Media Matters Race-Bating Exposed
Pardon me for loving every opportunity to point out Media Matters (where the keys spelling “mislead” are mostly worn out) misleading… again.
Responding to Media Matters item, Quinn defended comparison of welfare recipients to slaves
Summary: On The War Room, Jim Quinn addressed his prior comments comparing “slave[s] in the old South” to welfare recipients today. Quinn said: “Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There’s the servitude that you can be forced into, and there’s the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding — naturally, that was my point.” He later added: “When you think about it, the slave had more personal nobility than the welfare recipient, because he or she had no say in their station in life. The welfare recipient actually volunteers for it. It is the liberal plantation.”
One little problem.
You have to read half way down the piece to see that Mr. Quinn was also quoting Frances Rice, Chair of the National Black Republican Association, who made the point in the first place. Media Matters went out of their way to make Quinn sound like a racist, and even if he wasn’t quoting Lt. Col. Rice, would he have been kinda spot on?
I say Media Matters intentionally misled readers. Check out the response from the admin of African American Opinion…
Right-wing hate talk radio at it’s finest, folks. Soon, they’ll be preaching to President Obama and any others to put us back in chains. Just wait, I almost guarantee it.
This is why we need the Fairness Doctrine restored, or at least better FCC management over radio talk shows.
Expect things to stay ugly over the next 4 years as most Americans come to see Obama as a president while the rest of Americans don the “white sheets” or go Timothy McVeigh up in here.
That was precisely the response Media Matters wanted, that’s the response Media Matters got, and it’s a shame AAO fell for it. We’ll never know how many more people did.
Media Matters. Race-baiting pigs.
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 am
It’s called Filing the serial numbers off a quote.
Happens to Rush all the time. He quotes a racist to dissect him, and the “Rush Watch” sites mis-attribute the quote to him. The “Barack the Magic Negro” song was a perfect example.