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Post by jdredd on Nov 24, 2014 22:25:10 GMT -5
This thread is only indirectly related to the Ferguson Grand Jury decision, which I have no reason to dispute, except for wondering why Officer Wilson needed 10 shots to take down Mr. Brown. But what got my attention was when I was watching The Five and later listening to Roger before the verdict. That they took what Rudy Giuliani said seriously can only be explained by their pandering to their perceived audience, which is predominantly white. Not that pandering to the white vote is anything new, Richard Nixon famously used a "Southern Strategy" of appealing to white fear of Blacks. But sadly it is still happening. One example: The right's favorite Black whipping boy, Al Sharpton. Now the right does praise "good" black people like Ben Carson, but the difference is Al is ridiculed a hundred times for every time they mention Ben. Maybe you think that is one small thing, but I'm not black and I find it telling.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 25, 2014 12:10:14 GMT -5
I was willing to give Officer Wilson the benefit of the doubt, but the more I hear about the incident, the more negative I feel about his decisions. There may not be enough evidence to prosecute him, but with such poor judgement, he should find another line of work. I do feel sorry for him because I'm not sure he will ever be able to walk the streets of Ferguson safely again, but maybe I shouldn't.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 25, 2014 22:36:39 GMT -5
I was driving this evening listening to Preacher Beck and his radio pals (who are those clowns, anyway?) ridicule people who are unhappy with the Ferguson Grand Jury's decision on Darrin Wilson. My opinion is: My opinion doesn't matter. What matters is the accumulated opinion of American voters, especially young non-white voters coming into the electorate by 2016. The right can suppress the vote only so much by making it as hard as possible to vote.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 1, 2014 19:07:03 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/1/steve-deace-the-democrats-war-on-whites/"The biggest story from the 2014 elections is that people aren’t just tired of Mr. Obama’s lawless act and ineffective policies. They’re also fed up with the Marxist/Cloward-Piven/Saul Alinsky tactics he and his Leftist acolytes repeatedly deploy to get their way. Middle-class whites like my mom, who voted for Mr. Obama in 2008 and was proud to see him break the presidential color barrier, are fed up with being told that if they don’t like the fact they can no longer afford their health care, they’re a racist. That if they can’t afford to pay for the college tuition of illegal aliens, they’re a racist. That if they think someone should show the same identification to vote that they show to get a government-issued library card, they’re a racist. That if they think Ferguson, Missouri, rioters should be arrested for destroying private property, they’re a racist." NOW I get it. It isn't that the GOP is pandering to the white vote, it's that the Democrats are waging war on whites. Glad we got that cleared up.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 2, 2014 15:20:52 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/us/stlouis-police-ferguson-nfl-players/2014/12/01/id/610239/"I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertisers' products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that do. Somebody needs to throw a flag on this play. "All week long, the Rams and the NFL were on the phone with the St. Louis Police Department asking for assurances that the players and the fans would be kept safe from the violent protesters who had rioted, looted, and burned buildings in Ferguson."As the players and their fans sit safely in their dome under the watchful protection of hundreds of St. Louis' finest, they take to the turf to call a now-exonerated officer a murderer, that is way out-of-bounds, to put it in football parlance.” Now THAT I believe.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 7, 2015 18:14:44 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/15/rand-paul-black-votersarenotbeingdisinfranchised.html"Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says he believes there is "no objective evidence" that African-Americans' votes are being disenfranchised by new voter laws. Paul made the comments Wednesday during a luncheon hosted by the Louisville Forum, NPR affiliate WFPL reported. The remarks come amid controversy over numerous voter ID laws across the country and laws placing new restrictions on early voting and registration, and two weeks before the 50th anniversary of the famed "March on Washington" and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech on civil rights. "The interesting thing about voting patterns now is in this last election African-Americans voted at a higher percentage than whites in almost every one of the states that were under the special provisions of the federal government," Paul said, according to NPR. "So really, I don't think there is objective evidence that we're precluding African-Americans from voting any longer." Even if he thought this was true, why would he be stupid enough to say it? Not unless he was pandering. Does make me hope he's the GOP candidate, though. I'd love it if they nominated a guy this far to the fringe.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 8, 2015 23:38:42 GMT -5
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/8/inside-the-beltway-nra-convention-draws-republican/"Talk about accurate aim. A dozen Republican presidential hopefuls are bound for the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, which begins Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a bodacious and powerful event, expected to draw 70,000 folks intent on affirming their allegiance to guns, guts, fellowship and America — with some prayer, country music and family time to go with it. Everything about the three-day gathering is large — there are 16 acres of firearms displays, 400 exhibitors, multiple laser and air-gun shooting ranges, law seminars. On hand to address the organization’s sold-out leadership forum Friday: Govs. Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal and Mike Pence; Sens. Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham; and such other GOP notables as Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Donald Trump." I put this in this thread because I suspect the NRA is close to being all white folk.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 30, 2015 2:29:29 GMT -5
Listened to Hannity on the radio, and later on TV all evening, and it's pathetic how desperate he is to find the Baltimore cops innocent of wrongdoing.
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Post by Turk on Apr 30, 2015 12:57:05 GMT -5
Listened to Hannity on the radio, and later on TV all evening, and it's pathetic how desperate he is to find the Baltimore cops innocent of wrongdoing. Black mayor, black chief of police, racially balanced police force and predominately black city council so I couldn't answer however I think most will side with law enforcement first.
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Post by Turk on Apr 30, 2015 12:57:51 GMT -5
This thread is only indirectly related to the Ferguson Grand Jury decision, which I have no reason to dispute, except for wondering why Officer Wilson needed 10 shots to take down Mr. Brown. But what got my attention was when I was watching The Five and later listening to Roger before the verdict. That they took what Rudy Giuliani said seriously can only be explained by their pandering to their perceived audience, which is predominantly white. Not that pandering to the white vote is anything new, Richard Nixon famously used a "Southern Strategy" of appealing to white fear of Blacks. But sadly it is still happening. One example: The right's favorite Black whipping boy, Al Sharpton. Now the right does praise "good" black people like Ben Carson, but the difference is Al is ridiculed a hundred times for every time they mention Ben. Maybe you think that is one small thing, but I'm not black and I find it telling. He's a bad shot?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 30, 2015 23:06:45 GMT -5
This thread is only indirectly related to the Ferguson Grand Jury decision, which I have no reason to dispute, except for wondering why Officer Wilson needed 10 shots to take down Mr. Brown. But what got my attention was when I was watching The Five and later listening to Roger before the verdict. That they took what Rudy Giuliani said seriously can only be explained by their pandering to their perceived audience, which is predominantly white. Not that pandering to the white vote is anything new, Richard Nixon famously used a "Southern Strategy" of appealing to white fear of Blacks. But sadly it is still happening. One example: The right's favorite Black whipping boy, Al Sharpton. Now the right does praise "good" black people like Ben Carson, but the difference is Al is ridiculed a hundred times for every time they mention Ben. Maybe you think that is one small thing, but I'm not black and I find it telling. He's a bad shot? They should fire him just for that.
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Post by jdredd on May 5, 2015 2:47:47 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-rightward-reaction-to-riots/2015/05/04/eb049c24-f280-11e4-bcc4-e8141e5eb0c9_story.html"Rick Perlstein prefaces his book “Nixonland” by noting that in 1964 Lyndon Johnson, the liberal Democrat, won one of the biggest landslides in American history. Eight years later, Richard Nixon, the conservative Republican, won a similar landslide. What had happened in the intervening years? Quite a bit, actually — and some of it is happening right now. Hillary Clinton, take note. Perlstein begins with the Watts riots of 1965. This was hardly the nation’s first urban unrest, but it was the first major riot televised live. KTLA’s novel helicopter, the so-called “telecopter,” could go where the mobile units of other TV stations — turned back by rock-throwers — could not. The telecopter hovered over the Los Angeles neighborhood, transmitting pictures that both transfixed and horrified the nation. Richard Nixon, the champion of law and order, was on his way." Are white Millennials as stupid as their parents and grandparents? Say it ain't so.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 8, 2015 12:38:27 GMT -5
Dropped in on 760 this morning, and caught a guy named Chris Salcedo. Your cookie cutter Obama-hater and leftist demonizer who works for The Blaze, Glenn Beck's propaganda network, but I guess what makes him stand out is he is a Latino. Are they trying to move on beyond their white listener base? And they had to get a syndicated Texas hispanic? Whatever.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 20, 2015 1:22:52 GMT -5
Today Rick Perry was on the "new" Hannity show, and yesterday it was Bobby Jindal. Every GOP Presidential wanna-be has to kiss Hannity's ass at least once.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 21, 2015 21:00:44 GMT -5
www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/conservative-iowa-talk-radio-host-steve-deace-endorses-ted-cruz-n412621"Influential conservative Iowa talk radio host Steve Deace has officially endorsed Texas Senator Ted Cruz for president. "The candidate we are supporting is Texas Senator Ted Cruz…He's what we've been waiting for," said the conservative host. The announcement, which Deace made on his radio program on Wednesday afternoon, came two days ahead of the candidate's visit to the Iowa State Fair and about six months ahead of the Iowa Republican Caucus." I guess this guy is a big cheese on the radio in Iowa. You go on his website and his banner is "Fear God. Tell the Truth. Make Money." No, really.
Speaking of white radio, I tune into Mike Slater here on 760 now and again, and almost every time I think he sounds like he's preaching a sermon. Alas, as Steve Deace's banner suggests, Christianity and Capitalism seem to be merging more every year, at least in the USA. Too bad they don't seem able to convince Jesus to keep the stock market from crashing, though I'm sure they pray a lot about it.
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