Race War
Drudge headline right now:
Later: Limbaugh: "In Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on..." (Complete with stereotyped black accent.)
There's alot more if you listen to the audio.
At least they're out of the closet.
WHITE STUDENT BEATEN ON SCHOOL BUS; CROWD CHEERS...
Later: Limbaugh: "In Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on..." (Complete with stereotyped black accent.)
There's alot more if you listen to the audio.
At least they're out of the closet.
posted by mikevotes at
2:18 PM
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"At least they're out of the closet."
Really? To me it's sounding more like Alabama c. 1963. I thought they all died with George Wallis' generation. The difference is, these people now have a strong, national, corporate sponsor. And there's no Morrow or Cronkite (or even a Dan Rather) to shine a line of reason and thoughtfulness on the situation
How far are we from another 1968? (MLK, RFK, Watts...) Have we no conscience? Will the goons take over?
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-epm, at 6:24 PM
Chances are Rush and Drudge won't have a problem with this, however. And if the killer turns out to be white, well then I'm sure it's the victims fault anyway. Had it comin'.
I'm so pissed at frickin' ignorant racist pricks... Argh! Words fail me.
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-epm, at 6:40 PM
If you thought they'd died out, your New Hampshire is showing.
And, although they now have control of the party and FoxNews, at the same time, open racism will rip those groups apart. They can play the code word game and get away with it, but if GOP racism is brought in the open, the rift will show.
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mikevotes, at 7:14 PM
Honest to God, I thought, as a nation, we had moved beyond this sort of Jim Crow, lawn jockey shit. I thought resonable institutions, like journalists and political leaders, would have denounced this by now... not treated it as legitimate dialog... a mere difference of opinion.
So, yes. I guess by lilly white New Hampshire is showing... (That and I've worked in a highly multi-cultural, multi-racial environment for nearly 30 years.)
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-epm, at 7:31 PM
-epm, I hear your frustrations, but have no delusions that those ugly days are fully behinds us. The gut wrenching part, one of them anyway, is that every time veiled, or even blatant, racism is pointed out...it's denied. And instead someone's "playing the race card." Boo hoo. It's such sickening BS.
I'm afraid what it will finally take to bring us back from the edge for another 40 years or so. We seem to be teetering ever so closer to some lone wolf, or wacko group to doing something stupid. They seem to feel empowered. Look at the DHS warning against right-wing extremists. They actually embrace the title as an honor. ugh.
At least Jimmy Carter is speaking out.
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zen, at 8:00 PM
Maybe I'm just blind here, but it's my sense that things are still changing. I don't think we go back to the worst of it because if you look at the kids, race is a much less big deal than to those older.
There's a reason that Obama pulled better from the young than old, and a reason the teabaggers are almost all older folks.
There's still the white supremacists and survivalists and the militias and all, racism certainly will not die, but the percentage of people who find it acceptable are dwindling as the generations turn.
I don't want this to sound too pie eyed, but it's my sense that in today's America, open racism will lose support. Unlike in past times when people were chastised for open racism because "we shouldn't be racist," I really believe we're reaching a point where racist messages will be repulse the majority because they're actually racist.
So, my point is that I'd rather see the race hate out in the open than the code word bull crap that;s been going on all summer. As ugly as it is, I think actually getting it out in the open will do the most good.,
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mikevotes, at 10:34 PM
I'll believe that when these blatant examples have consequences.
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zen, at 10:38 PM
I getchya.
The one thing is, in today's media, someone has to make the charge and insist on it before they'll stay after a story.
Today's news folks require a "hook."
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mikevotes, at 7:33 AM
"The one thing is, in today's media, someone has to make the charge and insist on it before they'll stay after a story."
This is something the right wing are masters of. They have no problem making up wild-assed shit and going out en masse to ardently and unyieldingly promote it.
There is no "progressive movement" per se. Certainly not one with the goose-stepping propaganda machine that the right wing has. Howard Dean's organization (DFA) is probably the most organized, professional message machine the Dems/progressives have.
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-epm, at 8:57 AM
Very much so.
(And there is no organized progressive movement, but there is a fairly powerful collective of bloggers, the more serious of whom, the press takes seriously.
It's clear the top reporters read TPM for example. TPM helps shape coverage by pointing to scandal and shaping opinion. And some of the HuffPo folks or Nate Silver help shape as well.
That's one of the reasons I don't read Kos or FireDogLake. They're decent, but they're mostly internal to the people who read/write them. Kos gets facetime because he's so highly read, but not so much for what he writes.)
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mikevotes, at 10:26 AM
Holy Hell! Some conservatives take Limbaugh to task. How long before they apologize?
Rather than track down all the links, a summary is here:
http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/09/16/rush-limbaugh-is-a-race-hustler/
I'll be interested to see your post on this.
Cheers
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zen, at 3:05 PM
Yeah. The only hitch is that those folks aren't really players, you know? They're so many leagues below Limbaugh that no one will even notice.
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mikevotes, at 3:18 PM
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