Posted on 04/12/2007 10:33:35 PM PDT by jdm
“Why does everyone hate Pat ?”....perhaps because, no matter how often his “betters” smear, tar and feather, and attempt to lynch him he rightly or wrongly; according to ones perspective; grins, laughs and continues persuasively to speak his own mind.
I agree wholeheartedly. MSNBC should change its logo to HSAL — Hate Speech and Lies — that is all they have on the air from start to finish. CHris Matthews is a flat out liar, and his key “reporter” David Schuster has been caught in so many lies its incredible. The olberidiot is just that — an idiot who spews nothing but propaganda and hate from start to finish on his one hour show. MSNBC allows Fat Dim Russert on the air, the man who filed a false affidavit in the Libby case, with the knowledge of yet another rogue prosecutor (Fitzy).
The whole MSNBC agenda is hate speech; they whole channel should be canned, and everyone on it should be fired.
I think Buchanan has it wrong.The word that got him fired was probably “nappy”.That was the racist insult I think that upset the black people.
I think sending Imus to atone at the Governors mansion is hypocritical.Black people should be protesting in front of Russel Simmons mansion for putting on those vile videos and rap songs in the first place.
If I am ever accused of racism, please ask Pat Buchanan NOT to defend me.
Pat Buchanan gets it. He was always a great guest on the program.
I continue to wonder also.
“While I view at least half of everyone as idiots and/or knaves, here’s the image of blacks that blacks communicate to the world:
(1) Watts riots.
(2) Rodney King riots.
(3) In Wash D.C. the black mayor (M.B. was it?) was corrupt enough to manage to get himself put in jail. Yet, upon release, he was voted back in by the black populace.
(4) That blacks vote about 90% for Dems, almost in lockstep.
(5) That in Africa today, there is not one modern democracy or otherwise non-corrupt government in any black run country.”
Don’t forget that mess in New Orleans and all the race hustlers who defended the incompetence of the leadership and the actions of the ungovernable criminal element that took over the city after Katrina.
There are so many good people in the black community, it just makes me ill to see them ignored and these kinds of circumstances held up as honorable.
I’ve always considered Imus to be a self-serving, tasteless, blowhard, however, his comments were entirely within the context of the character that he has nurtured for years. This attack by Sharpton and Jesse is also in character with their own agendas. I don’t actually believe Imus to be a racist, he selected words that he thought the audience wanted to hear and was lynched for it.
I think he got a raw deal.
The media should embrace him again and see Sharpton and Jackson for what they actually are, opportunistic racists and hate-mongers who are still living in the 50s and 60s.
Doogle
I can agree with that.
My interests turn to people who comment and add substantive thought and content to the issues. In doing so, they put themselves out there and are easy targets for criticism and derision because none of us agrees with everything anyone says. But, people like Buchanan need to be recognized and respected, even though we may not always agree with them. For without commentators like Buchanan, Coulter, Boortz, Rosie, Carville and Franken, et al, we would be left with a politically correct echo chamber.
In essence, that is what upsets me about the Imus lynching. We need to protect the right of our opinion-editorial personalities to say stupid things.
Bttt
Not sure if it was the “nappy” or the fact that these girls were not really public figures. I mean, aren’t they people’s children at the end of the day?
Other than play basketball for the sake of getting a scholarship, and then play really well, they really didn’t do anything to put themselves in the political line of fire.
Had Imus’ remark been made about politcians or muscians or even professinal atheltes, perhaps it would not have resonated so negatively.
That much said, I still don’t think he should have been fired - although I do not like his show much.
Don Ho!
(5) is not quite fair: Botswana is the counter-example. Continuous constitutional democratic-republican form of government since independence in 1966, an independent judiciary, economic policies that have keep the economy growing in spite of having the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world. Of course, the track record of African government is still pretty dismal.
Don Ho!
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