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Eric Boehlert of Media Matters Race Baits on GMA

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  July 22nd, 2010 at 05:00 AM  | 

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Please take a moment to watch the debate on Good Morning America between Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America and Andrew Brietbart of, among other outlets, Big Government.  Eric Boehlert states the following about the Tea Party movement:

There are clearly racist elements.  If you look at the Tea Party media, Glenn Beck is now saying that Barack Obama is orchestrating a race war.  Rush Limbaugh is saying that Obama is keeping unemployment artificially high to extract revenge on white America.  There are clearly racist elements.  There is race baiting.  The’re out of control and Andrew’s smear of Shirley Sherrod is the latest example.

Where is the evidence that Glenn Beck said “Obama is orchestrating a race war?”  What Beck said, according to Media Matters own audio link is Glenn Beck requests on his radio show for his listeners to research racist left wing groups.


Black liberation theology, Black Panthers, Reverends white or black, doesn’t matter.  Anybody in the Weather Underground, old film clips, old documentaries, anything from the 1960′s radicals.  Look for what they were saying and please send them to me.  Do it at Twitter account Glen Beck.  Do it at Fox Tips at FOX News.com.  I will tell you that it fills up rapidly.  I need you to pull it off.  I need you to archive it.  Burn it to a DVD because a lot of times these things will be scrubbed.  I also want anybody to go through all of the Jeremiah Wright texts looking for this context “collective salvation.”  This is critical because it ties the left together.  It is a part of social justice.  If you can do none of those things, I ask you to do this, I ask you to unite with people and be peaceful.  These guys need a response.  This is what they have been waiting for.  They want a race war.  We must be peaceful people.  They are going to poke and poke and poke and our government is going to stand by and let them do it.  We must be .. we must take the role of Martin Luther King.  Because I don’t believe that Martin Luther King believed in “kill all white babies.”    

That is far different than saying that Obama is orchestrating a race war.  Also, would a racist quote Martin Luther King, if he were making a racist point.  Nope.  When you put the Beck statement in context, unlike the race baiters at Media Matters, then you get the whole picture.  Beck is making a point.  There are left wing racists who want to do harm to people on the base of race. And Beck is worried that this Administration that allow groups like the New Black Panther Party to block access to voting booths without sanction would not be aggressive in stopping it. 

As for the alleged Rush Limbaugh quote “Obama is keeping unemployment artificially high to extract revenge on white America” – Rush never said that.  Here is the full quote from Media Matters own web site:

This man has not lifted a finger to create any private sector jobs and the dirty little secret is that he does not intend to.  Why aren’t we growing jobs in this country like we used to?  Why aren’t we?  It’s not hard to do.  All kinds of text book evidence.  Real life historical evidence of how to do it.  We are not doing it.  We are not doing it on purpose.  It’s pay back time.  All those people who are unemployed.  It is time for you to learn what it is like to be an American all these 200 years.  Greatest country on earth.  Super power.  Well, might have been for some people.  You are going to find out what is has been like for 200 years for some of us to be an American. It is pay back time.  That is what is going on here.   

Now we all know that Rush uses humor to make a point.  I don’t think anybody really believes that Rush didn’t have his tongue firmly implanted in his cheek when he said this.  He was mocking the President, but you can’t credibly conclude that Rush is racist because he was making fun of President Obama for the Stimulus plan and high unemployment numbers.  Rush was making a joke — lighten up Media Matters.

Eric Boehlert of Media Matters smears Beck, Limbaugh and Brietbart as all being racists.  The irony is this is in a debate about race baiting, yet Media Matters official spokesman accuses no less than FOX News, Rush and Brietbart of racism without putting any of these comments in context.  Somebody needs to call Boehlert to the carpet for overt race baiting.  George Stephanopoulos ignored this comment and never challenged Boehlert on those serious charges. 

Is there anything worse than smearing three prominent conservatives of racism without carefully making a case that these individuals are actually racist?  It is an effective tool that the left has used to attack conservatives.  Just call them racists and you put conservatives on the defensive.  You have to remember that the Journolist trained left wing media types to call conservatives racist as a means to discredit them.  It is an overt and explicit tactic as reported by the Daily Caller.   Spencer Ackerman of the Washington independent urged members of the Journolist (a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists) to accuse conservatives of racism when dealing with the controversy over Barack Obama’s relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright:

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Boehlert clearly is following that strategy and calling the leaders of the conservative media racists without providing any substantive evidence to support that charge.  Maybe it is time for Boehlert to step down from his perch at Media Matters for race baiting.

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  • johna650

    Breitbart clearly pointed out to the GMA audience it was the reaction of Sherrod’s NAACP audience clapping and cheering at her description of the white farmer she considered not helping he was exposing. Breitbart obviously had reviewed the entire video and was not accusing Sherrod of racism. He is accusing the sanctimonious NAACP of racism and that is clear from the video he presented. Only a few far left loons take Media Matters seriously anyway.

  • johna650

    Breitbart clearly pointed out to the GMA audience it was the reaction of Sherrod’s NAACP audience clapping and cheering at her description of the white farmer she considered not helping he was exposing. Breitbart obviously had reviewed the entire video and was not accusing Sherrod of racism. He is accusing the sanctimonious NAACP of racism and that is clear from the video he presented. Only a few far left loons take Media Matters seriously anyway.

  • edintexas

    Breitbart has stated that the video clip he initially put out on the net was all of the video he was sent. He stated that he did not edit the video, as some have alleged. He now has a little more video available as Fox News obtained a slightly longer clip, but unless/until the NAACP releases the entire video we don’t know what else is there – or not there.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    I don’t think that is true anymore. Next time any conservative is on any show or forum and a lefty accuses anyone of racism, Just say, “You people always accuse us of racism, you are race baiting liars.”

    That’s it, just let that be the standard response. Because the race card has been played so often people are sick of it.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    I don’t think that is true anymore. Next time any conservative is on any show or forum and a lefty accuses anyone of racism, Just say, “You people always accuse us of racism, you are race baiting liars.”

    That’s it, just let that be the standard response. Because the race card has been played so often people are sick of it.

  • jiminga

    is the last resort for a desperate left wing that knows they are about to lose power in congress. They realize they are losing the debate and have resorted to this in order to stir up their base. Since there is no presidential election they must find a way to get their voters out and have chosen hate as the motivator. It won’t work.

  • baldbarian

    You talk about preparing the battlefield for the lefty view of the situation..

    AB stumbled out of the gate but then collected himself and did a fine job. The other clown was smooth in his presentation but he only had to remember his zombie talking points. Makes it a lot easier when you never plan to answer a real question but instead just repeat how racist the right is.

    So why has no one collected the $100k and yet ABC and Soros’ MM still gets to say the TeaParty spits and N-words their way across the mall?

    Logic speaks “4 videos.. 4 videos.. 4 videos”.. Zombie – “Tea Party racist”.

  • http://itsaboutfreedom.proboards.com/index.cgi#general bigalsouth

    They want context? Racism at the USDA was not the point of discussion. It was the racism inherent in the NAACP that was the point of the video.

    But then again, I don’t have an agenda as does Boehlert.

  • bigmaude

    what Barack obama’s TRUE intentions were when he ran for and then became president??? I’ll tell you what, divide and conquer is what. As we discuss this “racial” issue, he signed the bill for “reform” on wall street, what ELSE is he up to while he stirs the pot of destruction? I grew up in Florida and the “n” word was not allowed even though it was in the 60′s. Here we are in 2010 and this country is more divided inEVERY WAY since the messiah was elected. Oh how I wish I had a platform on how Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger’s whole reason for beginning PP was to DESTROY the Negro race. Now THERE’S racism………EVIL
    GODLESS PEOPLE DO GODLESS THINGS!

  • http://www.twitter.com/RS_yoyo yoyo

    And he clearly explained that his intention (you know, the road to Hell is paved with those) was to call out the NAACP, not Shirley.

    From the interview, I believe the point he wanted to make with this clip was to draw attention to the AUDIENCE, the clapping, the praise, the affirmations they gave all through her speech – right up to the point where she said she realized that it was not Black v White, but rather Poor v Not Poor. Help was needed and expected. The entire experience became her “A-HA” moment.

  • renny

    They were the party of slavery.

    The GOP was founded as a party of anti-slavery.

    The Dem. Party ruled the South and started the Civil War, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, fought civil rights movements right into filibustering the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1974, all racist mongering.

    Lincoln, the first GOP president, fought the Civil War and won while emancipating slavery.

    The liberals promoted the drug culture as cool (kewell) and the sexual promiscuity as cool (kewell) and the welfare of the 1960s that broke up the black and other minority or poor families, all racial targeting.

    Critics, even liberal critics like Pat Moynihan, who predicted the terrible consequences of a welfare state were criticized as racists by the racist left.

    Then they acknowledged they think blacks are inferior and second-class citizens by inventing affirmative action.

    In NY State, the nitwit Albany leg. just passed a law to stop cops from keeping records or people stopped but not arrested. Crime in NYC will go sky high. And the most crimes are black on black, so the law is particularly a racist law against minorities.

    The Dems. and their unrelenting union support ruined the public school system, which has proven worse for blacks than any other group.

    All racist and on-going Dem. programs and culture.

  • streiff

    is a master baiter

  • gwalt

    Still say we need to openly in public, in a media campaign challenge the elite’s (Stepphie, Sawyer, Lauer) to be more honest.

    Put up ads questioning their motives. Steele has managed to mis-mange and blunder the RNC campaign coffers. A couple of hundred thousand on a media campaign challenging them to be more fair would have done a lot more than the millions spent on travel, food, and bondage clubs.

    Breitbart openly criticized a news anchor of Tea Party smears and he said he never smeared them and Brietbart said “I didn’t say you, I said your network”. The anchor didn’t even try to deny that claim.

    There have been a lot of other sites commenters stating that we follow politics closely, others never do it, but rely on the alphabets for their info. Start getting those folks to notice that something is awry and it is a win.

  • wrenhal

    “Everytime someone like you on the left runs out of REAL debate material you resort to lying about racism. Your part of the discussion is obviously over so I’ll just take the remainder of this interview to prove you wrong.” And then proceed to just barage the host with facts on the topic that have nothing to do with race, or prove the racism of the other side.

  • fpete13527

    You nailed it perfectly!!!

  • tngal

    The rest of Spencer Ackerman’s quote.
    ________

    This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.
    _________________

    There is no need to defend ourselves against this. Any lefty will view comments as sputtering rather than dialogue. ..+ Oh, look. They’re sputtering, They’re so mad its all they can talk about. You’re right Ack, they’re getting enraged.*

    We knew they were on a race meme during the campaigns we just didn’t know who to give founding credit to in the bibliography. Now we know.
    Give the daily caller credit for outing them, But slurs and defense techniques only emboldens them. They are not worth it.

  • Brian Darling

    He accused Brietbart of being a racist for posting a video on his web site. How is that racism? The guy went on national TV and accused three prominent conservatives of being racists and provided no credible evidence to back it up. How did George S. let him get away with that unchallenged? If I called Boehlert a communist or disparaged the way he looks, then I would be under attack for hate mongering. This clown gets away with calling three prominent conservatives racists without any challenge? GMA should be ashamed of themselves.
    Media Matters is a liberal hate organization without any redeeming qualities. They are a rubber stamp for all Obama Administration policies and call everybody they disagree with racists. I bet they are rewarded with access and invites to cool parties at the White House.
    Boehlert and Media Matters should be ashamed of themselves. They are unethical and they are guilty of using libel as a weapon to silence critics.

  • romeg

    depends on the definition of “Racist”. According to the generally accepted definition of “racist” [a belief that one race is superior to another or all others; a belief that competence or ability in a given field of endeavor is determined by racial traits] then none of these three are racists.

    But in the dumbed down definition of the word used by the left, a ‘racist’ is someone who disagrees with someone of a different race IF AND ONLY IF THE ONE IN DISAGREEMENT IS WHITE AND THE OTHER PERSON IS NOT. Hence, any White person who disagrees with Obama is a racist, regardless of whether or not the disagreement has anything whatsoever to do with the ISSUE of RACE.

    So a former Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan can utter remarks that clearly betray his deep seated racism but not be considered a ‘Racist’ because he has ‘repented’ and been ‘redeemed’ while someone for whom there is not a scintilla of a shred of evidence that he harbors a racist thought and for whom evidence to the contrary abounds is a racist by these lights.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

    They always extract quotes out of context in order to stir up hate against their preferred Republican or Conservative targets. They lie. They cover up the truth. Their only goal is to stir up hatred. They are a hate group. Why would any fair person pay a shred of attention to them?

    That is a pretty good line of attack. I like it!

  • johnt

    After a while people turn off to overdone messages, incessant name calling may satisfy the hate drives of the left but it wears poorly.
    Did Brietbart ask Boehlert about Obama’s twenty years in Wright’s church?

  • http://www.dirkworld.com dirkbelig

    …is to blaze the smear artists with FACTS like these:

    “Conservatives want black children to get a good education and support vouchers to get them out of failed government schools. The Democrats oppose this because the unions tell them to trap students in failing schools. A Republican started the program in D.C. to help their students and Obama killed it because satisfying rich and powerful teachers unions is more important than helping poor minority children. Who are the racists holding children back?

    Conservatives want minorities to be educated so they can have good jobs and be self-reliant. Malcolm X preached self-reliance. The Democrats have spent 45 years destroying the black family, turning once-thriving cities into blighted wastelands, driving black men out of families and fostering a pathology that’s led to babies having babies and vast swaths of America who believe that unless they can bust a rhyme, hit the jump shot, or deal drugs that prosperity will never be attainable. Liberals perpetuate this dependency and hopelessness in order to maintain their power. Who are the racists holding minorities down based on the theory that if you teach a man to fish, he’ll eat a lifetime, but if you give a man a fish, he’ll be a loyal voter on Election Day?

    The perversity of the racist Left has them accusing us of racism when we’re the ones trying to uplift the unfortunate from the squalor and dependency that liberals keep pushing them back into. Conservatives want good schools, safe cities, solid families, and independent citizens who take care of themselves. Liberals like Eric Boehlert want dependency, welfare, children trapped in conditions where they can’t learn, out-of-wedlock births, no fathers around, unsafe streets, drugs, and eternal hopelessness all in the name of maintaining political power. The Left needs blacks to stay on the mental plantation, afraid to run away from their oppressors and use fear and smear tactics to keep them down; all while proclaiming themselves the protectors of the poor. How can keeping people poor and hopeless for your own enrichment be anything but racist.

    Walter Williams* said that the Ku Klux Klan in their wildest dreams couldn’t have done as much damage on black society as the liberals have done in 45 years of Great Society war on the poor. If we had the terrible record of failure for minorities that the Democrats did, we’d be looking to shift blame on someone else, too.

    But the facts are clear, it’s the Left and Democrats who have to explain why they’ve built their entire power structure on the premise that keeping minorities poor, ignorant, dependent and hopeless is good job security. Conservatives have nothing to be ashamed of for we want EVERYONE to succeed who makes the effort. The way liberals attack minorities who join the Tea Party or run as Republicans says it all. They want minorities chained up to the Dem plantation, not living as free peoples.”

    Too bad 99% of Republicans are too chickenpoop to stand up with truth against the lies. Make the Dems play some defense! Make them explain why trillions of dollars and decades of liberal welfare has only created more dependency and poverty. It’s as if that was the desired result all along. Hmmmm…..

    * It may’ve been Thomas Sowell.

  • bobojake

    During the last 66 years I have watch this numerous times LIARS and Cheats seem to get away with their lies and cheats but then it gobbles them up. I predict the Cheif Liar obama has met his match as the Real TRUTH of rev wright, farbegon, bragovich is being digested by the citizens.voters,taxpayers. Now the real work begins in revoking all the racist elcrapo obama has installed in our government after we throw him and his obama crats out.

  • IJB
  • http://www.facebook.com/vidaestrada Veronica

    those guys are so illegitimate.

    They are bastard children to the devil with their lies.

    Were they hootin’ and hollerin’ when Reid made his “no negro”-Obama comments?

    Then there were others..

    I applaud every conservative’s defense of this issue. I recall Karl Rove’s WSJ piece where he severely regretted staying silent about the War when Bush began to get bombarded with the worst criticism.

    Leave no accusation unanswered.

  • qixlqatl

    I wouldn’t be so sure it won’t work, Jim… It did for Hitler.

  • Ireland

    This is a Obama diary entry from Laura Ingraham?s book about the Obama and the Tea Party:

    March 24, 2010:

    Those tea-baggers won?t be able to weather the storm I?ve prepared for them. The tactics we have set in motion are unbelievable. They put me through hell over the last year. Now it?s their turn. First, we rammed the health-care bill down their miserable throats; now we?re discrediting them faster than the Palin clan can clean out a room full of swag bags!

    It came to me during a call with Louise Slaughter that day of the healthcare vote. She was relaying the discontent in her district over the way we ignored the will of the people. The Tea Partiers are jamming the Congressional phone lines, saying that come November there?ll be ?hell to pay.? This is always the last cry of the oppressors as they fall. As a community organizer; I?ve heard this talk my whole life. There?s only one way to fight back. Do horrible things in the enemy and make sure somebody covers it.

    Papa Alinsky said: ?The first step in community organization is community disorganization.? I told Louisa to get some of her staffers to chuck a few bricks through the front window of her offices in New York?the weep and moan about it in the morning to the press. Blame it on the tea-baggers. Valerie (Jarrett) thought it would be even better if they could tape some tea bags to the bricks. I agreed.

    Meanwhile, we got a few of our SEIU activists to do some lesser things around the country: egg a few residences, throw toilet paper in the trees, cut some propane lines on outdoor grills. They?re not doing any of this at the homes of the congressmen (and this was sheen genius on my part). Instead, it?ll all happen at the houses of congressional relatives! I figured that?s exactly what these goofball Republicans would do, right? Flip through a phone book, get the wrong address, and go on a destructive spree. The coverage is already a thing of beauty.

    Then we?ve got the racist, homophobic tactical front. On the day of the vote Nancy (Pelosi) and the gang walked right through the tea-baggers to draw fire?and they didn?t do a thing! (David (Plouffe) thought they would at least throw a bucket of water on Pelosi or toss a rotten tomato or two at Rosa DeLauro?something. But since Nancy and the others reached the Capitol unscathed, they turned to plan B; spread the story that the protesters verbally and physically attacked congressmen. Some old white man was apparently screaming at a member of the Black Caucus, congressmen Emanuel Clever, about his taxes going up, when saliva flew out. The headlines in the Post the next day read: ?Tea Party Protesters Accused of Spitting on Lawmakers.? You can?t make this stuff up. The press is saying this shows the racism of the tea-baggers. If drops of saliva flying during a conservation are the new standard for racism, somebody better write up Barney Frank for attacking the person of the president. When hr addresses my I feel like I should be wearing a Hazmat Suit?the saliva flies all over my jacket. Reggie (Love) says it?s impossible to get those stains out.

    Speaking of Frank, he?s now making the rounds saying that the Tea Partiers screamed ?anti-gay? chants as he crossed the Capitol grounds. I don?t have the heat to tell him that those t-shirted throngs were probably all Organize for America volunteers. This thing is working like s charm; even the victims are plying along?

    What diary entries show thought out the book is the Obama is in charge of orchestrating a lot of stuff sitting in the Oval office plotting and planning to attack Americans with his policies, destroying his opposition whether it was the taxpayers, Republicans in Congress or the tea-baggers and Sarah Palin. For someone who said that Sarah Palin was a non-issue, she should does talk about her a lot. She?s getting to him with her comments about how well or poorly he is doing.

    We have proof that the Tea Party DC rally did absolutely nothing, yet they?ve been badmouth in the press and it was all orchestrated by Obama. I have no doubt this man thinks he and his administration can do anything and get away with it.

    Instead of the Tea Parties demonstrating against Obama and his administration, we are on the defense trying say we aren?t racist. I think we need to ignore these attacks and just concentrate on him and his policies. I think eventually it will blow him out of the water. They are doing the same thing with this Shirley Sherrod story, trying to turn it against Fox News making claims they said something even before the story broke. At this point I would bet that Obama said she could have her job back so long as she badmouth FoxNews and especially, Glenn Beck.

    After reading this book it only shows me how much contempt the Democrats have for the people, their employer. They call people names and Obama referred to the Mexican as wetbacks. Now, who is the racist?

    I don?t normally do this recommendation, by I think America should buy this book ?The Obama Diaries? so that they can see what this arrogant, self-absorb, egomaniacal pricks that they are. They all write about each other and not in a good way. The Democrats secretly despise each and resent others. I think one of the funnier more entertainment entries are Marian Robinson (Michelle mother) and Joe ?hound dog? Biden. He is hysterical, I laughed so hard I cried. Buy it, rent it from the Library it?s worth the read.

    Thanks Ireland

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    that is why I suggested my own pithy response.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    that is why I suggested my own pithy response.

  • Ireland

    The brick through Louise Slaughter did have a brick go through her window. Here are some headlines:

    Brick thrown through through Louise Slaughter?s office window. Read the article to refresh your memory.

    http://www.libertarianpunk.com/2010/03/brick-thrown-through-in-louise-slaughters-office-window/

  • oxowhitney

    You put it better than I’ve heard yet. Appreciate it!!

  • gomonkeygo

    A canny racist or race-baiter can have a field day denying his or her racism or race-baiting by simply hiding behind the words of Martin Luther King Jr or any person of color. It’s a very effective tool used to keep one’s opponents off-balance and make one’s self harder to criticize. If Glenn Beck quotes MLK Jr but mocks social justice, he’s no supporter of King or his ideals. He’s just hiding behind a dead man’s words.

  • Achance

    Social Justice is simply code for communism and only useful idiots think it is anything else. Beck may be lots of things but he isn’t a racist. He’s just using the left’s tactic of holding them to their own standards. You have read Saul Alinsky, haven’t you?

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    than you are, You see, he actually longs for that day when men are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    than you are, You see, he actually longs for that day when men are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

  • Doc Holliday

    what is with the screen name btw?

  • merryj1

    Breitbart stated that he did not have nor see the entire clip – he posted what he had received, and said that the NAACP had the full clip, as the event where Sherrod spoke was an NAACP event. You’re right, though, that he was not accusing Sherrod of racism, he has repeatedly explained that he was demonstrating that the NAACP itself — in light of its condemnation of the Tea Parties for “not condemning” any racism in its crowds — might want to monitor its own crowds before casting aspersions elsewhere.

  • merryj1

    What worked for Hitler was the “November Criminals,” and then the need for “liebensraum” (living space — Hitler wanted peace: a piece of Poland, a piece of Austria, a piece of Czechoslovakia…) His “blame the Jews for everything” meme came later.

  • msctex

    . . .is the Catholic Church’s desperate reaction to the Age of Reason, in its modern form. It is a euphemism for Income Redistribution, nothing more and nothing less, with Income Redistribution of course itself another term for Socialism, as some entity has to be in charge of the “distributing”.

    Using the term in a serious manner will only get you laughed out of any conversation among reasonable people. It requires a remarkable bastardization of the concept of Justice as well. But, a good Liberal follows their Feelings as opposed to their brain every time, so such anomalies of logic are just another sacrifice toward the Greater Good.

  • merryj1

    No one with a brain cell working can avoid mocking or dismissing “social justice,” whether or not they quote MLK, Jr.

    Cardinal Ratzinger’s (now Pope Benedict XVI) 1984 paper on Liberation Theology rather thoroughly dispatched “social justice” as an abomination, and its promotion in the guise of Christian thought as deceptive and deliberately misleading — in short, demonic.

    But, if that’s the side you want to come down on, go right ahead.

  • merryj1

    A handful of Catholic priests in Latin America do not and never did speak for or set policy for the Catholic Church. Benedict XVI, the current Pope and leader of the Church addressed Liberation Theology and social justice in 1984 and thoroughly discredited and denounced the entire concept and identified its communist origins and designs (he was(then Cardinal Ratzinger).

  • msctex

    . . .I took a philosophy class called “Problems in Social Justice.” And I can assure you, nothing negative whatsoever was said about the subject (at least by the professor).

    That said, it was an open-minded and wide-ranging class. But the ideas behind Social Justice go back far further than the organized Communist movements of the 20th Century — “Social Justice” is just a re-branding. In the simplest of nutshells, the Church went so far as to coin the phrase “the arrogance of Reason.” That really says all that can be said. The Age of Reason had its vocal opponents, the Catholic Church high among them. It was, just as today, a matter of power over a supposedly needy minority, who supposedly needed to be taken care of by some organized group. But since one was not necessary without the other, corruption was inevitably fostered. Sound familiar? Same concept, different era.

  • redneck_hippie
  • redneck_hippie

    Saw your post on Joel Pollak…cool! Didn’t know you had your own blog…cool! Wish I was …cool! right now! :)

  • qixlqatl

    Still, getting the German people to focus negative attention on the Jewish people was an effective political tactic to distract from the deficiencies of his own regime.

  • johna650

    A vigorous defense of Breitbart must be made. I’m pleased that the despicable Ron Paul hating Hannity clarified the issue for his audience but O’Reilly has not and the Bolshevists at the MSM will not as they perpetuate the myth of a racial smear. This ties in directly with the revelations being made the past couple days about Journolist and the Bolshevist Media Conspiracy. I think its time to join the boycott the media outlets of the MSM who engage in these outrageous deceptions and conspiracies to smear American leaders. Today, I’m going to return my Macy’s card with an explanation I will no longer buy from them as long as they advertise in the Houston Chronicle. Maybe they will laugh at me, but if they get 10,000 they will get very concerned and put pressure to drop these editorial writers from the Chronicle and other papers where their distorted hate is propagandized.