Media cried wolf: Calling every
Republican a racist lost its bite
The Hill,
by
Joe Concha
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
7/20/2019 5:12:17 AM
Once upon a time in the world of cable news, a guest or host or anchor calling anyone a racist would have considerable impact.
From what we've seen this week, when it comes to that word, those days are long gone. A person simply can't turn on the news or scroll Twitterfor even more than a minute before hearing the word "racist" or "racism." For example, CNN and MSNBC said the word "racist" more than 1,100 times from Sunday to Tuesday, according to a tally conducted by Grabien Media, an online media production and news prep service.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 7/20/2019 5:30:01 AM (No. 128695)
Equally important is that the more you falsely accuse someone of some transgression, the more likely it is they will go ahead and do it since they are being punished for it anyway.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
IowaDad 7/20/2019 5:31:34 AM (No. 128696)
No definition of "racism" works today.
Incidentally, no definition of "Fascism" or "Nazi" works either.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/20/2019 6:38:27 AM (No. 128722)
Being called a racist by a filthy democrat is a badge of honor.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SpideysReturn 7/20/2019 6:52:29 AM (No. 128737)
The reason the left keeps playing the race card decade after decade is to reinforce white guilt so when they get serious about reparations,they won't get much blowback. As far I can tell all of the 2020 candIidates support reparations sucking up to black voters.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/20/2019 6:58:32 AM (No. 128744)
Call me whatever you want. I’m still supporting and voting for President Trump.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 7/20/2019 7:36:47 AM (No. 128777)
It is the Leftists who are most often "Racists" as it includes being "For" a racial group as well as being "Against". The "Tribal" nature of Leftist politics is all about "Racism".
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/20/2019 7:38:36 AM (No. 128779)
It is important to note that Trump has had a MAJOR hand in this result. In the past, Republicans have scurried from such media accusations in fear. Trump has confronted them, exposed their bias and their outright lies, and spotlighted that this is a propaganda tactic. They are fake media. Further, he has prodded them, sometimes merely by his existence as President and other times through his tweets, into extreme foolishness; the type that is easily and obviously exposed as propaganda and lies.
Trump has declawed the media. Yes, they still go nuts and paw at everything they can but they can no longer do much damage. Plus, they KNOW they have been effectively neutered and they HATE it, driving them to more insanity.
This latest Trump tweet against the "Squad" was perfect. The media had a massive knee jerk reaction, just as Trump KNEW they would. With a few accurate and well placed words that were NOT racist, Trump called out the media and the dems and forced the dems into embracing a toxic faction in their party which branded them the toxic party. The reaction was certain and the result was expected. The dem party put on a hilarious scramble for impeachment that failed miserably and ended up having Pelousy banned for intemperate speech, exactly what they were going after Trump for, and Emanuel Cleaver abandoning the temporary chair. Then the dems voted to abandon House rules to allow Nancy back, essentially saying "Intemperate speech for me but not for thee!", which is not FREE speech. It is dictatorial speech.
It was farce of the highest order.
Trump wrote the script and the dems obliged in performing it to exceed expectations.
Most people feel that we are too Politically Correct and the media is the enforcer. Trump is freeing us from that. Open and honest conversation is ESSENTIAL to good governance for the American People and fake media is our enemy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
triggerberg 7/20/2019 9:39:22 AM (No. 128889)
Among humans there are genetic differences in hair color, skin color, height, etc, but there is only one human species or race. So what is racism? It is the focus on those distinguishing characteristics, like skin color, plus place of origin and lately, religion. (Islam is not a race or even a genetic type, but you can’t tell some people that. Neither is Latino.) Anyone who’s main focus in discussions, politics, and life is on their or others’ presence or absence of certain genetic characteristics, place of origin, or religion or any other characteristic is a racist. Who is it who is constantly talking about such things? Whose main focus is on such things? Progressive/liberal/leftists/whatever they want to call themselves. Democrats.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 7/20/2019 9:58:55 AM (No. 128912)
I guess they never read the book, " The Boy Who Cried Wolf ".
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The party that wore white hoods way back when and black hoodies now , scream racist at the drop of the proverbial hat. It seems to me that if everyone is a racist and the chances are you may be one if like Jesse Jackson you have second thoughts about walking down an alley when there is a gang of black teenagers or hispanic teenagers or white teenagers coming from the other end of that alley. Oh wait maybe that is just common sense. Walk around fool. Racist is the last card in the deck and sorry to say it is not the Trump card. Sorry fool, walk around.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/20/2019 10:25:49 AM (No. 128941)
Im disappointed. Not one liberal has ever called me racist to my face. It would be an honor.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
chance_232 7/20/2019 10:31:09 AM (No. 128946)
The first time that I was called a racist was when a young black woman that I worked with asked me what I thought of then presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. I responded that I thought that he was an idiot. Her response was that I was a racist. The next time I was called a racist was after I admitted support for a proposition to deny state funds for illegal aliens. In the past three years EVERY republican that voted for or supports Trump has been labeled racists, fascist, Nazi enablers and white supremacists. Last week I listened to several people make that claim, without pushback, on NPR.
Pushback is coming......and it wont be pretty. You cant continue to slander, malign, insult and offend an entire population for long without the inevitable consequences. Its not enough that republicans are racist, now the slander is being applied to any white democrat not sufficiently leftist.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/20/2019 10:33:45 AM (No. 128947)
Another reason people tune out cries of racism is because they have learned that most racism is against White people. We have heard it all, and seen how ridiculous the left has become. Tearing down monuments and memorials, learning about the drumbeat against whites in our colleges, allowing black to escape punishment for crimes, antagonism against white police, allowing a ''black caucus'' to exist in congress(!).
Even the former First Lady spewed racism against White people, with no outcry from the democrat left. So, it's no wonder that people don't pay attention any more when the democrats play the race card over and over!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zbogwan2 7/20/2019 11:18:22 AM (No. 129004)
CNN and MSNBC said the word "racist" more than 1,100 times from Sunday to Tuesday, according to a tally conducted by Grabien Media, an online media production and news prep service.The terms "Racist" or Racism" have been anesticzed by the public, so to speak. Just like those who live near airports that do the same with the Jet's Takeoff noise.
The News Media should have a Bleep Program that bleeps the words racism/racist on all Left Wing Programs. That would be funny to say the least?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/20/2019 1:03:46 PM (No. 129112)
The leftist and liberal media that is allied to the Democrat Party have been “nitpicking” everything that President Trump does or says since he was elected. Playing the “race card” is an old Democrat political tool that has worked in the past against the wimpy Republicans who usually run and hide when the Democrats have fraudulently used the race card against them. The problem is President Trump is not one bit politically correct and fraudulent “race card” playing will not work against him and his supporters. The upcoming problem for the Democrats is that most of the Americans who will actually vote in the election also recognize that the Democrats and media allies continuously playing the “race card” is a completely bogus politically based fraud.
In the instant case the Democrats have been trying to fraudulently use the “race card” against Trump by zeroing on on what some anonymous people attending the recent Trump campaign rally did for about 13 seconds by chanting “send her back” while completely ignoring all the other very important aspects of Trump’s almost two hour talk which mostly centered on his very good economic and job creating record that are very important to the American people. In reality nobody has been told who started that inconsequential chant and it could have been leftist Democrat infiltrators some of who were removed from the venue.
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