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The Five Hosts Agree That Morgan Freeman’s Comments About ‘Mixed-Race’ Obama Are ‘Race-Baiting’
Mediaite ^ | July 6, 2012 | Noah Rothman

Posted on 07/06/2012 5:32:20 PM PDT by Seizethecarp

On Friday, Fox News Channel’s hosts of The Five weighed in on comments made by actor Morgan Freeman who said that President Barack Obama cannot be considered America’s first black president because he is half-white. In a rare moment of agreement between co-hosts Bob Beckel and Greg Gutfeld, Beckel said that he thought Freeman’s comments were “unhelpful” and Gutfeld agreed that they were “race-baiting.”

After playing a clip of Freeman making those comments on National Public Radio, Beckel said “that’s true.”

“I’m not allowed to call him mulatto, right,” Beckel asked to which The Five hosts responded that he could not in near unison.

“My question is, now that Morgan Freeman says he is not, does that mean the 87 percent support amongst the black community erodes,” asked Bolling.

“Why are we even doing this,” asked Kimberly Guilfoyle. “It’s ridiculous and it’s demeaning. I find this to not be helpful. I don’t know why Morgan Freeman is doing this because he is being racially divisive.

This is race-baiting. I don’t like it at all.” Guilfoyle said that she encounters racial parsing herself as a person of Puerto Rican and Irish heritage.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: discrimination; obama
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To: RC2

“Senior” very definitely looks African. Obama, of course, does not look the least like him. Rather he resembles his white Grandfather.


21 posted on 07/06/2012 6:51:19 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: RC2
He is Arab, not African. That’s part of his lie.

He has an African grandfather which makes him:
1/2 Caucasian
3/8 Arab
1/8 African


100% INCOMPETENT

Regards,
GtG

22 posted on 07/06/2012 6:59:01 PM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Most boring show in the world.


23 posted on 07/06/2012 7:02:40 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Seizethecarp

Why does this a$$ garner attention or even have a job. After he woody allened his grand daughter one would think he would slink into the shadows.


24 posted on 07/06/2012 7:36:47 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Seizethecarp
Personally, I think Morgan Freeman is bailing on Obama and he's just saying this as a bit of self-justification.

Freeman has had some pretty interesting things to say in the past:

Morgan Freeman on Black History Month

25 posted on 07/06/2012 7:47:32 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Alberta's Child

I think you are correct. He is giving blacks a reason to bail.


26 posted on 07/06/2012 7:51:55 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: Vince Ferrer
He is building a psychological defense mechanism in case Obama is not re-elected. "Oh well, at least he wasn't black."

You might be right - or he's setting the stage for a new expanded guilt trip on white American that they have yet to elect a black President.

27 posted on 07/06/2012 7:52:26 PM PDT by GOPJ (Speak truth to lies - to ignorance. Speak honesty to corruption . Stand-up to liberal elite liars..)
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To: Seizethecarp

Morgan Freeman shows himself to be just another stupid racist. If America is so oppressive there is always that black run paradise known as Africa with 25 countries to choose from. I’m done with this idiot but have been avoiding his movies for years. His presence is a turn off. Last movie I saw with him was that cold fusion movie with Keeanu Reeves.....prolly 12 years ago


28 posted on 07/06/2012 7:56:18 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: RobbyS
Curious: does he look black or does he look white? Does he have some physical characteristis of both?

Exactly half-and-half. A very attractive individual, with a personality to match. Then again, I've always thought mulattoes get the best of both types.

29 posted on 07/06/2012 7:58:57 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: GOPJ

He knows Obama sucks. The latin vote has surpassed the black vote anyway. He is just making an excuse for a racist vote in the first place.


30 posted on 07/06/2012 8:01:24 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: Bernard Marx

LOVE those high heels of hers;)


31 posted on 07/06/2012 9:07:55 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: marron

Yes, yes, YES!!! He really has no ties whatsoever to the American black experience...his ancestors lived on the other side of Africa, something like 3,000 miles from where American blacks originated. (Unless, of course, his father is actually Frank Marshall Davis;)


32 posted on 07/06/2012 9:13:56 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Seizethecarp
Guilfoyle said that she encounters racial parsing herself as a person of Puerto Rican and Irish heritage.

What is "racial parsing"? Is that when people can't figure out your heritage by name or looks, and start asking you Twenty Questions so they can find an appropriate pigeonhole for you?

33 posted on 07/06/2012 9:23:56 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: Seizethecarp
"Morgan Freeman who said that President Barack Obama cannot be considered America’s first black president because he is half-white."

I am so disappointed in Morgan Freeman. He's one black actor that seemed to actually have some horse sense. Apparently, he was just acting.

34 posted on 07/06/2012 9:36:13 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: marron

Naw, I don’t watch anymore.

Beck could be quite the kook and I sometimes took him with a grain of salt, but he was INVALUABLE in teaching me George Soros’s tentacular reach, the Center for American Progress, Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, several of Obamas extreme communist czars, the TIDES foundation, ACORN, Jekyl Island.

The first I learned of any of these and much more, was on his show. He really did give a first class education digging into Obama’s sphere of influence and Soros’s top-down organizations.

Very valuable.


35 posted on 07/06/2012 10:01:42 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Yeah, what you said. Unfortunately.


36 posted on 07/07/2012 12:22:18 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Vince Ferrer
He is building a psychological defense mechanism in case Obama is not re-elected. "Oh well, at least he wasn't black."

Yep - even though Morgan is a race-baiting Obama's a$$-loving Lefty; they won't hesitate to eat him alive for speaking a little bit of truth that the guy's ethnicity is "polluted" (from which half is dependent on the beholder).

37 posted on 07/07/2012 3:43:28 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Truth in labeling, like “Pork and Beans” or “Beans and Pork”. “Juice” or “Drink”. “Opinions and News” or “News and Opinions”. We should be entitled to know these things. Like when I pick up a can, bottle or carton in a grocery store there should be no question of the product origin, date processed and where processed.
38 posted on 07/07/2012 8:28:58 AM PDT by Gertie
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To: Vince Ferrer

You are exactly right. Blacks went through the same exercise during the Democrat primaries when it seemed Hillary was the winner.

I work with a black guy with whom we can have honest discussions about race, and he tells me that many racial blacks have deep seated inferiority complexes. Since he is gay, that puts him on the outside of that circle, which I guess let’s him be a bit more objective.


39 posted on 07/07/2012 2:21:01 PM PDT by LA Conservative (Defeat the Demagogic Party)
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