I mean other than the blatant racism being displayed around the country in the guise of "policy" "debate".
Bye bye GOP.
premature indignation. ;o}
inappropriate flagellation?
All of Williams' talk about taxes, money policies hurting the middle class, huge federal debt, borrowing on our kids future....gee, the Bush administration came into office with a budget surplus (had extra money) and left with a record defict (borrowed us into oblivion). Huge tax cuts for the top 10% of Americans, big tax breaks for corporations, starting an illegitimate war with lies and borrowing money off budget to pay for it to the tune of nearly $5 BILLION a week for over 7 years (and not counting all the needless deaths and disability to our troops and Iraqi citizens all in the name of oil company profits), record expandtion of federal government programs and invasions into our privacy and taking away several of our fundamental rights under the constitution, etc. etc............so where were all these loonie toons the last 8 years and why weren't they outraged over the actions of the Bush administration???? Gee, he was an old white male republican so he has to be doing the right things. Right?????? Didn't see many signs or here more than 1 sentence on blaming any of this mess on Bush for 8 years of his folly but people sure think things should have been all fixed in the last 8 months. Simply stupid.
Mark Williams looks like such a smug A-hole, doesn't he?
Don't they all.
These guys and gals are part of the "Proud Assholes" group.
Not the brightest I may say. But boy can they lie to themselves and us like no tomorrow.
Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt. I haven't watched CNN in years let alone Anderson Cooper
Another rich white boy benefitting from his station in life and posing as one of the masses with his "reporting" when in fact he is a member of the super elite who have no interest in bringing pertinent news to light.
I remember AC doing anything good integrity wise was Katrina coverage.
Anybody remember anything since?
the Busheviks were assraping the Constitution?
Answer that question first, Mark.
Then mebbe you can run your feculent, reeking, smirkking gob...
I also most dropped the remote last night when I saw Mark Williams on CNN AGAIN wasting air time and MY time...This guy is a straight up loon...Why isn't he in an asylum ???
Since Mr. Williams clearly got his adult sensitivity training for one of Rush Limberger stage hands and was absent on the day they discussed race relations. Although I'm sure in that context it was a REAL short class day but just introducing Williams to the CONCEPT of having to get along with your neighbor would have been a step in the correct direction.
It's not clear if Williams belongs in front of the camera where he can somewhat be constrained unless he is in a Murdoch-affiliated shop, or behind the camera where he probably wouldn't get enough potty training to do any of us any good..hard problem.. BUT, if we let him continue to spew his hate and EXTREMELY small-minded dribble un-checked, he will soon be out of control like so many of Rupe's peeps....
...watching that ass.
1) when a journalist writes an article, he decides whether or not someone he's quoting is a credible source, and uses, or edits, their words based on that. It's obvious Williams is not a credible source.
2) using an African-American to argue that there's racism in the white community doesn't hold much water in the white community, regardless of how well-delivered his points are. While most here will hear the substance, having grown up in the WIDELY RACIST white community, many whites are likely to view anyone black talking about race as biased. Which is why it's more powerful coming from Carter.
who sees racism everywhere. Carter gets no respect from racists.
Carter also gets no respect from the right wing, period - most act like he was the worst president ever.
There was a day when obvious publicity hounds were shunned, exiled or banned.
Why is it that today, the media actually seeks these people out and gives them the airtime they were looking for?
Orly Taitz is a prime example. The only reason she was interviewed at all was because of a frivolous lawsuit that was laughed out of court. Is this the type of person who every network should give time to?
This teabagger Williams is another. He's promoting his fabricated sideshow while being portrayed as a credible expert. What's he done? Who is he? Why does his opinion matter?
At least when I'm listening to Newt Gingrich, I know he's a former elected government official and I know he's representing the Republican agenda.
The media is allowing these publicity seekers to pawn themselves off as "concerned citizens."
claimed that martin made money off of race baiting
martin is a columnist and makes his money commenting on many issues
KILL THE WHITE DEVIL
wtf? Why, Anderson Cooper, Why?!
At least give the sane guy the last word.
Glad they advertise these uneducated, ignorant, racists from the Reich wing, for everyone to see their blatent hatred.
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