Posted on 03/14/2012 4:09:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
What's the Matter with Soledad O'Brien? CNN's Soledad O'Brien isn't used to criticism. In the world of media elites, she's a beloved figure and an award-winning news anchor. But last week, she revealed her true, decidedly non-neutral colors. And she's not happy about the hoi polloi questioning her hallowed journalistic objectivity.
On Thursday, O'Brien interviewed Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief of the late Andrew Breitbart's online empire. Breitbart's BigGovernment.com released a 1991 video of Barack Obama (then a 30-year-old law student) at a Harvard rally embracing radical racialist Derrick Bell and his push for more aggressive race-based hiring at Harvard. Bell is a proponent of critical race theory (CRT), which posits that America remains a hopelessly racist country dominated by Jews and white supremacists.
O'Brien lost her cool when Pollak shed light on Bell's fringe legal theories. Acting more like an Obama campaign surrogate than a disinterested host, she angrily jumped on Pollak's mention of CRT. "That is a complete misreading of critical race theory," she shrieked. "That's an actual theory. You could Google it and some would give you a good definition. So that's not correct!"
When viewers took to Twitter to pepper O'Brien with follow-up questions about critical race theory, the CNN star had a twit fit. She invited a liberal professor, Emory University's Dorothy Brown, on her television show to back her up and then lashed out: "See? That was our critical race theory 101. Stop tweeting me. We have moved on, people."
Not so fast, sister.
Turns out that O'Brien, a Harvard grad, has a rather emotional connection to Bell. As documented at my new Twitter curation/aggregation site Twitchy.com, O'Brien tweeted that it was a "rough day" for her when Bell passed away last fall. She wrote that she had "just started re-reading" one of his books and mourned again: "RIP Prof. Bell." O'Brien also shared tributes to Bell from fellow Harvard prof and friend of Obama Charles Ogletree. That's the same Professor Ogletree who bragged that he "hid" the Obama/Bell video during the 2008 campaign.
O'Brien failed to disclose her pro-Bell bias to viewers before her segments.
O'Brien also failed to disclose that the liberal prof who denied on her show that critical race theory had aaaaaanything to do with bashing America as a white supremacy-ruled government actually wrote the exact opposite. In one of her own books, Brown asserted that the purpose of CRT was to "highlight the ways in which the law is not neutral and objective, but designed to support White supremacy and the subordination of people of color." Oops.
O'Brien is entitled to her opinions, of course. The problem is that she masks her political activism under the banner of corporate media "diversity." Of multicultural heritage, O'Brien has won countless accolades for her "Black in America" and "Latino in America" documentaries for CNN. The medical school at historically black Morehouse College created the "Soledad O'Brien Freedom's Voice Award" to honor "outstanding catalysts of social change." The first recipient of the activist award? Soledad O'Brien, of course.
O'Brien is also a card-carrying member of two racial/ethnic-centered journalism lobbying groups: the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. These organizations are inherently politicized entities that enforce a skin color-deep ideological solidarity and push a social justice agenda of advocacy journalism. I know because I've fought their collective herd mentality for the past 20 years.
Liberal minority journalists have themselves acknowledged their slavish fealty to Obama and his progressive agenda. During the 2008 campaign, the NABJ, NAHJ and Asian American Journalists Association held a "journalists of color" confab where then-candidate Obama was welcomed with Justin Bieber-style mania. One journalist squealed, "He touched me!" after Obama's address, which was interrupted multiple times with standing ovations, cheers and whistles by the press.
Organizers were so concerned about public displays of Obamedia affection that they issued several warnings to their news professional members that the speech would be broadcast live on (Soledad O'Brien's) CNN. "Professional decorum" was encouraged. One wire story even fretted: "Can minority journalists resist applauding Obama?"
Nope, liberal minority journalists simply can't resist carrying water for Obama. That's because their journalistic unity demands political unanimity. If you don't accept the left-leaning agenda of "social change" journalism, you're enabling racism. If you don't support the pursuit of racial hiring goals as a primary journalistic and academic goal, you're selling out.
Now you know the reason for O'Brien's thin-skinned reaction to Obama's critics. When you vet the president, you vet the media. And they don't like the narrative table-turning one bit
I live in California and I have heard of the prison at Soledad. And please don’t call me surely.
There are people who take Soledad for journalist? Who knew?
It was a joke
“Critical Race Theory: the factory where the race cards are printed”.
IMO you deserve a FReeper award for this!
About sums up 99.9% of the liberal media, otherwise known as the mouthpiece of the New World Order...
Heh, heh. Sort of destroys that libtards whole argument, doesn’t it. That’s just too dang funny.
Interesting, Soledad O’Brien also “interviewed” the mother of racist mass murderer, Omar Thornton, who murdered 8 white co workers after he was forced to resign for stealing from the company:
http://blackracismandracehatred.blogspot.com/2011/12/mass-murderer-omar-thornton-murders-8_30.html
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/08/omar-thorntons-mom-discusses-racism-on.html
Quote:
“whoa...big red flag in Soleodad O’Brien’s post-interview.
She makes a point to point out that Omar Thornton’s mom wasn’t making excuses for her son but that she was trying to wrap her mind around what caused this to happen, and that she felt bad for the victim’s families.
I may be jumping the gun here, but I wouldn’t be surprised if O’Brien is making this up. O’Brien couldn’t put that part of the interview on camera? It’s not an important part of the closure process to show the person closest to the murderer express at least a little bit of remorse or sympathy?”
Also, the racist mass murder, Thornton, was on record using the quotes of virulent black racist, Khalid Mohammad, to justify his 8 murders,(Kill the good whites before they go bad) and there is a Khalid,Bell,Obama connection:
http://blackracismandracehatred.blogspot.com/
And now we find out that Harvard grad, Soledad, is an admitted admirer of Derrick Bell and claims she reads his books on Critical Race Theory.
Things are getting curiouser and curiouser!
The leftist media is such a cesspool of bias and corruption!
Here’s to hoping that the Breitbart organization makes “playing the race card” so worthy of ridicule that even liberals will shun its use.
It almost seems to be a curse with many bi-racial people. Most are balanced and fine, but then some are the most racist people on the planet and they typically are racist against whatever the majority is in the country they are in.
It is a bitter resentment. It is sad.
Perfect....literally made me LOL... :)
Part of the starter on your car.
Why does it seem that the whitest looking colored folk seem to be the craziest?
Yep, nailed it.
I'm not sure, but it sounds like something those faux homo "families" wouldn't approve of.
Counting yourself as “black” brings with it a lot of perks,
including affirmative action,
lower entrance standards,
and best of all, immunity from criticism.
They have relied on their predecessors' enormous propaganda efforts in academia and so-called "public" education to "dumb down" a citizenry so that it would be compliant and unchallenging when the time came to impose their policies.
The Bell matter, however, provides a great "teaching moment" on the real history of America's Founding and subsequent developments which led to oppressed people from all over the world fleeing to America for opportunity.
That real history gets in the way of their agenda, but it now is available online in the Founders' own words and those of, for instance, John Quincy Adams, and later, Lincoln. Such readily available material was not possible only a few years ago, when so-called "progressives" carefully had censored those ideas from textbooks and public places.
The Founders are maligned by those who wish to profit, either monetarily or politically. A real "scholar" of the Constitution could unite all Americans by educating them in the truth of the great achievements of that document on behalf of liberty for all citizens of then-future generations.
Instead, there is a continued "dividing" by buying into the false arguments of people like Professor Bell and others.
Personal research can uncover the writings and passionate speeches of many of the Founders on this subject, but a good starting point for any who wish to begin such research might be to take a look at this page from Wallbuilders.com. This is just one of many articles and historical documents on Wallbuilders, confirming facts few citizens in 2012 have had included in their education or reading.
Bell's so-called Critical Race Theory, as well as all the other theories which divide us are easily dismantled by truth--should we wish to seek it.
Fidelity to the Constitution demands leadership which has sought out its underlying principles, understands them, and can, in truth, pledge fidelity to those principles.
If "the People" believe it to be "flawed," then the Constitution provides, within itself, the only means by which "the People" can amend its provisions and protections.
"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives [the executive, judiciary, or legislature]; in a departure from it prior to such an act." - Alexander Hamilton
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