Letterman calls trump racist

[mucifer]

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Go Dave!

[libmom74]

1. Good for Dave!

And screw you Dr Phil (fake ass Dr)! I spent part of my childhood in the south and heard "good ol' boys" like Phil talk about how they weren't racists but there was a difference between good ni**ers and bad ni**ers. Trump knew exactly what he was insinuating both with the birth certificate garbage and the college transcript crap.

[HolyCity2012]

4. I don't get it.

Donald Trumps undertones or racism is the fault of Southern, "good ol' boys" ?

[libmom74]

14. I was talking about Dr Phil's

whole spiel on how Donald Trump doesn't have a racist bone in his body and didn't really mean anything racist by what he said when he demanded that the POTUS needs to release his college transcripts. I call bullshit. Dr. Phil sounds like an old white guy from the good ol boys club defending another old white guy who is being a racist. I lived in the south long enough to recognize the behavior (no I'm not saying all white southern men are racists, and I'm not saying racism is confined to the south). Does that explain it clearly enough?

[Ishoutandscream2]

16. So if Dr. Phil was talking with a Boston accent

then he would be off the hook on what you just said?

[libmom74]

18. Look if you are or choose to be

clueless about the whole southern good ol boys wink, nod denial of racism it's up to you, I actually had to live with it as a child (a mixed race child that didn't look mixed so I got to hear what people really thought before they found out I was part black).

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. No, you look

I'm one of those "people" who sound just like Dr. Phil. Same accent, almost fifty years old. If you asked me if someone you and I knew was racist, and I said no, then would you think I was covering for him. That I was a "good ol' boy." You have painted Dr. Phil with the brush that because of his accent, then he's probably part of some good ol' boys' club.

If you and I met, and I said "hello" sounding just like Dr. Phil, do you immediately consider me as a good ol' boy?

[libmom74]

20. No I would not.

But if you, like Dr Phil started defending Donald Trump's actions, and saying Trump doesn't have a racist bone in his body then I would think you were giving one of those "good ol boy" wink and nod's to Trump's behavior, because Trump's actions lately are indefensible and racist. I don't judge people by their accents but by their actions and in Dr Phil's case by who and what he is defending.

[BREMPRO]

24. +1000

T-Rumps comments about Obama's bc and not being a good enough student to get into the "ivy league" are so obviously racist that's it's impossible to imagine ANYONE being so ignorant as to not know that. whether T-Rump is racist or not is not clear , but he's a gigantic race bating douchbag to use white fear as a tool for his own self-promotion.. that's even worse than being racist... Dr. Phil's glib and chummy "he doesn't have a racist bone in his body" glosses over the issue..

[chervilant]

57. Hear, hear!

Dr. Phil pontificates from a position of self-assuredness that can make his words carry a ring of truth, even when he's dead wrong. On this issue, he's dead wrong.

[valerief]

30. Duh, "Dr." Phil was DEFENDING racist Trump. Get a clue. nt

[Taverner]

40. No, I think we're painting Dr Phil as we do because of his previous behavior

As the Doc himself says, the best way to predict future behavior is by looking at their past behavior

Dr Phil is a egotist. Not sure if he's racist, or just clueless to Trump's racism.

It may be the latter - many people will think someone is not racist just because they never use the N word. But not all racists speak in epithets.

[Bucky]

28. Ugh, I loathe prejudice, whether it's sexual, racial, religious, or regional. Haters suck.

I'm sorry you got an ear full of hate when you were a kid. That was unfair and the people who said that around you were dispicable for giving a child the hint that she was less than a beautiful being deserving of encouragement and acceptance.

But we shouldn't be fooled into thinking the accents were the critical matter--that's prejudice too. Jim Hightower has the corniest twangiest barbecued East Texas accent you'd ever wanna hear. William F Buckley had the most sophisticated Upper Hudson enlightened Brahmin accent I've ever heard. But which one was the bigot, the redneck or the Yankee?

[libmom74]

29. Yes of course I realize that.

I knew and loved a lot of really wonderful, generous people in the south, what I meant to convey (and sometimes it's really hard to do typing on an anonymous forum) was that I recognized Dr. Phil's subtle wink and nod pass of Trump's obviously racist statements.

[HolyCity2012]

45. Maybe the best thing for you to do is...

...stop typing on an anonymous forum?

[libmom74]

56. Maybe you should think

about why you are spending so much time defending someone who defends such a blatant racist blowhard like Trump.

[chervilant]

58. A word of caution

I've encountered that blogger (HolyCity2012) before. My previous experience with him/her leads me to conclude s/he is argumentative and divisive. One more offensive response directed at me, and s/he is the next person on my ignore list.

I appreciate what you said. Having been raised in the deep south, I witnessed first hand the 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' racism of my father and his white friends--cloaked in hypocrisy and dressed up as 'concern' for 'those less fortunate.' Dad was a different man when his 'friends of color' were around. Not until I was older and wiser did I come to understand what I had witnessed.

[libmom74]

60. Thanks. I haven't been posting very

long but I did lurk for a long time, I've learned a lot from this site and enjoy reading the exchange of ideas. Most people have been decent.:)

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. The good ole boys are one of the last bastions of overt behavior.

So, as they push their political agenda, streeeeetching the envelope. It pulls everybody else in.


Olly, Olly Oxen free!

[rhett o rick]

46. I see this as a little different. Dr. Phil may be a racist apologizer, I dont know, but I

feel that there is a condition called class sociopathy. Yes I know that spell check dont like that, and the wiki thing dont like that, but those in the Ruling Class and their sycophants, believe that the wealthy are inherently right re. all things. They are the privileged and therefore automatically right. Therefore, Trump isnt a racist because he is wealthy. The wealthy get a pass. I think that's what Dr? Phil meant.

[pitchforksandtorches]

49. Trump allegations of racism = recurring themes

in his larger-than-life career

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/29/donald-trump-blacks-lawsuit_n_855553.html

[Keith Bee]

2. Wish I could rec this 100 times!

But I'll settle for one+a kick. Right on, Dave!

[KT2000]

3. Dave got it so right

and now Trump knows he is going to have to face the racist issue head on if he goes on the show. Bet he drops out.

[dotymed]

7. IMO. he was never in "the race."

He is just after publicity. Really, do you think "the Trump", Wall St.'s answer to wresslin', would really release his financials and follow the requirements of Presidential office seeking?
Also. like so many ventures in his well documented life (which would really work against him),I believe that this fake Presidential run has harmed any vestige of believability that he may have had.
Really, America is heading to a full-blown Idiocracy, led by the people "behind the curtain", hopefully they (WE) are not SO far along that path that a well known (and thrice bankrupt and re-married) clown like Trump, could really be taken seriously, Reality show and all.
Is Kate + eight going to run for Congress next?

[HolyCity2012]

8. Secretary of State Cake Boss

[KT2000]

33. No - I meant he would

drop out of appearing on Dave's show because he knows Dave will confront him with the racists issue.
I never thought he would really run - he is a hustler looking to prop up his tv ratings. But I still don't get why he went after Obama the way he did.

[libmom74]

36. I have a suspicion (unfounded) that

he is being paid off by the Koch brothers. It seems like he popped on to the scene right at about the same time that they were getting a bunch of media attention (which they hate) and diverted all of the media and public's attention to himself. The timing just seems a little suspicious. The good thing about the Donald is that he is showing off the true, crazy, stinking rotten roots of the GOP which will make moderates run away from them, the bad thing is so much energy is going into discussing him I'm worried about what is going on under the radar.

[KT2000]

44. sounds reasonable

There had to be something in it for Trump and for him to come right out of the gate with all the racist attacks had to have come from some kind of plan.
You are right - it is more important to keep an eye on the Kochs than Trump.

[thelordofhell]

48. Apparently swift boat Corsi gave the T-rump an advanced copy of his birther book

and T-rump read it and thought it was non-fiction

[Thornleylv]

5. Phony TV doctor

Dr. Phil showed his true self. "He didn't think it could be SPUN this way" give me a break. There is only one way to take it. I am white and I am not stupid I know when a bigot is a bigot. If you try to explain what trump did you are a bigot also. Sorry it is just that way. I know now Dr. Phil is not the perfect person he pretends to be.

Look I feel it is one way or the other. If you think trump is in anyway correct or is not being racist you are just as guilty. Well I will stand and say I will not just let this go not this time. This time I will not just let it go without voicing my outrage.

[lucca18]

25. Well said!

Trump has been despicable to Obama, and Phil sits there defending Trump...
Disgusting.

[ScottLand]

6. So if he became president, would we have to say

"sorry, world, our president just doesn't think things through" every once in a while? No thanks.

[greiner3]

9. This will boost Trump's rating amongst Republicans;

Just saying.

[HolyCity2012]

10. David Letterman, Bill Maher - 04.25.11

“I don’t have any respect for the teabaggers, and I do call them teabaggers, even though they hate it,” Maher said during an appearance on David Letterman’s show. Then he made them an offer: “I will stop calling them teabaggers when they stop calling it Obamacare.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x577560

[ReggieVeggie]

11. Trump is ginning up controversy for his show

that's all he cares about

[HolyCity2012]

12. You know that, I know that

That easily recognizable fact has not stopped the citizens of Democratic Underground's video section from constantly posting about him.

Donald Trump is a distraction at best.

Donald Trump is not and should not be an issue for Progressives & Liberals.

[L. Coyote]

22. He is just inflating the value of his brand name, and might bankrupt that effort too.

[BobTheSubgenius]

55. I respectfully disagree.

I think he also cares about his enormous ego.

[kenfrequed]

13. "That's pretty hard on him?"

Really Dr Phil? That's what you say when Letterman rightly states that Trump should apologize? "That's pretty hard on him?"

Gods a stupid self-help pop psych punk. Go back and cart out another worthless book or something you shmuck.

[Loge23]

15. "...on to Bin Laden!"

Letterman, who clearly is the MS late-night counter-point to the righty-leaning Leno, also had a great line on his monologue:
To paraphrase: "Well, the Birth Certificate thing is all cleared up - now it's on to Bin Laden!"

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. Good for Dave

I like how as he ages, and especially after his heart bypass, he is developing a don't-give-a-shit attitude with his political opinions, which are obviously more liberal. From his ridiculing of W. Bush in the "Great moments in Presidential Speeches" to calling Bill O'Reilly a baffoon and telling him "I have a feeling that 60% of what you say is crap" to his face.

[BREMPRO]

26. The "..60% of what you say is crap" to O 'Liely's face was priceless! Fresh air... n/t

[tblue37]

38. I liked the time when he said to O'Reilley, "I have always thought of you

as a thug."

[Raschel]

53. Good post. And we can't forget Dave's unrelenting attacks on McCain for his no-show.

[rosesaylavee]

23. Love Dave. A lot. Hate Dr. Phil. A lot.

Dave is a breath of fresh air.

[valerief]

31. + a gazillion

[boycottfaux]

27. Trump's Shit List

Soooo, how many people have had the nerve to call Trump out
for his racists remarks and who are now on Trump's shit list?

Good for them and screw him . .

[Ken Burch]

35. In a few weeks, Trump's Shit List will be as star-studded as Nixon's Enemies List

People will be calling The Donald out just to get on it!

[ChiciB1]

32. I'm White, Live In Florida & Accents Have NOTHING Much To Do With

racism as far as I'm concerned, BUT when it comes to Dr. Phil (who I would never watch) it's pretty obvious to me that he's either a Tea-Bagger or at the VERY least a hard core Repuke!

I come from a family of 6 girls and have ONE sister who lives in Texas and is actually a Repuke. She LOVES Dr. Phil and is always talking "gooooooooooood" about him. She also believes Obama is the anti-Christ which is waaaaaaaay off the wall, and she's a fundamentalist too!

It ain't the accent, it's HIM!

[xchrom]

34. recommend

[HolyCity2012]

37. ....

Do we think America is teetering on the edge of collapse because of the thoughts and opinions of Dr.Phil & Donald Trump?

I think America is headed for doom because people who claim to be Liberal & Progressive are paying so much of their attention towards what TV stars have on their minds.

[chervilant]

59. hmm...

Perhaps, if the 'people who claim to be Liberal & Progressive' had been 'paying so much of their attention' towards St. Ronnie...

I think US citizens' doom is predicated on their hedonism and deceit. Time to look in the mirror, and take personal responsibility for where the United States is heading in the next few years.

[butterfly77]

39. Yeah,Dr. Phil he couldn't be racist..

after all he is the Donald,and the Donald doesn't have a racist bone in his body....BULLSHIT!!!

I love watching some of these people in the entertainment,sports,media,etc..They always hem and haw about how in certain ways he isn't a racist or some of the other racists.

They seem to be afraid to call it what it is "RACIST " for some reason the media always manages to blame the person or persons who are being hurt,discriminated against, or harmed in someway due to racism,OR maybe they could be racist too. Or maybe it depends on who is where there bread is being buttered...

[Dont call me Shirley]

41. Watch and listen as the psychologist defends the abuser...

Dr Phil, you totally lost any inkling of respect you had. I wonder if Oprah, who gave you your fame, would defend Donald the Bigot's many racist remarks.

[PSzymeczek]

51. I wonder if, looking back,

Oprah has any regrets about inflicting Dr. Phil on us.

[Johnny Morales]

42. DAVE is a stand out

[bongbong]

43. Dr Phil

Unless Dr Phil has had Trump thoroughly analyzed - maybe 10 years of 5 sessions a week type psychotherapy - he is being disingenuous about his diagnosis that Trump "doesn't have a racist bone in his body".

Reminds me of "Dr" Frist diagnosing Schiavo via video feed.

[BrandonVilner]

47. Way to "tell it like it is" Phil

Isn't Dr Phil supposed to be the guy who calls a spade a spade and a racist a racist? Of course I know that's all a put on, but if ol' Phil really isn't insightful enough to see BLATANT racism then I don't think he should be calling himself a therapist.

[lunasun]

50. go dave tell it!

and of which president and his academics should Trump have questioned if not racist?

http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/obama-trump-ivy-league-education/

Sara Palin these same folks who agree with trump would never think a second about her academic past

[SHRED]

52. Dr. Phil is a POS

[JDPriestly]

54. What? Is Dr. Phil afraid of admitting the truth about Donald Trump?

Why?