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.
Agree; and this is so tiresome - and such lazy thinking - as to be painful. Only Liberals waste time making lemons; from lemonade. The truth may hurt; but it seems to kill Liberals; hence their need to destroy it first - and always.
What a phony ‘has been’ Cokie Roberts is.
Memo to CoKie: He’s not black he’s a Muslim.
I say “Cokie is mistaken” as I can’t say “Cokie is a whore.” The lady doth project too much and it comes out slander.
I don't like Obama because he's a muslim, and because he's an A*hole and a communist.
Name names b!tch! I’m sure you know someone who has said to you “I call him a muslim because I don’t like blacks”.
I wish someone would just say “just how do you know that” and demand proof of what these liberals say.
Yes her cook is black...
and her upstairs maid is black...
Plus her gardener is an illegal alien from Mexico...
Ses how interracial she is ???
She “sees them every day”
and she has an alter to Muhammad’s god Allah complete with unread koran...
and a slimely tree for the god of animism...
and a grotto to the blue one armed pixie god just in case he might be offended...
Cant ignore any religion...
wouldnt be American...
(But she doesnt own a Christian Bible
That would suggest she might be racist)
He doesn’t have a funny name.
He has a Muslim name.
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Yeppers she was the one who said it was funny
Actually he started out with a plain old American name Barry Dunham
Then he was adopted and it changed to Barry Soetoro
Just when he picked up the “Barak Obama” only he knows
that was not his name at school..
So the name Barry Dunham is not funny or strange
Just its owner...
I guess she’s enough of an idiot not to know that Barry hates her because she’s white.
I, on the other hand, only hate her because she is a leftard.
Ya know for these people to object so strongly to anyone being called a Moslem
They must think there must be something wrong with being a Moslem...
“I call Cokie Cookie because I can’t say she reminds me of a starved bull frog.”
With piles.
If Cokie Roberts had two brain cells, how much would it cost to persuade them to bang together just so we could say we saw it happen?
Unintended consequences...
Cokie’s wrong - people CAN say “I don’t like him cause he’s black”, if they want to.
She seems to forget the whole freedom of speech thing.
The reason people DON’T say “ I don’t like him cause he’s black” is because they don’t like him because he’s an incompetent bufoon.
Why does she deny that he was raised as a muslim by 2 fathers and an agnostic mother? He attended koranic studies classes and says he came to Christ as an adult (via the former muslim Jeremiah Wright).
Cokie Roberts is still breathing?
I don’t like him because he’s a socialist.
“I don’t like Cokie Roberts - not because she is a woman, but because she is STUPID.” That does it for me!
“I am getting more than a little tired of these lefty witches calling me a racist because I dont like communists muslim terrorist suporters...”
Black ones or white ones either. Run kerry against Alan West and see who wins.
And I don't care for Cokie, because she's..... Cokie Roberts. It has nothing at all to do with her gender. Laura Ingraham is much more to my liking, and she happens to be female.
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