Is the media "lynching" the President?

[RememberWellstone]

It's almost like a pile on Obama day or something? On every channel, they use words like failure, collapse, ineffective.

I think this is their plan to tear him down to a point of no return. If I hear one more poll on how America does not trust him, they do not support healthcare...blah, blah. We can read the polls morons, geez...you act like you've never seen fluctuations.

Healthcare may be dead but he is not! This was'nt the bill he wanted, he said so or did you forget that piece of information from last night??? Get off of him already...we got it, you hate him and you are destroying him. We got it....you give Bush a pass and attack Obama. We get it!

[kjackson227]

1. The media AND his own party.

[xultar]

2. No, and for fuck sake lynching is some serious shit. People died. Misusing

the term waters down what it really is.

Ya'll need to get a fucking grip on yourselves.

[patrice]

5. What the media has done has not resulted in Death? Not motivated by Discrimination?

Some of us don't think of it as "watering down" but rather increasing the relevance of the crime to more people.

[xultar]

7. Seriously, I have to ask you are you black? I wish that y'all would follow the lead

of your black bruvas and sistahs instead of getting out in front and blowin shit out of fucking proportion.

Some times I feel I can't get a word in edge wise where racism is concerned with the white folk around here schoolin me on shit all the dayum time. When I read posts like that it feels like well we white liberals know best little black girl so sit back and read our posts. We got this shit now.

GEEZ. How are the white folk on DU gonna be experts on racism and fucking school a 40 year old black woman on fucking race? SERIOUSLY.
I get sick of that shit. I get so sick of being schooled by white liberals on fucking race issues. It is fucking LAUGHABLE some times.

It's o.k. when y'all blow shit out of proportion but when a black person does it...it is another story. AKA Duke story.

This shit is off the fucking chain. I sometimes wanna say, y'all don't help out. You're making it worse.

This thread is an example.
GET A GODDAMNED GRIP people.

[patrice]

13. rofl

You? not getting "a word in edge-wise", xultar?

That's pretty funny.

And you are making many assumptions about me that basically add up to discrimination.

Pardon me, if I like to think about what appears to be an oft repeated and perhaps automatic talking point that seeks to isolate and, hence, alienate some aspects of Human experience.

It's called Discussion.

You know what, xultar, you can't "school" someone who hasn't already accepted the premise that they are somehow lacking.

[xultar]

15. Clever. But seriously, let it go you look silly.

[patrice]

3. They are Idolators. They sold "us" this ILLEGAL Un-Ending War. Blood flows at the feet of Mammon.

[Raffi Ella]

4. Oh COME ON!

Using words like that is NOT helpful. Blacks were lynched back in the day; asking if the President is being lynched disrespects those that actually WERE. God damn. COME ON!

[xultar]

6. I can't get upset about racism because too many people on DU have lost their dayum minds.

[Raffi Ella]

16. right?

I find myself often wondering just how many white people here have EVER spent time around any person of color in real life...

I'm just astounded by how sheltered some people here seem!

[patrice]

9. True, perhaps, in some cases, but not all, so isn't, therefore, disrespectful to assume "disrespect"

?

Is Suffering owned? Exclusive?

Do not the "things" that produce Lynchings also hurt other people in other ways?

I can understand a desire to not equate Lynching with negative PR, or what happens at a hearing for a SCOTUS nominee, say, but I don't think people are saying they are the same, more that they come from the same impulses and, often, from the same people.

[xultar]

10. Seriously. Have you lost your danged mind? Really, I gotta fucking know.

Patrice...really. Let it go.

[patrice]

14. Or what?

Really!

[Raffi Ella]

17. This OP/the language used

is the kind of thing that discredits us when real racism happens and it happens EVERY day in this world - no need to make stuff like this up!

If you want to be taken seriously when racism IS occuring then don't throw out the race card just because it seems convenient. It isn't worth it in the end.

[xultar]

18. 100% correct. I know in some respects they feel like they r helping but

it isn't.

[EffieBlack]

8. No, not at all. And using the term in this context distorts and dilutes its meaning

[bigwillq]

11. No.

It's always the media with some around here. Turn the fucking TV OFF!
Read a newspaper. There is indeed bias on TV, the liberal-leaning programs are no different (Keith, Rachel, Ed)

That's how the cable TV news is. For the most part, I think they do a decent job of reporting the news.

[MarjorieG]

12. They are trying to tear him down, because they can and want more control.

[wowimthere]

19. Yes... They are trying to pile on... heavily. He was good last night... They want him to fail.