Blacks and liberals, take 3: where is the love?
White liberals and black Obama supporters: not on the same page.
My third bite at the “black Obama supporters vs white liberals” kerfuffle, posted right now at TheGrio.
In which I interview Eugene (Gene) Lyons, author of the “Melissa Harris Perry is a fool” / KKK column at Salon. Also talked to Imani Gandy of AngryBlackLady, Professor Blair Kelley, Joan Walsh, and a few bloggers on background, to protect them from the herd.
Sarah Palin’s race-based Michelle Obama slam
If you had any doubts that a Sarah Palin presidential run would be a full-on, racially charged assault on the first family, dripping with references to Jeremiah Wright and accusations that the Obamas don’t really love America, this should remove that doubt for good. Read more
Easy, Clarence … read the exit polls
My friend Clarence McKee, and I call him my friend because I really do like him, and even moreso his wife, who I used to work with, is one of those black Republicans who are over the moon at Jennifer Carroll becoming the lieutenant governor of Florida. Black Republicans, who spend much of their time feeling maligned and marginalized within Black America, or defending Clarence Thomas against … well … humans … and trying to explain that black tea partyers like Allen West aren’t nuts (though Allen West actually is nuts, but that’s another post…) see in Ms. Carroll a chance to finally make inroads into the mass of Black Americans who just have no use for the Republican Party. So how did the Scott-Carroll ticket do with black folk last Tuesday? Read more
The Florida Senate race goes from bizarre to ridiculous
Is Charlie Crist going all Ginny Thomas on Kendrick Meek?
So… Kendrick Meek has gone from saying he never ever had a conversation with anybody, especially former President Clinton, to admitting that he and Clinton kinda-sorta talked about the metaphysical concept of someone much like him theoretically dropping out of a race on the ethereal plane of unreality, to playing voicemails of Charlie Crist asking to meet with him about dropping out of the Senate race? Can we just call off the election now and all go home?
Related: Oh for Crist’s sake … Adviser says Charlie would definitely caucus with Dems…
Back to the ridiculousness… Read more
At TheGrio: Kaine asks Dems to stand with Obama one more time
My interview with DNC chairman Tim Kaine is live at TheGrio.com now. And while you’re there, read Dr. Wilmer J. Leon’s excellent piece on the Fox News right’s attempted ghettoization of Barack Obama.
P.M. clicks: Beck’s white pride problem, and the amazing, super-fantastic, disappearing oil
How does a gazillion gallons of oil just disappear? Good question. Maybe someone should ask BP’s lawyers.
Meanwhile, enjoy the cut-rate BP gasoline, if you can bear to belly up to the pump.
Hitchens don’t fear the reaper.
It took 3 months, but Charlie Crist has finally lost his mustache.
Jeb! will try to salvage Bill McCollum’s floundering campaign.
One of David Rivera’s primary opponents launches an anti-Rivera website, putting all of Rivera’s sliminess in one convenient place.
And Kendrick Meek — who once was the presumed U.S. Senate nominee, with Bill Clinton for a friend, launches his “Real Dem bus tour” by casting himself as the underdog vs. Jeff Greene.
Glenn Beck sure knows how to deep-six a problem. Via Little Green Footballs, word that whoever runs Beck’s Twitter account has deleted ALL of his favorites, after one of them turned out to be an avowed white nationalist. Oops!
And speaking of prejudice, having been exposed as a rank, useless hypocrite, the ADL’s Abe Foxman backs down on the Ground Zero mosque, which now has all the permits needed to go forward. Foxman efforts an explanation of himself at the HuffPo.
There’s still plenty of crazy out there, of course, including some guy named Robert Kunst, president of the ironically-named Shalom International, who deposited the following drek into my and many other in-boxes this morning, announcing he’ll be throwing a protest not far from my house, in front of an old folks residential complex: Read more
Morning clicks: Fox in the front row
The inside baseball buzz Sunday night was the Fox News, while not inheriting Helen Thomas’ chair in the White House briefing room (the chair went to the Associated Press) will move to the front row nonetheless. The better to quiz Robert Gibbs about the New Black Panther Party and President Obama’s birth certificate, I presume…
Also at Politico, are black lawmakers being singled out for ethics probes?
And Charlie Rangel tweets his supporters.
Mr. President, just don’t say “mission accomplished.”
Meanwhile, the Republicans new gambit to literally zombify white voters with xenophobic drugs: revoking birthright citizenship.
Eric Cantor’s got Marco Mania!
And Kendrick Meek is finally getting press attention, but not the kind he wants … Read more
ICYMI: The unintentionally hilarious ‘Uni-Tea’ rally (featuring Andrew Breitbart)
And in case you’ve been wondering where soon-to-be plaintiff Andrew Breitbart has scurried off to … Read more
Burning questions: when Steele meets Breitbart
Strange bedfellows: Michael Steele and Andrew Breitbart
TPMDC is reporting that the RNC will hold a 3-day fundraising extravaganza in Beverly Hills next month, at which hip-hop Republican chairman Michael Steele will share opening night hosting duties with none other than right wing “media” blowtorch Andrew Breitbart (invite here). Read more
The irony of the Obama-Meek situation **UPDATED**
Two years ago, Kendrick Meek was among the first Congressional Black Caucus members, along with the dean of the CBC, John Lewis of Georgia, Meek’s mentor, the late Stephanie Tubbs-Jones of Ohio, Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas, and the other two Black Congresspeople from Florida, Alcee Hastings and Corinne Brown, to back Hillary Clinton over her upstart, African-American challenger, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. Back then, when I interviewed Hastings on the radio, asking why he and so many of his colleagues chose Hillary over Obama, he said it was because “we really don’t know him. We know her.” It was about relationships, and loyalty, not racial solidarity. Now, those same CBC members have changed their minds, and they are stepping up their demands that President Obama do more to support Meek’s Senate campaign. Read more
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