Why Jimmy Carter was right, Joe Scarborough is a miserable a-hole & Mika is an ignorant sycophant

[wndycty]

http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2009/09/why-jimmy-carter-was-right-joe.html

Why Jimmy Carter was right, Joe Scarborough is a miserable a-hole and Mika Brzezinski is an ignorant sycophant
Joe Scarborough is spitting mad at former President Jimmy Carter for his comment that much of the opposition to President Barack Obama is rooted in racism. Earlier this week on a couple of episodes of MSNBC’s MORNING JOE, Scarborough expressed his displeasure towards our nation’s 39th president for giving his own frank assessment, an assessment that is shared by many folks in this country.

Scarborough is being dishonest when he frames the controversy as Carter and many on the left accusing anyone who opposes the president as racist. No one said that, THAT IS NOT THE CASE.

By introducing this deceiving frame it is easy for Scarborough, and others, to paint those of us who share Carter’s view as playing the race card.

“I don’t know what America Jimmy Carter lives in, because he doesn’t live in the America where I live,” Scarborough said on the September 16, edition of his show. “There is desperation out there on the hard left and they just can’t figure out why people in the people of America are upset at this guy.”

In making this statement Joe ignores the role that the anger whipped up towards Obama during tea parties and town hall meetings has played in his dropping approval ratings. These events are important when it comes to understanding Carter’s statement because the rhetoric and images coming from them had both subtle and not so subtle racial as well as violent undertones.

Whether it’s the poster that had Obama dressed up as a witch doctor, the birther movement, the numerous signs calling him a Muslim or the lady who held up the poster that referred to the president as the “lying African,” it is hard to deny the influence that some who oppose him are influenced by bigotry.

“I actually worry about the fact that he brought this up,” Joe’s resident sycophant Mika also chimed in. “It may not just be wrong Joe, it may be irresponsible.”

Oh Mika you can such a dunce at times (more often than not unfortunately).

There DEFINITELY is some irresponsible behavior going on out there, but its not coming from Carter or others who have raised concerns about the new ugly tone that has been present since last summer. It is the behavior of Joe, Mika and others in the media who pretend that this is normal and acceptable political discourse and trivialize those who are concerned about it as being irresponsible and playing the race card.

Obama is not only the first African American president, he is the first president who is subjected to folks showing up at his event with guns, he is the first president who was treated like a sexual predator when he spoke to our nation’s students, he is the first president to be called heckled as a liar by a Congressman during a joint session of Congress.

What might contribute to these other “firsts?” Race? Nawwwwwwwww (sarcasm)

Joe, Mika and others will claim this is nothing new and President George W. Bush was subjected to protests and regularly disrespected by those of us on the left. While that observation is true, there needs to be some distinctions made.

The left never brought guns to Bush events and were often relegated to First Amendment zones. Reports are that Obama has received more threats to his life than any other president in American history, AND HE IS ONLY NINE MONTHS INTO HIS FIRST TERM!

Whenever Move.Org, CODE PINK and other left leaning organizations offended the right the Democratic establishment at times overreacted and distanced itself from them, however the tea party movement, while resembling the lynch mobs of the Jim Crow era, is embraced by GOP party leaders.

Joe and Mika can marginalize Jimmy Carter all they want but it doesn’t change the fact that what he said was right. I just hope as a country we wake up, realize its time for us to be part of the solution and have an honest and ongoing dialogue on race, instead of being part of the problem by trivializing the issue and calling those who raise it irresponsible.

Joe and Mika embrace an unrepentant bigot like Pat Buchanan as a regular contributor to their show, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they have no interest in being part of the solution.

[livetohike]

1. Mika is concerned again, Joe Scarborough is an ignorant

prick and that whole morning show is dedicated to putting down Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi (who Scarborough despises probably because he had some run ins with her in his glory years in Congress)and any other liberal who dares speak the truth about what is happening today.

Joe Scaborough is another example of how stupid people can easily be elected to Congress.

[Birthmark]

2. Scarborough is pretty typical

He ignores the parts of reality that he doesn't like. In his case that means most of reality.

But nice hair, eh?

[ShortnFiery]

3. My days are much more enjoyable now that I decided to NOT ever turn on MSNBC before

6:00 PM EDT. :-)

Go Big Ed, KO & Rachel. :applause:

[Ninga]

8. I'm so with you! I just might contact their sponsors. n/t

[Kahuna]

9. You're missing David and Tamron. They are the anti-mika/scumboro.

They kick ass and take names. They don't back down. Unfortunately, they are both off this week. Nora O'Donnell is trying not to ruin the show though. Still, I can't wait for David and Tamron to come back next week.

[zulchzulu]

4. I can watch Moron Joe and Mika the Mouse for 15 seconds and I'm pissed

They are unwatchable.

[jenmito]

5. They make me sick. And there is a line of "reasoning" they're all using to dismiss

the racists which is this: "Obama's approval dropped about 20 points. Those 20% of people who used to support him didn't suddenly become racists." Nobody is saying people who no longer approve of him ARE racists. We're talking about the small percentage of people who NEVER supported him who are now "coming out of the closet" with help and encouragement from people like Beck, Limbaugh, Bachmann, Palin, etc. There's no denying that a large number of those teabagging protestors, which is who Carter was talking about, ARE racists.

[jenmito]

6. K&R BTW.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. A bizarre world view when he claims that it is "desperation out there

on the hard left" in response to the RW hysteria of the teabaggers, the minority that feels they should run things even though they lost, badly. In truth, if the hard left is upset it is because Obama is so moderate and restrained. Of course, he can't admit that because to do so he would have to admit that Obama is NOT the hard left, himself.

And that brings me to my point - they have to pretend this moderate centrist is a far leftie to deflect from the otherwise obvious racism directed at him. "It's not because he's black; it's because he is a commie/fascist."

BTW - which has more resonance with American history and American pollitical cartooning? The 19th century snake-oil salesman, or the African witch doctor? If anyone else was being castigated for trying to sell a health-related product as something that is fraudulent, which is the natural choice? Clearly, the witch doctor reference is racist because it would NOT be used against anyone else in the same situation. Portraying Obama as a snake-oil salesman would not elicit a single "WTF" from anyone (though it would of course prompt disagreement), whereas anyone else portrayed as a witch doctor would elicit a WTF from just about everyone.

[Hutzpa]

10. What ticked me off

was watching a racist and an ignorant ass discussing racial abuse, how did that
happened.