Lou Dobbs and Glen Beck (no surprising) goes out on the far end and rushes to judgement declaring that a report that a group that formerly hired Obama as an attorney is saying a pray substituting God with Obama.
The group is named The Gamaliel Foundation and was videoed protesting against the lack of health care for all. They say a chant “Hear our cry OH GOD”. The site that first reported the protest (Breitbart.tv) was the first to insinuate that the group was chanting “Here our cry OBAMA” instead of “OH GOD”.
Immedietly, Dobbs and Beck jumps on this insinuation and makes the same insinuation during their radio shows, even going to the lengths of saying that the group IS saying OBAMA instead of God and then warning their listeners that this is what “we’re up against here”. “They are mocking god” says Beck, while Dobbs chimes “it exposes, again, very dangerous forces at work in this country, supporting our supreme leader.”
If you listen to the whole video of the march
you certainly hear them say “OH GOD”.
Actually, we know nothing is going to happen to Glen Beck. He works for Fox News. They are a fringe network. Have been from the start. False accusations made towards anyone who is not a right wing nut is what you expect from an employee of Fox News.
Dobbs is another case. CNN is essentially the creator of cable news. Though they have had a label of being a “liberal leaning” broadcast network, it’s important to note that that label is one that right wing nuts puts on ALL MEDIA (Except that which is owned by Rupert Murdoch and his cronies). They (CNN) do have some form of respectability with the non fringe masses.
I believe that such insinuations should be punished by firing the ones who make them. If the New York Times fired an employee for printing lies (Jayson Blair), shouldn’t the same happen to TV personalities who do the same? They are actually trying to insight a mob. They’re are laws against that in the public. They should also be enforced on the airwaves!
I for one will not watch CNN or read anything on CNN.com until it fires Lou Dobbs
For displaying WHY I DON’T LIKE SPORTS WRITERS! Your column on Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech underscores how giving guys such as yourself, who’ve surely never competed in a sport (when you were a kid or adult, in an organized environments or just with neighborhood friends) such a pedestal (such as an opinionated sports writer) is a very bad idea.
I didn’t see the speech until this morning. I had seen and read Adrian Wojnarowski ’s article on Jordan being a bully and how sad his speech was, and initially, I got scared that Jordan had tarnished his legacy with a galling speech. Then, the “regular brotha” in me kicked in. I regularly question a sports writer take on things. Especially when the issue is related to a black athlete and the writers a white guy who has no connection to the sport (does not have a history of playing the sport).
How do I know Adrian Wojnarowski does not have a connection to the sport of playing basketball (or ANY DAMN SPORT)? Just look at his article’s picture. Period. Enough said! He’s the Joe Buck, Bob Costas of yahoo sports writers. Guys whose opinions really have no damn merit, but so much power because some dumb ass owner hired them so that they could give the perspective of the geek/normal guy on sporting events.
Now I will prefis this rant with the admission that I am a Bulls fan. Thus, I am a great fan of Jordan the basketball player. Now Jordan the man…those who know me know I really don’t care much for THAT guy. But this (hall of fame speech) was not about Jordan the person. It was about Jordan the basketball player.
I’ll let my ADD kick in here and say that the same parallel could be made about people like Muhammad Ali, or Pete Rose, even Lance Armstrong among others.
When I watch sports, I ( I don’t know about you) identify with athletes who seem to have this fire in them. Not fake fire, or anger or cockiness. I’m talking about that fire. The type that is fueled by well meaning people who place obstacles in front of you and also jerks who place obstacles in front of you. This issue parallels my life. I have had many of these types of experiences. They (these types of people…especially the jerks!) motivated me to overcome just about every obstacle that has ever been placed in front of me.
Michael Jordan’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech was about the logs that was placed on top of the competitive fire that is still, to this day, inside of him. Period. I think if one looses perspective of this, and let their own shortcomings cloud their judgment, they are sure to come away with the perspective that Adrian Wojnarowski did.
I believe that people like Adrian Wojnarowski is more Jerry Krause then like athletes. This is the problem with sports writers like him, Bob Costas, Mike Greenburg and Joe Buck. They are the Dan Snyders of sports journalism. They have power to sway things that they have NO experience in.
The movie was such a representative of what divides us (whites and blacks). . The entire time I watched the movie, I sat there wringing in disgust.
The ship just by chance settles over Johannesburg South Africa.
The international community decides that it’s perfectly OK to house aliens from another planet smack dab in the middle of a highly populated African Community.
Ask yourself this…if the damn ship decided to hover over New York City, would the decision to house the aliens inside NEW YORK CITY be made? Hell no. Those aliens would have been housed outside of the US let alone New York City.
The native Africans were made to look like savages. There was no distinquishing between their behavior and the aliens who lived in the tent city.
The director played the “Africans will eat you or aliens stereotype” card throughout the movie.
He inferred that African prostitutes (women) had sex with the aliens!
The lead rogue African leader within the tent city area was obsessed with eating the aliens and the hand of the white guy who was turning into an alien as an act of witch doctor type of medical care and to settle his hunger for power (pun intended)!
I’m serious.
The reason I like the GEICO Caveman commercials is because I have had their exact astonishment/look of being offended reaction to various racist actions exhibited by whites either towards me or my children in the school system. This movie caused the same reaction in me!
The crowd (overwhelmingly white) CHEERED the damn movie when it ended! I was pissed!
I will not watch another Peter Jackson produced movie!
IF Carano beats Chris Cyborg Santos, it’s a fix! Cyborg should KILL Santos. Looking at videos of their previous fights, Santos doesn’t even need to be in the ring with Cyborg. Cyborg is an aggressive, skilled battle machine.
Carano fights lesser opponents that make her look better then what she is.
If it gets on the ground, It’s going to get real ugly for Carano real fast! Her only hope is to catch Cyborg with a lucky punch.
Having gone to West Side, I always noticed how our school played second fiddle to Roosevelt in the minds of the elders in my neighborhood as well as the sports writers. I understood history was on their side.
As I understand it, Roosevelt was the place where black kids attended high school during the segregated times of the city…before white flight. Though all Gary High Schools were all black during my time, Roosevelt always seem to get the attention AND ALL THE CALLS whenever they played West Side.
Didn’t matter to me. I was a proud Cougar. Could have gone to Horseman but had to follow in the foot steps of my bro and sis as well as several other close neighbors and attend the best school in G.I., West Side! I went to ALL the games before I got to West Side because my bro and sis went there, and of course I went to all of them when I got to high school. I was and still very passionate about my Cougars.
I remember how Winston Garland used to stick it to the Side when he played at Velt. I remember it all too well. I guess El Dubb alumni can understand when I say OH HELL NO to a Velt Alumni coaching West Side. They’ve had to go through it with Notty.
I think the people on that school board are F’d up. They are botching the coaching hiring of football and now they choose the enemy to coach West Side! That’s like the Bulls signing John Starks… just makes no sense.
I’m sure he’ll be a great coach. But couldn’t they have found someone with Cougar blood! Hell I’ll take ole Ike back before I’ll take this. I now understand what John Boyd was talking about when he left the Side for MC. He mentioned how he could get NO RESPECT, being one of three coaches in Gary history to win the state championship ( the other two- Mallard and Heflin- coached at that scrub school Velt). I mean, Boyd was an alumni of West Side! HE WON THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. WHILE COACHING IN GARY! He went there, taught there, ran his mouth there ( I went to school with him and boy could he do this!). AND he was a hell of a coach there. now I know why. The people on the Gary school boards are Panther Homers.
I would take Omar (Wirt’s old Coach) over a Velt alum. Wirt was chumps anyway. The rivalry between West Side and Roosevelt will just not be as good with Garland at coach.
HE’S GOING TO CHEAT FOR VELT. When the games on the line, he’ll pull his best player or something like that!
JUST KIDDING. I’m not that much of a fanatic.
But I do think its a sad day in the history of Gary West Side high school basketball… But it could have been worse. We could have gotten Notty. Oh hell no!
This post serves as a check point and archive of the various racist events that I have witnessed during the Obama Administration which were directed towards Barack Obama. They speak for themselves…
7/25/09
This depiction of President Barack Obama emailed to other conservatives stating that Obama is an “African Witch Doctor” that will cause the quality of care in the country to worsen, caused it’s creator
to issue a statement that he would withdraw from public debate about a public health care plan.
The actual pic that was altered isn’t even that of an African Witch Doctor. It’s a Papua New Guinea tribesman…
The Mayor joked, “No Easter Egg Hunt this year.” Ha ha, because Muslims don’t celebrate Easter, right? (Sure, they celebrate Good Friday, but anyway ….)
The e-mail, which Ballarino forwarded on Jan. 4 to about 30 people, depicted a photo strip of a mock debate between Barack Obama and John McCain that was rife with racist jokes about black people, including comparisons of African American babies to excrement.
Of course, this is before the Harvard Professor Gates arrest in July 09.
9:30 p.m. Friday, October 9, 2009
This guy hangs a “Public Pool – Whites Only” sign underneath a photo of President Obama…in his restaurant
The current sign, which has been outside the Georgia Peach Museum and Restaurant for about six months, takes a critical stand against President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan. (By Alexis Stevens The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
The reason I’ve been a registered independent for the past 10 years is demonstrated by the actions of the so called “Blue Dog Democrats” with respects to health care reform.
I believed that Bill Clinton AND Hillary Clinton were “blue dog Democrats” all along. They were just smarter ones then those who are currently blocking health care reform. I mean, the State of North Carolina is dominated by the Democrat Party at the state level. I have found their political behavior to be akin to that of Republicans when it comes to corruption and bigotry here in the State of North Carolina.
Now Kay Hagan, MY SENATOR, is essentially identifying with the coalation of Democrats (Blue Dog Democrats) who are in opposition to a public health care plan?
!#&@*^%+ (WTF is Wrong with This Woman)
It’s a new day. With blogs and whatnot, Kay’s gotta learn that this type of behavior will surely see to it that she is a one term politician. The only way her sorry arse beat Elizabeth Dole is because those of US who voted for her sorry arse wanted someone in there who would be for change.
Instead, Hagan is the status quo! What’s the difference between Dole and Hagan so far? Nothing! Oh, and those rural voters who suffer the most with respects to receiving sub par health care, they got the internet now. They see your behavior.
If the Republicans can waste 1 trillion on a war that did not bring one benefit to the American people, then 1 trillion spent on Health care reform that benefits ALL American People is money that is better spent.
If Hagan was saying that she opposed the reform because it allowed illegals to benefit from the plan, then I’d understand. But this crap about it being too expensive. That what’s getting you in trouble.
How dare Republicans and these punk Democrats that allow their Republican Masters to pull their strings bring up cost issues. The People are well aware of the money they wasted on the War in Iraq the past 6 years. That’s why their on the ropes.
Spend MY MONEY/TAXES on something that I do support, health care reform. Not on funding the pockets of the Republicans constituents, the banking industry, the military industrial complex the health care industry and the Oil industry.
I think we need to take a look and what Glaxo and the Bayer’s out there are contributing to Kay Hagan. It looks like she might be in their pocket…
Michael Steele is trying to woo blacks into the GOP joking that he’d bring “fried chicken and potato salad to a GOP cookout for the recruitment of blacks while a gay black blogger would bring the “collard greens”.
This dude is a clown.
And how come every time I go into Bojangles here in NC, there are more whites in there eating “fried chicken” then any other customer?
She is the second coming of George W. Bush when it comes to properly representing Republican Ideology. Unlike someone like Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin is an easy smack down. Just let her have a press conference and watch her make no sense at all, Ala George Bush AND Bobby Jindal.
When it comes to Republicans, gender is no issue in the area of ineptness. The men are as inept as the women.
Even if things change by tomorrow, the verdict is in…the leaders of the Gary Indiana School system from top to bottom are inept.
Enough of th excuses. To not have the high school football coaches INTERVIEWED 3 weeks before the first games are played is unacceptable. Especially if the decision was made to actually interview basketball coaches before the football coaches. Plain and simple. This is a leadership issue. The haters are all out there (Crown Point, Hobart, Merriville, Valpo citizens alike) licking their chops. Your giving them the meat to feed there contempt of all things Gary with your lack of leadership on something that really should not be that difficult.
The real sad part about this is that it’s the kids that are being HURT by this more then anything else. If sports is an outlet, Gary’s youth need more of it, not less opportunity to participate in it. This is exactly what this has caused, a lessened opportunity for Gary youth to participate in something that will keep them out of streets! And lets face it, Gary high school football needs as much practice as it can get.
It’s bad enough this debacle has caused the loss of one of Gary’s prized coaches, John Boyd of West Side. It’ll be even worse when one of those potential West Side/Lew Wallace or Roosevelt students gets into some negative situations during times in which they’d normally be in practice.
Of course, this is before the Harvard Professor Gates arrest in July 09.
The current sign, which has been outside the Georgia Peach Museum and Restaurant for about six months, takes a critical stand against President 
