“This is not the Holy Grail of “reverse racism” you’re looking for. ” No it is not… but it is monumentally stupid and shows the MSM liberal bias you know were all so fond of… ;).

There are some white liberals who can not separate race from anything. They’re usually rich and suffer from some sort of guilt that they’ve had all the breaks in life. It’s well intended, but looking at it from a distance it becomes apparent that they’re the ones who see the world through the spectrum of race, gender, and sexual orientations.

Reminds me of when Sen Barbara Boxer kept reminding the head of the National Black Chamber of Commerce that African American groups supported her resolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HdQdcXqbcw

Tommy . How does Mitchell stack up compared to Maddow ?
Less awesome ?
Equally awesome ?
Way yonder more awesome ?

BTW… doesn’t the statement: “Well, you know, you and I are both white.” Indicate that Mitchell believes “white people can’t empathize”? If not then why did she mention that they were both white? What does that have to do with her argument if not to indicate that “they” just couldn’t understand due to their race?

Thanks for the info on the “Tri-Caucus”, which I had never heard of before. Why don’t they change their name to the “Everybody But Whitey Caucus?

tatboy said:
BTW… doesn’t the statement: “Well, you know, you and I are both white.” Indicate that Mitchell believes “white people can’t empathize”? If not then why did she mention that they were both white? What does that have to do with her argument if not to indicate that “they” just couldn’t understand due to their race?

She was prefacing an explicit call for Lungren TO empathize.

She seemed stumped by his answer and knew she’d screwed up.

Soo
.. Tommy gives no explanation for what Andrea meant but is absolutely positive of what it is not .. Just another incohorent article by Mr Christopher.

Ps its called white guilt and she was obviously implying that only a certain race are Muslim

Tommy Christopher said:
She was prefacing an explicit call for Lungren TO empathize.

It was well intended. You have to admit that she looked pretty uncomfortable after Lungrens response, though.

Yet one more example of Christopher’s ongoing “Let’s circle the wagons to protect any liberal spokesperson when they screw up” campaign. (e.g. NPR fiasco, now Mitchell) I hope you at least get compensated for this from those you do gymnastics for.

tatboy said:
BTW… doesn’t the statement: “Well, you know, you and I are both white.” Indicate that Mitchell believes “white people can’t empathize”? If not then why did she mention that they were both white? What does that have to do with her argument if not to indicate that “they” just couldn’t understand due to their race?

Tommy Christopher said:
She was prefacing an explicit call for Lungren TO empathize.

I wouldn’t expect much logic from this crowd. Try to keep it to: OBAMA BAD! MOOCHELLE BAD!

I’m beginning to believe Tommy loves BAITING you guys.

Well, keep up the hits count guys.

I’ll bet he could write a column that just said

WHITE
BLACK
BLACK
WHITE
BLACK BLACK BLACK

to which he would hear “obviously written by a libby, look at all the Blacks.

murf said:
Ps its called white guilt and she was obviously implying that only a certain race are Muslim

I hear that the “White Muslim Caucus” is drafting a sternly worded statement.

LOL at Tommy. I am beginning to think (but I have no proof and I’m not accusing him) that Tommy is secretly on MSNBC’s payroll. How else does one explain his writings?

I watched the segment live. What I gathered is she was trying to get Lundgren to step outside of his own life and look at the perspective of minority constituents.
You know, FDR was to the manor born. But he spoke to the least of our citizens during the Depression. HE SHOWED THAT HE UNDERSTOOD.
LUNDGREN COULDN’T.

Ah more editorializing from the Libs here at Mediaite. Of course, they can’t bring themselves to do a piece on all the death threats from libs towards Republican’s today. Can’t work up any outrage over that, but this, now this is outrageous!!

TfT said:
LOL at Tommy. I am beginning to think (but I have no proof and I’m not accusing him) that Tommy is secretly on MSNBC’s payroll. How else does one explain his writings?

It’s obvious that Tommy loves his job, lol. He gets to watch MessNBC all day and also gets paid to have his thoughts reinforced by propaganda.

Joseph Glackin said:
I watched the segment live. What I gathered is she was trying to get Lundgren to step outside of his own life and look at the perspective of minority constituents.
You know, FDR was to the manor born. But he spoke to the least of our citizens during the Depression. HE SHOWED THAT HE UNDERSTOOD.
LUNDGREN COULDN’T.

Umm, I wouldn’t use FDR as an example of empathy.

He was one of the most racist presidents that’s ever held office.

He re-segregated the army, refused to sign anti- lynching bills, and had American Japanese held in internment camps. That’s not even counting his on the record public racist comments.

turk281 said:
Umm, I wouldn’t use FDR as an example of empathy.

He was one of the most racist presidents that’s ever held office.

He re-segregated the army, refused to sign anti- lynching bills, and had American Japanese held in internment camps. That’s not even counting his on the record public racist comments.

What about the Southern Strategy?

Joseph Glackin said:
I watched the segment live. What I gathered is she was trying to get Lundgren to step outside of his own life and look at the perspective of minority constituents.
You know, FDR was to the manor born. But he spoke to the least of our citizens during the Depression. HE SHOWED THAT HE UNDERSTOOD.
LUNDGREN COULDN’T.

FDR sure understood those Japs pretty good, eh?

tatboy said:
BTW… doesn’t the statement: “Well, you know, you and I are both white.” Indicate that Mitchell believes “white people can’t empathize”? If not then why did she mention that they were both white? What does that have to do with her argument if not to indicate that “they” just couldn’t understand due to their race?

Tommy Christopher said:
She was prefacing an explicit call for Lungren TO empathize.

Yeah, first she says “we” can’t empathize, and then she calls for him to do so anyway.

Which he did:

LUNGREN: No, no, no, no. We are hearing from Muslim-Americans. Three out of the four people on our panel are Muslim-Americans. In fact, they have said in some ways, they have been intimidated by others from being able to express their point of view. And the second thing I would say is I remember when I was Attorney General of California, we had a hearing in a high school in Los Angeles about youth violence. When it was all over, a young African-American girl, 14 or 15 years of age, came up to me. Didn’t say, “Well, you’re white.” What she said was, “How come you adults never come around until after there is a death?” Because there had been a death on that campus. Our- My question is, why don’t we attempt to connect the dots so that we can stop some of the insidiousness of targeting young people in the Muslim community by those who would leave them to jihad? We have to recognize this problem. There are people in that Muslim community, in those Muslim communities around this country who are being targeted. That’s what we heard from a father. That’s what we heard from an uncle. Don’t you think they need to be heard?

Mitchell had no response.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/03/10/msnbcs-andrea-mitchell-gop-rep-muslim-hearings-you-and-i-are-both-wh#ixzz1GFPabpek

Yawn. Is Tommy Christopher the partisan hack pushing his political views off as journalism again? What a joke.

Tommy Christopher should go write at Daily Kos. In the comment section where he belongs.

This is not media criticism. This is mediocre and generic partisan dreck.

Isn’t it ironic that a petty “gotcha” player like Christopher whines about others playing “gotcha”?

Not only is Christopher not a journalist, but he is also a hypocrite.

turk281 said:
Umm, I wouldn’t use FDR as an example of empathy.

He was one of the most racist presidents that’s ever held office.

He re-segregated the army, refused to sign anti- lynching bills, and had American Japanese held in internment camps. That’s not even counting his on the record public racist comments.

.
Which leaves his anti-semitic Admin, at a time when we should have opened our borders to every Jew and helped them to get here, completely out of this equation.

That is the only thing that sticks in my craw about him even more than his having started us down the nanny state road that has led us, finally, to the edge of the cliff.

I still credit him as great b/c he was instrumental in helping Britain survive long enough for us to get in WWII in spite of the strong isolationist sentiment at home.

How’s that for conflicting emotions?

Indeed Judge – and Lundgren sure did make a lot more sense than Andrea did (I do note how Andrea referred to her colleague Norah ODonnel was reporting the same thing Andrea was reporting … you know that whole group/grope group/think problem the lib left media has).

Dan was sensical in his response, Andrea was racial, talking only about the color of the skin of the caucus.

Typical MSNBCer, only sees the issues as being skin deep.

Unbeleivable, she is horrific.

TfT said:
LOL at Tommy.

What Grade are you in?

LOL at Tommy.
LOL at Tommy.
LOL at Tommy.

To the left, everything revolves around race. If you’re white, you’re not allowed to have an opinion on anything that’s not 100% white related. Unless you’re a lefty. Then, you think you know what’s best for everybody. As Tommy has indicated in the past, he thinks he knows more about what’s best for minorities than they do. It’s a tenet of white liberalism.

What Mithchell said was moronic. But, there’s Tommy, ready to defend her. It appears as if his job is to defend every moronic lefty out there. Hey, nevermind what Mitchell said, look over here. Hey, nevermind what the guy at NPR said, O’Keefe is an (fill in the blank)ist.

Snappy dresser?

Tommy earlier today repoting on Peter King’s earlier “too many mosques” comment:

“King tries to mitigate his quote by saying that what he really said was that there were “too many mosques that don’t cooperate with law enforcement,” but that’s not actually true.”

Then Bodhi pointed out:

Bodhi said:
Tommy you can’t be serious. Do you understand the difference between a comma and a period? Even ThinkProgress acknowledges that there is a comma:
KING: We have unfortunately, we have a, uh, too many mosques in this country, too many people that are sympathetic to radical Islam.

What did Tommy do then? Acknowledge that he had truncated the quote and that it could be open to a different meaning that was not so damning.

Silly rabbit, of course not! He said:

Tommy Christopher said:
does not equal ““too many mosques that don’t cooperate with law enforcement.”

In fact, the quote you’re referencing equates mosques with “people that are sympathetic to radical Islam.”

Every benefit of every doubt to Mitchell but don’t even lay out the complete sentence for King and let’s parse each word down to its nub with no allowances for an awkward sentence or any other possible meaning.

“Conservative Sites Play ‘Gotcha!’ with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell ‘We’re Both White’ Clip”

How exactly is race tied to religion?

Also how can you be a ‘Muslim American’ is there a country called Muslim?

Thanks Grammie…good info.

And it wasn’t just a blonde moment.
Pamela Anderson makes more sense than her and her claim to fame is being an airhead on the beach.

Yes. And like Florida, it’s always Sunni.

for the Peter King crowd it is alright to be a terrorist if you are Catholic. What a bunch of garbage from these douche bags. They give real Americans a bad name.

@ Tommy

TC, can you tell me why the Ellison testimony has become the highlighted media moment, yet the compelling testimony of Melvin Bledsoe has gotten little to no coverage?

Is it because he is less known than Ellison, or is it that he doesn’t fit the predetermined left-wing template?

wreg.com/news/wreg-bledsoe-islamic-congressional-hearing-story,0,5756265.story

“Bigot” Charge Is Bolstered By @MitchellReports Circumstantial Evidence-Bigot Apologizing: http://is.gd/1zmdzF Race Hustling: http://bit.ly/gdkLCn

@PoliticalPAW

lol…..YOU WHITE PEOPLE ARE SO DAMN FUNNY…………HAHAHAHAHAHAH….CALLING MRS ALAN GREENSPAN A LEFTY????……………………HOW MUCH MORE STUPID CAN YOU BAGGERS GET???????? JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU FREAKS REACHED YA LIMIT YOU BREAK NEW GROUND….IM CONVINCED…..IGNORANCE HAS NO BOUNDS IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT……DIPSHITS

I get it, context matters with Mitchell (Liberal) but not King (Conservative). Tommy is priceless.

ProObamaAgenda said:
lol…..YOU WHITE PEOPLE ARE SO DAMN FUNNY…………HAHAHAHAHAHAH….CALLING MRS ALAN GREENSPAN A LEFTY????……………………HOW MUCH MORE STUPID CAN YOU BAGGERS GET???????? JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU FREAKS REACHED YA LIMIT YOU BREAK NEW GROUND….IM CONVINCED…..IGNORANCE HAS NO BOUNDS IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT……DIPSHITS

Yep, because she’s married to Greenspan means she’s a conservative. Anybody that speaks to a conservative is a conservative. Any good liberal knows never to talk to one.

Did you know Tommy is a conservative? It’s true. SE Cupp told me that he’s very friendly. What a traitor.

You are THE stereotype of an ignorant Liberal. Right down to your very original avatar.

Serious question for you tommy. It SEEMS to me that almost all of the muslim hearing dust up is from a left leaning media as a whole. Three minutes of video showing a crying testimony about a muslim who lost his life as a 9/11 responder is everywhere. Did ANY media outlet anywhere show the video testimony of Melvin Bledsoe???? If so… please point me to it. In case you don’t know who he is and a fine example of why these hearings need to be held can be found here in a brief article yesterday. Please explain this to me. I did see an AP video report that lasted 5 minutes showing the entire crying testimony of the muslim defense and they did include a ten second snipet of Mr. bledsoe, but where is his EYE-OPENING testimony video being shown??

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/mar/09/memphis-man-testify-islamic-radicals-programmed-hi/?partner=yahoo_feeds

All you jokers would’ve been marching down the street with Lindbergh in the “America First” movement.
The country at that time hated Catholics, Jews, Orientals and the blacks still around since the end of slavery. FDR was a man of his time. A lot of what he did would today be considered racist. At that time it was considered left-wing to the point of communism. Sound familiar?
That”strong isolationist sentiment at home” GRAMMIE mentioned was exemplified by the 20,000 believers who showed up at Madison Square Garden for the German-American Bund Rally in 1939.
FDR also used the CCC to put young men to work. got them out of the cities, and built the national parks.
He built the Hoover and Grand Coulee dams, and the TVA system, bringing electricity to the West and the Southeast, when no private industry would spend the money.
In all, I’ll accept the mistakes he made.
BTW, he got us through WWII.

Tommy says:
Much later in the piece, they reveal the crucial bit of missing context:

MITCHELL: Well, you know, you and I are both white. Let me just pitch to you-

REP: DAN LUNGREN: Well, what does that mean? What does that mean?

LUNGREN: Well, let me finish my question. Let me finish my question. The minority caucuses, the Asian Pacific caucus, the black caucus, the Hispanic caucus have joined together and issued a statement today after this hearing started, criticizing it. I’m just asking you, from their perspective- and you saw Congressman Ellison, your colleague, breaking down in his testimony today about what happened when that first responder, a Muslim-American young man was criticized after his death on 9/11 as a rescuer and was unfairly criticized as some sort of a radical. I’m just asking, get in their heads for a second and try to think about how it is to be a Muslim-American facing these kinds- this kind of testimony today. That’s all I want to know.

The SECOND paragraph of the newsbusters article:

The irritated Republican wondered, “What does that mean?” Mitchell lectured, “I’m just asking, get in their heads for a second and try to think about how it is to be a Muslim-American facing these kinds- this kind of testimony today. That’s all I want to know.”

Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2011/03/10/msnbcs-andrea-mitchell-gop-rep-muslim-hearings-you-and-i-are-both-wh#ixzz1GFnQttp6

I am guessing first of all, that in Tommy’s article that there is a typo attributing Mitchell’s statement to Lungren.

Secondly doesn’t NB’s second paragraph pretty much say what Tommy’s saying is the missing CRUCIAL piece of missing context?

Grammie said:
Tommy earlier today repoting on Peter King’s earlier “too many mosques” comment:

“King tries to mitigate his quote by saying that what he really said was that there were “too many mosques that don’t cooperate with law enforcement,” but that’s not actually true.”

Then Bodhi pointed out:

What did Tommy do then? Acknowledge that he had truncated the quote and that it could be open to a different meaning that was not so damning.

Silly rabbit, of course not! He said:

Every benefit of every doubt to Mitchell but don’t even lay out the complete sentence for King and let’s parse each word down to its nub with no allowances for an awkward sentence or any other possible meaning.

It is sad the mental gymnastics he has to go through to defend liberals and slam conservatives.

ProObama- ” Mrs Alan Greenspan”

Kinda like James Carville’s republican wife ??

kvon said:
I wouldn’t expect much logic from this crowd. Try to keep it to: OBAMA BAD! MOOCHELLE BAD!

Can you leave this to the big kids please…

Tommy Christopher said:
She was prefacing an explicit call for Lungren TO empathize.

Maybe he dose empathize and just simple disagrees.

Joseph Glackin said:
All you jokers would’ve been marching down the street with Lindbergh in the “America First” movement.

.
My, but you are an unpleasant sort aren’t you.

For all your name calling and accusations against others you seem to be oblivious to the disgusting anti-semetic nature of FDR’s Admin.

Tell me, are you sure that you wouldn’t have proudly worn a Death Skull or SS runes if you were in Germany then. Or perhaps you would have been one of those Sig Heiling German-American Bund traitors.

Come on, if you can throw your accusations around shouldn’t everyone be able to play that game.

You’re contemptible and I’ve had it with this constant drum roll from you and your ilk here.

LOL, Andrea Mitchel is one of the “we are all offended” class. Too bad. The government is responsible for the safety of the American people if that offends some then let them be offended.

tgk said:
I am guessing first of all, that in Tommy’s article that there is a typo attributing Mitchell’s statement to Lungren.

You’re right, there was an error in the transcript that NB used. I corrected it in my story.

@Tommy — I know I’ve been tough on you, but here’s my deal: If you want to go out of your way to provide context (as you see it) for someone or some entity, then be consistent and provide it everywhere. This is why I miss Krakauer (sp?) here. I honestly don’t know what his politics were. He could have been the biggest leftist around, but in his columns, I saw him as a straight shooter. He let the chips fall where they may have in the columns I read from him. Why is that so hard to get anymore?

You’re entitled to your political philosophy. But that doesn’t mean going out of your way to either:

Find context to help someone’s cause or politics you believe in

OR

Ignore context if it’s someone whose politics you disagree with.

All I want is someone to call things as they are, no matter their political beliefs. Is that really asking too much today? God, I hope your reply (if made) isn’t “I’ll let those on the other side give context”. Journalism. Make it mean something before it becomes totally meaningless.

Pokerdude777 said:
Serious question for you tommy. It SEEMS to me that almost all of the muslim hearing dust up is from a left leaning media as a whole. Three minutes of video showing a crying testimony about a muslim who lost his life as a 9/11 responder is everywhere. Did ANY media outlet anywhere show the video testimony of Melvin Bledsoe???? If so… please point me to it. In case you don’t know who he is and a fine example of why these hearings need to be held can be found here in a brief article yesterday. Please explain this to me. I did see an AP video report that lasted 5 minutes showing the entire crying testimony of the muslim defense and they did include a ten second snipet of Mr. bledsoe, but where is his EYE-OPENING testimony video being shown?? http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/mar/09/memphis-man-testify-islamic-radicals-programmed-hi/?partner=yahoo_feeds

I ask you once again Tommy, in all seriousness. Please tell me where it is.

Article Yesterday copy and pasted from the Memphis Commercial Appeal Newspaper

WASHINGTON – The father of the Memphis man who converted to Islam, killed one military recruiter and wounded another, and now claims membership in al-Qaida, will tell a Congressional panel that “Islamic radicals programmed and trained” his son to kill.

In testimony obtained by The Commercial Appeal before Thursday’s hearing before the House Homeland Security Committee on the “radicalization” of domestic Muslims, Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis will say his son Carlos was “captured by people best described as hunters.”

“These hunters … set him up, telling him that he could teach English at a British School in Aden in South Yemen. This school turned out to be a front and Carlos ended up in a training camp run by terrorists,” according to the prepared testimony.

“We must stop these extremist invaders from raping the minds of American citizens on American soil,” Bledsoe will testify. He will also say it is their “goal” to convert Americans to Islam.

THIS MAN TESTIFIED TODAY…. WHERE IS THE VIDEO!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

This piece is a mess and Tommy Boy is all over the place on this one.

Attributing Mitchell’s quote to Lungren is a major f-up, making the whole piece confusing. Then he selectively edits Newsbusters original post, all the way calling them out for lack of content, which was there all the time if he didn’t edit them. Thats either lazy, or biased.

In particular I have to say I enjoy Tommy Boy’s rhetorical use of the word “apoplexy” over a post that didn’t cause any such thing. If this is an apoplexy, then the entire blogosphere is in a constant state of apoplexy all the time.

According to Tommy Boy, conservatives are apoplectic because of…. wait for it…..A single post that is now buried on Newsbuster’s site! OH NO!!

http://movieclips.com/makD9-tommy-boy-movie-my-whole-life-sucks/

No one can see through your eyes, feel what you feel or perceive an incident or story the same way you do. Two people,a Fox viewer and an MSNBC viewer watch the same news story on CBS. The Fox viewer believes the story has a libeal slant, while the MSNBC viewer thinks the story is tilted to the right. In truth the story was likely very balanced, as when both sides are angry at the ref after a game. Each believes their team got hosed when in fact, the game, just as the story, was even handed.

ProObamaAgenda said:
lol…..YOU WHITE PEOPLE ARE SO DAMN FUNNY…………HAHAHAHAHAHAH….CALLING MRS ALAN GREENSPAN A LEFTY????……………………HOW MUCH MORE STUPID CAN YOU BAGGERS GET???????? JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU FREAKS REACHED YA LIMIT YOU BREAK NEW GROUND….IM CONVINCED…..IGNORANCE HAS NO BOUNDS IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT……DIPSHITS

And you were lecturing moi about racism?

Grammie said:
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My, but you are an unpleasant sort aren’t you.

Have some empathy for him. He’s still hungover from the fleebagger fiasco blowing up in their faces.

All the legitimate browbeating of Lib media hacks is taking a toll on poor Andrea; she looks old and withered. All Lib media hacks do. Full of rabid, apoplectic rage. No complaints here, though. They deserve the bludgeoning they’re getting. Ever since they sold us Obamo, it’s been downhill for them and for him.

ChrisNH said:
All the legitimate browbeating of Lib media hacks is taking a toll on poor Andrea; she looks old and withered

Well…she is old and withered lol!

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy – was it even necessary for you to rush to Andrea’s defense? After all, it aired on MSNBC. Nobody saw it anyway. No need to provide liberal cover.

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ChrisNH said:
All the legitimate browbeating of Lib media hacks is taking a toll on poor Andrea; she looks old and withered.

When 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm!

“Mitchell isn’t saying that white people can’t empathize… The minority caucuses, the Asian Pacific caucus, the black caucus, the Hispanic…”

that’s exactly what it sounded like to me.

Why do you need to get in the heads of minorities if you can’t empathize as a white person?

Poor Tommy…..soooo much spin…..sooooo little time.

Y’all cut Count Hackula Christopher a break….he was up and about during the daylight yesterday and got a bit singed.

Tedderman said:
No one can see through your eyes, feel what you feel or perceive an incident or story the same way you do. Two people,a Fox viewer and an MSNBC viewer watch the same news story on CBS. The Fox viewer believes the story has a libeal slant, while the MSNBC viewer thinks the story is tilted to the right. In truth the story was likely very balanced, as when both sides are angry at the ref after a game. Each believes their team got hosed when in fact, the game, just as the story, was even handed.

Proud yet Tedder?

Lets be honest here, Allan Greenspan is till wondering why he ever married Andrea.

Arthur Clough said:
Lets be honest here, Allan Greenspan is till wondering why he ever married Andrea.

Let’s be honest here…..Alan Greenspan is about as conservative as Karl Marx.

The better question would be: why wouldn’t he be married to this liberal hack?

nutsofast said:
I’m beginning to believe Tommy loves BAITING you guys.

Well, keep up the hits count guys.

I’ll bet he could write a column that just said

WHITE
BLACK
BLACK
WHITE
BLACK BLACK BLACK

to which he would hear “obviously written by a libby, look at all the Blacks.

Agreed. Starting March 15th, don’t look at any of Tommy’s articles. He’s not genuine. He writes these stories just to get hits.