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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:17 PM
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The Race-Baiting of the Mainstream Media
I would like to commend the print media for not stooping to the gutter trash level of race-baiting as we've seen from the Right and MSM over the past week. Thank God Youtube exists now so over 2 million Americans can watch the speech Obama gave in it's entirety. But the MSM isn't even playing Obama's speech anymore...not even the clips. They insist on talking about bullshit Jeremiah Wright. Now, they're only mentioning his speech in passing. This is a fucking disgrace to everything this country stands for and ALL Obama supporters need to act on it. Flood their inbox's with your complaints. Call into Randi Rhodes and other Air America shows and spread the word. If Obama loses the nomination over this shit we need to fucking stand up and say no more! I'm sick and tired of the MSM dictating who the fuck we can and can't vote for. We Democrats need to stop bending over and taking it up the ass and act now!! There are forced in play that are seeking to split America along racial lines through this, and if they go unchallenged, they'll win easily. If we can at least get the liberal radio shows on our side we have a fighting chance. Also, write to the newspapers and magazines like The Nation and Mother Jones and some of the others. The more noise we make and the more we won't shut the hell up like they want us to...the more we get our point across. A rising star in the Democratic Party has been reduced to nothing more than a racist Black seperatist and we shouldn't stand for it. Dammit enough is enough.

SPREAD THE WORD!!!
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Middle finga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:19 PM
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1. I feel the same way...
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:20 PM
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2. They need to be confronted by campaign spokespeople too, just
like Joe Madison handed Buchanan is liver on a platter yesterday. Call them on it.
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jconner27 Donating Member (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:21 PM
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3. What are you talking about?
The media has been in your guy side pocket since day one..
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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:25 PM
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6. They're full of shit...
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jconner27 Donating Member (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:36 PM
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8. The media been fair
I watch enough the cable news whores to tell ya, the media has been very fair to Obama(ok not Fox) this pastor story is probably the first stumble Obama has face. Before Wright, the media was echoing Obama supporters feeling Hillary should drop out.
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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:52 PM
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9. Doesn't excuse their race-baiting now
trying to turn Obama into the Black radical nationalist separatist supremist.
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:22 PM
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4. Non stop bitching and moaning by "aggrieved" white folks on talk radio and cablenets.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:24 PM
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5. I wish the FCC could step in on this, but I think its cable mostly that's
Edited on Thu Mar-20-08 05:33 PM by monmouth
doing this. From what I understand FCC has no jurisdiction over them.
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cottonseed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:31 PM
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7. and the Commission on Civil Rights.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-yaki/the-media-needs-to-fess-u_b_92376.html

Seeing the media these last few days, I'm starting to realize it's the last large institution that racist stereo-typing and absolutly blatant race baiting is still accepted.

Can you imagine a group of people discussing local co-workers at the conference table the same way these cable channels are discussing Obama every evening?
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barack the house Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 05:55 PM
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10. Exactly there is no reason for a racial divde right now we can do this as one people. UNITED AMERICA
Edited on Thu Mar-20-08 05:56 PM by barack the house
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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-20-08 06:10 PM
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11. I wish that were true...too bad the MSM has too much to gain
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