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Audacity of Truth
"Diplomacy":
"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
An answer to Keith “People of Color” Olbermann
Take it away, Randy Haddock:
So last night that race-peddlin’ buffoon over at MSNBC… wait, that’s 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 he’s referring to? What does that mean? It may be because I’m not a native English speaker, but I find this “people of color” business to be really bizarre. So as a Boricua, am I colored? I guess I’m 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, I’m not that much darker than Mr. Olbermann himself. Do I fall into his “people of color” category?
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And secondly, the question is stupid, the premise terribly moronic and the insinuation totally insulting. The Tea Party protesters aren’t racist. Are there a few kooks with nefarious motivations? Sure, every movement has them. It’s nice how, during the Bush years, the MSM did everything they could to whitewash the fringe elements of the antiwar movement, but I digress. What’s Olbermann’s evidence that Tea Parties are overwhelmingly racist? Apparently, that there are no “people of color” 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 “racists!” then you have some serious issues.
So I put together this video response to Olbermann’s burning question. Here are his “people of color” he’s 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!!
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Being a Latino, I guess I qualify as a “person of color”. I have been to a tea party event sponsored by a colleague, and more than half of the 300+ people who attended the event were “people of color”.
Keith makes his grandiose, pompous pronouncements from behind a desk in a New York studio. Guess what Keithie–life does exist beyond New Jersey and there are Asians, Latinos, African-Americans and other “people of color” who think you are full of crap.
They call themselves “progressives”? They’re so mired in the past they can’t get beyond that stuff. Tea Party people and others that criticize the President are treating him like a man in an important position. They seem to be treating him like a child that needs to be nurtured and supported by them. Every time they make statements like that they expose themselves for the condescending racists they are.
Being a big fan of Kevin Jackson of theblacksphere.net/blog I spotted him in the video immediately. We have shared emails and he is one of the bravest, young “people of color” on the scene today. Even Plugs would admit he’s clean and articulate as well. Buy his book.
Outstanding video, thanks for posting it.
I just found this in the “Liberal Handbook”, 2009 edition, some Liberal at work hides in his desk under the section on what to do when your back is against the wall and/or you are losing your argument and/or everyone has discovered your true motivations for power usurpation:
I think that pretty much sums up Olbermann.
As with virtually every word they use, “progressive” does not mean what normal people would think it means. Just one more word they’ve highjacked and twisted to confuse those of us who understand phrases and words like “We, the people,” “shall make no law,” and “freedom.”
“Progressive” means “too dumb to figure out what’s real and too arrogant to try.”
Check out those who call themselves “progressive” with that in mind: John McCain and his daughter, Boehner, Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Franken, Van Jones, and the list is nearly endless, and they all fit that definition.
Too bad the misery and suffering they cause without any personal responsibility for it doesn’t hit them upside the head like a 2 X 4.
Where are all the people of color at MSNBC? Maybe he said people of “choler” and not “color”? That would make sense.
I forget where it came from but I once heard “Those who cry Racism is more than likely racist themselves”.
Progressive’s just another word for Death to America, Death to the Great Satan!
Olbermann can say what he wants . Nobody watches him. Last time I looked his ratings were lower than reruns of Bridezilla.
I thought “people of color” was no longer the politically correct term. He needs the jargon police to visit him and teach him whatever the slogan of the month is among the pc.
As a person of whiteness and some freckles, I wonder if my little spots of melanin qualify me as a “person of little bits of color?”
I once had a neighbor that was the biggest racist I ever didn’t know. I say,”didn’t”, because the guy wouldn’t speak to any of the other men on our street. If you spoke to him he’d just look right through you. Being a preacher didn’t help matters, either. Especially when he slapped his wife around. Then, when she’d get tired of that and leave, his girlfriend would move in. Of course she’d park beside or in front of my house. Can’t let anyone know about her, you know. All the other neighbors knew that neither I nor any of my family members drove that kind of car. Thankfully, he finally moved.
Oh, did I mention he was black? Or a person of color, I mean.
Joseph, the fact that he was an immoral, sleazy, abusive lying sack of pig manure is relevant. The facts that he was a preacher and black had nothing to do with it, other than possibly giving him a sense of entitlement for such actions.
Kinda like being black, African-American or a person of color gave the “Reverend” Wright a sense of entitlement to diss, condemn and swear at the country that allowed him to become the lunatic he became and teach the same to a future affirmative action president.
Pasadena Phil says:
February 19, 2010 at 9:56 pm
Where are all the people of color at MSNBC?
Dad gummit! Beat me to it!
Obberbite is an a-s. Is the dems that always use some adjetive to describe people and thus divide Americans.
I realize that NBC is paying a boatload of money for the Olympics but I thought they could at least spring to a color TV for Keith Olbermann. The poor man is stuck with a B&W TV for heaven sakes.
Now *those* are great Americans. Every freakin’ one.