They are rare among conservatives too. A couple of racist signs at a Tea Bagger rally does not mean Tea Baggers on the whole are racist. Every group, especially grass roots groups, has its share of crackpots and outliers. The meme that the Tea Party and Republicans in the main are racists is bullshit. Approximately 80 million people voted conservative in the last presidential election and the number would have been higher had Bush not been so unpopular. The people you can point to who are Tea Party or Republican racists does not equal one one-millionth of one percent. When I say that conservatives are not racist it’s those 80 million plus who I’m talking about. A few racist campaign signs doesn’t make all conservatives racist any more than a belief in God makes you a member of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Good grief! When I mentioned 60 Minutes, I was talking about the very common practice of airing snippits of interviews. Everyone does it. ABC does it, CBS does it, 20/20 does it and even Oprah and Dr. Phil do it. Breitbart has absolutely nothing to do with what I was talking about.
Or do you really think there are fewer than .8 racists in that 80 million people? Hell, let’s just round up: you honestly think there’s less than 1 racist in that 80 million people?
No it isn’t. I myself think liberals are trying to destroy America. In fact, I think to a large degree they already have. All you have to do is look at the societal ills that plague this country today which were virtually non-existent sixty years ago to see the damage that liberalism has wrought within this country.
Still, that doesn’t mean I think liberals are evil. And it doesn’t mean I think they have malicious intent. I merely think they are misguided, wrongheaded, willful, unrealistic, indifferent to consequence, irresponsible and immature. But none of that equals “evil”.
It always kills me when liberals get into such high dudgeon over being accused of hating America. I think it’s a fair charge, albeit a tad hyperbolic. It’s like you’re saying “We don’t hate America; we just want to change everything about it!” I don’t know about you, but just about every time I want to change something, it’s because I don’t like it the way it is. So why is a person wrong if they accuse me of not liking it?
OMG you’re an idiot. Utterly in denial, and stupid to boot. You contradict yourself from one sentence to the next, and are unable to see it. I’m just gonna view you as unintentional comedy from here on out. Seriously, reading one of your posts is like watching someone put a banana peel on the ground, slip on it, and not know what happened to them.
I think you’re getting just a tad cranked up, there, Bo.
Would it make you any happier if I said a few hundred out of 80 million? How about a few thousand out of 80 million? Then would you accept my point?
I thought not.
So you’re splitting hairs over things that would make no difference to you in the first place. So what possible difference does all your silly crowing make?
Yeah, thanks; Herman Cain. He’s representative because other Republicans choose him to speak before them and cheer wildly when he calls liberals evil people who are deliberately trying to destroy the country, as he did last week (and has many times on his radio show, apparently). How is he not representing their views?
Has Al Sharpton been speaking to Democratic Party groups to wild cheers? No? Then I guess that might be because his views don’t exactly coincide with the views of the party enough for them to want to hear him say what he thinks.
Al Sharpton has said lots of really unflattering things in front of cheering crowds of Democrats, particularly those in New York.
You may recall his attacking the “diamond merchants” of Crown Heights and his declaration “tell the Jews to pin back their yarmulkas and come talk to me” as well as his references to the “White interlopers” during the fight over Freddy’s.
If you want to go into discussions he’s said about Republicans or white conservatives his comments are even worse.
Frankly I’m willing to bet far more Democrats, particularly black Democrats know who Al Sharpton is then Republicans who know who Herman Cain is.
My point BTW is not that Al Sharpton is all that representative of the Democratic party, but that he’s a fringe candidate as are both Keyes and Cain.
There are racists on both sides. But I believe that the GOP has more of them. When the GOP convention looks like other than a sea of white, with sypathetic camera operators straining to get shots of people of color, I’ll buy it.
As long as your presidential hopefuls keep firing up the hate speech implying that Obama wasn’t born in the US and has Muslim and Kenyan “hidden” sympathies, methinks thou dost protest too much.
Who said it did? You admit yourself the exact truth of what I said: that you lot WANT TO BE ABLE TO PAINT ACORN as blamless and hold these other corporations liable. I didn’t say you were able to.
Listen carefully. The whole point here is the one you just glossed over: why is it “things Blackwater did as a company?”
But it’s things “a few ACORN execs did, not ACORN itself!”
See the deal? When it’s a company you hate, the company did it. When it’s a company with worthwhile goals (in your mind) then they can obviously do no wrong, and it was their evil or misguided employees.
So…a company that has raped and murdered people is somehow comparable—in Bricker’s mind, that is-- with a charity that helped poor people register for the vote, and was in fact maligned by the very sort of person who supports the first company? I love how Bricker’s mind works.
James O’Keefe is a lying, editing dissembler. So is Breitbart. There’s just not a lot of wiggle room there. So look at Bricker wiggle.
You bilious twit: the issue is not whether one firm is Puppy Stomping, Inc. and the other is Happy Smiles and Hugs, Inc. The question is: when are acts of the employees imputable to the company and when are they not? This hasn’t anything to do with whether one company exists for what you see as just and virtuous ends.
ETA: But it DOES mean, obviously, when the company serves a “good” cause, you’re much more willing to make excuses for them than when they serve an “evil” cause… which is my point precisely. You’re moved by your feeling that helping poor people register to vote is such a good thing that they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
You disagree that enfranchising poor people is a good thing? You think that raping and murdering people is no big deal? And more insults. If you had anything but technicalities, you wouldn’t use insults. Must be getting frustrated with having to defend lying scumbags like O’Keefe----and murderous vipers like Blackwater. Poor Bricker. Why don’t back the few decent Republicans out there, like the ones in Wyoming who defeated both anti-choice legislation and argued that gays deserved to have their rights defended just like everyone else. Instead, you always back scumbags—and insult people who dare to point this out.
Actually, I feel that the whole factory operation that ACORN engaged in WAS a bad thing; I think the franchise works best when people care enough about voting to register on their own.
But that’s completely irrelevant to this discussion, which again for your addled mind is: when is a company liable for the acts of its employees? Does the answer to that question truly depend on whether we approve of the company’s goals?
