Anyone watching CNN last hour?

DrBombbay

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CNN is the new MSNBC.

[CharlesWayneCT]

That’s CNN. Of course, THEIR viewers haven’t seen the videos, unless they watched them on FOX. But now they pretend that the videos are “old news”, and that CNN is on the cutting edge because they are giving you the next piece of information.

[AuntB]

Thank goodness CNN viewers get one taste of reality with Lou Dobbs!

[snip from last night]Also, if you don’t agree with President Obama, you may be a racist. That’s what former President Jimmy Carter says — just one more outrageous statement by the former president. And you call this a post-racial America? We’ll have a special report.

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SR. POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Race and politics is a combustible combo. And it explodes into headlines when an ex-president lights the fuse as Jimmy Carter did on NBC.

JIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

CROWLEY: It’s the sort of thing that tends to raise people’s defenses. In particular, it tends to turn off independents who by nature hate the hard edges of politics. That makes this entire conversation a political loser for a president with an ambitious agenda.

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CROWLEY: Framing criticism as racism cropped up several times during the campaign, always leaving bitter feelings. When Geraldine Ferraro (ph), a Clinton supporter said during the primaries that Obama would never have gotten as far as he had if he had not been black, candidate Obama pointedly left race out of it.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think that her comments were ridiculous.

CROWLEY: But Ferraro blamed Obama supporters for her hate mail.

GERALDINE FERRARO, FORMER DEMOCRATIC VP CANDIDATE: I’ve been called all kinds of names. And the attacks are ageist, they’re sexist, they’re racist.

CROWLEY: And the topic of race even came to haunt Bill Clinton, the so-called first black president.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There’s no difference in your voting record and Hillary’s ever since. Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.

CROWLEY: Bill Clinton’s fierce attacks on Obama’s statements about Iraq caused grumblings in the African-American community that Clinton was being dismissive. It prompted accusations that the former president was playing the race card.

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CROWLEY: Now, Michael Steele (ph), who as you know, Lou, is the African-American who is now chairman of the Republican National Committee says that he believes former President Jimmy Carter is dead wrong. Not only that, Steele (ph) says, listen, he’s taking away from cases of real racism. He said no one’s denying racism is gone.

It’s just that when you make these blanket assertions that almost all protests is based in racism, you take away from what’s really important in the battle against racism. So we’re hearing the same sorts of things as I’m sure you are, Lou, around the water coolers. They say this is just one of those topics that tells us both that there is no post-racial America right now.

DOBBS: Yes, and it’s also important to put into context, whatever news organization reports on this, that the president who made this statement, that is former President Jimmy Carter, was one of the most criticized and unpopular presidents of the last quarter century. And in the criticisms of President Carter certainly didn’t have anything to do with his race. Candy, thank you very much — great reporting as always -
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/16/ldt.01.html

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I hope they have a security detail...