Comments on: Think Progress hugs the tar baby

By: Greg McCann

Greg McCann — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:17:53 +0000

Once again, the wussification of America. Why not call a spade a spade?

By: brtex

brtex — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:28:57 +0000

Racism is an affliction of conservatives. Liberals may say things that sound racist (Robert Byrd/ Cynthia McKinney) but since their hearts are true, what they say is not racist…:-)

By: pistolero

pistolero — Fri, 19 May 2006 12:38:03 +0000

As soon as the left stops calling Michael Steele ‘Sambo’ then perhaps we can take them seriously. They always have their race radar on waiting for any opportunity to take a swipe at conservatives. Trent Lott, anyone? But this selective radar doesn’t pick up any verifiable racism on the left. Chris Dodd’s tribute to KKK Byrd, anyone?

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:46:05 +0000

That certainly is a most un-generous interpretation of Mr. Snow’s statement — almost to the point of being niggardly…

By: batperez

batperez — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:42:56 +0000

Opps!
I meant “said this on purpose.”

By: batperez

batperez — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:42:22 +0000

I believe Tony say this on purpose, just to get a rise from people like Think Communismn.
Is just my opinion, but Tony es muy inteligente, he can take care of himself.

By: Paul Atreides

Paul Atreides — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:40:11 +0000

I assume that anyone “offended” by Snow’s use of the term will be the same people who were NOT offended by the racial slurs that some liberals have heaped upon Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas.

Then, there are the rappers….

By: Rowane

Rowane — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:31:57 +0000

“commentators/supportes should immediately stop using the term “progressive”, when referring to the lefties, with no exceptions, no matter how moderate they claim to be.”

Might I suggest communist? as that is what they actually long for.

By: Alex K

Alex K — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:28:24 +0000

Wow, in a single day four mainstream Democratic sources, not to mention TP, have made disgraceful implications of racism with absolutely no merit.

Matt Yglesias: (if not mainstream, he’s not usually considered a moonbat)

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDNjYTdmNWJkMWRlODE3N2M4ZTNlMWI1OWM2ZTA0OTU=

Harry Reid:

http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2006/05/18/immigration-debate-update-senator-reid-on-racism/

And, at the Spruiell link, the WaPo and NYT.

That is just disgusting.

Stanley, per usual, is the most idiotic, actually citing an example of how deranged our society is by this language problem (the “niggardly” incident) while she participates in another such example.

By: Wil

Wil — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:58:10 +0000

Progressives: People who dash forward looking in the rearveiw mirror.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:57:36 +0000

The conservative blog owners and their commentators/supportes should immediately stop using the term “progressive”, when referring to the lefties, with no exceptions, no matter how moderate they claim to be.
I’m a legal immigrant, from a former communist country (it took me 7 arduous years, during which I followed all laws, to become a very proud citizen of this great country – I still cry every time the Colors are brought in) – this is very insulting and only helps to cement their self-appointed terminology – it is their form of elitism and it implies that you are all not ‘progressive’.

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:48:26 +0000

Must admit to wincing upon hearing it live…only because I knew the usual suspects would immediately jump on it.

Thankfully they missed out Snow’s subliminal “please stop talking you sorry old hag” morse code eye-blinking directed at Helen Thomas.

By: RobertHuntingdon

RobertHuntingdon — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:37:27 +0000

I wish the “progressives” would admit that they are really regressives. “Progressives” has after all been a code word for communists for about a century now. Maybe at one point they though that was progress. Anybody except a complete idiot — or somebody with more faith in Marx than most Christians have in God — should now be able to see just how utterly regressive and destructive communism really is. It’s nothing more than another disguised form of ruthless evil selfish totalitarian dictatorship.

By: clyde

clyde — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:17:33 +0000

Yah, all Nagin says is he wants New Orleans to remain a “chocolate city”.

By: NTWR

NTWR — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:17:06 +0000

I’ll say it again:

Political correctness = intellectual fascism

I still have hope one day there will be outrage over Hillary’s Gahndi / gas station joke back in the day.

Until there is equal outrage towards people from both parties who say things that could be construed by some to be outrageous, I still believe all this “outrage” is just fascism intent on silencing one side of the conversation.

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:04:13 +0000

I heard Snow say this and I assumed immediately that liberals would be up in arms about it, but I’ve been surprised to have not heard much. I had never even heard of the term until last year when I learned about NOLA Mayor Nagin firing someone over use of the term:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560482/posts