And liberals have bailed on msnbc – I know many. people don’t like being treated like idiots, or being lied to.

Just because I think msnbc is a joke you assume I have a conservative view of the world? I was a democrat until 2008. I am an independent.

“Isn’t that the real reason Beck and Hannity are going nuts? When they say outrageous things, they get more viewers”

Olby, Tingles, Maddow and Ed do nothing but spew craziness nightly, but they don’t seem to be drawing in the viewers… Perhaps calling *viewers* racist isn’t the best way to win friends and influence people.

Jim Treacher says:
August 28, 2009 at 2:37 pm
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And one-quarter of Hannity’s.

Well said. Whereas I think it’s amusing that when someone calls for more people to be hired on Fox News soley based on the color of their skin, you don’t think they’re calling for quotas.

Right… that’s why Maddows ratings are quadrupled compared to Dan Abrams. Just because Maddow doesn’t fit into your conservative view of the world doesn’t mean she doesn’t make MSNBC money. Isn’t that the real reason Beck and Hannity are going nuts? When they say outrageous things, they get more viewers, and in turn make their broadcasters money. Maybe you can explain to me why Rush Limbaugh has a $300 million contract, but he still “fight’s for the people”.

That’s right…Scarborough Country, which was replaced by Live with Dan Abrams, and then replaced by Rachel Maddow.

They definitely went downhill after Dan.

Well, since the devastation from Katrina was 90,000 miles long (a lot of that area continues to look as ravished as post-WWII Europe…) it’s more than a bit of a “long stretch” to suggest that black citizens in New Orleans were singled out for neglect.

That Keith Olbermann (along with other partisans) has no difficulty in finding a Katrina “nexus” of inefficiency when it involves whites and racist neglect when it involves people of color, is hardly a news flash.

If you’re suggesting that Katrina gives Olbermann an objective (rather than subjective) platform for accusing Bush of racism (and that’s what this accusation is, make no mistake) that Glenn Beck does not have, you’d be hard-pressed to make that case in the light of the facts.

You’d have even less of case for justifying Olbermann and the rest of MSNBC’s daily smearing of Obama critics as being extremist cross-burning militia assassins at worst, ignorant “rednecks” at best.

An irony that speaks to a smug elitist intolerance and bigotry that is utterly lost on these people, as they insult and smear ordinary critics in a way that makes Glenn Beck’s remark seem incidental in comparison.

Scarborough had a primetime show on MSNBC. It was called Scarborough Country. Check your facts.

Furthermore, information that I have received from several of the companies that coc claims are boycotting Beck, aren’t boycotting him at all. It’s smoke and mirrors from coc.

Now, Olbermann tells his viewers he is embarrassed to be white. If Keith is embarrassed, then there is only one solution for him — fine, quit your show Olbermann and turn it over one of those “MSNBC black anchors” that Ryan mentioned above .

You mean like how msnbc gave Joe Scarborough a primetime slot?

Those sorts of comments, directed at conservatives in general, are so routine that they hardly elicit more than a yawn from the broader media.

At MSNBC, on their late morning offering, Contessa Brewer and David Shuster have smeared a plethora of Obama critics, ROUTINELY linking them to white supremacists and domestic terrorists.”

Not to mention the President calling the Boston Police stupid (acted stupidly) thus siding with Gates that they were racist.

Olbermann and Garofalo calling conservatives straight up teabagging racist rednecks. Malloy wishing for the suicide death of Glenn Beck. Ed Shultz and the msnbc liberals have ALL slammed conservatives and viewers of FOX. Hell, Olbermann just called them all tin foil hat wearing racists. They are so desperate their pundits attack normal citizens (O’Donnell salivating while attacking Katy Abram) and guests (Peter Schiff) They are PATHETIC.

The only reason no one has called for a boycott of msnbc is because no one watches it anymore.

Glenn Beck has every right to think Obama is racist. Wright is. And Obama seems to think middle america is a bunch of gun and bible clinging racists. Obama thinks anyone who opposes him does so because he doesn’t look like the other Presidents on the money, he has a funny name… He and the Dems played the race card over and over and over again, insinuating anyone who opposed him was racist. NOW the left is getting their panties in a twist because Beck states he thinks Obama is a racist?

Half of the country has been called racist for two years by everyone from Obama to Pelosi and all the democrats and the liberal media.

Boycott Beck my ass. Boycott liberal media and the Democrats!

And funny thing…it seems like everyone is. The polls are dropping, and so are the liberal media ratings.

What laws, what changes to the legal system? Incredible hyperbole. Stop making stuff up.

If conservatives believed in opposing viewpoints they should’ve given Alan Colmes Hannity’s or Beck’s timeslot.

Well, the black community at large took Bush’s inaction during Katrina’s swallowing of New Orleans as a racial issue. I think it’s legitimate to ask the question whether if New Orleans was filled with white people the Bush Administration’s alertness would’ve been different.

Quite a difference from Obama, who’s already half-white, has white family, pretty much works around a majority of whites all day, gets called a “racist” who has a “has a deep-seated hatred for white people” and “white culture”.

@Jim Treacher

I love how the fact you think that as soon as black people acquire a good job, it’s due to quotas. This is why minorities don’t flock to the Republicans.

Back in October 2008, Michael Barone wrote an article titled “The Coming Obama Thugocracy”. It’s amazing how dead-on he was about Obama and his supporters suppressing free speech.

Reparations.

“At least CNN and MSNBC HAVE black anchors on their network, Tony Harris, Carlos Watson, Don Lemon, to name a few. Kelly ‘whatever-his-name-is’ that’s on Fox hosts on the WEEKEND, ouch. And outside of that Uma (African name) that does breaking news, THAT’S IT for Fox.”

Quotas.

Wow, you guys really are the party of new ideas.

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Uma is not African; she is Indian, I believe. Her last name is Pemmaraju. Get it right, d-bag.

Geez, can’t you go to the source for once, instead of the race pimps and class envy groups for your own validation?

Lame, indeed.

I am not defending FNC on their lack of black personnel, we know their record, but CNN and MSNBC pride themselves on being pro minority, but have still balked at putting a black anchor, man or woman, in their prime time lineup.

Well, let’s remember the rednecks weren’t the ones that were slaves for 300 years, and had to endure another 100 under “jim crow”.

Neither did Obama and neither did James Rucker.

If you’re arguing that the people who David Gergen insulted as being rednecks, have never experienced intolerance, how do you know? And isn’t Gergen’s appellation proof otherwise?

If you’re suggesting that these people’s ancestors never experienced hardship and intolerance, again what assumptions are you making and how do you know?

“where was the outrage when David Gergen, a supposedly objective strategist, called those opposed to Obama “rednecks.” Where were the boycotts when that happened? ”

Well, let’s remember the rednecks weren’t the ones that were slaves for 300 years, and had to endure another 100 under “jim crow”.

@libra blue

“For all their complaining about and finger pointing at FNC, there still isn’t a black anchor during prime time on either CNN or MSNBC.”

At least CNN and MSNBC HAVE black anchors on their network, Tony Harris, Carlos Watson, Don Lemon, to name a few. Kelly “whatever-his-name-is” that’s on Fox hosts on the WEEKEND, ouch. And outside of that Uma (African name) that does breaking news, THAT’S IT for Fox.

For all their complaining about and finger pointing at FNC, there still isn’t a black anchor during prime time on either CNN or MSNBC. They should step up and set an example starting with Olbermann and Anderson, the whitest person on TV.

Ostensibly, this wasn’t a promo for his fave dayglo-orange Mystik Tan, but rather an expression of sorrow over the racial hatred he says he’s heard this year from white people (*who aren’t him…).

Well, that’s not good enough, mister!

As penance for the sins of white people (*who aren’t you…), you must demand that your show be boycotted by the Color of Change!

THEN and only then will you be deemed sufficiently remorseful and worthy of atonement for the sins of white people (*who most assuredly aren’t you…)

*Keith Olbermann is and only is apologizing for the heinous character failings of other people who are NOT him…

libra blue, I think that attitude reflects the problem.

One fairly innocuous comment, evoking the level of melanin in a person’s skin, and you’re a racist.

All the cultural landmines, that have been planted as political weaponry, aren’t any less vicious and irrational simply because one’s opponent happens to step on one.

Oh, I’m well aware that they mainly obstacles for one side of the political equation (see my post above), but again, irrational is irrational. No matter who is acting that way.

IMO, it is racist for the Obama administration to drop charges against the militant New Black Panther Party’s intimidation tactics at the polling places in November. The MSM doesn’t seem to have a problem with that.

Double standards at its worst.

A group called The Color of Skin … eh… Color of Change, rather.

That’s generally the purpose of such actions.