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Race and the race: Will the MSM quit fear-mongering now?

By Michelle Malkin • January 4, 2008 06:05 AM

Ok. Now that Barack Obama has won a resounding victory in 94.9 percent white Iowa, will the MSM and the Dems stop yammering about racist, un-diverse voters already? The bigotry concern troll act is getting old and tired. Not as old and tired as Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But close.

Newsbusters:

For the second time in less than a month, “Good Morning America” co-host Chris Cuomo asked a Democratic presidential candidate to speculate about the inherent racism of American voters. Talking with John Edwards on Wednesday’s edition of the program, the ABC journalist wondered about Thursday’s Iowa caucus. He inquired, “When you think people get into the room, do you think race or gender may play an unspoken role in the caucus voting?”

Clearly, this is a topic that weighs heavily on Cuomo. On December 20, he spoke to Senator Barack Obama and asked, “What do you think the bigger obstacle is for you in becoming president, the Clinton campaign machine or America’s inherent racists, racism?” In fact, GMA has a long history of harping on how bigoted America is. Since November 13, 2006, “Good Morning America” has featured the question, in some form or another, a total of five times.

Flashback: Video of the “inherent racism” meme.

Flashback (via State 29): The DNC hate Iowa crackers.

Well, it looks like the answer is no. No, the MSM won’t stop yammering about un-diverse white voters. Here’s the NYTimes editorial this morning, right on cue as I predicted, clamoring for an end to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary by zeroing in on its lack of, you guessed it, racial diversity:

We don’t question the enthusiasm or the commitment of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire. But Iowa, where a huge turnout amounts to less than 10 percent of the population, is about 92 percent white, more rural and older than the rest of the nation. New Hampshire has a non-Hispanic white population of about 95 percent…

Yes, white, rural, elderly voters turned out in droves for black candidate Obama and rejected white, union-backed hacks Hillary Clinton and John Edwards.

This must be stopped!

The Times editorial concludes:

…None of this has led us to a choice in the nominating contests, never mind for the presidency. The majority of Americans are in the same position. That’s why they should be allowed to see and hear more of these candidates, and not have to settle for the judgments of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Oh, we’ve seen and heard plenty. And who’s being forced to “settle for the judgments of the people of Iowa and New Hampshire?” Voters in the rest of the nation’s caucuses and primaries will get their chance. Someone has to go first. The Times proposes a regional system “in which states are divided into regional groups that vote on a designated day. The honor of going first would rotate year to year among the regions.” But even if the Times editorial board got its way, I guarantee you the paper would still complain that the designated first-in-the-nation regional group to vote had an unfair electoral advantage that tainted other regional voters’ decisions.

Well, on to New Hampshire.

Or, as you’ll be hearing endlessly for the next four days, 95 percent White New Hampshire.

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Silly side note: Looks like Obama reeled a few voters in with an all-important Scarlett Johansson endorsement and personal appearance in Iowa. A dash of Danish/Polish-American starlet diversity never hurts.

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#101

On January 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm, scooter56 said:

On January 4th, 2008 at 9:11 pm, beenthere said:

Dear Mr. Scooter56:

I’m so very sorry you do not know what “race goodies” are. Here’s an example: Affirmative Action. Have a nice day.

Sorry….I need some more explainin. How about “race goodies you can’t imagine”?
and that “siren call” and “black enough”? Oh please enlighten me!
#102

On January 4th, 2008 at 9:23 pm, jpmzo said:

You got to love the chtzpah of the NYT, trying to infringe on states rights because they’re unhappy with the outcome. The same nattering nahbugs of nepitism were clammering for the abollision of the Electoral College when their boy AlGorism went down in 2000. The arrogance of the NYT knows no bounds. Thankfully, for the rest of us, their influence is on the wane.
#103

On January 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pm, scooter56 said:

A more legitimate argument is about how prevalent it is. Exactly how many “beentheres” are there in America.

That I don’t no the answer to. How many are too many?
I grew up in the recently discussed all white bastion of the driftless area (90k in county/99.9%white when I graduated from HS). Since 2002 I have held a federal job where I deal with mostly the unisured or underinsured (poor). In 2005 when I was working in Mississippi I met a woman in her 80s who was as white as snow. She had married a black man in 1950. She explained that in 1950 in MS if you married a black man they would change the race on your drivers license to “Colored”. Both she and her husband were not allowed in MS state schools so they attended the U of Iowa, both received their Masters and later returned to teach in MS. Her son is now in the MS state senate. I asked her what she thought about the changes in race relations in her lifetime and she said it was to slow and not nearly enough.
I wonder what kind of a nation we would be without the anchor of Race holding us back.
#104

On January 4th, 2008 at 11:17 pm, Blind_Mule said:

zorro said:
The only racism left in the USA is in the imagination of the leftist media.

Ding, Ding, Ding, Bingo

and of course JJJEsse JJJackson, Al Shamepton, Louie Fartaquan etc…
#105

On January 5th, 2008 at 3:17 am, AlturaCt said:

Sorry if this has been noted already. I have not read all the replies. Tonight on CNN, I think it was on Dobbs, The CNN reporter in NH was asked about the possiblty and effect of a Bloomberg run at this stage? The reporters reply was: Oh no, Bloomberg would never want to be known as the guy who prevented the first “African American” president.
Nothing about qualifcations or record, planks etc. Only about his race…
#106

On January 5th, 2008 at 3:42 am, AlturaCt said:

The only racism left in the USA is in the imagination of the leftist media.

I’m sorry but this is just not correct. LaRaza, MEChA, LULAC, THe NAACP, The Black Caucus. The list is almost endless. Pleanty of racism in America!
#107

On January 5th, 2008 at 6:49 am, jamesgreenidge said:

Michelle, oddly enough, save myself, the members of my family and the huge predominately black community of Jamaica NY, are strongly pro-Hill (her nanny state policies) and though deeply sympathetic and proud of Obama, fears that his ending up in the final showdown in Nov will prompt all the silent racists of the Democratic party to defect to the “racist party”, the Republicans. A very ugly and insulting POV to me; what that does make non-white conservatives?

James Greenidge
Queens, NY
#108

On January 5th, 2008 at 7:45 am, graysonret said:

It’s a shame that the Repubican party is branded as “racist”, by the Democrats. If I recall my history, it was the Republicans who won the Civil War, passed the amendments to free the slaves and allowed blacks to run for office. After the Tilden-Hayes debacle of 1876, the Democrats took over the South and the laws flew to put the black population down (poll taxes, literacy tests, Jim Crow laws, etc.). It wasn’t until FDR and, esp. Eleanor, who tried to cultivate the black voters with lots of promises that weren’t kept. Ever watch the nature shows where a chicken is dangled in front of a crocodile? The croc keeps leaping but it’s kept just out of reach. The Democrats are the same way, dangle promises right in front of voters, but just out of reach, each and every election. Don’t forget the filibusters of the 50s and 1964 over Civil Rights, run by the Democrats. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the Democrats called it a victory since Johnson was Democrat. Another reason why I left that party. I was tired of helping to “dangle the chicken”.
#109

On January 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am, KCK said:

I Googled “Obama”, and it came back, “Did you mean ‘Osama?’”
#110

On January 5th, 2008 at 11:41 am, DBNinKY said:

As long as the NYT can apply the prism of racism to its interpretation of a U.S. election, conforming the results to flow into their myopic narrative of America as a white-male dominated society of perpetual injustice to all non-white males, then they will most assuredly do so and to no objective person’s surprise.
#111

On January 5th, 2008 at 2:42 pm, scooter56 said:

On January 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am, KCK said:

I Googled “Obama”, and it came back, “Did you mean ‘Osama?’”

so you can’t type…
#112

On January 5th, 2008 at 7:01 pm, RetFireman said:

The thing is, there is a select portion of this population that will automatiocally make it very uncomfortable for another portion of this country anytime they ask why they will not vote for Obama.

They will automatically turn it into a race issue. They will automatically make it all about the fact that the person isn’t voting for him because he is black, or half black or multi-racial or whatever.

No matter what reasons the one person gives, the other person will keep pressing with, “It’s because he’s BLACk, huh?” and that’s because in that person’s mind, everything that goes wroong, is automatically a race issue. Get a speeding ticket? Pulled over? busted for robbing thatt bank at gun point and taking that old lady hostage? All because these people were black, and not because they broke the law.

Also, it will remain a race issue, becase as soon as he is the presunptive nominee, then the MSM will do what they do best. Following the great job of creating his mystique and building him up, there will be select MSM outlets that will then go out and try to bring him down. They will attempt to find or create scandals or anything else in order to make this a “fun” and interesting campaign in order to sell ad space and commercials.

Thus, there will be calls that they are doing these things because he is black, crys of racism.

It is just that simple. It is how things are done in politics here in this country. He might as well get it over with and book a cruise on the “Monkey Business” now before he runs out of Damage Control time.
#113

On January 6th, 2008 at 6:17 pm, mpChops said:

“It is just that simple.”

And that’s the rub. Race relations in the US are everything but simple. To view it as a simple thing is to be either unaware or willfully ignore its effects.

Retfireman, you are knowledgeable about many things but this just isn’t want of them.
#114

On January 6th, 2008 at 6:17 pm, mpChops said:

“It is just that simple.”

And that’s the rub. Race relations in the US are everything but simple. To view it as a simple thing is to be either unaware or willfully ignore its effects.

Retfireman, you are knowledgeable about many things but this just isn’t want of them.
#115

On January 7th, 2008 at 3:26 am, RetFireman said:

I think you totally misunderstand what I am saying about it. I am saying watch how fast they turn on him. Watch how fast it all becomes about his race, and watch ho fast it turns racist. Watch how fast the MSM starts slipping in little shots here and there, little borderline things, and watch to see what is let go, what is not and who allows it to happen and by who. The race relations are not simple by any means. It is what the MSM is going to be doing that is.