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FoxNews.com Asks ‘Is Jon Stewart Racist?’

by Alex Alvarez | 5:06 pm, June 28th, 2011

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Pass the popcorn and David Hasselhoff popsicles! Fox News is gently fanning the flames of the smoldering Jon Stewart / Herman Cain “rivalry” by asking, in a FoxNews.com blog post written by Bernie Goldberg, “Is Jon Stewart racist?”

Some context: Monday night, GOP presidential hopeful Cain told Fox News’ Juan Williams that Stewart dislikes him because he is “an American black conservative,” adding that, “when he mocks me in the dialect of old Amos and Andy, I think that’s a problem.”

Last week, Cain had laughed off Stewart’s impression while speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, telling him that “as far as him mocking me, look I’ve been called every name in the book because I’m a conservative, because I’m black. Sticks and stones may break my bones, words are not going to hurt me.” and “the fact that he wants to mock me because I happen to be a black conservative, in the words of my Grandfather, ‘I does not care. I does not care.’”

Goldberg’s post doesn’t beat around the bush when it comes to making its central point: A double-standard exists where political leanings and perceived instances of racism are concerned:

If the white guy is Rush Limbaugh and the black man is Barack Obama, then of course the white guy is a racist – according to liberals.

But if the white guy is Jon Stewart and the black man is Herman Cain, the conservative businessman seeking the Republican nomination for president, well, then, that’s another story.

This is, of course, not always the case.

Goldberg continues:

But why isn’t Jon Stewart a bigot, when Limbaugh and Hannity and O’Reilly would be tagged as racists if they had done the very same thing? That’s easy. Because Jon Stewart is a liberal and liberals aren’t racists. Only conservatives are.

And if you don’t believe me, just ask any liberal.

Goldberg’s advice to conservatives who find themselves dealing with liberals who would take some sort of moral high ground when it comes to issues of race is to simply beat them at their own game, as it were, and “play fast and loose with the word ‘racist.’” He concludes by saying that, yes, Stewart’s impression was unequivocally racist.

It’s to Fox News’ benefit to keep this particular meme going because 1) it makes Stewart look bad, particularly since it essentially adds fuel to the animosity likely already harbored by many at Fox News and, 2) it makes Stewart look bad. But, in the long term, it serves only to reduce matters of race and ethnicity to trump cards held, at the ready, in the back pockets of pundits and politicians on either side of the aisle, to be pulled out whenever it suits either side. It’s an unsavory practice that ultimately works to alienate both liberals and conservatives who don’t happen to be white Anglos, rendering, say, a black conservative forever “a black conservative” rather than an individual who is conservative and also black, or black and also conservative.

Likewise, when Democrats or Republicans discuss garnering, say,”the black vote” or “the Latino vote,” it speaks to a fundamental lack of understanding, bolstering the impression that black and/or American Latinos vote as monolithic, homogeneous blocks without different social classes, religious beliefs, or cultural values coming into play. So let’s, perhaps, take a step back from using “racist!” as a strategic peon in some grotesque game played out on evening political news shows, particularly since this ultimately works to render a serious accusation essentially meaningless and causes the word to lose whatever power it may otherwise have had. How can we intelligently and productively discuss whether something like Jon “I’m a comedian” Stewart’s impression is racist or hateful if we have to deal with the possibility that such as allegation is simply being exploited for political points? How genuine can any offense at a given act or word be if there’s a concern or admission that such a reaction is used as a strategy in shaming or “beating” the other side?

h/t FoxNews.com

Bernie Goldberg, fox news, Herman Cain, Jon Stewart, Racism

http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

Fox playing the race card, as usual. Although this time it’s in the normal direction, instead of the reverse racism they normally claim.

Us persecuted white Christian males in America in the 21st century just don’t have it as good as those GD negroes and hispanics, I tell ya. When’s white history month?
Nacho

Bernie Goldberg is a racist.
lonestar77

“But, in the long term, it serves only to reduce matters of race and ethnicity to trump cards held, at the ready, in the back pockets of pundits and politicians on either side of the aisle, to be pulled out whenever it suits either side. ”

That’s cute. Of course, we never hear this when liberals, particularly in the media, slander conservatives as racist for just about anything. And, that happens on a daily basis.
Raygun

“But why isn’t Jon Stewart a bigot, when Limbaugh and Hannity and O’Reilly would be tagged as racists if they had done the very same thing?”

If Limbaugh, Hannity or O’Reilly had done this, conservatives would consider it innocent satire and any outrage against it “political correctness gone mad” and persecution by the lame-stream media. But because a liberal did this, conservatives will tag it as racist.

You can’t have it both ways guys, either you hate political correctness, or you embrace it.
Dave Splash

Hey Fox and you rightie supporters of the most biased news organization in world history, you are engaging in projection: “a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings”
Tedderman

This is awesome, does Faux news realize their viewers will be tuning into Stewart now? What’s going to happen when they learn something? Wow, this is going to be big.
Azarkhan

Jon’s not racist. He just a whiner when it comes to Fox News. Time to grow up Jon–Fox News is going to be with us for a long, long time.
Zandandido

Tedderman said:
This is awesome, does Faux news realize their viewers will be tuning into Stewart now? What’s going to happen when they learn something? Wow, this is going to be big.

Did you hear what he said in the Amos and Andy voice that Herman Cain can’t read? Are all black people stupid? Obviously not. Barack Obama who went to Columbia and Harvard is black. Herman Cain who ran a successful business is black.
Hugo Daun

Nacho said:
Bernie Goldberg is a racist.

Don’t know for sure about that, but he’s CERTAINLY a douche-bag.
Hugo Daun

Azarkhan said:
Fox News is going to be with us for a long, long time.

Unlike MOST of its current viewers…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Zandandido

Raygun said:
“But why isn’t Jon Stewart a bigot, when Limbaugh and Hannity and O’Reilly would be tagged as racists if they had done the very same thing?”

If Limbaugh, Hannity or O’Reilly had done this, conservatives would consider it innocent satire and any outrage against it “political correctness gone mad” and persecution by the lame-stream media. But because a liberal did this, conservatives will tag it as racist.

You can’t have it both ways guys, either you hate political correctness, or you embrace it.

But what about liberals in that scenario? If liberals had done it, they would say they are joking or they can do it. But if a conservative does it, they must quit their job and be thrown out of the country.
Zandandido

Hugo Daun said:
Unlike MOST of its current viewers…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I think you are talking about MSNBC, CNN, and Headline News. Who is consistently in first place in the ratings? Fox News? Yepp, Fox News.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

“So let’s, perhaps, take a step back from using “racist!” as a strategic peon in some grotesque game played out on evening political news shows”

Of course you say that now that a fellow left winger is caught in another glaring example of hypocrisy. If anyone on the right had said this about Obama, they would have been tared and feathered. a liberal does it and we’re all just supposed to look the other way.
AikidoJoe

I don’t think all Left wing opposition to Herman Cain is based solely on racism but you you can’t deny that some of the opposition to him from the Left is motivated by his race. To what percentage, we can’t be sure. I call on Mediaite to denounce that racism all the same. If they don’t, then they are racist.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

I mean, amongst the rational-thinking, is there really any doubt of the blatant double-racial-standard on the part of Democrats – and THEIR MEDIA!?

It’s laughable, and it’s being EXPOSED more & more.
crclarkNY

Okay – let’s stop using the term racist. Liberals start first.
redleaf

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let me get this straight: Fox News is marshaling their news gathering forces and devoting valuable airtime to denigrating a liberal?
I AM SHOCKED, GOOD SIRS!
SHOCKED!
GuessWhoSuka

redleaf said:
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Let me get this straight: Fox News is marshaling their news gathering forces and devoting valuable airtime to denigrating a liberal?
I AM SHOCKED, GOOD SIRS!
SHOCKED!

hehehe………they’re asking for it again…those twits never learn I tell ya..
Yoda002

Azarkhan said:
Jon’s not racist. He just a whiner when it comes to Fox News. Time to grow up Jon–Fox News is going to be with us for a long, long time.

I think Jon wants Fox to continue because it makes for endless comedy.
jakester

Speaking of bigotry, a man who is running for president and says he would never hire a Muslim is already a bigot, up yours, pizza man.
mmars

Fox news and Cain are right on this one! The “progressives” are the racist ones. Pay attention and you will see its true.
jakester

AikidoJoe said:
I don’t think all Left wing opposition to Herman Cain is based solely on racism but you you can’t deny that some of the opposition to him from the Left is motivated by his race. To what percentage, we can’t be sure. I call on Mediaite to denounce that racism all the same. If they don’t, then they are racist.

Really considering Cain himself is a blatant bigot as well as a simple minded teabagger, I doubt his race is the key issue. I am sure that way more cons have it in for O about race than libs for Cain about his race, about 10 to 1. Remember, the southern strategy netted the GOP all those bias free white southerners.
felixw

Maybe Jon Stewart can do an entire show in his Amos & Andy stereotyped black voice. But what he can he do to top THAT? I know….blackface.
jakester

Dronetek said:
“So let’s, perhaps, take a step back from using “racist!” as a strategic peon in some grotesque game played out on evening political news shows”

Of course you say that now that a fellow left winger is caught in another glaring example of hypocrisy. If anyone on the right had said this about Obama, they would have been tared and feathered. a liberal does it and we’re all just supposed to look the other way.

And the people on the right would support him and say stop being so politically correct. You can’t have it both ways: whine about PC then get all PC when it is one of your guys.
struckgld

Well of course he is racist: He is WHITE AIN’T HE?
struckgld

Dere ain’ nobody as racist as you white devels.
struckgld

Peopel nead to no dose white devels is da most racist of anybody, ceptin black folk that r liter in blakcness dan oder black folk.
Bill Huggins

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

LOVE LOVE LOVE reading the uninformed comments on this page by the CONS who NEVER EVER EVER watch Stewart but try and ACT like they’re the UPMOST AUTHORITY on the thugs he says and does

HILARIOUS

Stewart must have REALLY GOTTEN UNDER FOX’s CRAW; especially after Wallace confessed that they tell the “conservative side” of the news. HAHAHAHAHAHA TRY AND SMEAR STEWART ALL YOU WANT

You have NO IDEA what you’re talking about.

Plus: as was mentioned earlier, NOW you CONS care about POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?!?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhHhHhHahahahahaha
Dem4Ever

It truly is a shame that Jon Stewart didn’t take the epic opportunity to demonstrate that Liberals are as tolerant as they claim to be. Instead, he fueled the often justified suspicion that they have not evolved as much as they like to believe and are just as racist as their Democratic ancestors of the recent past.
JerseyJones

Jon Stewart was black before Bill Clinton was. Before John Mayer. Before Robert Byrd. Jon Stewart can’t be racist…he’s black himself. And anyway, one of his limo drivers is black.
Bill Huggins

Bill Huggins said:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

LOVE LOVE LOVE reading the uninformed comments on this page by the CONS who NEVER EVER EVER watch Stewart but try and ACT like they’re the UPMOST AUTHORITY on the things he says and does

HILARIOUS

Stewart must have REALLY GOTTEN UNDER FOX’s CRAW; especially after Wallace confessed that they tell the “conservative side” of the news. HAHAHAHAHAHA TRY AND SMEAR STEWART ALL YOU WANT

You have NO IDEA what you’re talking about.

Plus: as was mentioned earlier, NOW you CONS care about POLITICAL CORRECTNESS?!?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhHhHhHahahahahaha
jim bronson 990cc

Chriissie shows he is tough on GOPers by asking the “flake” question to Mikki. Then he apologolizes, showing he is not tough. Chrissie, make up your mind. Or is that Rup’s job?
seek

jim bronson 990cc said:
Chriissie shows he is tough on GOPers by asking the “flake” question to Mikki. Then he apologolizes, showing he is not tough. Chrissie, make up your mind. Or is that Rup’s job?

How do you feel about Chris’s hair? You seem to be into hair a lot.
TillieGlockenspiel

The answer to the question is “Yes.”
unmutual

“Is Jon Stewart racist?”

He sho’ am, Kingfish!
Leftist Asshat

So let’s, perhaps, take a step back from using “racist!” as a strategic peon in some grotesque game

No way man!

Just because it took Conservatives three years to finally figure out how to play the game doesn’t mean us Leftists have to stop using the race card on people we want to silence!
CosmosDan

Couple minor points. Equating a comic who constantly does comic voices as part of his act , with Limbaugh, Hannity, and ORielly, is in itself a fail, and giant misdirection from someone on the Fox payroll.

The meme that Jon did an Amos and Andy voice is an exaggeration at best. He did not do a dialect.

Did he happen to mention that Jon acknowledged that conservatives had been accused of racism too easily, on more than one occasion, including his interview with Wallace?
jim bronson 990cc

seek said:
How do you feel about Chris’s hair? You seem to be into hair a lot.

Hair is grea. Especially if it can be pulled, baldy!
Leftist Asshat

crclarkNY said:
Okay – let’s stop using the term racist. Liberals start first.

Make me, racist! You probably want to bring back slavery like Michelle Bachmann!
Leftist Asshat

struckgld said:
Well of course he is racist: He is WHITE AIN’T HE?

No he’s Jewish, Bagger! And Jews can only be racist against Palestinians, not Blacks!
CosmosDan

So, is there a certain satisfaction in treating someone as unfairly as you feel you’ve been treated? Especially a someone who has defended you on this very issue?
Leftist Asshat

I personally think Stewart totally and epically nailed the reason why Cain is a Conservative. It’s because he’s a stupid, illiterate Black guy that can’t read and talks funny!
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

Cain is nothing special and this controversy will come back to bite fox in the ass big time.. don’t mess with Jon Stewart.. it won’t end well..
Leftist Asshat

CosmosDan said:
Couple minor points. Equating a comic who constantly does comic voices as part of his act , with Limbaugh, Hannity, and ORielly, is in itself a fail, and giant misdirection from someone on the Fox payroll.

The meme that Jon did an Amos and Andy voice is an exaggeration at best. He did not do a dialect.

Did he happen to mention that Jon acknowledged that conservatives had been accused of racism too easily, on more than one occasion, including his interview with Wallace?

Great points!

Jon Stewart was wearing his clown nose when he implied that Cain was a stupid, illiterate Black guy who talks funny, so no one can really take exception to what he was doing.

And that wasn’t Kingfish who Stewart was emulating. It was just what Stewart thought a stupid, illiterate Black guy would sound like.
kvon

JerseyJones said:
Jon Stewart was black before Bill Clinton was. Before John Mayer. Before Robert Byrd. Jon Stewart can’t be racist…he’s black himself. And anyway, one of his limo drivers is black.

I can see that you’ve never seen a black person before.
The Lantern of Truth

Is Jon Stewart Racist?’

Si.
Ronald McReagan

Jon Stewart uses a variety of different voices because he is a comedian. I think it’s comedy that is racist.
GuessWhoSuka

Of course Fox asks if Stewart is racist….
Man these twits just never ever learn…
Can’t wait for the smackdown.
catfishjuggling show

It’s a fair question to ask.

It’s also fair to ask if Glenn Beck raped and killed a girl in 1990.

They’re just questions people.
GuessWhoSuka

catfishjuggling show said:
It’s a fair question to ask.

It’s also fair to ask if Glenn Beck raped and killed a girl in 1990.

They’re just questions people.

lol!….I saw that sketch….pretty good stuff…cheers!
ProObamaAgenda

Dave Splash said:
Hey Fox and you rightie supporters of the most biased news organization in world history, you are engaging in projection: “a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings”

i agree with you but ….what you said went right over the heads of the dumbass, moronic, inbred, crossburnin asshats that hang out here spreading hate like fires in arizona
CosmosDan

Leftist Asshat says:
Great points!

Jon Stewart was wearing his clown nose when he implied that Cain was a stupid, illiterate Black guy who talks funny, so no one can really take exception to what he was doing.

And that wasn’t Kingfish who Stewart was emulating. It was just what Stewart thought a stupid, illiterate Black guy would sound like.

Well thanks for helping make my point. What specifically about anything Jon said , indicated stupid or illiterate, or even specifically black.? {other than mocking the stupid thing Cain had said}

please, back up your own words.

What you did was expose the stereotype that Fox is trying to make believe Jon used. When you repeat Amos and Andy over and over, it does conjure a stereotype of a stupid illiterate black guy. The bothersome detail is , that’s not what Jon did.
TillieGlockenspiel

As everyone with half a brain and eyes to see can tell, the clinical definition of projection actually defines the Left in this country and their minions in the media.
dandelion28

You guys don’t get it, do you? Liberals think people who pick on the poor and minorities while defending the powerful are racist … because they ARE. We don’t think a comedian who defends the poor and minorities while poking fun at the powerful is racist … because he isn’t. So when Stewart picks on Cain is it because Cain is black or because he’s a rich politician? There is no double standard. I know that context is hard for you binary thinkers, but humor is based entirely on cultural context. To not recognize that is to be like the infant who thinks Daddy disappears when he covers his face with his hands.
TillieGlockenspiel

When Stewart mocks Cain with a “Holy Mackerel der, Sapphire” voice, he’s being racist as h@LL, no matter how you want to justify it.
felixw

If any TV pundit on the right did the same shucking an jiving black imitation that Stewart dished out (to ridicule an African-American, no less), he would be fired within hours. But the same leftwingers who accuse EVERYONE on the right of racism, bend over backwards to ignore a very embarrassing spectacle by one of their own.
fishchef

TillieGlockenspiel said:
As everyone with half a brain and eyes to see can tell, the clinical definition of projection actually defines the Left in this country and their minions in the media.

“minions” “da bomb” “groovy” time to stop
stoogedudes

Oh, Christ Almighty.

No, Jon Stewart isn’t a racist, it’s foolish to imply he is.

People know Jon Stewart isn’t racist. The only reason a conservative is brining this up is because too many liberals (one is too many) shout racism whenever someone criticizes Obama and they’re using the “shoe’s on the other foot” argument. Seriously, just about every article on this site about a liberal has at least one conservative commenting: “If a conservative did this, they’d be trashed all over.” Conservatives have become such victims lately. That said…

I wish my fellow liberals would stop using the race card everytime a conservative bashes Obama. The word racist has been so watered down and rendered meaningless these days. I do think there is an inherent hatred of our President by many on the right, but it’s not because of the color of his skin.

Like Jon himself said, to call a tea partier racist is not only an insult to the tea partier, but also to the actual racist, who put so much time and effort into his hatred.
Leftist Asshat

CosmosDan said:
Well thanks for helping make my point. What specifically about anything Jon said , indicated stupid or illiterate, or even specifically black.?

You got me!

Some TeaBagger played a trick on me and sent me a link to this video, which obviously isn’t Stewart saying “I’m Herman Cain and I don’t like to read” while speaking like he’s performing at a Minstrel show

We all know that Blacks were always portrayed in a positive way as intelligent people who didn’t say stupid things during Minstrel shows.
Leftist Asshat

Leftist Asshat said:
You got me!

Some TeaBagger played a trick on me and sent me a link to this video, which obviously isn’t Stewart saying “I’m Herman Cain and I don’t like to read” while speaking like he’s performing at a Minstrel show

We all know that Blacks were always portrayed in a positive way as intelligent people who didn’t say stupid things during Minstrel shows.

Ooops…here’s the that video which isn’t Stewart saying “I’m Herman Cain and I don’t like to read” while speaking like he’s performing at a Minstrel show
TucsonTerpFan

Jon Stewart is typical of many, perhaps even most, on the left. The idea that a black person can be conservative is incomprehensible.

It’s now “how can you be,” it’s “how dare you be.”

Yes, it’s racist, but it’s pervasive on the left.
Nature Freak

American Latinos and Hispanics are very diverse. I live in Florida, and most Hispanics where I live are Puerto Rican and Cuban. Puerto Ricans and Cubans are very different from Mexicans.

Latin America is much more than Mexico. And I say this without demeaning Mexicans. Here in Florida, it is also very obvious that Hispanic is cultural not racial. Florida and California’s experience with Latin Americans and Hispanics is miles apart, in more ways than one. People are individuals above everything else, not just some monolithic stereotype.
catfishjuggling show

I’m looking forward to the fun thread that’ll be going on once they post the segment from tonight’s show. This will be fun.
TucsonTerpFan

make that “not” not “now”
Nature Freak

My point is, that we are all individuals first. Our individuality transcends race. I disagree with modern conservatism but also realize there are African Americans who identify with Conservatism. They have the right.

I am a White person living in a Republican area of Florida. There is pressure here to vote Republican. I also have the right to support Democrats and the left.

I wish America would grow up. Both sides of the political spectrum.
CosmosDan

Leftist Asshat says:
Ooops…here’s the that video which isn’t Stewart saying “I’m Herman Cain and I don’t like to read” while speaking like he’s performing at a Minstrel show

Seen it a couple of times, but thanks again for helping me make the point. Did you notice any differences in the two videos. Specifically, did Jon use any of the traditional stupid illiterate bad grammar normally associated with Amos and Andy. Even Cain in commenting on it said ” As my grandfather used to say, I does not care” emulating the bad grammar. Jon’s joke relates perfectly with Cain’s own comment of bills three pages long that can be read over dinner. Politically speaking, it’s ridiculous. But Jon DOES NOT say “I be Herman Cain and I does not likes ta read” or anything that smacks of stupid and illiterate. Just the stupidity of Cain’s own comment is referenced.
If your tricky Teabagger had sent you a larger clip you would have seen that moments before Jon had talked about Pawlenty and done a bad mocking of his voice, or he might have sent you the clip where Jon mocks Obama and does a bad imitation of his voice. If you watch that clip again tell me if Jon is way way off in mimicking Cain’s own voice and that Cain sounds vastly different.

It’s BS pure and simple and just a meme meant to discredit Jon as he effectively takes down Fox over and over again, and a bit of red meat to the talking point redundancy clowns who would rather repeat what someone told them to think , than actually think for themselves.
CosmosDan

TucsonTerpFan says:

Jon Stewart is typical of many, perhaps even most, on the left. The idea that a black person can be conservative is incomprehensible.

It’s now “how can you be,” it’s “how dare you be.”

Yes, it’s racist, but it’s pervasive on the left.

There’s nothing like far to broad and inaccurate generalities to show off your analytical prowess.

Many on the left were familiar with names link Michael Steele or Condi Rice, or Colin Powell. Do you think Cain is really a huge surprise?
LAPhil

Hugo Daun said:
Don’t know for sure about that, but he’s CERTAINLY a douche-bag.

I think you’re the douche bag.
LAPhil

Leftist Asshat said:
No he’s Jewish, Bagger! And Jews can only be racist against Palestinians, not Blacks!

That last comment really takes the cake. You have definitely earned half of your screen name-”Asshat”.
Worp

Jon is a thin skinned version Media Matters with racist jokes
Nature Freak

Jon Stewart is entering uncharted territory.

We here among the brethren of Mediaite will find out soon enough if Jon is all talk.
CosmosDan

Worp says:

Jon is a thin skinned version Media Matters with racist jokes

And you are a conservative caricature of a real person who sure knows how to spout those talking points. I guess it saves you the trouble of thinking for yourself.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

“So let’s, perhaps, take a step back from using “racist!” as a strategic peon in some grotesque game played out on evening political news shows,”

So, NOW people want everyone to drop the race cards? Where was this statement 3-4 years ago?
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

stoogedudes said:
Oh, Christ Almighty.

No, Jon Stewart isn’t a racist, it’s foolish to imply he is.

People know Jon Stewart isn’t racist. The only reason a conservative is brining this up is because too many liberals (one is too many) shout racism whenever someone criticizes Obama and they’re using the “shoe’s on the other foot” argument.

Exactly. which is what everyone on FOX said – that they do not think Stewart is racist. And that any and all criticism of Obama was deemed racist for 3 -4 years now.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

ProObamaAgenda said:
Dave Splash said:
Hey Fox and you rightie supporters of the most biased news organization in world history, you are engaging in projection: “a psychological defense mechanism where a person unconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings”

nope, sorry. that definition is perfect for the Liberal media, and liberals.

You all accuse FOX of bias – because the MSM is biased. You all accuse the Right of racism, because racist thoughts and people walk among you – from the Democrats in government to the tv, movies and video games and comedians, and everyone in between. There’s projection all right, but it’s coming from the Left, my friend.
Penguin60

CosmosDan said:
It’s BS pure and simple and just

Dan, I respect your opinion as a lib as you normally do not resort to the name calling trash. I do not see Stewart as a racist, as I believe that term is used improperly. Bigoted, in that sketch, maybe? The point is that do you really believe that if, let’s say Dennis Miller, who is a comedian, said the same thing there would be no uproar? That’s where the hypocrisy lies.
avoidswork

sarainitaly said:
nope, sorry. that definition is perfect for the Liberal media, and liberals. You all accuse FOX of bias – because the MSM is biased. You all accuse the Right of racism, because racist thoughts and people walk among you – from the Democrats in government to the tv, movies and video games and comedians, and everyone in between. There’s projection all right, but it’s coming from the Left, my friend.

The only reason you believe the MSM is biased is because Fox tells you so. Actual surveys do not reveal a “liberal” bias unless you consider truth/facts to have a liberal bias.

Let us not forget that for the last two years Fox News has been graced with Politifact’s Lie of the Year. Again, the RW “media” certainly decries a bias because the actual truth/facts disrupts their narrative of misinforming their viewers.

We accuse the right of racism because they demonstrate it time and time again. Obama is “other”. Cartoons of watermelons on the WH front lawn. Depictions of Obama as a monkey. Eric Bolling’s recent comments on Fox News.

Stewart’s own show last night, showing clips of him using voices over and over again says it all. Mocking Cain in the speaking style of Cain is not racism. Period.
SYSPROG

alrighty now. NO Jon Stewart is no more racist than your average human. FOX is doing what FOX does by trying to smear someone with innuendo…no facts, just smear. For all the commentors to get up in arms about this is stupid. Jon Stewart is a COMEDIAN…let’s say it all together now..He’s a COMEDIAN. He is not equal to ANY FOX pundit, Rush Limbaugh or any other talking head. It is not a ‘cover’ or a dodge. Jon Stewart is a COMEDIAN. Are we CLEAR? Bernie Goldberg is a hateful, washed up old hack that decided to resusitate his career by attacking ‘liberals’ for every known sin in the book. When ‘journalists’ did not respond to the ‘new’ Bernie in the way he wanted, he attacked more and more and more until he looked like a crazy old man. FOX now rolls him out when they want to attack someone and try to destroy their reputation. And the FOX bobbleheads go bobbing along….
CosmosDan

Penguin60 says:
Dan, I respect your opinion as a lib as you normally do not resort to the name calling trash. I do not see Stewart as a racist, as I believe that term is used improperly. Bigoted, in that sketch, maybe? The point is that do you really believe that if, let’s say Dennis Miller, who is a comedian, said the same thing there would be no uproar? That’s where the hypocrisy lies.

Maybe if there was no context, but there is. Jon does comedic voices all the time and regularly does bad imitations of the people he is mocking. He had done that to Pawlenty only seconds before. Although Fox made the Amos and Andy comparison , Jon did not use any of the bad grammar usually associated with that.
Watch the clip of Cain that Jon used and tell me his impression is really vastly different than Cain’s own voice.
Let’s add that Jon defended conservatives for being accused of racism far to easily.
I just don’t buy it and find it to be the same kind of unfair judgement that some on the left aimed at the right. I didn’t agree with with either.
I’ve seen Fox use several cheap ploys to create controversy in the past. This follows that familiar pattern. IMO
X-3

Racist? Who knows? Silly? Definitely, he’s a silly little insignificant pimple on the ass of broadcast history.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ann-Wilson/100002251723734 Ann Wilson

No Fox isn’t playing the race card. It is ripping off the work of others (and getting it wrong). June 12th, The Third Estate Sunday Review’s Ava and C.I. raised this issue.
http://thirdestatesundayreview.blogspot.com/2011/06/tv-appalling.html

Weeks later, Bernie Goldberg pretends to ‘discover’ something.

Ava and C.I. explained they were uncomfortable with Jon Stewart’s speaking voice when he did Michael Steele (also Black, also GOP). But they were willing to let it slide. But when Cain is mocked in the same way, with the same voice, then a pattern’s present.

And, yes, it was racist of Jon Stewart. Steele and Cain speak nothing alike and they don’t speak like Amos & Andy but somehow Jon Stewart reduces them to that every time he mocks them.
Vinman66

“I’ve seen Fox use several cheap ploys to create controversy in the past. This follows that familiar pattern.”
Exactly, and MSNBC is just as guilty as Fox News. Just tune in any weekday night and listen to Laurence, Rachel and/or Ed and you’ll see the IDENTICAL ideologue driven misinformation geared towards the right/republicans just as Fox News perpetrates onto the left/democrats.

Wake up people, stop being dupes to the two political parties that have monopoly power over government legislation in the United States, be an independent thinker and an independent registered voter!

I don’t think Jo Stew is a racist but if anyone truly believes there does not exists a double standard in America when it comes to identifying speech deemed as racist you are truly delusional…if you disagree, take a shot at intellectual integrity, you’ll feel a lot better for it…
Tognotti

He actually said Herman Cain didn’t like to read, not that he couldn’t. It was a joke based on Cain saying he wouldn’t sign any bill longer than three pages.
cfc912

Oh shut you liberal nazi