Posted on 07/16/2009 6:43:55 PM PDT by kristinn
Is making a racist remark about President Obama's daughter worse than wishing a conservative talk show host would die?
Such should be asked of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann who on Monday was quite angered by some truly tasteless comments about Malia Obama posted last week at Free Republic.
Yet, back in April when Olbermann published a diary at the liberal website Daily Kos concerning his waterboarding challenge to Sean Hannity, the "Countdown" host wasn't at all outraged by the venomous attacks made on the Fox News star which included some Kossacks wishing he would die.
For those that can stand it, here's a sampling of such commentary:
SNIP
I'll throw in a grand if they end up trach-ing Hannity and he has to spend the rest of his life putting a finger over the tube in order to say 'it wasn't torture'...
It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what? --Steve Forbert
by darthstar on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 09:46:18 AM PDT
Or this:
inanity
I've got a better idea. Let's just keep the water flowing until he goes limp, and the world is suddenly a slightly nicer place to live.
by sicsemtyr on Fri Apr 24, 2009 at 10:21:04 AM PDT
Now, these comments were posted almost three months ago, and are still up...in a thread created by Olbermann no less.
Did he enter this thread and chastise those making such remarks?
Not that I can see.
Did he contact Markos Moulitsas and complain about this behavior?
Well, if he did, the comments are still available.
Did he make Moulitsas the "Worst Person in the World" for allowing such commentary at his website?
Of course not.
Has he boycotted the site as a result?
Nope, he's written three diaries since.
Bookmarked!
Great thread, perfect timing.
The answer is yes it’s worse.
Everybody is? I think I’m not seeing your sarc tag.
Especially if it is against those uppity Negros./s
I once used the dreaded N-word on here and was booted off FR so fast I didn't know what hit me. But since then I rejoined with a new screen name and have used derogatory slang names for Mexicans, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Polish, Italians, Germans, English, and Irish all without so much as a complaint. And I am part German, English, and even a bit Polish, for what it is worth. Apparently this site and society in general believes Black people must be protected due to some weakness other races do not correspondingly have. Does anybody know of a single word you could use to signify White people that would get you kicked off of FR? Cracker, Honkey, Typical Whitey, Paleface, Yankee? Honestly as a White guy there is just nothing you can call me that is going to make me feel bad about being White.(sorry liberals)
And why is it that it is OK for Blacks to use the N-word but not others? When I posted the N-word somebody else posted that "I had better be Black", as if that makes a difference on an HTML forum. Why? Because if I'm White I'm not allowed to be an ass if I want, but if I'm Black I can say "racist" things with impunity?
The more the thought police tell me that Blacks deserve extra respect that other races aren't afforded, the more I naturally begin to resent their race as a generality. Sorry that is just the way it works. If you want them to be thought of equally don't demand extra protections, Especially form those of us who's ancestors never approved of slavery and died fighting to stop it. If anybody owes anybody (which I don't believe) Blacks owe me reparations because ancestors of mine in generations past died to free them from folks of no possible relation to me. I can't help it I'm White any more than anybody else besides Michael Jackson got to pick or change their race. When society implies that I'm guilty because of Black slavery it is insane. Meanwhile I'm one of a very few people who actually give a crap that we have outsourced our slavery to China. And when we buy Chinese products we are supporting the enslavement of over a billion Asians who are forced to have abortions if they already have a child so that they can focus their lives on their work in the dangerous sweatshops and not on family. It is slavery and genocide at the same time and we enrich their communist captors with every Chinese product we buy. Not to mention it is bad for our trade imbalance. Why so much concern for what happened to Blacks generations ago and what happened to Jews in WWII and what happened to muslims during the crusades, While nobody does a damn to stop importers from making a fortune off of the slavery that is going on in China and other places. As long as the slave lords aren't White and the Slaves don't live in the USA then there is currently no politically correct reason to oppose the slavery I gather.
I defy society! and say "If you do not now actively oppose the enslavement of the Chinese people you've got no F***ing business bitching about anybody who was enslaved in the past. Put up or shut up! Why was Black slavery so wrong while Chinese slavery is every bargain shoppers dream? While Blacks were being enslaved in the US my Anabaptist ancestors were being rounded up in Europe by Catholics and drowned and burned at the stake in public exhibitions. Shit happens! You move on. You don't see me begging at the Catholic church for reparations money. All we are able to do is stop the wrongs of our own time. And I see very little effort in society to address the slavery going on in China and other places, while you can be globally condemned for speaking poorly of the descendants of slaves no matter how poorly some of them behave. If I didn't vote for the socialist then I must be a racist. I'm tired of being guilted by association for black slavery of the past while almost nobody actually cares to join me in my effort to stop the slavery of the present day by making a conscious effort to refuse to by products from tyrannies like China that enslave and abuse their people for the profit of the state. You can call me a racist for having used the N-word, but at least I actually give a damn about the complete oppression of other races that is currently going on and could actually be affected, while others busy themselves with trying to force a guilt upon me for something I had no part of in the past.
My lib-dem Obama-voting mother watches Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Olbermann.
And it’s been 2,433 days since Olbermann declared “My schizophrenia has been vanquished!” :-)
“Is making a racist remark worse than wishing someone dead?”
Yes, because Liberals/Progressives are never wrong in wishing conservatives dead. Progressives are the mainstream, they are brilliant, they know everything, they are all wise, are without the burden of sin, are perfect, god-like, higher than non-Liberals on the evolutionary scale and always right. There can never, ever be any possiblity that Liberals/Progressives are in any way mistaken because they are absolutely brilliant, smart, all-knowing and intellectually advanced.
/S/
EE not only intervened when this happened she never posted again at DU which is one of the smartest moves she’s ever made.
I do browse Kos and DU from time to time and much worse has been stated many, many times. No one in the media is the least bit interested in pointing out the ‘haters’ on the left.
Or...a white male dominating the Supreme Court, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, LOL! :-)
Funny thing is there are other slurs for Blacks, but the N-word is the worst of the worst. Everyone was enslaved at some point in history. I am Korean and they too were enslaved by the Japanese before and during World War II. Blacks were involved in the slave trade and owned slaves. You should read Oladuah Equiano’s autobiography. Great book.
“At the White House, we Love MSNBC”
May 4, 2009.
Socialized and accepted hypocrisy of the Left.
Where was the outrage when Obama’s own website flagrantly displayed “Sarah Palin is a Cun%” last October?!
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/275472.php
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights do make a left! Ewwwh
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