Posted on 08/31/2010 9:06:25 AM PDT by chessplayer
You're right on this - and also, the more liberal the church, the fewer blacks...
My first thought was that the white media is trying to insult the Restoring Honor crowd by calling them white. That’s okay. The leftnuts have spent decades driving wedges between white America and minorities, agitating minorities while doing everything possible to suppress objections from whites, but with all the recent accusations and outbursts about racism, the whole mess is getting out of hand. People get tired of being lied about and insulted by thugs and bullies. ...That said, I bet people of all colors were welcome and safe. Y’all come!
yep. Chris Matthews, Rachael Maddow, Ed Schulz, Katie Couric, Pinch Salzburger, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Chris Wallace, Bob Scheiffer, Charlie Gibson, Anderson Cooper, Larry King, and Donald Graham are all absolutely appalled at the overwhelmingly white crowd Beck attracted.
From what I saw, it was purple...
Not so sure. Democrats mistrusted government when GWB was president, they came up with tons of conspiracies and thought he was wiretapping their phones, following them with drones, and ready to water-board them for protesting Iraq.
Yet with all this natural liberal mistrust of government power, they overwhelmingly wanted Obama picking their doctor, and health care benefits and services, as long as they thought the Rich would pay for them .
I tend to believe Jesse and Al, that at heart he was probably a socialist like they are. But he is long gone and so we can believe anything we want about him; like Kennedy (reference Stone's conspiracy movie JFK.)
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t Pres. BO overwhelmingly white, too (87% vs 13%)?
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t Pres. BO overwhelmingly white, too (87% vs 13%)?
Stone? You had me up to that point. LOL, even the mention of that propagandist’s name causes me to hurl.
I know you didn’t mention him favorably..., just sayin’.
That’s why I referenced MKL’s probable like of the federal government being involved in stopping segregation. He may have been very happy about the Great Society programs. I don’t honestly remember the year he died, or the exact year they were implemented, 1965 I think on the later.
My take on Jessie Jackson is that I think Martin Luther King would have kicked his ass for what he was up to.
King may have bought on to the Great Society nonsense, but I do think the guy’s heart was in the right place, and he was lucid and aware of how his movement could be turned to the dark side.
I’m not the biggest fan of King. I do think he did some great things. I also think rioting resulted from some of his efforts, something I never like to see. So I do see him as a mixed bag. I’m not in favor of a National Holiday for him. I believe that at it’s core, that is racial in nature. Not only is it inappropriate to loft the titular head of one segment of our populace, it’s also not proper to cast forever in people’s minds that Whites are racists. And that to my way of thinking, is part of the message MLK Day imparts.
We should only loft people who are fundamentally a champion for all our citizens, not specific groups.
Now, if a non-holiday type of yearly remembrance of King were on tap, I would support it.
That explains it!
I still get a kick out of Stone/JFK. It has Johnson conspiring to knock off JFK so he can get in an endless war with Vietnam to make the helocopter defense companies rich. And all the different actors spitting our their overdramatic lines in a hurry.
Heck, but I get a kick out of Sicko too.
Sometimes it's fun to stick your head in and see what's floating around liberals heads.
Just saying, LOL
Bernie Goldberg made an observation last nite on O’Reilly. He said, go to an environmental rally and it will be attended by predominantly white. Go to a feminist rally and it will be attended by predominantly white. Go to an anti-war protest and it will be attended by predominantly white.
Yet, the press never makes the distinction.
For that type of entertainment value, I understand.
What bothers me, is folks like you and I lived through those times and have some perspective.
Younger people have no clue how convoluted the Stone movie was. It twists their grasp of what truly took place.
Characters and events were joined. That angers me.
For all the hoopla about Garrison, I think the guy was on some level actually working on things the feds wouldn’t follow up on.
I do think he was a fraud to a certain extent, but some of the people he tried to interview, did meet with untimely deaths just prior to his interviews. Something was going on there. I don’t like it all being swept under the rug.
In the day, I listened to Garrison interviews on radio from Fort Worth (or Dallas). The guy wasn’t a complete loon. At least one local radio personality thought he was on to something, as if that makes it true or not. Still, I’ve never been convinced he was a total wipe-out.
Actually I was pretty young when JFK was shot, my parents were upset that day naturally but it meant little to me at the time or even ever. He was young, good looking and charismatic and in office so short one could imagine anything they wanted from him, (C Matthews used to say Obama was JFK LOL)
I read a book on the Bay of Pigs and JFK didnt look that great in it. Stone tried to build him up as another crucified Jesus, in fact that EXACT analogy was made in the movie by Donald Sutherland playing ex-US OSS The whole movie theme is so preposterous and Stone makes him into a brave hero risking his family for the ‘truth’ for promoting a bunch of nutty theories, Johnson, Castro, American Cubans, Military, defense contractors, Mafia, everybody was in on killing JFK.
But then again I watch and laugh at Moores movies too, and people calling in CSPAN actually believe them.
I was twelve. My grandmother had driven us up to Olathe, Kansas from Joplin, and I was visiting my cousin’s classroom that day. The principle and some teachers wheeled in a television set so we could see history unfolding.
I remember certain portions of that weekend very well. I was watching when Ruby shot Oswald. Amazing.
I do think there was a natural effort to canonize Kennedy before and after his death.
Kennedy blew the Bay of Pigs situation badly. In short order he admitted so in public, and took full credit for it.
There are some things I don’t like about the guy. There are some things I admire about him.
His father was a piece of excrement. I believe his dad stole the election from Nixon, with help of the mob. Dirty tricks had been involved each step of the way as I understand it.
There were plenty of people angry at him. The mob had reasons. Castro had reasons. Marxists in the U. S. had reasons. The C. I. A. probably had reasons.
Obama is not J. F. K. That’s moronic fantasy on his part.
Some of this you’ve already said. I agree with your take on it.
I don’t like seeing things handled like Oswald did. Let the elections handle the situation. Even as bad as Obama is, I don’t want to see anyone create another hero out of an ass hat clown.
Saying that, I don’t mean to imply that Kennedy was a total fool. I do think he had a lot more on the ball than Obama. This guy is frighteningly ill informed.
Looked to me like the crowd was
“Overwhelmingly AMERICAN”.
Lord, how I have come to despise what our
once great media has become.
Are you kidding? Obama saved the R party. Look how many people now cite the constitution wrt government socialism thanks to Obama. No one did it with that last guy. Keep Obama in office long enough and the whole country will turn conservative, of course by then there may not be a country left.
Can you imagine the myths if something happened to him?
“Isn’t the majority of the country white?”
And thats more proof to libs what a racist country this is.
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