Comments on: Is MSNBC’s Shuster A Racist?

By: dratster

dratster — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:22:41 +0000

–Relax and ignore the troll, if you can, fboiteau, it is just trying desperately to use Alinsky is all.

30 years of voting as a Republican and voicing a contrary view does NOT make me a troll. Never even heard of Alinsky, but have noticed that too many people have been using him as sort of “Mao-like or Marx-like” figure in the liberal/left playbook.

Sometimes it is hard to believe that the Left-Right conversation is between Americans as they both seem childishly inflexible with their views.

AS far as Teabagging – until all of the fuss this spring never knew there was an alternate definition. Pissed because now both sides have ruined the enjoyment of a good cup of tea!

My take is that this movement is going to go the way of the other 3rd party movements and at best disrupt either the Republicans or Democrats.. the former in 2012 and the latter in 2010… net sum, more gridlock…

By: n.n

n.n — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:43:48 +0000

Anyone who does not have a friend in all of the myriad of races, ethnicities, nationalities, etc. of this world is racist.

I would venture a guess that you are all racists. Every last one of you Homo sapiens. Especially the ones who emphasize groupings over the individual. Why the psychotic obsession with pigeonholing everyone?

There, it had to be said.

By: MissJean

MissJean — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:05:31 +0000

fboiteau, the term was first used by Anderson Cooper.

By: The Machine

The Machine — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:27:33 +0000

Relax and ignore the troll, if you can, fboiteau, it is just trying desperately to use Alinsky is all.

And it ain’t workin’…

By: fboiteau

fboiteau — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:39:02 +0000

Teabagging was not coined by anyone in the Tea Party movement.

I can’t recall who coined it but Jeneane Garofalo was certainly one of its first users, and certainly one of the loudest.

By: girzwald

girzwald — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:12:14 +0000

Im really sick of the left not giving me the benefit of the doubt that im NOT a racist. So I shall not afford them the same courtesy. The high road is over rated and ill wager saul alinsky is a big fan of other people “taking the high road”.

Hes on MSNBC? Racist.

By: Trishmac

Trishmac — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:24:56 +0000

I think that as long as these morons on MSNBC and other venues (Janeane comes to mind) continue to use the derogatory and gutter mouth (though becoming sophomoric in its over-usage) term to describe a whole range of people from grandmothers (like me) to 20 somethings, and from men women and children of all ages and ethnicities who attended Tea Parties and Townhalls in opposition of this current administrations policies (and of the prior in some cases) then yes, Bob should continue to post each and every one of them.

By: dratster

dratster — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:10:45 +0000

–And David, is there something in your head that associates black men with dicks?

…ah, they’re men…? Actually think the Dick Armey comment is pretty funny and far from being racist, if you “axe” me…:)

Bob, better question is, why are you so seemingly obsessed with “teabagging”? At least once a week you have some news story about somebody “slurring” somebody by using that term…

Didn’t the “Teapartyiers” first self-identify themselves with that term ( wish I was a fly on the wall when they learned the street definition…:)?

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:53:01 +0000

And David, is there something in your head that associates black men with dicks?

Maybe yes, maybe no. However, in *my* head is an association between David Shuster and the word “dick”.

Igor