MSNBC/Politico’s Bigoted Description Of Florida Panhandle: ‘Cracker Counties’(video)

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[Nachum]

Politico's Jonathan Martin provides expert analysis of the Florida primary for MSNBC this morning and hurls an offensive epithet to describe counties in the panhandle of the state.

[Nachum]

Next: they take out voodoo dolls of conservatives and stick pins in them ...

[vg0va3]

I guess if the people in the pan handle vote for
Newt he will say that they were, “um, good crackers!”

[LooneyTick]

I’m not from the panhandle, but I am a “CRACKER”.

[ILS21R]

This guy?

[ransacked]

Wish I lived in a Cracker county...

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I believe he is talking about Scarboroughs home turf.

[MEGoody]

Why in the world does anyone tolerate such racism from this scrud? If he had used a racial epithet about any race other than white, he would have been tossed off the air immediately.

[Jack Hydrazine]

So most of the Whitey McCracker-Honkeys live in northern Florida?

[Tzimisce]

Yep - we all know about them white guys and racist they are....

[EyeGuy]

You mean the “Crackers” who built Western Civilization?

Talentless, hate-filled metrosexual...

[Jacquerie]

This NW FL Cracker voted for Newt a couple hours ago.

This is the “real” Florida and not MickeyWorld nor Wasserman-Schultz country.

[Acadianus]

MSNBC is filled with the most Anti-Southern bigots in a national media known to be notariously prejudiced against everyone in “Fly-Over Country.”

[JimRed]

Cracker counties? As opposed to ni**er or greaser or wetback counties? The difference is that one is perfectly OK while two are horribly RAAAACST!

What’s wrong with this picture?

[maine yankee]

So NYC’s upper east side can be refered to as the;

‘Panty-waist precinct

[wardaddy]

Jonathan Martin is Jewish...big secret I know..lol

Imagine the uproar if he declared;

Dade, Palm Beach, Broward and maybe Sarasota counties as the “Jewish Counties”?

as a pretty serious peckerwood...a term I prefer more than cracker...since is connotes more defiance

I can say I am not offended so much except the context it meant to diminish...like “redneck”

as in all rural whites are dumb hicks...we even get a lot of that here...go to any race or southern thread and watch race baiters go all prejudiced themselves blissfully unaware all the while

truth is the part of Florida Mssr Martin speaks of goes past the Panhandle and exists even in very lib counties like Broward...in pockets...Davie for instance.

Martin writes for The New Republic, Politico and Jewish World Review...he does get around eh?

I love Florida actually ...would that it stayed in a 1960 version forever demographically

white shell roads, droopy moss, blackwater rivers, one toll road,ferries, no Mouse, “crackers everywhere”, Cypress Gardens, Silver Springs, just grateful Cubans

kids you just had to be there

anyhow...one more peckerwood for Newt here!

[Mr. Wright]

I am sure that for Al Sharpton, of MSNBC, this language is fine. However, if one referred to Harlem or the Brownsville section of Brooklyn as “darkie” land, Sharpton would demand he get the IMUS treatment.

[blueunicorn6]

Just another liberal sea cucumber.

[mac_truck]

Florida ‘crackers’ have a long and proud history. There is nothing wrong or bigoted with its usage in this context.

[bigdirty]

Imagine Fox said the black areas were “nigger counties”. Wow.

[gundog]

This is where the term “cracker” came from, long before it gained racist undertones.