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May 16, 2008
Diane Sawyer Suggestions For Hillary ~ HUH?!
Racial Politics Inside the Democratic Ranks
by Mike Gallagher
It had to be one of the single dumbest questions ever asked in the history of network television.
Diane Sawyer was chatting up James Carville, the irascible Clinton loyalist, about the West Virginia Democrat primary. She turned to Mr. Carville and, with a glint in her eye, asked something that almost caused him to fall flat out of his cushy 'Good Morning America' chair. At least I know I certainly would have keeled over had I been asked the same thing.
Referring to the much-reported exit polling in West Virginia that suggested that one out of five Clinton voters said that race was definitely a factor in their decision, Ms. Sawyer, who makes approximately 12 million dollars a year to ask questions on ABC-TV, said the following: "...should Sen. Clinton say she is rejecting the votes of anyone who votes based in any way on color of skin?"
I swear to you that Carville looked at her as if she had just suggested that a tiny alien creature was living in her left high-heeled shoe.
I'm glad that in the middle of his rambling, stumbling answer to possibly the goofiest question he's ever received, he managed to sheepishly point out that there were "probably a few black voters who have voted for Sen. Obama because of race as well."
A "few"? A FEW???
Surely Carville has seen the same data we all have regarding the racial component of Democrats who have cast votes for Obama and Sen. Clinton. And a die-hard liberal Dem like James Carville isn't about to admit on national TV what has turned into the not-so-secret secret of this Democrat primary season: black Democrats are overwhelmingly voting for the black candidate.
The story has been revealed state after state: 92% of the black vote in Mississippi for Obama; 91% of the black vote in Wisconsin for him; 84% of blacks went for Obama in Maryland; 87% in Ohio; and on and on.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton captured 55% of the white vote in Texas; 64% of white voters in Ohio; and 66% in New Jersey, just to name a few. So while Sen. Clinton has garnered a fairly even percentage of white and black voters, blacks are simply voting in overwhelming percentages for Sen. Obama.
In a contest between two Democrat candidates with nearly indistinguishable policies, this is astoundingly alarming.
If Diane Sawyer wasn't so hell-bent on trying to make the case that white West Virginia voters were a bunch of bigots, she might have asked the exact same question of Sen. Obama and his supporters. The only problem with that scenario is that if Obama had to reject voters who selected him based "in any way" on race, he wouldn't have anyone left.
The mainstream media can't seem to ever cover the issue of race fairly. To realize that dopes like Diane Sawyer think they have a "gotcha" moment by referring to one out of five white voters in one small state while ignoring the giant elephant in the room of nearly 100% of blacks voting for Barack Obama everywhere else is preposterous.
It would be nice to believe that black Democrats all believe that Sen. Obama is truly the best person for the job. But if that were true, what would the media be saying if white voters were voting for Mrs. Clinton with such giant percentages? The answer is easy: the press would be denouncing a racist white America, a hate-filled electorate of despicable bigots who would dare to vote for someone solely on the color of their skin.
If I announced on my radio show that the only reason I'm voting for John McCain is because he's a white man, I can't imagine I'd have much of a career remaining. Unless my career included appearing at conventions of skinheads and Ku Klux Klansmen.
But once again, biased blacks get a pass. Very few people have the intestinal fortitude to admit that it's a crying shame that so many voters are blindly supporting someone for president because of his skin color. It would be the ultimate act of political incorrectness to point this out. Instead, whites in West Virginia -- and elsewhere -- are demonized as non-educated, racist morons.
It's easy to blame white Americans for just about every single racial conflict in America. But in doing so, we're not making much progress in terms of race relations.
Show me black Democrats who will vote for a candidate based on real qualifications and we'll be getting somewhere.
Wild Thing's comment.......
LOL this is so stupid what Sawyer said it had me laughing. Does she even think before she talks? Ifi nothing else this is a good example of how the mind of the left works.....it doesn't.
Posted by Wild Thing at May 16, 2008 05:55 AM
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It's amazing that prior to Obama, Blacks across America adored the Clinton's, even calling Bill Clinton the first Black President. Now, they've turned their backs completely on the Clinton's, even leveling racism charges against them. I wonder how the Clinton's like being treated like Republicans?
Posted by: BobF at May 16, 2008 07:01 AM
Diane Sawyer is your typical liberal looney left reporter. And for a woman who had such potential as a young girl (Miss Teen USA was it?).
That is a racist remark she made and she ought to be penalized for it. That's just as bad as what Don Imus said about the Rutgers girls basketball team. The liberal media has divided us between the races and skin color. I don't care what color you are. That makes no difference in who I pick as friends, colleagues and coworkers. Sheesh! You'd think that someone who makes $12 million a year who recognize that.
Time to stop listening to the constant negative bantering and think for ourselves and ask ourselves what we "truly believe."
Posted by: Lynn at May 16, 2008 09:01 AM
That's why I don't watch network news. The newspeople try to outdo one another in the field of sensationalism. That and ignorance and bias run today's "news reporting".
This election is showing the definite racial bias of American Blacks. As BobF points out, they loved the Clintons, but now they have a one half "Bro" in the race they turn tribal, even though most of them could not tell you what Obama's platforms are.
Posted by: TomR at May 16, 2008 10:19 AM
Diane Sawyer is far from stupid. This selective and one-sided racist charge is right out of the liberals playbook of repeating a lie often enough that people believe it. The brainwashing of American POWs by Chinese communists during the Korean War was nothing compared to the brainwashing of the American public by liberal Democrats and their co-conspirator MSM.
Diane Sawyer's job is to brainwash the susceptible and all too willing Good Morning America audience with liberal Democratic propaganda no matter how poisonous and filled with lies it may be. How many other times have you heard the MSM repeat this same lie that whites are racists and bad while blacks are good? Repeat! Repeat! Repeat!........
That is why we need people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Monica Crowley, and Chrissie to spread the TRUTH antidote to repeated liberal lies.
Posted by: Les at May 16, 2008 10:41 AM
I seldom get any network news, however some of the worst bigots I know of are the ones who pretend not to be, so really who is pushing the racial issue?
From my tiny perspective it's the Obamanation himself and the supple media pushing racism in the hopes of a race riot if 'King Hussein' fails.
The prediliction of the Democrats to push the very worst candidate they can find upon the voter is the fault of their committees and their hijacked ideology.
"I'm the one I've been waiting for!" Priceless!!!!!
You captured it all with that caption Chrissie. Obama, Clinton and the entire Democrat party reflect the very same elitist mantra. It could apply to that esteemed senator from Arizona also.
Posted by: Jack at May 16, 2008 11:51 AM
BobF yes they surfe dropped Clinton like a hot potato.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 16, 2008 07:59 PM
Lynn, Amen to that!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 16, 2008 08:01 PM
Tom yes I never have seen it this bad. The media is completely for Obama and not one bit shy about letting one and all know it. Disgusting, there is no more of the here is the news and that is all. Now it is all this is how we want you to think.grrrrr
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 16, 2008 08:04 PM
Les, yes thank goodness for our talk radio people.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 16, 2008 08:05 PM
Jack, yes the left is doing all the push of this being a race baited election. They just won't stop it is sickening.
Posted by: Wild Thing at May 16, 2008 08:10 PM
