Posted on 01/05/2012 2:57:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum is now denying ever making remarks about "black people's lives" after receiving criticism for the comments.
The former Pennsylvania senator, who finished just eight votes short of an Iowa caucus victory, took heat this past Monday after saying, "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money."
The remarks brought criticism from NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, who called them "outrageous."
"He conflates welfare recipients with African Americans, though federal benefits are in fact determined by income level," Jealous told CNN.
Santorum appeared on The O'Reilly Factor last night and said the remarks were the result of "a little bit of a blurred word."
"I looked at that, and I didn't say that," Santorum told O'Reilly. "If you look at it, what I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of -- blah -- came out. And people said I said 'black.' I didn't."
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“Blah”?
Yeah, like blah, blah, blah...
Rick should have shown more nuance and talked about Mulatto peeps, especially about Zer0.
Also FTA:
While we applaud Santorum for the work he did with a few HBCUs across the country, this doesn’t excuse his comments from Monday. There was no slip of the tongue, as he would love us to believe. While Santorum does pause (as seen in the video below) before he uses the word “black,” he hasn’t explained what he meant to say instead. And given his history of incendiary comments, why should we not believe that Santorum meant what he said?
This just smells of another GOP candidate who has seen his presidential hopes jump from dead in the water to alive trying to do damage control. But don’t worry about it, Rick: The majority of our community’s vote will go to the guy in office, not someone with a track record of offending gays, blacks, women and Latinos.
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And there ya have it folks. No matter what Santorum could say or do; “them people” are gonna vote for Obama.
Now. Who is being racist here?
Oh NOESSSS!!!! Did Rick Santorum just lose the black vote to Obama?
This is a hugh and series loss!!!!!
Or “Cry, cry, cry.”
What more can you expect from an arm of the Democrat party run by a guy named “Jealous?”
It is going to be ugly — no matter what. The Repub candidate is going to have thousands of decks of race cards played on him. And every critical remark about the horror story in the Oval Office with be called “RACIST” -— it will be sickening pile of liberal crap.
Absolutely knew this was coming. And to be honest, Santorum didn’t answer it very well on BORs show and BOR let him off the hook easy. Not suggesting Santorum is a racist in any way, just an example of how every word he’s every spoken is going to be scrutinized.
National Association of Always Complaining People?
Of course. What else would you expect?
Funny thing is, I thought he said black and I agreed with his comment. Look at the percentage of the population that is black and look at how many welfare recipients are black.
What he said was a reasonable thing to say, though not as PC as it could have been. And I like that!
What's the problem here? Not PC enough? Personally I'm sick of the tired old bullshit that anyone that doesn't agree with me and my alternative reality denial is a racist.
I don’t want to make “bligh” peoples lives better by giving them other peoples’ money, either!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P2pGFv2wYM
Bligh bligh!
Why is it racist to say you don’t want to give black people other peoples’ money? I would hope Rick would also not want to give white people other people’s money, but maybe in PA where he is from, it is mostly black people screaming for their handouts. I don’t know. I do know in most of the country, there are at least as many white people screaming for their handouts as there are black people.
Yeah and so what, what a bunch of total bullcrap by the NAACP. You mean it is NOT their policy that whites owe blacks a historic debt and that this must be repayed through various federal programs including assistance programs???
Well I’m glad to hear this, that there is no longer any desire by black activisits to redistribute money along racial lines. In fact, sounds like black people will be voluntarily getting off of welfare programs. Santorum apparently has uncovered something great.
Gee and I thought anytime cutting any assistance program is discussed, black activists immediately say it’s racist because the programs disproportionately help black people. I must have been hearing things.
Jealous is his middle name.
He seldom uses his full name:
Ben Jealous Ofsuccessfulpeople
The remarks brought criticism from NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, who called them "outrageous."
A greater % of black people are on the welfare rolls as compared to other races- fact.
The NAACP is the most raciest organization in America. I can’t control what others believe, but they carry less then 0 influence with me.
Oh noes, now Santorum will lose the black and Latino vote..wait a second..blacks and latinos always vote Dem, so who the hell cares..the Black community will always remain slaves to the Dems, nothing will ever change
Perhaps he's got a problem with people who are boring.
Just one equivocating white man with a backbone is all we need. Anyone out there?
I see Michelle Obama.
I do.
Just one unequivocating white man with a backbone is all we need. Anyone out there?
I guess Rick just lost the far left black vote.
It’s clear that he meant to say “macaca” but thought better of it, so changed it. There. Better?
Rick Santorum says that he didn’t make that statement. There is no verification of it, just liberal media reporting. He says that he can’t swear to it, but that it just doesn’t sound like something that he would have said because he seldom refers to African Americans as “Blacks”.
I suspect that this might be true because when Santorum was in the Senate, the term African American was the only politically correct way to refer to “Blacks”. The term had yet to be challenged in the public setting. You didn’t hear people remarking that people cannot be African if they weren’t born in Africa.
I hope to God he has the guts to tell them to STFU
If he was answering within the context of the topic at hand it is a reasonable answer, and even on it’s own there is nothing really wrong with it
I saw Santorum on O’Reilly last night and was NOT impressed with his ‘debate’ skills against O’Reilly.
And a debate with Romney-Obama would be an endless puke-fest of mindless pablum of how each will “fight for me” and on what is a “fair share”
Neither would steamroll Obama in a debate the way Newt would.
why do those always look like pelvic bones to me?
Santorum makes an unintelligible sound and some people seem predisposed to think he said “Black”, because they seem predisposed to seeing GOP nominees as racists, because they seem predisposed to see every issue through the prism of race.
Myself it seemed like an unintelligible sound, a verbal flub. But maybe I am predisposed after 8 years of Bush of having GOP guys not being very adept at speaking.
The NAACP is irrelevant. There are no more “colored people”.
Santorum's just speaking the truth...they want everyone as dependent as heck on welfare.
I heard it. He's targeting BLIND people.
Now Political Correctness has gone so far that you get in trouble for having a “stop saying that” impulse with which (impulse) the PC crowd AGREES. It’s not enough to stop yourself from saying something un-PC; now you must also be punished for even having had the impulse to begin with.
My guess is that he DID start to say “black” and stopped himself. The ideal answer might have been, “I think I did start to say ‘black’ because, unfortunately, blacks are disproportionately likely to be on welfare. But to mention just ‘blacks’ was unfair, so I checked my swing, so to speak.” Regardless, it’s no big deal.
Not to get racial, but as a practical, historical matter, no modern GOP candidate can expect more than about 15% of the self-identified black vote. (I believe it was in the mid-90s for Obama?) Sad, and hopefully that will change.
He did NOT say “black peaople” He said “people’s lives”. The dems and the race baiters are just lying about this.
He did NOT say “black people” He said “people’s lives”. The dems and the race baiters are just lying about this.
Maybe the NAALCP needs to look at the type of people who would make these:
“That’s Just How White Folks Will Do You.”
“Typical white person”
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,...I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Although it sorta sounds like black or bligh (which sounds like a combo of black and white) it doesn’t fit with what he’s saying, he had no reason to insert that word it appears to be a verbal glitch, however his remarks would apply to black or white people.
Now they are the National Association for the Advancement of Colon Polyps. ;)
The NAACP is irrelevant. There are no more “colored people”.
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The same people who swear Santorum said "black" will deny Obama said billionaires should not "pay the same tax as a Jew."
Even if he said it...He would be right. I bet that Even Cain would agree with that statement.
lol
once again .. they attack ANYONE but Romney who starts to show promise.
As he's addressing the crowd, he says the government wants to make "all of you" more dependent. There's only one black person in the room I could see. He was behind Santorum. He never flinched at the supposedly "racist" remark.
Ah the National Ass of Hate Whitey clears things up.
Pray for America
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