Joe Scarborough on Trayvon Martin

bravo said:
So....YOU'RE not making it political ?....what BS......we're talking a Scarborough and his opinion on this shooting and you quickly mention the GOP and conservatism as if
that is issue......you're caught again, sonny....lying through your teeth.
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it is quite simple. if onceler mentions political parties...it is not making it political. if someone on the right does....it is making it political.
 
none said:
it is quite simple. if onceler mentions political parties...it is not making it political. if someone on the right does....it is making it political.
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Did you read the OP, as well as the post I was responding to?

You're just making yourself look foolish, as usual. Think before you post, Yirked.
 
none said:
i do and my post is 100% accurate. hence your usual lame ad homs.
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Nah - you're just being dopey. Scarborough was talking about conservatives; read the OP.

That's the problem when you just "have it in" for a poster, as you do for many on here. You don't think straight. Or maybe you can't to begin with...
 
Rana said:
When they look more white than black. We had a family here in Anchorage, mom was white, dad was black, the oldest boy looked black, the younger boy white. No one believed they were brothers if you didn't know them.
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My sister has three kids and they all look different. One girl is 14 months old but she looks like the whitest cracker you've ever seen but she is 1/4 black so that makes her black. Very funny.
 
anyway.

scarborough offered no real evidence and the one example he gave was actually an example that was in RESPONSE to left wingers making the trayvon tragedy into a political football.

that is simply a fact.
 
none said:
anyway.

scarborough offered no real evidence and the one example he gave was actually an example that was in RESPONSE to left wingers making the trayvon tragedy into a political football.

that is simply a fact.
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He's a gazillion% more credible than an unintelligent right-wing hack like yourself.

Maybe a gazillion & 2....
 
cawacko said:
I'm not sure what groups or websites he's referring to here but I agree with him.


Joe Scarborough On Trayvon Martin: Conservatives Are 'Fools' For Taking Political Stance


Joe Scarborough condemned some conservatives and right-leaning websites for trying to turn Trayvon Martin's death into a political cause on Friday's "Morning Joe."

Martin was unarmed when he was shot dead by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in late February. His death and the local police department's failure to arrest Zimmerman have taken the country by storm. Scarborough has spoken out demanding the shooter's arrest.

On Friday, he excoriated some conservative websites for defending Zimmerman and questioning Martin's innocence. He said that he found their behavior "disgusting."

"Why is it that some on the right are actually taking this up as a cause?" Scarborough asked. "As National Review said almost immediately after it happened, this has nothing to do with gun rights, this has nothing to do with the Second Amendment, this has nothing to do with stand your ground laws, this has nothing to do with the NRA. This has everything to do with a guy that's trying to play security cop, who is unhinged, who chased down and shot a 17-year-old kid armed with Skittles and iced tea.'"

Scarborough warned that conservative sites should follow the National Review and "not take this up as a cause." He took issue with their portrayal of Martin in particular.

He said, "some racist websites, but also sadly some fairly mainstream websites are actually going into Trayvon Martin’s social media pages, be it Twitter or MySpace, and they're trying to find ominous looking pictures while skipping over pictures of him holding up a birthday cake smiling, him fishing with his dad, him standing outside proudly of his home dressed in a tux ready to go to prom."

"This is beneath contempt," Scarborough railed. "These people on the far right are being fools to try to make this a political issue.”

"Some out there are marginalizing themselves, making fools of themselves," he continued. He speculated that they took issue with President Obama's remarks about Martin's death. "I guess in their warped, twisted, distorted, political worldview, that makes this dead 17-year-old boy — who was kept in the morgue for three days before they even notified his parents of his whereabouts — I guess that makes it okay?" he said.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...n-martin-conservative-websites_n_1392019.html
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sorry cowack it seems you actually saw what a disaster this would be for republicans.
 
NOVA said:
Seldom watch them .....but when I've had the opportunity, they ALWAYS have an opposition view presented......and thats all I really want ...... for every big mouth to be confronted with an opposing point of view.....no matter who is the big mouth....

That does NOT happen on ANY MSNBC shows, NONE that I am aware of.....

As lame and inept as Buchanan was in explaining issues from the right, even he was silenced by MSNBC....
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Yeah, too bad an ignorant misogynist and racist supporter of Nazis couldn't find a permanent home on national cable television. Not even Murdoch was willing to hire his ignorant ass after he got canned.
 
NOVA said:
You must be talking about O'Reilly......hes the only one that will not allow a guest to lie, avoid, spin or filibuster the conversation to keep form giving a direct answer to the
issue in question.......I can understand how that pisses you pinheads off.....you're not accustomed to your politicians being bullied into actually answering a direct question.........and that is what O'Reilly does........we love it.
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Yeah and when a 17 year old whose father died on 9-11 in the WTC asked O'Reilly an uncomfortable question, O'Reilly dicsonnected his mic and had him removed from the studio! At least you got the Bully part right! He is certainly a damn bully! And only other ignorant bullies would be impressed by him or what he does for his money!

 
poet said:
Oh, please. The right gives President Obama holy hell about him not "supposedly" honoring his white heritage. As if any white person would recognize it in the first place.
In historic Louisiana, mulatto women had "debutante balls", to court white men into setting them up with estates and promises that their children would be raised as free.
Many mulatto women (and "undoubtedly" men) have "passed" as white. Didn't you ever see "Imitation of Life"?
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That is a great movie and few people today have seen it. The Scene of Mahalia Jackson singing at funeral is striking. But there is also a slew of novels by African Americans from the period of the Harlem Renaissance forward that speak directly to the phenomenon of "Passing," the most famous being Nella Larson's novel titled Passing (1929). Nella Larson was also the first Black woman to win the prestigous Guggenheim award, which she did in 1930.
 
Dantès said:
That is a great movie and few people today have seen it. The Scene of Mahalia Jackson singing at funeral is striking. But there is also a slew of novels by African Americans from the period of the Harlem Renaissance forward that speak directly to the phenomenon of "Passing," the most famous being Nella Larson's novel titled Passing (1929). Nella Larson was also the first Black woman to win the prestigous Guggenheim award, which she did in 1930.
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Lana Turner and Sandra Dee in the same film, that would a great pub quiz question. Oh and by the way, that's been shown on TV over here several times.
 
NOVA said:
Passing for white and identifying yourself as white is two different things.....
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To pass for white you have to identify yourself as white--in short, passing for white is identifying as white! The greatest fear in the novels written about this is the moment when someone from the past sees the person who is passing and approaches them to talk to them thus unmasking them in public and exposing their "race."

The craziest thing about this discussion is that a couple of weeks ago or maybe it was just last week when I asked someone here to define what they meant by "race" they said "skin color" so if someone's skin color is white--they must be white according to that definition. Therefore there would be no such thing as passing. Of course, that doesn't take into account the one drop rule, from the old South that said if even one drop of a person's blood was Black they were Black! And this was a legal definition proscribed by law in some states. Further, Homer Plessy of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was white enough to pass for white, which is how he got in the "White's Only" train car in the first place. There are numerous other examples, Walter White, before he became head of the NAACP, was blue-eyed and he infiltrated the KKK in the South and wrote several books about his experience. So I guess there is a whole lot of stuff that you know absolutely nothing about isn't there! But with that ignorant and disgusting signature of yours how could it be otherwise?
 
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