Smartest Nerd in the Room: Why Melissa Harris-Perry is America's foremost public intellectual...

The Atlantic ^ | January 6, 2014 | Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor

[GeronL]

hang on, this wasn’t satire?

[Axenolith]

I know, if she’s what defines “intellectual” among the left, the idiots must need to have respiration machines attached to themselves...

[Captainpaintball]

Sirley Sherrod IS a racist! the full video shows this: She be in da bidness of redistributing wealth to "her people". When a white guy comes to her, she initially says "no", but then realizes he can be used as an example of marxist "ends justify the means" redistribution. So her pride "takes one for the team" and she gives taxpayer money to a white man (who probably really did qualify for it) for the cause. THAT is the lesson she was trying to preach to her audience.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

She is a professor of something, somewhere, about something - maybe feminine studies, transgender studies, etc.

What a fake!

So is Coates.

Both represent what is wrong with both academia and journalism today. Racist toadies and commentators on useless racist garbage. So old school. So sad.

[Sherman Logan]

One week we find Sarah Palin defending a man who thought my father was better off living under state-sponsored terrorism.

Is this some sort of response to Phil's discussion of what he'd seen growing up with blacks?

Seems a little hyperbolic. AFAIK Phil never said blacks weren't oppressed, only that as a child he'd not seen it. Kind of the way Bill Clinton saw black churches burning on every corner when he was growing up.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

One of Ben Coates kids? Any relation to the Auburn wide receiver?

[Steely Tom]

Low-Information Intellectuals.

[Madame Dufarge]

Journolist alumnus.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, she MUST be an intellectual. She’s a professor.

[cincinnati65]

Just because you sit in a room, making stuff up, and spewing out whatever enters your pea-brain, does not make you an ‘intellectual’.

[VeniVidiVici]

We are into the sixth year of the era of a black president. In that time the conservative movement has gorged on a steady diet of watermelon jokes, waffle jokes, affirmative-action jokes, monkey jokes....

Monkey jokes? I've missed monkey jokes?

[machogirl]

lol, someone had to say it.

[techcor]

waffle jokes

When did waffles become racist?

[Syncro]

monkey jokes....

Now that is the joke.

Monkey jokes abounded about GW Bush, a lot more than any about Obama.

Romney went on TV Sunday to exonerate this vile leftist/racist "news" show host.

Why was he so easy on her?

Because she is a Mormon.

Mormons cannot say anything bad about fellow Mormons and in fact must lie to protect them if necessary.

This woman hasn't changed, she still resents that anyone white would want a child of any color or race, especially black like her. Or 1/2 black like Obama probably. What a vile creature, I have watched her show before.

Oh and the LDS has not changed their writings OR beliefs that blacks are inferior.