Say , just what do the initials NAACP stand for , anyway ? Might want to change that .

Good to hear from Dr. Laura’s grandmother today!

MyRefrigeratorIsRunning said:
Good to hear from Dr. Laura’s grandmother today!

Maybe it was on of Robert Byrd’s relatives?

It may have been the subject matter getting the best of him, but the way the host caught himself as he almost welcomed the caller to “The Wall Street Journal”, before she got on the line, he may have been wishing that he was somewhere else.

Nice try Big Eddie!

puck30 said:
Maybe it was on of Robert Byrd’s relatives?

one…….g

Quick put this person as a guest on Rachel Maddow’s show. Debating an addle-brained 90-year-old with embarrassing views is a perfect fit for her “cutting edge” journalism.

The “racism” you hear coming from these old democrats will be changed only when they die off. We still have a few more years of this to go.

When people hear things the caller said, people like to get offended. My advice is to shake it off…there is no law made that says you will go through life and never be offended.

“My job as CCO (Chief Community Organizer is over). I have changed America….My Way!

“Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
In a speech to be delivered by Barack Obama on or before March 31, 2012, Original quote from LBJ’s, 3/31/68 speech to the nation!

felixw said:
Quick put this person as a guest on Rachel Maddow’s show. Debating an addle-brained 90-year-old with embarrassing views is a perfect fit for her “cutting edge” journalism.

And, of course, Rachel would have to put the old lady’s name with a (R) next to it on the screen, and claim that she is a staffer for Christine O’Donnell, an illegal campaign donor, and a co-founder of FOX News.

He sounds like an old Dixiecrat.

Olberdork will make her WPITW on Monday!

‘Iris’, get off the phone!

Don’t they have screeners for these calls?The call should have been cut off,it was stupid to let it go on as soon as it was clear where it was going and who was calling.

Come on…why is this even a topic? She’s 90. You can say what you damn well please when you’re that old. What does she care who it annoys? And when she was young, “colored” as politically horrific as it is now, was an accepted part of the lexicon of the day.

Good thing she disn’t ask him about the United Negro College Fund. Liberal heades would be exploding everywhere.

I beg your pardon SHE sounds like an old Dixiecrat.

“The caller, a well-meaning enough lady, we guess”

Not to stray very far from this intriguing subject…..but is the “WE” a sly indication that this ummmmmm…stuff is written by more than one person?
Just curious….I know, I know…curiosity killed a few cats, but I like to live dangerously.

I watch C-SPANS Washington Journal every day, and I find some of the calls hilarious in the depths of their ignorance. I used to run a website that had a page in it titled “The C-SPAN Right-wing Loon Call of the Day,” and I’d make recordings of the best calls and put them up on the site. My favorite was one from back in the Bush Administration. Peter Slen was the moderator. This Republican woman called up and praised Bush as chosen by God. Peter just gave her the space she needed and let her go. But the call took a weird turn: she said that Bush was destined for great things by God, because he was a direct descendant of King David. At that point, Slen was curious and he got a twinkle in his eye, and he said, “Really? I hadn’t heard that.” She reaffirmed what she said, and then added that she, too, was a descendant of David. Good stuff.

I’ve kept those recordings of my favorites, which are about two hundred, I think, and there are some real gems, let me tell you.

This must be the woman who said Obama “cavorts with terrorists”

I’m surprised Robert Byrd had access to a phone down there.

There is an error in this story. My Aunt Myrtle is 98, not 90. And, it took us from 1963 until 2001 to use this more benign word.

exiledtruther said:
I’m surprised Robert Byrd had access to a phone down there.

Michelle-in-Utah, I think you need to be more concerned about the live racists in the Tea Party. Like the Ohio Congressional candidate who cavorts around in Nazi gear. However, that may share some light on how Governor Brewsky’s father died fighting the Nazis in Nevada in 1956.

exiledtruther said:
I’m surprised Robert Byrd had access to a phone down there.

Michelle-in-Utah, with your new moniker, I sure hope you didn’t name your sone Luther. Of course, you seem so adpet at changing names, maybe it wouldn’t be a problem. In any event, I imagine his name is Brigham or Caleb.

That would be your son.

felixw said:
Quick put this person as a guest on Rachel Maddow’s show. Debating an addle-brained 90-year-old with embarrassing views is a perfect fit for her “cutting edge” journalism.

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Imagine how the next day Mediaite would be running stories about smart Maddow looked compared to the 90-year-old.

Only if you pay off my college and soon to be law school debt. Racist? At one point I know she was a racist but she is old. Old people have their own vernacular I would leave the verdict to someone else.

DEFENDER-90 said:
He sounds like an old Dixiecrat.

DEFENDER-90 said:
I beg your pardon SHE sounds like an old Dixiecrat.

Oh…look! You actually bothered to listen or read the topic before posting your vile comments…you miscreant! Do we really expect anything less from you putrid conservatives? This woman uses the usual conservative boilerplate. How dare those colored folks complain when we have a black prezident(sic)!

I guaruntee you this old fart votes straight repub ticket.

LOL Hes why Fox is number one in ratings. The old racist set just love Fox and they sit around all day watching. The rest of us sane folk are out working and that why networks like MSNBC are behind in the ratings

C-Span is great. It’s the best way to get a steady stream of unfiltered information about what’s happening in the real world without any God awful commercial breaks. If you just shuttle back and forth on the three C-Span channels you will find some programming gems and it will become increasingly difficult to handle the junk on most commercial television, especially FOX. The sweet 90 year old lady was perfect in how she exemplified the current racial situation in America. We’ve done so much for ‘them’ and they should really appreciate all this and just shut up. Well, not only haven’t we done enough for them, we haven’t done enough for us. Racism is no longer just about skin color, it’s about class. Unfortunately, there is a disproportionate number of black Americans at the bottom of the heap and the reasons are obvious. We have a very uneven educational and health care system and the economy has tanked because the people runnng it have been allowed to manipulate it totally in their favor. Or to quote my favorite enlightened capitalist, Warren Buffett, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war, and we’re winning.” On top of that there are still many vestiges of racism in America. All you have to do is read the comments from many of the rightwing people on this blog. If the racism isn’t necessarily overt, it’s implied. How is it that in a country where so many people brag about how religious they are, we’ve become such moral hypocrites. It’s also obvious that a lot of white Americans can’t handle having a black President. Obama inherited a terrible situation which was mostly not of his doing. It was caused primarily by the Republicans along with a goodly number of timid Democrats and an unknowing, uncaring public. Everything considered, Obama has done a credible job despite the solid opposition of the Republicans, who actually want to see the country go down so they can get back into power! I know it’s a lot to ask, but we should all look into our hearts and really ask if we are so free of prejudice. I’m a white liberal and I know I’m not free and clear. Also ask yourself, if the rightwing has any serious concrete ideas of how we can improve our society asides from the usual cut spending and lower taxes mantra. Hopefully, more and more people are waking up and the polls are beginning to shift away from the Teapublicans. The very last thing we need is to have No/Know Nothings like Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Gingrich, etc in positions of power. Bush was bad enough.

Too bad this gets so much attention. IMO everyone should look at the record of whites voting to enforce the equal rights of all Americans for several generations. Not all whites support such equality; not all blacks support such equality. Most tend to forget or ignore that we have equal rights but no two individuals are actually equal in any one trait. In the long run the brain doesn’t know the color of the skin surrounding it.

ganymede said:
C-Span is great. It’s the best way to get a steady stream of unfiltered information about what’s happening in the real world without any God awful commercial breaks. If you just shuttle back and forth on the three C-Span channels you will find some programming gems and it will become increasingly difficult to handle the junk on most commercial television, especially FOX. The sweet 90 year old lady was perfect in how she exemplified the current racial situation in America. We’ve done so much for ‘them’ and they should really appreciate all this and just shut up. Well, not only haven’t we done enough for them, we haven’t done enough for us. Racism is no longer just about skin color, it’s about class. Unfortunately, there is a disproportionate number of black Americans at the bottom of the heap and the reasons are obvious. We have a very uneven educational and health care system and the economy has tanked because the people runnng it have been allowed to manipulate it totally in their favor. Or to quote my favorite enlightened capitalist, Warren Buffett, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war, and we’re winning.” On top of that there are still many vestiges of racism in America. All you have to do is read the comments from many of the rightwing people on this blog. If the racism isn’t necessarily overt, it’s implied. How is it that in a country where so many people brag about how religious they are, we’ve become such moral hypocrites. It’s also obvious that a lot of white Americans can’t handle having a black President. Obama inherited a terrible situation which was mostly not of his doing. It was caused primarily by the Republicans along with a goodly number of timid Democrats and an unknowing, uncaring public. Everything considered, Obama has done a credible job despite the solid opposition of the Republicans, who actually want to see the country go down so they can get back into power! I know it’s a lot to ask, but we should all look into our hearts and really ask if we are so free of prejudice. I’m a white liberal and I know I’m not free and clear. Also ask yourself, if the rightwing has any serious concrete ideas of how we can improve our society asides from the usual cut spending and lower taxes mantra. Hopefully, more and more people are waking up and the polls are beginning to shift away from the Teapublicans. The very last thing we need is to have No/Know Nothings like Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Gingrich, etc in positions of power. Bush was bad enough.

Good stuff, excellent post.

ganymede said:
C-Span is great. It’s the best way to get a steady stream of unfiltered information about what’s happening in the real world without any God awful commercial breaks. If you just shuttle back and forth on the three C-Span channels you will find some programming gems and it will become increasingly difficult to handle the junk on most commercial television, especially FOX. The sweet 90 year old lady was perfect in how she exemplified the current racial situation in America. We’ve done so much for ‘them’ and they should really appreciate all this and just shut up. Well, not only haven’t we done enough for them, we haven’t done enough for us. Racism is no longer just about skin color, it’s about class. Unfortunately, there is a disproportionate number of black Americans at the bottom of the heap and the reasons are obvious. We have a very uneven educational and health care system and the economy has tanked because the people runnng it have been allowed to manipulate it totally in their favor. Or to quote my favorite enlightened capitalist, Warren Buffett, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war, and we’re winning.” On top of that there are still many vestiges of racism in America. All you have to do is read the comments from many of the rightwing people on this blog. If the racism isn’t necessarily overt, it’s implied. How is it that in a country where so many people brag about how religious they are, we’ve become such moral hypocrites. It’s also obvious that a lot of white Americans can’t handle having a black President. Obama inherited a terrible situation which was mostly not of his doing. It was caused primarily by the Republicans along with a goodly number of timid Democrats and an unknowing, uncaring public. Everything considered, Obama has done a credible job despite the solid opposition of the Republicans, who actually want to see the country go down so they can get back into power! I know it’s a lot to ask, but we should all look into our hearts and really ask if we are so free of prejudice. I’m a white liberal and I know I’m not free and clear. Also ask yourself, if the rightwing has any serious concrete ideas of how we can improve our society asides from the usual cut spending and lower taxes mantra. Hopefully, more and more people are waking up and the polls are beginning to shift away from the Teapublicans. The very last thing we need is to have No/Know Nothings like Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Gingrich, etc in positions of power. Bush was bad enough.

I almost always agree with you. But I have a small request: Could you please separate your long posts by paragraphs? Thanks a lot.

Christ-like, ganymede is carrying the guilt for the rest of us.

felixw said:
Quick put this person as a guest on Rachel Maddow’s show. Debating an addle-brained 90-year-old with embarrassing views is a perfect fit for her “cutting edge” journalism.

Hold it there sport; an “addle brained” 90 year old tea-bagger, Let’s get our facts straight.

ganymede said:
C-Span is great. It’s the best way to get a steady stream of unfiltered information about what’s happening in the real world without any God awful commercial breaks. If you just shuttle back and forth on the three C-Span channels you will find some programming gems and it will become increasingly difficult to handle the junk on most commercial television, especially FOX. The sweet 90 year old lady was perfect in how she exemplified the current racial situation in America. We’ve done so much for ‘them’ and they should really appreciate all this and just shut up. Well, not only haven’t we done enough for them, we haven’t done enough for us. Racism is no longer just about skin color, it’s about class. Unfortunately, there is a disproportionate number of black Americans at the bottom of the heap and the reasons are obvious. We have a very uneven educational and health care system and the economy has tanked because the people runnng it have been allowed to manipulate it totally in their favor. Or to quote my favorite enlightened capitalist, Warren Buffett, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war, and we’re winning.” On top of that there are still many vestiges of racism in America. All you have to do is read the comments from many of the rightwing people on this blog. If the racism isn’t necessarily overt, it’s implied. How is it that in a country where so many people brag about how religious they are, we’ve become such moral hypocrites. It’s also obvious that a lot of white Americans can’t handle having a black President. Obama inherited a terrible situation which was mostly not of his doing. It was caused primarily by the Republicans along with a goodly number of timid Democrats and an unknowing, uncaring public. Everything considered, Obama has done a credible job despite the solid opposition of the Republicans, who actually want to see the country go down so they can get back into power! I know it’s a lot to ask, but we should all look into our hearts and really ask if we are so free of prejudice. I’m a white liberal and I know I’m not free and clear. Also ask yourself, if the rightwing has any serious concrete ideas of how we can improve our society asides from the usual cut spending and lower taxes mantra. Hopefully, more and more people are waking up and the polls are beginning to shift away from the Teapublicans. The very last thing we need is to have No/Know Nothings like Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Gingrich, etc in positions of power. Bush was bad enough.

This is a most thoughtful post.

Thank you.

writer said:
Christ-like, ganymede is carrying the guilt for the rest of us.

I suspect you’ll have nightmares of the anchor chasing you down the street tonight.

Why? Did he spend too long in a tanning bed?

BTW, King. You should feel guilty about the rates of black on black crime, and the 70% single parent households. It’s all your fault, and you should feel bad about it. I, on the other hand, had nothing to do with it.

Dammit, the King has disappeared again. When he gets back, I’m sure he’ll explain how going to all white private schools made him an expert on inner city schools and race relations.

writer said:
Christ-like, ganymede is carrying the guilt for the rest of us.

Thats ok writer, we know you’ll cover your bases and ask for forgiveness later.

ganymede said:
C-Span is great. It’s the best way to get a steady stream of unfiltered information about what’s happening in the real world without any God awful commercial breaks. If you just shuttle back and forth on the three C-Span channels you will find some programming gems and it will become increasingly difficult to handle the junk on most commercial television, especially FOX. The sweet 90 year old lady was perfect in how she exemplified the current racial situation in America. We’ve done so much for ‘them’ and they should really appreciate all this and just shut up. Well, not only haven’t we done enough for them, we haven’t done enough for us. Racism is no longer just about skin color, it’s about class. Unfortunately, there is a disproportionate number of black Americans at the bottom of the heap and the reasons are obvious. We have a very uneven educational and health care system and the economy has tanked because the people runnng it have been allowed to manipulate it totally in their favor. Or to quote my favorite enlightened capitalist, Warren Buffett, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class that’s making war, and we’re winning.” On top of that there are still many vestiges of racism in America. All you have to do is read the comments from many of the rightwing people on this blog. If the racism isn’t necessarily overt, it’s implied. How is it that in a country where so many people brag about how religious they are, we’ve become such moral hypocrites. It’s also obvious that a lot of white Americans can’t handle having a black President. Obama inherited a terrible situation which was mostly not of his doing. It was caused primarily by the Republicans along with a goodly number of timid Democrats and an unknowing, uncaring public. Everything considered, Obama has done a credible job despite the solid opposition of the Republicans, who actually want to see the country go down so they can get back into power! I know it’s a lot to ask, but we should all look into our hearts and really ask if we are so free of prejudice. I’m a white liberal and I know I’m not free and clear. Also ask yourself, if the rightwing has any serious concrete ideas of how we can improve our society asides from the usual cut spending and lower taxes mantra. Hopefully, more and more people are waking up and the polls are beginning to shift away from the Teapublicans. The very last thing we need is to have No/Know Nothings like Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Gingrich, etc in positions of power. Bush was bad enough.

Well said, thank you!

ImJustThatDamnGood said:
Only if you pay off my college and soon to be law school debt. Racist? At one point I know she was a racist but she is old. Old people have their own vernacular I would leave the verdict to someone else.

Using the word “colored” may date a person, but not be reason to believe them racist. As a lawyer you must know your statement doesn’t meet must for any syllogism of Aristotle.

ganymede said:
Well, not only haven’t we done enough for them, we haven’t done enough for us. Racism is no longer just about skin color, it’s about class. Unfortunately, there is a disproportionate number of black Americans at the bottom of the heap and the reasons are obvious.

:) Yeah sure. Affirmative Action is doing wonders for the pitiful Blacks. Take color out of it all together and then look for what ails Blacks. 70% being born to uneducated poverty stricken single mother that understands that someone else is responsible for her and her child’s care has NOTHING to do with it.

ganymede said:
If the racism isn’t necessarily overt, it’s implied.

A loser is a LOSER whether they have dark skin or not. It is not RACISM is called being a LOSER. Hey LOSER, if you at first don’t succeed give up and cry “Racism!”. Hey Loser, if your school district sucks, don’t read to your children and help educate them, whine bitch and complain that Somebody Else is not doing a good enough job and shout “Racism”.

It is ALWAYS someone else’s fault.

ganymede said:
It’s also obvious that a lot of white Americans can’t handle having a black President

He’s not black, he’s medium brown and he doesn’t even come from descendants of slaves as he proclaimed his wife did. He had to marry into Black America. He’s a fake. It is the Rule of Law that can’t handle SOCIALISM.

ganymede said:
I know it’s a lot to ask, but we should all look into our hearts and really ask if we are so free of prejudice

There is no way to be free of prejudice when ‘black’ is connected to some many facets of our lives. BET, NAACP, Black Caucus, Black Scholarships, Black Awards, Black Month, Black Schools, Black Loans, Black Contracts, Black Culture, and the list goes on.

It all adds up to Black Privileges. Look up the word Privilege before you bark.

As for the caller, they are only a reflection of themselves.

BatBoy said:
The “racism” you hear coming from these old democrats will be changed only when they die off. We still have a few more years of this to go.

When people hear things the caller said, people like to get offended. My advice is to shake it off…there is no law made that says you will go through life and never be offended.

“My job as CCO (Chief Community Organizer is over). I have changed America….My Way!

“Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
In a speech to be delivered by Barack Obama on or before March 31, 2012, Original quote from LBJ’s, 3/31/68 speech to the nation!

I believed she called in on the Republican line. But irregardless, don’t we all have older relatives like this. I know I did. When visiting from Nashville TN to here in Illinois in the early 1960s, my mother-in-law announced in full voice at one of the grandkid’s school plays – do they let the colored in here! Way out of line even back then and sooo embarrassing. I hope she is comporting herself better in the hereafter – I do believe in an integrated hereafter.

I didn’t know the tea party watched C-Span. The show is too much fact based for a bagger to watch!!

MiddleRoader, you misjudge me. Feel as guilty as you want.

BTW, Middle Roader, with enormous black on black crime rates, and young black males impregnating their women, then walking out on them at a 70% clip, how’s that blaming everything on the white man been workin’ out for ya?

Ted- said:
Hold it there sport; an “addle brained” 90 year old tea-bagger, Let’s get our facts straight.

You need to sign in under one of your other aliases and give yourself some thumbs up votes. Which one will you use today?

Gasket said:
DEFENDER-90 said:
He sounds like an old Dixiecrat.

DEFENDER-90 said:
I beg your pardon SHE sounds like an old Dixiecrat.

Oh…look! You actually bothered to listen or read the topic before posting your vile comments…you miscreant! Do we really expect anything less from you putrid conservatives? This woman uses the usual conservative boilerplate. How dare those colored folks complain when we have a black prezident(sic)!

Dude, don’t blow a gasket! Your hatred will kill you.

How many people who viewed this said “would you just listen to this cracker bitch?”

Harry Flashman, you are the only one making comments on this site that makes any sense. There are two ways to look at this, first, it is quite possible that the woman IS 90 although I have my doubts, she was very well spoken in fact too well spoken, I would think at 90, she would have JUST a little tremble in her voice or at least be a little nervous…no, this could have been someone who wanted to get their point across & preferred to blame it on the innocence of a 90 yr. old. If it were true, however, I find it odd that a woman, of that age, would be so concerned about politics or why the “colored” people are getting more than their share. I believe this was a political ploy by the democrats, as usual, to pull the same ole, same ole, “We whites will hate the blacks until the wrinkles on our faces drop down to our knees”..stop this nonsense, we see right through it. God Bless America….nice try!

THIS is what his piggyness, Rush Limbaugh, does when he gets into them damn drugs – puts on his grey granny wig and calls into whatever TV show he can find the dang phone number to, just to clarify that s/he’s NOT some darn racist….

” point out all the wonderful things white people have done for “coloreds” since slavery”…. Yes, a little detail like FREEING the slaves at a cost of 500,000 lives. Name a country that did more to end slavery.

puck30 said:
Maybe it was on of Robert Byrd’s relatives?

Or Roger Clinton’s grand pappy.

mamamary said:
I believed she called in on the Republican line.

The “Racists” I know have been Democrats.

I too had a relative (who is now dead) who was a racist his entire life and a very staunch Democrat.

Just saying the “racists” I know, who are alive and spewing their venom are all Democrats. They also are the ones who spew the most hate. I tend to believe they are not comfortable in their own skin and a “comfort food” for them is to point fingers.

“My job as CCO (Chief Community Organizer is over). I have changed America….My Way!
“Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”
In a speech to be delivered by Barack Obama on or before March 31, 2012, Original quote from LBJ’s, 3/31/68 speech to the nation!

Boy, this is some obscure stuff. Guess MediaIte needed some red meat.

Murphy wrote: “Using the word “colored” may date a person, but not be reason to believe them racist.”

Very true. Also, as an historian, when I am writing about contemporary Americans, I prefer to use “black” rather than
African-American”, because some may actually be Haitians or Dominicans or Canadians. When writing about the 1960s or earlier, I prefer to use “Negro”.

“Colored” is, I believe, acceptable when discussing mixed-race individuals in South Africa. I can’t really think of a use for that word in the US, except in the historical context, but I don’t think I’ve ever used it.

BatBoy said:
mama

Do you live in the South? If so, they are called Dixiecrats and were Democrats who broke from the Democratic party in the late 1940s in response to Harry Truman’s new civil rights initiatives. The Dixiecrat party itself did not last but there are still remnants of these people remaining. Now a lot of them vote Democratic in local elections and Republican for national offices. Noticeable examples Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott who actually changed their party affiliation. I think this type of bigotry is more a factor of age than party affiliation. My experience is quite different than yours here in the Midwest. But nice try to attempt to pigeonhole people into your black and white reality – Democrat evil, Republican good.

BatBoy said:
The “Racists” I know have been Democrats.

I too had a relative (who is now dead) who was a racist his entire life and a very staunch Democrat.

Just saying the “racists” I know, who are alive and spewing their venom are all Democrats. They also are the ones who spew the most hate. I tend to believe they are not comfortable in their own skin and a “comfort food” for them is to point fingers.

Somehow the quote to which I was responding got truncated so here I go again.

Do you live in the South? If so, they are called Dixiecrats and were Democrats who broke from the Democratic party in the late 1940s in response to Harry Truman’s new civil rights initiatives. The Dixiecrat party itself did not last but there are still remnants of these people remaining. Now a lot of them vote Democratic in local elections and Republican for national offices. Noticeable examples Strom Thurmond and Trent Lott who actually changed their party affiliation. I think this type of bigotry is more a factor of age than party affiliation. My experience is quite different than yours here in the Midwest. But nice try to attempt to pigeonhole people into your black and white reality – Democrat evil, Republican good.

After picking our cotton, the Coloreds should have all been sent back to Africa. The United States of America would be such a nicer place. Coloreds are poor, lazy and criminals. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at the ghetto’s and the prisons.