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Melissa Harris-Perry: Image Of Brewer And Obama Reminds Me Of Civil Rights Era Photo

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On Thursday, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell and his guests discussed the “Finger of Fury” Arizona governor Jan Brewer gave President Barack Obama after greeting him on a tarmac this week.

Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell called Brewer’s move “impolite,” noting that Brewer didn’t have to accept the invitation to meet him in the first place. But, “if you’re there, you treat the President with respect; you don’t point a finger in his face.” If you’re angry with him or need to hash something out, he continued, do it inside. Not to mention that good relations with the President could be of enormous benefit to Brewer’s constituents, the people of Arizona. “So it’s dumb,” he summed up, “and it’s disrespectful.”

RELATED: John King Grills Jan Brewer Over Tense Obama Exchange: ‘Were You Trying To Create A Scene?’

O’Donnell expressed amazement over how long Brewer and the President actually spoke with one another. “And he wasn’t talking most of the time,” he added. “She was doing most of the talking.”

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, meanwhile, said the image of Brewer wagging her finger in the President’s face reminded her of the famous 1957 photo of Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan. The photo, taken as black students made their way into the newly-integrated Little Rock Central High School, shows Hazel yelling at Elizabeth to “go back to Africa” as she made her way to school:

Harris-Perry said she was reminded of the photo not because the meeting between Brewer and the President depicted racial tension (although that’s probably going to be people’s go-to assumption when you compare an image of a white woman shouting at a black man to a very famous, even iconic, image from the civil rights era) because Hazel later confessed to having been sort of “caught up in the frenzy” of the moment and “enjoyed the show” of being able to yell at Elizabeth.

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  • Anonymous

    OMG – it’s the race card again!  Holy Moley – that is ALL MSNBC knows anymore.
    She’s a racist, a racist I tell you, even though she is not outright saying it, she is implying it.

    Please stop this madness…mediatie should just stop pushing the racist meme, implied or otherwise.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    Everything is about race with Melissa Harris-Perry.

    She complains about people prejudging people by the color of their skin, yet she is the biggest example of it.

  • Anonymous

    Bloody hell! This is taking race baiting to another level. I hate it. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    …and Melissa Harris-Perry’s continued use of racial/racist references, rhetoric and analogies expose HER anti-White RACISM, as it does her host station – NBC!

    “Racism” isn’t the problem in the continued demise of the black community in America – 72% FATHERLESS HOUSEHOLDS ARE!

  • Pablo

    Of course it does! You’re a race pimp. Everything reminds you of the Civil Rights Era, unless it reminds you of slavery.

  • Pablo

    Obama 2012! Because You’re A Racist!

  • Pablo

    Not to mention that good relations with the President could be of
    enormous benefit to Brewer’s constituents, the people of Arizona. “So
    it’s dumb,” he summed up, “and it’s disrespectful.”

    Does that mean Obama would stop suing them? Or that their Legislature will stop investingating the DOJ for Fast and Furious?

  • Anonymous

    This picture reminds me of the time when Obama pointed the finger at John McCain and gloated: WE WON!

  • Anonymous

    Her comment is a disgusting insult to the bravery of the civil rights era.  People died fighting for equal rights so stop using it as a talking point.   She dishonors them.  

  • Anonymous

    Really Melissa? 
     
    Which Civil rights photo would you be referencing that involves a black man in a position of power intimidating a women for exercising her first amendment rights, and said women standing up for herself?
     
    Hadn’t seen that one…

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    If the hood fits ….

    Governor Brewer as Bull Connor. Never quite thought of that, but it works in the context of the picture. Well, some people like racist, xenophobic governors.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    My dear, you’ve missed the entire point. The point is the insufferable Governor Brewer doesn’t recognize the power, the dignity or the humanity because she simply sees an African-American face. And, that gives her license to treat President Obama with abject contempt. The picture is worth at least 100,000 votes in Texas. It is being widely disseminated as I write.

  • Stefan Marquis

    Apples to Oranges Melissa, and yes, I’m Black

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Zomygawd! How dare she compare that iconic image with this situation!

    Again, here is the most cordial greeting by Brewer, as Obama arrives. Funny neither O’Donnell or Mediaite posted it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRhJwjwXqc

    Also, here is her most cordial letter, that she prepared for him.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-is-the-handwritten-letter-az-governor-jan-brewer-presented-to-obama/

    And here is a snippet from the Fundraising email Democrats are now using:

    instead of welcoming the President at the airport with dignity and decency, she presented him with a demand letter that he accompany her in a visit to the border. And wagging her finger in the President’s face, she lectured him on how she had saved Arizona.

    And Obama’s comment:

    “I think it’s always good publicity for a Republican if they’re in an argument with me,” Obama said of their most recent meeting. “But this was really not a big deal. She wanted to give me a letter, asking for a meeting. And I said, ‘We’d be happy to meet.’

    Yea….that really compares to Little Rock. What a pathetic racecard. And how lame of him to bring up her comments about him from the book. Thin skinned is right.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    LOL!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Libtalker: Jan Brewer’s Finger Deserves To Be Broken Off, Shoved Up Her Ass…

    http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/27/crazed-libtalker-jan-brewers-finger-deserves-to-be-broken-off-shoved-up-her-ass/

    While lamenting the respect Obama deserves, they disrespet Brewer, women, and apparently people with southern accents? And wished for violence? Gotta love those Liberals.

  • Anonymous

    The point has been missed for sure,

    First off, who you feel is insufferable and who is not is irrelevant.

    Second, your opinion of what Jan Brewer “sees” is simply a narrative provided to you by the liberal hive mind.  You have no idea what she sees, nor do you have any idea what was said between the two.

    A picture is worth a thousand words, and in most instances, those words are useless.  Acknowledging the liberal media’s fetish with misleading screenshots, (Bachman on NewsWeek/Mediate with the Corndogs) you  basically hand pick the photo you want to suit your narrative…..truth be damned….my dear.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ERDSZOOPOITNDF3GS45TPSRZP4 Jeff

    Liberals see race in every situation that’s why racism still exists today. Obama is half white btw. iI am from the Morgan Freeman school on stopping racism “Stop
    talking about it. I`m going to stop calling you a white man. And I`m going to
    ask you to stop calling me a black man”

  • Pablo

    Is there any progressive degeneracy you won’t defend, Kook?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Jan, just like most Republicans, love talking down to African-Americans while putting them in their place!!

    After Jan loses her next election, I’m sure she will be working for Fox News!!

  • Anonymous

    Racists mad about being called racists.  How surprising.
     

  • Pablo

    I like how AP calls that “Raw Video” and there’s about 15 edits in it.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Whatever. We all simply need to remember the dried up old battle axe is pimping a krappy book. This was nothing principled, but the shot makes for a wonderful campaign ad. So, I’m actually thankful to her.

  • Anonymous

    You folks are the racists – you see it anywhere and everywhere – even when it doesn’t exist, and there isn’t anything racist about this.
    obama needs to elarn to respect women; he is known for his anti-women ways, afterall he is above us all – he is sort of like god (which mediaidiot said that?)

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Liberals, as usual, just see the President of the United States as an African American. Nothing more. Can’t get passed that skin color, can ya Libbies?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    At the door, as you enter the MSNBC building, they give you a double shot of stupid juice with a race bomb chaser. 

    Melissa Harris-Perry is an absolute idiot.  She’s irresponsible and irrational like all the race hustlers. 

  • Anonymous

    You never quite thought of it that way, because you were not told by your puppet masters to think of it that way until today.  Good Job.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    LOL! Yea…”whatever”. The facts dispute everything I said, or Liberals said about Brewer, so I will just say, whatever, and go on to insult the Governor becuase I am irrelevant. That about sum you up, rrk?

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    How do you know that Brewer saw a black face?  Maybe she saw the face of an administration that filed a lawsuit against her administration.

    You’re prejudging the intentions of a person, based solely on the color of her skin – careful with that.

  • Tan

    Look; she says it isn’t neccessarily about race. But I understand your skepticism.

    HOWEVER, have you ever admitted that SOMETIMES, just sometimes, race plays a role? Racism still exists in high levels, the ONLY difference between now and then (era of old photo) is that now racism is socially unacceptable to many people. But this doesn’t change the fact that it exists; it simply exists in ways that are less obvious and are much more difficult to identify. Can you at least admit that fact? That is why so many refer to ‘dog whistles’ particularly from old southern traditions. The southern strategy is fact. Racism is fact. That outright racism is unacceptable to the vast majority is fact. Therefore, people like Perry (that have heard it first hand and are therefore much more qualified to discuss it than myself or you if you are white too) often identify things as being subtle racism. Would Brewer have addressed Bush in such a manner? Absolutely not. But yes Bush is aligned ideologically so it complicates matters. Would she address Clinton like that? I don’t know. Many black people would believe she would have treated him with more respect if he was white Obama.

    One thing I know for certain? In my lifetime, no other President has been subject to such disrespect during his tenure than Obama. Not one. And looking back; I cannot name a single President that was treated with anything as close to the amount of disrespect as Obama recieves. He has been called every name under the sun, not by random constitiuents, but by elected Republicans! He has faced the first and only real attempt at a widespread conspiracy theory; no other president has Bern forced to reveal their long form BC due to insane pressure from racists have they?

    For goodness sake, one frontrunner for the GOP nom has actively engaged in race baiting stating that he has a Kenyan socialist anti-colonial mindset! What sort of nut talks like that? This isn’t a raving looney on a street but the former speaker of the house!

  • Anonymous

    Whoever you are, please log off from Skyfet’s account please….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/us/politics/in-airport-run-in-democrats-see-help-for-obama-among-hispanics.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

    This is why Obama picked a fight with Brewer.  And, he knew the lap dog race hustlers in our courrupt media would play the cards for him. 

  • Anonymous

    Unlike you am not an ideologue. There’s something called common sense.

  • http://twitter.com/mackette52 Sue

    Here we go again, typical liberal, cry the race card not the fact card.  Fact: Mr. Obama is thin skinned and cannot take constructive criticism.  Fact: Under Mr. Obamas administration the USA DID NOT have a budget.  Fact: Mr. Obama keeps humping his “green jobs”.  The only thing green about this is the American taxpayer is loosing its green money to green jobs, then these green jobs go bankrupt.  Fact: Ask the Govorner Jindal about his encouonter with Mr. Obama at the airport Louisiana, I do believe Mr. Obama was critical of Govorner Jindals book too.  What we see here is how the liberals will defend this President during the upcomoing election, if you oppose him you are a racist, irregardless of the FACTS.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMWJDZ4RV4LBHDNEENIO4EVABY Ron

    “Former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell called Brewer’s
    move “impolite,” noting that Brewer didn’t have to accept the
    invitation to meet him in the first place. But, “if you’re there, you
    treat the President with respect; you don’t point a finger in his face.”
    If you’re angry with him or need to hash something out, he continued,
    do it inside. Not to mention that good relations with the President
    could be of enormous benefit to Brewer’s constituents, the people of
    Arizona. “So it’s dumb,” he summed up, “and it’s disrespectful.” ”

    There you have a perfect example of rewriting history. Rendell, it was Obama who started critiquing Brewer’s book on the tarmac. He was angry with her for excerpts from her book, not the other way around. Had Obama waited to express his displeasure with her book in the proper forum/venue he might have had time to read her handwritten letter and understood the spirit in which the Governor was welcoming him.

    http://www.domasjefferson.com/news/exclusive-arizona-governor-jan-brewers-hand-written-letter-to-president-obama

    Harris-Perry: Your comparison of photos is nothing more than race baiting.

  • http://twitter.com/QueenMerytAmon Sabreen60

    It’s interesting to observe and read comments from racist apologist. It occurs to me that I never saw a governor point his/her finger in the face of GWB or any other President that I can remember going back to JFK. And what this BS from Brewer that she felt “threatened”. The big black man was threatening! Really? Really? With Secret Service and everyone else she felt threatened by a calm, cool and respectful President. But you know else, Brewer is a ahole. Not only did she disrespect President Obama. She disrespected the OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. She showed a lack of class, incivility and rudeness. And I’ll bet anybody that she did it on purpose.

  • Tan

    It’s also a fact that a significant percentage of GOP voters in Mississippi actually believe that interracial marriage should be made illegal. Punishable by jail time. Can you defend that? I think it was 40% in a Gallup poll. Look it up. So 40% of conservatives in that state are unrepentant racists. So how can you seriously say that conservatives are pretty much always innocent of the racism charge when stats like this are undeniable? The southern strategy and dog whistle racism is alive and well Tina. Maybe you can’t hear it and are genuine, but others do. Or you hear it and deny it.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing to be concerned with though.   When it comes to physical confrontation at risk of bodily harm, liberals will scatter like cockroaches. 

     

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I especially liked when they moved to that great shot from behind the suburban when the echange in quesiton was taking place…..

    That clearly was a better angle to allow the public to dicern the truth of this whole thing.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Uh huh.

  • Anonymous

    How’s your book doing on Amazon by the way?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I do not have a home shrine to Bull Connor, and I seldom think of him.

  • http://twitter.com/QueenMerytAmon Sabreen60

    Well when you have Repub candidates using dog whistles like “food stamp” President when they KNOW that more people received food stamps under GWB it’s pretty obvious. When Repub candidates say that black folks are SATISFIED with being on food stamps, it’s pretty obvious and they know that 34% of food stamp recipients are white with the rest going to AA’s, Latinos, Asians, etc – it’s obvious who is playing the race card. Hell they’re using the whole deck. And when someone calls them out for racebaiting those people are accused of playing the race card. This is straight from the Karl Rove playbook. Accuse others of what you’re doing yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Tina, it’s good that they do it. Every time MSNBC has that broad on, one hundred white people throw their hands up in the air and say, “F it! I’m not playing along anymore!”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’m not much of an authority on progressivism, Paulie. European-style socialism, sure. Progressivism, not so much.

  • Anonymous

    No, your home shrine is a TV with MSNBC running around the clock on it.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    So lets see….
    Just because there are racist white republicans in one state – that means that all white republicans are racists.  Right?

    Now who is being prejustice?

    prej·u·dice [prej-uh-dis]

    1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.

    2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.

    3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.

  • Anonymous

    Who cares what Harris-Perry said, it was the sad and pathetic actions on Brewers part that are the real subject here.  She did what she needed to do to sell her book.  Good for her- sad for her re election campaign.  Of course, Obama as usual ever the statesman saying “it was really not big deal.”  
    Way to show class when confronted with the Classless Mr. President!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Remember this:

    They say a picture is word a thousand words, but they often don’t speak for themselves, no matter how much we want them to. We’ve reached out to both campaigns to find out what really went on during that commercial break, and are awaiting a response.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/apoplectic-ron-paul-fans-allege-rick-perry-assault-during-debate-commercial-break/

    “I wish it were a much more interesting story than that, because I don’t even recall the moment that it was occurring and I don’t remember exactly what he said. But we didn’t have any cross words. ”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QnrHPKIR8

  • Anonymous

    It exists mainly in the hearts of blacks and manifests itself in lopsided, interracial violent crime statistics. And if you’re a, ah, race expert like Perry, and all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

  • Cecelia

    Oh, there’s no moment in history that is too serious for them to put to service for even the silliest and most divisive of reasons.  

    The fact that Pres. Obama has admitted to chiding Brewer over what was said in her book, matters not a whit in their analysis of what happened between the two.

    It can’t be that they both acted and reacted badly, it simply HAS to be that Brewer (with divine prescience and/or nanosecond calculation) made a gesture in order to sell a book. 

    If that’s not red meat enough, attribute her reaction to being chidded to some innate mob-frenzy sensibility of putting an upstart in his place.

    Evidently, Brewer is to be held accountable for respecting the office of the presidency, but far be it for the president  to be held accountable to the public for his thin-skinned moment of acting less than presidential.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NRXU7LAJ2DLVHPGX25WOQR3RI4 chris l

    So, now I’m racist?  Neat.  Thanks.  Do you have anything else?  What a dumbass. 

  • Anonymous

    “In my lifetime, no other President has been subject to such disrespect during his tenure than Obama.”

    Really? where you born in February 2009?

    I would be happy to go tit for tat in the areas of disrespect towards the president, just using 2000-2008….you might be suprised what was said and done before you were born.

  • http://twitter.com/QueenMerytAmon Sabreen60

    Jan Brewer is a liar, plain and simple. Decide which time she lied. Was it when she spoke to the media after meeting with President Obama and kept saying the meeting was cordial (it’s on video). Or is the lie in the book when she claims he was condescending? Which is the truth? The thing about people who lie is you never believe anything they say.

  • http://twitter.com/joebob1969 ralph peters

    Harry Reid called Bush a “loser” and the media gleefully showed the video of the shoe being thrown at Bush over and over again with big smiles on their face.  I could list a thousand other things.  Bottom line, it hurts to see “your guy” treated rudely but it is funny seeing other presidents treated roughly.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    She is an asshole? She is disrespecting the POTUS? Please watch the video and spare yourself further embarrassment.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mRhJwjwXqc

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    My dear, the facts aren’t the exclusive province of extreme rightist expatriate Italians, and there is abundant evidence of the insufferable Governor Brewer’s xenophobia, desperation to cling to power in light of huge administrative failures, prickliness, rudeness and shameless self-promotion. Perhaps those are not evident from Italy, so I’ll excuse you.

    You have a word processing error in your last line.

  • http://twitter.com/QueenMerytAmon Sabreen60

    I said people who apologize for racist. Reading comprehension 101. A sure sign on the inability to refute a point is to name call. It really says a lot more about YOU than it does about me.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Not so much. We see President Obama as a dedicated, capable man who has been able to shepherd health care reforms sought for decade into law at long last and who has been able to pull us out of the depths of the W/Big D*ck economic abyss. We also see President Obama as a man who might have been able to do much more “but for” Republican obstructionism, obstinancy, rabid partisanship and racism and the Republicans’ willingness to see America sputter and Americans suffer in their increasingly diminishing chances of regaining political power. We also see President Obama has a loving husband and a dedicated father. In President Obama, we see American exceptionalism.

  • Oh Hey

    Welcome to MSNBC, Melissa ” I See Racism” Harris-Perry, you’re going to fit right in .

  • Anonymous

    Terrible picture of Brewer; look at that chin, she looks like a witch. Being that close her 3 pack a day breath must have nearly knocked Obama down.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Perhaps you would see thinks more clearly and less negatively if you had attended the University.

  • Cecelia

    And it yet another opportunity for a frustrated old seventy-something year old to vent his misogyny.

    OF COURSE, you’re “thankful” to Brewer.

  • Anonymous

    And the white liberals she surrounds herself with–who no doubt have sponsored her career–not only give her a pass, they sit at her feet thankful for her wisdom on the matter. Good thing they got rid of Buchanan and anyone else who might challenge this racial dogman. What’s funny is she’s barely blacker than I am! LOL. Even if she tries to show how down she is by corn-rowing it up!

  • Anonymous

    Then please continue to use it from here on out.

  • Pablo

    But he pops into mind when you see a little old grandmother…

  • Hout Bosques

    Tina is a Hazel fan. This IS very like that feeling. I don’t like Ms Harris-Perry’s sing-songy voice, but she often gets to extremely acute perceptions & this is an example of that. The idea is that Governor Brewer is really nothing more than a photo-op politician, and that this episode was pretty much completely staged to allow her to be sold as somehow relevant to Arizonans. That USUALLY doesn’t happen unless a pol is feeling threatened by her constituency imputing here as a leadership failure, but I’m not close enough to atmosphere in Arizona to know whether that’s what’s going on there. The other possibility is a national set up to try to do a little to Obama of what the remaining GOP contestants are doing to each other, Kabuki theater, & that certainly looks possible – but what a dreadfully poor choice of person to start with. 

    The really threatening aspect of this is as an effort to gin up the 2010 TP level of crazy. That has implications, as we saw with what happened to Ms. Gifford. 

  • Anonymous

    Obama will like Arizona again, and Bill Maher will take it off his stupid state list, if they simply surrender to the third-world invasion of their state. That’s all it will take.

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC. Your home for Liberal Victomization Syndrome.

  • Pablo

    “In my lifetime, no other President has been subject to such disrespect during his tenure than Obama.”

    That’s ridiculous. http://www.jeffjacoby.com/2942/a-new-low-in-bush-hatred

  • Pablo

    big·ot   [big-uht] 
    noun. a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, and in other news Melissa, how do you feel about the VP mocking Indians with his accent yesterday.

    Melissa:  Ohhhhhh…that just Joe being Joe!

  • Anonymous

    White feminisist learned, painfully, during the OJ case, that for black women (and even only fractionally black women) race trumps gender every time.

  • Cecelia

    Well, why does that only apply to the woman in the situation.  The president has admitted to “hashing something out” because HE was piqued, why is she supposed to then respond as though he were made of angel dust?

  • Pablo

    I know! So what happened to skyfet?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    When Liberals use MSNBC talking points, that are untrue, it’s really funny.

    There were not more people on food stamps under Bush, than Obama. Get your facts straight.

    Newt didn’t say black people were satisfied with food stamps. He was mirroring what some leaders in the black community were saying, that Obama has not done enough, and that the unemploymnt rate is almost double in the black community. They need to not just sit back, blindly support him, and not put pressure on him to do more for their community. He was discussing his plan that he has to help African Americans.

    “Accuse others of what you’re doing yourself.”- Exactly. That’s what we keep telling you, Libbies. You keep flinging around that race card, because ya’ll be the racists.

    How is calling Obama a food stamp president racist, if there are more white people than Black on foodstamps? Liberals, like you, jumped to the conclusion that it was racist because you jumped to the conclusion that it was an attack on black people. You hear poor and think black. That’s your issue.

  • Gloves Bugsy Donahue

    Is there anything that doesn’t conjure a racial note with Miss Harris Perry?

  • Anonymous

    It’s always been there. Perhaps it’s you that need to get one and use it. 

  • Pablo

    Or maybe she saw an arrogant, self-absorbed prick.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Did you get a tingle writing that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    so the photo reminded her not of racial tension but of someone caught up in a frenzy, yet out of all the photos in history of people caught up in frenzies, she still goes to an iconic photo of racial ugliness…  how convenient…

  • Pablo

    “She did what she needed to do to sell her book”

    Yes, she made Obama get all wee wee’d up about it so she could push back on his whining about it. Devious, she is.

  • http://twitter.com/Nerdista Paula

    I think you’re missing the nuance of what was said.  Try to reread it without LOOKING for what you think is there.  People can talk about race without “playing the race card.”  

  • Anonymous

    All good until you got to Gifford, Houts. 

     You seem more complex that to believe that crap, especially when accounting for what we know now about the shooter.

  • Cecelia

    Actually, he admitted to “talking down ” to her.  He admitted to chidding her on the tarmac over what she had written.

    Is it just okay for men to be piqued?  Women must smile nicely and not argue?

  • Anonymous

    Obummer is a habitual liar…that is why most don’t believe a word he spews!!

  • http://twitter.com/QueenMerytAmon Sabreen60

    FYI, I watched the video and it is not exculpatory – for Brewer. Perhaps it is your condescending comments that are embarrassing. But I’m sure you are not reflective enough to consider the possibility.

  • http://twitter.com/Nerdista Paula

    There you go, playing the “sexist card!”  Is that all you see???  I think if you take the time to really think about what’s going on it would be really good for your blood pressure. 

  • Pablo

    Not so fast! They like eating old people fingers.

    http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-finger-bitten-rally,0,7135717.story

  • Anonymous

    Don’t let you stupidity distort the truth………..jeez

  • Pablo

    Progressives – Dogs who hear dog whistles that normal people can’t hear.

  • Anonymous

    Is there nothing these drones won’t stoop to?

  • Pablo

    You racist!

  • Anonymous

    Obama didn’t like her book ……wow…so he had to tell her when she was greeting her face to face…….that’s takes some balls. He should be this forceful when dealing with American problems instead of blaming others

  • Anonymous

    Well, your always are entitled to your opinion, regardless of which personality is in control that day.

  • Pablo

    “Fact: Mr. Obama keeps humping his “green jobs”.  The only thing green
    about this is the American taxpayer is loosing its green money to green
    jobs, then these green jobs go bankrupt.”

    Whoops, there goes another one!  http://cnsnews.com/news/article/electric-car-firm-received-biden-visit-and-118m-stimulus-funds-files-bankruptcy

  • Cecelia

    Well, the “italian” as you point her out as being  (talk about xenophobia) is relating the facts.

    Brewer invited the president to a meeting and he with “prickliness and rudeness” proceeded to chide her. 

    I’m sure that in the very early part of the last century when you were a lad that was SOP behavior by men toward women, but that’s changed..now..  but we don’t fault you for being an old dog incapable of new tricks.

  • Gloves Bugsy Donahue

    Obama gave the finger to Hillary and McCain. That’s fine?

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    Wow, what a shock?  This woman, who is by the way,is  half-white or half-black(can’t offend anybody), could care less about America.   If you hate the country so much, just leave. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s the liberal media that’s helping her sell her book. At any rate, I thought lefties used to refer to this as “speaking truth to power.”

  • Anonymous

    Once again, this is why I generally avoid all threads about racial matters. The epithet “racist” is tossed around much too freely, while on the other side, there’s often a naivete about the use of coded phrases and hidden agendas by some people.

    Ms. Perry is entirely within her rights to say that this reminds her of a civil rights era photo. No one should be in a position to tell her what her associations should or shouldn’t be. But I don’t think it’s fair to extrapolate that into a belief that Brewer was consciously playing the race card. I think she was just being a jerk by using a convenient photo op to puff up her cred with right winger hatemongers who can never, ever give the president a break.

  • Anonymous

    Half-breeds and mulattoes always side against those to whom they should be grateful.

    Obama and this affirmative action “professor” Melissa Harris-Perry are perfect examples.

  • Anonymous

    The problem with this picture is that it’s out of context. We don’t know what the President said to sir the pot but he must have said something to get her angry. Did she look angry when she went to greet him? Probably not. We have the racist Democrats trying to start a race war and it’s shocking to see the kool-aid being drank at the table of brotherhood when there is so much more on the table.

  • Pablo

    “The thing about people who lie is you never believe anything they say. ”

    Obama also often spoke as if he had been at his mother’s side, “watching
    . . . as she fought cancer in her final days, spending time worrying
    whether her insurer would claim her illness was a pre-existing
    condition,” as he said in a 2009 speech to the American Medical
    Association. “I remember just being heart­broken,” he said in a 2007
    campaign appearance, “seeing her struggle.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-mother-had-health-insurance-according-to-biography/2011/07/14/gIQAUFm7EI_story.html

  • Cecelia

    I’m afraid his tingles are consigned to writing insults about women.

  • Anonymous

    Not true. When a black Columbia U. architecture professor (whose specialty–surprise, surprise–was architectural racism of some similar nonsense) got into a drunken argument in a bar about racism with a white female CU employee who did something he probably wasn’t used to–i.e., disagreed with him–he punched her in the face. Well, you can just imagine how chocked-full of testosterone-fueled white dudes that off campus CU-bar must have been. That professor barely got out of there without being smothered by all the lay-about ironists and perpetual white grad students fighting to make sure his hand was ok.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I dare say my television is on far less than yours, and is on MSNBC far less that yours.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Well, you have called me and others racist and/or racist apologists, so excuse me if I am a tad condescending, while trying to correct your inaccuracies and complete and utter distortion of facts, and false charges. So, nope. My comments are not embarrassing. But congrats on yet another insult.

  • Gloves Bugsy Donahue

    All year, Obama’s color will be used as a shield for whatever he does.

    Since he is a failed leader, he has only two things to run on:

               1) His opponents are “racist”.
               2) The Republican who dares to try to take his job will be relentlessly smeared.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if Bill Maher will have something cute to say tonight, like, “I was waiting for the black Obama to come out with his pimp hand put that white bitch in her place!” Bill Maher is capable of this. I’ll have to download the show for free tonight after it airs.

  • Anonymous

    So are liberals buying her book?

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s more that nobody is allowed to have a dissenting opinion about President Leg Tingles. If you’re white, it means you are racist. If you’re black, it means you are an Uncle Tom. If you’re a white woman, it means you are a racist bitch.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    what the heck. commenting being wonky. NewsNinja, the below comment is for you. (hi!)

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    No, she didn’t. Check out this comment here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/melissa-harris-perry-image-of-brewer-arguing-with-obama-reminds-me-civil-rights-era-photo/#comment-422327508
    And this pick reminds me of the one between Perry and Ron Paul.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Are you prepping for the role of Francis in some dreary provincial dinner theatre presentation of “Life of Brian”?

  • Cecelia

    Yeah. How dare SHE not meekly reply to the president’s chidding, “Thank you, Sir. May I have another”…

  • Anonymous

    here we go again with you, the Cuban bigot

  • Anonymous

    Which is why I quit watching it a LONG time ago.  But, hey MSNBC, keep stirring the pot.  Who knew that Jan Brewer had a book out before this?  Thanks to idiots like MSNBC it’s No. 8 over at Amazon today.  Brewer will laugh all the way to the bank.  Good for her!

  • Anonymous

    like you

  • http://twitter.com/QueenMerytAmon Sabreen60

    Did you know your original ancestor is from Africa. So just what does that make you.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly
  • Gloves Bugsy Donahue

    Robert still riding high on his recent triumph in the role of Nellie Forbush in the Austin Shuffleboard Players’ production of “South Pacific”.

  • Anonymous

    Being tolerant of intolerance is what a bigot would most desire. You see shit everywhere in your life because your head is so far up your ass its not possible to see much else.

  • Anonymous

    “I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”

     - Hillary Clinton, 2008

  • Anonymous

    pablo you are jack ass prick Mr Obama is the will of our people, like or not you undesirable aliens

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know. Probably not in any large numbers. I find people tend to avoid ideas that conflict with their own, especially ideological types, who cherish their own opinions and cling to them because they define how they evaluate their own morality. Bad ideas are bad and held by bad people. I, rhetoricaly speaking, being one of the good people, believe in only good ideas. etc.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    bangkok has him now…

  • http://twitter.com/QueenMerytAmon Sabreen60

    Newt said: Get black people paychecks so that they will stop being SATISFIED receiving food stamps. Can you comprehend that statement. Even conservatives are talking about Newt’s willingness to use racial politics. But yet you defend the indefensible. Enough. As I said people want to apologize for this garbage. I heard Newt and so did everyone else who reported on it. But you can just keep on denying it if that’s what rocks your boat.

    I’m through with this nonsense. Have a great day. I sure am.

  • Cecelia

    You’d be of the peer group who knew “dinner theater”, but no, may be you can find that at one of your geezer dumps in Sarasota.

  • Cecelia

    He’s grateful not to have broken a hip.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Ask yourselves – Who are the textbook RACISTS TODAY?

    Melissa Harris-Perry’s continued use of racial/racist references,
    rhetoric and analogies expose HER anti-White RACISM and bigotry, as it does her
    host station – NBC!

    “Racism” isn’t the problem in the continued demise of the black community in America;
     Democratic WELFARE DEPENDENCY & the consequent 72% FATHERLESS HOUSEHOLD RATE IS!

  • Anonymous

    I will go along with this stream of logic.

    90% of all black voters voted for Obama.  Obama is black.  McCain is white.  Therefore, all black people are racist.

    80% of all black voters vote democrat.  Since black people are all racist, so are all democrats.  Therefore, all democrats are racist against white people.

    This explains why the democrats didn’t like George Bush – he is white. 

    See????  Its easy to make up crazy. 

  • Anonymous

    Loser is mild to what Obama and the FLOTUS( who is unelected) have been called.

    When was Bush’s citizenship ever question?

    An entire movement was birthed ( yes pun intended) from questioning Obama’s birthplace.

    Hell Trump went from  unknown to the being at the top of the GOP heap by questioning Obama’s citizenship.

    And questioning Obama’s citizenship was another way of saying he’s not like us which is another way of saying Obama doesn’t look like us which is saying Obama is black.

    Even McCain disrespected Obama during one of the debates when he contiually refered to Obama as ‘That One’

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    true, i saw the pic in a powerpoint presentation at last night’s klan rally in houston…  make no mistake, if obama was not half black, i’d totally be down with his agenda…  that’s how us racists roll, white power before country…   

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Excellent!!

  • Anonymous

    Obama helped her sell her books while she helped him depict the Republicans as hateful racists. Seems like a mutual exchange.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Did you get a tingle seeing Jan Brewer being disrespectful to the President of the United States??

  • Anonymous

    the msnbc guest is quite astute…it DEFINITELY was RACIST and im glad she called the governor out on it.

  • Anonymous

    Tina, I know racists such as yourself think there’s no racism besides racism towards white people, but guess what, you guys have been very racist towards the president. Problem is that you’re too ignorant to realize it.

  • Anonymous

    DoesThisOffendYou:How do you know that Brewer saw a African-American face?  Maybe she saw the face of an administration that filed a lawsuit against her administration.

    LOL. Even if that is what she saw she still had no right to point her finger in his face because he’s still the President and he still has influence over which states receive certain federal funds.If I were Obama I would be a vendictive bastard and cut off all of the descretionary federal  funds that the White House controls from Arizona. Hell if I had been Obama I would have broken that bitch’s finger. She looks like the Sea Hag from Popeye.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    So you’re saying you would defend a woman, no matter how disrespectful she is, just because she’s a woman??

    Jan Brewer wouldn’t have done that to any other President other than Obama!!

  • Anonymous

    You mean her own finger?

  • Anonymous

    She may sell a few more books but the actions of Jan Brewer just makes her look bad as a government official not to mention she works/represents the people of Arizona.Jan Brewer sets a bad example as a so called elected leader of her state.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    He never said that!! Obama basically said he didn’t appreciate her lying about their meeting together just to sell books!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! So the Republican who sent this e-mail about Obama just had a dissenting opinion??

    http://blogs.suntimes.com/mitchell/watermelon_white_house.jpg

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    Ummm, “those funds” that you think belong to Obummer, actually belong to taxpayers.

    Censureship is so Democratic Party.

  • Anonymous

    That’s stupid.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Half-breeds and mulattoes always side against those to whom they should be grateful.

    Wow.
    I knew you were a hateful human being, but…

  • Pablo

    I’m not Cuban, bigot. Not that Cuban is a bad thing. I like Cubans. They tend to get it.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “It’s going to come down to a series of debates next fall, in which the American people are going to try and figure out what’s the truth, cause they’re going to see all these negative ads and all this negative stuff and they’re going to say, tell me what the truth is. And I think I am the one candidate that we have who can go head to head with Obama, can explain conservative philosophy, can apply it in a practical way, can explain American history, and can take Obama’s ideas and his record, and convince the American people that he’s hopeless. The fact is, if I become your nominee, we will make the key test very simple. Food stamps, versus pay checks. Obama is the best food stamp  president in American history. More people are on food stamps today because of Obama’s policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best paycheck president in American history. 
    Now, there’s no neighborhood I  know of in America where if you went around and asked people would you your children have food stamps or pay checks, you wouldn’t have a majority saying they’d rather have paychecks.”“And so, I’m prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to their convention to talk about why the African American community should demand pay checks and not be satisfied with food stamps. And I’ll go to them and I’ll explain a brand new social security opportunity for young people, which would be particularly good for African American males, because they’re the group that gets the smallest return on social security because they have the shortest life span. And under social security today, you don’t build up an estate, but if you’re allowed to build up an estate, if your tax money went into your savings and it was your money, if something happened to you, your family got you restate, the difference in transfer of wealth to the black community would be amazing.”

    Taken out of context, your inaccurate quote sounds bad – but while addressing the needs of the African American community, and his plan to help, including the AA community, and the reluctance of some GOP to go to the NAACP, he made that comment. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Or,
    if you don’t like this  half-white or half-black persons free speech

    You leave.

  • Anonymous

    Can someone please dig up all of Ed Rendell’s appearances on TV during the Bush years and see if he was playing Emily Post back then when it came to being “polite” to the president?

    Between the idiot spectacle of the SOTU and the upcoming Presidents’ Day, I’m getting sick and tired of all the bowing and scraping around the president that we’ve apparently come to accept as a given.  He’s a temp the American people hire, not the freakin’ king of England.

    By the way, I have nothing against honoring Washington and Lincoln; I hate the fact that the government chose to combine their holidays into the abomination that’s come to be known as Presidents’ Day.

  • Cecelia

    That’s called PIQUE, Leedog. What you’re saying is that it’s okay for him to dress her down about something in her book, but she can’t respond with pique toward him.

  • Cecelia

    That’s called PIQUE, Leedog. What you’re saying is that it’s okay for him to dress her down about something in her book, but she can’t respond with pique toward him.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    So you wouldn’t care if someone was pointing their finger in your face?? Sure you wouldn’t!!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    liar

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t matter what he said. You don’t stick your finger in someone’s face.

    Maybe it’s one of Brewer’s bad habits but she needs to practice not doing it.

  • Pablo

    When you’re the son of a former President, everybody already knows your history, genius.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Conservatives – Speak in codes so their true feeling aren’t exposed!!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    yep, that’s it.

  • Anonymous

    This is how racists react when they see a black face.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Leedog, Newt likes open marriagesCollapse
    So you’re saying you would defend a woman, no matter how disrespectful she is, just because she’s a woman??Jan Brewer wouldn’t have done that to any other President other than Obama!!
    ****
    How was she disrespectful? She greeted him with a big smile, and a very nice letter. He went after her first.  The photo captured her pointing a finger. It doesn’t provide ANY context as to what they were saying at that second of time. We saw that with the Perry-Paul photo. 
    So, Obama is just a poor wittle defenseless black man who needs protection from a wagging finger? Have you happened to notice how many pics there are of Obama pointing at people on the internet?

  • Pablo

    Hey, look who doesn’t know the difference between disagreement and intolerance!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    She wasn’t. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    “we’re sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not racist.  we need to stand up and say we’re liberals, and conservatives don’t have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.  unless they’re republican.  and white.”

    liberals, 2012

  • Anonymous

    All this to obscure the fool he made of himself at the plant he visited.

    The plant is thriving because of Arizona’s business climate.

    Thriving in spite of 0bama’s extremist and anti-business policies.

    Yeah, switch the issue to the tarmac.  Manufactured diversion.

    http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m70/hugh_jardohn/4120549364_OBAMA_THIN_SKIN1_xlarge.jpg

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMWJDZ4RV4LBHDNEENIO4EVABY Ron

    Cecelia, please reread my comment. I am not disparaging the Governor for her behavior in this matter. Quite the contrary, in my response to the former Governor Ed Rendell’s comment I make it clear that I feel it was Obama’s failure to use proper decorum that initiated the confrontation. Governor Brewer had every right to respond to President Obama’s comments after he made them. Obama just didn’t have the cojones to finish what he started. Clue, the quote marks encompass Rendell’s comments, not mine. I find it hard to believe that you garnered three “likes” to your response! I suppose reading comprehension is not as prevalent as one would think.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    how, pray tell, was it racist? 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Just because you say so?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Sounds like that brainiac (in her own mind) from Wisconsin..

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    I thought you lived on the east coast.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Is there any (R)egressive degeneracy you won’t defend, Pablo?

  • Pablo

    I’m 4th generation American, sweetcheeks. Unlike Obama, whose American roots go back to his slave owning ancestors.

  • Anonymous

    Melissa Harris Perry see racism in white Republicans.
    That is pretty much the gist of any article that involves her now isn’t it….?
    She has made a whole career of saying that.

  • Anonymous

    If you don’t like it here you can always move to the moon with Newt.

  • Anonymous

    This really isn’t all that complicated. The person that sent that email (which I was unaware of until you posted it) appears to be obviously racist. Some of the president’s opponents are racist. What bothers me, and a lot of other people, is the presumption that anyone who disagrees with the president for any reason must be racist.

    The moral cause of racial equality is undermined when people cry racism every time someone disagrees with them. In fact, it is in its own way every bit as deplorable as racism itself.

  • Cecelia

    No, I”m saying that they BOTH were disrespectful. He to her by chiding her in public, and she in her response to him.

  • Pablo

    And of course, it’s perfectly fine for him to have no respect whatsoever for the Governor of the state he’s standing in. She’s white, after all.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You have no clue what you’re talking about!!

    “Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.”

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-01-18/fact-check-gingrich-obama-food-stamps/52645882/1

  • Anonymous

    Well, like most dares, the desired outcome is rarely the actual outcome.

  • Pablo

    Except to the canine progressive who hear and decode every syllable.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Her comments are ignorant and pathetic!!

  • Anonymous

    b/c like the msnbc host said the governors actions were reminiscent of the actions by white women telling black women to go back to africa…MSNBC host Harris Perry was spot on!

  • Anonymous

    Jan Brewer didn’t get to be Governor by not knowing her republican constituency.  Whether this was racism, or a ploy to garner book sales and support from her deeply anti-Obama supporters, it sure worked.  Her book sales are through the roof and you can bet her polling among the AZ GOP will also jet upward.  

    Also, for what it’s worth, the Republican Mayor standing right next to this exchange reported being confused by the controversy because Obama was calm throughout.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republicans love having their base get fired-up through fear and hate!!

  • Pablo
  • Anonymous

    That is the most ridiculous statement I have heard in a long time. Racists is that all they have to run on? Give it up libs. That was so over ages ago.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Based on your personal attacks, you’re no better than Stonepark and hopefully, you’ll be the next to be banned!!

  • Cecelia

    Do accept my apology.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ StopElectionFraudClickHere

    It’s CIA pit people against one another day

  • Cecelia

    Yes, essentially that’s what he called Brewer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    There is video evidence of Brewer coming out of the White House meeting showing her to be the lying opportunist that she is. This is Palin with blonde hair.

  • Pablo

    I suspect the majority of her state is just fine with it, and that “few more books” has put her in Amazon’s Top 10. They must be having a really slow week over there.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah,, great point with the whole loser argument.

    By the way, have you seen any effigies of the current president’s decapitated head with a bullet hole in it?  If not, I can show some of the last guy.  But your right, that doesn’t measure up to the hate projected now out our current president.

    Also, if you feel McCain was being disrepsectfull using the term “That One”  surely you must have been disgusted with Obama’s racial comments in his books…right?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    no, but how can you blame them when there are racists lurking around every corner?…
     

  • WiddleBabyDanielson
  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    has that broad on?

  • Cecelia

    He’s the president, Leedog.  He was issued an invitation by the governor of a state and he then used it as an occasion to tell her he’s not happy about criticism she made about him in a book.

    If he’s to be held in special regard according to his office, why is he not accountable for then acting professionally?

  • Anonymous

    Have you seen the anti-semitc comments made by a few people at the OWS crowd on video?  Why do all liberals hate jews?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    How do you breathe with your head in the sand?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    There is a racist element with SOME in the Republican Party, but until the good ones get rid of the bad ones, the lines will remain blurred!!

  • Anonymous

    there are worse things than being a racist, anyway..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMWJDZ4RV4LBHDNEENIO4EVABY Ron

    Where do you get the idea that Gov Brewer was “talking down” to President Obama? She was responding to a subject he brought up at an inappropriate time and place. Had he held his vitriol until after he had a chance to read her handwritten letter he might have understood the spirit of the moment. Read the following and explain to me how that is “talking down” to anyone!

    http://www.domasjefferson.com/news/exclusive-arizona-governor-jan-brewers-hand-written-letter-to-president-obama

  • Anonymous

    Between your sophmoric screen name, to your useless post, I’m guessing you dodged the truancy police today. 

    Do you have any other tired cliches to not support your non-existant point?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Nice.

  • Anonymous

    and what does he look like?.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    You are just running your mouth…The point is not about whether racism exists, its about whether its being used as a political tool.

    Remember, if I don’t like Obama’s policies – I’m a racist
    and
    If I don’t want another war in the Middle East – I’m anti-semitic.

    Try getting a degree that actually requires you to think for yourself.

  • Anonymous

    She is making an implication during her discussion that is much more than just ”talking about race”…and you know it.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Obama 2012! Because he’s not BAT$HIT CRAZY!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I and many others disagree!! Maybe you could give other examples of Jan Brewer waiving her finger in elected official’s faces… since you seem to think there was nothing wrong or out of the ordinary with her actions!!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    And that is NOT what Sabreen said, is it Leedog? Nope, it’s not.

    How are my comments ignorant and pathetic? Do tell.

  • Anonymous

    Problem is your to blinded and drunk with cool-aid to realize the difference between criticism, politcal discourse, and racism.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Could you name a few??

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    my original ancestor is from mars…    

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    fail. try again.

  • Anonymous

    Which brings me to my burning question….how does one become a “Racial Expert”  Is there some sort of qualification exam, licensing requirements, or boot camp?

  • Anonymous

    Is that orange or grape that your drinking?

  • Anonymous

    Wow I am a redneck with native Indian but u are those from gov Wallace a defeated bigot

  • Anonymous

    Surprise…liberal misogamy…everyone hold their breath while we wait for this fine young man’s liberal counterparts to come on line and square him away…

  • Anonymous

    I know, I know, I know!!! Being pissed off and broke!!!!  Now put them all together, pissed off, broke, and racist.  Wouldn’t want to run into him at the Waffle House with my Black husband, that’s God’s country, don’t you know.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a fad. It to will join The Sarah Palin,Beck and that I’m not a Witch lady books in the mark down bin. Oh,and I think that the majority of her state is Not Fine with it. So easy to make a general observation.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    She is a liar!! She stated one thing after their meeting and then said a totally different thing in her book!!

    “The last time Obama met with Brewer was June 2010, when the Arizona governor visited the Oval Office for a private, 30-minute encounter the White House called a “good meeting.” At the time, Brewer said the meeting was “very cordial,” but in her book she said Obama had been “condescending.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/jan-brewer-obama_n_1232367.html

  • Anonymous

    You sound like a smart guy with a very persuasive and articulate delivery.  Are you a liberal with one of those prestigious public educations?

  • Anonymous

    Obama used the word “cracker” in his book, unironically–as in thank god there’s no “cracker sheriff” here in Africa! 

    Imagine if some conservative running for President wrote a book and used an expression like “n****r pimp.”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Because she either lied after the meeting at the White House or lied in her book!!

    See above link in reply to you to prove yourself wrong!!

  • Anonymous

    whats with all the Cuban talk on the threads? I’m Cuban and a liberal! (GASP) 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah…I think you pretty muched nailed Emperor’s arguement today, and probably all of them in the future in three short lines. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    NBC…..ALL anti-White Racist-Smear…..ALL THE TIME!
    ————————————————————————————

    Hey did you hear President Divide & Conquer now blames BUSH for the food stamp increase?
    Another LIE by the Saul Alinsky community-agitator.

    Here are the numbers:

    Food Stamp Participants at year’s end:

    1994 (Clinon) – 27.4 Million

    2008 (Bush) – 28.2 Million

    2011 (Obama) – 46.2 MILLION!’

    Another Day – Another DEMOCRATIC LIE! – covered up to protect the President by NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, the AP, etc.

  • Anonymous

    do you say Cubans tend to get it, because most are republicans?

  • Anonymous

    It’s a dog whistle.  Racists love putting a Black man in his place, especially a Black man who had the nerve to steal the highest title in the land.  He’s not their President (because he’s Black), he’s foreign (because he’s Black).  He hates America (because he’s Black).  His wife is fat and disgusting (because she’s Black), they are wasting America’s money (because they’re Black).  Blah, Blah, Blah

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC does NOT LIE….FOX DOES

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    You mean President Hissy-Fit?

    Well, that’s what you get for bankrupting a nation with the third-world, junta-like, Saul Alinsky subversion of a free people.

  • Anonymous

    She’s just going to throw away the money on really good bottles of scotch.  And maybe do something about those window drapes she calls skin.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Obama is the President of the United States, he doesn’t need an “invitation” to go to Arizona from Brewer… in fact, she had the choice NOT to meet him at the airport, but felt is was so important that she handed Obama her letter himself!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    trump was unknown?…  are you new to the planet?… 

    bush’s citizenship was never questioned, just his intellect…

    an entire movement was based on questioning bush’s military service…  and questioning that is another way of saying he’s no better than a draft dodger…

  • Anonymous

    I feel sorry for Gavin.  

  • Anonymous

    I love how repugs defend racism now, by simply projecting on to others, and then claiming that anyone who claims racism, is now the racist! Its a brilliant, yet flawed move. No one can claim any sort of discrimination because, automatically they are pulling the race card, BULLSHIT! The only reason you guys dont even like bringing it up, is because it forces you to see the hypocrites you are! In one breathe claiming to worship christ, and in the other hating on the poor, immigrants and minorities. Must suck to look in the mirror knowing what a POS you really are! 

  • Anonymous

    Only if she changes her pen name to “Marx”

  • Duke Chesnut

    The Lefty’s are SO angry, how does an Angry White Women Scold our Wonderful Food Stamp President?  And not only get away with it, but it boost sales of her book 1 million percent. Face it Obama’s going down in November, and not even Agitator/Propaganda hit pieces like the dead liberal cat in Arkansas go viral, but Finger-Wagging does! And its run by complianent Pravda-like MSM sources! LOLZ

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    Responded to this once already, but I’ll respond again…

    Ummm, first “those funds” don’t belong to Obama, they actually belong to taxpayers. Second, I would like to see Obama cut off funding to all the states that disagree with him, as it would only turn more potential Democratic voters into Republican voters. Just think about all those laid-off teachers and all those pissed off parents.

  • Anonymous

    I stand corrected.  Both of these moving stories of liberal courage in the face of imminent danger have changed my view of them.  Please wait while I edit my first post.

  • Cecelia

    That’s the point, Swifty. It was a formality between two elected officials and he responded by upbraiding her on a characterization she had made of him in her book.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not angry.She just did a silly thing and made herself look bad to many.Just today’s flavor of ice cream.

  • Anonymous

    You just can’t make this stuff up…this guy couldn’t even find the irony in his own post…and its only nine words long.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I don’t care who the person is or what they have to say, it’s disrespectful to the Office and the President himself to stick you finger in his face!!

    She wouldn’t have done that to any other President other than Obama… Brewer has no class and should be ashamed of herself!!

  • Cecelia

    I know it’s the fashion to conveniently pretend that you’re ignorant as a babe-in-arms when it comes to the dynamics of politics, but trust me… it wouldn’t be the first time a politician said one thing to reporters initially after a make nice-nice meeting, and another later in a book.

    sheesh….

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    Yep, Obama could do more, “but for” the democratically elected officials that were chosen by constituents to stop him.

    Democracy is a bitch, isn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah I Am just an 86 years old lier
    Well who cares u are exposed according to so many replies that we have Think what u want that is the wonder of my country

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    How about spewing capricious accusations of “Racism!” against innocent critics as a matter of political calculus – or blatant RACISM on the ACCUSERS part!

    11-06-12 — Purge the Democratic Party race-baiters from the Senate & WH!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    This is what you stated in your above comment and you are wrong!!

    “There were not more people on food stamps under Bush, than Obama. Get your facts straight.”

    Please take note of your word “not!!”

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Harris-Perey nails it here. The right are building themselves up to a crescendo of hatred.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    Ummm, first “those funds” don’t belong to Obama, they actually belong to taxpayers. Second, I would like to see Obama cut off funding to all the states that disagree with him, as it would only turn more potential Democratic voters into Republican voters. Just think about all those laid-off teachers and all those pissed off parents.

    Censureship is so Democratic Party.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Or another, blaming the devastation in black communities on some amorphous anachronism called “white racism”; instead of the 72% FATHERLESS HOUSEHOLD RATE in that community!

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t think they’d let me post the C-word.

  • labman57

    Brewer claims Obama was abrasive, rude, and thin-skinned … all video and eye-witness evidence to the contrary.  Methinks she is projecting.

    Then she claimed that she felt “threatened” by Obama.  Seriously?
    White female governor feels threatened by tall, uppity black POTUS. News at 11.

    Brewer is just trying to rationalize her irrational, disrespectful behavior to save face. Her core supporters will no doubt be aroused by her stunt, but the vast majority of her constituents are most likely ashamed of their governor right now.

  • Anonymous

    Nope, you just have to be black and employ a leftist critique of American society.

  • Anonymous

    Bush’s lack of intellect was on obvious.

    That was on full display when he gave the German Chancelor a shoulder massage or when he spit some ice back into his glass during a public meeting?

    Trump was a political novice when he entered the Republican primary race last year.

    As for comparing Bush’s being a draft dodger to the allegation that Obama isn’t a citizen is stupid.

    Bush was a type of dodger because he was assigned to what was called the Champagne Unit which included the sons of other wealthy families and several football players. Also Bush was trained to fly plane that was no longer flown in Vietnam.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    Sorry about the multiple replies – DISQUS sucks.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Why don’t you just come out and express your true feelings and claim racism in this country is just a myth??

  • Anonymous

    You misinterpreted Obama’s use of the word “Cracker” Sheriff” 

    He was actually referring to the new mascot for Saltine Crackers…which is a Cracker dressed in a sheriff’s costume with a big ten gallon hat and cowboy boots.
     
    He was in no shape or form illustrating his racism, silly….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    That wave’s been building on the left ever since the Democratic Party implemented their “Race Card” accusation strategy against anyone disagreeing with them.

    72% FATHERLESS HOUSEHOLDS – enabled by Democratic Party welfare dependency – underlies all other problems; not some intangible SMEAR about some ubiquitous “white racism”!

    The latter exposes the true racism of the accuser, not the accused!

  • Anonymous

    The problem is that many of Obama’s policies aren’t that much different from many of Bush’s but the people complaining now weren’t complaining when Bush was in office.

    Furthermore if some of you could get your heads out of the Faux News hell hole for just a few minutes you would realize that Obama is governing to the Right of Reagan, but don’t let facts get in the way.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Please disregard my last comment to you… was mistaken in my response!!

  • Anonymous

    There goes Brewers’ ‘I felt threatened’ lie.

    How the heck can anyone feel threatened if someone turns his back on you?

    Disrespected maybe but threatened, no!!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m only going to click on the link in your name line because the picture in your avatar depicts an attractive woman.

  • Anonymous

    Link please

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    He has a resume of this kind of community-agitator type bullying, usually when the aggrieved party can’t respond!

    Need a couple of examples?

    - “Lecturing” the Supreme Court (another FACTUAL LIE by President Divide & Conquer).

    -  Browbeating Paul Ryan, who he personally invited to his speech.

    In both cases, neither “target” of the President was able to respond…Jan Brewer RESPONDED!

    3)

  • Anonymous

    Liberal misogamy? LOL

    In my hood if a woman wants to act like a man she better be able to fight like one.

  • Duke Chesnut

    Twist and spin in the wind, throw the race card at every opportunity.    Yawn.

  • Duke Chesnut

    Not silly, POLITICal, and its huge and she did not run out of finger bullets.

  • Pablo

    No, because they know where it is you progressives would like to take us. They’ve seen it, or their parents have seen it. Which is why they skew Republican. Eastern Europeans are mostly the same way.

  • Anonymous

    aaannndddd…thankyou…

    ALL RIGHT LIBERALS, YOU HAVE ONE OF YOUR OWN HERE WHO IS VIOLATING YOUR OWN  LOFTY PC MORAL CODE IN THE FORM OF OVERT MISOGAMY…

    DO YOU TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS OR HAS RODERICK SET THE NEW STANDARD FOR WHAT IS NOW AUTHORIZED WHEN IMPLYING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN?

  • Hout Bosques

    I see even the other Arizona pols present at the stupid airport confrontation are saying Brewer is completely up her ass on how it went, and that President Keep It Cool as always kept his cool:  

    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/2nd_mayor_says_obama_wasnt_tense_at_all_during_bre.php?ref=fpa 

    So that’s President Obama saying “no big deal”, plus the mayor of Phoenix saying he kept his cool as was “a real pro”, plus the REPUBLICAN mayor of nearby Mesa calling the stupid confrontation “awkward” but not saying anything in the least critical of Obama —- versus this brain-damaged photo op cartoonish bigot Republican governor who was trying to orchestrate a blow-up but failed.

  • Pablo

    Nope, I’m a Yankee all the way back.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    If you want to bash Bush, go ahead – I’ll help you.
    I even have some old Bush jokes too, if you’d like to hear them.

    Bush was a neo-conservative.  Neo-cons originally formed out of the DEMOCRATIC party.  So yes, Bush and Obama have similar philosophies and policies.  And that’s why Obama has continued several key policies of Bush, i.e. Patriot Act, War on Terror, War on Drugs, etc, etc….

  • Anonymous

    well, I am Cuban , and all of my family is Cuban, we left Cuba to get away from Castro & Socialism And I am a liberal. 

    And there are many, many like me. And we are tired of you guys pretending like you know what socialism is, or using the word to describe things that aren’t socialism, like they are. 

    If you think Obama is a socialist, id like to invite you to experience real oppression and socialism in Cuba! STOP! using the real suffering of people, to make some political point! By doing this, you shit on the people who have really experienced socialism and repression!  

    You guys throw that word around at anything you don’t like! Please find a dictionary and look up the meaning! 

  • http://twitter.com/bohratom Bohr Atom

    It’s MSNBC, its in their contracts that everyday they must blame the republicans of racism. Harris is fitting right in and she will have her own republican-racist show in the summer.

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyDaMan Jonathan Gallo

    I am liberal, but this is just stupid. Apparently you can’t get mad or it is racist. There is actually racism and race baiting going on, but this is clearly not an example.

  • Anonymous

    Yes like I was saying white people have lost their minds because there’s a black man in the White House spending white folks tax money.

  • AliveStillKickin

    ……And yet more race-baiting from MSNBC (Mainly Sh*t – Never Balanced Crap)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    what’s the frequency, kenneth?…

  • Cecelia

     Trivializing the horror of racism by using the accusation of it as cudgel against people with whom you disagree.

  • Anonymous

    …As a proud Arizonan’s we love our Gov Brewer for her outspoken,truth telling and yes ballsy attitude…We are a state of pioneer spirit with some exceptions..We are on a border that leaks illegals and drugs and mr.obeama whines about Jans book…Thin-skinned is not strong enought to describe this loser and the sooner we get his ideas and him out the sooner we will return to sanity…

  • Anonymous

    Oh I love you Pablo!!!!

  • Duke Chesnut

    NOT FAIL; 2 days of finger wagging is SUCCESS, from Pravda complient-like MSM.
    Does’nt Jan Brewer get to appoint Gabby Giffords successor?    Hmmmmmmm.

  • Anonymous

    limpballs,like that better,it fits your thinking

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, she looks like she’s got elephantitis in the face. Gee, I wonder how a T-Bagger gets that,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgHlDHwNH2Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  • Anonymous

    Blah,Blah,Blah people. Is the new black. So I’ve heard.

  • Anonymous

    bush deserved that..obama deserves respect

  • Anonymous

    Jonathon, you do realize that in her state Mexicans have absolutely no privacy rights, right? A cop has every right to harass Mexicans for any “police encounter”, ask them for proof of citizenship, and if they can’t provide it, they go to jail. She is perhaps the strongest advocate of this policy in all of Arizona, and you’re telling us its stupid to cal her a racist?

  • Anonymous

    I can understand the point Melissa Harris Perry is making here. Especially when Jan Brewer is in the equation. The shadow of that latent racism is everywhere. Also in the fact that Newt Gingrich during the debates regularly mentions “Obama” instead of “President Obama”… that too tells a lot.

    That being said, I don’t think this is a good enough reason to use inflammatory rhetoric. Move on!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    HAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA *gasp* HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *gasp* HAHHAHAHAHAHHHAAHHAHAHA

    fail. try again.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    there are more people on foodstamps today than were on under Bush. i am not wrong. 

  • Duke Chesnut

    I think its stupid..The DNC can not dig up enough dead voters in Arizona, So they dig up a 50 year old civil rights story.  They missed the photo of George Wallace finger pointing pre-1968 campaign opt-piece.

  • Tim Howe

    These kind of endless charges of racism started during the dem primaries in SC in 2008 and they are why I – a lifelong Dem who works in DC politics and media – will support Mitt in 2012.

    The people who came with Obama and drive this hate filled rhetoric – are the most divisive people Ive ever seen in politics.

    We all have known for three decades at minimum – that the worst public charge is a charge of racism….

    and these people throw it out endless times a day.

    Obama and Obamacrats must go.

  • Anonymous

    Who in the hell is kiding who?  Obama physically assaulted Governor Brewer when he roughly grabbed her by the upper arm.  She should have told him to get his freaken hand off her and then filed charges against him.

    If Sheriff Joe had been there, he would have slapped Obama in irons.

  • Anonymous

    So, do you say Blacks get it,  because 99.999%  are democrats?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    let’s just do away with laws entirely…  that way we can prevent cops from abusing the system…      

  • Anonymous

    They’re just painting a picture. They know how easy it is to make Jan Brewer look bad. They brought her into the spotlight, it will soon shine on her racist policies (which Republicans just love), and secure the Hispanic votes for the Democrats. Trust me muh man, it’s all part of the plan.

  • Anonymous

    Neither you nor I can comment on whether the President is a loving husband and a dedicated father, this is simply conjecture on your part.  As for the rest, it is you seeing the world through partisan glasses and that is very sad, as are you.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Your own claim is evidence of deeply racist thinking. You imagine African Americans as so detached from an understanding our their group bound interest that they would prefer handouts to progress. You follow this assaulting philosophy with your own imagined victimhood. You provide evidence for my case despite your best effort… A sign of the abject weakness of your position.

  • Anonymous

    Extremely surprised up north you all are liberals

  • http://twitter.com/JohnnyDaMan Jonathan Gallo

    I am just referring to calling her a racist just because she is having a heated discussion and for pointing her finger. I am not debating policy.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    There were more people on food stamps under Bush than there were under Clinton!! Did you ever hear Newt call Bush the “food stamp President??”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! Go tell that to Pablo, because he called someone a racist for no reason in his comment down below!!

    Go state to him how that was uncalled for and that he should be ashamed of himself!!

  • Anonymous

    I always wondered what happened to Witchiepoo.  Man, Republican women ARE hotter than Democratic women!

  • Anonymous

    there is not one normal person here who doesnt think fox news is biased……also everyone knows msnbc is the only news network with no agenda and does not lie. your delusional if you think otherwise.

  • Anonymous

    i cant wait for election day….you’ll see how all this racism that msnbc is calling your side out on…will make the country vote almost all Democrat!

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S4poMGvwA George Clueless

    Melissa Victoria Harris was born in Seattle and grew up in the Virginia cities of Charlottesville and Chester, where she attended Thomas Dale High School. She was the youngest of five children of a black father, William M. Harris Sr., the dean of Afro-American affairs at the University of Virginia, and a white mother, Diana Gray, who taught at a community college and worked for nonprofits that helped poor communities.[3][4] “I’ve never thought of myself as biracial,” Harris-Perry says. “I’m black.

  • Cecelia

    So you don’t actually have to tell a black person to go back to Africa to be a racist, you merely have to remind someone of a picture of that….

    That’s the standard of political discourse today, folks…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Two ‘uppity’ high profile black man, Obama and Williams, are ‘put in their place’ in one week by right-wingers.

  • Anonymous

    Well isn’t that special you’re black, stand up and take a bow. 

    Racist like yourself are so afraid. that they will lose all of positive affirmative action has done for the blacks, that they continue grind the wheel, with the screeching racism syndrome; it is not a healthy strategy.

  • Anonymous

    Yes it is stupid to call her a racist.
    ILLEGAL immigrants
    are breaking the law and as governor, it is her responsibility to uphold the
    Arizona state laws and obvious she has to do the federal governments job also!

  • Anonymous

    Yup, she responded, and now she will be used to depict the Republicans for the racists that they are. Enjoy your over tanned leather skinned version of Palin.

  • Anonymous

    Once again, Republicans believe belittling the black community will make them vote Republican. Sad how out of touch you folks really are.

  • Cecelia

    Frankly, there are few things more racially condescending than to take from a man the idea that he can be a threat to his enemies because of who he is as an individual.

    I don’t think that the president would thank you for having so infantilized him.

  • Anonymous

    I got an idea! Let’s get rid of the bill of rights so cops could abuse all the power they want! See, I could play extreme argument as well.

  • Holistic

    Once again, the 3 slugs on MSNBC have so little intelligence that race baiting is all they have left to say.

  • Anonymous

    So this means all Mexicans should be harassed & required to produce ID on the spot? Last I checked, people are protected by the 4th amendment.

  • Anonymous

    Hmm….not sure if you are aware of this, because I didn’t see it mentioned in your post, but cuba is a totalitarian communist state….which of course is the endgame of a socialist state, as we are witnessing in Venezuela..which of course is bad, or you wouldn’t have left Cuba…right? 
    ….but anyway, congratulations on your new position as the sole spokesperson on all matters pertaining to socialism…

  • http://twitter.com/kelly396 kelly murphy


    One thing I know for certain? In my lifetime, no other President has been subject to such disrespect during his tenure than Obama.”
      Then you must be 3 because Bush was disrespected far more than anything said if Obama.

  • Centrist79

    I think Perry’s reaction over the top, but Ed Rendell was spot on, Brewer was disrespectful and lets face it she is somewhat of an a-hole.

  • Anonymous

    OK, so your question is if your not sure if I am ware that the country that I lived in is totalitarian and communist regime? seriously? your asking me that? Your taking the stance, that somehow you know more about Cuba, Socialism then someone from there! 

    WOW! You really are that dense huh? You are sitting here, and lecturing me on socialism? seriously? You guys are really lost in some alternate reality!  Also, thanks for the congrats! I figure, since so many idiots are throwing the word around, someone that actually knows something about it should speak up! But hey, I forgot repugs and facts dont mix…. . 

  • Anonymous

    One of the dangers of the constant playing of the race card by the left is that it balkanizes the country. 

    Why should someone vote for a person who is not of the same race or national-origin as them if by voting for them you have to give up your right to be able to criticize that person? 

    So, if that elected official is not “like you,” you must never criticize them because doing so makes you a racist.

    The race card scenario…deal me out!

    MSNBC

    M moobats
    S spouting
    N nothing
    B but
    C crap

  • Anonymous

    Good for the Governor….not an ounceof racism in her body, just good old fashion scolding a child for focusing on a passage in a book rather than focusing on the issues of the day.  You go girl.

  • DoesThisOffendYou

    You shouldn’t say that about Melissa Harris-Perry.
    People will think your racist….and sexist.

  • Anonymous

    As soon as you stop equating socialism to Cuba, and start equating communism to Cuba…its hard to take you seriously..too many idiots throw around the word socialism improperly…ya know?

    Also, please change your “knives” screen name before a 75 year on Grandmother from the Tea Party stabs someone…

  • Jardino

    That photo of Brewer pointing at Obama will make her the pin up girl of senior citizen Tea Partiers.

  • Anonymous

    They both blow chunks!

  • Anonymous

    Seriously troy, I hope I have that much fight left in me when I’m 86 years old…God Bless you man….

  • Anonymous

    Neo-cons* are traditional jewish liberals who are right-wing on israel. Essentially, other than with regard to foreign policy vis-a-vis israel, they believe the same things as your typical jewish lefty. For example, you’ll rarely hear a word about illegal immigration from a neo-con. Why? Because the answer to the question: Is massive non-white immigration into the Western world good for the jews, is Yes.

    *I know not all “neo-cons” are jewish. Neo-cons can also be naive goys like Bush Jr.

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s
    brilliant economic comment, “”I laid out a blueprint for an economy
    that’s built to last, that has a firm foundation. Where we’re making stuff and
    selling stuff and moving it around and UPS drivers are dropping things off
    everywhere.” Making stuff and selling stuff.

    But pointing
    out his 8th grade comprehensive level of economics would be racist because his
    supporters only see Obama as a black man and not an incompetent president. So
    to his supporters, Obama is not being criticized because he is incompetence,
    but because he is a ‘black man’.

    But pointing
    out his 8th grade comprehensive level of economics would be racist because his
    supporters only see Obama as a black man and not an incompetent president. So
    to his supporters, Obama is not being criticized because he is incompetence,
    but because he is a ‘black man’.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t need you to take me seriously, that’s the difference! I don’t give a rats ass what you think! I’m stating facts! Your playing elementary games!  

    never ceases to amaze me, how some Americans, think they know more about shit, than people who lived it, experienced it! I mean, you have to be the stupidest, most arrogant twat I have come across on these comments yet ! No substance, and all of it mierda!

    Tu lo que eres es tremendo mama pinga! y come culo! 

    drop that in Google translate ! 

  • Anonymous

    How about when Obama wagged his finger in front of Hillary during a  primary debate…  Now that is ill-breeding.

  • Anonymous

    wrong again smuggy! problem is your guys tea is laced with a heavy dose of racism, bigotry and general hate of anything non white!!!!

  • Anonymous

    also, pot meet kettle! You said to someone earlier, they had a sophomoric handle? really says the douche with the elementary handle?

  • Anonymous

    why do all repuglicans love Jews so much? why not tell the truth, you don’t give a rats ass about Jews! Your just waiting for your stupid messiah! and think you need Israel for that to happen! you guys dont care about Jews anymore than you do about immigrants! Its their land you want! Stop faking! 

  • Anonymous

    Thank you young man

  • Anonymous

    And the policies that subsidize and thus encourage it.

  • Anonymous

    I suspect you misunderstood his point.

  • Anonymous

    Smart liberals send their kids to private schools while they wait for superman to save the darkies.

  • Anonymous

    Right. And like Obama said of his own grandmother who worked and sacrificed for him (unlike his worthless white grandfather with his “disappointments”), the typical white person is a bigot.

  • Anonymous

    Then there should be murals with Bush’s visage adorning the walls of ghetto community centers from coast to coast. Dubya right next to MLK, Malcolm X and, for some reason, Bob Marley. P.S. I haven’t checked, but are we comparing 8 years of Bush to 3 years of Obama with absolute numbers?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I do believe we are comparing 3 to 8 years!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    It’s the knee jerk accusations themselves (and the Democratic accusers) that are RACIST! – and we’re all ready for that fight!

    I see more and more people turning the Race-Card around on the very Democrats (and their media) that have been exploiting it for the past 50 years!

    Hey black voters, how’s your quality-of-life improved, voting 90% Democratic, over the past 50 years?

    Time to wake up & see how these Democrats have been USING you!

    They play the race card to get your vote, and then you get dropped and forgotten faster than an Obama pledge!

  • david r

    If we were in Singapore, I’d ask that you be caned.  She is just a hick.  He jumped on her at the airport tarmac.  Her brain went bub-buh bub-buh bub-buh. Talk about picking on a cripple.  Mind you, this is the woman responsible for more dead air time than any other political figure.  Deer in the headlights. Then out of rote political training, she got that finger going.  You go, girl. King, you and Obama should both be ashamed.  Wait until we see Willard Goes to Washington.  It ends with the hep-cat black guy winning, and Willard going to the Caribbean to count his money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tonykoch1 Tony Koch

    MSNBC has been calling everyone who does not bow and think Obama is GOD a racist…  It is the only thing they have his record sucks and he is a terrible leader…..

  • david r

     ”Hazel”?  No fool like an old fool.

  • Anonymous

    this is obviously racism…and we all know republicans are racists and this is just another example

  • david r

    As a Tulane grad, I am especially embarrassed by this cheap, race-card playing hustler.   And all the libs on this site (including Leedog, who’s on the Media Matters payroll and is paid to ladle out his liberal shit on this site) who have that special racism Geiger counter due to their purity of their beliefs.  You do a disservice to those real civil rights pioneers, using the charge of racism as a political sword. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMWJDZ4RV4LBHDNEENIO4EVABY Ron

    “I don’t care who the person is or what they have to say, it’s
    disrespectful to the Office and the President himself to stick you
    finger in his face!”

    It’s disrespectful of the office of President for Obama to behave in such a manner. There is a time and place for critical comments about a book, but that was neither the time nor the place. Besides the Gov’s finger is not in his face.

    “She
    wouldn’t have done that to any other President other than Obama…
    Brewer has no class and should be ashamed of herself!!”

    I would think she would do exactly the same with any other boor, President or not. Speaking of class, Obama has very little. He’s shown that in the past with his cheap self-aggrandizing gifts to the Prime Minister of England and the Queen of England.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PMWJDZ4RV4LBHDNEENIO4EVABY Ron

    Apology accepted Cecelia.

  • Anonymous

    Blah, Blah Blah, projecting bigotry by accusing someone of bigotry, blah, blah

  • Anonymous

    ‘You do a disservice to those real civil rights pioneers, using the charge of racism as a political sword….’

    No kidding!

    You mean like the love and warmth that was bestowed on previous Civil Rights Activists like MLK, Medgar Evers, Jonathan Daniels and the brutal murder of Emmett Till to name a few…

    Racism will be called wherever it is seen. The history of America is littered with viles instances. Just because you choose not to acknowledge it’s exist won’t change that…

    The recorded history is that bad and Ms Harris-Perry has every right to point it out. African Americans didn’t create it, since racism has historically been forced on them…

    …On the other hand, your comments are an example of continued and breathtaking ignorance!

    Congratulations…

  • Anonymous

    handle doesn’t insight violence, like Palin’s campain map with targets on it…yours does.

  • Anonymous

    Well, you’ve made a fantastic case as to why you should be the sole source of commentary on socialism, especialy since you apperently lived it, left it because it sucked, and now support it again.  Good job…

    You sound like your sharp as a tack.

    and here’s one back at ya.amigo..

    Sie
    sind ein dummer Dummkopf und ich lache an Ihnen….

  • Anonymous

    Keep it coming my little expert on socialism….you’ve almost convinced me…

  • Anonymous

    Don’t faint but I agree with you 100% on this one…  MSNBC plays the race card way, way too much.  This reminding Perry of a civil rights moment is idiocy.  Because you disagree with the President has nothing to do with racism.  However all the birther stuff is racist.
    Anyway, MSNBC has to learn from the story of the boy who cried wolf. Hey, I call them like I see  them.

  • Anonymous

    They sure tend to get it alright… The old “Cuban Adjustment Act” used by the GOP ( no matter what President made it law) is being completely abused. It is an old cold war law that should have been repealed years ago.  I know it. And you know it too.  As a matter of fact both Dems and Repubs. won’t touch it with a ten foot pole for fear of angering the powerful Cuban-American political lobby. Having lived down here I know this one like a book.

  • http://twitter.com/KingMike33 That’s Sir Eli

    I, for one, would like to thank Gov Brewer for putting Pres Obama in “his place”. Now ALL of America can see how disrespectful the Republican Party is and they will ALL be voted outta office! THANK YOU GOV BREWER!!!

    P.S. She’s lucky he’s President of the United States and 1/2 white. Point ya finger in the face of the average black man and you’ll wind up in a roadside ditch! #RealTalk!

  • Anonymous

    I am a progressive and you must admit the Cuban Adustment Act has been abused and needs to be repealed. If the general public knew what the entiltlements, etc that are afforded to illegal Cuban immigrants that no other immigrant from any other country, (communist or not) the general public would be outraged and should be.. Sorry, but those are the facts. along with the wet-foot /dry foot policy.

  • Anonymous

    you forgot avid golfer…………….Oh I can’t wait to vote our useless commander and chief out!

  • Anonymous

    Here is what Pablo doesn’t want you to know about the Republicans and Cubans.   http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16759&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007

  • Anonymous

    If I were a Cuban I would like Republicans too. ( no matter what presidential party passed the initial law and the wet foot dry foot policy)  http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16759&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007

  • Anonymous

    http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16759&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007    Sorry friend. I’m an Obama supporter too but I call them like I see them.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you God bless you too. Thank you

  • Anonymous

    Although I am Cuban, and all of my family is Cuban. I agree with you 100% on the CAA (Cuban Adjustment Act). This is the exact reason why so many Cubans are actually anti immigrant! because they have it so easy, they look down on Mexicans and others, who have to fight to stay here. And I say this, having family benefited from this . But i cant be a hypocrite the truth is, if Cubans were treated the same way as ALL other immigrants, they would NEVER be GOP! Trust me, I have these arguments with family all the time. And yes, the GOP sure knows how to pander to the Cubans , they have it down to a science. Throw in there a little hatred of JFK for Bay of Pigs! And viola! Instant reliable Voting Block!  

  • Cecelia

     Oh, my lord.  Surely Media Matters could afford someone a little faster on the uptake than Leedog.

  • Cecelia

    Ms Harris-Perry has a right to point anything out.  However, she does not have a right to go unchallenged when she uses our opprobrious past as Exhibit A in suggesting that Gov. Brewer is reflexively racist because she dared to object to the president’s dressing down.

  • Anonymous

    I KNEW there had to be one! :)

  • Anonymous

    Yes, racism has been eradicated.  Like Polio.

  • Anonymous

    yeah trust me, its hard to come by us! I think 75% of the Cuban liberal population lives in my house! thats me, my wife and my mother. LOL

  • Anonymous

    It was until Obama brought it up in SC in 2008 and blamed Bill Clinton.

  • Anonymous

    The Democratic Party has decided its path for the future involves dividing the country along racial lines. But basically here’s the dynamic they’re going with: ALL non-whites/Jews/and liberal whites against the rest of the country. This is why no Democratic administration will EVER lift and honest finger to do anything about the third-world invasion of our country. More poor brown people = more government dependent people = more Democrats. And if they can tweak ethnic sensitivities (e.g., “Those racist white Republicans hate you and your children!”)  then they’re going to go with it. It may be a strategy for political success for the Democrats, but it’s catastrophic for the long-term unity, cohesion and economic solvency of our country.Of course when the US becomes a third-world country and we’re all at each other’s throats, these same Democrats will still be blaming white racism.

  • Anonymous

    I agree.  When one sees that Governor Brewer and the President were situated on the OTHER side of the limo from the main stream press, so a picture wasn’t clear until this photo suddenly appeared.  It dawned on me that the Governor had her own photographer getting the photo for her own purposes. 
    But, I think it backfired.  In fact, I think it fired up the President’s base in Arizona like never before.  Might sell some more books though for the Governor.  Wasn’t that her intention?

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, but you are absolutely wrong.  TAN is absolutely correct. 
    Even during the State of the Union to have a US Senator who should be a role model for the young, to belt out “YOU LIE” in the House Chambers is just absolutely horrible.

    Hide your head in the sand and say it isn’t true, but that doesn’t change FACTS.

  • Anonymous

    All the baggers and cons know you’re right. But they won’t admit it.. ..  When all you do is watch Fox and listen to .am hate radio no matter what you argue no matter how true it is they will deny it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    he’s not even hipanic…he’s pretending to be because Pablo’s a Republican shill

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Pablo is not even Hispanic…so no he’s not cuban

  • Anonymous

    that’s because a majority of the Cubans up north (i.e. Union City, NYC, etc) ,either came before Castro or Bay of Pigs or their family did, and most importantly, they haven’t been brainwashed, by the hateful Spanish AM talkers. Oh yeah! We have our version of Cuban Rush ! SAD, but true!  

  • Anonymous

    I agreed just another pretender hidden behind a Hispanic name as well as the rest of the heaters

  • Anonymous

    Well at my age we going to Cuba next month for a week

  • Anonymous

    No just a pretender hidden behind the name of the Apostle

  • Anonymous

    cool enjoy! there is actually a lot of stuff to do if you have the “dollars”, it just sucks for the people that live there!  Also, be careful  prostitution is rampant in Cuba now for tourists! They are very aggressive. LOL!  there is a survey that says almost 50-60% of the girls/women have done it or been forced to by their families. Its the only way they see to beat the system and inject real american dollars in the underground economy. crazy stuff. and they need the dollars to buy things like food, lothes, etc. The items available to real cubans, who only supposed to have pesos, is CRAP! its a great way for Fidel/Raul Castro to pump their economy with tourist dollars, but not allow it to flow down. He and the govt keep it all! and the reg folks stuck with pesos that don’t buy shit. while they get to see stoe fronts with top of the line electronics, or clothes, but no way to buy it , no matter how hard they work, its “illegal” for them to have US dollars in their possession, despite many stores only taking them. And thats why it irks me so much when these right wing wingnuts talk all this crap about socialism or communism or dictator, because they sound like idiots to people who really know the difference. Enjoy your trip  and go to Varadero beach, most beautiful beach in the world. IMO! 
    http://www.cubatravelusa.com/VARADERO_BEACH_airview.jpg

  • Anonymous

    …You’ve missed the point!

    It’s not the dressing down. Any person can be given a dressing by an individual or group showing objection.

    What is the issue is her ‘finger wagging in your face attitude’ to the President of the United States that goes beyond acceptable.

    The fact that you think it’s normal, is probably where this point is lost on you.

  • Cecelia

    I don’t think it’s “normal”, I think it’s bad behavior.

    However, where I have the problem is with the argument that we should accord the office of the presidency with a SPECIAL respect (and we should), but in turn put no special onus on its occupant to behave accordingly.

    That there should be no demand that POTUS be ESPECIALLY professional in his formal dealings with his political colleagues. That it was okay for HIM to snarkily respond to the invitation of a governor, but EGREGIOUSLY wrong of HER to display pique in return.

    I’m sorry, but POTUS is not a King and he’s not the head of the church. Furthermore, we don’t live in a century where women are supposed to stay silent and docile while men dress the down.

    They BOTH were wrong in this.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Philip-John-Antonino/100000202331470 Philip John Antonino

    Yes, I think Brewer’s reaction to the President was racist and disrepectful.  Besides that, I do think most GOP/Tea Baggers are a bunch of racists.  They make it very obvious. You have to be blind not to notice and if you didn’t notice, then you are probably racist too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Philip-John-Antonino/100000202331470 Philip John Antonino

    I predict that President Obama will win a 2nd term, GOP/TeaBaggers will lose the majority in Congress and retain it in the Senate.  Most importantly for the first order of business with a overwellming majority, raise taxes on the rich and make it fair for the rest of the country.  And yes,the GOP is making it CLASS WAREFARE, because they only care about themselves and the ones who give them their money.  About the keystone pipeline, the GOP are not concerned about jobs, they are concerned about their cut they will get if it goes through, if it was only jobs, they would not be worried about it so much.  Pass the Presidents jobs bill, that will prove you are concerned about jobs not your individual pockets.  You go Mr. President, show them how its done. Remember America, if any Republican ever gets back in the White House, you can say goodbye, to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the rich will get richer and the middle class and poor will be wiped off the face of the earth because we are the last ones the GOP/Teabaggers will be concerned about.

  • Anonymous

    Got it….your right and I’m wrong because a senator yelled “you lie” in a SOTUA….which coincidently..Obama was lying about….but I digress.

    Anyway appreciate your non opinion based, quantitative and objectie assessment on who has taken more flak during their presidency.

    Your findings, along with a nickel, are worth at least one piece of bubblegum..

  • Anonymous

    They get it because they understand what it is to live under a tyrannical leader.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    And what did the Bush assassination video remind Leni Riefenstahl-Harris of?

  • david r

     I get a read-only version of mediate at work. Leedog’s address has mediamatters.org in it.

  • Cecelia

    Those poor bastards…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    I’ve never in my life seen anybody complain about “playing the race card” who wasn’t a racist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    Brewer is overtly racist against Hispanics. Whether she’s also racist against blacks, I don’t know. But if not, she was certainly playing to racist voters with this manufactured incident.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    There is no such thing as “playing the race card”. It’s simply pointing out that racists are, in fact, racists.

  • Anonymous

    Why you must be a racist. 

    Card played…no proof needed…you’re a racist. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_34VQ3NDNOFFUF6R7ALXY6O33S4 Cal

    For decades, the GOP strategy has been to do what you accuse Democrats of doing. Republicans have worked hard to divide whites against everybody else, assuming that if they can get the majority of whites, it doesn’t matter who everybody else votes for. That’s why Republicans are so terrified by the notion that whites might not remain the majority. They’ve built their identity so much on being “the party of the white man” that they can’t survive that impending demographic shift.

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