A mighty pale newspaper
This is Charles Blow. Blow is an African-American columnist for the New York Times. He flew down to the Dallas Tea Party to see what he could see. He saw what he wanted to see and he might as well have used the new smear term from Tea Party-bashers that I noted last week: “Tea Klanners.”
The title of his screed? “A mighty pale tea.”
Blow used his column from his hallowed perch at the Times to malign minority conservatives as minstrel tokens and puppets for the movement. How…original. He singled out my friend Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel — the young, delightfully talented conservative comedian — and essentially accused every non-white activist who opposes endless bailouts, massive new entitlements, and Obama’s culture of corruption of being incapable of thinking for himself/herself:
The juxtaposition was striking: an abundance of diversity on the stage and a dearth of it in the crowd, with the exception of a few minorities like the young black man who carried a sign that read “Quit calling me a racist.”
They saved the best for last, however: Alfonzo “Zo” Rachel. According to his Web site, Zo, who is black and performs skits as “Zo-bama,” allowed drugs to cost him “his graduation.” Before ripping into the president for unconstitutional behavior, he cautioned, “I don’t have the education that our president has, so if I misinterpret some things in the founding documents I kind of have an excuse.” That was the understatement of the evening.
I found the imagery surreal and a bit sad: the minorities trying desperately to prove that they were “one of the good ones”; the organizers trying desperately to resolve any racial guilt among the crowd. The message was clear: How could we be intolerant if these multicolored faces feel the same way we do?
It was a farce.
You want “farce?” I’ve pointed out many times over the years that the loudest preachers of skin-deep diversity work for media institutions that fail to practice their own social engineering sermons.
See, for example: The indelible whiteness of MSNBC.
Or: White anchor at indelibly white network decries “white tribalism”.
Or: Let’s make a holiday gift guide for New York Times executives.
In that last post, I poked fun at the Times for publishing a separate but equal gift guide for people “of color” — and pointed to the Fishwrap of Record’s own “practice diversity as we say, not as we do” philosophy as illustrated by its own board of directors:
I noted then that the NYTimes editorial board is similarly complected.
Blow, of course, is silent on the tokenism practiced by his mighty pale newspaper.
And as Tom Maguire at Just One Minute notes, by the Times’ own measure, the Tea Party movement is “a lot more diverse than the Times Board.”
Live by bean-counting, die by bean-counting. The monochromatically-dominated liberal media never learn.
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Related: Do these two “doughy white men” not realize how asinine they are?
Bill Maher and Chris Matthews, on Wednesday’s Hardball, denigrated Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann as merely “attractive” women with very little smarts with the HBO host even going as far to use a vulgar euphemism to describe them as he claimed: “They’re attractive especially to the Republican Party, which is not known as a party that really does well with the opposite sex. Usually they’re doughy white men and I think they look on Michele Bachmann and, and Sarah Palin, as you know, M.I.L.Fs and I agree, they’re Morons I’d Like to Forget.”
I mean, really. Can you get any “whiter” or “doughier” than those two?
Oh, wait.
Yes. Yes, you can.
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Update: Listen to Blow(hard) make a fool of himself on the Laura Ingraham show.
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Heh, MM, great take down. Would this article be a NYT minstrel show?
Percent black in US population = 12 %
Percent black who vote conservative = 10 percent.
Percent of US population black and vote conservative = 0.12 * 0.10 = 0.012 or 1.2 percent.
Another low Blow…
It’s all part of the increasingly tedious and predictable campaign to demonize Republicans. Clinton’s on his 15th Anniversary Tour of the Oklahoma City bombing and Byron York has pointed out the Dick Morris-designed game plan.
Great work Michelle, kudos. Nice smackdown.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
-John F. Kennedy
If someone is worried by the number of non-white faces in a crowd, then they need to ask the non-white faced people for the reason instead of insinuating the white faced people are guilty of some unspoken crime.
Instead of going to the source to find the truth of their suspicions, the racist draws his own conclusion, which by default is racist, hence the suspicion of racism.
Unbelievable, but unfortunately, true.
I hope they keep it up. They alienate more and more people everyday. By November it will be a landslide for REAL conservatives.
Perhaps Mr. Blow (wow!he’s got quite a surname, doen’t he?)just didn’t get his when he wanted it and is throwing a temper tantrum about it. Blow’s article is really no different than that NBC tool asking a black guy he had singled out if he felt uncomfortable participating in a Tea Party rally.
It’s funny how the so-called denouncers of racism practice it themselves.
Just another “man bites dog” story about the mainstream media. We know they’re biased, they know they’re biased, the whole world knows they’re biased, except for the Clintons, who think they’re “right of center”.
Unfortunately, they seem to be the majority of those who practice racism these days.
I see very little racism among whites, but an overwhelming majority of the black community do not see their own racism and are likely to never see it as long as we “tolerate” the smear merchants.
Bingo, JamieD.
Most liberals aren’t evil but the facist racism that infects them, is.
Why call him “African-American”?
I don’t know for sure, but he’s likely a natural born citizen of the United States, and may have never even been to Africa.
So again, why call him “African-American”?
Add the entitlement mentality into the mix and you have a tough nut to crack. But I have confidence that once the smear merchants are removed, this country can begin to eliminate the racist hammer and work towards the true “enlightenment” of conservative living.
Why doesn’t the NYT board — or its editorial page commentators — look like New York. For example, I notice a serious dearth of Puerto Ricans.
I first posted the following on March 19, 2008
False charges of racism are a necessary diversion to give cover for their transformation of the country to socialism and then communism.
I agree. Socialism stands on the “divide and conquer” mentality of dividing and conquering the structure of civilization in order to facilitate its rebuilding into the ruling class and the ruled.
If Charles Blow was a conservative journalist, I know the sexual innuendo that little Anderson Vanderbilt-Cooper would be tee-heeing about with his CNN buddies, had Blow done a similar job on the anti-Tea Party movement.
When the DNC read the article, they immediate patted Charles Blow on the head and said “Good dog”…
…one of them gave him a cookie…
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Zo absolutely ROCKS!
And what he said at the Dallas Tea Party absolutely, positively hit the nail on the head:
Zo, like Ronald Reagan, clearly shows how to fight the Evil Empire and win!
OF COURSE the NYT can’t stand him!
Charles Blow,
You should have listened to Zo when he said:
He described you perfectly, didn’t he Charles?!
Charles Blow,
You really should also pay attention to Alan West.
Because if Michelle had said blow was a “black” man, there would be hair pulling and shrieking of “RAAAAAAACIST!!!” all over the blogosphere.
I can’t believe yer givin her guff over being policially correct. Or is that a new libtard tactic? Saying only libtards can be PC and common sense folks are just racists?
Classic case of the pot calling the kettle black. Yeah, I said it!
According to Mr. Blow himself, black folks can’t think for themselves. I guess one writes from the perspective one knows.
If it’s Blow’s job to be absurd, he succeeded.
Since Africa is believed to be the cradle of all human development the term Afican-American has little real meaning as a differentiating term. Why don’t we start using more descriptive terms that transcend race like Productive-Americans and Parasitic-Americans.
Mr Blow, I assume you have ancestors who were forced on to the plantation. Isn’t it time for you to leave?
I would comment but we self-loathing minorities do not know our own minds-a white guy at the NYT told me so.
Damn but I do hate these condescending Liberals. Bill Maher’s nose is what some call a “four knuckle”.
Ha! Nearly spilled my coffee reading that one.
As for these vulgar, race sensitive liberal/journalist, well, they’ve demonstrated their ignorance time and again, I pray God grant them the strength to educate themselves so they can stop embarrassing their employers and our country.
I’m sorry to say that race-baiting the NYT in return will not be effective, nor is it particularly desirable. It’s long overdue to show what pernicious and destructive forces diversity-worship and multiculturalism have been in this country. While their hypocrisy is amusing, it’s important to reject the basic tenets of their religion.
Always use a covered cup here-these keyboards are a bear to clean
Don’t you just hate these ignorant people who can’t figure out the KKK was the Democrat party terror group. Yep, lynching and all, Democrats.
It’s really amazing how dumb Democrats are.
What, you didn’t think Abe Lincoln started the KKK. How funny
Another NYT ‘Blow’ job.
Well Blow, what’s he misinterpreted?
These trained journalists do understand that just throwing out an accusation with no evidence really isn’t an argument at all, right? They are so lazy and arrogant they think that just throwing around accusations and making snarky insinuations actually proves something. Most people expect a little more before accepting an argument.
Seriously, when it comes to “doughy” what does Bill Maher see when he looks in the mirror? He’s like the poster boy for “doughy white boys”. Bill Clinton also comes to mind.
In contrast to Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, Chris Matthews and Bill Maher are NEITHER attractive nor intelligent. Glibness doesn’t translate into intelligence or, God forbid, wisdom. They are two bigoted, white, closed-minded males, and emblematic of what passes for intelligence on the Left. They are the liberal elite. As for Mr. Charles Blow, talk about feeling like a token or minstrel in the all-white fish wrap of record…
One word…bleck.
I can’t look at or watch these people..it’s against my religion.
Could be worse, instead of Charles Blow it could be Chuck Suck!
Very simple, Mr Blow is a hater. All libs are filled with uncontrollable hate.
When you are filled with hate you cannot think clearly. Enough said……..
A similar smackdown (with a clever title) can be found here:
http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode111.htm
Another day another story from the Ministry of Media….
The enlightened and elite…ACK!
So where indeed do the Times and MSNBC keep the black faces? The mailroom? The janitor’s closet? I guess Blow’s job is to add a little chiaroscuro to the otherwise “high-keyed palette” at the Times? (How do you like my emphasized sexual innuendo, Olberman? I don’t hear you tittering now.) Like with most liberals, and especially those with money, their sanctimonious utterances give them cover and a sense of superiority to hide the fact that their own sheltered lives rarely have to brush against the less fortunate, joe sixpack, or the “street”.
It is going to get worse. Be prepared. Will peak prior to 2012 not 2010 but will grow and grow. The left is not going to walk away or bow out gracefully.
We will have a country that needs to be put back together after 2012 and will need to be because of the divisiveness of the left.
I watched that video of Mathhew and Maher and I was reminded of the muppets Statler and Waldorf, the two ornery old men fro continuously snipe and cackle in the theater balcony. (My apologies to the muppets for the negative comparison)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14njUwJUg1I
Just wondering, isn’t this NYT article racist? Can’t we start throwing that back at them?
What if I was a rock n roll music reviewer and I went to a James Brown memorial concert and my review was basically there were a whole lot of black people there?
Wouldn’t I be accused of being a racist?
They should add Michelle and all of us to the list too. I’ll be proud to be counted.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/04/18/time-s-klein-beck-palin-potentially-committing-sedition-against-u-s-gover
The cradle of civilization was Sumeria, in the “fertile crescent” of the Tigris-Euphrates flood plain, modern Iraq. Don’t fall into the PC claptrap of revisionism.
Wasn’t that the main reason we were supposed to vote for Obama? Mr. Blow, look around you at the NYT and tell us you’re not the “token” trying to prove you’re a good one.
…and unfortunately that’s what is attractive to many black people. Some want to feel superior and if aligned with the left it affords them this rationale. It’s OK to be self-righteous when your a lefty. I work with a man who is black and he is the epitomy of this rational – he just doesn’t know it. He’s a slave to his own race but it’s because he choses to be and is intellectually dishonest about it. I know I’m just being racist.
Others are hard working, raising their families, trying to make ends meet… in between attending tea parties.
As long as it pays to play the race card, it will be played. That is why the Steele apology to the black Congressmen was so destructive. Had Steele called them out and backed them off, then the race card would not have worked. We have to stop coddling race baiters.
One other thing. When individuals like Blow play the race card, they are only looking for one color – black. Anyone who is Asian, HIspanic, American Indian, etc is conveniently forgotten.
ROFLMAO!!
Yes, that’s the world where race has nothing to do with anything. Just the way it ought to be.
“The depth and breadth of reporting….
the insight.
The best reporters in the world work for the Times… and … there’s no denying that.”
How many sections are you fluent in Blow?
Here’s a little “racial reality” for the race baiting leftie haters.
The largest demographic percentage in the Republican Party isn’t white? Why don’t we hear this in the MSM?
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/hfontova/2010/04/19/gloria-estefan-our-gloria-betrays-cuban-fans-jumps-on-obama-bandwagon/#more-335354
Obama knows Blow…
and Blow knows Obama!
The democrats are always promoting that they are for the minorities, yet, their history shows that they want to put them down. Blacks, for example, were much better off in the ’50s than they are today; thanks to the democrats and their welfare and social programs. Unemployment and illegitimate births are soaring. Schools stink and neighborhoods are crime infested. I remember Walter Williams commenting that it was safer in the black neighborhoods, in the ’50s, that it was in the white neighborhoods. I believe that, having talked to many elderly blacks recently.
In and of itself a blatantly racist statement.
Same Alinsky tactics that have cowed the majority of this country into not questioning the Ineligible One.
His father was a foreign national and no one has the guts to say that makes him ineligible.
Uphold the Constitution or forfeit it.
Of all the institutions and organizations in the USA, I wonder the % of all white v.s. all black.
I should have said much earlier that I think Michelle’s post is excellent.
My only question/complaint was:
I’m surprised that Michelle called him that.
I would have thought she would have called him an “American”.
(Remember: My race is “American”?)
Yes, Mr. Blow a black American, but the only reason skin color is even an issue here is because this author of a NYT “teabagger Blow job” made an issue about skin color, and apparently was intolerant of our diversity:
The one who was intolerant of those multicolored faces was Mr. Blow.
The black trying desperately to prove to his white masters that he is “one of the good ones” is not Zo, it’s Blow.
Zo Rocks.
Blow Sucks.
Bill Maher and Chris Matthews – 2 sacks of trash somebody should have dumped long ago. They disgust me.
RE:Times and zero blacks on BOD. Times is full of politically correct hypocrites. That being said, I am against affirmative action.
Just say NO to Blow.
Not that it needs any help, but conservatives should alienate the MSM until they dry up and fade away. Marginalize them the same way the libs and their mouth pieces in the press marginalize conservatives.
Their insulting portrayal of everyday citizens showing their displeasure with government should not go unpunished.
Since journalism was in its death throes during the last presidential election and is taking its last breath, we should bury it and support any sincere efforts by new journalism startups who are attempting to get back to their journalistic basics.
Bill Maher must be a very unhappy man – nasty disposition.
I grew up in the turbulent 60′s, and felt one heart with black people in the civil rights era, when things were truly unequal, and black grievances were truly justified. However, after 30-40 years of relative equality, and the chance to advance their people’s cause of equality of opportunity and access to advancement, blacks must be internally mortified to see what a self-imposed mess the black community is. This is the 2-ton elephant in the room every time a black person makes baseless charges of racism, or the lily whiteness of the Tea Party, as the reason for the putrid state of affairs in black America. I really dont think that even they believe it; but it sure tastes better than looking inward, and holding your own people accountable.
However, we can never win this battle of demagoguery and race politics with the morally bankrupt left; and their co-conspirators in the corrupt media, so we should not focus on it. Let’s just focus on getting as many of these filthy liberal snakes out of the Congress in November, as we can.
Another leftist buzz word “sad.” It’s all soooo….saaaaadddd.
On April 19th, 2010 at 9:55 am, jangar said:
In more ways than one!
Obama has never given an alibi to explain where he was during the time that Larry Sinclair claims he shared two types of “blow” with Obama.
Some black people do not want equality. They want superiority. Notgonnahappen.
He simply has the same deplorable trait as do most lefty elitists: insufferable immense arrogance without an ounce of humility; thinking they are the smartest people on the planet, and the rest of us are just poor dumb schmucks who need to be told what to do for our own good. Ive heard Mahr on his HBO show (for as long as I can stomach watching him), and his arguments, as are most arguments by liberals, are puddle deep in logic and intelligence.
On April 19th, 2010 at 9:29 am, jsmiddleton4 said:
YES.
You make an excellent analogy to help people see that it is
Mr. Blow himself who is the intolerant racist.
When a liberal reporter goes out of their way to find a non-white person at at a Tea Party event and ask them pointed, race-based questions, can anyone tell me why this is any different from type of racial profiling Progressive claim to abhor?
These reporters act as if they have run across some “uppity darky who has wondered away from the planation and is questioning the massa’s wisdom.”
Boy that’s “progressive.” The “civil rights movement of 2010. Imagine those conservative blacks thinking on their own. That’s like the darkies in 1941 in Tuskegee actually thinking they could fly a fighter plane in combat! /sarc
The difference in attitude between people like Chalres Blow and a true believer in Hitler’s SS is ZERO.
The only uppity darky is Blow.
A black fellow called into a local radio station last week.
The subject was racism and Tea Parties. He told the hosts that he is black and a conservative. He did not vote for BHO but plans to in 2012. Reason; all the “new” interest in the founding fathers and their beliefs. He felt they were racist because of the 3/5′s Compromise made at the Constitutional Convention (slaves counted as 3/5′s). He thought the founding fathers only thought of “him” as 3/5′s a person.
I had never considered the modern day sensitivity to this specific piece of history. I know it’s time to move on but I like hearing specific reasons why black folks are still angry/wounded/etc. Then there can be an attempt to clarify the reasons behind these events.
Wish we had more real dialog v.s. Blow, Jackson and Sharpton same-o-same-o.
Michelle; the incredible being of lightness consistently proclaiming all other caucasians are racist, sexist, homophobes, neanderthals, knuckledragging morons and on their bad days, CONSERVATIVES AND REPUBLICANS! I saw Mr smarther than everyone because I am a Boston Liberal Mathews whip his diatribe on Zell Miller, and I thought Miller was going to fly to wherever Mathews was and beat his a**.
How about this Asian woman Malkin who can’t seem to figure out that she is an oppressed victim of white society. She has the audacity to think for herself and be successful. Truly a dangerous phenomenon.
That said, Maher and Matthews returned to their other preoccupation, braiding each other’s back hair.
ooooops…….typo
I can’t help but think that the more the MORONS in MSM malign and denigrate the REAL CITIZENS of this GREAT COUNTRY, the more they are FEARFUL of the November elections… I really believe, if they had some way to CANCEL the elections, they would do it…
Unlikely, as the two have been known to trade bikini wax recipes.
Oh, they shouldn’t be talking about looks. You’d need to tie a bone around their necks to get a dog to play with them. It’ssosad!
Why would ANYONE BUY HBO and send Mahr money?
Cancel HBO!
We cancelled for that very reason.
For many, many, years the lame stream has unfairly labeled Repubs racist, mean spirited, you know, fill in your own favorite left wing smear. But the earth has shifted and Libs don’t realize the quake has exposed their lies. That quake is TV, internet, videos. All my life Dems have denied minorities equal rights (see Faubus, Wallace, Lester Maddox, Civil War, Thurmond, Byrd—You get the idea. Now through these new media people can see and hear who are the Tea Party folks, who tries to infiltrare them, Clinton’s stupid logic on violence, all the hatred spewed at GWB, Michelle Malkin, Sarah, Bachman etc. Limbaugh and Beck I listen to every day and have yet to hear them say anything hateful. But have seen the terrible posters, saw the infiltrator at the St Louis Tea Party and been around enough liberals to hear all their false charges but NEVER any FACTS about issues- only emotion and hatred from their face and lips.
You are going to cancel HBO because you object to one hour out of 168 a week? Yeesh. Do you not watch Fox News because you don’t like Geraldo?
Not every city can be chocolate like New Orleans. As a matter of fact, whites make up 75+% nationally with blacks and latinos getting around 10+% each. If the tea looks a bit white, it’s because it reflects the real America. As much as certain truly racist people and organizations would like to pull out the tired old race card, that dog just don’t hunt.
I guess you have a problem with that too huh Chap. sosad.
PS – I don’t pay for fox, but I do pay for HBO…just not anymore.
I have been to one major tea party rally in DC. Out of the hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters, I saw one Asian person and one black person (Lloyd Marcus). Certainly no where near 25%. No doubt there were more sprinkled throughout, and no doubt there are thousands of Tea Party supporters out there that are not white.
But it would be absurd to say that the Tea Party movement is not primarily made up of whites or even not disproportionately white.
The question is if that fact matters.
On April 19th, 2010 at 11:02 am, GladzKravtz said:
That’s a faulty conclusion.
I know the shortcomings of Wikipedia, but I still found this helpful.
The Northern states wanted the Southern states to free their slaves. The Northern states tried to penalize the Southern states for keeping them enslaved. Some of the same issues that contributed to the Civil War in 1863 were present decades earlier at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The fact that the delegates chose compromise in 1787 does not mean that every founder viewed slaves as 3/5 of a person.
I think that caller was what they call a “Moby”… a liberal who pretends to be a “concerned conservative”. But either way, his conclusion is faulty.
So my opinion doesn’t matter unless I get a majority of black people to agree with me?
The Leftwing Race Obsessors (sorry, redundant terminology) might have some credence on this issue someday, if the time ever comes when “black folk” stop reflexively voting for Obama at a rate exceeding 90% because he’s….; oh, I don’t know… because he’s “black”, maybe?
Gee, ya think that’s why “d’ay do d’at”, ya think????
But only caucasians are “racist”, of course.
Of course there’s racism involved in this story, it’s just that it’s coming from exactly the opposite direction that the Professional Race Whiners would have everyone believe.
Actually, it’s a non-issue. Any race can be a conservative, anyone can join and are always welcome. We must stop allowing the left to dictate the argument. This doesn’t deserve our attention.