Posted on 07/11/2002 8:31:21 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
A conspiracy of white media organizations has encouraged President Bush to ignore minorities and their concerns, including the fact that black Americans were disenfranchised in Florida during the 2000 presidential election, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, charged Thursday night.
"It's there to encourage Mr. Bush in his virtual ignoring of the needs of minorities in this country," Johnson told Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor." "And most especially in that state where he came from," she added.
Johnson leveled the white media conspiracy allegation while charging that Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft had deprived Americans of their rights in a wholesale fashion:
O'REILLY: What rights have I lost - or have you lost?
JOHNSON: You probably have not lost any because you're a white male. But minorities have lost a great deal. And they're taking ...
O'REILLY: Like what?
JOHNSON: Well, we didn't even have the right to have our votes counted the last time in Florida and all over the country. We have a president who was selected ...
O'REILLY: But all the press organizations who went down there say that's not true. You know, the independent press organizations like the Miami Herald, USA Today, those - they went down there and said, "Hey, there is no ..."
JOHNSON: How many of those were represented by minorities?
O'REILLY: I don't know of any black papers that went down. But do you think there's a conspiracy in the white press to suppress the black vote?
JOHNSON: Oh, indeed, yes. Not to suppress the vote. But it's there to encourage Mr. Bush in his virtual ignoring of the needs of minorities in this country. And most especially in the state where he came from. (End of Excerpt)
Hopefully, it will work against her and her party.
Let her go on Carville's show. Nobody takes that seriously.
Carville's got a show? (I don't watch TV that often.) I can't believe anyone would actually give him a show. I think he might have fit in well on "Dukes of Hazzard", though.
I'm trying to keep an open mind... but has she read any newspapers lately?
It's the white liberal media privileges black people, or any minority, if they play angry as a role. Hence the creation of J. Jackson as the "leader" and now Farrakhan to some degree in this role. It's "hot" and confirm's white liberal guilt. A black politician talking about taxes or something is ignored and never sought out. Black politics, as framed in the white liberal media, is a construction of guilt, shame, and unstated distaste from liberals by which they select compliant subjects to fill out the pre-scripted drama. She's part of the play, not apart from it. In other words, she's part of the problem, and has no solutions, I would gather.
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I caught the interview and was actually ashamed that she sits in MY House of Representatives.
O'Reilly's response to her racist comment could have been, "You probably got elected in your district only because you're a black female."
Like her Sistuhs in Congress, she'll be consigned to the ashheap of history in due course. She should be scrubbing toilets in Houston.
Me too. It's frightening that this bozo has a vote on things that affect me.
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