Thank You, Tucker Carlson!
By pm317 on September 23, 2009 at 3:00 PM in Current Affairs
Normally, Tucker would not receive any thanks from me. But what he said on Greta’s show on Fox Monday night (see video below the fold), is quite significant. Finally, someone in the media has the courage to say it and say it well.
[Tucker:] But let me just say, very clearly, it was the Obama campaign that first bought up the race question. It was the Obama people who smeared the Clintons as racists, Bill and Hillary Clinton. They made the case to reporters off-the-record, including me, that the Clintons were racists. They started this.
So for him to get up with a straight face and say the media is bringing this race issue up… No, it was your campaign that started this.
Greta Van Susteren: How did they bring it up?
Tucker Carlson: By this whisper campaign. That Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were somehow opposing Barack Obama because they did not like the fact he was black. And that various statements they made, remember Hillary Clinton famously said that of course it was Lyndon Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act, you know. Martin Luther King might have advocated for it but it was the president who signed it.
Somehow that became a racist statement according to allies of Barack Obama. He didn’t tell them to be quiet then. He allowed that to happen. Allowed, I think, the slur against the Clintons to fester. That they were somehow animated by bigotry was outrageous. And he did nothing to clear the air.
Did you hear that, Obots? Obama and his minions smeared the Clintons and you were gullible enough to believe it. Shame on you.
{HT to hillaryis44 for the video and the transcript.}
From another post I wrote last week, I present to you this curious passage in a NY Times article which unwittingly refutes the myth about Obama’s non-involvement in the race-baiting strategy of his minions. The evidence is too good to pass up. The chronology is off because the writer of that article seems to be talking about the general election. But as you and I remember, the race card was successfully played against their own during the Democratic primary even to the extent of shamefully dubbing the Clintons racists. Now you hear from Tucker Carlson (in the video above the fold) how that happened.
[snip] As Obama told me, the opportunities afforded him and Jarrett by their predecessors in the civil rights movement gave them both “a shared sense of obligation.” To her and the Obamas, failing to acknowledge the racial dimension of the 2008 campaign constituted dereliction of duty, even if silence on the subject was considered politically expedient by other senior campaign staff members. A moment of truth occurred last July, when the candidate predicted to a Missouri crowd that his opponents would be focusing on how Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.” Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager fired back that Obama had “played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck.” Momentarily flummoxed, the Obama campaign responded with a tepid insistence by Gibbs that the senator was merely “describing that he was new to the political scene.”
“But within the campaign, Valerie had been saying, ‘You guys, you’re not getting this issue right,’ ” recalls a top official. “And Obama communicated to his senior advisers that he thought we were a little gun-shy on race issues; that the reality was, he did look different. There were also African-Americans on our staff, some in relatively senior positions, who were clearly upset that we had not consulted them in the response. And she actually organized a meeting to discuss it.
“And that’s not just a process thing,” the adviser said. “Because moving forward, the candidate made it very clear to us that we were just a bunch of white people who didn’t get it — which, by the way, was true.”
That Obama required the presence of someone who did “get it” inevitably meant that he would want Jarrett in the White House.
HT to NQ reader, Portia Elizabeth for reminding me of Tucker Carlson’s remarks.
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I saw this on Greta and was happy that someone finally said what I had been thinking. Obama and his people knocked the Clintons down soooo much I can’t believe that they would even work under this administration….Just like the MSM loves stirring up the race card when they always ask if some stupid statement is to do with race they are the trouble makers to.
The Clintons see the dire, all hands on deck reality of the world situation.
I believe they put their personal needs behind those of a word which is skirting the abyss. There is no time for resentment or payback.
To Obama it’s more like party time.
Put aside personal needs???? This reminds me of the abused wife who is nearly beaten to death…and excuses her abuser because he paid her hospital bill. Obama promised to pay Hillary’s campaign debt if she campaigned for him. She did. He gave her not one penny…although by campaigning for him…she raised an additional $7 million for his campaign. He should have/could have selected her as his VP, but instead, he chose Biden, who might be a very nice man, but had been said by his colleagues, to be the
most stupidleast intelligent person in Congress…which is saying a lot. Obama has done everything possible to undermine her position as SOS. He has taken upon himself to appoint delegates to numerous countries w/o her approval…usurping her authority. Two weeks ago…she was still complaining (rightfully so) about not having enough staff. Meanwhile, she goes on the road, and says what a great president he is, and how she is sure he will be-elected…so she has no plans of running again.He never promised to pay her campaign debt - i dare you to prove that he did. why should obama pay HER debt that SHE wrote up by mismanaging her campaign funds. Hillary was the one who demanded a position in his administration.
there is NOTHING in this diary that remotely says Obama furthered the race card and was in on its planning OR said Clinton was a racist. others maybe did, but Clinton made some very immature and unfortunate remarks about South Carolina that he cannot take back and that imply nothing but his dismissal of Obama as a Black Man and that is the only reason he won in SC. there is no other way to interpret his remarks, period.
so go peddle this ooooooooolld story somewhere else - if anyone used the ‘race’ theme to stir trouble it was Clinton’s campaign. continually accusing Obama of playing the race card - they kept it alive and stroked it with their remarks (which were not always aimed at Obama, remember the ‘americans, WHITE working Americans…’
you Hillary lovers will never let it rest - talk about re-living the primaries. for what??
WHITE working Americans? YOU are delusional, speaking of proof, show me THAT quote.
Seriously, you realize this site is a group of many Hillary supporters? You come here and bash, and claim we will never let it rest? Look who came here (you) to do the bashing; and no why should we let it rest? You are the kind that keeps racial slurs alive and well; look at your own damned post. We owe you nothing, if you don’t like what is written here, by all means, leave. You want to bash SOS Clinton, I am sure you will find yourself quite comfortable at HuffPo; here not so much.
oops on the bold.
Katmoon, you hit the nail on the head. Why someone should be surfing looking for blogs related to Hillary, then come in and lecture her supporters for having an opinion - well, that is just lame. As I recall it, during the election process Obama supporters began frothing at the mouth every single time you disagreed with anything, in other words, you are not supposed to have an opinion. You are simply to follow.
As for the racism issue, Obama did not dissuade anyone from playing up the accusations, he could have easily tried to quell the fires of anger and tried to lead people to actual dialogue. I see no wrong in talking about race issues, they are there. But accusations dont lead to dialogue, we need civil discourse if we are to get anywhere. Obama did not lead in this area.
Hillary was able to continue with donations and now has over 2 million in her war chest. She didn’t need his help at all. As far as getting over the primaries, time will flush out the truth that he and acorn and the DNC stole it from her. The facts are the facts and it’s sad that his supporters can’t admit he was unable to win on his own merit. Take comfort in knowing he was able to win the general without cheating, but still needing to play the race card of course. Race baiting is played best by the racist democrats. Always was and always will be.
This is politics at its best that the Clintons are playing and they are the experts. They will participate and be good Democrats but Barry is still in charge. A fish rots from the head down. I believe that she is on record as stating that she either suggested or approved the appointment of envoys. I’m so glad that she’s out of the Senate and will not have to participate in any of Barry and Nancy’s legislation. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
She will run in 2016. She won’t have any of those votes pinned to her but she’ll have a hell of a lot of foreign experience.
Rise Hillary rise!
Hillary had the one chance, and she was beaten out by a bunch of the Good Ol’ Boys. If John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy and John Edwards hadn’t led the parade, the Dems wouldn’t have seen BHO spend almost a billion dollars getting elected. It took untraceable contributions from Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, misconduct in the caucuses, voter fraud by ACORN, and a final fix - discounting and reallocating elected delegates from Florida and Michigan - to put the new guy over the top. So he became the President with the most overwhelming vote in the general election and the shortest coattails.
The Obamabots can rewrite history all they like, but we can count, and we know what really happened.
I get your point, but I could never trust someone who called me a racist. That cuts deep and wide. At some point enough is enough. It seems to me this isn’t paying off for Hillary.
I remembered the Obama and his supporters playing the race card against both of the Clintons. I still cannot understand how in the world the Clintons decided to support Obama.
Easy - live today to fight tomorrow….
Sometimes you have to let people have what they don’t necessarily need even though they want it so bad to watch it FAIL right in their face
so you can silently say “I told you so”
I told you hope n change is a bunch of propaganda and the neophyte doesn’t know how to govern…
Exactly.
He is already falling on his face to point that even someone like Beck recognizes the fact that Hillary would have been a better president.
You have to strategize, and that is what the Clintons are doing.
Obama is a trend, a fad that will get played out eventually.
Bill and Hillary are the real deal and that becomes more evident each day.
Truly. If someone like Dick Armey can confess his growing admiration for Bill Clinton and realize that he was too hard on him and didn’t know a good thing when he had it at the time, anything is possible.
…thanks for your post. Rarely do I agree so much as to reply. Indeed, the Obama trend is wearing off. (much faster then I had anticipated). How lucky and fortunate could we be to have Hillary as our nominee in 2012? Could this happen?
I say, HELL YEA!
Anything is possible.
I want her in a lot faster than that.
She is …. I think 4th in line??
Obama is finally being vetted and it’s only his 9th month in office! Who knows what else is going to be brought to light??
He is a house of cards waiting to topple.
How in the world did the majority of voters support Obama?
Don’t you remember all the Acorn employees signing up fictitious people or the non fictitious people and their pets several times over one…. Heck a post office box is only $20.00 a year….. They did it the same way Bush was declared president when Al Gore had the popular vote…. Well Bush blamed the hanging chads in the state his brother just happened to be the Governor…. It’s just another example it’s not about what you know, but who you know…. Hopefully the majority of us will consider putting someone in office that actually knows something and how to get it done rather than just talk, talk, babble and babble on with no substance…. Hopefully we can get someone who has a proven track record rather then some one who only has ideas of what they would like to see happen, and no idea how to make it happen…. Can’t wait to see this universal health care become just the opposite of what so many believe to be the fixture for all their medical concerns….
They didn’t.
2 Million ppl in Washington last week…another 100 for each of those…that’s 2/3 of our population who neither support nor trust this guy.
Can you say, “Election Fraud?”
I can. I was there. I saw it. It is ugly. My heart cries for America.
Can’t turn against the party’s choice and have any political career left. The Obama Dems will go the way of the Bush Republicans and Hillary will be President.
She’s way more in the news for positive stories than The One already.
Isn’t her approval rating higher than Barry’s?
annie,
You and others responding to Tucker Carlson’s comments about obama and race baiting, might also be interested to know that former SOS Eagleburger was being interviewed by Greta Van Susteran, I believe on Tuesday, and he made a comment, something to the effect, that he thought SOS Clinton the best person in his administration and he couldn’t understand how she could stand his marginalizing her as he has been. I could not locate it on her website, but I would love to get the video clip of that interview.
Nonetheless, I thought it was very telling that even Eagleburger noticed how badly Hillary was being treated by the obama administration and wondering out loud why she put up with it!
And THANK YOU for posting this! I saw the Greta show live, and thought the same thing. I actually commented to it the next day to my Mom, a fellow PUMA that I too nearly sent a thank you letter to Tucker for saying what he did.
I know FOX leans to the right, and because they do, while they often site the attacks of racism conservatives are being subjected to, no one in the media seems to recall before tea partiers, before McCain and Palin, there was the Clintons and their supporters. We were marginalized then, smeared and attacked, threatened and it’s like we don’t exist now. But we do, we’re many and we remember!!
Oh and BTW I also laughed at that talk of Obama never getting personally involved in making this a racial issue. One more example which you didn’t list was when he said at a couple of his rallies during the general, “….oh and did I mention he’s black?” I think he was pretending to say what he claimed McCain’s people would be saying to scare the voters or something.
He’s been in it from the beginning!
People are clamouring to get to FOX, probably to get free of their shackles! Tucker moved over and is now free. John Stossel is leaving ABC for FOX and rumor has it Lou Dobbs wants out of his contract to head on over to FOX as well.
I enjoyed seeing this video, but I haven’t forgotten how Carlson treated Hillary last year either. I will give him kudos for having the good sense to get the heck out of that house of horrors MSNBC though.
How about the news yesterday that CBS in nearing bankruptcy.
Good let it crash the quicker the better and msnbc and that tingle up the leg guy!
Apparently they couldn’t get their hands on bailout $$ like G.E.
Yes, I am glad to hear it. I’m sure they will be ok because they are great a$$ lickers of the Bailout King. Or maybe the one will just take them over like GM. Then he can stop pretending we have a free media.
and be on the big screen all day long! UGH
I am an independent progressive PUMA who (incredibly) started watching Lou Dobbs regularly during the primaries because he was the ONLY reporter on CNN who had the professionalism to treat Hillary’s campaign fairly, and to call it like it was re: the disgraceful media bias against Hillary and in favor of Obama.
If this is true:
I say, “MAKE IT SO!” … And I will go over to Fox along with Dobbs.
Okay, this is Miami, so we don’t take it all that seriously (I say that as a resident who has experienced things you wouldn’t believe), but still it’s maddening when the Miami Herald has a lead article this week about how Hispanics are “up in arms” and organizing to get Lou Dobbs kicked off of CNN because of his “anti-immigration” policies.” Not “anti-ILLEGAL-immigration,” just “anti-immigration.” No mention of “illegal” at all. The funny thing is, the people most against illegal immigration down here are the legal immigrants, Latinos/Latinas included.
If CNN ditches Dobbs,that’s just another nail in the coffin for CNN (today they spent an inordinate amount of time on the whole Mackenzie Philips thing…..they’re getting desperate).
Gues what? I don’t get Obama at all. I would be totally, completely appalled if either of my two boys were anything like him. And I ain’t thinking of skin color at all.
High Five to Tucker…
Always, always Obama plays the good cop.
His minions, the bad cops will say racism has something to do with white americans opposing him…then he plays the good cop….”I don’t believe that race has something to do with it.”
Watch out for this because he used this during the campaign, uses this in his Presidency and wil keep on using it.
If he really means what he says (”I don’t believe that race has something to do with it.”) then why doesn’t he tell his worshipers to cut out the “racism” crap? Because that starts out with the nonsensical assumption that Ozero means what he says, that’s why not.
“….Why doesn’t he tell his worshipers to cut out the ‘racism’ crap?”
He doesn’t tell them to stop because he has the best of both worlds - he approves of playing the race card because B0’s presidency is more about settling that score than anything else, but he pretends to be above the frey, by disavowing that race plays a role - the old good cop / bad cop game.
Good Cop Bad Cop really is the strategy that Obama used.
You summed it up quite nicely.
THANK YOU for this great post, pm317. We KNEW this was happening, but it sure is nice that SOMEONE in the media is finally admitting what happened this past year.
Greta is one of the BEST journalists on tv - thank goodness for her. And even though this is hard for me to say after the sexist way he treated Hillary, kudos to Carlson, too…
I’m so glad Tucker is finally bringing this out into the light, but he didn’t have the balls to do it during the primaries and that ticks me off!
Pusillanimous McCain and the Repubs should have exposed every bit of Obama’s primary shenanigans including race-baiting and all the ACORN stuff. I guess they didn’t want to win and they didn’t want McCain to win.
Tucker is a kind of non-entity in the media right now but this is better than nothing which is what we, Hillary supporters got all this time. His directness surprised me.
I believe the rest of the republicans screwed McCain because he doesn’t do earmarks. And he has been quite vocal about them for a long time.
Yes, pm317, Tucker’s directness surprised me as well. As others have said here, I well remember Tucker as a veteran Clinton despiser. But, like so many other conservatives these days, some are rethinking their harsh criticisms of the Clintons - former congressman Dick Armie for one, who recently said, “President Clinton deserves more credit than he received during his presidency”. Compared to the wanna-be Rock Star POTUS we are now saddled with, the Clintons are finally the recognition they so richly deserve. The Right simply could not get past the Monica crap.
The following link is a great interview Bill Clinton did with Newsmax this week, the very conservative online news magazine.
http://video.newsmax.com/?bcpid=20972460001&bclid=22770166001&bctid=41366551001
THAT’s what I was thinking. It’s a shame he didn’t report this over a year ago, when it was happening.
Honestly, whatever one thinks of McCain, this was a no-win situation. If he makes this an issue, he’s a racist. Don’t forget, even saying BO’s middle name was proof of racism then.
So, he couldn’t effectively counter the whole race-baiting stuff. Remember the slamming for even suggesting BO was a celebrity? I thought Bob Herbert would have a stroke on live tv saying that the celebrity ad was trying to suggest BO wanted to mix it up with white chicks like Britney.
Ridiculous. And yet, no media really called out BO for that.
That was true even for this site. I had several posts pulled for using Barack Hussein Obama. I was told that it was giving ammunition to the Obamabots for claiming that we are racists so his middle name was banned from No Quarter by the ADMINS.
Now, with his ratings heading into the shitter, the race card is still being played, and despite the nice-nicey attempts by the ADMINS to control the middle name controversy, Obama and his minions basically call ya’ll racists yet again, just as I accurately predicted.
I’m sorry, but the ADMINS here got played like fools by the Obama campaign with their weak-kneed capitulation over Obama’s middle name. The NoQuarter ADMINS should be ashamed of themselves.
yes; unfortunately, so many “mainstream” media sources and blogs legitimized the use of the race card early on, so it’s not surprising that the bots have kept using it.
we don’t have a media. what we have for the most part are highly paid suckup teleprompter readers.
McCain had a lot of support in the northeast in 2000. He ran on a platform of sane idea’s and he had some history to back them up.
He ran to the hard right during the primary and it did not fit him well. I guess the goal was to win the primary. The right wing machine chewed him up and spit him out in 2000. They swift aborted him worse then they did Kerry in 2004.
It’s a shame he went out like that, kissing their @$$es.
I remember hearing long before the primaries started that no one could dare even mention race in either the primary or ge or else it would be an abrupt end for the perpetrator.
Well, no one would have ever predicted it would be the AA candidate, his staff and most ardent supporters that would race-bait and play the race card for all it was worth! This was a major component of his campaign from the beginning with one minor adjustment - 0bama would stay above the frey and disavow any such suggestion. The well-trained racist, Jesse Jackson Jr. would head up the Race Team. Who can ever forget the horrific things JJJr said about Hillary after she won the NH Primary, sending shock waves through the 0bama camp who thought they had pulled out all the stops with all their unethical, immoral, fraudulent, illegal preparations.
It would be very interesting to hear the new generation of AA politicians and their advisors discuss why it was concluded that this would be a winning campaign strategy. Apparently it is a good thing if it’s used by AA’s. This strategy was also used in Duval Patrick’s campaign for governor (the common denominator was David Axelrod). Bob Herbert, Gene Robinson, SC Rep James Clyburn, DNC’s Donna Brazile, CNN’s Roland Martin, to name only a few had one field day after another - and they continue to this day.
I predict, though, choosing Hillary and Bill Clinton to tag with the racist label is back-firing as we speak. These political jerks will pay the price for their insideous, stupid, idea.
I was talking about Tucjker, HE could have reported what was actually happening at the time, but since he hated the Clintons, he kept his mouth shut, when all the shows were reporting what an awful racist Bill Clinton was.
Unfolding events cause people to re-access their POV. I never thought I could vote for a Republican but this bunch of thugs has made us all look at things differently. Perhaps even Tucker Carlson…in contrast to Comrade 0zer0, maybe the Clintons are starting to look like moderates to the more conservative commentators.
He is SO right! Thanks for posting this!!! I have been screaming this at my computer for two years. haha
Primary - I guess there was just one primary (it just felt like many)
yes it did!!!
It was a fully fledge battle and Hillary supporters had to wear body armor!
We really did.
They called us crazy, told us to get over it, yard signs were taken down, people in our families angry with us, etc,etc
And get new net protection. And steel ourselves against death threats and numerous other knuckle dragging type of threats. The left acted like the far right. “Whatever it takes” was okay by them. They will need our votes later. It’s already begun with “Democratic Unity” pages springing up…no. Our story hasn’t been told and some of them don’t know that we are NOT going to forget. It was a campaign like no other. It left alienated and wronged Americans. This was NOT about “winning” and “losing” or “fair and square” or “sour grapes” and they bloody well know it.
I don’t care WHAT they say because until there is admission, and regret on their part then what we have is nothing to say they wouldn’t do it again in a heartbeat.
… And that is why I have NO RESPECT for anyone who did not choose to become a PUMA.
I agree that Tucker deserves a THANK YOU for pointing out to the dumb media that Obama has been paying the race card from the beginning of his career.
The question I have is this. Why being black is so much important to Obama than being White when his mother is White, raised in a White family, adapted and raised by the Muslim Step-father who lived in a foreign country and is not an American?
Given Obama’s racial mix shouldn’t he espouse his biracialness instead of claiming to be black as a defense to his polices. Listening to Jay Z doesn’t not in my opinion qualifies a biracial guy to be black. And neither does marrying MicHELLe.
and raised by white grandparents.. The answer to your question is simple — he looks black and even with all the advantages he has had in life, he could not just stay away from exploiting his “AA” appearance and hoodwink and bamboozle millions of Americans. That speaks to his character or lack of it. We are not the ones thinking about his race. He and majority of his supporters are thinking about his race. He could not transcend his AA appearance and use his bi-racial heritage to bring people together and advance race reconciliation in America. Instead he had to stoke the fire of more race conflict.
pm I am also going to say I think the Mrs. would not be pleased to be married to one of the character of what she perceives to be white. It would be difficult I would imagine to function on the level of acknowledging a mixed background as most Americans have, and still follow the hard and fast of gaining and abusing the supportive of the AA community.
I’m glad for this story; Yes, Tucker used to get on my last nerve, I always wanted to give him a makeover, as in a decent haircut and a different look than the bow tie. I have to respect and give him kudos for telling the truth, and will say I have seen him do this before a couple of months ago. His ratings crashed on the self fellatio network; especially after he worshiped briefly at the alter of Tingles; sometimes people learn, it is never too late to tell the truth. The only time it is painful is when you have to wipe the egg off (koolaid) and be strong enough to admit in making bad choices.
He Played up his Black side, because Hillary had strong support in the AA comunity. Right after NH and BEFORE SC, they played the race card, because they needed to take the AA vote away from Hillary. What better way than to say the Clintons are racist. I personally will always believe, the powers in the DNC never wanted Hillary to be POTUS, so they backed Obama just because he was AA and they knew they needed someone that could take the AA support away from Hillary.
Espousing his biracial background would not be as politically powerful for Obama. He didn’t run a campaign that was based on bringing people together. Quite the contrary. AA’s in large part saw Obama as one of their own, who would have their needs and demands at the forefront. Has he done that? No, unemployment is rising, people are still losing their homes and there’s no solution in sight. Lots of breast-beating talk but no solutions. Whites, particularly the well-educated, liberal whites on both coasts thought that they could disengage from “white guilt,” whatever that is. Elect a black man, regardless of who he was or what his past looked like [or remained hidden], a man who could give a good speech, and all sins of the past would be forgotten. Has that happened? No. In fact, the racial resentments have been stirred to an ugly brew and no one, neither blacks nor whites, are given any credit for the progress that actually has been made after a lot of pain and struggle for everyone.
Pitting the races against one another, showcasing yourself as a faux-savior, “The One” who would calm the waters, clear the skies and bring everyone a pony, paid off big dividends. Obama was elected. And the American public was suppose to remain in its endless trance, retelling ourselves what good people we are as the government and corporate honchos rob us all blind–black, white, brown, whatever. The treachery is color-blind.
Oh sure, life is good for the guys on top. For the rest of us? Nothing like a good fight with charged accusations to distract us from highway robbery.
Republican? Democratic? Black? White? It hardly matters anymore. We are all screwed.
Btw, Gaddafi announced today at the UN that the West owed Africa 7.7 trillion dollars for the sins of the past. And if they don’t get, the African nations are within their rights to take it. He also said he wished Barack Obama could be President for life. Nice hat tip.
As I said, as Americans–we are screwed.
pm, the spam monster gobbled my post. Sending an email.
It is very peculiar isn’t?
Obama was raised by his white grandparents, his grandma was the VP of a bank when women were at the bottom of the workplace ladder, and he was sent to one of the most elite schools in Hawaii, AND his white mother has a PHD.
He showed his gratitude by even making it seem like his grandmother was a racist. He actually used the race card against his own grandmother!!
Also:
I’ve always said that it’s kind of ironic that Bill Clinton had more in common with kids in the innercity than Barack. He worked his way up out of a working-class life to become a Rhodes Scholar.
Not to mention the fact that he had an alcoholic step-father that used to beat his mother down until Bill was old enough to tell him to back down.
Obama had a silver spoon compared to Bill.
when all that crap happened last year on msnbc I stopped watching them, so maybe I missed attacks by Tucker I don’t honestly remember seeing any from him. But maybe that’s part of the reason he left? Was that stuff coming from him, or was he pushing the company message? I do remember Tucker from cnn, and always found him to be one of the few conservatives I didn’t mind, I never saw him as nasty. Maybe MSNBC just brought out the worst! Which they have become.
The last straw for me and MSNBC was during SC primaries when all that “the Clinton’s are racist” crap first began. It was just after the “fairytale” comment by Bill, which BTW you noticed no one ever mentioned once they had the J. Jackson comments to seize upon.
But I still remember watching MSNBC and I swear every host they had on that day asked every guest, no matter what the reason for their appearance the same question, in the same exact way. Which was “What do you think of Bill Clinton’s racist comments?” Not what to you think of his comments? Or how do YOU perceive them? No, the network took it upon themselves to establish off the bat that the comments were racist. And they were doing it to put that into the mind set of the viewers. My jaw literally dropped, I just couldn’t believe they were doing that. and that is the day I lost all faith in the traditional media.
I lost faith in my former party, in news sources I trusted, and a lot in my fellow Americans, so much was lost or taken last year. To this day I STILL feel like we’re living in a twilight zone episode.
I’m just so glad that sites like this exist to remind me others out there see it and feel it too.
a big thanks to Tucker..keep talking..
~**THANK YOU**~ Tucker Carlson.
AND THANK YOU to Larry Johnson for bringing this situation to light LAST YEAR regarding HRC and Bill called “racists” by the O campaign.
IMO, Larry is a true American Hero like Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe and Andrew Breitbart, and Patrick Courrelieche (the artist who revealed the NEA conference call).
THANK YOU to each one of you!!
MG-PUMA
Oh yeah, while we’re in a “thanking” mood, I also want to thank another person from FOX, she’s a Dem strategist or something, she often filled in for Clomes when he was doing the show with Hannity. Anyway, she finally said something I’ve been saying but never heard anyone in the media say. Which was that BOTH parties are guilty of trying to silence dissent. Same MO just different clubs. She said for the GOP it’s to accuse the opposition of not being patriotic enough, like on the war. And now with the Dems it’s being racist.
This is where I take pride at being a PUMA, because it seems like we’re the only ones being consist here. One thing Obama showed was that many on the left are as bad as those on the right, They’re doing exactly the same things they hated the Bush supporters for without batting an eye.
And of course those on the right are showing their hypocrisies too.
Seem like we’re the only ones who actually stayed true to ourselves, and what we claim to believe in, maybe ’cause we actually do!
I guess nobody heard this today, huh:
Makes you want to regurgitate your lunch, doesn’t it?
Whats that attorny’s name? Donafrio (spell). He says he has proof that Obama’s BC has been amended. Only adopted people get amended BCs.
pm317, thanks for posting the truth. I did not watch Tucker Carlson when he non-stopped attacked the most qualified person in the WH, Hillary Clinton.I guess I can forgive him a little now when he made the mea culpa revealing the truth about the false race card charges against the Clintons.
Why did majority believe Obama when President Bill Clinton is putting his heart and soul to extend humanitarian help to countries, especially to Obama’s ancestry origin?
Shame, shame, Obots!
There were actually two and even three charges of racism against the Clintons. Besides the Martin Luther King non-issue, there was the statement made about Jesse Jackson and how Barack Obama’s success could be viewed as a mirror to Jesse Jackson’s one state win.
This too was blown out of proportion. Black politician supporters of the Clintons actually told the Clintons to shut up, rather than defend them, which was a very odd turn of events.
Then in Vegas, the Republicans jumped in and made fun of Bill Clinton for basically stating the truth, which was that the casino unions were wielding too much delegate power since their voting was only for their own employees and not the neighboring community. Union heads basically forced their employees to vote for Barack Obama. Some felt that they could lose their job if they went against this dictate.
Then factor in all the caucus contests that had Hillary Clinton either leading or at the worst, tied with Barack Obama, just before the caucus was held, suddenly turn into Barack Obama victories by a 2-1 margin.
I covered a lot of this in my http://www.caucuscheating.com and http://www.hillary-wins.com blogs.
Just a reminder, Hillary Clinton actually won more delegates from all the primary contests than Barack Obama did, even when Florida and Michigan were not counted at all.
The popular vote ended up approximately 50.00% for Barack Obama, 49.99% for Hillary Clinton, when Florida and Michigan were not counted.
Which means Barack Obama won by doubling Hillary Clinton’s delegates in the ACORN CAUCUSES, er, the democratic caucuses, which used 88% LESS VOTES to determine each delegate.
In other words, HRC won more popular votes; and more pledged delegates from votes cast for her. But BO nonetheless got the nomination.
There were actually two and even three charges of racism against the Clintons. Besides the Martin Luther King non-issue, there was the statement made about Jesse Jackson and how Barack Obama’s success could be viewed as a mirror to Jesse Jackson’s one state win.
This too was blown out of proportion. Black politician supporters of the Clintons actually told the Clintons to shut up, rather than defend them, which was a very odd turn of events.
Then in Vegas, the Republicans jumped in and made fun of Bill Clinton for basically stating the truth, which was that the casino unions were wielding too much delegate power since their voting was only for their own employees and not the neighboring community. Union heads basically forced their employees to vote for Barack Obama. Some felt that they could lose their job if they went against this dictate. Hillary Clinton still won the popular vote but lost the delegate count 14-11
Then factor in all the caucus contests that had Hillary Clinton either leading or at the worst, tied with Barack Obama, just before the caucus was held, suddenly turn into Barack Obama victories by a 2-1 margin.
I covered a lot of this in my blogs but this version won’t have the links to ensure it gets posted.
Just a reminder, Hillary Clinton actually won more delegates from all the primary contests than Barack Obama did, even when Florida and Michigan were not counted at all.
The popular vote ended up approximately 50.00% for Barack Obama, 49.99% for Hillary Clinton, when Florida and Michigan were not counted.
Which means Barack Obama won by doubling Hillary Clinton’s delegates in the ACORN CAUCUSES, er, the democratic caucuses, which used 88% LESS VOTES to determine each delegate.
The only other thing I’d say, pm, is Tucker Carlson is a bit late on the draw: we all knew this race-baiting was going on at the start. Am I glad that Carlson confirmed the obvious? Sure. But I’d be more impressed if a Democrat stepped forward and said the same thing.
I’m not holding my breath.
Indeed. Just like Scotty McClellan was late to the draw in bring up some of the crap that went on in the Bush WH. It does no good to wait until the dust settles to confess–it reeks of self-serving BS.
Yep, I would like a Democrat to step forward too but that would political suicide for them. How about Edwards giving us a tell-all book and soon? For what he did in the Dem primary, he owes it to us to tell what happened.
Wouldn’t it be great if Edwards came out and said he’d been blackmailed into supporting BO in exchange for protecting his “little secret”?
If you want to know what Carlton said during the primary, you will need to look at the video again “I’m mad as hell and I am not taking it anymore”. It has all the little smears that Hillary had to put up with during the primary. Everyone is one it from Glenn Beck to Tucker Carlson. Be careful though it will make you mad all over again. You can find this video on youtube under that title.
Except that you can’t look at it anymore. It was called “MadAsHell/Bitch” and it is silent. All the sound has been removed. It was powerful and needed to be kept as a testament to the shameless media. If anyone downloaded a version of this video I am looking high and low for a restored one!!
WTF!!!
“School Children Taught to Praise Obama”
http://townhall.com/blog/g/aec426a7-eb17-4d22-9e9c-51f1eac4188f
pm317,
Thank you so much for posting this interview here. I’m glad someone is saying it.
The fact that Carlson is now standing up for the Clintons in re the race baiting last year is as ironic as it is painful. He was so insulting to Hillary with his “whenever she is on camera, I involuntarily cross my legs” comments.
Then after her win of the Pennslyvania primary, Carlson said “I’m in awe.”
Would have been nice if he figured this all out sooner. He is the one who interviewed Prof. Sean Wilentz, writer of the article “Race Man” — who discussed this very issue — that the Obama campaign was responsible for all the race baiting, not the Clintons.
I’ll bet he is also on the bandwagon now that far prefers having Hillary in office to Obama.
the “cross my legs” comment is so typical of a big segment of right wingers, and it should not be forgotten. they will only support a woman in power if she is extremely “feminine” and deferential to men, IOW if she “knows her place.”
However, we found out last year that the left wingers were even more reprehensible. Olbermann: “A super delegate needs to take her into a room and only he comes out.”
The left wing blogosphere was absolutely horrid too calling Hillary a “filthy sow” and that was one of the milder comments. The left is as much or more to blame for all of this.
Look at the way they treated Palin (and the right was not much better) — and she is very “feminine.”
Woman hate knows no party, I’m afraid.
comments against Hillary don’t even come close to the way noquarter posters vilified Obama.
You’re living in a delusional world, if you think that Hillary wasn’t villified more than Obama has been on NQ. Obama has had the msm kissing his ass for over 2 years now. He deserves being villified. He had absolutely no qualifications to be President of the United States, and he is proving his incompetence every single day. This blog and its readers can write whatever they want-it is limited to the internet and its readers. The msm is out there for everyone to read and view on television. Lauren, as a former Democrat of 36 years, that always supported the Democratic candidate, my eyes have been opened to the hipocracy of the Democratic party. They took votes away from one candidate and gave them to another. It was unjustified and wrong. I hope that you will wake up from your koolaid induced coma, and see Obama for the empty suit he is.
Here’s something that mighht keep a lot of people awake tonight.
Name ONE thing that Obama has done in his personal and/or political life that is Honorable.
I’m damned if I can think of anything. Maybe somebody knows something that could justify this clown being where he’s at.
I am so sick of seeing Obama on TV. It is now overkill. He needs to work in the office that he got dishonestly and try to get America back on the right track.
I feel bad for the Clintons. I really like them. I was so sorry that Hillary took the SOS job. Obama has both of them in a corner. He and his Chicago gansters has ruined any chance of Hillary running again. I am still puzzled that the Clintons took the bate. Obama has also took all the power of the SOS office away from her. She could have been very powerful if she has stayed the Senator from NY.
A lot of democrats have buyers remorse. I knew in my heart he was the wrong person for President and I did not vote for him. I am a disappointed democrat.
There are no Democrats anymore–just Obamacrats. They sold their souls to a phantasm who is both shadow and reflection and neither.
Sign me a disappointed and very much former Democrat.
[Tucker:] But let me just say, very clearly, it was the Obama campaign that first bought up the race question. It was the Obama people who smeared the Clintons as racists, Bill and Hillary Clinton. They made the case to reporters off-the-record, including me, that the Clintons were racists. They started this.”
OK. Yes, I’m glad he said this. But there is one thing I don’t get. During the primary, the Obama campaign was “making the case” to reporters that the Clinton’s were racist. To me that means they were giving reporters talking points about what to say and the reporters used those talking points to smear the Clinton’s. And it worked. And it was all “off the record,” so Obama could claim he was not being negative or playing the race card.
But why did the reporters “make the case,” then? It was clear that the Clinton’s had long histories of fighting for civil rights,etc. There was no case to make. They are not racists.
Obama used the race card to destroy people from his own party. Tucker saying it out loud two years later doesn’t mean jack. The media knew what Obama was doing from the very beginning and never called him on it. To call him on it now is . . . too little, too late for me.
jackie: what you said.
The world must be coming to an abrupt end; Tucker Carlson defending the Clintons?
I don’t think it is ever too late. Many people are waking up to it now in a “OMG, what did we do?” kind of fashion and talking about these things now with Tucker giving the personal evidence that he was approached by the Obama campaign in their whisper campaign is quite significant. At least these little bits will prevent another fiasco of an election in 2012.
Yes, Jackie I am wondering the same thing. What is the “excuse” for knowing this was planned and came right out of his campaign as a slanderous way to “win” black voters and saying nothing at the time.
Remember, at this time the projection from the Obama campaign was that HE was the one being “smeared” all while doing exactly that to others. Why wasn’t exposing this ploy important. Instead the media went along and jumped on the O. campaign’s lie.
Is the only reason they care now because Obama is in return for their playing along putting them down now?? Because it looks like to me they didn’t care how dirty he played it as long as they got something out of it too. Now they are being put down so they start to squeek a little? There’s a lot more they never told yet.
pm317 — thank you so much for this post and video! I hope the word goes out far and wide and reaches the people who denied it ever happened. I sometimes think the people on FOX News have readers scanning this site because often we’ll be discussing a topic here, and within a day or two it pops up on Beck or Hannity. Greta’s show was one time I wish she’d jumped on that comment with all the drama Glenn Beck uses and made it a major issue instead of a passing comment.
As a Hillary supporter who’s still broken-hearted that she isn’t our CIC, my thinking on why they got on board the O train is simple survival. I have no doubt - NO DOUBT - that they were threatened if they didn’t fall in line. Imagine if BO told Hillary, “I will block anything you try to do in the Senate and will put ACORN to work to see you aren’t reelected to anything.” Then picture That One telling Bill, “I will trash your legacy and your lasting reputation will be as a racist President whose name is linked to scandal. I’ll make certain you’ll go down in history as a bigot and a sleaze bag.”
And FYI I don’t want any whining Obots to talk to me about sour grapes. You can take your grapes and put ‘em where the sun don’t shine.
IMAGINE? It probably happened although before the economy bottomed out Barry’s numbers against McCain were tenuous so Barry had lunch with Bill. I think Bill told him, “You want my help? This is how it’s going down”…
Jackie, personally I think the media did this because their directors were paid off. Now, people are getting scared of what Obama is doing so the newscasters are thinking they better get on the right side before Obama goes down.
Connie, the so-called “newcasters” will never find their way to the right side. They sold their souls. And lasts for an eternity.
Our memories may be short but they’re not “that” short. Besides, this is the same group that sold the Iraq war to the American public. They were damaged goods going into 2008.
Now? Zip, zilch, nada. May they rot in Hell!
The kool-aid is wearing off everywhere, including the quid-pro-co kool-aid.
I dont “get” what Valerie Jarrett thinks the pale part of the Obama campaign higher-ups didn’t “get.”
That this is entirely supposed to be about race?
That is the saddest thing, IMHO, because what they are doing by “getting it” and delivering this message is doing more damage to the potential for a future truly qualified black president to be elected.
And another thing. Both liberals and conservatives missed the entire point of the Newsweek article on race awareness in infants, based on a study conducted at UT’s Early Childhood Development Research Center. The main finding was that white parents DID NOT discuss race with their children, for fear that it would somehow “taint” them towards racism. Since it is already known that we humans categorize everything we see from an early age, the researchers were amazed that the parents WOULD NOT when asked discuss or guide their children in rational thinking about race differences for fear it would make them aware of skin color.
Sort of like Obama supporters who thought that in voting for him, racial issues would disappear and they would be absolved.
Didn’t happen, did it? Because Obama and company “get it.”
There is an interesting connection there:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
“CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
But it’s not safe to live here.
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.”
“Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”
Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.
Butler and Davis did not respond to messages. Rezko is in prison; his lawyer did not respond to inquiries.
Jarrett, a powerful figure in the Chicago development community, agreed to be interviewed but declined to answer questions about Grove Parc, citing what she called a continuing duty to Habitat’s former business partners. She did, however, defend Obama’s position that public-private partnerships are superior to public housing.”
Eric Holder called us cowards for our handling of racial issues. This is the one thing I agree with him about. We are cowards, and “we” are the liberal white parents of young children who want so badly to believe that race does not matter. Please “mommy,” just make it go away. It won’t, until we take better measures in our communities to fix our social problems. These liberal whites live in segregated communities and have few, if any, black friends. They blame “others” for racism and are unaware of the institutional racism, passive vs. active, that exists. They absolve themselves by voting for people like Obama, who have other goals in mind for them that they did not intend, but did nothing to investigate.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989
Anne, thank you for your comments. Maybe you will read my last post?
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/09/21/their-ancestors-ghosts/
I certainly did and enjoyed it very much. I did not mean “we” all inclusively, as in everyone reading this blog, but “we” as in those I have categorized to be similar to me in my situation. English is so limited sometimes. Or maybe it is “me” and my ability to use it.
no, you’re fine. I suggested my post only as an extension of what you’re talking about.
It is interesting if you look at the Chicago brain trust.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obama_and_south_chicago_slum_d_1.htm
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/
“CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
But it’s not safe to live here.
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.”
“Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”
“Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.
Butler and Davis did not respond to messages. Rezko is in prison; his lawyer did not respond to inquiries.
Jarrett, a powerful figure in the Chicago development community, agreed to be interviewed but declined to answer questions about Grove Parc, citing what she called a continuing duty to Habitat’s former business partners. She did, however, defend Obama’s position that public-private partnerships are superior to public housing.”
Rezko, partner with Obama’s old law firm boss Allison Davis to from
Hmmm, the spam filter got me. Let me try an abbreviated version.
http://tinyurl.com/4own9w
“CHICAGO - The squat brick buildings of Grove Parc Plaza, in a dense neighborhood that Barack Obama represented for eight years as a state senator, hold 504 apartments subsidized by the federal government for people who can’t afford to live anywhere else.
But it’s not safe to live here.
About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.
Grove Parc has become a symbol for some in Chicago of the broader failures of giving public subsidies to private companies to build and manage affordable housing - an approach strongly backed by Obama as the best replacement for public housing.
As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator, he pressed for increased federal subsidies. And as a presidential candidate, he has campaigned on a promise to create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund that could give developers an estimated $500 million a year.
But a Globe review found that thousands of apartments across Chicago that had been built with local, state, and federal subsidies - including several hundred in Obama’s former district - deteriorated so completely that they were no longer habitable.
Grove Parc and several other prominent failures were developed and managed by Obama’s close friends and political supporters. Those people profited from the subsidies even as many of Obama’s constituents suffered. Tenants lost their homes; surrounding neighborhoods were blighted.”
“Among those tied to Obama politically, personally, or professionally are:
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign and a member of his finance committee. Jarrett is the chief executive of Habitat Co., which managed Grove Parc Plaza from 2001 until this winter and co-managed an even larger subsidized complex in Chicago that was seized by the federal government in 2006, after city inspectors found widespread problems.”
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Allison Davis, a major fund-raiser for Obama’s US Senate campaign and a former lead partner at Obama’s former law firm. Davis, a developer, was involved in the creation of Grove Parc and has used government subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,500 units in Chicago, including a North Side building cited by city inspectors last year after chronic plumbing failures resulted in raw sewage spilling into several apartments.
Antoin “Tony” Rezko, perhaps the most important fund-raiser for Obama’s early political campaigns and a friend who helped the Obamas buy a home in 2005. Rezko’s company used subsidies to rehabilitate more than 1,000 apartments, mostly in and around Obama’s district, then refused to manage the units, leaving the buildings to decay to the point where many no longer were habitable.
Campaign finance records show that six prominent developers - including Jarrett, Davis, and Rezko - collectively contributed more than $175,000 to Obama’s campaigns over the last decade and raised hundreds of thousands more from other donors. Rezko alone raised at least $200,000, by Obama’s own accounting.
One of those contributors, Cecil Butler, controlled Lawndale Restoration, the largest subsidized complex in Chicago, which was seized by the government in 2006 after city inspectors found more than 1,800 code violations.
Butler and Davis did not respond to messages. Rezko is in prison; his lawyer did not respond to inquiries.”
I can almost be sure that they threatened the networks, Soros is known to be able to break corporations, so they did not want to lose their company so it came down from the top to get behind Obama and do it with flair.
I was not paying much attention to the primaries and had already decided that I would vote for the nominee regardless of who it was, when the Clinton racism allegations surfaced around the time of the SC primaries, and the MLK holiday. I was so appalled at the way blacks attacked the Clintons (some even suggesting that the Clintons should not participate in the MLK events). I waited patiently for Obama to denounce the allegations, but he never did — they just swirled around his head and he relished in them. I am a black woman, but I knew there and then that I would never support him.
Yeah, thinker, I too, had intended to vote for the nominee, but the race-baiting and misogyny by the Obama camp was so egregious that it not only turned me away from his candidacy but the Dem Party altogether.
Well, finally. If they knew this b.s. came right out of the Obama campaign then why didn’t they whistle blow on this disgusting tactic back then.
Obama lost me when he sat there and let the Clinton’s be painted as racists. Hillary who had registered voters in the south during the civil rights movement and Obama who had done NOTHING during that time at all because he wasn’t there and his family were NEVER part of that movement at all.
It was a disgusting move by his campaign and he meant for not only the Clintons to be painted as racist but, all of their supporters. In doing this he has played a dangerous game, used people on both sides and driven race relations backward as well as many other damaging things.
I’m glad this is coming out. I think the language should be even stronger to indicate the real damage done though.
I find it disgusting that Obama wants someone who “gets it” in there when his own family doesn’t “get it” No one in his family came up from slavery, was never a part of that, no one was poor, no one was part of the struggle in this country.
The Clintons both worked hard to carry the torch for civil rights. Obama NEVER did nor did his family. So who was he trying to fool about “getting it”
*shudder* this man has zero morals to the point of revulsion.
Didn’t read all the posts yet, but remember there were memos sent from the Obama campaign as well.
Clinton talked about them and they were part of the whisper campaign that Tucker is discussing.
It was an organized assualt on the Clintons. And with Chris Wallace describing what ‘crybabies’ they are with the constant phone calls. They were probably working the phones quite a bit for this racist slur against the Clintons to go so wide.
Hillary got shafted by the Arab Kenyan son of Libyan President Quadaffi. It was a nasty, planned and heavily financed Campaign by the Obama engine room…Soros and Co and every left wing radical in the Country.
Obama was the smiley sweet poster boy out front.
A swag of decent-living, patriotic, christian Conservatives, keen to show they were not racist towards blacks, voted for him in 2008.
I doubt they will vote for him in 2012.They don’t like his policies and his lies.
Hillary has a chance to win the Presidency in 2012. Particularly as the Repubs are still wandering around in the dark. But there are signs of GOP re-growth here and there. If an election were held today….
Yes, Karma!! I remember when those memos were leaked and all of this should have been brought out right when it happened. I am still baffled as to why this was not brought to the light of day immediately. What advantage was there to not showing what a dirty campaign he was running. Why allow Hillary to be painted as a racist when they knew she had gone down south to register voters, had worked hard for civil rights all her life and for women’s rights. We KNOW he had to do this right before south Carolina. She still had the majority of the black voters and the big shift came when he and his campaign attacked her as racist in a PLANNED way. They were used, and this was all done on purpose for votes with not a shred of truth to any of it. Anyone who would stoop so low ought to have been outted for the rat bastard back stabber he really was. They knew, and didn’t even begin to tell until now.
Lets not forget Jesse Jackson Jr, the co-chair of Obama’s campaign and his comments after Hillary’s win in NH. He said that Hillary’s tears in NH were a sign that she only cared about herself and winning the election. He noted that Hillary had not ‘cried over Katrina’. Obama is a liar and a cheat and I will continue to voice my opinion of him until the day I die.
Thank you so much for this post. The thing that makes me so angry about our so-called journalists is that they run with these ‘off the record’ statements instead of actually finding news. If they would do their job and seek out the facts they would not have to sit at their desks, drinking Starbucks, waiting for Obama to call with the story of the day.
Pls make sure that the Newspaper Bailout legislations being discussed in the Senate today goes no where. These institutions are dying because they are corrupt and useless. Good riddance to them all.
jesse jr. who??– that snake found himself under the bus real fast when he got caught up in the buy a senate seat scandal.
You’re very odd.
I’m just saying — jesse jr. turned on his own father after jesse snr was caught on an open mike saying something negative about “The One”. I remember his saying something like “he (his father) knows how hard I have worked for this”. Worked for what?? As soon it was learned that he may have been implicated in the Blago senate seat scandal he held his denial press conference and then he just disappeared from the scene — he got no cabinet appointment and I no longer even hear his name. So much for all that hard work.
What I love is how 0bama threw the msm under the bus. This is the same msm that helped him become POTUS. Their reporting was not just biased, but the media deliberately didn’t report certain info. And they’re still doing it. Case in point: the situation here in NYS vis a vis Gov. Paterson. I’m not defending Paterson per se, but much of his problem stems from the handling of the Caroline Kennedy bid for Hillary’s Senate seat. The NY papers ganged up on Paterson’s handling of it and never reported the whole picture: that there was a HUGE backlash from Hillary’s PUMA supporters who were still furious with Caroline for her early support of Barack 0bama. The polls were never on Caroline’s side and the governor’s office received angry phone calls and emails against Caroline. His reluctance to appoint Caroline was founded in that. The newspapers only reported this in passing. And instead reported only that Paterson mishandled the affair, as if he was the only one who didn’t want Kennedy. It put Paterson in a precarious position of people feeling: “How dare he treat a Kennedy this way.” I’m sure the fact that he was black didn’t help this perception for those who are in this mindset. Ultimately, Paterson was put between a rock and a hard place. Had he appointed Caroline there was still going to be a backlash against him. So he took a political gamble and appointed Gillibrand hoping to curry favor with upstate voters. In the end, what remains is the belief that Paterson didn’t appoint her because he didn’t think she was ready. Caroline certainly helped in forming this perception. My point is that the msm has conspired with 0bama on so many levels and people are not getting the whole picture. It serves the media right to get thrown under the bus.
Good for Tucker,as a Democrat labeling the Clintons racist was one of the sadest times for me. I remember in a debate, Biden was being attributed racist comments but Obama, who was standing next to him didn’t miss the chance to apprear grandious and say he knew Biden wasn’t a racist. When the race card served his purpose in SC he let it fester for two weeks before saying anything to the contrary. Any moron knew the Clintons didn’t make racist statements and are not racists. Why do you think the majority of Blacks were for Hillary to begin with. The Black community understands struggle and those who have fought for them and they knew Obama wasn’t that person. When it appeared around SC time that Obama may have chance to win the majority shoved the Clintons under the bus. The Clintons efforts on behalf of the Black community and their close connections meant nothing anymore because Obama had a chance.
Even Bush knew enought to stand up for Muslim Americans after 9/11 by saying they were good people. I wasn’t crazy about Bush but that is what a leader does and Obama is not one. It is sad how Americans will deny their truths, which have nothing to do with racism but actual issues, out of the fear of being perceived as such. No one is ignorant to the fact that racism still exists but if you keep on labeling everyone who disagrees with the president as one, racism will not get resolved it will only get worse.
Thank you Tucker,
What a mess one word can cause. Why be concerned about being called a “racist” if you know you aren’t one? If a legitimate question is being asked and all Obama’s minions can come up with is one word “racist” keep asking until you get the answer and don’t be intimidated by it.
They are cowards.
Trish, exactly! I don’t care what people call me–what is important is what I know to be true of myself. It is unfortunate that so many people are apparently still highly invested in getting people to *like* or approve of them. True Validation comes from within, not without. Just imagine if everyone who was bullied into voting for this clown simply because they were afraid of being called racist had actually voted for the PERSON instead of the color!
Thankyou Tucker.I’m a black person and knew at the time Obama used the “race card”.I was mad when my people jumped ship.the Clintons were working for us way befor anyone ever heard of Obama.I believe in prayer and what is right.He will get his do.
Vera, I worked during the campaign with so many people of color who saw through Obama’s tactics–they worked harder than anyone else because they knew he was bad for our country. It used to be amusing when we’d be campaigning together because people couldn’t really call us racist when a group of us, all different colors, were working together to try and stop this man.
I, too, believe in prayer and wish it had been successful in preventing him from seizing the Whit eHouse but hopefully in time, he WILL get his due.
Thanks, pm317, great blog post. I was so disgusted during the run up to the South Carolina primary, when Obama played the race card. It was pretty damn clear to ME that it was all a smear campaign; that’s why Bill Clinton was so thrown off his game. He was unprepared for such a despicable smear, and he was outraged about it. He had a hard time containing his anger, and that hurt Hillary’s campaign.
It really was a “defining moment” for Barack Obama. And, he defined himself as a man who wouldn’t hesitate to exploit the race card to benefit himself, no matter how divisive it is.
Democrats constantly play the race card against people they’re in conflict with at the moment.
During the primary campaign everyone complained it was the White Dems who were racist against Obama (this was of course, the playing of the race card by the MSM and Obama sycophants against Clintons)… (then contemporaneously and ever-growing further on, that Obama was playing race-card against Clinton. )
I include the phone calls at the end, not because I necessarily agree with everything that was said (I dont) but so that some readers can see how the DEem Party is perceived by those who are not part of it.
(This was before Obama’s Marxism was fully appreciated by everyone… I think everyone would prefer Hillary Clinton to Obama right now. I would.. and also prefer her over McCain)
[Note: I do no believe that the Clintons are racist in any manner whatsoever]
This is a great transcript from Limbaugh’s show last year, that I remember listening to.
13 March 2008
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031308/content/01125110.member.html
(I dont know if the link will work if you’re not a member… since 99.999% of readers probably aren’t, if you go to his main site and click on a past day and then any of the links on that day, you’ll notice how the URL works the date for you, just change the date to 031308 and the content to 01125110)
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