Posted on 07/06/2018 2:54:08 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
The wife of Bill Shine — former Fox News co-president who just joined the Trump administration as White House communications chief — has a lengthy history of defending racists, promoting unfounded anti-vaccination conspiracies, writing about “Islamic Insanity,” and making racially-charged remarks on her social media pages.
Darla Shine made these remarks primarily on her Twitter account, @darlashine, which was deleted as soon as the White House announced that her husband was officially joining the Trump administration.
But not before Mediaite took screenshots.
On her personal website, Shine (who, like her husband, did not respond to requests for comment) says that she got her start in media by working as a “TV reporter and producer.” After giving birth to her first child, that site asserts, she opted to leave the office and become a stay-at-home mom while her husband Bill Shine stayed in the news industry.
She eventually jumped back into media — authoring the book Happy Housewives in 2005 and starting a blog called, “Darla Shine’s Happy Housewives Club.” On this site, Shine advocated for stay-at-home moms, whom she claims are “the most disrespected” people in America.
“I am proof that housewives don’t lose their brain or their dreams after they give birth,” Darla Shine wrote on the About page of her blog. “The days of the housewife hag image are over.”
Her Twitter account, Facebook page, and podcast all focus on this brand of traditionalist and very public mommy blogging. But she doesn’t stay confined to that one topic.
At a glance, Shine’s online habits appear to be no different than those of many conservative American baby boomers. She uses her Twitter account to complain about what’s on cable news and reality TV, as well as moan about society going downhill because of millennials.
Shine’s Twitter habits even mimic the president’s at times.
“Wow, Vanity Fair loser @kurteichenwald on #AMJoy just called ‘Americans Dumb!’ & said Trump/Russia story ‘worse than 9/11.’ Loser! #MAGA,” tweeted Shine in late 2017.
Like President Donald Trump, Shine also regularly attacks CNN in her posts, styling her writing in his recognizable prose.
“What kind of Pimp Producers are at #CNN passing around the same guest #SamNunberg like a drunk whore 5 times #JeffZucker should be fired,” she wrote amid Sam Nunberg’s infamous cable news meltdown in March.
Her posts on the subject of race, however, divert from garden variety right-wing fare.
Sooo, what’s your point!?
For a minute I thought this trash was written by Caleb Enema. Had to do a double take on the name.
So what?
Pointing out the obvious is racist????
Any time anyone becomes even distantly connected to the Trump Administration, the Ministry of Propaganda hustles out an article to make sure all their lemmings know they’re supposed to add this one to the hate list.
What a bunch of crap mischaracterizations. Pointing out the hypocrisy of blacks using the “n word” and suggesting they stop using it is because she’s mad she can’t say it? And where is one quote “defending racists”?
She says stuff that just mirrors what the left says about us, and that’s considered beyond the pale? To take one example, she criticizes black celebrities for not speaking out against cop killers, but conservatives are always expected to explicitly speak out against every hate crime, and if they don’t, they are considered “complicit.”
That is one of the most dishonest articles I have ever read. It totally mischaracterizes what she said and what her points were.
I’m not sure if I am supposed to offended by her or impressed. I will wait for them to tell me.
I didn’t see a thing wrong with her comments, and if I remember correctly, Trump hired her husband...not her.
“’1 out of 10 black boys has autism!’ Shine tweeted in February 2016, in a post that managed to combine vaccination conspiracies with race-baiting.”
This is “race baiting”?
Voting for Donald Trump automatically makes someone a racist in the eyes of these psychos. They start with that as a conclusion and then work backwards to the starting point of anything they might be able to label as “proof”.
“A number of her posts focused on holding celebrities of color responsible for crimes committed by black people... ‘Where are the black celebrities, sports stars, musicians, why [aren’t] they speaking out tonight against blacks targeting & murdering cops?’ Shine wrote in one post after the Dallas, TX police shooting in 2016.”
Another lie based on their own supplied evidence. Famous blacks do frequently speak out about injustices done to blacks by cops. It is a reasonable question to ask why they are silent when those with whom they are politically and ideologically aligned commit murder against law enforcement. No one is expecting non-political blacks to suddenly voice their opinions, just the ones who loudly claim our society is dominated by racism.
“She also blamed the shooting on President Barack Obama: ‘You really are a terrible President @BarackObama @POTUS allowing our police officers to be gunned down like this.’”
Obama certainly did NOT help this situation with his race-mongering rhetoric.
“’When will Al Sharpton demand [that] young black boys do the right thing?’ tweeted Shine in response to the Black Lives Matter movement devoted to combating police brutality and racism in the judicial system.”
Reasonable, non-racist people have the same question for professional and publicly confirmed racist Sharpton.
“The ‘happy housewife’ also sided with the president in his battle against black professional athletes.”
More of the same. Agreeing with her and the president on this subject is NOT proof of our racism. When LeBron James and other famous black athletes give speeches siding with Black Lives Matter, a lot of us non-racists have alarm bells going off. Anyone can go see the BLM website and find what they are ALL about: promoting racism, attacking law enforcement, and promoting FAR LEFT ideology such as the LGBTQWERTY movement. The BLM movement is FAR LEFT and straight down the party-line on everything. It has little to do with helping blacks. In fact, it is about trapping and manipulating blacks to keep them on the plantation.
“In response to Trump’s infamous ‘shithole country’ comment, Shine agreed with the president and even posted a racist meme mocking the progress of African nations when compared to Europe.”
Regurgitating leftwing agitprops over a private, adult conversation in a private meeting in which a small number of radical leftists claim some comment made by the president and not confirmed by anyone else. We’ve seen the SAME exact technique used by the LEFT when they lyingly claimed certain Republicans used the N-word when it never happened.
Be that as it may, even IF the president used that word in some context, it is not merely highly speculative that the comment is racist, but it is a clearly disingenuous claim because nationality is not a race. The Ancient Rome versus modern Africa joke Darla Shine posted is also not racist. It is a factual observation that Africa has a problem. So do South and Central America.
“She has also weighed in on the cultural appropriation debate: ‘If white chicks can’t perm their hair – black chicks can’t go blonde.’”
And the point is? Why would the author have a problem with this statement? It is a very reasonable retort to the tiresome nonsense and insanity of leftwing ideology over things like “cultural appropriation”. Only the absolute stupidest people—ones who ought to be institutionalized—believe in such a ridiculous concept. In a just society anyone stringing those two words together for any reason except ridicule ought to face similar consequences as someone using a racial slur. It is an insult to the basic idea of personal liberty to assert that anyone owns their culture and has a say over how anyone else accommodates it.
“Similar to the white anxiety that defined the ‘Knockout Game’ hysteria, the newest White House official’s wife seems to focus on crime stories featuring a black perpetrator and a white victim to suggest that it represents a broader racial trend in the US.”
The author should become the target of a knockout game player, and then get back to us on the hysterics. The MSM buries real stories like when “games” like this one, that are violent and highly racist against whites, are thoroughly and factually documented by REAL news sources such as WND.
“The most prominent issue Shine had with the black community isn’t crime, however. It’s that people of color can say the N-word but she can’t.”
This is not just a lie. It is blood libel. This is the kind of lie that left-wingers keep spreading that lead to racial violence against whites and against conservatives. And it is going to lead to the civil war they think they want.
“Just singing to one of my jams ‘Golddigger’ by Kanye West when I realized If I sing along to the verse ‘Broke Nigger’ I might be a racist,’ tweeted Shine in July 2015’ (West’s song does not include a hard R version of the slur).”
So Kanye uses forced rhyme to avoid saying the real N-word. Is that the point? I think that if either version of the N-word is considered taboo, then it should be taboo for everyone. I also have a problem people being fired for using the N-word, but it is perfectly acceptable to blaspheme God’s name or use Jesus’ name insultingly. The name of God and Christ are far more important.
“Don’t use the N word in your songs if you don’t want your teenage listeners to repeat it out loud. Clean up the music! Set an example.”
The author is actually offended at this because it apparently disrespects the Black Privilege that blacks have to disparage their own race.
“’At FSU u can punch a girl in the face & only get kicked off football team but sing a song with the N word in it & you’re expelled at Oklahoma,’ wrote Shine regarding ex-Florida State quarterback De’Andre Johnson, who is black, and the white students who chanted the N-word and about the lynching of black people.”
Sure. What the author fails to address here is the context. In both cases, the offenders were guilty of underage drinking when they committed their offenses. The white guys were guilty of a racist chant and got expelled. Expelled. Yes, expelled. They got expelled for singing a racist song. But it was not a Kanye West racist song. And they got expelled for singing a song while under the influence.
On the other hand, what De’Andre Johnson did was clearly a criminal assault and deserves a more severe punishment. Johnson, who is BLACK, hit a young WHITE woman who was legally able to drink while Johnson was not even legally in the bar drinking. He pushed her (probably due to his intoxicated state), and when she said something to him, he grabbed her arm and would not let go. When she resisted (kneed him in the groin and punched him), he punched her. He claims she said something racially offensive. I’m guessing it was, “Take your hands off of me now.” Big, tough, abusive football player exercising his Black Privilege. At least based on what this author thinks.
Johnson was kicked off the football team, but not expelled like the white students who committed the far more egregious offense of racist speech. I believe in publicly shaming people for racist speech. I do not believe in depriving them of their first amendment rights. I do not believe the song / chant was advocating criminal acts, so it was probably Constitutionally protected speech, even though offensive. Drunks tend to say and do offensive things, which makes the comparison of these two cases, and how they were handled differently, very relevant.
“In a similar vein, Shine also defended white supremacist housewives after the New York Times published an op-ed on ‘traditional wives’ or ‘tradwives.’”
Yet another BLOOD LIBEL, except this one is probably going to agitate some psycho to kill the white children of a “traditional wife”. Darla Shine was outraged, just as any of us who believe in traditional family roles, when the columnist uses the label of “traditional wife” as if it ALL white women who are stay-at-home moms, and allow their husbands to lead the family, MUST BE ALT-RIGHT white racists. It was a particularly disgusting article, even by the very low standards of the NYT, but this author adds insult to injury by pretending Darla Shine’s outrage is about defending white supremacism, when it is the opposite. She is upset at being categorized with these people for holding traditional values. The salacious article is titled: The Housewives of White Supremacy.
“On the issue of Confederate flags and white supremacist gunman Dylan Roof, Shine suggested the shooting was caused by the drug ‘Suboxone’ — not racism.”
She did NOT say Roof was not a racist. She said the fault was not the confederate flag. And she is right. The left tries to justify their slander of people for things like honoring the historical confederacy as being racist. It is part of history. And the South is part of this nation which should not be considered a place for second-class citizens, like the left portrays. And, quite frankly, she is on to something many of us have noticed. Nearly all of these mass shootings are done by someone on or withdrawing from psychiatric medication. The other common element seems to be their susceptibility to leftwing propaganda, like this author is pushing. And this is very disconcerting when the author is siding with violent, drunk football players and those “playing” violent knockout games.
“To be clear, these were not the private musings of the wife of a powerful individual. Darla Shine was a public and prolific blogger and social media participant who wanted her views to be seen and heard.”
Here is the most ironic thing about this article. Darla Shine is the WIFE of Bill Shine, who is joining the Trump administration. They are attacking Trump by attacking Bill by attacking Darla. And these are the same ones complaining that conservative women do not operate independently of their husbands. Is the author really saying that Bill Shine is responsible for his wife’s comments?
There is nothing wrong with her comments.
What Darla Shine she done is to point out the hypocrisy and double standard when it comes to racial issues. Blacks are not held to as high as standard as whites. One example she uses is that many blacks blather the "N-word" day and night and are not held accountable.
Mrs. Shine seems to be blessed with plenty of insight and good sense.
The thing is Darla Shine is in the public eye and yet speaks up on the double standard.
Why don’t some of you who criticize her do that?
As for me, I’m sick an tired of this game. Sure, I speak against it, but who am I ? No one. So I’ll remain anonymous .
But, Ms Shine?
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