Category Archives: Racism

Updated: A Windy Carter 'Breaks News' On 'Countdown'

Barack Obama, Journalism, Media, Political Correctness, Propaganda, Psychology & Pop-Psychology, Race, Racism, Reason

Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed that news media could stoop so low. With his most solemn, commissar-like countenance, thought-crime investigator Keith Olbermann broke news on his Countdown show: The intensity of the animosity toward Barack Obama is based on his being a black man. So said the feeble-minded Jimmy Carter. This, by Keith’s journalistic standards, meant that the libel was true.

Olbermann proceeded to “debate” the ad hominem with the off-putting, effeminate, left-liberal Markos Moulitsas (It’s hard to believe that he served in the armed forces and has fathered children), and before him with Lawrence O’Donnell.

Such speculation amounts to psychologizing—impugning a disputant based on assumptions about his motives, instead of arguing the case based on facts and reason. Even worse: this breaking-news balderdash rested on an argument from authority. A shameless O’Donnell asserted in all seriousness that because Carter had said so, and because Carter was from the South, he ought to know. Therefore, Joe Wilson and Southern Americans must be taken to the proverbial woodshed, i. e., subjected to reeducation in the form of endless discussion about race, conducted by the familiar race hucksters.

Middle America had better stand and fight this one to the end.

Update (Sept. 17): At the time Obama ascended to the throne his approval ratings ran to 70 percent. Are we to believe this senile git Carter that between March and September of 2009 Americans developed a bad case of racism?

What? No Mention Of ‘Racism’?

Israel, Journalism, Judaism & Jews, Multiculturalism, Private Property, Race, Racism

By American standards this is a remarkable—and remarkably alien—news item from Ha’arets, the Israeli leftist, if excellent, daily. The reporting is unusual in its avoidance of biased epithets such as “racist, racism, bigotry,” etc. Just the facts, Ma’am.

Here’s the gist: Three of the nominally private, religious schools in the city of Petah Tikva refused to accept Ethiopian students “assigned to them by the municipality unless they [could] first determine if the children suit the schools’ character.”

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar said Monday that students of Ethiopian origin could not be accepted into religious schools in Petah Tikva because of “halakhic reasons,” referring to proof of the immigrants’ Jewish status.

Sa’ar met with Amar on Sunday night and requested that he check the possibility that the Ethiopian students still not enrolled in schools be sent to secular state-funded institutions.

The laws of orthodox Judaism are exclusionary, and Ha’aretz makes that clear.

It remained for the authorities at the respective education departments to shout “racism.” As did President Shimon Peres and Nobel Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu (my father’s former friend, with whom I too took afternoon tea), who hails from the most violent country in the world: South Africa.

Against their propagandist, sanctimonious admonitions, Ha’artz manages to chronicle the events sans pejoratives. Imagine MSNBC living up to those journalistic standards, or “Pravda on the Hudson” (NYT) doing the same.

The “private” schools may wish to cease taking taxpayer funds if they want to keep their independence.

What? No Mention Of 'Racism'?

Israel, Journalism, Judaism & Jews, Multiculturalism, Private Property, Race, Racism

By American standards this is a remarkable—and remarkably alien—news item from Ha’arets, the Israeli leftist, if excellent, daily. The reporting is unusual in its avoidance of biased epithets such as “racist, racism, bigotry,” etc. Just the facts, Ma’am.

Here’s the gist: Three of the nominally private, religious schools in the city of Petah Tikva refused to accept Ethiopian students “assigned to them by the municipality unless they [could] first determine if the children suit the schools’ character.”

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar said Monday that students of Ethiopian origin could not be accepted into religious schools in Petah Tikva because of “halakhic reasons,” referring to proof of the immigrants’ Jewish status.

Sa’ar met with Amar on Sunday night and requested that he check the possibility that the Ethiopian students still not enrolled in schools be sent to secular state-funded institutions.

The laws of orthodox Judaism are exclusionary, and Ha’aretz makes that clear.

It remained for the authorities at the respective education departments to shout “racism.” As did President Shimon Peres and Nobel Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu (my father’s former friend, with whom I too took afternoon tea), who hails from the most violent country in the world: South Africa.

Against their propagandist, sanctimonious admonitions, Ha’artz manages to chronicle the events sans pejoratives. Imagine MSNBC living up to those journalistic standards, or “Pravda on the Hudson” (NYT) doing the same.

The “private” schools may wish to cease taking taxpayer funds if they want to keep their independence.

Updated: Class Act

Barack Obama, Education, Race, Racism

“It was a goodly slice of humble pie the president ate there, but it was a class act. To ask more would be churlish”: The intellectually honest Pat Buchanan on the manner in which “Obama [had] picked up the phone, called Crowley, regretted his choice of words about him and the Cambridge P.D., walked into the press room and told the nation Crowley was a ‘good guy,’ he himself had misspoken, that he and the sergeant had talked about getting together for a beer.”

“…if Obama’s racial reflexes served him badly Wednesday night, his political instincts served him well him on Friday. For he must have sensed that this confrontation was shaping up as three powerful black men coming down hard on a white cop with a stellar record who had only done his conscientious duty. …

The president’s decision to go before the White House press corps also suggests Obama is acutely aware of the political peril here.

For while his black support is rock solid, his white support is soft. And Americans will usually side with an Irish cop over a Harvard don, especially when the professor is pulling rank and the cop is right.

“‘This isn’t about me,’ says Gates. Sorry, professor, it is about you. You have shown the country why William F. Buckley won laughter all over America when he wittily observed that, rather than be governed by the Harvard faculty, he would prefer to be governed by the first 300 names in the Cambridge telephone directory.”

Update (July 31): Understand distinctions, please. To point out that the manner in which Obama handled his error was classy is not to support the man and his wicked ideology, or the visceral, revealing, racist reaction from which he backed down. Pat’s intellectual honesty, which, I hope I exhibit regularly too, is to commend the president on being diplomatic, backing down and, yes: humbling himself. Think objectively you GOPers out there: Bush, a rude impudent bastard, would never have mustered the good manners and humility to do as Obama has done.
That Obama operates from Gates’ mindset is so obvious. I’ve written enough on his racism, prior to his election, while Bill O’Reilly et al. never so much as touched the topic. But to say that Obama’s mama taught him better manners than did Bush’s mom is true too.