Rachel Maddow on the GOP's Overt Racism
Rachel Maddow weighs in on the overt racism that the GOP and their counterparts in the media don't seem to be too concerned about expressing these days.
BECK: This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seed hatred for white people or the white culture.
LIMBAUGH: Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman. I think he is genuinely revved up about race. You know me. I think he is genuinely angry in his heart and has been his whole life.
MALKIN: I think he is a racial opportunist.
LIMBAUGH: Look, I had a dream. I had a dream that I was a slave building a sphinx in a desert that looked like Obama.
BECK: He has a problem. He has a - this guy is, I believe, a racist.
LIMBAUGH: And after that, they‘re going to go after Oreos. Might have to put that off until Obama is out of office, but they‘ll eventually go after Oreos.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: Now, the racial divide in this country didn‘t disappear when Barack Obama was elected president. And no reasonable person has expected it to. But it is somewhere between eyebrow raising and breathtaking to have such blunt, unvarnished race-baiting so forward in the national discourse right now.
And the type of race baiting to which we‘re subjected is fairly specific and fairly consistent. The argument that the president hates white people, for example, which you just heard Glenn Beck make on Fox News, that it‘s he, the president, who is racist, that argument dovetails perfectly with the arguments made against Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the far more genteel setting of the United States Senate.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KYL: Many of Judge Sotomayor‘s public statements suggest she may indeed allow or even embrace decision making based on her biases and prejudices.
SESSIONS: Her wise Latina -
GRASSLEY: Your wise Latina comment -
COBURN: Already prejudiced against one of the parties.
GRASSLEY: Allow biases and personal preferences. She said that a wise - quote, “wise Latina would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male.”
CORNYN: And that ethnicity and gender can and even should have an impact on a judge‘s decision-making.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: The language of our Republican senators is less blatant than the language of professional conservative talkers. But the theme is the same. What we have here are ethnic minorities who can‘t be trusted to use their official power fairly because they‘re prejudiced against white people.
Now, with or without outrageous cracks about the biracial president being an Oreo, as we just heard from Rush Limbaugh, the conservative movement and the Republican Party are positioning themselves the same here. They‘re positioning themselves as defenders of the interests of white America against the threat posed to white America by people like Obama and Sotomayor.
Are white people in America enraged by having a black president, by the success of people like Obama and Sotomayor? Is there out rage that being white in America no longer guarantees you monopolistic access to the positions of greatest power in this country?
There must be some, certainly, but whether or not this race-baiting political tactic succeeds in the 2000s, depends on whether there is enough of that kind of tappable white rage out there to compensate for how bad it makes these guys look to be seen spewing this kind of overt racial invective.
It's 2009. Racism is over.
We got the new racism. The uppity minorities who don't like us white people. First they cross our borders illegally then they don't like us.
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Racism is dead in America, except those dang coloreds who continue being racists to us white folk. Where's his birth certificate? Ship him back to Africa where he came from! Don't want none of that voodoo socialist fascism or radical judicial activism from some uppity darkie who thinks they've got a right to tell us what to do! Damn racists!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24...
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
I is scared of these minorities. They're going to overtake us better white folks in some years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0af-RiRDoGk
Make more babies!
Wouldn't that at least get you a twenty year prison term?
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Don't want no witch doctor, either, running our health care plan.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/200...
But I am concerned about our future saviour, Sarah Palin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7hJDS26rI
...until the talking heads that constantly push racism leave the public arena. Especially so with the Fuhrer of Palm Beach.
I just saw a video of Ann Coulter on Larry King's show arguing about racial profiling with Al Sharpton.
Larry introduced Ann as "joining us now from West Palm Beach...."
I wonder if Eva Braun Coulter is shacking up with Der Fuehrer Limpballs?
That image is gonna give me nightmares! = P
Beck seems to be the worst of the lot.
According to Wikipedia, Glen Beck is a Mormon -- LDS.
We should repeat this over and over, for when Mitt Romney enters the next presidential race.
Glenn Beck -- a very prominent Mormon -- is a racist, hate-monger.
How is that for transference?!
I've been waiting for someone of prominence to say what is so obvious. If you are a minority, you are not trusted to lead. My question is whether this is our of a fear that minorities are lesser life forms incapable of governance, or if it a fear that the tables will be turned and they will enact the same policies on white people as whites have enacted on minorities for generations? Or both.
I know my own mother was afraid of Obama being elected because he was going to staff his administration with Black Panthers and Nation of Islam extremists and our nation would be overtaken by angry black people. I asked her two things.
1. Do you really think the system is so fragile that one guy could topple the entire balance of power?
2. If that absurd delusion where true, what reason is there that black people would be so angry in the first place, and can you blame them?
If this is how white people react after 6 months of "oppression" under Obama, I'd hate to see how bad they'd be after 300 years.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Does the gop slurp when the eat?
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I'm all for calling out bigotry and fear-mongering in all it's guises. I have a very difficult time understanding why these knuckle-dragging idiots are even allowed airtime or why otherwise rational people, who care about their neighbors and hold down jobs and love this country as I do, parrot these stupid talking points like gospel. Is it a birth(er) defect? Congenital brain farts? Isn't there a pill for this?
"They‘re positioning themselves as defenders of the interests of white America against the threat posed to white America by people like Obama and Sotomayor."
I think she should have said, "..alleged threat posed.." because frankly, I don't feel threatened at all. That is, as long as you discount the lunacy of the Beck's, Limpbaugh's, et. al. and the stupidity of the GOP! There's where the only threat lies!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
I have one right wing co-worker who refers to black people only as 'effing n***ers', and cites his reason not liking them because they (black people) are 'all racists'.
Um, yeah...
at projecting all their pathetic inadequacies on others.
A bottomless well of vitriol.
Scheeeze I've been saying it for years, and now because the Great Lady says it it gets noticed. Boo Hoo! Way to go Rachel. can we start a weekly White is Right and I am White so it is right column and put all these members of the (GOP) Goofy Opposition Party in it with photos. These Racist Nazis have had their say for way to long and they are loosing ground and starting the out and out hatred now.
Beck was spewing his hate toward the French again. Heard him say8ing that cursed surrender m*** crap and others of the GOP's favorite slurs.
Why is he on the air again?
But it is nice to see that now that Savage is allowed into Britain again that he has returned to his hate rants again. He was all upset that he wasn't allowed into GB and was on "their list".
Savage can go back to Britain, now? Didn't hear that. What a bastard.
That some uppity black folk will extract revenge on them for slavery. Oh , wait a minute. They claim he wasnt born here anyways so that takes the revenge out of it. Love seeing the three pillars of Conservatism out and about though. Flushy Limpdick, Maniacal Malkin and just Batshit Nuts Beck.
hey...you cant call us racists
we love clarence thomas and wanted colin powell to run for prez (before he became a nasty traitor)
we love condi rice and fredo
and we love that token who was in the house for a couple of years
yes....they do love them self hating stepandfetchit minorities
And it seems like just a year or so ago that these clowns were declaring that Obama wasn't black enough to appeal to African American voters.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
I really like when the stations who hired these guys try to distance themselves from what these clowns say. It is as if they had no idea what these guys will say.
Michael Savage was once recognized- even by the right as overtly racist- now his venom seems the typical standard of his racist right wing peers
The Republicans have been claiming Obama is overtly racist towards white people- can anyone cite any examples of Obama being racist?
The Republican vermin are trying to justify their overt racism by claiming Obama is the racist one- How far will the right take this? How long before they drop all euphemisms and start calling obama a n***er?
And he said a white policeman acted stupidly. How much more evidence do you need?
The cry of the conservatives. First black president and he is a racist. No mention of all the white presidents before him ever considered to be racist. If this is the path they want to take. And some minorities will listen and believe it. But here is the truth to ALL minorites in America. When a person calls a black person a ****** he or she is not just refering to black people.
It's clear what offends Limbaugh so much is that a black person would even dare run for president. Limbaugh, like most of his right wing peers is a white supremacist
C'mon, you know you want to. Call him a "c**n!" It'll feel good to unburdon yourself. It'll give you same climax as when you see photo's of lynchings, or the Holocaust. You know, GOOD TIMES!!!
But rest assured off camera they are using every racial term in the book..
... the camera is always on, and the mic is always hot.
We need a few Bill-O style meltdowns on YsTube to expose these bastards. Though, what could you possibly say about Rush Limbaugh? "Gosh, I had no idea?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQIvhotZSUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4SLSlSmW74&fe...
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Are three of the four Horses Asses of the Apocalypse--Wiener Savage, Drudge, and Dobbs are fighting it out for number 4. And cracker boy Sessions who is trying to restore the antebellum South---now there's a real loser with a party of losers.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
they are racist AND classist
and i would say that--for the top tier--they are a fuck lot more disgusted by those they deem lower class (or those that take up their cause), than they are of non-white males. in fact, if you are a non-white male you can easily join the rightwing club, as long as you adhere to the fuck-you-buddy-i-got-mine ideology (see, steele, jindal, keyes, watts, thomas, etc.) but if you don't spew the same rightwing ideology, you can be so white you appear translucent and still be seen as the enemy.
If they're into overt race shouldn't the gop be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZm47SrmuwM
Or even:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj3DBcpfMNQ
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If the democrats had clowns like these guys (beck, rush, et al) speaking such trash on international news, I would leave the party immediately. Im really not sure what the GOP hope to accomplish. I am certainly perplexed at their acceptance of what most of the world have already spotted as an insulting assumption that the supporters of the GOP are nothing but stupid hicks who would swallow such shallow and insipid propaganda geared to persuade only the most isolated and ignorant of hillbillies. As much as I LOATH the GOP, I am actually quite embarrassed for them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoED3CEjFyA
Admit it, you wanted to call the hillbillies white trash.
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Perhaps I meant to say ignorant bigoted right-wing assholes. Being born in the back-woods doesn't make one bigoted I suppose.
are as close as your next door neighbor.
...with just the racist white vote. The bigots have positioned themselves so that race voting is their only hope.
really think there are enough bigoted voters in the US to win an election?
You'd be surprised, there are plenty of white folk quaking in their boots about these uppity colored folk trying to take over the world. No shortage of racism still alive and well.
Little does Ms. Malkin know what her Fox News, "Ditto Head," GOP brethren are actually saying behind her back about those Asian folks.
"Where's an ass?"
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WTF? I can't believe that he used that word. Oreo was always a word used by some (and I stress some) people of color about other people of color who spoke proper English and had achievements in life. It's interesting to hear it used by Limbaugh.
Who exactly is it that's going to go after "the Oreos"? You mean all of those down and out welfare Mommas and gangstas in the ghettos that don't use forks like real people? Never mind, I don't really want to know.
You don't even want to get inside Limpballs thought process - you'll go batsh!t insane just trying!
I needed that slap upside the head.
Oreo is about the most racist term you can use towards a person of black and white ancestory..Jesus, these white wingers..i mean right wingers are no longer hiding their bigotry behind vague euphemisms...
One thing I have noticed is that the right is using some of the more deranged right wing black individuals like Alan Keyes, and that pastor nut in Harlem to use the N word for them..
Yeah, Oreo is pretty upsetting. but we were also very fond of "Halfrican". Now that feels like the good old days.
Why is that the entire news "profession" is not all over this story? What a joke! The "news" that Americans are fed on a daily basis is a shameful stew of lies, innuendo, schoolyard fantasies, and downright propaganda fed into the mindless media by a highly organized, spiteful, self-aggrandizing minority.
We should all write, call, and otherwise pound our supposed news media outlets and news "professionals" until they are ashamed enough to provide us with straight reporting instead of the BS they are babbling now.
There is no way we can pull this country back to some sense of pride or productive effort in solving the horrendous set of issues we now face until the "fourth estate" takes its responsibilities to this dissolving democracy seriously.
The concepts embodied in the Fairness Doctrine: honest, fair and equitable treatement ... have been sucked out of American journalism by two decades of Rush Limbaugh and the 'mainstream media' shell game.
The corpse is still twitching, but it died sometime back in 1987.
The editors here have a serious comprehension problem.
Reporting about what right wingers report about the racialist crap Lefties spew is not racism - especially when the Lefties are the ones originating the racialist crap!
You folks really need to consult Webster's dictionary for an accurate definition of 'racism'. And look in the mirror.
~nuff said.
[OK we saw this. I think you have all answered this new poster well, we'll leave his post here-Sitemonitor]
I hope so.
You've been here all of 13 minutes.
These "right wingers" are not "reporting". They are not journalists. They are racist spewing entertainers who only appeal to dip shits like you. Good luck with that ignorance thing that you live with every day of your life.
nuff said.
whole minutes and suddenly you're an expert on this site? Amazing! Even more amazing is that you could spare the time away from your usual hangout, Stormfront.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
You have been flagged for projecting..and for being a total lying sack o' crap.
A strategy the GOP leadership has been using for a few years on a variety of subjects and it works because of our "he said/she said" style of media. Since the media won't actually look at fact and policy, lying works. They can lie all they want and most of the media won't say "the Republicans are lying" because that would be taking sides. So if you are guilty of something just accuse your opponents of doing what you're guilty of doing. The uninformed will just see two sides accusing each other of the same thing and will just believe the ones from their party.
It began not long after the 2000 election when evidence began to come out that that election had been rigged, at least in Florida. They immediately began to talk about Democrats rigging elections. At first they had to go back to the Kennedy election to get a decent example until the might Acorn came along.
The same thing happened a few years later when comparisons began to be made between the GOP agenda and the principles of fascism. Immediately GOP whores began talking about "liberal fascism".
Now in the past year it has become obvious that a large percentage of the GOP hates blacks and hispanics. And suddenly they began calling prominent blacks and hispanics racist.
They're using the same strategy with health care, accusing the government of planning to do what the health insurers the carry water for HAVE BEEN doing all along.
The strategy will continue to work until the media starts calling liars what they are...liars.
Unfortunately. People believe lies easily, especially if they are repeated often enough on TV.
Actually, I've been calling it "the projection strategy" for a few years now.
or as I refer to it...the "I know I am but what are you" strategy.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Well I know YOU are but what am I? Infinity!
It's what Hitler did when villifying the Jews, or what the 19th century Americans did to native americans-Give people a common enemy to hate, The right wing is doing that by hating immigrants, and by hating Obama. Right wingers froth at the mouth when they voice their levels of hatred..It's almost a form of mental illness...
There's a distinction between discussing race and racism, try comprehension one day.
Or are you being racist by saying it's racist to discuss other people's racism?
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Nice.
Damn, it was trying to be nasty...
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Yeah, I got that. I think locomotive has fled the sight though. What a dick.
Using all three of his brain cells to write that post plum wore him out.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Trains and tunnels are already Freudian enough.
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I always preferred the popping corks and bubbling champagne bottles myself.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
the oil rig gushers.
me...I prefer fireworks...then..a nap.
What about dish soap being squeezed onto a plate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC4raDp-jWw
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Because racism is born out of fear, anger, and hatred. It is not rational. It does not respond to reason, it exists apart from education. It's a cancer - once acquired, it's damned near impossible to beat.
I mean, really - most sane, thinking people would be absolutely gobstoppered by the comments Rachel highlighted. And that's because racism simply defies higher-order brain functions.
One happy hour at a time??
There's a reason why the KKK wears pointy hats.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
So they can point out their heads and find them?
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It keeps wind created by the burning crosses from blowing the hats off their pointy heads.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Actually the KKK replaced their haberdashery with:
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles...
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Republican Ohio Senator George Voinovich:
"We got too many Jim DeMints (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburns (R-Ok.). It's the southerners. They get on TV and go "errrr, errrrr." People hear them and say, "These people, they're southerners. The party's being taken over by southerners. What the hell they got to do with Ohio?"
Stephen Colbert joked after running nut-bag Glenn Beck's video, (paraphrasing here) "... considering how racist Obama is toward the White Race, he sure must hate his mother."
This "divide Americans" meme is so sad, it makes me want to spit! Right-wing glossy media repackaging hate and fear.
Hate mongers forget the facts. Fearful people don't understand them.
From inside your TV!
What this country needs is a mass Television destruction derby.
yes!
!!!media burn 2009!!!
gentlemen, start your engines!!!
and now, let us look back to the start of the games.
it was july 4, 1975, a time when ant farm meant more than a mere child's hobbie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U53-Sfnqwss&fe...
While Bush was in office I really wanted to leave this country. When Obama was elected I became hopeful that things would get better. And they are, in many respects. What has gotten worse, though, is the hatred that is spewing from the right. I never realized how bad it was, but now that we are seeing so much of it, it makes me ill. I want no part of a country where people are allowed to spread, unchecked, such hatred. I'm not suggesting that they be censored, but reasonable people need to stand up and say that it's got to stop. It needs to stop being about money and power and start being what's best for the country.
Sponsors used to have great control over contents of shows they advertised on.
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...the "Obama is a racist" BS that Suck, Loonballs and all the other nutty righttard commentators spew, Obama must absolutely HATE his mother, his granny, half of his family, most of his Cabinet and MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM. Project much, loons?
...Rush calls Obama an "Oreo" in his commentary about how Obama is a racists and it goes in one ear and out the other of the folks who listen to it.
Now, do you see where we are headed? I mean the 'Vette is in 6th gear the RPMs are around 4K and we are going there fast.
If you are liberal, please, arm yourselves, develop a family emergency plan, store emergency supplies..etc..etc.
It's not that the act itself will "set it off". It will be their indignation about it, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Faux and all these conservative dolts will act just like Beck did the next day after his "Obama is a racist" statement. That's when all heck will break lose.
Hopefully, the republic will be better for it after it is all over.
It's made him flat out crazy to realize he was born too late to be hung at Nuremberg with his pals.
He drove thousands of black children to church services and field trips in his bus. He ran a jobs program for ex-convicts that was partially funded by a civil rights group. African-American, Catholic and Jewish-owned newspapers praised his efforts.
The Detroit Black Panther Party sometimes came to him for money. He gave generously.
But Burwell had a secret that stayed buried with him until a box of weathered documents discovered in his old garage revealed the other half of his bizarre life story:
The civil rights champion who drove the church bus also wore the robes of the Ku Klux Klan.
http://detnews.com/article/20090730/OPINION01...
Racists come in all forms.
and I attribute her approval to the Republican senators' reluctance to repeat "wise Latina" often enough.
If only they'd said it two or three times as often as they did, they could have won the day. Chalk that defeat up to their timid moderation.
Please, step away from the bipartisan red herrings.
Please, grasp that the internet is the newest progressive invention that enables our entire species to become more knowledgeable and to communicate more readily. We now have the unique opportunity to use our exponentially developing technologies to access and organize factual information, and to work together to make macro-level decisions to benefit our entire planet.
Please, recognize that we're "all bozos on this bus"! We cannot exit this planet at the next galaxy, so we must inevitably learn to live together, or continue to sacrifice our young people in unwarranted "wars" that benefit only the wealthiest among us.
Finally, please, please, please, recognize that promoting fear, hate and divisiveness of any kind will never result in anything positive. Reject your fear. Let go your hate.
“You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else?" (Matthew 5:43-47) [Do not mistake my use of this quote as an adjuration to embrace some specific organized religion--just listen to the words, which are timeless and universal.]
Gandhi, King, Dalai Lama--these great pacifists and others like them give excellent examples of effective responses to 'hatemongering' and fear. One doesn't need to wear rose-colored glasses to recognize that love is the most effective palliative in these trying times. Love can also help those who aspire to effective pacifism to accept that those who hate or fear are the only ones who can find their personal path to peaceful membership in our Global Family.
Personally, I pray for patience and acceptance, because people like Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Malkin, Coulter, Savage, et. al really push my hate buttons. Would that I could be like Dalai Lama. :) I wouldn't use the term 'Bloviating Billo' nearly so much!
They're noticing how crazy the rethuglicans are even overseas in england.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
that Britain has a long way to go. There is a considerable amount of racism there and it is not pretty there either.
This has been an on going delusion in the minds of some Caucasian Americans since the introduction of chattel slavery. Their commentary seems to reflect a great deal of projection which makes the fact that they are allowed to spew their rhetoric unchecked even more unfortunate. Because they are vengeful, violent and vindictive individuals and have a full understanding of the pervasive and institutional nature of racism, they can't fathom how people of color in this nation wouldn't react violently to the treatment that many face daily. They know what their reaction would be to the violence they propagate and fear their chickens coming home to roost. Fortunately for them most people they attack are peace loving, forgiving and rational and thereby not a threat to their miserable existence.
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