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Dan Rather Stumbles, Chris Matthews Fumbles Over Watermelons and Racism
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| 03/12/10
| Rhonda Robinson
Posted on 03/12/2010 5:42:08 PM PST by Rhonda Robinson
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To: Rhonda Robinson
To: Rhonda Robinson
If Bush said the same thing, Rather would be the first to pounce, and the last to shut up.
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posted on
03/12/2010 5:46:52 PM PST
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: fatnotlazy
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posted on
03/12/2010 5:47:28 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: Rhonda Robinson
Don't know why, but
Blazing Saddles comes to mind;
"Where 'da white weman at?"
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posted on
03/12/2010 5:49:18 PM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Talisker
Bush would never say it. He isn’t a closet racist like Dan Rather.
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posted on
03/12/2010 5:50:54 PM PST
by
Carling
(I'm a neo-McCartyite ... Obama is a Communist.)
To: Rhonda Robinson
Personally I thought Matthews attempted rescue was more telling than Rather’s stupid comment.
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:07:32 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Rhonda Robinson
Sorry but I grew up in rural Texas and never heard the saying. I honestly don’t believe Dan is a racist by any stretch but he would throw around the term about Republicans w/o hesitation.
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:07:32 PM PST
by
wireplay
To: Rhonda Robinson
a fail + another fail = one large fail
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:07:34 PM PST
by
cranked
To: Rhonda Robinson
How can you prevent a fool from making a fool of himself?
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:07:55 PM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Goneril and Regan are running the U.S., and they're doing their best to silence Cordelia.)
To: Rhonda Robinson
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:08:49 PM PST
by
Dewey Revoltnow
(Worst. Community. Organizer. Ever!)
To: Dewey Revoltnow
To: Overtaxed Patriot
To: Rhonda Robinson
One might feel inclined to cut Dan Rather a bit of slack because of his age. On thinking back over his career and the power of his media, it is only just to review the man's mental outlook. Tragically as we all know President Kennedy was assassinated. A school principle decided to quietly close his school for the day. He deemed it better to let the kids go home and find out from their parents about the death. He then announced the school would be closed and the children could go home. The kids unknowing of the facts- naturally cheered.
Now to Dan Rather. He went on the air and said the kids at the Dallas school had cheered when they heard about the death of Kennedy and could go home.
I will not mince words. Either cheap shoddy sensationalist journalism, or a best a stupid bigoted conclusion.
To: norraad; All
"Don't know why, but Blazing Saddles comes to mind;" "Where 'da white weman at?"
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:22:17 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: fatnotlazy
"Dan who?"
Dan RathEr
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:49:22 PM PST
by
SeattleBruce
(God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
To: Rhonda Robinson
I was talking about Obama and health care and I used the analogy of selling watermelons by the side of the road. Its an expression that stretches to my boyhood roots in Southeast Texas, when country highways were lined with stands manned by sellers of all races.”
“Furthermore, when I suggested that the president might try entertaining us with a verse from, “Camptown Racetrack”, well, I defy anyone to deny that we have no horses in Texas. Here, I’ll start us off: `De Camptown racetrack be five mile long, doo dah, doo dah’
Now how can that be wrong, I ask you.”
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:51:17 PM PST
by
tumblindice
( How long? Until the last dog dies)
To: wireplay
“I honestly dont believe Dan is a racist by any stretch but he would throw around the term about Republicans w/o hesitation.”
You’re honest.
Dan is not. Nor anyone else in the RAT press. I do not feel sorry for him!
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posted on
03/12/2010 6:53:23 PM PST
by
SeattleBruce
(God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
To: SeattleBruce
Didn’t Rather get caught on air making some racist joke back in the early 80’s? Something about watermelon and tacos.
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posted on
03/12/2010 7:59:33 PM PST
by
boop
(Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
To: boop
We get around to what is racist and what are you just engrained with. It is hard for me to remember the term Brazil nut vs what I grew up with. I had to go look it up to see what the actual name was.
That said, I have sat down with my conservative black friends and I lay it all out. They do as well. Honest conversations make the issues go away. I cannot control what is in my brain but I can control what comes out of my mouth.
Watermelons are a staple crop in Texas. What Rather said is not a surprise from a person from Texas. You won’t see a lot of blacks in Texas picking them (or eating them) since it is done by whites and Hispanics. He could easily have said cantaloupe and people would have understood.
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posted on
03/12/2010 10:24:11 PM PST
by
wireplay
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