rssOlbermann vs. the Tea Parties
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:15 am
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Michael Calderone recaps an amusing spat between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Mediaite.com, after the gossipy website ran an item about the Dallas Tea Party’s video knocking MSNBC for its all-white line-up of hosts. The headline is Olbermann’s criticism of Dan Abrams; the part that interests me is just how much attention the Dallas Tea Party — one of the more media-savvy local groups in the movement — got for a simple and apples-and-oranges video. I think the Atlantic’s John Hudson offered the strangest take on the video:
However often the left makes the charge, the right is quick to rebut that the Democratic leadership–let alone the MSNBC line-up–are hardly bastions of racial diversity.
In case you’ve forgotten, the Democratic Party is led by this guy. I don’t think it matters, but suggesting that the Tea Party movement is not, like the Republican Party, less racially diverse than America as a whole, should really not be controversial.
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3 Comments
Comment posted February 28, 2010 @ 5:55 pm
Oh, yes, I forgot. You mean the half-white, Kenyan/Indonesian/Arab-American, Barack/Barry Dunham/Obama/Soetoro. Why, he's diversity, personified.
Comment posted March 2, 2010 @ 11:24 am
Well, let's see. President Obama is not kenyan (his father was), not Arab; his name was never Soetoro or Dunham. Barry was his childhood nickname, not an alias. None of what you have posted says anything about the president. Your sickly little racial obsessions, however, say a great deal about you. They say that you afraid of the world and that you like lying.
Comment posted March 2, 2010 @ 4:24 pm
Well, let's see. President Obama is not Kenyan (his father was), not Arab; his name was never Soetoro or Dunham. Barry was his childhood nickname, not an alias. None of what you have posted says anything about the president. Your sickly little racial obsessions, however, say a great deal about you. They say that you're afraid of the world and that you like lying.
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