An answer to Keith “People of Color” Olbermann
Take it away, Randy Haddock:
So last night that race-peddlinβ buffoon over at MSNBCβ¦ wait, thatβs pretty much everyone on that network. Let me be more specific. OK, so, last night Keith Olbermann used his self-parodying Special Comment segment to ask the following question: Where are the people of color at the Tea Parties? Now, implying and outright saying that Tea Party protesters are racist is commonplace in the far left. No news there. But two things in particular bother me about his question:
First, his choice of words. People of color? Who are these colored people heβs referring to? What does that mean? It may be because Iβm not a native English speaker, but I find this βpeople of colorβ business to be really bizarre. So as a Boricua, am I colored? I guess Iβm olive but if I hit the beach on a sunny day I can be golden brown. Is he referring strictly to skin color? Culture? Ethnicity? I mean, Iβm not that much darker than Mr. Olbermann himself. Do I fall into his βpeople of colorβ category?
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And secondly, the question is stupid, the premise terribly moronic and the insinuation totally insulting. The Tea Party protesters arenβt racist. Are there a few kooks with nefarious motivations? Sure, every movement has them. Itβs nice how, during the Bush years, the MSM did everything they could to whitewash the fringe elements of the antiwar movement, but I digress. Whatβs Olbermannβs evidence that Tea Parties are overwhelmingly racist? Apparently, that there are no βpeople of colorβ at these rallies. That is so blatantly false as to induce uncontrollable laughter. There are people of all backgrounds at the Tea Parties. But even if an event is dominated by a certain race group, what does that prove? Similar to what Glenn Reynolds said earlier this month, if you look at a group of white folks and the first thought that pops into your head is βracists!β then you have some serious issues.
So I put together this video response to Olbermannβs burning question. Here are his βpeople of colorβ heβs been inquiring about.
The vid:
Love it, love it, love it. Tip o’ the hat to this patriotic American for handing KO’s behind to him on a silver platter.
Of course, if MSDNC had made that video compilation, rest assured that the heads of the “people of color” in question would have been cut out of the video so you wouldn’t know that they were … “people of color.”
Via Ed Morrissey, who won blogger of the year at CPAC – and who was intro’d by none other than Rush Limbaugh. Mega congrats!!