PBS and ABC have racist bigots on the payroll – Tavis Smiley & Whoopie
My headline is “sensationalized” simply because I’m sick of progressives like Tavis Smiley and Whoopie Goldberg continually going to the same well over-and-over and branding conservatives and those associated with the TEA party as racist bigots. That’s all they have in their bag of tricks. PBS and ABC should immediately fire Smiley and Goldberg.
But then of course, both PBS and ABC would be branded as racist bigots. The cycle continues.
Smiley brings out the same old lie about the Secret Service having to work “overtime” and the number of death threats being “more than all previous presidents combined.” Hogwash. In December 2009, the Secret Service stated threats were no higher than normal and there has been no additional reports of more-than-average threats.
Was Smiley disturbed about all the threats to President Bush (43)? The frequent signs at protests suggesting he should be shot? How about that fictional novel discussing the assassination of Bush?
Crickets.
Of course, Smiley thinks we should be talking about important things – stuff that really matters. He’s type of lefty statist that would walk into a room of conservatives and TEA party members to have a discussion about stuff that really matters. During his welcome speech, he’d insult the group by calling them racist, bigot, gun nuts who want senior citizens to die and children to starve.
Kind of like what President Obama did to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) last week.
When the TEA party members and conservatives walked out, he’d go straight to a TV camera and complain nobody on “the other side” wants to discuss the real issues in America.
Screw you Smiley. When you say this kind of crap, you lose all of your credibility with people like me who really do discuss the issues.
Speaking of the race card, at least Whoopie Goldberg admits pulling it from the bottom of the deck and dealing it now. She’s trying oh-so-hard hard not to think it’s about race for conservatives, but like most liberals she pulling out the card as the Obama economy, foreign policy, and domestic policy are all falling apart.
Click the video links to watch either clip over at Real Clear Politics, both of which were captured on the ABC and PBS networks within the last day or so.
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It’s all so strange how they forget about the President’s Caucasian half but, I guess that half does not matter.
“To the workman who only owns a hammer, everything must be a nail.”? Mr. Obama’s supporters, having no grounds on which to defend his fecklessness, must accuse his opponents of racism.
After watching the Whoopie video clip I scrolled down to read some of the comments. People crack me up! One guy’s response to another…”In 2008, you voted for Obama to prove that you’re not racist. In 2012, who are you going to vote for to prove that you’re not an idiot?”
Tired of this race card garbage…can’t a guy be criticized just for the plain old fact that he’s not qualified and is doing a lousy job?
Apparently not.
“Brutha'”Smiley and Whoopi Goldberg play the race card because it is the only card in their hand.? ?bama does the same thing, because it is easy, and puts their opposition on the defensive, which is utter crap.? The race card requires no facts, no argument, no basis for its use, as Goldberg so eloquently stated.? All these people can see is racism, because it is all they want to see, and their careers depend on race.?? Once you get through that thin veneer, they have no competent argument, and they know it (well, some do).
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Both of them think that the fact that they are black gives them carte blanche to do as they please.??? Whoopi is a moron, and Smiley may not be one, but he plays one on TV.? In neither case is this attributable to their race, but their use of the race card is.
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As stated above, ?bama sucks because he is a lousy president, not merely incompetent, but determined to foist his socialist agenda down our throats.? The whole birth certificate thing was contrived by him and perpetuated by him and his refusal to release said document.
I don’t think Smiley or Oprah are unintelligent but they are playing their only card as you said.
They will soon be relegated to the depths of Sharpton & Jackson.
And the insulting continues (even the birth certificate non-issue makes it on this post). If insults were supported/replaced by facts/arguments/reasoned discourse? there would be more credibility.
My point exactly.? Accusations of racism and bigotry, where none is present, is little more than name calling, not discourse.? It is used to short circuit discourse when the left is losing the argument.
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Sticks and stones….
Both sides are losing the argument.?? Racism is alive and well the world over and won’t go away no matter who is president. So let it go to the back burner while we deal realistically with our debt and financial crisis.? Sorry to say but I’d bet in the end we will both raise taxes and cut spending.? No matter how hard we attack each other, on some “historic” day in the future Dems and Reps will ink their deal to do both with?much self-congratulations.??
Sounds good to me!? But why do we have to wait?
I’m speechless, great post. I’m sorry it’s so true.
David R, I agree with you. At the same time I also believe that we will keep reading/hearing arguments by both sides of the racial divide, and each side will claim to have been wronged.
Those two are made of glass———–most of us can see right through them. Too bad there are those in our country that can’t think for themselves snd believe all they see on ABS and PMS errrrr? PBS
When old Whippie runs out of arguments she uses the race card to shut people up. Smiley is no better then she, but not quite as smart. The Left has no clue how to turn things around in this awful economy, and their grand ideas are very expensive and inefficient. Their ideas are simply bankrupt. All they have left is anger and frustration, and it’s really starting to show.
I used to like Whoppie. But after she came on the View, I’ve learned what she is all about and I can’t stand to look at her anymore.
She isn’t the only one. I am so sick of the race card over the last several years, actually many more years than that but never so blatant and obvious as now. I have decided I don’t care what they want to call me. I disliked Clinton almost as much as Obama and plenty of other presidents. But now because he is a black man, I’m a racist, we’re all racists because we don’t agree with him and his evil ways. Well how about if I just say it’s the white half of him I don’t like? Does that work Whoppie? Well if it doesn’t I don’t care, your racism is?showing and you won’t win an acadamy award for that. ?
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Speaking of anger and frustration, Eric, there is plenty of that on every posting on this blog. As to bankrupt ideas those put forth by Rep. Ryan et al. are the same old worn mantras that have contributed to where the country is now.
But of course,? your implication is that the economic virtuosity of ?bama et al. will bring us out of the economic wilderness, right?
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Ryan may have “bankrupt ideas” (like reform and cutting unnecessary spending and living within your means), ?bama will lead the country to bankruptcy.? If you can look at our deficit and national debt, and refute this, then by all means, do so.? Or start taking Mandarin lessons.
In response to “Why do we have to wait?” for our leaders to compromise.? Political points have to be made and the bases have to be mollified before ideology?will take a back seat to pragmatism.? Ideology, while nice in theory, has to get its edges rounded off to work with the other guys ideology. Nearly every president who starts out as an idealogue ends up a pragmatist by his second term. Same happens to Congressmen if they don’t get corrupted first by the system. Tea Partiers too will back off once reality hits.? When it happens, don’t get too angry. They have already made a great contribution by demanding change within the Republican Party. Democrats could benefit from a similar activism.? In my view we won’t really get change until we pressure both parties to take government back from the lobbyists, large contributors and the fat cats who have no ideology other than “for me and mine”.
I have to agree, David.? But it is the mollification of the bases that is causing the problem.? A slow pragmatism is good, but “governing like a one term XXX” is better, a la Chris Christie.? That is why term limit might be necessary.? Let’s abolish the career politician.? Imagine fresh members, full of bright ideas and real world experience vs. stagnated, party politics infused dead wood leading the parties today.
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But then, as some say, I am a dreamer….
The Democrats AND the Republicans have contributed to the situation we are in. Neither Pres. Obama’s alone NOR Rep. Ryan alone will get us out of the mess. I, for one, don’t believe that either party has formulated the solution to the current fiscal problem. We need a compromise, like or not.
Hasn’t the deficit tripled under Obama’s “leadership”?? In only 2 years?? Some people may want to blame both parties, but the only party responsible for the current insane spending is the Democrat party.? When the administration is trying to apply the same $500 billion to two different government programs, there’s definitely something fishy in Denmark.? I guess that makes me a Dane-ist.
Whenever the left starts spouting their accusations of racism, my ears close and I simply chalk it up to the fact that they must, must, must defend Obama at all costs…even if it comes down to making slanderous comments about anyone who thinks he’s done an atrocious job as President.? Let them think/say what they will…Just because someone says something does not make it so.
You would think that if the Democrat Party had a better idea, they would have used it by now, and at minimum, stopped the bleeding, but they have increased the bleeding to hemorrhage proportions, and more is to come with the onset of ?bamacare.? Where is the economy saving plan?