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A few words from Howard Dean
No More Apologies -- It's Time to Stand Up for Our Convictions
Howard Dean
For some time now, various "reporters" and on-air personalities on the Fox News Network have failed to report the full story or relevant facts, instead indulging in race baiting in order to exploit people's fears and crank up the fringe of their audience. This was exemplified by Glenn Beck's nightly assault on Van Jones earlier this year. Recently, Fox has cranked up stories about the Department of Justice's decision not to prosecute a voter intimidation case against a Black Panther group and even worse, calls for Atty. General Holder's resignation. And now, the Sherrod Debacle.
Turns out Van Jones' name was added to a website without his permission, a fact the group finally admitted some time after he resigned. And maybe he said some things about the Republican Party that he shouldn't have -- but that has nothing to do with the fact that he is a brilliant environmental organizer. It also turns out that it was the Bush Administration who decided not to prosecute the case against the black panthers because as Bush's Assistant Attorney General Perez testified, "the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the criminal statues, and under the Obama Administration Justice Department a judgment was won in a civil case.
And by now we all know how the Sherrod story went down. Despite his claims to the contrary on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace didn't have his facts quite right. As a media matters study showed, Fox News did in fact spend a lot of air-time on July 19th and 20th cranking up the false story. Not to mention that foxnews.com bragged that shortly after they posted a "report" about the video Mrs. Sherrod resigned.
None of this is new. I don't believe all or even most of the Republican party voters are racist, but going at least as far back as Lee Atwater, the Willie Horton ads, and the attacks on John McCain in the South Carolina primaries in both 2000 and 2008, the immigration debate in 2006, there is a persistent willingness in the Republican party to use race baiting for electoral advantage. The fact is, this is racist behavior.
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Romulus (07-30-2010)
Eeee-yahhhhh!!!!!!!!!
"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
That's the depth I expected lol.Originally Posted by Macduff
That's all Howard Dean deserves.
"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
Then why post at all?
He's probably pissed off about facts being inserted into the scenario.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished, for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Dawn Launch (07-29-2010)
*yawn*
"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
If someone posted an article by Rush Limbaugh, how much serious discussion do you think it would get?
"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
"there is a persistent willingness in the Republican party to use race baiting for electoral advantage"
dean makes his comments to appeal to who? blacks and hispanics. you make the judgment as whether his is using the race card here himself.
mtm1963
Well, so far, a thread about Rush Limbaugh and his criticism of FOX News has generated 4 pages and 37 replies.
A thread titled Understanding President Obama, which is based on a piece by Limbaugh, has generated 1,115 replies.
Almost every single one of them was more thoughtful and nuanced than your original reply here.
Learning is fun.
They shall know me by the tang of my bitter and untenable jadedness.
In fairness, we've been building 'ground zeros' near Iraqi mosques since March 2003.
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