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MSNBC host equates ‘Obamacare’ with N-word
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:04 PM
JONGSSTRAW
Quote:MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry suggested the term “Obamacare” and the N-word are interchangeable, claiming both were “conceived by a group of wealthy white men who needed to . . . render [a black man] inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.” Harris-Perry opened her show Sunday morning with a sober monologue on President Obama’s push to rebrand his failing healthcare law: HARRIS-PERRY: “I want to talk today about a controversial word. It’s a word that has been with us for years. And like it or not, it’s indelibly printed in the pages of American history. A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean. The word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man, to render him inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments. “President Obama has been labelled with this word by his opponents, and at first he rose above it, hoping that if he could just make a cause for what he’d achieved, his opponents would fail in making their label stick. But no matter how many successes that he had as president, he realized there were still many people for whom he’d never be anything more than that one disparaging word — a belief he knew was held not just by his political opponents, but also by a significant portion of the American electorate. “And so he decided if you can’t beat them, you’ve got to join them. So he embraced the word and made it his own, sending his opposition a message they weren’t expecting: ‘If that’s what you want me to be, I’ll be that.’ “Y’all know the word that I’m talking about. Obamacare! That’s right! I said it and I’m not ashamed, and neither is President Obama!”
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:09 PM
BYTEMITE
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 12:17 PM
NEWOLDBROWNCOAT
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:42 PM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 1:47 PM
STORYMARK
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 2:00 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: She's a lame SNL skit, at best. Almost feel sorry for her.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:11 PM
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:51 PM
Quote:MSNBC is pretty much all editorials from what I can tell. Whenever there's a program with a starring "anchor", it's an editorial, and the show is going to be slanted heavily with the anchor's bias. Expecting news out of shows like this is like expecting day time talk shows to know what the hell they're talking about.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 6:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Jongsstraw: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: She's a lame SNL skit, at best. Almost feel sorry for her. Except it wasn't a SNL skit. It was a news program, or what embarrassingly passes for news at MSNBC. She wasn't trying to be sarcastic. She wasn't trying to be funny. She was dead serious. She was trying to be controversial in an effort to shift the Obamacare disaster to "wealthy white men" which for her means Republicans. She is an outright militant racist and a willful Obama propagandist.
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