Posted on 10/19/2009 5:41:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
On HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" Friday night, host Bill Maher posed a simple question to his panel (which included Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, actor Alec Baldwin and MSNBC's Chris Matthews): "Is Rush Limbaugh a racist?"
"I think you need to always distinguish the rank and file of the Republican Party and conservatives and voters from their media representation and media stars and I believe that the people who are in the media and prominent in the media in the conservative community, speaking on behalf of the Republican Party, have a very clear racist stripe through their commentary, consistently. Not just Limbaugh but all of those people. But I don't think that their rank and file Republicans are like that," Baldwin said.
O'Malley declined to call Limbaugh a racist but said, "He certainly says lots of insensitive things."
Matthews said: "You wanna know what he does that's different than other people? Because ever since sports opened up in the early 1950s, when baseball opened up to [Jackie] Robinson and even the NBA opened up and all the sports opened up to race and African-American athletes began to deal really well in sports — dominate in some cases — we've sort of made a decision not to talk about race in sports. You don't talk about it. ... You don't talk about ethnicity. You don't say he's black or white. It's sort of a deal we have. We don't talk about it. We judge people by performance, by batting averages, by touchdowns.
When he started talking about the Crips and the Bloods, when he started talking about Donovan McNabb the way he did, he just broke that rule now I'm not saying he's racist, but he broke the rule we've sort of established, which is don't talk about a guy's race when talking about sports. Just drop that part of it. I think that's what he did."
Let me guess, Alec.
You think they should be taken out and stoned to death, right?
HMMMM...Chris Matthews on a panel with Bill Maher talking about conservatives being racist... HMMMM...White House boasts: We ‘control’ news media....HMMMM....comments by Anita Dunn about Fox not being a real news network....HMMMM....I’m starting to connect some dots here....HMMM.....Maybe I should have been nervous when Barry made his acceptance speech in front of a fake Parthenon
Success on the field IS judged by stats, period.
How are McNabs stats by the way Matthews, you sniveling imbecile
Alec (Alexander) is up to something... he’s being very PC for State Run media...feeding them what they want. I’m not sure where I picked it up - but isn’t he thinking about running against Lieberman in 2012?
Anyone?
Didn’t Alec flip from DemocRat to Indie a while back. Has he flipped again to Republican? If not, why would he be speaking on behalf of the Republican Party?
Alec Baldwin = Flipper?
LOL.
Great find!!! Can you send this to Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.?
Great find!!! Can you send this to Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.?
Great find!!! Can you send this to Rush, Hannity, O’Reilly, etc.?
Why is Politico quoting Alec Baldwin - other than Politico likes to serve as an amplifier for goofy Democratic performers?
Go beat up some women, Alec.
Matthews sounds like an idiot who says “ I don’t notice color”...lol Gee how to marginalize someone - you don’t notice hair or a smile or a light or dark skin tone? How stupid are you then? lol Noticing that someone is black or white doesn’t mean you are a racist, pretending to ignore it does.
Alec’s brain is the size of a pea.
“but he broke the rule we’ve sort of established,”
Yeah, he referred to McNabb as a black quarterback. If he had simply said, “McNabb is not such a great quarterback”, he would have been all right.
“Insensitive things”......filthy little pig guy who so called his daughter, alledges of Mr. Limbaugh.
"Psychological projection (or projection bias) is the unconscious act of denial of a person's own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are ascribed to the outside world, like the weather, the government, a tool or another person or people."
Who the hell is Alec Baldwin?
Oh yeah, he’s that guy who made a couple of movies two or three decades ago. Isn’t he now a huckster for internet rerun services, as well as a failed talk-show host?
Oh good. He got the DNC memo. I was worried there for a minute.
I don’t know...but racism and oppression are everywhere!
Practically all libs are “racialists.” That means they see everything in terms of color. Even Al Gore and Bill Bradley said EVERYTHING is predicated on race. They’re the ones who fan the flames of the racial fires. According to the racialists, what you watched on tv last night, what music you listened to, or what car you drive is based on race. If you think I’m making this up or exaggerating, look up racialism on the internet. These people are obsessed with race.
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