Posted on 11/18/2013 12:09:58 PM PST by Kaslin
Liberals love to portray conservatives as idiots and slavery sympathizers. Despite such vicious attacks, these same lefties often forget their own inflammatory language.
MSNBC host Martin Bashir made particularly disgusting comments on Nov. 15, attacking former Alaska governor Sarah Palin for comparing federal debt to slavery. Apparently, Bashir was too busy suggesting that someone ought to defecate and urinate on Palin to realize that liberals have been comparing debt to slavery for years.
Bashir should have checked with his colleague, former Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Fla), before senselessly unloading on Palin. In 2011, on the Oct. 14 broadcast of MSNBC’s “Politics Nation,” Grayson declared “What people see is that they’re falling into debt slavery – falling into debt slavery, where they owe more than they own on their house. They’re buried in credit card debt.”
For Bashir, not only did Palin’s remarks “prove her rank ignorance,” but it meant she was “truly qualified for a dose of discipline.” Since Grayson made a similar comparison between debt and slavery, he should probably be worried about Bashir’s feelings towards him.
As should all the liberal journalists who have used the phrase in the past. The notion of debt slavery has been touted by the liberal media for years. Since 2009, the Huffington Post made four separate references to “debt slavery,” comparing student loan and Wall Street lending debts to slavery. These articles featured headlines such as “Slavery Legal in America Again” and “Slaves of Wall Street.”
Huffington Post contributor Ronald Robinson even urged readers to “Sign New Emancipation Proclamation to Free Us From Debt Slavery.” Comparisons between American slavery and debt don’t get more blatant than that.
The notion of “debt slavery” has also been common among members of the liberal Media Consortium, including Alternet and MotherJones.
Alternet was particularly bad, making comments that far exceed Palin’s remark. On Sept 18, 2011, Alternet promoted a blog article with the headline “Debt Slavery: If Aristotle Were Around Today, He’d Probably Conclude That Most Americans were, For All Intents and Purposes, Slaves.” Numerous other articles used Marxist class language to contrast the rich with “a producer class forced into perpetual slavery.”
The Media Consortium was created to be a progressive "echo chamber," where 63 separate left-wing media outlets can network and share ideas, as well as cross-promote stories. Other members of the Consortium include such liberal outlets as The Nation, Democracy Now! and The American Prospect. The consortium has also received $675,000 in Soros funds since 2000.
someone ought to defecate and urinate on PalinA sick perversion, his and msnbc IP address should be scanned for child porn
It is we who are at fault for allowing a company like MSNBC to exist. A company that hires the likes of Chris Mathews, Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow, Bob Berkel and other radical perverts and racists, and anti Americans.
The whole thing is so bizarre. There’s always been that historical connection and analogy, in regards to “debt slavery,” “wage slavery,” “debt bondage” and such. Goes back centuries, and is totally commonplace.
Yet the loony left is trying to create out of thin air some wacko new argument that the word “slavery” is the exclusive domain of blacks and loaded with intrinsic “hurt,” and anyone using it otherwise is an automatic racist. And, using this context to specifically gin up more white-hot hatred for Palin (and, ostensibly, all tea-party conservatives). Total fabrication, oblivious to historical reality, but given the sheer ignorance of the whole low-information Obama/MSNBC crowd, they undoubtedly eat up this entirely new ‘fabrication.’
I made the very same point about the long-time Leftist use of the term “wage slavery.” It was absolutely laughable to see Bashir solemnly lecture Palin about slavery, as if words like “slave” and “slavery” haven’t been used on common parlance for decades - “my husband is a slave to his job” or “I slaved away in the factory for 30 years” and so forth.
You put the case perfectly. It is an entirely fabricated issue.
As in the uproar a few years ago over the use of master-slave to describe the configuration of computer drives.
Debt slavery is a very old idea, in rural economics and politically in left-wing rhetoric.
I can’t conceive of why someone like Bashir does not understand the concept. Its standard stuff on his side of politics.
A lot of rural societies were dominated by a landlord/moneylender class that controlled what should have been a mass of independent freeholders, as they controlled the capital and most farmers carried heavy debts secured by their property. Since there was no competition to the lenders (they were careful to keep a monopoly) they could charge high rates and keep the farmers indebted and tied to the land and the ongoing arrangements. Hence debt slavery.
Maoists in particular made a great deal of political hay out of this in China and elsewhere.
There were indentured servants as well as slaves. Many of them were white. Many blacks were free in this country. Martin Bashir is an imbecile with a deep hatred for white people.
Remember the controversy over the word “niggardly” a few years ago? (A controversy started, I should add, by people too stupid to know the meaning of the word.)
Also call MSNBC Media Relations at 212.664.6605.
Only liberals and blacks can say “slave” or “ni**er”.
So say the speech police.
They would probably find a lot
I do remember that, and I believe it was a DC councilman who used the word.
I still stand by my assertion that the entire MSNBC air staff should have been removed from the air and prosecuted for sedition at the start of the Iraq war.
Regardless of what one may believe about whether we should have invaded Iraq and removed Saddam Hussein's government, the bottom line is that the anti-American a$$holes on MSNBC were cheerleading for the enemy and by extension giving them aid and comfort simply for domestic political reasons. They have the blood of dead American soldiers on their hands.
It's a biblical concept as well. Proverbs 22:7 "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."
Palin was guilty of offending a liberal hypocrite by telling the truth. Gee whiz, what a crime. (snicker)
Yeah, indeed. BTW she was this past Friday at the Fort Campbell PX for her new book signing
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