Drew said, supposedly based on the video she chose, that Jordan Marks said:”How can the GOP be racist, when our Chairman Michael Steele is black?”

If you actually listen to the video Jordan Marks said starting @ 3:13 “I would hate to believe that Chairman Steele. an African American, would go and be one of the people to incite these, the responses and really disgusting behavior of a few individuals , I don’t think he”….

At this point Sanchez interrupted with “Are you saying that because Chairman Steele is an African American he’s incapable of of using heated rhetoric that may cause someone to say something or become racist?” Marks response was “I don’t think he was calling for people to have a racist response.”

This concluded the discussion about Michael Steele.

Could you please explain how this exchange led to your conclusion that I quoted from you above? You continued with “Frankly, that line is a little bit simplistic (not to mention a tad offensive, holding Steele up as some sort of mascot for the Republican Party) and it was good to see Sanchez poke a hole in that line of reasoning.”

I do, however, agree with you that your fantasy about what was said is definitely “simplistic” and quite a bit more than “a tad offensive”, not only to Chairman Steele but to many more of us. As for your enjoyment of seeing Sanchez “poke a hole” in “that line of reasoning” that you constructed out of whole cloth, or should I say straw, that must really require some mental gymnastics.

Yes, I noticed Sanchez framed the discussion initially in reference to The Tea Party but Grayson, with his accusations about “the right wing”, followed by Sanchez including Republican congressmen and the Republican Party as party to what he considers the “incitement” moved the goal posts. It was immediately following those comments, about the right wing and Republicans/Republican Party, by Grayson and Sanchez that Marks raised his point that Chairman Steele is an unlikely candidate for a race baiting rabble rouser.

Additionally, I have difficulty believing that an unbiased person could only find fault with Marks in light of Grayson’s blanket over the top remarks that only the right wing incites violence and that is historically true. Surely those absurd and outrageous remarks should have been worthy, even from you, of at least a passing hint of condemnation.

Just as it shouldn’t excuse everything Obama does.

Jeffrey Smuzinick could not be reached for comment.

Somebody should stop giving Grayson a platform. There seems to be no limit to the ridiculous things he’ll say for attention and as a Democrat, I’m often embarrassed by his antics.

Drew, you cannot possibly have writtrn this piece with a straight face. You mean to tell me anyone referencing Steele’s race is simplistic and offensive? What about the blanket coverage of the Tea Party movement by the left being framed as a “white movement”? Granted, the latest cycle of “violent” coverage is a refreshing detour from that, but give us a break. If this comment had you peeved we should be getting a 10,000 word piece from you soon about Chris Matthews alone.

Fox Not News Channel does the same thing – yesterday they had a African American woman on defending the Tea Party from the position that she could do so because she was African American. Sanchez pegged it.

As for Grayson, he’s dead on right about the Republicans. Aren’t Republicans embarrassed by Tea Partiers like Palin and Grassley and DeMinted? Hell, no. They and those embarrassed by Grayson just want Palin, Grassley and DeMinted to have a clear field and not be answered.

@Bill Adkins: Grayson not only invoked the possible murder of his child, but he voiced a scenario in which it occurred. SIDS is a real problem in this country. It’s a distinct possibility for any crib-aged child, but even if a parent were to imagine it in their worst nightmare, they certainly aren’t going to tell people how they’d react, if it happened.

I don’t know about Rep. Grayson, but if I were to say anything similar, I’d feel guilty for weeks, if not months and I’m sure my wife would never forgive me.

I couldn’t agree more with Magister. Grayson really does come off as unstable in this clip! It just seems as though some on the left and praying that some act of violence really does occur so they can say, “i told you they were crazy, violent, white right wing nuts!” But then to play on the “they are going to murder my son” is just pathetic.

Jordan Marks played it pretty cool, but I would have liked to see him be slightly more aggressive with Grayson.

This all boils down to some pretty simple things.

Democrats, progressives, socialists (whatever the hell they are they this week) need an excuse as to why the majority of Americans are seriously pissed off. Choosing race is always an effective cover, they have used it for decades, they will continue to use it for decades to come. That’s fine, as most Americans have moved past that, and the drumbeat will eventually subside, albeit a long ways down the road.

Polls show average everyday Americans are freaked out with this administration because of a multitude of actions on it’s part, none of them being race based. What you howling morons don’t quite grasp is that the single largest “chunk” of Americans (the middle class) is being hit where it lives, namely their wallet. You wanna get somebody’s attention, takes $50 hard cash out of his net weekly tak home paycheck…seems like chump change, huh? Not to the overwhelming majority.

All other issues pretty much take a back seat for all of us when our actual daily lifestyles have to change, i.e. putting $20 worth of gas in your car instead of filling up, passing on the Pizza Hut Friday night, passing on the spring break vacation, buying Sam’s Club pop instead of Pepsi, paying the minimum on the credit cards instead of a little more etc.

The examples seem small and petty to TV pundits and Politicians, and probably some of the posters on this site, but I’m tellin’ ya those are not the majority of Americans. You can use race or whatever you want to rail on about and preach to your own “well off” choir, but that huge chunk of the population (me included) that’s just trying to make a living and get along vote people out of office when our day to day income gets fricked with.

It sounds simplistic but poor people and rich people combined don’t make up the majority, we do, the middle class, and we don’t care if the guy in the White House is green, red or black.

The far left’s stereotype of conservatives seems to be at odds with itself. On the one hand, all conservatives are rich white business moguls. On the other hand, all conservatives are poor, toothless hillbilly trailer trash. At least the racism charge is consistent for either version.

Did you notice towards the end of the video when Jordan Marks slips in the comment about how “hard working” the tea party members are?

I had to laugh. Either this was before the story broke about the people collecting welfare being the biggest supporters of the tea party, or Jordan Marks just didn’t think we notice.

Either way Jordan Marks “Have you no shame sir?”

Andrew Elliott says:
March 31, 2010 at 2:34 pm

What story, where by whom and with what citations?

The only thing that I’ve heard in passing that might be related is that 70% of the Tea Partiers want government jobs that was fantastically based on a statistic that 70% of Tea Partiers believe that Government should have policies that promote job growth.

The “Tea Party” is inappropriately named — their agenda has nothing to do with the founders except the Partiers sometimes wear souvenir tricorner hats. Better they call themselves the “Tailgate Party,” they have a lot more in common with cheeseheads or someone wearing a foam rubber #1 glove. That said, its members come from all spectrum of loon regardless of the loon’s economic status.

And yet when Bush was in office, the left told us that dissent was the highest form of patriotism. Guess it depends on who the dissent is aimed at. (Uh, oh. Is ‘aimed’ a gun metaphor?)

Rick Sanchez is an unbiased news commentator that deals with the issues at hand with no embellishment or hyperbole. He is objective (as is CNN)- unlike Fox News, which is strictly biased towards the right.