David Brooks: Some of the Tea Party's Best Friends Are Negroes
Dadgummit, once again, the right wing noise machine has framed the debate and the Democrats are forced to play defense. Of course, the Shirley Sherrod smear by Andrew Breitbart would be a topic of discussion on the Sunday shows.
But will they take a hard look at the responsibility of news organizations to fact check and contextualize before just blindly repeating a partisan smear from a known liar and smear merchant? Surely, you jest. Stop playing the blame game, you liberals.
Instead, we're treated to these false equivalencies and ridiculous Broderisms by David Brooks with a clear candidate for The Jayson Blair Project:
There are liberals who call conservatives racist as a matter of tactics, too. That happens, as well. Listen, I was out jogging, you wouldn't know it to look at me. I was out jogging (LAUGH) you wouldn’t know it to look at me, I was out jogging on the mall. I was at a Tea Party rally, Tea Party rally. Also there was a group called the Back-- Black Family Reunion, celebration of African American culture. I watched these two groups intermingle. Sitting at the same table, eating-- watching concerts together. Among most of those people, there was a fantastic atmosphere of just getting along on-- on a warm Sunday afternoon.
And so, there are people, but I-- I was struck by a story of progress. A story of progress, that we're making some progress to this. And this whole week, that speech was about progress. We now have a gotcha culture that punishes people that say terrible things. So, I think overall, it's slow, steady--
Any one actually believe that anything like this actually happened? If so, I got a bridge to sell you...cheap.
But ultimately, it's entirely beside the point.
The issue is not nor ever has been whether ALL tea baggers are racist. It's an intellectually dishonest argument to paint any group of people with such a broad brush, and it was never done by anyone on the left. But since the right has grabbed hold of the narrative, they can dismiss any and all discussion by such a straw man.
Remember the timeline of events: The NAACP asked the tea party organizers to disavow the racist element that showed up at every tea party event. Not every tea bagger. But it's hard to argue that they didn't exist, especially with the preponderance of pictures proving so.
It's not an unheard of request. The Republican Party disavowed the fascist McCarthyites and also the extremist John Birchers at one point in time. Democrats were asked to disavow MoveOn for the Gen. Betrayus debacle.
But that doesn't work for polemicist and unabashed hater Andrew Breitbart. He instead decides that the way to respond to a call for civility and respect is to counter-attack with a smear, even if he has to make one up. And his thesis? If the tea party is racist, so is the NAACP. And to prove it, he shows an edited video of a 24 year old incident involving an African-American mid-level bureaucrat and a white farmer. So in Breitbart's Bizarro-World logic, NAACP = white racism = black government bureaucrat singly discriminating against white farmer (she didn't, but go along with the analogy)= ? Is Breitbart insinuating that a single incident 24 years ago is enough to indict the entire NAACP of white racism? And is Sherrod even a member of the NAACP? She's not an officer of the organization.
And don't think for a moment that the choice of a government employee who works to support the poor and needy is an accident either. This is just more serving of the oligarchy, a fact that the media conveniently lets slide down the memory hole.
If Breitbart--and the media enabling him and accepting his framing-- is going to use the analogy that one act condemns an entire group, why can't we call all tea baggers racist?
Let's see David Brooks answer THAT one.
This damn event/story last week should have been ALL about Breitbart. He is the scum who was a scum.
Without Breitbart there would have been no nightmare last week and Brooks would not have had to make up some bullshit false equivalentcy. If Fox News would not have given this shithead any time there would be nothing.
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who can't be bothered to put in the effort to do basic research or a piss-poor version of Michael Moore who can't be bothered to spend money on making a movie instead he has to use old HEAVILY EDITED video tape. He's neither a REPORTER or a POLITICAL DOCUMENTARIAN but he wants people to give him respect all the same. If Fox News or anyone in the media is too stupid to see what Andrew Breitbart is doing and that fueling the ego of a talentless psychopath is not called "REPORTING", it's called "ENABLING".
Well...dooooh...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
But look at what happened to Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus, Lucius Septimius Severus and Gaius Pescennius Niger...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Don't even get me going about what Howard Kurtz was up to today. He actually made Brooks look like an intellectual. Kurtz is a dumbass. But I digress. So did Brooks even mention that Breitbart was a scumbag who should never never never be allowed to be used a a source for anything as long as the earth is round? Did Brooks ever say anything about Breitbart? (I try and try not to watch Meet the Press)
and a call into Joan Walsh.
I'll be interested to see if she writes anything about it.
Brilliant minds think alike? lol
Also, I like Joan Walsh a lot. I'm really really curious if she will give you a quote or even return your call. She is good and it would be nice to see/hear from her more on C+L. On the show today the asshat that was on the panel with her was particularly dickish. It was funny when Walsh told him he was confused and she was not at the Netroots convention in Vegas and said she was in San Francisco. The dick laughed as if SF was what O'Reilly always claims. Hey just a minute Nicole, that's your neck of the woods too. You're not one of those... libruls are you?
both being San Francisco liberals and all.
I've never met her, but I'm hoping to remedy that this week, as Amato and Neiwert have a book signing in Berkeley.
Completely unverifiable story. What a bullshitter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er5ONQSwkaU
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
best friends are BoBos.
Be as you wish to seem
...right here: !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55aujTwuJY8&fe...
more where that came from too! ...here is a black man at a teaparty who ousts a racist provacateur!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8500HxYv-FE&fe...
I'm proud to stand with em' too.
(I'll admit there are not enough though, but people are waking up)
I live in Atlanta, Georgia and I have seen black teabaggers with my own eyes even!
I think alotta black folks know that Obama, Bush, repiglickants and dreamocraps are all full of s**T (believe it or not)
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So what if there are black tea baggers? Did anyone deny that there any? I feel the same way about black tea baggers as I do gay or minority Republicans: they're unable to think critically to see that they are supporting policies that are against their interest.
But tell me, how is that relevant to the discussion?
Like there's no black republcians
Like michael steele, kindanasty rice etc...
They identify with a class that isn't theirs
Or only so long as they prove useful
Like milk toast identifies with his corporate masters...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The Teabaggers are a predominantly White organization angered, frightened and galvanized since the 2008 election of President Obama.
Like most Republicans, you're full of off topic irrelevant distractions.
that if states' rights had prevailed in the 1960's the south would still be segregated, replete with voter discrimination and intimidation, and we wouldn't be having this discussion now.
And, by the way, the reason so many white power nuts show up for your teabagging rallies is because they recognize the teabagger "movement" as a libertarian affair and they froth at the mouth for states' rights for the very reason mentioned above. Any African Americans who want to be a part of that might as well tear up their voter registration cards right now.
some times is how white people act when friends of mine come up to me and say " my ****** " , or " negro " , its just to funny to watch , just like my brown brothers and sisters come up and slap a palm and fist bump and my sisters give me a big hug , its respect because that is the way i treat people , its from the heart something people who " know " some of color will never understand .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
The "some of my best friends are black" arguement - I never believed it before so why should I believe it now?
Sure all the tea baggers are not racist - but if you are a racist you are more likely to be a tea bagger.
And a Republican.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clBWa4hpOoc
See they can't be racist...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
These people, i.e. David Brooks, et al., are fucking insane. The Republicans have lost BOTH the Black and Hispanic votes forever. Emerging demographics for coming decades indicate they ought to be panicking about now. Instead they continue the jokes and insults. Day-yam, Jethro, this is getting funnier every time I read about it!
Proud DFH, emeritus!
Why oh why do blacks, hispanics and homosexuals continue to vote for rethugs? Why would you vote for a party that hates you?
NOBODY 2012
Same thing could be said about working people. I just don't get it?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Why does anyone of any race who isn't wealthy vote for a Republican ? They are quite literally against all but the very wealthiest .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
( Oakland CA ) and this punk would be sucking exhaust pipes , right quick and in a hurry .
Oh and sweet Andrew you might as well put a saddle on that POS .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
I loved how the likes of David Brooks and David Frum have been bemoaning the lack of intelligence behind much of the new panderers pretending to be politicians of the Right like Palin and Bachmann but now Brooks has turn around (realizing which side their bread is buttered on) and have cozied up to the very same Frankenstien's monster of willful ignorance called the Tea party that the likes of Palin and Bachmann help perpetuate.
It's clear that the neo-cons who pandered to the Religious Right with lip service for 4 decades (but with ZERO actual policy results) are not above doing the very same to Tea Party (with similar outcomes awaiting the willful dupes). STILL trying to salvage the failed policies that the likes of Brooks have been championing for decades is not going to change the fact that they are failed policies. Whether you call those policies "libertarianism" instead of "neo-conservativism" and whether those for whom you try to pander are now called the "Tea Party" instead of the 'Religious Right" it's the same tired broken record over and over again. Cultivate a base using fear while supporting the tired retreaded corporate-sponsored policies that create more billionaires, yes, but also more and more impoverished Americans while the Middle Class dwindles. Brooks has chosen to pander rather than to peruse the failings of his dear neo-con policies he has historically supported and owning up to some key mistakes of those policies and, perhaps, even trying to come up with better ideas. Good to know that for one-trick ponies like Brooks that a PAY CHECK is more important than salvaging what's left of the conservative ideology.
Brooks is just a two bit whore , a fart in the wind trying to maintain a pay check and income . The guy should be wearing a tutu , not a suit and tie .Saltpeter, you are dead on about the pandering and the lip service but it hasn't been just the neocon but the entire Republican party .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
had a word in it that was ****** , that is not the way i wrote it , it was meant to be as i wrote it , it must be a automatic delete however be it known , that was not how i wrote it , it was N****R and it is a term of endearment to some of us .
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Heh.. it's really kinda funny. Even when they come up with a great example of reverse racism, going back 24 years, it turns out to be wrong.
It's sorta like.. "Climategate" THOUSANDS of emails. 3 used as "evidence." Turns out to be wrong.
I'm not naive to the effect that they're not using propaganda, not fact. It's never about proving once and for all that these groups are evil, it's just about introducing things into the thought process of those who are willing to reconcile their perverse ideology with the reality around them. (Quote borrowed from Driftglass.)
But.. uh, yeah. From a logical standpoint. From a fact-based standpoint.. you gotta say. They really suck at this.
" I watched these two groups intermingle. Sitting at the same table, eating-- watching concerts together. Among most of those people, there was a fantastic atmosphere of just getting along on-- on a warm Sunday afternoon."
"Warm" Sunday afternoon? It was 100 sweltering degrees in DC! Bobo even spins the weather, he's such a dishonest hack he can't even call hot, hot.
Jogging in 100 degree heat makes Bobo see all kinds of things. He saw Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd sharing a brewsky too.
What a sad commentary on our country when simply being able to coexist in a large park together is the definition of racial progress.
The issue is not nor ever has been whether ALL tea baggers are racist. It's an intellectually dishonest argument to paint any group of people with such a broad brush, and it was never done by anyone on the left.
This statement is only true if you don't include black folks as being "on the left".
My mother always told me, "You're known by the company you keep."
I'm not gonna sit here and try to figure out which Tea Baggers are racists and which ones aren't. They sure don't sit around trying to figure out which black people are the "good ones" or which "Messicans" are here "legally" or which gay people are not "pedophiles" or make any distinctions of the sort.
I am not going to sit here and pretend that there is some merit to the Tea Party. There isn't. As far as I'm concerned it's the New Political Klan.
You can sit around and make distinctions if you wish, but I AM on the left and I as far as I'm concerned, they walk, quack and swim like and with some racist ass ducks.
Black Expo, what are you doing to get ready?
http://ingunowners.com/forums/break_room/9919...
Wow, lying Reslugs don't come any dumber.
If David Brooks was a dog...he'd be a prissy poodle.
"Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you." --Mr. Burns
Those are the teabaqgers that carry their signs with both pinky fingers extended.
(a) A Tea Party rally was being held on the Mall, which is a public park.
(b) The Black Family Reunion was also being held on the Mall.
(c) These two separate organizations were in the same place at the same time.
(d) Therefore, the Tea Party is not racist.
Umm, there's a bit of a disconnect in the logic there. It would be just as logical to say:
(a) Brooks was jogging/walking on the Mall on May 1st, or May Day.
(b) The Soviets traditionally held parades to celebrate Communist superiority on May Day.
(c) People walk in parades.
(d) Therefore, Brooks is actually a Soviet Communist that wants to overthrow democracy.
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