Comments on: Race and the race: Will the MSM quit fear-mongering now? http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/ news and commentary from a conservative perspective Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:13:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Is Hillary going to win this thing? http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-213022 Hot Air » Blog Archive » Is Hillary going to win this thing? Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:28:46 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-213022 [...] Has the Second Coming of the Messiah already been aborted? And if so, how many times are we going to hear the “15 percent lie” cited as an explanation tomorrow? Looks like America might be racist again. [...] [...] Has the Second Coming of the Messiah already been aborted? And if so, how many times are we going to hear the “15 percent lie” cited as an explanation tomorrow? Looks like America might be racist again. [...]

]]> By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Is Hillary going to win this thing? http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-213023 Hot Air » Blog Archive » Is Hillary going to win this thing? Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:28:46 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-213023 [...] Has the Second Coming of the Messiah already been aborted? And if so, how many times are we going to hear the “15 percent lie” cited as an explanation tomorrow? Looks like America might be racist again. [...] [...] Has the Second Coming of the Messiah already been aborted? And if so, how many times are we going to hear the “15 percent lie” cited as an explanation tomorrow? Looks like America might be racist again. [...]

]]> By: RetFireman http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-211011 RetFireman Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:26:27 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-211011 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. 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.

]]> By: mpChops http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-210548 mpChops Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:17:32 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-210548 <blockquote>"It is just that simple."</blockquote> 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.

“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.

]]> By: mpChops http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-210549 mpChops Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:17:32 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-210549 <blockquote>"It is just that simple."</blockquote> 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.

“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.

]]> By: RetFireman http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209803 RetFireman Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:01:45 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209803 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. 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.

]]> By: scooter56 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209664 scooter56 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:42:41 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209664 <blockquote> On January 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am, KCK said: I Googled “Obama”, and it came back, “Did you mean ‘Osama?’” </blockquote><blockquote> so you can't type...

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…

]]> By: DBNinKY http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209580 DBNinKY Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:41:35 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209580 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. 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.

]]> By: KCK http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209563 KCK Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:04:15 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209563 I Googled "Obama", and it came back, "Did you mean 'Osama?'" I Googled “Obama”, and it came back, “Did you mean ‘Osama?’”

]]> By: graysonret http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209497 graysonret Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:45:03 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209497 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". 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”.

]]> By: jamesgreenidge http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209493 jamesgreenidge Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:49:20 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209493 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 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

]]> By: AlturaCt http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209477 AlturaCt Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:42:11 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209477 <blockquote>The only racism left in the USA is in the imagination of the leftist media.</blockquote> 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!

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!

]]> By: AlturaCt http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209471 AlturaCt Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:17:51 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209471 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... 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…

]]> By: Blind_Mule http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209427 Blind_Mule Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:17:06 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209427 <blockquote>zorro said: The only racism left in the USA is in the imagination of the leftist media.</blockquote> Ding, Ding, Ding, Bingo and of course JJJEsse JJJackson, Al Shamepton, Louie Fartaquan etc...

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…

]]> By: scooter56 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/comment-page-2/#comment-209388 scooter56 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:37:38 +0000 http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/04/race-and-the-race-will-the-msm-quit-fear-mongering-now/#comment-209388 <blockquote>A more legitimate argument is about how prevalent it is. Exactly how many “beentheres” are there in America.</blockquote> 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.

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.

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