Harry likes them as long as they’re “light-skinned” and have “no Hispanic dialect”…
Posted on 08/10/2010 8:08:46 PM PDT by roses of sharon
kathrynlopez
7 minutes ago RT @SharronAngle: RT @NRSC: VIDEO: Harry Reid - I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican. http://ow.ly/2nSrC #nvsen
BUMP!
Liberals say this about black Republicans all the time. My own brother once told me, “you’re voting against your own best interests.”
And they call people on the right, racists.
She has to. Someone worthy has to take charge of her campaign by summer’s end.
And at weaselzippers:Harry Reid: "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican."
John McCormack
August 10, 2010 11:26 PMWhile campaigning in Nevada Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told an audience of mostly Hispanic voters: "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay. Do I need to say more?" Watch the video here:
Harry Reid (D-oofus): “I Don’t Know How Anyone of Hispanic Heritage Could be a Republican”…
Harry likes them as long as they’re “light-skinned” and have “no Hispanic dialect”…
Don't forget Miguel Estrada -- whom Harry Reid and his cohort wouldn't even allow to come to a vote for a Circuit judgeship.
Just because he was a Latino. And a Republican.
His brain is even ‘deader’ than you can imagine. Listen to this! Had a republican said this, they would have been ridiculed out of office,
This American of Hispanic descent is a long-ago cured Democrat who recognizes Reid for the disgrace that he is. No sense trying to reason with this disgusting turd. I will be busy donating to Allan West’s campaign to be my next congressman, but I may have to send Angle a few bucks while I am at it.
I don’t know how anyone with more than half a brain could be a Democrat......
Remember Reid blocking Bush pick Miguel Estrada...2003
“Reid is said to be working hard to mount Democratic opposition to the Estrada nomination, particularly in Southern states with large Hispanic populations, including Florida”.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77667,00.html
Good to know I did have it right: light skinned negro, no dialect.
Damn, I hate racists and Harry is one with a capital R.
What an incredibly racist thing to say. And this is an elected official. Incredible intolerence.
A good friend in college taught me how to play chess....so we were always hanging out playing, and her friends would get mad because she was with a white girl so much.
It was sad for her, but she held her own and is doing great in life, thank God.
My dad came here legally from Mexico in 1945 and became a Republican in 1966 when Ronald Reagan ran against Pat Brown. My parents worked like dogs for years and years and realized the American dream. Dad thought that the Democrats were a bunch of Socialists who just wanted to get his money. He was right and this was in the sixties!
i don’t know how any real patriotic American can be a traitor bastard democratic.
What i cant wait for is the moment when the Dimwits claim victory over the latin population and then tell them all that they must leave their religion at the border......
I am of HISPANIC heritage and am deeply offended by this moron’s comments! I am going to post this on everything I own so the Hispanics in this Southern Colorado town see. This is a town full of Hispanic democrats. Let them see what there party thinks of them.
REID + PELOSI = DEATH TO THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE!
Harry Reid pulls out race card again, whacks himself in the head
By Michelle Malkin • August 11, 2010 12:27 AM
When Dingy Harry last opened his mouth to spout off about race, he was blabbing to left-leaning journalist/authors about Obama’s “light skin” and lack of a “Negro dialect.”
Masochistic minority Democrats rallied around Reid at a dog-and-pony rally, though at least one person spoke truth to power. Flashback:
“If he had any real black friends, they would tell him, ‘Hey, Harry, don’t say that kind of sh*t.’
Harry didn’t listen. His latest racially/ethnically divisive gaffe? Attacking Hispanic conservatives for straying off the liberal reservation. Via John McCormack at the Weekly Standard. Watch Reid sneer: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.”
Yes, God forbid a Hispanic small businesswoman with children exercise her free will to join the party that supports lower taxes, honors life, and respects the rule of law.
Reid’s odious comments remind me of Republican of Hispanic descent Rachel Campos Duffy’s excellent piece I cited last summer on the Left’s contempt for minority conservatives:
For conservative minorities, especially conservative minority women, Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination and the warnings from the left not to “bully” her are a reminder of the double standard with which we live out our social and political lives. The recognition that there are two separate rulebooks for minorities: one for liberals and one for conservatives. In the liberal rulebook, whites must be sensitive and considerate of a minority’s life story and the unique obstacles he or she faced and/or overcame. In the conservative rulebook, well, there really is no rulebook because there are no rules. It’s always open season on conservative minorities.
Where were the cries for respect and sensitivity to compelling personal stories when Clarence Thomas or Miguel Estrada were being skewered? Where were all of the glowing stories, Oprah appearances, and magazine covers for the always elegant, eloquent (did I mention fit?) ,Condoleezza Rice, America’s first female Black Secretary of State?
Last year, at the height of Palin bashing, Asian-American conservative Michelle Malkin said: “liberals have a tendency to infantilize, sexualize, demonize and dehumanize conservative women. It’s astounding how intolerant liberals are of jokes about liberal women, and yet they’ll say, or at least tolerate the most bawdy, degrading and patronizing things about conservative women.”
When conservative Linda Chavez accepted an invitation to speak at ASU, the race-based crowd turned out in full force. They protested, heckled, and held up signs that said “Ni Linda es la Chavez”. The demeaning signs and jeers Chavez graciously endured that evening at ASU was a warning for the young, conservative minority women in attendance – a harbinger of the double standard we would have to endure if we continued to speak up for what we believe. Fifteen years later, I refuse to be silenced by those who demand that my race should determine my views or political affiliation. I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I’m all American.
Take your ethnic plantation owner mentality, Harry, and shove it.
Posted in: Harry Reid,Race Hustlers
More from the article:MRC Study: After 'Negro' Comment, 71% of Network Coverage Supported Harry Reid
# Day One, Reid's In Trouble: ABC's and CBS's Saturday evening newscasts both carried short items on the quote from Reid (NBC's Nightly News was pre-empted). CBS anchor Jeff Glor called it "a controversial remark [that] is shaking the political world."
# Day Two: Sunday Morning Fodder: On ABC's Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos sounded like a Reid shill: "This was a private conversation....His choice of words, obviously, was unfortunate. The Senator knows that." Later on This Week, Stephanopoulos moderated a panel discussion in which PBS anchor Judy Woodruff relayed the White House line: "This is the Mormon from Searchlight [Nevada] with an ear of tin and a heart of gold." Of the show's five panelists, only conservative Liz Cheney condemned Reid, calling his remark "outrageous."
# Day Three: Rallying Around Reid: NBC's Andrea Mitchell was toughest Monday morning, calling Reid's remark "demeaning" of Obama. But NBC's Today also supplied a 100% pro-Reid panel: PBS host Gwen Ifill, who rejected any insult from Reid — "I don't understand what's demeaning" — and NBC analyst (and soon-to-be Senate candidate) Harold Ford, Jr.: "I don't believe in any way that Harry Reid had any animus, racial animus."
Ifill on Today also argued that "there's actual political science" supporting Reid's suggestion that lighter-skinned candidates face less prejudice. ABC's Jake Tapper made the same point on Monday's World News (later expanded on Tuesday's Nightline): "Many prominent African Americans we spoke to today were offended by Reid's words, but many also said his observation was correct."
On NBC's Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell dismissed the idea that Reid was comparable to Republican Trent Lott, forced out as Senate Leader for his own racial gaffe in 2002. "Reid was praising Obama, not longing for a pre-civil rights America," Mitchell insisted. "And while what Reid said was politically incorrect and clearly outdated, he wasn't inaccurate." To prove her point, Mitchell showed a soundbite from her boss, NBC Washington bureau chief Mark Whitaker: "Black politicians with a lighter skin have been more successful. It may not be a pleasant fact...[but] that's been the case historically."
# Day Four: Enough Already: On CBS's Early Show, co-host Harry Smith was itching to be done with the controversy: "Is the Reid story over, and should it be?" After GOP Senator John McCain swiped at Reid ("I didn't know those words were still in the American lexicon"), Today's Matt Lauer demanded to know if Reid had ever appeared to be "someone who is racially insensitive or worse." McCain said no.
The networks that quickly closed the books on Harry Reid's gaffe would be far rougher on any conservative who dared utter the same inflammatory phrases as the Senate's top Democrat.
—Rich Noyes is Research Director at the Media Research Center.
It's shameful the way the media slobber all over a sick old racist bigot such as Reid.An MRC analysis found that from Saturday to Tuesday the networks ran a combined 37 items on Reid's "Negro" remark, including interviews and panel discussions. Broadcast opinions were heavily skewed in Reid's favor: 71% of interview guests, soundbites or quoted sources were supportive of the Democrat, vs. 29% who were critical of Reid.
It's an excellent case study in how the liberal media aid in Democratic scandal control. Over four days, the networks morphed the story from one of an embarrassing racial gaffe by the Senate's top Democrat into one about Republican over-reach in going after Reid, with some journalists even crediting the Senator with keen insight on race relations
I pray so .. and I pray Steele, McCain
and all the RINOs leave her alone .. I
think they messed her up.
This man is repulsive.
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