As an ode to all the ridiculous hysteria surrounding all the recent racist remarks made by people (Imas, Richards, etc.); I encourage you to read this article from Stand To Reason:
Hate Crimes Are Not About Hate
by Gregory Koukl

The result of criminal…

You claim that all people vote a particular way for a particular reason and you’re the one that’s insulted?

Gianni on April 11, 2007 at 9:26 AM

I claim that self interest is the overwhelming reason behind almost all voting. For that, I got accused of thinking people in your district were idiots and that I of course was ignorant. So yeah I’m insulted. You made this personal and nasty, I did not. Surprise me by taking responsibility.

Imus has spent the morning talking about the hypocrites who are out to get him. He is still referring to the racist, bigoted right wing nuts. He just doesn’t get it. He is one of the most hypocritical people on the planet.

Last I checked it wasn’t the right wingers attacking him… He’s an idiot.

Imus still does not get it. He has paraded some of his liberal buddies on the show this morning to praise him and tell him how great he is i.e. Barnicle, Begala and Carville. Personally, these three libs are the last people on earth I would want defending me.
Apparently his ‘buddy’ Harold Ford, who Imus backed in his failed senatorial quest last year, has abandoned him. He can’t get Ford to call him and come to his defense. Imus is so stupid that he can’t tell when somebody is using him. Of course his backing Ford may be why Ford lost. Imus blamed his loss on the bigoted, racist southern people in Tennessee. Why wasn’t he called down for that sweeping description of southerners? Imus failed to tell us (if he knew) that Ford’s father was elected to congress by the same ‘bigoted, racist southerners’.

Imus has spent the morning talking about the hypocrites who are out to get him. He is still referring to the racist, bigoted right wing nuts. He just doesn’t get it. He is one of the most hypocritical people on the planet.

If he says “I don’t mean to be patronizing…….” one more time and then goes on to patronize I think I’ll puke.

Steve King, Iowa Fifth District

In fact that was the biggest attack against him in the last election, that he didn’t bring home the pork, and we still overwhelmingly sent him back. Now would you like to apologize to the people of my district? Of course not, you probably think we’re idiots for not voting in our own self interests, never mind that you have no idea what those interests would actually be.

Gianni on April 10, 2007 at 11:05 PM

I absolutely apologize, though for being mistaken, not for the mean spirited feelings you attribute to me. I would suggest this is a case of the exception proving the rule however.

Again, thanks for the nasty insult. That Easter buzz sure doesn’t last long, does it?

I think they deserve better than what the democrat party has given them. And you, by your response, do not think so, you must be proud of the way they are educated. You like them uneducated, that way you can control them.

right2bright on April 10, 2007 at 5:24 PM

Read my lips: what you think is irrelevant. Just as what I think. This really isn’t hard.

Imus: “This wasn’t some right wing racist smear….”

After having witnessed the bigotry thrown at MM and others, I find it incomprehensible that someone would assert racism is the domain of the right.

What a miserable bastard he is.

With all the ridiculous brouhaha and histrionic outrage generated by the oh-so-tolerant Christian left (of which Al Sharpton and Jesse ……

Show me an agriculture state/county etc that elects reps who don’t support farm subsidies.

honora on April 10, 2007 at 2:06 PM

Steve King, Iowa Fifth District

In fact that was the biggest attack against him in the last election, that he didn’t bring home the pork, and we still overwhelmingly sent him back. Now would you like to apologize to the people of my district? Of course not, you probably think we’re idiots for not voting in our own self interests, never mind that you have no idea what those interests would actually be.

The grievance pimps have the power to shut a show down for a few relatively harmless words, words that I hear every day of my life. That’s power. Since power is the at the core of racism, it’s a bit of a stretch to say that Imus is promulgating some kind of racist regression, given that he doesn’t even have the power to say anything of the kind without getting strung up by the grievance pimps.

People on the right crowing about this need to check themselves. Nothing has been gained by muzzling Imus. Quite a bit has been lost.

Bill C on April 10, 2007 at 12:51 PM

The comedian that was sitting between Sean and the Colmes actually GOT what this issue is about. Thinned skinned idiots. But then he opened his mouth and said that “Sean was “doing it to him” again”. Meaning Sean was creating a situation that made the other guy look like a hypocrite. It couldn’t be that the guy IS A FRIGGEN HYPOCRITE! I guess it just goes to show you that even though a person can get part of a concept, there is no assurance that he will get it all.

Not one major city in the U.S. has a conservative, or Republican representation on the school boards…and they haven’t for decades.

right2bright on April 10, 2007 at 5:24 PM

Care to back that up with facts more credible than right2brightsaysso.com?

right2bright on April 10, 2007 at 5:27 PM

What special incentives might you be referring to?
Only educated people are republicans? You throw so many plums to pick on it is hard to decide which to address.

Every post you have made in this thread refers to they, the blacks, and at the end of it you finally decide you care about their education. Please…

Bradky on April 10, 2007 at 10:09 AM

No, they need to stop listening to the group who will not educate them, give them jobs, who patronize them by giving them “special” incentives not to excel.

I don’t care if they are Republicans or not, I care about their education. It just so happens that the educated blacks end up Republicans…Gee, I wonder why?

honora on April 10, 2007 at 10:08 AM

Nothing like a stupid honora statement, from that great historian. You go ahead and continue to support the party that educates the blacks. Not one major city in the U.S. has a conservative, or Republican representation on the school boards…and they haven’t for decades. You must be proud of your liberals school policies, they sure have helped the blacks. Your ignorant statement about how I think they should behave politically is exactly the mentality that has kept the blacks down, on the liberal plantation. Fear the conservatives, fear the Republicans, ooooo, watch out they are going to get you. You know what I meant, or you are too stupid to understand…so I will type real slow…the democrats have led the blacks down a road of despair and poverty, those are the facts.

Now here is the kicker that you obviously do not believe in because it was my summation and very apparent.

I think they deserve better than what the democrat party has given them. And you, by your response, do not think so, you must be proud of the way they are educated. You like them uneducated, that way you can control them.

Liberal ‘white guilt’ runs deep, especially in the MSM, where, daily, they go out of their way not to offend lest, they too, be called racist

The phrase: Gushingly sycophantic come to mind

Here is the rest of my message:

Well good for you. You dropped from “everyone” to “most”.
How would you like to try for “some”?

OBX Pete on April 10, 2007 at 1:58 PM

Show me an agriculture state/county etc that elects reps who don’t support farm subsidies. Show me a rural one that elects reps who support gun control. Show me a Hispanic one that elects reps who support strict immigration laws.
You get the drift. It’s the stuff of a pluralistic society.

Well good for you. You dropped from “everyone” to “most”.
How would you like to try for “some”?

Well good for you. I am very comfortable with the idea that most people vote according to their own self interest. Which is perfectly fine.

honora on April 10, 2007 at 1:37 PM

How do you know how “everyone” chooses their political allegiance?

This is the old liberal crap where they tell us what ALL the American people think. Neither you nor I nor any other person knows what EVERY American person thinks.

I choose MY political allegiance based on what I think will be best for my locality, state or country.

OBX Pete on April 10, 2007 at 1:26 PM

Well good for you. I am very comfortable with the idea that most people vote according to their own self interest. Which is perfectly fine.

No, try to follow this: I am making the point that black people are in the best position to judge which political party is the one that best aligns with their interests. (Which is how everyone chooses their political allegiance). If you want to suggest they are making the wrong choice, fine. Your stereotype is telling though IMO.

honora on April 10, 2007 at 10:41 AM

How do you know how “everyone” chooses their political allegiance?

This is the old liberal crap where they tell us what ALL the American people think. Neither you nor I nor any other person knows what EVERY American person thinks.

I choose MY political allegiance based on what I think will be best for my locality, state or country.

We’ve come to this. Groan.

Sharpton and Jackson are blackula vampire bats whose coffers were running dry and needed to sink their teeth into the pulsing jugular of the blacks whom are incapable of living a centered life unless they are feeling victimized by the white power structure. Those two are the most disengenuos, fake, and opportunist scumbags on the face of the earth. They feed on their own and are the reason why all blacks should be conservative.

Look for them to be sporting new cars and suits in the very new future.

csdeven on April 10, 2007 at 9:30 AM

Imus’ comment was insulting and he owed an apology to the team. He gave it.

Now conservatives need to realize that they are feeding the beast of PC thinking and racial demogoguery which will surely come back and bite them in the rear.

Hannity had it right last night when he said that there is a racial double standard when it comes to making jokes about black people. That mentality should be fought. Holding blacks and whites to different standards of behavior will tear our country apart.