Posted on 04/24/2011 9:31:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Cokie Roberts: People Call Obama Muslim Because They Can't Say 'I Don't Like Him Cause He's Black' By Noel Sheppard Created 04/24/2011 - 12:06pm
By Noel Sheppard | April 24, 2011 | 12:06 Noel Sheppard's picture
ABC devoted its entire "This Week" on Easter Sunday to "God and Government," and not surprisingly the question of President Obama's faith prominently entered the discussion.
When it did, Cokie Roberts said, "The bad part about this is that it's acceptable to say that he's a Muslim because the same people won't say, 'I don't like him cause he's black'" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
STEVE ROBERTS: The word Muslim is a code word, and it's a metaphor. It's a metaphor for racism. It's a metaphor for he's different from us, he's not like us, he's got this funny name, which he says all the time. And it is - and he's an alien on some level. But this goes back to our earlier discussion, that there has always been a strain of America that wants to exclude the other. Exclude someone who's different...
(CROSSTALK)
COKIE ROBERTS: But - but - but the bad part about this...
(CROSSTALK)
ROBERTS, S.: But in the long run, the forces of...
(CROSSTALK)
ROBERTS, C.: Right. But - but...
(CROSSTALK)
RICHARD LAND, SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION: Forty seven percent of white people voted for him.
Actually, it's 43 percent, but still a spectacular point by Land that most on the panel missed and most in the country ignore. They also forget that shortly after his inauguration, Obama's favorability rating was around 75 percent. That includes a lot of white people as well.
What the media just can't get their hands around is that disapproval of Obama today isn't because he's black - it's because of his policies. Or do the 70 percent of the country that now believe the nation is on the wrong track also feel this way because the President is black?
ROBERTS, C.: But - but the bad part about this is that he - that - that it's acceptable to say that he's a Muslim...
EBOO PATEL, INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE: That's right.
ROBERTS, C.: ...because the same people won't - won't say, "I don't like him cause he's black." So it's - it's - and - and the fact that it's acceptable to dislike him because he's a Muslim is the problem that you were talking about.
Calling Americans racist, despite there being an African-American in the White House, is acceptable on Easter Sunday.
I doubt I'm the only one that felt this was highly inappropriate on such a holy day.
Oh brother!!! He’s half white and I don’t like either half. Got absolutely nothing to do with his color. Also, if he’s a Christian, then I’m an alien.
He’s a Fool, that’s it. It’s not about Black. Obambi isn’t Black. Myself, I am interested in a truly Black American Iraq War hero LTC for President.
I wait for the day one of those racist beat-downs on whitey gets next to me. I will blast their ass into the sub-ether.
I wish Cokie would move to Saudi so I would whip her ass if I saw her uncovered.
Actually, if she looked in the mirror she would be seeing a real racist.
Sad but funny...Oh My
Yep, still detest him.
Cokie is the racist. She hates whites.
I don't like Obama because he is a socialist/communist with ties to the mob. He hates America, and onlt does the "crotch salute".
I am very fond of Allen West, Alan Keys, and Herman Cain. They are black.
Our disgust with Obama has noting whatsoever to do with the color of his skin. It is entirely a matter of politics and Constitutional eligibility.
Kookie is crazy. She is calling anyone not liking Obama a racist. Well, turnabout is fair play: All liberals that do not like Bush are simply saying, “I Don’t Like Him Cause He’s White”.
You and me both! Grrrrrrrr.......
She’s talking to her audience. The only people who watch her drank the Koolaide long ago and they actually bob their heads up and down whenever anyone says what she is saying...Anyone with half an ounce of brains saw through her BS ages ago and doesn’t even watch her drivel. I predict that as the election draws nearer, the lib media will step on each other to try to out do each other in the “conservatives are racists” department - it just gins up their dwindling audiences.
Kookie is the same liberal idiot that called Hawaii a “foreign place”.
He is a Muslim until he proves otherwise. So let’s see the goods as to who he really is.
So, Cokie, if he was a white southernor with the same far left policies, conservatives would like him? Or are you saying conservatives should like him because he is black despite his socialist ways? Cokie, you race mongering slut!
Who cares anymore I was called a racist because I had a McCain/Palin during the last election. Now if 97% of Whites had voted McCain/Palin they might have been on to something!
Now if anyone tells me that I am going to say I vote like you do I vote by race.
He’s a muzzie by his actions. Period. Nothing else to say.
The only reason leftist retards like Roberts are on TV is because they will say the things the networks want them to say.
All propaganda all the time.
Said differently - we live in a world in which Joy Behar has TWO TV shows. She is a weak minded pig - but keeps on message - so - she gets the air time.
...he’s probably more Muslim than he is black, Coke-ee.
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