NBC Writer Finds South Asians Dismissive of Jindal's 'Indian Heritage'
Following Bobby Jindal’s Tuesday announcement that he is seeking the presidency in 2016, he has received heat from several mainstream media sources. They have argued Jindal is not a true Indian-American. NBC News continued this trend in an article on their website which suggested that many Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans are skeptical of the Louisiana governor. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, argued…
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O'Reilly Calls Out Press For Not Challenging 'White Supremacist' Meme
In his "Talking Points" opening monologue Wednesday night, Fox News's Bill O'Reilly lit into the establishment press for allowing the notion that America is a "white supremacist nation" to go "largely unchallenged." He further accused the press of allowing itself to be "intimidated," leaving Fox as the only channel, in his view, "standing up for the truth."
I have been told that O'Reilly's…
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Olbermann Compares Washington Redskins To Confederate Flag
If Dan Snyder and the NFL don’t change the name of the Washington Redskins, people will die. At least that’s what Keith Olbermann ranted during his ESPN show Wednesday afternoon. How did he come to this conclusion? By comparing it to the Confederate flag, of course.
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MSNBC Guest: Americans Are 'Infected' by 'Legacy of Racial Inequality'
While appearing on the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s All In, guest and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson argued during a discussion with host Chris Hayes about the Confederate flag that Americans “have all been infected by this legacy of racial inequality” and “haven't learned how to manage the shame and the guilt” of racism.
NPR Calls Hillary's 'All Lives Matter' Statement a '3-Word Misstep'
The politically correct speech police are everywhere these days. Many members of the leftist establishment have taken it upon themselves to aid in their enforcement efforts. No one is safe — not even the person they want us to believe is destined to be the Democrats' 2016 presidential nominee.
Yesterday, at a Florissant, Missouri church only five miles from Ferguson, Hillary Clinton uttered the…
Lefty Blogger: These Days, ‘Just About All the Racists’ Are Republican
Several years ago, an episode of The Simpsons featured a Fox News helicopter emblazoned with a fictional slogan for the channel: “Not Racist, But #1 With Racists.” Washington Monthly blogger Ed Kilgore seems to think that those words fit the modern Republican party.
Kilgore acknowledged in a Wednesday post that “if you go back far enough the Democratic and Republican parties were very different…
Critic: Banish 'Gone With the Wind' to A Museum Like Confederate Flag
The New York Post's Lou Lumenick likened Gone with the Wind to the Confederate flag in a Wednesday item: "If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?" The film critic contended that the classic movie goes to "great lengths to enshrine the myth that…
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CNN's Cuomo Badgers Carson to Condemn Competitors on Confederate Flag
On Wednesday's New Day, CNN's Chris Cuomo repeatedly tried to get Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson to attack conservatives, as well as his competitors, on the Confederate flag controversy. Cuomo asked, "Isn't it a part of leadership saying to people who don't want to call what happened in this Charleston church a hate crime – calling them out on that, and showing them that that is…
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CNN's Don Lemon: Maybe We Will 'Rethink Jefferson' Memorial
CNN's Don Lemon on Tuesday hinted that there will come a day when the United States will have to "rethink" tributes such as the Jefferson Memorial. Legal View host Ashley Banfield brought up the author of the Declaration of Independence. Lemon conceded: "There may come a day when we may want to rethink Jefferson, I don't if we should do that. But when we get to that point, I'll be happy to…
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O’Reilly Blasts ‘America Haters’ for Undoing 'the American Compact'
On Tuesday’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly used his opening “talking points memo” segment to call out a guest on CNN International and “America haters” who he believes “are succeeding to some extent” in “trying to tear down the racial fabric” of the country by “selling rank propaganda.” Prior to his heated debate with Fox News contributor Kristen Powers, O’Reilly rhetorically asked viewers if “…
WashPost: Southern Whites are ‘Monsters’ and ‘We Are All Dylann Roof’
Following tragedies such as this mass murder in South Carolina, most people resort to prayer for the families of the victims. At The Washington Post, Baltimore City Paper writer Baynard Woods was preoccupied with transforming the murderous rampage of a single person into a discourse on the collective guilt of white racism in the most over-the-top manner as possible.
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Once Again, Matthews Diminishes Dylann Roof's Responsibility
It was just a fleeting remark, but quite a telling one. Closing out a segment on his June 23 Hardball program, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews made reference to Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof in a way which diminished the racist terrorist's responsibility for his actions.
New Yorker Writer: ‘Guns Don’t Protect Anyone From Anything’
Racial issues, not gun issues, understandably have been at the forefront of most media coverage of the Charleston massacre, but Adam Gopnik suggests that in any such mass shooting, the firearm is the salient factor.
“Mental health, the enduring structures of racism—these are issues that we have to deal with, too,” wrote Gopnik in a Tuesday column. “But they are not at the heart of the tragedy.…
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MSNBC's Dyson Praises Obama's 'Ingenious' Use of the N-Word
In a move that would surprise few, MSNBC on Monday night praised Barack Obama's use of the N-word in a recent interview. Analyst Michael Eric Dyson appeared on All In and cheered the President: "He was, I think, quite ingenious, clever to be sure, about exploiting those boundaries by drawing attention to them."
