Harry Reid: Obama ‘Light-Skinned’ ‘with No Negro Dialect’
by Mike Flynn
Saturday is my favorite day to read the newspaper. That’s the day reporters and editors print stories they know they have to cover but don’t want to get wide attention. The latest evidence for this theory is the Washington Post’s treatment of the revelation of remarks made by Sen. Harry Reid during the 2008 Presidential campaign:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect” in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” said Reid in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.”
Poor choice of words? Exactly what other combination of words could Sen. Reid have used to convey his point? And what, exactly, was his point anyway? What was the relevance of these observations? We don’t have the full context for the remark in the Post’s reporting. It simply notes that Reid’s comments are revealed in a new book, “Game Change”, authored by reporters from Time and New York magazines.
Interesting that the two magazine reporters, Mark Halperin and John Heileman, have been sitting on their knowledge of Reid’s remarks for so long. Holding onto such a scoop to promote book sales would be understandable, except that the incident doesn’t even make it into the promotional blurb for the book. Just move along, nothing to see here.
Which got me thinking about Trent Lott.
You remember him, right? The former Mississippi Senator was Senate Majority Leader back in 2002. Attending a birthday party for then Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. Lott made an idiotic statement:
‘When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.”
In 1948, Strom Thurmond ran a third-party campaign for President, based largely on a pro-segregation platform. As you can imagine, a firestorm ensued. Kweisi Mfume, then President of the NAACP said that Lott’s remarks were:
“the kind of callous, calculated, hateful bigotry that has no place in the halls of Congress”
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said:
“It was shocking…a piercing voice through the fabric of black America”
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) went even further:
”I simply do not believe the country can today afford to have someone who has made these statements again and again be the leader of the United States Senate”
It will be curious to see if Sen. Kerry thinks the country can afford to have Sen. Reid as leader of the Senate.
Reid’s remarks also got me thinking about former Virginia Sen. George Allen. Running for reelection in 2006, the called out to a Democrat campaign operative at an event, calling him “macacca”, an obscure french-colonial insult, generally thought to mean “monkey.” (The operative was of indian descent.)
The Washington Post, in particular, seized on Allen’s weird comment and made it a major issue in the Senator’s reelection. They fanned the flames of the controversy so much that the paper’s ombudsman felt the need to review its coverage, noting:
Did The Post overplay the incident? Not initially, but the coverage went on for too long after he apologized. The news stories, handled by the paper’s Virginia political reporters, did not go overboard. An editorial was well done. Then the columnists weighed in, along with Style reporters and editorial cartoonist Tom Toles. No one piece was over the line. But when you put it all together, it looked like piling on.
In edition to extensive coverage throughout its pages, the Post ran at least six front-stage stories on Allen’s remark.
Today, Reid’s remarks warrant only scant Saturday-edition coverage. I should probably take this as a good sign that we’ve apparently moved beyond the issue of race.
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What exactly is he apologizing for !!??? Obama is NOT 100% black!!! Everyone knows this …everyone except Obama, who would do anything to deny he is 1/2 WHITE!!
Almost makes me want to start reading the newspapers again.
Meanwhile, Black "Professors" can call for the genocide of Whites on C-SPAN and nothing happens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMOkDOXAovQ
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What if Rush Limbaugh had called Donavon McNabb a "Well spoken man for his color"…What is the difference? Words mean things…Harry's gotta go right NOW! Somebody please keep pushing this thing.
oh boy! this will be interesting to see how the fringe media responds to this, and subsequently the damage control and spin that will come from this.
imagine if this were a republican that said this.
i believe the left IS the party of racism.
had a conservative made those comments he or she would be burned in effigy, but since its a lib the media will ignore it or attack all who point to it. nope no double standard here actually no standards at all. at least we now have big journalism.
What a LOSER !!
Nevada….get rid of this guy.
What a LOSER !!
What do you expect? Reid is an important Democrat. Heck, he's Senate Majority Leader.
Our elitist rulers are not held to the same standards as are we unwashed masses. Benevolent philosopher-kings like Senator Reid are too busy giving us health care and protection from the real terrorists, i.e. US military veterans and tea party attendees, to adhere to the niceties of political correctness upon which Senator Lott was crucified. They have our own best interests to look after.
Just don't criticize our Dear Leader for anything He does in His capacity as POTUS–Janeanne Garofolo has already assured us that to do so is racism.
Obama posed as a black brother to get the vote. He married Michelle to further his ties to the black community. He does not consider himself a black person or a white person. He is almost 1/2 Arab and a Muslim. Thats the part he identifies with and as he said:
" I will side with the Muslims when the winds of war shift direction"
What else needs to analyzed for God's sake? This man is not a friend of the whites, blacks, hispanics or anyone else in this country except for the muslim jihadists no matter what rhetoric he spouts into the camera as bs.
RESIGN NOW "DIRTY RACIST" HARRY REID! Save a little bit of self respect before you fade into infamy…
Can you just imagine if he were a Republican?
HE'D BE GONE NOW!
RESIGN NOW REID – RESIGN NOW!
Such is the way of the world. Suckoville.
He will run and probably win. As Nate Silver (a lib pollster/expert) says "Nevada is now run by the machine and the machine will win") Reid will win. I could easily see Dems not wanting to take the risk and try to force him out like they did Dodd.
Why is Reid apologizing? What he said is true. The problem is white folkes give knee jerk apologies when they don't have to do so.
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Guess we can just add this to the list of Democrat racism:
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http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm...
http://markarose.com/2008/06/17/todays-lebanon-de...
Newspapers are almost dead. Do you think that the RNC would be smart enough to advertise this?
"Today, Reid’s remarks warrant only scant Saturday-edition coverage. I should probably take this as a good sign that we’ve apparently moved beyond the issue of race."
No, you should take the lack of coverage as a sign that the media covers up for Democrats.
This PC BS has got to stop. Everyone is walking around on eggshells and a segment of America is just waiting around to be offended. I'm sure Obama will have to undergo counseling and therapy to mend from this major insult.
I can't believe I'm saying this but here goes…..Let's get off Reid's back on this one. There's plenty else to find fault with this dude but this isn't one of them.
Nice post Mike. If this were a Republican, he'd be tarred, feathered, and left for dead on a DC side road.
Yeah, well….the truth is that the real racists never regret anything until their inner bigot is exposed….
And the DOUBLE STANDARD continues! Surprised? Nope!
Harry Reid is a monstrous, wretched hypocrite. So are the members of the MSM who will ignore this story. And on … and on … and on.
But we already knew all that.
I'm not ready to embrace Political Correctness just so I can use it as another club to beat hypocrites with.
Bad as hypocrites are, PC is worse. Not going there.
The hypocrisy of the MSM is so blatantly obvious and yet the National Media remains confused as to why they are bleeding Market-share and readership. America is speaking volumes – it is picking its own winners and losers and the MSM and inside Washington crowd are oblivious to their own complicity in the trend.
Rather foolish on their part is it not? Who founded the colleges in which they brainwash America's youth?
Progressives or 'democrats' have had a 100 plus year proud tradition of racism. Listed below is just a tiny fraction of information available.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat icon and orchestrator of Japanese Internment
- Ex-House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, former affiliate of a St. Louis area racist group
- Ex-Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd, former Ku Klux Klansman known for making bigoted slurs on national television
- Rev. Jesse Jackson, Democrat keynote speaker and race hustler known for making anti-Semitic slurs
- Rev. Al Sharpten, Democrat activist and perennial candidate and race hustler known inciting anti-Semitic violence in New York City
- Sen. Ernest Hollings, leading Democrat Senator known for use of racial slurs against several minority groups
- Lee P. Brown, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat mayor of Houston who won reelection using racial intimidation against Hispanic voters
Don't forget Woodrow Wilson, the most racist Democrat who signed the segregation policy for the American blacks during his Presidency.
Where's Al Shaprton and Jessie Jackson? Hmmmmm.
THAT'S RACIST. (Caps lock for emphasis)
Harry Reid (D-Nev.) see the difference there.
His dialect changed during the campaign. Changed in relation to the audience he was talking to. However, the dems, like Reid, are the first to point fingers in matters of race. He said an "N" word and he would criticize any republican who uttered the same word. Democrats get by with it, republicans do not. Remember Robert (KKK) Byrd on Fox saying the same word? No big deal there either.,
President Obama DOES change his dialect, depending on whether the crowd he is addressing is predominantly black or white, as does Hillary Clinton.
Opps! harry told the truth.
Much like Biden's "clean and articulate" slip of the tongue was!
the democrat party is the party that tried to keep slavery and also tried to block integration.
do your research and look at Al Gore's father and his voting record.
wake up America and stop believing what the government is telling you and look at what they are actually doing.
http://flipfloptimes.com
the democrat party is the party that tried to keep slavery and also tried to block integration.
do your research and look at Al Gore's father and his voting record.
wake up America and stop believing what the government is telling you and look at what they are actually doing.
http://flipfloptimes.com
Wilson also LOVED "BIRTH OF A NATION" and was one of THE most bogoted presidents ever.
A couple of other bigoted historical figures left out………………………….
Clinton's mentor. J. William Fulbright.
Al Gore's father.
Garofolo is an utter idiot, I think the term she used was "straight up!"
Joe Biden actually said something quite similar, during the primary season and he wound up as Barry's VEEP.
The double standard is alive, well, and thriving; sadly.
This is further proof that the whole “racist” issue is nothing more than a reason to nit-pick and whine. I am no fan of Harry Reid but this whole thing is right out of the liberal’s perceived-racist handbook. So Obama is light-skinned. So what? And he doesn’t speak with a Negro dialect except when he wants to. So what? A big revelation? No, we’ve all seen and heard him. Nobody objects when people say Obama is tall. So who really cares about these things? Oh yeah – liberals. They are the only ones who would have given those words a second thought much less make a big deal out of them. People discuss skin tones and dialects around every water cooler and across every back fence in the country. However, we do not discuss those things with the obviously handicapped (if that is their handicap).
When is making such a comment on any true fact a crime or even an insult? It is when the recipient or subject of the comment is embarrassed by or ashamed of the truth. Which is it, Obama?
Rest easy everyone – this is our lucky day. When liberals make a big deal out of a nothing comment by another liberal they are demonstrating their proclivity to dismiss anyone who they consider a liability, and doing it in the cruelest way possible. All you bus drivers out there – check under your bus regularly, and let us know when you find Harry.
Why is Reid's statement such a surprise! Reid is a racist to the core, like many liberals are. Reid and his Democrat cohorts do everything possible to keep blacks oppressed, poor and undereducated so that they can manipulate them as a reliable voting block by throwing a few crumbs their way every now and then. This has been going on for decades, but African-Americans are finally starting to wake up. Everyone seems to forget that the iconic John F. Kennedy voted against the Civil Rights Act when he was in the U.S. Senate. Reid doesn't regret his remarks, he only regrets that they are now out in print for all the world to see.
That was my question also, here Rev. Al's e-mail, I already have asked him to call for Reid's resignation…ya, that'll happen!
http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/contact.html
yup, the "D" sheild….
e-mail Rev Al and demand ACTION! This is right down his alley isn't it?
http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/contact.html
What difference does it make what color his skin is or how he talks? It's the content of his character that counts.
Actually it's understandable that Obama would accept Reid's apology.
Obama is greatfull for the work Reid has done in getting health care pushed through by hook or by crook.
LMAO ……. This is not going to save you!
I personally can give a Rat's Arse how sympathetic you feel Reid, you are an Idiot! And don't think for one minute this little show will save your job!
Obama is socialist skinned with no American dialect…
So, they're trying to play this down and put the big muzzle on it. Well, I'm not letting it go that easily. They want to call us racist? Well, I'm calling Harry Reid a racist. Come get ME Harry, I'm not afraid of you.
Harry Reid-Democrat, Nevada
SHHHHHHH!!! EVERYONE QUIET , PLEASE, while Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton excoriate Dingy Harry for his racist remarks………………..
……………..crickets………….
"Which got me thinking about Trent Lott."
Or Howard Cosell. Or Jimmy The Greek.
Victims of racism. Not racists.
To black people out there: Aren't you tired of having everybody who's white walk on egg shells around you? What Reid said was stupid. That's all, just stupid. It's not the end of the world.
scratch harry and some other progressives and watch the racists scatter….
Huh, a racist DemoRat – never heard of them before
"On Obama – "he's Clean bright and articulate" – Joe Biden
Is there any longer an argument that Liberals are demon possesed?
http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingstuff
Harry! You messed up. You should have mentioned how clean he is!
Good luck,
Joe
in obamas case wouldnt it be lack of character
What did I miss? Is it wrong to call a colored guy "negro" ?
Yeah, the latest incident with the census brought this out. Neegers can't stand "negro". They always need something to whine, bltch, complain, and moan about. No wonder no one else takes them seriously.
They won't hold a grudge. They're two peas in a pod: a pair of lying c0cksuckers.
Agreed, it means nothing except what he said that I quoted above. That is dangerous.
Astute observation! When 'Big Brother' Obama is before his 'brother's' his voice when speaking takes on distinct characteristics of his Idol Reverend Wright. Vocal intonations going Up and Down and vibrating wildly like a preacherman! I mean
Awesome! I read every word in all three links. 2 thumbs up! 5 stars! 10 points on a ten point scale! Expose all racist bastards of every color and creed and shame them until they change or die!
Let me tell you what you've got; you got your NAACP, YOUR SNCC, YOU COFO, and Y'all know what all that mess is? B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T.
Harry Reid
How bout interviewing the same folks cited in this article and see how they feel about dear Harry's comments. Rev-run's Al and Jesse are very forgiving people, so no need to go there. (sarc)
I want the movie rights!
Harry Reid and the Half Blood Prince!
prefect (yes, I know it's perfect)
Doesn't matter. Dems could fry blacks in ovens, and blacks will still vote Democrat at 120% of registration as long as they "gets da gubment check". . [see ACORN]
I'm not finished yet.
Nancy Pelosi can play the part of Whoremione…..
i crack myself up…
Sorry Harry. You are wrong again. If you take the teleprompter away from Obama he ends up talking just like a kid from the northside of Chicago.
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect” in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign."
I never noticed…being too preoccupied with how the idiot has been destroying my country with this moron's help…
ANYONE who can insult a person the way this joker has, then spend every waking moment helping him do the damage he's done…has far too much duplicity to be allowed anywhere near lawmaking…as demonstrated…
wow I see trent lott in my dream…
what di jessie jackson say – cut his balls off ??/
Oh yea … it's different with democrats !!!!
I hear that Obama and Al Sharpten wasted no time accepting Racist Reid's apology.
I also heard that Dirty Harry's apology something like this, "I'm sorry Masta, puuuuleeez don't beat Masta puuuuuleeeez don't whoop me."
I hear that Obama and Al Sharpten wasted no time accepting Racist Reid's apology.
I also heard that Dirty Harry's apology sounded something like this, "I'm sorry Masta, puuuuleeez don't beat Masta puuuuuleeeez don't whoop me."
Don't leave Joe P off of the list.
Harry the douche Reid, racist retard jackass that is headed for the ash heap of history
“I mean, you got the first main-stream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy … ”
~ Joe Biden, describing Barack Obama, in an interview (dated February 4, 2007) with Jason Horowitz of The New York Observer.
Take a look at the picture. Doesn't Dingy look like a man who is sincerely apologetic? Thought not.
What?? Harry Reid can't be racist, he's a democrat!
Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me !
Political Correctness, on the other hand, will not only hurt you, it will invade your culture and destroy it like some out-of-control fungus . . .
Don'y worry,you'll get over it.
Now this is red meat for the base… Harry Reid, very bad man.
"inner bigot"… I may have to steal that.
Monstrous? Dude you need to step away from the keyboard until some perspective returns.
Looks like some people are feeling a little defensive today.
Can you say "Toast". Stick a fork in him, he is done! I am looking forward to the day when Reid is defeated and Nancy "Eternal Smile" Pelosi hands the gavel over to a Repulican. I really want to see the look on her face when the Dems lose the House! With the majority of voters opposing the Dems Health Care Bill and the Congressional approval rating at an all time low, a change in the House is possible. Change we can all believe in!!
Yeah, what exactly is the problem here; I mean, other than the fact that Obama is a lying phony and inclined to mis-represent himself?
And exactly, WHEN was the word "NEGRO" through some over sensitive edict of THE MASTERS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, rendered "offensive"?
Caucasion, negro? What's up? What's to apologize about?
-KM
See, we can move past race and say racial things as long as we aren't conservatives. We all know conservatives want blacks as slaves and domestic servants, hispanics doing low class "service work," and women subserviant, barefoot and pregnant (against their will). Adn if it weren'y for the democrat party, the emancipation proclamation, sufferage and equality based on race would never have happened.
What did John Brown do?
What Reid was saying, basically, was that Obama should run for office because he wasn't one of those OTHER Negroes…meaning the dark-skinned, lazy, jive-talkin' ones. Robert Byrd, Joe Biden, Howard Dean, et al follow the same line of thought. Reid shouldn't be apologizing to Obama, he should be apologizing to every dark-skinned Black person because he implied that they are genetically inferior to light-skinned Blacks. However, I doubt there will be much of on outcry from the Black Community, because Reid is a Democrat.
You must be a lot closer to the president than I am because he has never mentioned that he married his lovely wife just for the street cred. I guess it's just a bonus that she is stunning, well educated and poised.
No, you're not a racist…
Please don't use the word Chacacter in this discussion. Libs have no idea what this word means and they will accuse us of speaking in code just to confuse them. Keep it real simply from now on.
Reid is done. I was in Nevada a few months ago, Ely, signs everywhere, " anyone but Reid" he won't win!
It's true Obama is light-skinned and has no "Negro Dialect", but what people found offensive was Reid's insinuation that those qualities make Obama superior to other Blacks. It's like saying, "Guiliani is non-greasy and has no Dago accent…he might think about running for office!"
Sometimes Joe makes sense.
Why not hold him to the standards he would apply to everyone else??
And it took Nevada how many years to figure this out??? They keep voting for this turd and the results are always the same. Look at their unemployment numbers: Dec 18, 2009 … Nevada unemployment dropped to 12.3 percent in November, down from 12.9 percent in October and a record 13.3 percent in September. And that's not even counting all the illegals probably.
Who said to embrace "political correctness"? Why not just hold him to the standard he would apply to others?
Those 2 idiots only hear what they want to hear. Even their reputations have become visibly tarnished. Maybe they have said worse and are afraid some one will broadcast it if they chose up sides on this. They're both charlatins and are irrelavent.
Those 2 idiots only hear what they want to hear. Even their reputations have become visibly tarnished. Maybe they have said worse and are afraid some one will broadcast it if they chose up sides on this. They're both charlatins and are irrelavent.
Don't worry, he'll lie his way out of it.
The Democrat Party has a former KKK member as its senior statesman. Biden noted that Obama is clean and articulate. Reid will skate on this. The media and his fellow Dems will give him a pass.
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