Why did CNN and MSNBC show all of Coakley’s concession speech and then not much of Brown’s victory speech? Only FNC carried the full speeches of each candidate. See johnny$ for the article and graph.

I noticed that Chrissy was using the term “tea partiers” last night also. I don’t watch KO, except the occasional WPITW segment, so I don’t know what he said, and personally I don’t care.

OLBERMANN: The Republicans and the Tea Partiers will tell you what happens tonight with Scott Brown tonight, whether he wins or comes close, is a repudiation of Obama policies, and surely one of Obama’s policies from the viewpoint of his opponents is that it’s okay to have this sea change in American history, to have an African-American President. Is this vote to any degree just a euphemism the way state’s rights was in the 60s?

You left out his comment that they are rejecting Obama’s policy of having an African American President. Sounds like he is accusing MA voters of suddenly becoming racist. The truck was just the stupid icing on his demented cake.

Olbermann has already called everyone on the right racist every which way from Sunday. Now he’s just throwin in the truck.

Please, TfT, let’s not bring Koldys into this discussion. We really don’t need to serve as a mouthpiece for Ailes.

As for the truck, remember James Byrd?

I agree with Fineman that there isn’t anything racial behind the MA vote (although Olbermann never outright agreed with Fineman).

One thing on the truck – in the ads, it only references it being a “truck” and not necessarily a pick-up truck. I think it was more about it having a lot of miles on it – he’s been driving it around the state meeting people, he’s a ‘regular joe,’ etc.

And TfT, I think CNN and MSNBC dropped out of Brown’s speech because it was so absurdly long and rambling. If I were in the control room, I probably would have done the same thing. Even Greta noted it’s length when it finally ended after 25+ minutes.

I have to say I don’t find anything even tangentially racist about the vote, either. Olbermann is off on this, as he is so often.

No, Tommie, “they” did not conclude in the end that “race was not much of a factor”.

Howard FIneman reached this conclusion about the Massachusetts vote AND about the Tea Party Protesters as a group.

Olbermann has consistently labeled the Tea Party Protesters as being racially motivated and this is just one more attempt on his part to smear more Obama critics in the same manner.

Olbermann based this formulation on the most tenuous logic imaginable. Olbermann suggests that the phrase “I don’t agree with the president’s policies” is racial “code” speak for not supporting the president based UPON the color of his skin! And this nonsense is predicated on Olbermann’s brilliant argument that one of the president’s chief “policies” is that people of color of capable of being president of the USA. Get it… That health care and stimulus policy stuff– subterfuge for the REAL POLICY disagreement.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more disingenuous device for a mass impugning of one’s political opponents.

If you’ll hark back, just how well-received was the claim that candidate Obama was treated with more delicacy because of a combination of trepidatious political correctness and the natural impulse champion the first minority president? Although this observation was NOT targeted at the general population, but specifically stated of the MEDIA, even to make such a claim of THEM (perhaps ESPECIALLY of them) was as good as suggesting that ANY person of color was incapable of leading the country. Why, a critique of the candidate or of the media’s response to the candidate that was far more gentle than this brought accusations of unconscious racism at best, frank racism at worst, from Keith Olbermann and many others.

Now we have you making the case that the president has been treated more harshly than the white presidents of yore.. even among people who never voted for “W” in their lives.

Oh, it’s a “good” question when you’re suggesting certain things of Obama critics… When it’s asked from another perspective, specifically about the media (rather than the voters), it’s confirmation that you burn crosses in your spare time.

It’s a quite a hypocritical sleight of hand act you (and Olbermann of all people) are attempting here. But you’re still pulling out that same ole hateful nasty rabbit out of your hat.

“The idea that Scott Brown thinks he can be “one of us” by driving around an empty-bedded overcompensationmobile is what I find offensive.”

Well, you found Brown highlighting himself as an “everyman” offensive and Mass voters were offended by Coakley’s attitude that she was to be installed as senator.

Good thing you’re not a campaign manager.

{White president ruins economy, blunders into unnecessary and costly war, presides over the worst terrorist attack in US history…and gets re-elected.

Black President doesn’t fix worst economy since Great Depression in his first year in office, get sweeping healthcare reform completed in his first year in office, or end either of the two wars he inherited in his first year in office…and both sides seem ready to run him out of town on a rail.}

I’ve been struggling for sometime, staring at my laptop, re-reading the above two paragraphs, and all I can say is, you certainly have a fricked up view of everything. Not just biased, but seriously narrow and fricked up. There just isn’t enough time (or patience) to address your lack of depth and perspective much less your overwhelming inability to recount history. To people like you Tommy, there is no historical perspective to anything, just bad things that happened when somebody besides your guy was in charge and poor old Barry has to clean it up.
It’s not that simple, generations have been cleaning up the messes of previous generations since time began.
Very short-sighted and extremely dishonest intellectually. But it does keep your batshit crazy fanclub here foaming at the mouth.

Tim,

maybe you should have read the rest of it, too. There were bunches of words before and after that part.

Here’s one from left field: What role does spousal abuse play in the success of Mediaite? If you think Keith’s question was a good one, mine must be great.

Do you get it now, Tommy? Asking what role race played in a senate campaign between two crackers, in a state that overwhelmingly voted for Obama over McCain, is a ridiculous attempt to insert race into a completely non racial topic. Olbermann was simply trying to insert the MSM meme of the tea party = racism into Massachusetts. It was a loaded question intended to taint the target of the question.

And Fineman was either being kind, or a complete dullard, when he said it was a good question.

‘The Black President’ (as you defined him) policies are out of step with the majority of Americans. Just like yours I guess, as we see in your opinion expressed above. I saw that segment live and yes, I did turn to my son and say, ‘now we are white racists because we drive a pickup truck’? I thought it was because of God, Guns and immigrants? You know, a typical American who crosses the street when she sees a Black man. Thank God that political hack of a man, Howard Fineman was there to clear it all up for us. (What the hell does he know about pick-up trucks and ‘typical Americans’ anyway?)

The Real Royal King wrote:

As for the truck, remember James Byrd?

Oh, you mean James Byrd, Jr.? The black man that ex-con white supremacists dragged to his death, leaving his body parts as a trail to them? That happened back when George W. Bush was Governor of Texas?

Yeah, I remember him.

I remember him because Democrats, to throw a monkey wrench into Bush’s Presidential campaign, proposed an enhancement to existing “hate crime” legislation within the state and named it “The James Byrd Jr. Act.” Then, they suggested that Bush was insensitive at least and racist at worst for not supporting the enhancement.

Bush, in his own defense, pointed out that Byrd’s killers were already subject to, y’know, THE DEATH PENALTY IN TEXAS, so it wasn’t as if he didn’t want them to get what was coming to them (Two of the three men riding in the truck are currently on Texas’ death row; the third was sentenced to life in prison and will not be up for parole until 2038). That wasn’t good enough for the NAACP National Voter Fund, which created a landmark dirty trick ad in which Byrd’s daughter said “it was like my father was killed all over again” when Bush said he wouldn’t support the bill.

In 2001, after Bush was elected despite their best efforts, the NAACP was indignant when Bush broke with Presidential tradition and did not attend a NAACP annual conference, as if it expected him to have forgotten such an insult (he eventually did attend in later years).

So, yeah, I do remember James Byrd. I remember him as a victim of true bigotry and hatred. And I also remember him as a conduit for unjustified accusations of bigotry and hatred made against conservatives. And it’s a shame that you are using him in the latter sense, TRRK.

are you kidding me?

I used to be a media guy working for the Dems and i cant believe the partisan spin her, not by Olbermann, but by Mr. Christopher here…

Seems “Tommy” wants nothing better than to get himself invited onto MSNBC because he sure isnt doing journalism her, nor media criticism, hes doing MSM hackery – 2008 style (If it was 2000 hed be sucking up to Matthews and calling Gore a durty liar)
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Does he not recall the entire media meltdown concerning Geraldine Ferraro’s statement?

And personally I thought that whole dialog twixt Fineman and KO very, very bizarre and so far off the field of rational discussion even I was offended.

And I thought I was a hack. seems I have nothing on our boy columnist here.

Good luck on your soon to be booking….make sure they send a towncar…youve earned it!

Owe him an attaboy? Seriously? The insinuation was clear that KO felt this was racism and Fineman seemed to associate racism with a truck. Even though he said he didn’t think there was racism in this vote the impression he left was that, yes, truck = racism.
MSNBC did this back in the Dem Primary in 08 when they wondered out loud if NH voters were racist because they voted for Clinton instead of Obama shortly after Clinton was announced as the winner and they were clearly stunned. It was first mentioned by Chuck Todd, then Matthews and Olbermann for a long discussion, which clearly left the impression they felt NH voters were racist. Then shortly after that, MSNBC started pushing the race card which got the whole race issue heated up.
As for Tommy Christopher calling for an attaboy for Keith, it figures. What else is new. If it’s not him, it’s Rachel.

New Warholism: Everyone in the world will have 15 minutes of being called a racist by an MSNBC talking head.