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Harry Reid apologizes for "light skinned" ["with no Negro dialect"] remark about Obama
The Washington Post ^ | 1/9/10 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 01/09/2010 10:30:22 AM PST by LdSentinal

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect" in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.

"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words," said Reid in a statement. "I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments."

The Senate Majority Leader was officially neutral in the primary fight between Obama and then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). Reid's remarks about Obama were revealed in "Game Change", a book detailing the 2008 race penned by Time's Mark Halperin and New York magazine's John Heilemann.

Reid's apology comes on the same day that a new poll conducted by the Las Vegas Review Journal showed him facing an uphill fight for re-election in 2010. Reid trailed former state Republican party chairwoman Sue Lowden by a 50 percent to 40 percent margin and was behind businessman Danny Tarkanian (R) 49 percent to 41 percent.

Only one in three voters viewed Reid favorably while 52 percent saw him in an unfavorable light in the poll.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: 111th; apology; bigot; biracial; colorofhisskin; elections; highyellow; martinlutherking; mississippiofthewest; negrodialect; nevada; reid; servingcoffee; skin
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To: LdSentinal
Doesn't speak with a Negro dialect unless he wants to? OMG, lol.
61 posted on 01/09/2010 1:18:49 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Nightshift

GNIP...


62 posted on 01/09/2010 1:18:49 PM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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To: LdSentinal

Pinging Al, Jesse and the New Black Panther Party.


63 posted on 01/09/2010 1:19:28 PM PST by AliVeritas (Is it nothing to you all ye who pass by? Our brothers blood screams from the ground.)
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To: LdSentinal

This happened in 2008, why are we just now hearing about this or have I missed something?


64 posted on 01/09/2010 1:19:48 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: roses of sharon

Obama, in his own book, said he often talks/acts white as to not scare away white folk.

*****

Obama did not grow up around ANYONE with an American-african-american, ie local city, accent. When he tries to sound “black” is when he is putting on a fake accent.


65 posted on 01/09/2010 1:23:42 PM PST by maica (Freedom consists not in doing what we like,but in having the right to do what we ought. John Paul II)
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To: LdSentinal


HE SAID WHAT?! HARRY AND THE 'NEGRO'


66 posted on 01/09/2010 1:25:40 PM PST by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: LdSentinal

Ya’ mean......

“I be aopolgizing for dissing my homeboy?”


67 posted on 01/09/2010 1:25:42 PM PST by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: Allegra

Well said!


68 posted on 01/09/2010 1:26:26 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: LdSentinal

Magic Negro ping


69 posted on 01/09/2010 1:34:32 PM PST by Mercat (Reluctant glenbeckian)
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To: LdSentinal

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Teddys_anger.html

Another quote for the same new book “Game Change” - as blogged by Ben Smith:

I’ve finally gotten my hands on a copy of Game Change, in which Heliemann and Halperin report:

[A]s Hillary bungled Caroline, Bill’s handling of Ted was even worse. The day after Iowa, he phoned Kennedy and pressed for an endorsement, making the case for his wife. But Bill then went on, belittling Obama in a manner that deeply offended Kennedy. Recounting the conversation later to a friend, Teddy fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.


70 posted on 01/09/2010 1:35:27 PM PST by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Did he forget he’s “clean?”

And, that Chris Matthews gets a tingle up his leg when he sees him and hears him speak ????

71 posted on 01/09/2010 1:36:55 PM PST by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: okie01
Yes, the statements may be factually correct but
in Reid's opinion one way is preferable over the other. IOW, light skin > dark skin. No “Negro dialect” (whatever that is) > “Negro dialect”...unless of course, you can turn it on and off as needed, apparently. Maybe that actually is a plus, lol.
72 posted on 01/09/2010 1:38:42 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: LdSentinal

Nice going, Reid. What’s next? Remarks about chrome spinner wheels, a diamond encrusted necklace, or being able to talk without yelling, cussing, slurring, or spitting? That wouldn’t get any play from the media, either.


73 posted on 01/09/2010 2:02:11 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: okie01

Kind of what I was thinking.

Obama’s half white, he is light skinned. He does not talk with a hood accent or in slang. You may not be able to say the latter descriptor is particular only to blacks, but I know what he meant.

If I were that reporter, however, I’d ask “what exactly were the poor words chosen, and why do you now see them as being offensive?” And then watch him twist in the wind explaining it.


74 posted on 01/09/2010 2:06:32 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Lancey Howard

Slow Joe Biden forgot “and he’s not always talking about bitches, hoes, and sluts.”


75 posted on 01/09/2010 2:06:40 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: DennisR; jennyjenny; Secret Agent Man
Being PC destroys relationships, honesty, truth, and freedom.

That is, of course, what this whole kabuki dance is about: political correctness.

And this is an obvious demonstration of how it can destroy relationships, honesty and -- most especially -- truth and freedom.

P.C. is an exceedingly vile formulation.

76 posted on 01/09/2010 2:11:08 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Well, not in public, anyway. Who knows how he talks around the kitchen table with his family?


77 posted on 01/09/2010 2:11:38 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: LdSentinal

media will you now wake up and understand that the left use you, will you push for more honesty and will you ask and push for the lies to be more exposed?


78 posted on 01/09/2010 2:12:10 PM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: LdSentinal

This is ridiculous. He essentially said “he’s not a real n%$%#r”. It’s what these people actually think of block people. Democrats are by FAR the most racist people out there. They look at black people as inferior people who they (the Liberals) have to take care and ensure they get a fair shake.

One day blacks are going to wake up and see what’s actually said about them behind closed doors by white Ds and they’re going to revolt. You’ve been duped for 40 years and they’re designing a new system to keep you enslaved for another 40 years. They throw you scraps, then tell you to keep your supply of scraps you have to vote for us.

I’ve been in some of these meetings and heard some of the most heinous language I’ve ever heard about black people espoused by what are supposedly the most “liberal” democrats in the room. It’s soooo sad what they’ve done to them to get power.


79 posted on 01/09/2010 2:16:05 PM PST by dannyboy72a (The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
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To: Lancey Howard

have you ever talked to many blacks?

They have no clue what so ever that the Dems did slavery , they MLK was a republican and that the Dems use them.
All one black has to do is ask themselves this”In 40 years of being with the Dems and their agenda why are we not getting far and why is our programmes like affirmative action i place?”

Affirmative action is an insult, it states that blacks are too thick to compete on a level playing field so we’;ll give you jobs, etc based on what you look like”

Try and tell blacks about all of this and they just don’t want to know


80 posted on 01/09/2010 2:16:55 PM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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