AMERICAblog: Only black reporter kicked out of McCain event for no reason
Deacon_Blues
· 1 year ago
I really expect the MSM to pick up on this. (Snicker)
dad
· 1 year ago
mcshame
true colors
Rab
· 1 year ago
Repugs=racists everytime. It really is the white peoples party.
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
it isn't just a white people's party...it is the upper 10 percent of the upper 10 percent of the richest white peoples party of the banana republic of the united states
vwcat
· 1 year ago
That reporter is just playing the race card unfairly against poor McCain. How much you want to bet this doesn't get on the air, especially by ABC or CNN.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
Well hell yes he kicked him out because he was black! This Just in: The Obama campaign raised a ton of money over the last several days, and one-third of it was from first time donars:) McCain goes negative and everybody reaches deeper into their pockets.
4dogs
· 1 year ago
Maybe Keith will pick it up on Countdown. I sure hope so, I'm so sick of McCain getting away with so much. The traditional media protects McCain and I don't get it.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
Of course the Grampa McSame campaign is NOT racist. They were merely profiling those that they believe are Obama supporters so those types wouldn't become all uppity and disruptive.
Nothing to see here.
anarchy
· 1 year ago
actions speak louder than words - wasn't that the phrase?
straight talk express, my ass!
anotherdumguy
· 1 year ago
This is a racist country. Obama loses 15-20% of the vote just because he is black. Half of them wouldn't vote for a dem in any event, so he is down by about 10% before anyone pays attention to the issues. That is why the polls show the race as even. McSame is a deeply flawed candidate. Obama has to have somebody on his campaign go deeply negative (soon) or he will lose.
Jeremy_in_Denver
· 1 year ago
I'm glad you're not Obama's campaign manager. No. He needs to hit back against the negative ads, but throwing out negative ads of his own will cost him a core constituency, the people (like me) who are fed up with the bullshit in politics.
May the Obama campaign ignore your foolish advise.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
I have a great idea for the Obama campaign. The Obama campaign needs to attack McCain where it hurts. What is his supposed stregth? All we ever hear about is John McCain's "glorious" EXPERIENCE. Well, who does McCain remind us of in the Bush Administration besides George W. Bush? ANSWER: The ever popular "DICK CHENEY - MAN OF EXPERIENCE"
Campaign commercial: Photo of Dick Cheney morphs into McCain and then morphs into George W. Bush. Voice over "Before selecting himself as Vice President, Dick Cheney had more experience than anyone in Washington, DC. Dick Cheney's experience got us a disastrous war in Iraq with no exit plan, and billions upon billions of debt. Shouldn't we chose a new way? Shouldn't we chose intelligence and judgment over experience? Choose Barack Obama!" Show photo of Barack Obama smiling with people smiling behind him.
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
We need a pool to pick a day McCain drops out....this cannot go on....by November the GOPr's will be too embarrassed to come out of the house to vote.
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
They aren't embarassed--they could care less. They are going to install Bush as president through the duration of the Iraq war. We can't be having elections during war.
Coming Undone
· 1 year ago
McCain is hoping that the MSM picks this story up so he can get Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson out in front of the cameras calling McCain a racist, then McCain will explain what happened and say it was totally innocent, but then he can connect Sharpton to Obama and use them both in his next ad.
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
I was in deep meditation all day. Nothing so far.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Drinking beer in a hammock only counts in Louisiana as meditation ;)....
hardeknox
· 1 year ago
Let's see how they spin this one. Remember that mother is half a word.
jr
· 1 year ago
"bring back Jim Crow!"-Tucker Bounds
Busboy
· 1 year ago
If I was a black "progressive" reporter? I too would figure out a way to get kicked out of the McCain presser. There's no such thing as an objective press. You can't leave your feelings at home when you go to work...
Busboy
· 1 year ago
I think "coming undone" has hit on a good point, several comments earlier.
ClintonHater
· 1 year ago
This dipshit voted against a holiday for MLK. This is no surprise to me.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Kicked out for going to a campaign event while black.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Yeah, much like a DWB [driving while black].
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
OT:
According to an NBC report, the traveling press has been notified by Obama camp that they'll be staying for about 20 hours in South Bend, Indiana, this week.
Could be nothing, but speculation has begun about an Evan Bayh announcement.
However, Bayh is from Terre Haute, about 4 hours away. Who's from South Bend? Former congressman, 9/11 commissioner and early Obama supporter Tim Roemer, who was tipped by Ben Smith and Chris Cillizza as a potential Obama veep a long time ago, but has since dropped off the radar.
(On the other hand, Roemer is also part of Obama's religious outreach group, and I'm thinking this could also be some kind of speech and/or conference on faith in America--Notre Dame would be a pretty good location for that.)
Anyway, that's all I got.......
Indigo
· 1 year ago
South Bend is Opus Dei country. They can get the Pope to explain how good Catholics always vote for the anti-human rights candidate. That would be McCain.
foolme1ns
· 1 year ago
they arent' racists. They just don't like niggers or nigger lovers. What's racist about that?
hallam
· 1 year ago
No, this isn't a racist move, its deliberately cynical.
The objective here is to do something that is arguably but not definitively racist. Then the shit-bag in chief can complain about the 'race-card' being played when he is called on it. Its the same stunt they played with their race-bating 'black men want to rape white women' Spears/Hilton ad.
The idea here is that their supporters will feel that they are being unfairly attacked as racists and more willing to support McSleaze. Its a really desperate move that they are only pulling because they know that their biggest problem is that their base is unenthusiastic about McCain and need to get them energized or its all off.
McCain is to blame here, he probably didn't know about this one in advance, but he knew exactly what he was signing up for when he hired these shits.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Totally disgusting. I guess McBush was trying to recover from being around all those black folks he encountered at the Urban League meeting the other day. Does anyone remember him mentioning his embrace of "school vouchers"? I mean, all those black folks really want to put their kids in the segregationist academies known as "private schools" don't they? Well, McBush's kids went to them, after all. Frankly, I think he was bragging about it, as in: Nah, nah, nah, my kids got to go to exclusive private white schools and it almost cost me my entire disability check and Senate salary. Y'all can build your own schools and get those vouchers, you know, just like white people.
anarchy
· 1 year ago
no placed for the coloreds on the Straight Talk Express unless they're serving drinks or donuts, huh?
Grandpa probably had a hot flash and thought that he was back in his youth: "holy crap, there's an uppity ****** on this bus and he's not sitting in the back, get him out of here!!"
yeah the media will run with this one... NOT.
osage
· 1 year ago
MCCAIN IS FOLLOWING KARL ROVES STRAEGY FOR VICTORY……BOLDFACED LYING! AND HE'S TRYING TO DENY HE'S A RACIST DESPITE HIS RECORD TO THE CONTRARY.
McCain Defended Opposition Of Federal MLK Holiday By Saying He Supported Arizona’s State Holiday. During a press availability in Panama City, Florida, John McCain said, “I have supported hundreds of pieces of legislation, which would help Americans obtain an equal opportunity in America. I am proud of that record, from fighting for the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in my state to sponsoring specific legislation that would prevent discrimination in any shape or form in America today.” [McCain Press Availability In Panama City, Florida, 8/1/08]
FACT: McCain Supported Republican AZ Governor’s Decision To Rescind MLK Holiday. ABC News reported, “In Arizona, a bill to recognize a holiday honoring MLK failed in the legislature, so then-Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, declared one through executive order. In January 1987, the first act of Arizona’s new governor, Republican Evan Mecham, was to rescind the executive order by his predecessor to create an MLK holiday. Arizona’s stance became a national controversy. McCain backed the decision at the time.” [ABC News, 4/3/08]
FACT: McCain Supported Gov. Evan Mecham’s Decision In 1987 To Rescind Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, “In a vote likely to haunt him for the rest of his public career, McCain voted against 1983 legislation establishing the third Monday in January as the federal holiday marking King’s birthday. Back home in Arizona, he supported Gov. Evan Mecham’s decision in 1987 to rescind an executive order creating a state holiday for King, but later reversed his position.” [Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/16/08]
FACT: McCain Voted Against Creating Martin Luther King Holiday. In 1983, McCain voted against a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The motion passed 89-77. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983]
FACT: In 1994, McCain Sided With Senator Jesse Helms and Voted To Eliminate Funding For Martin Luther King Commission. McCain voted in favor of a Helms amendment “to prohibit federal financing for the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission.” The amendment failed 28-70-2. [S Amdt 1738, Vote #127, 5/24/94; CQ Vote Description]
FACT: McCain Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1990 FOUR Times. In 1990, McCain voted against a bill designed to address employer discrimination at least 4 times. According to the Washington Post, the “Civil Rights Act of 1990 is designed to overturn several recent Supreme Court rulings that made it much more difficult for individual employees to prove discrimination. The legislation, being fought by business, also would impose new penalties on employers convicted of job discrimination.” [S 2104, Vote #304, 10/24/90; Vote #276, Vote #275, 10/16/90; Vote #161, 7/18/90; Washington Post, 7/9/90]
womanistmusings
· 1 year ago
Really I have come to expect no better from this man. He is vile on so many accounts. Think of the race baiting he has engaged in between Latinos and Blacks..so much for our coveted post racial world.
LawMichigander
· 1 year ago
It doesn't matter John because McCain said Obama played the race first, so now its fair game. -Heavy Sarcasm-
All Comments
true colors
How much you want to bet this doesn't get on the air, especially by ABC or CNN.
Nothing to see here.
straight talk express, my ass!
McSame is a deeply flawed candidate. Obama has to have somebody on his campaign go deeply negative (soon) or he will lose.
May the Obama campaign ignore your foolish advise.
Campaign commercial: Photo of Dick Cheney morphs into McCain and then morphs into George W. Bush. Voice over "Before selecting himself as Vice President, Dick Cheney had more experience than anyone in Washington, DC. Dick Cheney's experience got us a disastrous war in Iraq with no exit plan, and billions upon billions of debt. Shouldn't we chose a new way? Shouldn't we chose intelligence and judgment over experience? Choose Barack Obama!" Show photo of Barack Obama smiling with people smiling behind him.
According to an NBC report, the traveling press has been notified by Obama camp that they'll be staying for about 20 hours in South Bend, Indiana, this week.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/...
Could be nothing, but speculation has begun about an Evan Bayh announcement.
However, Bayh is from Terre Haute, about 4 hours away. Who's from South Bend? Former congressman, 9/11 commissioner and early Obama supporter Tim Roemer, who was tipped by Ben Smith and Chris Cillizza as a potential Obama veep a long time ago, but has since dropped off the radar.
(On the other hand, Roemer is also part of Obama's religious outreach group, and I'm thinking this could also be some kind of speech and/or conference on faith in America--Notre Dame would be a pretty good location for that.)
Anyway, that's all I got.......
The objective here is to do something that is arguably but not definitively racist. Then the shit-bag in chief can complain about the 'race-card' being played when he is called on it. Its the same stunt they played with their race-bating 'black men want to rape white women' Spears/Hilton ad.
The idea here is that their supporters will feel that they are being unfairly attacked as racists and more willing to support McSleaze. Its a really desperate move that they are only pulling because they know that their biggest problem is that their base is unenthusiastic about McCain and need to get them energized or its all off.
McCain is to blame here, he probably didn't know about this one in advance, but he knew exactly what he was signing up for when he hired these shits.
unless they're serving drinks or donuts, huh?
Grandpa probably had a hot flash and thought that
he was back in his youth: "holy crap, there's an uppity
****** on this bus and he's not sitting in the back, get
him out of here!!"
yeah the media will run with this one... NOT.
McCain Defended Opposition Of Federal MLK Holiday By Saying He Supported Arizona’s State Holiday. During a press availability in Panama City, Florida, John McCain said, “I have supported hundreds of pieces of legislation, which would help Americans obtain an equal opportunity in America. I am proud of that record, from fighting for the recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday in my state to sponsoring specific legislation that would prevent discrimination in any shape or form in America today.” [McCain Press Availability In Panama City, Florida, 8/1/08]
FACT: McCain Supported Republican AZ Governor’s Decision To Rescind MLK Holiday. ABC News reported, “In Arizona, a bill to recognize a holiday honoring MLK failed in the legislature, so then-Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, declared one through executive order. In January 1987, the first act of Arizona’s new governor, Republican Evan Mecham, was to rescind the executive order by his predecessor to create an MLK holiday. Arizona’s stance became a national controversy. McCain backed the decision at the time.” [ABC News, 4/3/08]
FACT: McCain Supported Gov. Evan Mecham’s Decision In 1987 To Rescind Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer, “In a vote likely to haunt him for the rest of his public career, McCain voted against 1983 legislation establishing the third Monday in January as the federal holiday marking King’s birthday. Back home in Arizona, he supported Gov. Evan Mecham’s decision in 1987 to rescind an executive order creating a state holiday for King, but later reversed his position.” [Philadelphia Inquirer, 6/16/08]
FACT: McCain Voted Against Creating Martin Luther King Holiday. In 1983, McCain voted against a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to designate the third Monday of every January as a federal holiday in honor of the late civil rights leader, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The motion passed 89-77. [HR 3706, Vote 289, 8/2/83; CQ 1983]
FACT: In 1994, McCain Sided With Senator Jesse Helms and Voted To Eliminate Funding For Martin Luther King Commission. McCain voted in favor of a Helms amendment “to prohibit federal financing for the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission.” The amendment failed 28-70-2. [S Amdt 1738, Vote #127, 5/24/94; CQ Vote Description]
FACT: McCain Voted Against The Civil Rights Act Of 1990 FOUR Times. In 1990, McCain voted against a bill designed to address employer discrimination at least 4 times. According to the Washington Post, the “Civil Rights Act of 1990 is designed to overturn several recent Supreme Court rulings that made it much more difficult for individual employees to prove discrimination. The legislation, being fought by business, also would impose new penalties on employers convicted of job discrimination.” [S 2104, Vote #304, 10/24/90; Vote #276, Vote #275, 10/16/90; Vote #161, 7/18/90; Washington Post, 7/9/90]