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NBC News Race Card Play Rejected at Tea Party

By: Lori Ziganto (Diary)  |  April 16th, 2010 at 06:09 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Kelly O’Donnell, a white female reporter for NBC News and MSNBC, tried valiantly to stick with the lame race card talking points at yesterday’s Tea Party rally and failed miserably. Via Newsbusters:

O’DONNELL, TO MAN: There aren’t a lot of African-American men at these events.

DARRYL POSTELL, LAUGHING: Right.

O’DONNELL: Have you ever felt uncomfortable?

POSTELL: No, no, these are my people, Americans.

You see, members of the media and Progressives (redundant?) there is the difference between us right there. You see only color. We see people. Just people. Our fellow Americans.

This is just the latest example of the latent racism amongst those who claim to be embracing diversity and oh-so Post Racial ™. I guess in Newspeak terms, Post-Racial means making every single thing on Earth about race. I wonder if Miss O’Donnell learned such things at NBC Universal’s Diversity Council?

Miss O’Donnell, following your “groups containing a large number of white people must all be racist” guidelines, perhaps you should ask Mr. Postell if he’s uncomfortable watching the network that you appear on regularly:

Not a lot of African-American faces there, huh? Sigh. Often, I point and snicker at such foolishness. But, it also infuriates me. Not only because it is so blatantly the typical and tired, yet still cruel , Alinksy tactics. But, also because it sickeningly diminishes real acts of racism by the incessant and odious claims of faux racism. If everything is racist, then nothing is.

Sorry, NBC/MSNBC, but most people who live outside Ivory Towers (racist!) define themselves simply:

As people.

I hope you learn that lesson one day. The world would be a far better place.

(Cross-posted to NewsReal)

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  • hickorystick

    HS

  • Alberta
  • avgamerican

    Good post.

  • tankertodd
    • http://snarkandboobs.wordpress.com/ Lori Ziganto

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  • abeldred

    change this race based, left leaning reporting from the network? It will be interesting to see.

  • penguin2

    to hear his response. The malignant media are the instigators, trying to make a story where there is none. They are desperate to keep the race card mantra alive, because without it, they have nothing, and are nothing.

    A great rallying cry, “No, no, these are my people, Americans.” Sweet, sweet words.

  • misty

    We had a speaker at the Richmond Tea Party who was a cute petite African-American postal worker who voted for Obama. She told how she has been sorry since the day the Stimulus package passed. She has not liked one thing that he has done since being in office and she went to her first TP last year because she kept hearing about all the angry white racists and she wanted to see for herself if it was true. She found out the MSM had it wrong. She said the same thing he did, she said being with us was, ‘being with her people’.

    Obama is losing his base. And his narcissim will not allow him to see it.

    • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

      Would be awesome to post here at Redstate.

      Thank you.
      ColdWarrior, PC
      Conservatives, UNITE! TAKE OVER the Republican Party and CHANGE it and the world by becoming precinct committeemen. NOW!

      • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

        A star is born.

        Please help this video go viral.

        Thank you.

        ColdWarrior, PC
        Conservatives, UNITE! TAKE OVER the Republican Party and CHANGE it and the world by becoming precinct committeemen. NOW!

        • redneck_hippie

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW27PPN3nH8

          • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

            Thanks, just put up a Diary about her.

            The embed of the video didn’t show up in my comment that you responded to for some strange reason. I’ll try again:

            And a challenge to the Redstaters here, adept at helping make videos go viral, to work their magic. This video of Karen should be watched by EVERY American.

            Thanks!
            ColdWarrior, PC
            Conservatives, UNITE! TAKE OVER the Republican Party and CHANGE it and the world by becoming precinct committeemen. NOW!

            American first, conservative second, Republican precinct committeeman by necessity.

            http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com, so you can say,

  • greyhound31

    i am almost feeling bad for these reporters who have to keep up this line of questioning…they have to know they look like hacks,no?

    • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

      They are so indoctrinated they cannot see what clowns they have become.

      • greyhound31

        but thank god for msnbc and chris mathews…i dont need to buy jolt cola anymore..they keep me sharp(and angry)

  • spepper

    O’Donnell: FAIL

  • jmadisonfan

    should make Mr. Postell a star like Joe the Plumber. Unfortunately for Mr. Postell, the real racists (the libs for those who only get their news from the MSM) are downright ugly to people like him who speak the truth. It seems that whenever I find my faith in God and my fellow human beings flagging, something like this comes around to restore my faith. God bless you Mr. Postell. Thanks to you too Lori for a great post.

  • vmo335

    pressure nbc to show all the unedited tape of this MOTS interview..what did they not want us to see?

  • Doc Holliday

    I guess that is why we have it but I doubt Brian Williams lead off with it. Not that I would know since I have never watched his little show.

  • USNJIMRET
  • qixlqatl

    I’d give it a recco, but no button…?

  • xscd

    If conservatives only see “our fellow Americans,” then they must include liberals and progressives. I would suggest that Tea Party members don’t represent such a glowing ideal, but rather have as much of an “us and them” mindset as anyone.

    • USNJIMRET

      Speaking strictly for myself, guilty as charged.
      BTW, the gentlemen in the video didn’t say “my fellow Americans”.
      He said “Americans”.
      Which seems to me to have included everyone.
      Unless, of course, liberals and progressives see themselves as something other then Americans. (Yeah, I know they do, but that just means they are wrong, again.)

      • USNJIMRET

        Mainly because I notice that someone could conclude that I believe that liberals and progressives should be disallowed from participation in Tea Parties.
        Nothing could be further from the truth.
        However, I would state that “participation: does not equate to the usual action by said liberals and progressives. Which is to ‘suggest’ a wide variety of ‘common sense’ and ‘fair’ changes to whatever agenda the group they seek to join already has. Liberals and progressives never seem to even consider joining an existing organization, and work to promote whatever agenda already exists. They will demand, in the courts if need be, that they not only be included in some clearly NOT liberal or progressive organization, but that the existing agenda of the NOT liberal progressive organization change to reflect the liberal progressive beliefs.
        This from the same kind of liberal progressives who will physically attack a conservative speaker on a college campus, or in a book store.
        So foe me, if liberal progressives feel that their point of view is NOT sought out by the Tea Party types, well, at least they see one thing correctly.
        I have no objection to any American participating in the political process.
        But when one knows in advance that the “participation” of the liberal progressive in a clearly NOT liberal progressive event consists of the liberal progressive doing little more then name calling and the loud uttering of false ‘facts’, who needs em?

    • jmadisonfan

      or state the obvious. I don’t think you won’t find much, if any, disagreement here that liberals and progressives are our fellow Americans too. You see we believe in open an honest debate with those who hold a different point of view. In my experience, many on the liberal and progressive side do not hold that same belief.

    • Jack_Savage

      But I would submit that for anyone who yearns to take away all the things on which America was founded, being an “American” is simply a name for the spot on the map which they currently occupy.

    • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

      So when you are talking about “us and them” thinking, would that include racist gangs who target victims to rob and murder based on the color of their skin?

      Because it sounds like you are equating the completely non-race-based Tea Party movement with these race-murdering Crips. And that would be wrong.

    • merryj1

      The TEA Parties are not “conservative,” although many conservatives are TEA Partiers. But so are many (classical) liberals, libertarians, and many non-ideological and until recently, a-political Americans.

      It’s true that few, if any, progressives would want to join TEA Party events, because contemporary American progressives do not want to rein in big government. A difference is that the vast majority of TEA Partiers, conservatives, libertarians, and classical liberals do not want to silence or demonize progressives, or anyone else. The evidence suggests progressive (leadership) does want to silence and demonize all those who disagree with their agenda and core beliefs.

      Progressive thought represents less than about 18% of the populace, and there are a lot of identifying labels you could tag this bunch with; but the traditional definition of “American” is not a real good fit for those elements who want to suppress majority opinion, and are willing to use intimidation, racial demagoguery and whatever-it-takes to silence dissent.

      The “us versus them” mindset is firmly in the progressive camp. The fact that the vast majority of Americans refuse to be silenced does not reflect a similar “our side” stance, and any/all former progressives who regain their sanity would be welcomed back to the fold with open arms — they wouldn’t even have to change their opinions, they’d just have to stop trying to silence everyone else’s.

    • Scope

      It is very much an “us against them” movement. Them being lovers of big government, nanny state, freeloaders who love socialism against us being for smaller and less government, freedom, and personal responsibility people. Yes, it is very much so an “us against them” battle.

  • http://stixblog.com Black River Wolf

    Lori you are exactly right. we do not judge people by skin color, religion, what they look like. We judge people by their content. Even if I disagree with someone, I still treat them with respect, unlike the vitriolic Left.

    I could care less of Obama was a white person forcing this crap down our throats. It is his ideology that I disagree with.

  • blaze422

    invited Keith Olberman..
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubk60aNAMr4&feature=related

    FWIW, I was at the Grand Prairie Texas…. 10.000 +/- rally. It was awesome.

  • bobmontgomery

    “What are you doing here child? I don’t see a lot of coloreds here. Don’t you feel a little uncomfortable, boy?”

  • Brian Hibbert

    I’ve been politely but firmly correcting the lies told by liberals at my local newspaper’s commentary site, but this video pretty much lays bare the whole lie in 18 seconds.

    Thank you for posting this one Lori.

  • ss396

    Over at the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a handy little chart titled “Employed persons by detailed occupation, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.” There we discover the racial makeup in 2009 of “News analysts, reporters, correspondents” to be:

    1.8% – Black or African American
    0.9% – Asian
    4.0% – Hispanic or Latino

    That leaves over 90% of professional journalists are White or Caucasian. Keep that in mind the next time you hear how white the Tea Party is.

    http://bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.pdf

    • Jack_Savage

      This link now on my favorites.
      Boom. Crash. Pow.

  • AceInTX

    before right now you mean?

  • avgamerican

    They continue to drive a wedge between people on the issue of race. They don’t want racial harmony.

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    I’m proud to welcome that man to our side. He truly is one of our people.

    Sorry, Nora. No race-baiting allowed.

  • duke90

    obviously the person asking the question would feel uncomfortable if she found herself surrounded by people of a different race than her own.

    Ugly truths like this are the source of a lot of the thoughts of white “progressives” on racial matters.

  • http://www.libertytreehugger.com reverelth

    “What do I look like? Tiki Barber in a room full of NBC brass?”

  • gwalt

    with “RACISTS” printed across their foreheads.

    Let THEM (for once) explain why they aren’t the true racists. Put THEM on the defensive. I’m tired of playing defense—let’s go offense.

    I will donate 2 hundred to the billboard. Start it Redstate.

    Imagine Matthews Couric’s and Lauer’s (for starters) heads exploding.

    We’ll make the news about them.

  • bk

    The only black person on Wikipedia’s list of “News and current affairs presenters” for NBC is Bryant Gumbel, who’s been gone from Today for more than 13 years. The only other even partial non-white on the list is Ann Curry, who is half Japanese and half a mix on European and Cherokee.

    Curry and Lester Holt do substitute hosting for NBC Nightly News. I seem to recall that at one of the election nights (04 I think; maybe 06) he started out the night by having trouble figuring out the color-coded chart of House seats that had been set up to track them as they changed parties. They keep him relegated to weekend Nightly News mostly it seems.

  • blooch

    Your records are probably already being plumbed illegally by a Democrat hack in your state.