Dateline MSNBC series, with host Chris Hansen, “To Catch A Predator,” is known for its undercover sting operation to catch those sick individuals that prey on our youth via the internet. But did you know that MSNBC is now engaged in a scheme to protect our president? Yes, they are on "racism patrol," staking out protests and criticism so that they can catch themselves some racists!
"To Catch a Racist" hosts include Keith Olbermann (brainchild of “Worst Persons”) and his sidekick, Janeane Garofalo (brainless), as well as Dylan Ratigan, Chris Matthews, and others. The latest is Nora O'Donnell, who attempted a "got a racists" outside shot.
The left-wing media is relentless with their talking "race baiting" heads and not only are they trying to capture any "sign" of racism, they are targeting African-American citizens to make sure they are safe.
Kelly O'Donnell, an NBC reporter, confronted Darryl Postell at the April 15, 2010 Tax Day Tea Party rally in Washington D.C. O’Donnell's question, “There aren’t a lot of African-American men at these events, have you ever felt uncomfortable?” Postell responded, “No, no, these are my people…Americans.”
It turns out Postell is a retired Air Force veteran and appeared on Fox News to talk about this incident. Gretchen Carlson asked why he attended the rally and Postell answered, "I care about the country and I know the direction that most tea partiers are moving in and they care about liberty and government intrusion, so I just wanted to go and be a part if it."
Lloyd Marcus, a black conservative and Tea Party rock star, is on the left-wing media's radar and on his website journals some of his interviews — more like interrogations, with the hopes that Marcus will ID the racists.
At the April 15th Tax Day Tea Party, Marcus was ambushed by a reporter for Ebony (a prominent national black magazine), who according to Marcus, asked him "the same two questions every other reporter has asked;" 'Are the tea parties racist?' 'Why are blacks not attending?' Marcus explained to the reporter, "the Tea Party movement is not about race, but about stopping an out-of-control administration from pushing our country towards socialism." Frustratingly, the Ebony magazine reporter replied, 'So why do you hate Barack Obama?' The reporter asked again, 'Are these rallies racist?' Marcus notes that it was if the reporter never heard a word he said.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Joanne Huspek
MSNB-Who? They should take your suggestion on the reality show. Their ratings suck (could it be because of the programming? ya think?) and they could use a kick in the pants to jump start their blahs.
2 - Jordan Richardson
For a network with ratings so consistently "in the toilet," they sure do a decent job riling up the righties.
3 - Ruvy
Christine,
From what little I see of American media (and I do try to see as little of it as I can), they are no better than the left-wing scum in what passes for the lame stream media here.
A lot of the stuff you talk about (American racism) is something I can no longer relate to.
Using charges of racism to shut someone up is an old Stalinist tactic. That I can relate to. The Wahhabi scum and their running dog Jewish (liberal) apologists here do it all the time. We nationalists are just learning how to do it ourselves. It's an enjoyable experience to turn that weapon on our tormentors.
4 - Jordan Richardson
You've obviously been seeing enough American media to catch a fair bit of Sarah Palin's Palinisms, eh Ruvy? "Lame stream media?"
Come on.
5 - Ruvy
You've obviously been seeing enough American media to catch a fair bit of Sarah Palin's Palinisms, eh Ruvy?
Since I see Palin as the best of a bad lot, I make exceptions for her and read her Facebook comments and listen to her speeches.
But I'm a socialist, not a right winger, and much of what she says in terms of American internal policy leaves me cold and grateful I no longer live there. Between fascists who are spending America into a toilet, and anti-fascists who would leave the poorer poorer off (no solution for avoiding that toilet yet, though), the choices look pretty dismal for the Americans.
6 - roger nowosielski
Ours is a "left-wing scum" but Ruvy's brand of socialism is OK.
I guess you just can't help yourself, Ruvy, can you, hurling insults at the people rather than at their government. And you wonder why you're being turned off.
How many comments have you generated by your latest, rather reasonable article? Two or three?
7 - Glenn Contrarian
Christine -
Jesus once said, "By their works shall ye know them."
Witness the immigration law just passed in Arizona.
Witness the near-total lack of brown-skinned people in photos of Tea Party rallies...and see how the few minorities who are there, are specifically targeted for camera shots. Far more telling are the shots of the overall crowds - almost completely lily-white.
Witness the total of FOUR African-American legislators elected by Republicans since 1901...and NONE since 2003 (which is before the time that Obama's name was well-known nationwide).
Christine, we all know most Republicans are not particularly racist...but the above FACTS show that racist whites are FAR more comfortable among Republicans than among Democrats. What really sucks for the Tea Party crowd is their mass case of denial by pretending that racists who show up at Tea Party rallies must be liberal plants, because gosh-gee-willy, there's no racists among us good white folks!
YES, there's racists among every color, but political rallies that contain lots of people of EVERY color are always, always, ALWAYS less racist than political rallies that are fully or almost fully people of ONE color.
This is one argument you can't win. All you're doing is showing your ignorance of race relations and your clinical case of denial of the problems that exist among the Republicans and in the Tea Party crowds.
I hear your rhetoric, but I pay much more attention to what I see with my own eyes. "By their works shall ye know them."
8 - Baronius
Glenn, you count brown faces in a crowd shot? That's disturbing.
9 - Jamison
@Glen
"Witness the immigration law just passed in Arizona."
How is that racist?
Arizona didn't invent the law that you had to be in this country legally. The federal goverment you bow down to did. Arizona has just finally decided to enforce it.
Do you ever leave the house without ID? Legal immagrants shouldn't either. How is that racist?
A guy gets pulled over for speeding. He is asked for ID, he has none. He doesnt speak english. He is asked for proof of insurance. He has none. The plates on the car are expired. In your mind, the next logical step is 'let him go'? or would it be "Gee, I wonder if they are breaking the law by being here illegal?"
How dare you use the words of Jesus to promote your leftist race-baiting hysteria. I take personal offense at that. Jesus welcomed all. SO does America. Jesus never broke laws nor encouraged his followers to. "Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasars." If "Ceasars" law was to deport people in a country illgally, I am pretty sure Jesus wouldn't be cool with that. The Bible also encourages followers to obey the law of the land. Illegals aren't doing that.
And man, get a life. You are SO OBSESSED with race it's sad. I have been to tea parties, even the biggest one in DC. Didn't see ONE RACISTS SIGN, saw LOTS OF BLACKS, saw HOMOSEXUALS, saw LATINOS.
Whatever you see from your MSNBC colored glasses is NOT the real world. Stop seeing color man, and see Americans.
10 - EJ
I'd like to know what the hell an "African American" is. Are you talking about people of the black race? I know several people from Africa who could be considered "African American", but they're white. The only thing that using a PC term like that does is make you sound like an ignorant and stupid fool.
11 - EJ
In addition, if we're supposed to be able to see past the color of your skin, why do you liberals constantly bring it up? I honestly don't care what race you are, it's character and personality that I care about. You people are the real racists because you just can't seem to stop pointing out race whenever something happens that you don't like. If a white cop stops a black person for speeding you scream racism. If someone doesn't the the fact that Obama is president, you sceam racism. You should try shutting up about race.
12 - Glenn Contrarian
Jamison -
Okay, you say there's LOTS of blacks at Tea Party rallies...and since there's so many right-wing sites with pictures of Tea Party rallies, how about you do a little RESEARCH (like I did) and find a picture of a crowd at a Tea Party that's even five percent minority.
That's a picture of the CROWD, Jamison. Not a group, but a CROWD of at least 100 or more. And don't try to pretend those pictures aren't there - there's plenty of pictures of crowds at Tea Parties.
I hear your testimony, but I trust my eyes more than I trust your rhetoric. Show me the PROOF.
I'm looking forward to your reply.
13 - Dan
"How dare you use the words of Jesus to promote your leftist race-baiting hysteria"---Jamison
Amen. One of the more sleezy manipulations to justify liberal hate.
14 - Glenn Contrarian
Baronius and EJ -
Address the following point:
Witness the total of FOUR African-American legislators elected by Republicans since 1901...and NONE have served since 2003 (which is before the time that Obama's name was well-known nationwide)
So...considering the fact that African-American families tend to the conservative side on issues (witness the vote in CA's Prop. 8), why the dearth of black Republican congresspersons?
15 - Dr Dreadful
For people who claim that race isn't or shouldn't be a big deal (I agree), Jamison and EJ sure do get pretty frickin' upset about it.
16 - EJ
We're upset because people like Glenn make a big deal of something that shouldn't be an issue. So what if there were only 4 Republican congressmen? Why are you so concerned about race that you have to find a racist problem with everything? Just leave the issue alone, and we'll leave it alone. We should be united as a country, and as Americans, not "African Americans", "Mexican Americans", Asian Americans", "Irish Americans", or any other hyphenated names like that. By making those disctintions, you only serve to make people think that race matters; and it doesn't matter.
17 - Cannonshop
#14 He's gotta run, first, Glenn. Secondly, while the majority of black families may be conservative on social issues, they're largely yellow-dog democrat everywhere else.
Nobody wants to be labeled an 'Uncle Tom' after all.
It's only in places like Oklahoma, where the culture's actually progressed beyond Tammany Hall that you get gentlemen like J.C. Watts. In the urban coastal cesspits Race will be forever more important than character, resulting in things like the distinguished male model and newsreader in the white-house.
18 - roger nowosielski
In that case, EJ, the Tea Party ought to be speaking on behalf of all Americans?
Have they? Do they?
19 - Andy Marsh
I just love comment #7. Look at all the pictures with no people of color...now look at the pictures of people of color...kinda damned if you do and damned if you don't!
Of course we're all racists, that's why the dems are getting back at us with a tax on tanning beds! You'll show all us white folk won't you?
20 - roger nowosielski
Hillarious, Andy. A tax on tanning does like membership dues in a private club, doesn't it?
21 - EJ
@ 18, the Tea Party speaks on behalf of a lot of Americans. But you know that's not what I was talking about. If it was, we should only have one political party, right? It doesn't matter what your race is, I'll either like or dislike you based on your actions and character, not race. I really don't give a damn if you're white, I won't like you if you support illegal immigration. Nor would I give a damn if you're black, if you support reparations against white people for the slavery of the 19th century I won't like you.
22 - roger nowosielski
Well, EJ. Perhaps you were not addressing this, but this was the object of contention - that the teapartiers, perhaps because of their composition, reflect and express views - at least insofar as health insurance goes - which run contrary to the views held by the poor, the black, the unemployed.
As per the most recent NYT polls, they were better educated and more well-to-do than average Americans. Are they a majority? I have no way of knowing. But to speak on behalf of all those who might stand to benefit from Obamacare, definitely they did not.
23 - zingzing
ej: "I'd like to know what the hell an "African American" is."
they are the descendants of the african slaves we hauled over here from the 17th-19th centuries, who, in the process of enslavement, lost much of their african culture, religion and customs. in america, under slavery and then in quasi-freedom and then in freedom itself, they developed their own unique hybrid culture and identity that fused together their disparate african roots into an "american" whole, and which differs from every other black culture in the world, african or diaspora.
also, that was probably the most moronic question i've ever seen.
24 - EJ
Maybe not, butyou have no way of knowing that the hold to views which "run contrary to the views held by the poor, the black, and the unemployed" either. Nor do you, desipite what any polls say, have any way of knowing the economic or educational composition of the Tea Party movement.
25 - EJ
@23
So what if they're decendants? I'm part Irish and part Mexican. Maybe I should call myself an Irish-Mexican-American?
If they were born here in the United States, they're Americans, not Africans or African Americans. And African is NOT a race, it's a nationality. There are plenty of people who are Africans who are white. Nor is American a race. It's a nationality. The term African American is a confusion of races and nationalities created to be politically correct.