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Paper Calls Clarence Thomas 'Black Man With An Asterisk' (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
NewsMax.com ^ | Nov. 1, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 11/02/2005 7:16:38 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist

An editorial in the Tuesday edition of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal ssems to call into question the content and character behind the color of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' skin.

The newspaper - openly liberal by value of this opinion piece - is chock full of buzzwords straight out of the Democrat Party talking-points used to dsecribe the nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Saying the Alito nomination "lessens the nation's rich diversity," the editors argue that Alito's mere presence as a man should disqualify him from the opportunity to replace Sandra Day O'Connor on the High Court.

Apparently, the Journal-Sentinel editors view the "O'Connor seat" as a female entitlement.

Most troubling, however, is the degrading, racil slap the editors make at Thomas:

"In losing a woman, the court with Alito would feature seven white men, one white woman, and a black man, who deserves an asterisk because he arguably does not represent the views of mainstream black America."

Will the Journal-Sentinel editors be given a free pass by their media colleagues for using such derogatory and disrepectful language - not only to Thomas, but to all blacks and all Americans?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: alito; demracism; leftistdeciet; leftistlies; liberalmedia; liberalracism; milwaukee; newspapers; racism; scotus
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Liberal Racism


41 posted on 11/02/2005 9:36:10 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want yo"ur opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The J-S's new editorial editor, Ricardo Pimentel has been a disappointment even to the liberals in the newsroom.


42 posted on 11/02/2005 9:41:33 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: stocksthatgoup

If God didn't want liberal newspaper editors doing the thinking for all the "misfortunates" of the world,

He wouldn't have created the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.


43 posted on 11/02/2005 9:44:42 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: MediaMole

How can a liberal disappoint?


44 posted on 11/02/2005 9:47:22 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: MikeHu

It's the rest of us who have to live up to their expectations.


45 posted on 11/02/2005 9:52:48 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: MikeHu

Has anybody ever known a liberal newspaper editor without this serious mental illness?


46 posted on 11/02/2005 10:05:19 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: Juan Medén
Is there any other ethnic group that is required to think in a certain way? Why doesn't the black community rise up in anger against such suggestions?

Exactly, Blacks are not monolithic, although liberals like to think that they are, which would explain the reason that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton think that they own Blacks in America.

47 posted on 11/02/2005 10:10:24 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: There You Go Again

He definitely does not reperesent the Jackson-Sharpton kookie wing of black America.


48 posted on 11/02/2005 10:14:14 PM PST by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Blacks who don't grovel as the liberal newspaper editors demand them to, are suppressed, just like everybody else who don't worship at the temple of the liberal newspaper editors.


49 posted on 11/02/2005 10:15:00 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
How does a man on the Supreme Court 'lessen the nations diversity?' the country is STILL just as diverse as before.

I think the editors* deserve their own asterisk, they might be from this planet or not

50 posted on 11/02/2005 10:20:05 PM PST by GeronL (Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
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To: MikeHu
Blacks who don't grovel as the liberal newspaper editors demand them to, are suppressed, just like everybody else who don't worship at the temple of the liberal newspaper editors.

Right. So just who are the new millennium plantation owners? I'd say it's the liberals and Jesse Jackson types who expect Black folks to walk lock-step with the liberal order of things.

51 posted on 11/02/2005 10:30:35 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

Liberals are the new supremacists.


52 posted on 11/02/2005 10:48:05 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Modern political protocol:

(1) Conservatives are to be crucified for even the appearance of impropriety.

(2) Liberals can get away with murder.

Any questions?


53 posted on 11/02/2005 10:51:04 PM PST by SiliconValleyGuy
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To: GeronL
I think the editors* deserve their own asterisk, they might be from this planet or not

LOL! I like that! Let's include MSM news anchors as well.

Brian Williams* NBC News, Christianne Armanpour* CNN news....

54 posted on 11/02/2005 10:57:10 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe

I think those people deserve their own planet.

How about Uranus?


55 posted on 11/02/2005 11:03:43 PM PST by MikeHu
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To: MikeHu

Theiranus maybe. LOL.


56 posted on 11/02/2005 11:08:46 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Lijahsbubbe; MikeHu

Uranis and theiranus aren't far enough away, how about a distant galaxy??


57 posted on 11/02/2005 11:20:32 PM PST by GeronL (Leftism is the INSANE Cult of the Artificial)
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To: rdb3; Howlin; mhking; bad company; cyborg; Petronski

in all honesty, one of the prime factors making discussions of race difficult for me, as a white man, to publicly undertake is the Cult of Blackness.

The behavioral characteristics of adherents to the Cult of Blackness are execrable, but calling it the barbarism it is opens me up to charges of racial bigotry - despite the fact that it has not one damned thing to do with race.

Somehow, some way must be found to wrest the possession of the pop-cult power over the meaning of "black" away from the thugs, racial demagogues, and poverty-pimps.

How?
Damn me if I know.


58 posted on 11/03/2005 2:23:18 AM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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To: Lijahsbubbe
All these variously-hyphenated, diversity-pimp-lookalikes would happily bring back public hanging in order to dispatch the living affront to their very existence that is Clarence Thomas. He could use this motto, adapted from another hero, Nathan Hale:

I regret that I have but one * for my country.

59 posted on 11/03/2005 6:46:04 AM PST by thulldud (It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
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To: bigsigh

Amen. The question is, is the editor the editor of a newspaper or a newspaper*.

BTW, was this an in-house editorial or a guest editorial? It makes a difference because the former represents the official view of the paper and the latter doesn't. If it was the former, then the Journal-Sentinel is a newspaper*. If it is the latter, then the paper is a newspaper with questionable judgment but still a newspaper in the classic sense.


60 posted on 11/03/2005 7:29:36 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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