Go easy on her, she might not know about it.

Ummm what was wrong in what she said?

“And our story is, we come from someone who was a risk-taker from their home country, doesn’t matter what the country is, but they took a risk and they came here.”

Looks like this was inclusive rather than exclusive phrasing. This is a weak attempt at trying to change what she said.

You call this journalism? It is petty meaningless nitpicking, it used to be called yellow journalism which seems to fit pretty well.

“The people that came to the United States, other than Native Americans who were here, all of us have the same story. And our story is, we come from someone who was a risk-taker from their home country, doesn’t matter what the country is, but they took a risk and they came here.”

Well, we don’t all have the same story. She ignores the history of many African-Americans. Who are part of the history of this country too, and to say that we all came here just because we were risk-takers is ignorant frankly.

She’s a public figure and a member of Congress and absolutely should be called out for stuff like this. It’s not that I want her to be embarrassed, it’s a matter of whether or not someone who purports to educate others about American history is telling the truth about it.

Good Gawd Ya’ll….get a grip. Mediaite is becoming jokester territory with these kind of “analysis” pieces. Stop tying to use this board as your platform to show MSNBC your “talents”….they have new managemet now….or are you trying to impress Currant TV these days?

Honestly, Dan, clean up on aisle three please!!!

WCinWI said:
Ummm what was wrong in what she said?

“And our story is, we come from someone who was a risk-taker from their home country, doesn’t matter what the country is, but they took a risk and they came here.”

Looks like this was inclusive rather than exclusive phrasing. This is a weak attempt at trying to change what she said.

I know you must be kidding. Then again probably not.

I don’t think anyone used the term “African-American” back then.

In fact, why was the term created in the first place?

Does it denote dual citizenship between two continents? – or a continent and country?
Is it heritage, that every black American traces back to Africa? Then why not Mesopatania, where we all trace back to?

No, this was a political designation, by the progressive left, designed to create an ethnocentric chasm between traditional White Americans and anti-establishment Black Americans.

Wowwww. Is this the best the US Congress can offer? Well, I guess she meant what see said considering that black slaves actually took the RISK(risk-takers) of travelling thousands of miles in chains, constantly beaten, rapes, murdered and exploited . Even today the descendants of these slaves are still taking risks dropping their wallets and getting shot 49 times by police, going to apply for jobs and credits that they will never get, and the biggest risk taker has to be the first black president who has to look over his shoulder more than any other president. Yes Michelle Bachmann, slaves of the pasts and their modern day descendants are RISK TAKERS..thanks for the history lesson

“…they knew when they came here they weren’t coming for a welfare state…”

Africans were imported while de-jure legal supports evolved at the state level to ensure the denial of basic liberties… this itself represented the ultimate entitlement and welfare support for those forever angered by federal authority… Bachmann is another in the line of confederates who not only dislike the federal but refuse to see the connection between liberty and the arbitrary application of the laws rule.

da-wdc said:
“The people that came to the United States, other than Native Americans who were here, all of us have the same story. And our story is, we come from someone who was a risk-taker from their home country, doesn’t matter what the country is, but they took a risk and they came here.”

Well, we don’t all have the same story. She ignores the history of many African-Americans. Who are part of the history of this country too, and to say that we all came here just because we were risk-takers is ignorant frankly.

She’s a public figure and a member of Congress and absolutely should be called out for stuff like this. It’s not that I want her to be embarrassed, it’s a matter of whether or not someone who purports to educate others about American history is telling the truth about it.

So African Americans aren’t risk-takers?

Barack Obama’s Daddy wasn’t taking a risk. He got a free ride on the American taxpayer’s dime. Bachmann is wrong.

I would even say that people that were slaves risked their lives more than the rest of society.

Pablo said:
Barack Obama’s Daddy wasn’t taking a risk. He got a free ride on the American taxpayer’s dime. Bachmann is wrong.

You suck more than ichelle Backman’s vagin*

Pablo said:
Barack Obama’s Daddy wasn’t taking a risk. He got a free ride on the American taxpayer’s dime. Bachmann is wrong.

And you are among the most uneducated boobs on this board. Do you work or do you sit on your ass all day and post here. Brainstem.

minorityreport said:
Wowwww. Is this the best the US Congress can offer? Well, I guess she meant what see said considering that black slaves actually took the RISK(risk-takers) of travelling thousands of miles in chains, constantly beaten, rapes, murdered and exploited . Even today the descendants of these slaves are still taking risks dropping their wallets and getting shot 49 times by police, going to apply for jobs and credits that they will never get, and the biggest risk taker has to be the first black president who has to look over his shoulder more than any other president. Yes Michelle Bachmann, slaves of the pasts and their modern day descendants are RISK TAKERS..thanks for the history lesson

Wouldn’t have anything to do with 80% single-parent birth rate, would it?

WCinWI said:
I would even say that people that were slaves risked their lives more than the rest of society.

You have twisted the meaning of “risk taker”. Choice is implied. Coercion that includes torture, rape and murder is mass crime plain and simple.

Whenever Michelle Bachman opens her mouth, it stinks with rubbish. I guess she should use the douche in her mouth instead

minorityreport said:
You suck more than ichelle Backman’s vagin*

Perhaps. But at least I’m literate.

NORBIT Jr. said:
Wouldn’t have anything to do with 80% single-parent birth rate, would it?

Hey, now! It’s only 77%. And let’s not talk about the high school dropout rate. That would be racist.

NORBIT Jr. said:
Wouldn’t have anything to do with 80% single-parent birth rate, would it?

No but I guess it has more to do with the 100% institutional injustice, 70% rate of wrongful imprisonment, higher rate of systemic unemployment, higher rate of racial profiling, higher concentration of abortion clinics in predominantly black neighborhoods………..
So dumbas*, what more statistics do you have to say out of your bigoted mouth?

Greg said:
You have twisted the meaning of “risk taker”. Choice is implied. Coercion that includes torture, rape and murder is mass crime plain and simple.

Between life and death, there is always a choice.

Pablo said:
Hey, now! It’s only 77%. And let’s not talk about the high school dropout rate. That would be racist.

Talking about the dropout rate is not racist as such, talking about it as you prefer… perhaps.

minorityreport said:
No but I guess it has more to do with the 100% institutional injustice, 70% rate of wrongful imprisonment, higher rate of systemic unemployment, higher rate of racial profiling, higher concentration of abortion clinics in predominantly black neighborhoods………..So dumbas*, what more statistics do you have to say out of your bigoted mouth?

Teaching Momemt:
Who’s first to introduce the bigot/racist Smear into a discussion – the liberal. (Keep pointing out the “Racist!” Smear whenever you come across it.)

“100% institutional injustice” – what is that, a rock group?
What kind of meaningless, inane comment is that?

WCinWI said:
Between life and death, there is always a choice.

Abstraction must be your gift.

minorityreport said:
No but I guess it has more to do with the 100% institutional injustice

Is that like when a cop with a black Police Chief in a town with a black Mayor in a state with a black Governor in a country with a black President acted stupidly and his black colleagues backed him up?

The injustice is obvious, ain’t it? Let’s not talk about the black on black murder rate. That would be racist.

Michele Bachmann said:
They were coming here for the thrill of writing their own ticket. . . . Who did we attract? People that wanted a better life and were willing to do what it took to get it.”.

Sounds like she left the tea party and is for immigration reform.

Pablo said:
Hey, now! It’s only 77%. And let’s not talk about the high school dropout rate. That would be racist.

Thanks for the 3% fact correction. God Knows 80% would be very devastating compared to the bearable 77%. Before you go to sleep in your trailer park tonite, Thank the God for creating you a whiteman in America. Cos you got it fu*king good. that is why you can open your mouth full of gingivitis and plaque to say rubbish to minorities and gloat at their misfortunes. REMEMBER what goes around, comes around. Study the fall of the roman empire, persian empire, greek empire and you will realise that every arrogance and oppression would always come to an end!!!

minorityreport said:
Whenever Michelle Bachman opens her mouth, it stinks with rubbish. I guess she should use the douche in her mouth instead

I rarely watch television , so I’m not sure what they do for ratings . Every so often, when I commercial surf, i see things I don’t understand. They can be good , sometimes I think they might be bad. Thank you for your honorable post.

Just my 2 cents from the heartland.

Pablo said:
Hey, now! It’s only 77%. And let’s not talk about the high school dropout rate. That would be racist.

NORBIT Jr. said:
Wouldn’t have anything to do with 80% single-parent birth rate, would it?

Hey racist boobs – were talking about the Moronic BOOB

minorityreport said:
Thanks for the 3% fact correction. God Knows 80% would be very devastating compared to the bearable 77%. Before you go to sleep in your trailer park tonite, Thank the God for creating you a whiteman in America. Cos you got it fu*king good. that is why you can open your mouth full of gingivitis and plaque to say rubbish to minorities and gloat at their misfortunes. REMEMBER what goes around, comes around. Study the fall of the roman empire, persian empire, greek empire and you will realise that every arrogance and oppression would always come to an end!!!

You see, stereotyping whole races of people, as you have above, is an example of acttual RACISM!

minorityreport said:
Thanks for the 3% fact correction. God Knows 80% would be very devastating compared to the bearable 77%. Before you go to sleep in your trailer park tonite, Thank the God for creating you a whiteman in America. Cos you got it fu*king good. that is why you can open your mouth full of gingivitis and plaque to say rubbish to minorities and gloat at their misfortunes. REMEMBER what goes around, comes around. Study the fall of the roman empire, persian empire, greek empire and you will realise that every arrogance and oppression would always come to an end!!!

Uh, no. That was a little sarcasm. It abhorrent. It’s failure. I went to schools my working class parents busted their asses to pay for. And they would have beaten my ass if I’d even mentioned dropping out. And they’d have beaten my sister’s ass if she’d been stupid enough to get knocked up. OK, she wouldn’t have gotten a beating, but she certainly knew better. You?

Greg said:
Abstraction must be your gift.

And perversion clearly yours .

Pablo said:
Is that like when a cop with a black Police Chief in a town with a black Mayor in a state with a black Governor in a country with a black President acted stupidly and his black colleagues backed him up?

The injustice is obvious, ain’t it? Let’s not talk about the black on black murder rate. That would be racist.

Yes, White people have killed more black people than black on black crimes####FACT
But credit has to go to republican and democratic white governments for facilitating the black on black crimes. While the republicans poured guns and infested the black community with “crack cocaine”, the democrats silently went around building abortion clinics in those same communities. I am even hearing that they would be opening drive thru abortion clinics too

minorityreport said:
Cos you got it fu*king good. that is why you can open your mouth full of gingivitis and plaque to say rubbish to minorities and gloat at their misfortunes.

Yeah, their poor misfortunes. They have no choice in the matter at all, nosiree. Nobody with dark skin is responsible for their own situation. Nice talking to you, Victicrat.

NORBIT Jr. said:
You see, stereotyping whole races of people, as you have above, is an example of acttual RACISM!

Hey old man, Fu*k your feelings.

tws258 said:
And perversion clearly yours .

On what basis?

This lady is a fvcking idiot.

minorityreport said:
Hey old man, Fu*k your feelings.

Cuz yours are righteous and truthy! What a good victicrat.

Pablo said:
Uh, no. That was a little sarcasm. It abhorrent. It’s failure. I went to schools my working class parents busted their asses to pay for. And they would have beaten my ass if I’d even mentioned dropping out. And they’d have beaten my sister’s ass if she’d been stupid enough to get knocked up. OK, she wouldn’t have gotten a beating, but she certainly knew better. You?

If you are white in America with all the odds stacked in your favor, and your parents had to “bust ” their ass like you said, then you are one unfortunate SOB. Cmon admit it. Life is just better as a white man in America than any other race. I would offer you 10million dollars to trade places with my black a*s and your broke as* would still refuse. that is how good it is to be white in America. So dont give me that BS about your parents working their as* off cos I dont believe you one bit!!!Maybe if they spent less time in the KKK rallies/meetings and spent more time being WHITE, then you would have had a better childhood and not spending your evenings on mediaite.com

NORBIT Jr. said:
Teaching Momemt:
Who’s first to introduce the bigot/racist Smear into a discussion – the liberal. (Keep pointing out the “Racist!” Smear whenever you come across it.)

“100% institutional injustice” – what is that, a rock group?
What kind of meaningless, inane comment is that?

it would be easy to accept if you were ignorant but you obviously take the time to think through how to defend bachmann’s purely thoughtless statement.
bachmann may have just been clumsy when she said this, but your attempt to excuse it makes you a hateful bigot who has no idea or comprehension of race in america.
if you don’t want to be judged as a racist, stay away from topics like this.
at least now we know who you are.

Nacho said:
This lady is a fvcking idiot.

You’re a lady?

minorityreport said:
I would offer you 10million dollars to trade places with my black a*s and your broke as* would still refuse

If you’ve got 10 million dollars to trade lives with me, I’ll take it right now. Even if you live in the shittiest shithole in America, I’ll take it. And then I’ll move. I’m totally in on that deal. You can have my suburban condo, and I’ll buy a house in Del Mar. Let’s do it.

I would like to know where Oral Roberts Law School ranks in the percentage of graduates who pass the bar exam the first time?

Michele Bachmann just doesn’t seem that bright at times. I’d have to pick her fellow Minnesotan and Harvard grad Senator Al Franken in a match of wits on Jeopardy.

But she does have a nice smile.

Damn, it feels good to be a victim. Gubmint checks and everything. Who needs aspirations when gubmint cheese is free?

Michael_T said:
I would like to know where Oral Roberts Law School ranks in the percentage of graduates who pass the bar exam the first time?

Start here .

http://www.armwood.com/

Pablo said:
If you’ve got 10 million dollars to trade lives with me, I’ll take it right now. Even if you live in the shittiest shithole in America, I’ll take it. And then I’ll move. I’m totally in on that deal. You can have my suburban condo, and I’ll buy a house in Del Mar. Let’s do it.

Ok whitey, when can we do the exchange? I am ready whenever you are. Plz just print a copy of your racist comments so that I know you are the right person when I am giving up my miserable black life with my 10million dollars in exchange for your perfect broke life. Just as an added incentive, I would also like you to repeat these your anti-black rants inside my black neighborhood when you picking up the money.

Michael_T said:
But she does have a nice smile.

With Franken grinding his teeth ( no doubt a residual behavior left over from his legenday cocaine use) it’s hard to tell what his might look like .

Maybe if they spent less time in the KKK rallies/meetings and spent more time being WHITE, then you would have had a better childhood and not spending your evenings on mediaite.com

My father taught public school in the inner city of Providence, RI. His specialty was remedial reading. I was in attendance for a lot of his summer school classes. My mother was a nurse at the hospital just around the corner from my father’s school. They were white all their lives, but never attended a KKK rally. Dad was too busy teaching black kids to read. I’ve run into quite a few of his former students who hated him then and really appreciate him now.

Damn, it feels good to be a victim, doesn’t it? F*cking whitey.

George C said:
With Franken grinding his teeth ( no doubt a residual behavior left over from his legenday cocaine use) it’s hard to tell what his might look like .

franken can go to a dentist. bachmann can’t fix her stupidity.

minorityreport said:
Ok whitey, when can we do the exchange?

Dude, all you have to do is show up with a cashiers check for 10 million and I’ll give you my password. You can post here as me, if you want. I’ll be too busy spending your money. I’m ready when you are.

it’s probably a good thing that Michelle Bachmann gets air time to indulge in her myth making. It allows the rest of us to hear and understand the distorted thinking that’s coming out of the right side of American culture.
Her big question is “Are we truly free”, and she conflates this with her oppostion to Obama’s desire to have a universal type health care system. Obviously we’re not as free as we think we are, but we’re no less free than we were 100 or 200 years ago. People emigrated to this country for a variety of reasons including blacks who certainly didn’t come by choice. Until recently, the vast majority of immigrants came from Europe and they came solely for economic reasons. They were the desperate and downtrodden of stagnating, corrupt and over-populated countries, and they came to an underpopulated and resource rich continent. After ethnically cleansing the neighborhood of ‘undesirable’ natives, they very logically exploited the land and one another and built a great nation. In all this chaos, it has to be admitted that we have created a great nation, and while we aren’t as exceptional as we think, America has done more good than harm over the course of our history.
Great nations like great empires come and go, and before we go, it would be nice if we could reinvent ourselves, correct many of the mistakes we’ve made and get on with the next chapter. Unfortunately, the new ‘nativists’ think they are the sole custodians of all that’s made us great, and the reality is that they aren’t. The proof of this is the fact that the right/conservative types are looking backwards and seem to want to do the same things that got us into our current mess.
We’ve become a nation of weak-willed people easily led by demagogues who are stand ins for the small number of very wealthy people who control our lives. Just like the kings of old. This concentration of wealth is what’s doing us in. So the answer is to create more democracy and part of a functioning democracy is having a healthy populace, and we won’t have a healthy America until health care is improved for all. Michelle Bachmann may mean well but she has almost zero understanding of who we are and her half-baked ideas and lack of human knowledge and insight serve no one. Unfortunately, this may be the story of the Tea Party movement which is already showing signs of decline. People seem to be catching on to the fact that Obama is not a radical Muslim, but rather someone who exemplifies some of the better American traits.

ChiliPeppersFan said:
franken can go to a dentist. bachmann can’t fix her stupidity.

Maybe its part of the Harvard cirriculum ?

Pablo said:
My father taught public school in the inner city of Providence, RI. His specialty was remedial reading. I was in attendance for a lot of his summer school classes. My mother was a nurse at the hospital just around the corner from my father’s school. They were white all their lives, but never attended a KKK rally. Dad was too busy teaching black kids to read. I’ve run into quite a few of his former students who hated him then and really appreciate him now.

Damn, it feels good to be a victim, doesn’t it? F*cking whitey.

so when your dad was teaching government, did he mock his black students and call it “gubmint”?

ChiliPeppersFan said:
so when your dad was teaching government, did he mock his black students and call it “gubmint”?

No, because that would be nonsensical. Props to you for going way out there where rational people fear to tread, though.

BTW, my father didn’t teach government. He taught English, with a focus on reading it.

Pablo said:
My father taught public school in the inner city of Providence, RI. His specialty was remedial reading. I was in attendance for a lot of his summer school classes. My mother was a nurse at the hospital just around the corner from my father’s school. They were white all their lives, but never attended a KKK rally. Dad was too busy teaching black kids to read. I’ve run into quite a few of his former students who hated him then and really appreciate him now.

Damn, it feels good to be a victim, doesn’t it? F*cking whitey.

i guess getting paid for teaching black kids is enough compensation/reparations for all the years of injustice, discrimination and oppression. Say a big thanks to Dad for me..

He kicked some black kids in the ass though, and made them learn to read, whether they wanted to or not. It was almost like slavery. The bastard. I guess I should bear that shame.

Damn, it feels good to be a victim.

Can’t we all just agree that Bachmann is wrong here without degenerating into senseless name-calling?

Pablo said:
BTW, my father didn’t teach government. He taught English, with a focus on reading it.

You dad taught English? That must have been challenging. that is like fat people teaching cooking, pimps teaching prostitution, KKK teaching hate, etc
I see why your family was broke cos your parents played it SAFE.

Pablo said:
He kicked some black kids in the ass though, and made them learn to read, whether they wanted to or not. It was almost like slavery. The bastard. I guess I should bear that shame.

Damn, it feels good to be a victim.

I have fu*ked to many white girls to consider myself a victim. Even though America did not give me the life it gives to an average white kid, But I was compensated with some good white pu**y

minorityreport said:
i guess getting paid for teaching black kids is enough compensation/reparations for all the years of injustice, discrimination and oppression. Say a big thanks to Dad for me..

Sorry, but we had jack shit to do with that. If I had any ancestors around at the time, which I’m pretty sure I didn’t, we were fighting against it and died in large numbers doing so. But you might want to have a word with the black folks that sold your ancestor to whitey. Half of my peeps were Irish (Dad’s side), and they’d have them do the jobs they didn’t want to risk losing a slave doing, when we were allowed to apply.

In short, slavery was not our doing. I have far more responsibility for you being a victicrat than I do for your ancestors being slaves. That saddens me. What can we do to fix it? I’m thinking we should yank the gubmint teat away. Do you have another idea?

Garth said:
And you are among the most uneducated boobs on this board.

nutsofast said:
Hey racist boobs – were talking about the Moronic BOOB

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trolling-for-Dummies/107472192613016

minorityreport said:
I have fu*ked to many white girls to consider myself a victim. Even though America did not give me the life it gives to an average white kid, But I was compensated with some good white pu**y

Does that settle you being a loser? That you f*cked white girls? That’s really shallow and sad. Have you ever read Juan Williams’ book? You really should raise your expectations.

Pablo said:
Sorry, but we had jack shit to do with that. If I had any ancestors around at the time, which I’m pretty sure I didn’t, we were fighting against it and died in large numbers doing so. But you might want to have a word with the black folks that sold your ancestor to whitey. Half of my peeps were Irish (Dad’s side), and they’d have them do the jobs they didn’t want to risk losing a slave doing, when we were allowed to apply.

In short, slavery was not our doing. I have far more responsibility for you being a victicrat than I do for your ancestors being slaves. That saddens me. What can we do to fix it? I’m thinking we should yank the gubmint teat away. Do you have another idea?

Yes I do. Firstly, I dont need to know about your history and family you sick demented F*ck, secondly it is not my job to educate you. I thought you said your dad was a teacher? OHHHH dont tell me he molested you too

Pablo said:
Does that settle you being a loser? That you f*cked white girls? That’s really shallow and sad. Have you ever read Juan Williams’ book? You really should raise your expectations.

you know what they say about all work and no play????????????

minorityreport said:
Yes I do. Firstly, I dont need to know about your history and family you sick demented F*ck, secondly it is not my job to educate you. I thought you said your dad was a teacher? OHHHH dont tell me he molested you too

i love minorityreport, he tells it like it is……..whitey is badddd………..

Even though America did not give me the life it gives to an average white kid,

America didn’t give me some shit I should have reached out and attained for myself. Damn, it feels good to be a victim. Whining and crying and collecting a check instead of talking care of my business and rocking it out on my own. That’s my problem. Not enough free shit.

Did I mention that you disgust me? Because you do.

minorityreport said:
you know what they say about all work and no play????????????

Yep, it don’t get a brotha laid, amirite? You suck, you lazy, whining POS.

minorityreport said:
I thought you said your dad was a teacher? OHHHH dont tell me he molested you too

Oh, that’s brilliant. But hey, at least he was married to my mother.

Pablo said:
Yep, it don’t get a brotha laid, amirite? You suck, you lazy, whining POS.

You realize that you’re just as pathetic as he is for stooping to his level, right?

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
You realize that you’re just as pathetic as he is for stooping to his level, right?

sorry lib, but sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, that is what he wants anyway

My name is minority report and I’m a big fat racist. I blame whitey for all of my failures in life because it’s easier than working hard and making something of myself.

Pablo said:
Oh, that’s brilliant. But hey, at least he was married to my mother.

dont tell me you had a menage trois with your dad and mum? ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, i have to go puke …excuse meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

cjd ohio 1 said:
sorry lib, but sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, that is what he wants anyway

In this situation there’s no way to win, there never is in a race debate. He’s just making himself look like a racist. Frankly as an african-american I’m offended by the entire issue.

minorityreport said:
Thanks for the 3% fact correction. God Knows 80% would be very devastating compared to the bearable 77%. Before you go to sleep in your trailer park tonite, Thank the God for creating you a whiteman in America. Cos you got it fu*king good. that is why you can open your mouth full of gingivitis and plaque to say rubbish to minorities and gloat at their misfortunes. REMEMBER what goes around, comes around. Study the fall of the roman empire, persian empire, greek empire and you will realise that every arrogance and oppression would always come to an end!!!

minorityreport said:
Ok whitey, when can we do the exchange? I am ready whenever you are. Plz just print a copy of your racist comments so that I know you are the right person when I am giving up my miserable black life with my 10million dollars in exchange for your perfect broke life. Just as an added incentive, I would also like you to repeat these your anti-black rants inside my black neighborhood when you picking up the money.

minorityreport said:
If you are white in America with all the odds stacked in your favor, and your parents had to “bust ” their ass like you said, then you are one unfortunate SOB. Cmon admit it. Life is just better as a white man in America than any other race. I would offer you 10million dollars to trade places with my black a*s and your broke as* would still refuse. that is how good it is to be white in America. So dont give me that BS about your parents working their as* off cos I dont believe you one bit!!!Maybe if they spent less time in the KKK rallies/meetings and spent more time being WHITE, then you would have had a better childhood and not spending your evenings on mediaite.com

Dude, you are waaaay the f*ck out of reservation. I don’t like Pablo and never agree with him on almost anything but these comments are just incendiary and racist. Honestly, you owe him an apology. Dude, you were NEVER born a slave. The victimhood has to stop. You are blaming people who had nothing to do with slavery for it.

cjd ohio 1 said:
sorry lib, but sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, that is what he wants anyway

Fire for fire???? LOL..this is not ARIZONA fool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
In this situation there’s no way to win, there never is in a race debate. He’s just making himself look like a racist. Frankly as an african-american I’m offended by the entire issue.

let him have his fun, it reflects on him and him only, it might offend you but remember it does not reflect upon you sir

Gasket said:
Dude, you are waaaay the f*ck out of reservation. I don’t like Pablo and never agree with him on almost anything but these comments are just incendiary and racist. Honestly, you owe him an apology. Dude, you were NEVER born a slave. The victimhood has to stop. You are blaming people who had nothing to do with slavery for it.

LOL…I will send him a card for valentine’s days…OHHH Shi** I forgot, Valentine was whiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…I guess Pablo his outta lock. What about sending him a clock for Flavor flav,s day????? OMGGG there is no holiday like that???/ why cos flavor flav is black?? LOL

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
My name is minority report and I’m a big fat racist. I blame whitey for all of my failures in life because it’s easier than working hard and making something of myself.

Word.

minority report, did you used to go by the name Karl Spencer?

George C said:
Michael_T said:
I would like to know where Oral Roberts Law School ranks in the percentage of graduates who pass the bar exam the first time?
Start here .
http://www.armwood.com/

Michele Bachman went to the now defunct Oral Roberts School of Law in Tulsa. She worked for the U.S. Federal Tax Court for five years after she specialize­d in tax law. You know, her bio never mentioned she passed the bar. She claims she prosecuted hundreds of tax cheats while working for the feds, but apparently there is no proof she was more than a file clerk there. You can be an accountant without passing the CPA exam.

MATT SCHNEIDER SAID:

“However, given Bachmann’s own history of not necessarily knowing exactly when slavery was abolished”.

Do you honestly believe that or is it that you just can’t help taking a cheap shot?

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
My name is minority report and I’m a big fat racist. I blame whitey for all of my failures in life because it’s easier than working hard and making something of myself.

How many days have you lived as an african-american? how many african-americans do you know? do you know what statistics say about african-americans being hired versus other races? I’m just curious.

UNreasonable lib, what the heck does that have to do with my comment?

Gasket said:
Dude, you are waaaay the f*ck out of reservation. I don’t like Pablo and never agree with him on almost anything but these comments are just incendiary and racist. Honestly, you owe him an apology. Dude, you were NEVER born a slave. The victimhood has to stop. You are blaming people who had nothing to do with slavery for it.

I don’t much care for you either, but you get a thumbs up from me when you’re right. Like now. I try to be fair like that.

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
UNreasonable lib, what the heck does that have to do with my comment?

I’m just curious as I said.

OMG. She did it again!! She completely ignored the original sin of America. I thought she was reading a speech written by some idiot intern last time. She just might be dumber than Sarah Palin. Now, she is speaking off the cuff overlooking the signifance of slavery in the country’ history. She really is a blockhead. Keep on talking about how everyone who came to America arrived for “the thrill of writing their ticket.” Good grief. Even many of the white immigrants such as the indentured servants did not come here with a thrill. This is so bad. The intellect of some of our politicians has fallen so far.

Michael_T said:
I would like to know where Oral Roberts Law School ranks in the percentage of graduates who pass the bar exam the first time?

Michael_T said:
Michele Bachman went to the now defunct Oral Roberts School of Law in Tulsa.

Well there you go , you didn’t need anyones help . Good for you .

Gasket said:
Dude, you are waaaay the f*ck out of reservation. I don’t like Pablo and never agree with him on almost anything but these comments are just incendiary and racist. Honestly, you owe him an apology. Dude, you were NEVER born a slave. The victimhood has to stop. You are blaming people who had nothing to do with slavery for it.

That said, I’m still very interested in the $10 million. But I suppose SSI and Food Stamps don’t pay that kind of money, so who am I kidding?

UNreasonable lib, you know very well that I was responding to racist comments by minority report and for you to pretend otherwise shows your motivations.

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
UNreasonable lib, you know very well that I was responding to racist comments by minority report and for you to pretend otherwise shows your motivations.

Motivations? I can’t simply ask a question? Glenn Beck does it all the time. You’re reading too much into this.

Ok I have said my 2cents and I have no ill feelings towards no one. I luv everybody LOL. @Pablo I have a feeling I would be watching you on “how to catch a predator”

minorityreport said:
LOL…I will send him a card for valentine’s days…OHHH Shi** I forgot, Valentine was whiteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…I guess Pablo his outta lock. What about sending him a clock for Flavor flav,s day????? OMGGG there is no holiday like that???/ why cos flavor flav is black?? LOL

Howzabout a little thank you note on New Year’s Day? Or Jimi Hendrix’s birthday? That would be solid.

minorityreport said:
Ok I have said my 2cents and I have no ill feelings towards no one. I luv everybody LOL. @Pablo I have a feeling I would be watching you on “how to catch a predator”

I have a feeling I’ll be watching you waiting for a check that you didn’t earn to come in.

minorityreport said:
Ok I have said my 2cents and I have no ill feelings towards no one. I luv everybody LOL. @Pablo I have a feeling I would be watching you on “how to catch a predator”

Going back to think progress so soon, loser?

UNreasonable lib says:

Motivations? I can’t simply ask a question? Glenn Beck does it all the time. You’re reading too much into this.

Stop playing dumb. We see your schtick every day. It’s a little played out by now. Maybe you and minority report can start a victims support group.

George C said:
Michael_T said:
I would like to know where Oral Roberts Law School ranks in the percentage of graduates who pass the bar exam the first time?
Michael_T said:
Michele Bachman went to the now defunct Oral Roberts School of Law in Tulsa.
Well there you go , you didn’t need anyones help . Good for you .

I trust you are smart enough to realize that my second post is totally disconnected from my first where I posed a question about grads passing the bar.

In my second, I am replying to a post that does not include MB’s school so I repeated the name of her law school.

I have since learned that Oral Roberts essentially became Regents Law School after OR shut down about two decades ago. For years Regents Law School has been plagued by very low rates of grads passing the bar – but has done better in recent years.

Olby Sucks said:
Going back to think progress so soon, loser?

You white haters spring up like roaches. I did not even know you existed till now!!! Anyways fu*k you

minorityreport said:
You white haters spring up like roaches. I did not even know you existed till now!!! Anyways fu*k you

minorityreport said:
I have fu*ked to many white girls to consider myself a victim. Even though America did not give me the life it gives to an average white kid, But I was compensated with some good white pu**y

Later .

Pablo said:
That said, I’m still very interested in the $10 million. But I suppose SSI and Food Stamps don’t pay that kind of money, so who am I kidding?

I expected you to wait for 10 million you dont own but the whiteman in you would always wanna claim it. Like your folks did with the oil in the middle east, land from the indians, slaves from Africa. That it your problem. You guys think this world was created for just your enjoyment and convenience. Any other race is just an inconvenience to your perfect world. I know your type. I worked with your type. I pity your type.
Pride goes before a fall. This land was built on the blood, sweat, and treasure of many innocent people but opportunist like you hide under the anonymity of a computer to utter disrespectful stuff your coward as* cant say in public.
You think we blacks are offended when you say SSI and food stamps? that is so 70s and 80s. You need to step up your hate game

I’ve noticed a pattern here tonight of certain four letter and other not normally used in polite society words being either misspelled or using symbols for a single letter.

Is there a reason or was there something in the water and everyone was suddenly infected at the same time?

Republicans like Michele Bachmann are so good at convincing their middle class constituents to vote against their own self interest – e.g. single payer health care is evil and we should disparage unemploymet insurance because of all those lazy people abusing it.

I’m not being snarky here. I mean it. It’s unbelievably effective. Damn you Frank Luntz. :)

On a lighter note, Michelle Bachmann and are ilk are just paying the price for selling their souls to the devil(the tea party) and now they want more red meat.She has to keep saying these kinds of things to bolster her teabagger bonafides. I can imagine her sitting at home and watching herself on Tv and she goes” Did I really say that”?
I know she does not believe what she says but these and other soundbites like this is what she says to keep that right wing nut base happy. she is definitely entitled to her opinions but she cant make her own facts.

Michael_T said:
I trust you are smart enough to realize that my second post is totally disconnected from my first where I posed a question about grads passing the bar.

I also realized that your first posting was most likely rhetorical and would lead to several posting meant to impugn more than enlighten . Not bad , eh .

Grammie said:
I’ve noticed a pattern here tonight of certain four letter and other not normally used in polite society words being either misspelled or using symbols for a single letter.

Is there a reason or was there something in the water and everyone was suddenly infected at the same time?

RaaaaaaAAAAAAGE!

minorityreport said:
You white haters spring up like roaches. I did not even know you existed till now!!! Anyways fu*k you

Dude, you are still here?

I haven’t read the 106 comments, so I’ll just tag on to the end here.

I can’t stand Bachmann, and find many of her comments offensive, but this is ridiculous. She was making a touch-feely “I love America” statement. It’s technically incorrect, but silly to have a fit over. She gets a pass this time.

Michael_T said:
I trust you are smart enough to realize that my second post is totally disconnected from my first where I posed a question about grads passing the bar.

In my second, I am replying to a post that does not include MB’s school so I repeated the name of her law school.

I have since learned that Oral Roberts essentially became Regents Law School after OR shut down about two decades ago. For years Regents Law School has been plagued by very low rates of grads passing the bar – but has done better in recent years.

Wiki bio on Bachann: She graduated from Winona State University and later received her J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University and an LL.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary Law School.

WCinWI said:
Wiki bio on Bachann: She graduated from Winona State University and later received her J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University and an LL.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary Law School.

Bachmann

Grammie said:
I’ve noticed a pattern here tonight of certain four letter and other not normally used in polite society words being either misspelled or using symbols for a single letter.

Is there a reason or was there something in the water and everyone was suddenly infected at the same time?

Some libs tonight just have their rage built up. I’m hoping that after Valentine’s Day it’ll all be out. HA!

I kid, I kid.

WCinWI said:
Wiki bio on Bachann: She graduated from Winona State University and later received her J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University and an LL.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary Law School.

Also, as a person interested in law school myself, I’ll state that going from a smaller state college to a larger, more mainstream school is much harder to do in order to get accepted, unless your LSAT scores are RIDICULOUSLY high. Or if you’re trying to get into a school in your own state, they might accept based on their quota system.

I’ll be taking a prep class for the exam in about a month or so. Being a chick will finally come in handy in life. Woohoo!

This slack jawed yokel is out of touch with real America.

Tax law is not exactly a sign of higher education.

Grammie said:
I’ve noticed a pattern here tonight of certain four letter and other not normally used in polite society words being either misspelled or using symbols for a single letter.

Is there a reason or was there something in the water and everyone was suddenly infected at the same time?

I think four letter words are automatically being flagged.

Let me try one….

fuck

BFD said:
I think four letter words are automatically being flagged.

Let me try one….

fuck

Yup….”my comment is awaiting moderation” :)

minorityreport said:
I have fu*ked to many white girls to consider myself a victim. Even though America did not give me the life it gives to an average white kid, But I was compensated with some good white pu**y

minorityreport said:
Firstly, I dont need to know about your history and family you sick demented F*ck

Pot meet kettle?
Frankly, I don’t think any of us need to know about your *revenge f*ck* history, either.
You know, they have people that can help you with that anger…. It’s probably not very healthy taking out your frustrations and hatred towards white people on women you bed.

What a ignorant post. She is talking about the people that chose to come here. This is not nitpiking this is just a left-wing writer pretending not to understand what she was talking about. Total BULL.

minorityreport said:
On a lighter note, Michelle Bachmann and are ilk are just paying the price for selling their souls to the devil(the tea party) and now they want more red meat.She has to keep saying these kinds of things to bolster her teabagger bonafides. I can imagine her sitting at home and watching herself on Tv and she goes” Did I really say that”?I know she does not believe what she says but these and other soundbites like this is what she says to keep that right wing nut base happy. she is definitely entitled to her opinions but she cant make her own facts.

Report,
1) How much is Soros / Media Matters paying you to post here?
2) Does it bother you that black men want white women more than black women?
3) Would you have ANY identity at all, if it wasn’t for your racial identity?

WCinWI said:
Wiki bio on Bachann: She graduated from Winona State University and later received her J.D. degree from Oral Roberts University and an LL.M. degree in tax law from the William & Mary Law School.

That’s good to know. In a perfect world these blogs would exist to exchange information that enlightens so we voters would be more informed.

But we both know that ain’t going to happen. :)

Grammie said:
I’ve noticed a pattern here tonight of certain four letter and other not normally used in polite society words being either misspelled or using symbols for a single letter.

Is there a reason or was there something in the water and everyone was suddenly infected at the same time?

Indeed, Janet. I’ve never understand why you and Cecelia don’t use your considerable influence over your friend Jeff to get him to stop this. Instead, you both enable him.

Grammie said:
MATT SCHNEIDER SAID:

“However, given Bachmann’s own history of not necessarily knowing exactly when slavery was abolished”.

Do you honestly believe that or is it that you just can’t help taking a cheap shot?

You have to admit, Janet, Mad Michelle (as opposed to Tormented Michelle) has shown:

(a) A woeful ignorance of history.
or
(b) A selective reading of history.
or
(c) A willingness to change history to fit the needs of her own particular moment, the need usually being to appeal to racist Tea Partiers.

Michael_T said:
That’s good to know. In a perfect world these blogs would exist to exchange information that enlightens so we voters would be more informed.

But we both know that ain’t going to happen. :)

I’ve never trusted anyone who graduated from Oral Roberts.

minorityreport said:
I expected you to wait for 10 million you dont own but the whiteman in you would always wanna claim it.

You offered the deal, skippy. So, you were lying, right? Your ass is broke, ain’t it? I know your type. All talk, no excellence.

don’t forget indentured servants. they were the slaves of the north during the 1600′s and 1700′s.

Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
UNreasonable lib says:

Motivations? I can’t simply ask a question? Glenn Beck does it all the time. You’re reading too much into this.

Stop playing dumb. We see your schtick every day. It’s a little played out by now. Maybe you and minority report can start a victims support group.

first when have I ever played the victim and second what shtick? As I said you’re reading too much into this. I just asked a question; answer it or don’t. Maybe you can form a hypocrisy support group.

I thought Beck did a good job of showing how her other statement were correct and that Mathews got it wrong and tried to change the statement she said. This article here is pointless.

Eric Larson said:
I thought Beck did a good job of showing how her other statement were correct and that Mathews got it wrong and tried to change the statement she said. This article here is pointless.

Only problem; Beck is also wrong.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
Only problem; Beck is also wrong.

And even if Beck was correct this is a completely different issue. Slaves did not come here for freedom or of their own free will.

One thing everyone here should notice, libs never admit they have lied and even after they have shown to be liars they just continue to lie.

Stephen Rhymer said:
don’t forget indentured servants. they were the slaves of the north during the 1600’s and 1700’s.

Didn’t rise to the same level, did it? An awful institution, to be sure, but they were never 3/5ths of a person.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
Slaves did not come here for freedom or of their own free will.

No their black brothers in Africa sold them.

minority report, your love for white people is becoming a bit saccharin. Tone it down a little.

notsofast said:
No their black brothers in Africa sold them.

That idiotic statement shows just how unfamiliar you are with slavery in Africa itself. Typically when one tribe conquered another the survivors were enslaved, but they were still treated as people. They even had the opportunity to join the new clan. I provide for you the case of Shaka Zulu whose mother was of a separate tribe but had a son with the king (shaka) who would later go on to be the king. African tribes were not aware of the atrocities being committed against their brethren. You fail yet again, dumbass.

notsofast said:
No their black brothers in Africa sold them.

That idiotic statement shows just how unfamiliar you are with slavery in Africa itself. Typically when one tribe conquered another the survivors were enslaved, but they were still treated as people. They even had the opportunity to join the new clan. I provide for you the case of Shaka Zulu whose mother was of a separate tribe but had a son with the king (shaka) who would later go on to be the king. African tribes were not aware of the atrocities being committed against their brethren. You fail yet again.

“African tribes were not aware of the atrocities being committed against their brethren. You fail yet again.”

Of course they knew. In fact, it still goes on over there today.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
That idiotic statement shows just how unfamiliar you are with slavery in Africa itself. Typically when one tribe conquered another the survivors were enslaved, but they were still treated as people. They even had the opportunity to join the new clan. I provide for you the case of Shaka Zulu whose mother was of a separate tribe but had a son with the king (shaka) who would later go on to be the king. African tribes were not aware of the atrocities being committed against their brethren. You fail yet again.

They thought they were selling them to Disneyland.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
That idiotic statement shows just how unfamiliar you are with slavery in Africa itself.

Son, refute that blacks in Africa sold slaves. You cant’ and guess where people are still being sold? Africa!

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
African tribes were not aware of the atrocities being committed against their brethren.

Yeah, the Nazis tried that one, son, and no one bought that either.

So who is recording and transcribing every word that Ms Bachmann says? (Media Matters)

And why would they be doing this? Why are attacks from the Left aimed at bright, ambitious conservative women? (Palin, Bachmann, Nikki Haley, Christine O’Donnell, plus writers and bloggers)

Possibly for the same reason the Left is especially anxious to defeat Black Republicans. or to attack Black conservatives.

Maybe she was educated in government schools like the writers at Mediaite.

This whitewashing of American history is pure evil. You wonder why most decent Americans despise the Tea Party. It is because of people like Bachman who lie in an effort to perpetrate a revisionist historical fraud upon the American people.

notsofast said:
Son, refute that blacks in Africa sold slaves. You cant’ and guess where people are still being sold? Africa!

Slaves are still being bought and soled in America! Wake up! There is an illegal market for slaves around the world. Take off your blinders. Your Bachmanish, revisionist view of history falls flat in on the ground in the fact of reality.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2981327&page=1

The best commentary on slavery and those trying to minimize it, EVER!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-9-2010/the-south-s-secession-commemoration

The fact that a few blacks participated in black slavery is historically interesting and doesn’t change much.

As much as I hate to take sides with “notsofast,” I’m really hoping that “The Reasonable Lib” is willing to educate himself a little more on the Triangle Trade, the Middle Passage and the role of slavery in America. A good place to start is Traces of the Trade: A story from the Deep North. It’s a well put together documentary about the role of the Episcopal Church in slavery. It’s not about a southern family living on a genteel plantation. It’s about the DeWolf family of Bristol, Rhode Island – the largest slave trading family in our history. It’s a myth that people tell themselves that chattel slavery (please look it up if you aren’t familiar with the term) was merely a problem of the Southern United States.

The major problem I see with Ms. Bachman’s statements is that she’s using her words to paint a picture of what an American is. For Ms. Bachman, an American is a white person of European descent. I’m sure, being a member of the Tea Party, you would never hear her say that the immigrants traveling over our southern border are “risk takers” looking to “write their own tickets.”