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Alan Colmes On Pat Buchanan And His ‘Soft Racism’: What’s Wrong With Him?

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Alan Colmes spoke with Don Imus this morning, and no topic was off limits as they tackled Neil Cavuto‘s “big head,” how the Democrats “folded like a cheap suit” during the debt negotiations and whether Pat Buchanan referring to President Obama as “your boy” in a conversation with Al Sharpton was racially tinged. Given Buchanan’s history, Colmes thought Buchanan might have some ‘splainin’ to do.

Colmes assessment of Buchanan’s comment:

“It’s kind of soft racism, I’m not sure it’s overt. I don’t think Buchanan meant it, but look at the history of things this guy has said, what is the matter with him? . . . You wouldn’t say that about a white guy would you?”

Imus admits that now he calls everyone “dude,” since he “used to say ‘boy’ all the time, but not about black people, just about everybody.” Colmes continued, “but if you’re Pat Buchanan and if you’ve got that kind of history, it’s part of a narrative, so you know it’s not the first time he would have made a comment that had that tinge to it.”

While Imus and Colmes agreed Buchanan’s comment wasn’t too smart, they disagreed on Cavuto’s political leanings. Imus said he can never sense Cavuto’s politics, but Colmes informed him that even though he really likes Cavuto, he thinks “he’s very right-wing.”

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  • Anonymous

    Alan Colmes is just such a tedious, tiresome man- predictable and rarely insightful comments, no matter the topic.

  • Anonymous

    If you don’t think he meant anything by it, Alan, how the hell is it racism?

  • Valerie

    Alan you know I love you but you are completely off base here with an accusation of “soft racism.” Yes pat like conservatives(not the GOP) in general have a racist past but that does not mean every time they wander off the rhetorical reservation that they are racists.

    Now perhaps if somebody had called pat on his past racist statements(a quick google search will provided you literally with dozens) then this wouldn’t be bubbling to the surface now. He’s said many things that are racist and not just in a subconscious way.

    This is like giving Denzel Washington an Oscar for “training day” to make up for the one he deserved for “glory.”

    People refused to confront patty-cakes on his overt racism and now want to hang him for a slip of the tongue.

    Example #2 of what’s wrong with this country.

    Example #3 is most conservatives want to be able to say whatever they want without fear of repercussion. I guess Pat’s been winning that one, eh?

  • Valerie

    Alan you know I love you but you are completely off base here with an accusation of “soft racism.” Yes pat like conservatives(not the GOP) in general have a racist past but that does not mean every time they wander off the rhetorical reservation that they are racists.

    Now perhaps if somebody had called pat on his past racist statements(a quick google search will provided you literally with dozens) then this wouldn’t be bubbling to the surface now. He’s said many things that are racist and not just in a subconscious way.

    This is like giving Denzel Washington an Oscar for “training day” to make up for the one he deserved for “glory.”

    People refused to confront patty-cakes on his overt racism and now want to hang him for a slip of the tongue.

    Example #2 of what’s wrong with this country.

    Example #3 is most conservatives want to be able to say whatever they want without fear of repercussion. I guess Pat’s been winning that one, eh?

  • LJB57

    What else would you expect out of liberal trash, but trash talk.

  • Anonymous

    Matt, isn’t YOUR comment, “Colmes thought Buchanan might have some ’splainin’ to do.” an example of “soft racism” regarding Latinos? Or, more specifically, Cuban-Americans? I believe the reference evokes Desi Arnaz’s character, Ricky Ricardo, so isn’t that a soft mockery??

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    I just don’t see how its racist. Saying,  ”that’s my boy” or “he’s your boy” is a very common phrase. Mediaite just ran a story today that called a black reporter “It Boy”. How is one racist and not the other? 

    Cable News ‘It Boy’ Don Lemon Takes Questions On Social News Site Reddit
    http://www.mediaite.com/online/cable-news-it-boy-don-lemon-takes-questions-on-social-news-site-reddit/

  • guelph

    Does anyone really give a ff what Alan Colmes thinks?  I don’t and I doubt that Pat Buchanan does either.  And if he is so sensitive about supposed racist remarks, that the heck is he doing on Imus?  Colmes is willing to do whatever it takes to get attention, including playing the race card.   Boring, foolish twerp.

  • Anonymous

    Buchanan has said so many stupid things but this is not one of them. Not a racist statement, not even “soft racism”.

  • Valerie

    Exactly.

  • Anonymous

    I’m OUTRAGED!!!! :)

  • Anonymous

    It’s amusing to see left wing men get bent out of shape about what Pat Buchanan said. After all, to their black “friends”, those left wingers are ‘white boys’.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Mediaite stoops to lowest levels using Alan Colmes as a source of race baiting to further the divide between parties. Should have just post thread on how Obama’s comments on higher taxing job creators right after the compromise has killed stocks by 700 points plus!

  • realheadline

    A liberal drone calls a conservative a racist?………….. Really? Shocked face  :@

  • Anonymous

    I guess this cock eyede %!%* forgot who Pat’s running mate for Vice President of the Reform Party was back in 2000.  I not sure what is more revolting, his looks or his stupidity.  It’s a close call.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezola_B._Foster

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    Give it a damn rest America.. race card fails so hard these days.. go throw another fish in the sea, it has as much meaning. I wouldn’t apologise for nothing.. It’s as bad as saying pass me the crackers.. big shit! Grow some long pants and act like men…sheesh

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I absolutely love the way the T-Partee Terrorists tell us the race card doesn’t work anymore. Just like at how excited Mediate got the Easily Excitable with this rather innocuous. No, for the guilt-ridden TPT’s it works, it works like a charm!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, you’re saying that Alan Colmes is the Antichrist? 

  • Anonymous

    Shut up white boy.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, you’re saying Alan Colmes, is a disingenuous cretin?

  • Anonymous

    As he signed off emergency legislation today to prevent the government
    defaulting on its debt, President Obama spoke of the need to work together for
    Americans who cannot ‘make ends meet’. So, with hindsight, rushing off for a lavish 50th birthday party in his
    honour – starring Dreamgirls singer Jennifer Hudson – was probably not very
    sensitive.

    Tickets for the fundraising dinner cost an astonishing $35,800 a
    person.
     

  • realheadline

    Why don’t you pass a law? While your at it pass one for World Peace.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So, you’re saying Alan Colmes should be crucified?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You obviously didn’t grow up in the South or in Texas. It is a heavily-loaded word, and everyone who says it does so with an ugly, vicious purpose, and everyone who hears it knows that purpose. 

  • Anonymous

    I see many liberals aren’t jumping on the race wagon and admitting no harm was meant by Pat.
    Rightly so.

    I wish Rightys would be as fair when something happens like Glenn Beck comparing shooting victims to Hitler Youth.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    So you’re saying Alan Colmes is a fetid pustule? 

  • Shibumi

    “conservatives(not the GOP) in general have a racist past?” eh Valerie?  Nice try. It’s the Dems that have the racist past.  Check your history before you make such an accusation.  Such an absurd comment leaves you with no credibility. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    My African American friends and colleagues generally call me a Honkie.

  • Valerie

    Brush your teeth and go to bed.

  • Anonymous

    dont lie…..you have no friends

  • Ralph-NY

    Grow up you come across as a little child with your weak comebacks

  • Anonymous

    The Left really ought to try defending their policy positions, instead of smearing everybody who disagrees with them.  Colmes is a typical case.  You can watch him on TV for hours, and he will never even to try to justify borrowing $4 billion per day to prop up broken entitlements.  But if anyone dare call for fiscal responsibility, the smears and insults come pouring out.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Don Imus giving an interview about Pat Buchanan’s racism, is like Dom Deluise giving and interview with Richard Simmons about weight loss.

  • Anonymous

    Can anyone translate what the Texas Hemorrhoid is trying to blather about ?

    On second thought , you’re right . I don’t care , either .

  • Michelle

    You’re an idiot, wrapped in a moron.

  • Anonymous

    You used that expression yesterday.

    Really Michelle, it wasn’t that good the first time.

     

  • Valerie

    Attacking the messenger…so alinskyite.

    Yawn.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Valerie

    Oh you mean conservative dems like Dixiecrats?

    Too easy.

  • guelph

    No, but that is an apt description of you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Corgress is not attacking the Unions, to the contrary they are affirming the right of workers to remain free of union tactics in their workplaces.. 

  • KarlSpensen

    PLEASE we all know that libs have no BLACK FRIENDS because they are the true RACISTS!!!!!!!!111

  • Michelle

    I have to re-use it because there are so many of you here.

  • Michelle

    Aren’t you late for your lunch date with Van Jones, Ms. Jarrett?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Do you refer to everyone by their hyphenated ancestral home name, or just black people?

  • Anonymous

    This is one of the reasons that conservatives no longer give a shit about accusations of racism, it’s been rendered meaningless by the liberals.

  • Valerie

    Aren’t you late to pray the gay away with your hubby bubby Ms. Bachmann?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    You are really trying to convince people that conservatives ever gave a shit about racism in the first place. That is funny shit right there.

  • Anonymous

    Hey…LOOK!!! I’m white…that makes me a racist. Oh well, I’ve been called worse things that weren’t true either. No big deal!

  • pelosireturns

    he should have refered to him a “your kenyan”.

  • Anonymous

    So, white southerners don’t use it to refer to each other, kook? You lie, boy.

  • Claudia Higginbotham

    Do you regulars realize that nobody cares about your insults to each other.? Why not just talk about the topic? Maybe I missed it, but is there any outrage that somebody called the President of the United States “your boy”?

  • Valerie

    “Do you regulars realize that nobody cares about your insults to each other.? Why not just talk about the topic?”

    Welcome to the “internet” and have a nice day.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    We most certainly do. “We” being White Southerners and Texans. There is a difference you know. Well, you probably don’t know. We use the term all the time. “Good ole boy!” White to White, African American to African American, Hispanic to Hispanic, not usually a problem. Cross those lines, however, and you better know that person well and be on friendly terms. Everyone understands it. It is a reflection of breeding, manners, decorum.

    You’re really quick to throw out “lie” aren’t you? With no basis in fact. But the pattern is clear. When you’re over your head intellectual, factually or when you can’t understand the context, geographically, culturally, historically, it’s never your own lack of understanding, it’s always the other person. I pity that.

         Look Out! There’s a tall, fair-skinned man with blond hair and blue eyes standing behind you! He must be a radical Islamo fascist terrorist!

    How fitting.

    Context is everything.

  • Sean68

    Rather than “your boy,” Buchanan should have been more specific. How about “your failed neophyte affirmative action” President.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Yes.

    When I am speaking of Texans, I usually use just “Texan”.

    When I am speaking of Americans more broadly are all of God’s children, I usually use African-American, British-Welsh, German-American, Hispanic-American, Jutland-German, Mexican-American, Sudentendland- German or some other variations such as French-Speaking Swiss, Ethnic Russian &c. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You obviously care a great deal, or you wouldn’t have responded.

  • Valkyrie71010

    Come on, Pat was just teasing Sharpton, and Sharpton fell for it. Had Sharpton been on the ball he would have laughed it off and said: “Well Pat, you’re quite a young whippersnapper today.”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Neither was she.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    That was notably feeble.

  • Anonymous

    That’s why the South flip over the last 50 plus years to Republican. Everybody knows there was a war within the Democratic Party between Southern and border states Whites and the Northeast and some Midwestern States. The Dixiecrats vs Democratic Party. We know which party moved in to fill that void.

  • Anonymous

    I like the feisty push-back.

  • Anonymous

    king has to divide people into his own little groups

  • Valkyrie71010

    Actually the conservatives were set to declare to the world that America was not going to pay its bills. Now that was not very fiscally responsible, was it?

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    lets take a walk down memory lane and see the racism of the left. how about former president Jimmy Carter and his “This black boy” comment:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo666foKnHs

    or Dan Rather and his Obama couldn’t sell watermelons on the side of a highway comment:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwiNikWcx-U

    but here’s my favorite one of all. Jesse Jackson calling Obama the n-word and saying that he wanted to cut off his nuts:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc8hLVTqtOU

    i’m sure there’s more out there.

  • realheadline

    In english please.

  • Anonymous

    Ezola Foster, one very self loathing (black) woman.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, but I don’t recall my late mother ever speaking about the CONSERVATIVE white civil rights workers during the turbulent 1950′s and 1960′s. I could be wrong, so please enlighten me with something to the contrary.

  • Anonymous

    I liked it! lol

    I think it was very good.  Doesn’t it just piss you off when the right comes out with a zinger and all you can say is that it wasn’t that good.

    p.s.  I also really enjoyed Palin’s zinger to the Pres yesterday.  

  • Anonymous

    Actually you are a liar.  Actually you just made that up.  Actually you appear to buy all the b.s. that they threw at you.  

  • KarlSpensen

    I LOVE calling Hussein Obamessiah an “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION” president!!!!!!111  Because then the whiny libs say we’re being RACIST and then we can turn around and say THEY are the RACIST ones because we weren’t bringing up RACE at all – THEY always do!!!!!!!!!1111  And when we accuse them of being RACIST they get so MAD and I get a RAGING FREEDOM CHUBBY!!!!!!!!!!!111 

  • Valerie

    Some people know precious little regarding history!

    Nice to meet ya!

  • Anonymous

    No, without unions the hard working middle class will be underpaid. Lets talk about Corporate tactics. 

  • Schtick it Up

    Schtick Coma

  • Valkyrie71010

    He was the affirmative action Editor of the Harvard Law Review

  • Michelle

    You do know that ALOT of Dems voted no on the debt ceiling increase, right?  Why do you single out Conservatives?  A bit hypocritical, no?

  • Michelle

    The only outrage is FAUX outrage from race-baiters looking to be offended. 

  • Valerie

     Maybe because the conservatives who said it were running for POTUS Ms. Bachmann.

    Slight difference. eh?

  • Anonymous

    If it’s not FEAR-and-SMEAR, it’s their patented “THE RACE CARDâ„¢”  – that’s all the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist extremists have.

  • Valerie

    Congrat Ms. Bachmann you are the number one race baiter.  

  • Anonymous

    I seriously doubt that the “Antichrist” is either tiresome or tedious.

  • Anonymous

    Great news! In WaPo Lawrence Summers is predicting that the lowest the unemployment rate will fall in 2012 is 8.5%. That should spell the end for the crackpot Messiah.

  • Anonymous

    That works for me.

  • KarlSpensen

    YES!!!!!!!!!!111  Every accomplishment he ever had was because he was BLACK and it was AFFIRMATIVE ACTION!!!!!!!111  And who did all this stuff for him?!?!?1111  RACIST LIBS!!!!!!!!!!!111

  • KarlSpensen

    I ALREADY had a raging Freedom Chubby from calling libs RACISTS!!!!!!!!!!111  Every time you say “lunatic-lft d-cRAT socialist” it puts me at HALF MAST!!!!!!!!!!!111  If you were to say “You Lie Hussein”, I would have had to see a DOCTOR for my FOUR HOUR ERECTION!!!!!!!!!111

  • Anonymous

    You must have either grown up in a trailer park, or you didn’t grow up in Texas at all. Of course, then again, the most operational portion of your comment is that you have “grown up,” which I find to be a dubious claim.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Hey Colmes, you’re just a cracker. Leave the heavy lifting for Sharpton will ya..

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon

    Hey Colmes, you’re just a cracker. Leave the heavy lifting for Sharpton will ya..

  • BR

    I am so sick of liberals dictating what is and isn’t racist and or offensive.  They have taken a once ugly word and made it totally meaningless.  

    They have yet to develop and instrument sensitive enough to detect how LITTLE I care about what liberals think!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Have you considered taking a writing course at your nearest community college? I would consider it a personal favor if you did.

  • Valkyrie71010

    I’m sorry azark, the American people will be blaming the republicans for following through with their threat to sink the economy in order to sink the Obama presidency. 2012 will be the end of the world for republicans.

  • Anonymous

    Who appointed you spokesman for all things black. . . . ??  

  • Anonymous

    I’m just telling what I observed about here in Los Angeles with all the antics she performed, and she was into “brown noising” (I believe she passes away). It was very clear she weren’t happy in her skin (figuratively and actually), she never had a good thing to say publicly about black people — and she seem to good outta her way to put blacks down to appease her Master(s).

  • Anonymous

    I have an opinion, just like you and a host of other posters on this site. Fact you don’t like what I say, well……..

  • Anonymous

    All zinger, no substance. @881c3266eee8f7b66d6c9a43834d81e5:disqus must be also be a Palin fan.

  • Anonymous

    Val, the nation is heading for bankruptcy, and the Republicans are trying to avoid it by imposing some fiscal restraint on an administration that has been borrowing (and spending) more than a trillion dollars per year.  So I can only laugh at your comment….

  • Anonymous

    But leftists said November 2010 was going to be the end of the world for Republicans, the Tea Party, and Conservatives. What happened? Sorry Val, but unless the Messiah can change Coke into Pepsi and the current 9.2% unemployment rate into a 6% unemployment rate, he’s gonna get crucified.

  • Valkyrie71010

    Are you kidding? We have a lot more than the race card. We have most of the celebrities too.

  • Anonymous

    I am so sick of liberals dictating what is and isn’t racist and or offensive.  They have taken a once ugly word and made it totally meaningless

    Really…what ugly word are you refering to hobbit???? The N word???….i suppose so coming from a trailer park asshole like you…….I suppose you also believe that Don “nappy headed hoe” Imus is qualified to judge somebody elses level of of racistness dont you?????…..hehehehehehe….you conservaturds are a mess

  • Anonymous

    Nixon didn’t play for racists when the southern strategy went into effect (1968).  That was Wallace’s niche.  Practically every state went for Nixon in ’72, so disorganized were Democrats, and blacks voted for him to the tune of 39%.  The south went with their boy, Carter, in 1976 against the milktoast Michiganite Ford.  No great racist he.  And then came 1980.  What was the issue of the day, again?

    The south flipped to the Republicans over religion, genius.  They didn’t
    turn over until he courted and started a dialogue with Christian conservatives and southern evangelists, organized as the Moral Majority, who felt abandoned over matters of faith by Democrats
    and was deeply associated with the abortion debate.

    So where is this great appeal to racism I hear so much about?  In the words and actions of Democrats trying to absolve themselves of past actions so to maintain a lock on the black vote through racial politics.  Same story today as back then.

  • Anonymous

    hey dumbass….the opposite of conservative is liberal, your jackass stupid hobbit ass wants to separate conservatives from republicans by wont do the same favor for democrats by separating them from liberals….but you are correct on one point ITS CONSERVATIVES THAT ARE THE RACISTS NOT THE REBUBLICANS BUT IN THE 1800s the democrat party was the conservative party, that changed in the 1960s when the big switch happened…the racist ass southern rednecks left the democrat party to join up with the republicans and its been that way every since….NOT ALL REPUBLICANS ARE RACIST BUT, ALL RACISTS ARE REPUBLICANS

  • Anonymous

    Don Lemon… boy.

    I remember when this happened.  Brings back memories.  Boy, the flames in the eyes of irate progressives could be seen for miles.  The levels of righteous indignation could be registered from space.  Their chest thumping set off seismometers half a world away.  I tell you, boy, it was a sight to see.

    What?  There was no leftist outrage?  None?  And it was only yesterday?

    Dance, you hypocritical PC pukes, dance.  Show us again how empty is your reservoir of authenticity.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    You are one sick puppy…  How did Progressives do with the race issue?  Wilson was considered to be an enlightened progressive president segregated the Federal Government as well as out military.

    “Black leaders who supported Wilson in 1912 were angered when segregationist white Southerners took control of Congress and many executive departments.[146] Wilson ignored complaints that his cabinet officials had established official segregation in most federal government offices, in some departments for the first time since 1863. New facilities were designed so as to keep the races working there separated. Eric Foner says, “His administration imposed full racial segregation in Washington and hounded from office considerable numbers of black federal employees.”[147] Wilson and his cabinet members fired many black Republican office holders in political-appointee positions, but also appointed a few black Democrats to such posts.

    W. E. B. Du Bois, a leader of the NAACP, campaigned for Wilson and in 1918 was offered an Army commission in charge of dealing with race relations; DuBois accepted, but he failed his Army physical and did not serve. Wilson drafted hundreds of thousands of blacks into the army, giving them equal pay with whites, but kept them in all-black units with white officers, and kept the great majority out of combat.[] When a delegation of blacks protested the discriminatory actions, Wilson told them “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.” In 1914, he told The New York Times, “If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.”

    I am sure that you don’t care to look into the history of the founder of Planned Parenthood and explore her view on minorities in America…  but ya know…  she’s a progressive heroin today. 

  • Anonymous

    Religion?…Yeah right! You conveniently left out with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and Fair Housing Laws the exodus started or rather got into high gear. Strong Thurmond left the Dixiecrat Party in 1948 (something to do with a Supreme Court decision, I believe dealing with racially restrictive covenants). The other reason for the disorganization with Democrats in 1968, was the Vietnam War.

    LBJ had predicted the outcome (the negative outcome) when he signed the various civil rights laws, his quote was something to the effect: “There goes the South for the next 30 years. Well he was off a few years. The South is now permanently in the Conservatives hands, especially with the Southern Conservatives — lack of trepidation to play “racial politics” in order to win elections.

    Look the South was heavily  populated with Dixiecrats during that period, and they were a war with liberal wing of the Democratic Party. Those Dixiecrats today are now all conservative Republicans — this is undeniable.

    I’m sure aware in the 1940′s blacks voted as a majority for Republicans, we didn’t leave the Party — the party left us and pander to the Southern White voter(s).

    Nice try , trying to rewrite history.

  • Anonymous

    Except that history is verified by my version of events, and at odds
    with yours.  Your LBJ quote, for example, never materialized in
    presidential elections until 25 years after the fact, when the south
    became a reliable voting block for Republicans.  Are we to assume, then,
    that those people put on a shelf their racial anonymous only to
    resurrect and lie about it a generation later?  That, when they said
    they were sick of Carter and the Dems pushing a secularist agenda and
    wanted a national party to push back on that and to fight on the issue
    of abortion, it was all really nothing but their racism?  That Reagan’s
    overt rhetorical appeals to Christian conservatives, his involvement of
    the like in his administration’s cabinet and positions he took which
    would serve to push their agenda, was all a ruse?  Balderdash.  Or could
    it be something much more obvious, that the issues that I broached were
    the actual interests of the voters?  You can either remember that era,
    or look it up – the results would
    probably be the same, for one of the harshest criticisms agaisnt Reagan
    from the left had nothing to do with racism (but, of course, being a
    Republican, there
    was that – for the left never stops with racial politics)
    but was from secularists hopping mad at his distinct lack of concern
    over religion’s involvement in politics.

    You’re also off base to have introduced Civil Rights acts (which LBJ
    blocked as Majority Leader in 1957 and 1960, BTW).  The Civil Rights act
    of 1964 was supported by a greater percentage of Republican by party
    than Democrats.  Now, of course, that doesn’t mean there were no
    consequences to that vote.  For instance – - – Woops!  no great switch
    over took place.  The politicians of that era remained in their
    respective parties, at their respective positions and a purge of the
    parties of those who voted for the act never occurred.  The retired in due course not affected by these votes.  Another thing you can look up if you care to.

    Here’s some news for you.  Strom Thurmond is one guy.  You’re trying to
    track the course of an entire generation and paint entire swaths of the
    country by the movements of one guy, owing to a never ending stream of
    propaganda.

    lack of trepidation to play “racial politics” in order to win elections

    If this weren’t uttered seriously, it would be funny.  You’re bombarded daily with Democrats playing racial politics.  Wake up and smell the coffee.

  • Anonymous

    I am sure you don’t see the irony in your comment. 

    While there “may” have been a reason for Lewis Powell’s decision way back when regarding affirmative action (though I am not at all sure that the prevailing “reason” was not just white, Richmond, Virginia guilt), affirmative action now harms far more minorities than it helps. 

    Affirmative action tells the beneficiary that he/she is not capable of being on a level playing field in a meritocracy- that his/her skills and intellect are not up to the challenge. Also, it casts into question every accomplishment, every award. How can a minority student EVER know that he/she is as good as his/her peers or if employers/clients aren’t wondering if the person REALLY has the intellectual chops to perform the assigned tasks. 

    Frankly, I have a higher opinion of minorities and think they DESERVE to be accorded the respect to be judged on their own merit. Ask Thomas Sowell about affirmative action. Ask Walter E. Williams. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    But not the superstars Bo Derek, Kesley Grammer, Patricia Heaton and Dennis Miller.

  • Anonymous

    “trailer park asshole”. Yes, that’s pretty typical of leftist hyprocrites like you. You pretend to care about the poor people, but if someone can’t afford a home and lives in a trailer park, you use a cheap stereotype to describe him. Think about it, LIBTURD! 

  • Anonymous

    I wouldn’t be too proud of that if I were you.

  • Anonymous

    Only if Donald Trump runs. Otherwise your boy doesn’t have a prayer. (Yes, that’s right, I said “boy”. You going to play the race card on me too?)

  • Jonathan

    Pat Buchanan has said disparaging comments about jews, denied the holocaust, and remarked about someone of a different skin color being in the white house, ‘black folks are our runners, not our presidents.’ HE IS A BIGOT, DUH!

  • Anonymous

    And you’re living in a dream world if you believe liberals really give a shit either.

  • Anonymous

    Yep. He’s not only going to lose, I predict he’ll get his head handed to him.

  • Anonymous

    BS! Obama was the one who kept trying to scare old people by saying he couldn’t guarantee the Social Security checks would go out on time.

  • Anonymous

    NO, YOU MORON! Your making that kind of generalization only reveals your stupidity. Now you’ve shown it to the world, congratulations!

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of notably feeble, the last three replies have been singularly that way.

  • Anonymous

    I thought Alinsky was YOUR hero

  • Anonymous

    A lot of those civil rights workers were liberal then but are conservative today, e.g., Michael Medved, David Horowitz. Some of us woke up and smelled the coffee.

  • Anonymous

    it will be delightful watching Leftist media hacks dissolve into pools of Napalm as Obamo’s last 16 months collapse.

  • LJB57

    No wonder with a name like Ezola.

  • Anonymous

    Give me a freaking break!…David Horowitz was NEVER part of the civil rights movement, and there’s no photography to substantiate his supposed activities. There certainly no present day civil rights activist to support your contention about Horowitz being active in the civil rights struggle.

    Now, if your want to talk about him “PALING” around with the Black Panthers, Rap Brown, Huey Newton etal — you’d be on to something. So was Horowitz and Black Panther comrades……Civil Rights Activist or Revolutionaries? You know kinda in the Bill Ayers model (non-violent).

    We was a radical on the LEFT in the 60′s and he’s a radical on the RIGHT present day.

  • Anonymous

    When you say:”Some of us woke up and smell the coffee”, are claiming you were involved in the civil rights movement? If so, do regret blacks getting (so-called) civil rights? Seems to be what your implying.

  • Anonymous

    You’re really quick to throw out “lie” aren’t you? With no basis in fact.

    What’s funny is that you just absolutely contradicted what I called out as a lie.

    This:

    It is a heavily-loaded word, and everyone who says it does so with an
    ugly, vicious purpose, and everyone who hears it knows that purpose.

    became this, in a matter of minutes:

    We use the term all the time. “Good ole boy!” White to White, African
    American to African American, Hispanic to Hispanic, not usually a
    problem.

    If I call you out for lying a lot, there’s just one reason for it, Kook.

    http://tinyurl.com/yotxov

  • Anonymous

    A far stretch and an epic FAIL in trying to paint President Carter as a ricist.  If you are talking about President Obama in the past as a young boy what else would you have President Carter call him? Very lame attempt to put Carter in the same catagory as that goose stepping storm trooper Buchannan.

  • Anonymous

    …hoping they’ll do battle.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    He could have said “this black child” but he chose to call him a “boy”. And he’s not only a racist but a Jew hating anti-Semite to boot.

  • Anonymous

    “You know kinda in the Bill Ayers model (non-violent).”

    You have to go back and read what Bill said in the late 1960′s and what he did. Bill was far from non-violent. This is from his bio on Wikipedia:

    “In June 1969, the Weathermen took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.[8] Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket affair confrontation between labor supporters and the Chicago police.[12] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.[13] (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.[13][14]
    Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to
    prevent another blast, and in January 1972 it was moved to Chicago
    police headquarters.[15])
    Ayers participated in the Days of Rage riot in Chicago in October 1969, and in December was at the “War Council” meeting in Flint, Michigan.
    Two major decisions came out of the “War Council.” The first was to
    immediately begin a violent, armed struggle (e.g., bombings and armed
    robberies) against the state without attempting to organize or mobilize a
    broad swath of the public. The second was to create underground
    collectives in major cities throughout the country.[16] Larry Grathwohl, a Federal Bureau of Investigation
    informant in the Weatherman group from the fall of 1969 to the spring
    of 1970, stated that “Ayers, along with Bernardine Dohrn, probably had
    the most authority within the Weathermen”

    So non-violent that he bombed a public place, and advocated armed conflict in the
    streets of America.

    That non-violent Bill Ayers?

    “After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970, in which Weathermen member Ted Gold, Ayers’ close friend Terry Robbins, and Ayers’ girlfriend, Diana Oughton were killed when a nail bomb being assembled in the house exploded, Ayers and several associates evaded pursuit by US law enforcement officials. Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson survived the blast. Ayers was not facing criminal charges at the time, but the federal government later filed charges against him.[4] Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972…”

    Yeah he is really non-violent, that Bill Ayers.

  • Anonymous

    And you seem such a refined gentleman when you call someone a trailer park asshole.

    Just like a liberal to take the high road.

  • Anonymous

    Do we need to remind everyone how poorly you write sometimes?

    “They have yet to develop *and* instrument sensitive enough to detect how LITTLE I care about what liberals think! ”

    He typo-ed the word AN by adding a D to it and you come all unglued over it. Nice going, you really showed us your superiority there. What next for you – walking over puppies in golf shoes?

  • Anonymous

    You just keep thinking that.

  • Anonymous

    Celebrities that need scripted dialog to seem somewhat intelligent? What the hell, has our nation devolved into a country ruled by People magazine?

    You have to be kidding, don’t you?

  • Anonymous

    You are very sophomoric, and not funny.

  • Anonymous

    And so they should be under attack.

  • Anonymous

    That just isn’t so. There are plenty of states where unions don’t control labor and the workers and all people in those states benefit because the income to expense ratio actually provides the people in those states with a higher standard of living than in the states where unions have driven wages, benefits and costs through the roof; the companies that sell the goods that union employees make in places where unions have their greatest influence, have to pass those increased costs to the consumer. This causes an escalation in prices for everything including real estate.

    You should try to learn something about economics besides that junk that the liberal professors teach you in college because the world does not operate according to the textbooks.

  • Anonymous

    Or sort of like Michelle Obama lecturing people about eating healthy? Or sort of like Barack Obama telling the people of America that they have to have some skin in the game and make sacrifices about their household spending while he advocates for and presides over the largest annual spending of any federal government administration ever in history? Yeah, just like that.

  • Anonymous

    You really need to read more about this somewhere besides the left wing sources. Try reading the reports of the Congressional Budget Office.

  • Anonymous

    Do you have any idea how stupid that makes you look? Before you flame me, I will tell you I am not a white person, not that it matters to anyone but a racist like you.

  • Anonymous

    As is your response to it.

  • Anonymous

    Easy to criticize, not so easy to create better.

  • Anonymous

    Are you this big of a dim bulb? You complain about racism and yet continue to disrespect others with your euphemisms like TPT’s and T-Partee Terrorists. Can’t you see that making blanket statements about people you obviously dislike is the same kind of thing as making a racist remark?

    I can’t believe that you can’t understand that you are decrying someone else’s actions while doing the very same thing yourself.

    This just makes you look like a really ignorant and foolish person, but then what else can we expect from The Real Royal Emperor?

  • daveinboca

    Cavuto has one advantage over Colmes and that is that his frontal lobes and cerebral cortex actually function at the smart human level—-unlike double-digit IQ Colmes venomous moronic pie-hole in front of an empty shell.

  • Anonymous

    No, I wasn’t implying that blacks shouldn’t have civil rights. I meant “woke up and smelled the coffee” about liberalism vs.conservatism in general. I know a lot of people besides myself who used to be liberal and are now conservative, something I like to attribute to maturity and greater awareness of the world. It’s like the saying that is widely attributed to Winston Churchill which goes something like this: ”If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20 you have no heart. If you’re still a liberal when you’re 40 you have no brain.”

  • Valkyrie71010

    Nobody thought 2010 was going to be a dem win. But after their performance over the past couple years, the republicans have sunk their own ship for 2012.

  • kerry anderson

    AJ, please identify and provide links for the actual ‘stupid things’ you declare Pat Buchanan has said? Otherwise your opinion has no content except as an ignorant ad hominid assertion. Is that what you intended?

    You are aware that Pat Buchanan’s bio includes WH Cabinet member, run for POTUS, published numerous books and articles and is considered quite an eloquent guest on major TV networks?

    Mr. Buchanan has demonstrated the intellect and ability to support his positions and opinion, do you have the same ability to support your statements Ajolily?

  • kerry anderson

    Don’t forget that generous economics wizard MATT DAMON i mean MATTTTT!!! DAMONNNN!!!

  • Anonymous

    There are countless examples of Pat Buchanan’s racist attitudes and millions who know Buchanan for the racist he is. Only slapnutz teabaggers and right wing nut jobs even entertain the ludicrous notion that President Carter is a racist. President Carter has worked tirelessly helping emerging democracies, monitoring elections, helped build thousands of homes for deserving Americans and people around the world through Habitat for Humanity.  In general he’s been helping people and making the world a better place.  What the hell has Nixon, Reagan ,Bush Dumb or Bush Dumber ever done since leaving office except give speeches to line their own pockets….Not a damn thing.  Good Republicans down to their core.

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    the only reason that Jimmy Carter ever picked up a hammer and nail (besides a hammer and sickle) was in order to repair his long lasting legacy as the worst president in our nations history, which Obama is trying to steal from him. he has spent his entire life post-presidency trying to repair the irreparable damage he has done to this nation. he’s the reason for the current situation in Iran. he’s the reason North Korea was able to acquire a bomb by sticking his nose (without being asked) into a crises back in 1994 and coming back with that phony Agreed Framework BS which the North Koreans were cheating on from the very beginning. he’s also the reason for our current economic woes when he signed into law that ridiculous Community Reinvestment Act in 1977 which forced banks to give home loans to people who had no prayer of paying them back. and if he hasn’t done enough to destroy our country he’s also worked tirelessly to destroy the nation of Israel.

    and as for your comment about what have past republican presidents done since retirement. Nixon was shunned by society and wasn’t allowed to do much after leaving office and now he’s dead so I fail to see how he’s lining his pockets. Reagan did more for this country while in office than Carter has ever done in and out of office and has been dead since 2004. Bush the Dumb (your words, not mine) did what is expected of all former presidents by staying out of sight because he dosen’t have that problem of having to spend his entire life repairing his tarnished image like Carter and Clinton. And as for Bush the Dumber, well he is being praised by U2′s Bono for saving HALF A BILLION lives in Africa from AIDS and also being praised for the creation of South Sudan.

  • Anonymous

    You are one dumb slapnutz teabigging hobbit to think you can convince anybody old enough to remember or smart enough to read that the inbred racist teabaggers in the republican party are there because of religion.  LBJ was right and predicted the racist revolt to the republican party in 1965 right after signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the consequences for the Democrats in the south.  Now run off to Wikipedia and try to rewrite history there nutsucker.

  • http://twitter.com/chiefjgmac chiefjgmac

    Yes, that is exactly what I am saying.

  • Hagen619dj

    Real REmp….you love to  cause trouble don’t you.  Always adding words that weren’t even mentioned. How old are you anyway?  Are you always that contemptuous? why do you bother take part with your comments? You haven’t said anything nice about anyone. Can you do it? or is that a challenge?

  • Hagen619dj

    When Alan colmes is on a program or a guest or whatever; I change the channel or turn off the TV. He is so rediculous that I just can’t stand to hear him. He is always the opposite of any conversation. A total bore to listen too.

  • Hagen619dj

    Did you read what you just said. Your stupidity is apparent in your writing.  You really should give up and go back to school. You love to slap out the remarks and antagonize people with  them.  What ever you do don’t ever tell your real name because your background is showing and you won’t be hard to figure out. Remember the show HeeHaw? duh?

  • Anonymous

    Your inventive insults, a favorite pastime of the juvenile, are persuasive.

  • Jadd

    Yeah! Enough with this soft racism! Get on with the the hard stuff! Put Robertson in his KKK robes and be done.

  • Jadd

    @ Paleoconservatarian: Are you referring to Strom Thurmond’s black bastard child? 

  • Sandie

    Wow – they have the RACE CARD and CELEBRITIES …. how good can that be? LMAO…. Those are surely 2 credible (choke) things to envy … LMAO

  • Sandie

    Wow – they have the RACE CARD and CELEBRITIES …. how good can that be? LMAO…. Those are surely 2 credible (choke) things to envy … LMAO

  • Sandie

    T vaguely recall reading that of the Right to Work States there has been an increase in jobs and positive economic factors 50 % more than those that are not RTW states.

  • Sandie

    Ya , seeing as how B F D means Big Fkn Dope you can’t expect much more.

  • Anonymous

    I’m white that makes me a racist…BFD…next.

  • Anonymous

    does anybody remember Obama calling Sarah Palin a pig with lip stick.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is half white…does that mean he hates himself?…LOL

  • Anonymous

    Ah, the good old days. Before she started following the dead fish down stream.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, the good old days. Before she started following the dead fish down stream.

  • Anonymous

    what ever

  • Victor Tiffany

    You just played it on yourself, as well as showing putrid citizenship.

    Obama is our president. Bush, Clinton and Bush were our presidents.

    Some may have been your candidates, your men; but they were all our presidents.

    Where did you study civics, Dillweed High?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Scheller/100000832449863 Todd Scheller

    Victor,
    Why not get this right. the word boy, like man relates to gender not race. I happen to have three sons, they are all my “boys.” They also happen to be white.

  • Sandie

    That moron has a cognitive bias problem and will misuse anything in his feeble attempts to smear posters he dislikes.

  • ser nam

    Maybe guillotined

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