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Woodrow Obama: Jon Stewart Gets Played

By Jeffrey Lord on 5.17.11 @ 6:08AM

From Birth of a Nation to Common: comedian snookered by president hits Fox instead.

Just how smart is Jon Stewart?

Really.

His reaction to the Common affair and his startling attack on Fox News is… is… well… first the basics.

Let’s start with some relevant political history to put Mr. Stewart’s recent attack on Fox News, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and other Fox stars in context. Historical context, in this case.

We begin with the famously progressive President of the United States settling in for an evening in the White House to showcase the work of an American artist.

The artist has strong, controversial views on race, using his art to express those views. He also uses his work to express outrage about interracial relationships. And, oh yes, he celebrated those who killed based on race.

No, this was not President Barack Obama using the White House to honor the work of rapper Common in May of 2011.

This was President Woodrow Wilson on the evening of March 21, 1915, using the White House to celebrate filmmaker D.W. Griffith and his hot film of the day, The Birth of a Nation. The film version of novelist Thomas Dixon’s novel and play The Clansman, a celebration of the Ku Klux Klan and racism. As Common campaigned for Obama, novelist Dixon was a longtime supporter and friend of Wilson’s.

For those who came in late, The Birth of a Nation was a silent film, 1915 being the pre-talk movie days. It became the highest grossing movie of the day. The story concerned the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, and depicted blacks dominating Southern whites, rapaciously forcing themselves on white women and — well — you get the idea. The founding of the Ku Klux Klan was dramatized, with the Klan celebrated as a group of heroic saviors fighting off tyranny. (Here’s a poster for the film, a “heroic” Klansman in flowing robes and astride a white horse.)

Blacks in the film, portrayed by white actors in black-face, were depicted as racial monsters. Wilson’s friend Dixon, it should be mentioned, is said to have developed his antipathy to interracial relations because his father was said to have had an affair with a black woman resulting in a child who was Dixon’s half-brother, with Dixon refusing to associate with the sibling he scornfully referred to as “that darky.”

In short, the Griffith film — and the Dixon novel and play on which it was based — was as rancid and racist as it was possible to get. Here’s a scene from the film in which a white damsel is being forced into a marriage with a mulatto — as the heroes of the Klan ride to her rescue.

Woodrow Wilson, like Obama today, was promoted by his supporters as a superstar progressive, the all-knowing, all-wise academic (before entering politics as Governor of New Jersey in 1910 and the White House in 1912 Wilson had been both college professor and president of Princeton).

Wilson was also something else.

As with progressives then and now, he was a master at tying together issues of race with issues of big government. It was Wilson’s legislative program, ironically called the “New Freedom,” that created among other things the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Trade Commission, enacted the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, passed child labor laws and more items on the progressive agenda of the day.

But there was, as always, the usual progressive catch when it came to selling big government. Wilson was in fact an old fashioned Southern racist, born in Staunton, Virginia, and raised in the segregationist — and progressive run — South. The devil’s bargain with his progressive program, (as it was, in fairness, with Democrats and progressives long before Wilson) was his reliance on appeals to race to both win his election to the presidency and his use of it to push through his progressive legislation that expanded the size and scope of the government. There were no passionate appeals for civil rights from Wilson, not in a party in which racism and the Klan itself had and would continue to play such a key role in everything from platforms to policies. Newly elected it was Wilson who segregated the federal government, and it was Wilson who appointed prominent progressive journalist and staunch racist Josephus Daniels as Secretary of the Navy, Daniels promptly segregating the Navy under Wilson’s approving eye. There was more, but you get the point.

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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.

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Clint| 5.17.11 @ 6:26AM

Obama's White House is now The Hood.

Common:
"Bitches ask why my britches sag/I ask the bitches, 'Why your titties saggin?"

"I heard a hoe say you her favorite rapper/So I had to slap her"

"What you rapping for? To get fame? To get rich? I slap a nigga like you, and tell 'em 'Rick James, bitch!'"

Anthony| 5.17.11 @ 11:04AM

To think, all these years I have been missing out on this genre of culturally important artistic expressions of the socio-economic conditions of the inner city, what a pity.
Thanks Clint for raising my consciousness to this significant contribution to cultural awareness.
Now I can finally wear my jeans below my butt as well, what liberation!! I can feel the fresh breeze on my newly discovered social awarenass..

txn4ever| 5.17.11 @ 11:59AM

"I can feel the fresh breeze on my newly discovered social awarenass.."

That is funny!

Kurt in S.L.C.| 5.17.11 @ 7:43PM

The social awarenass is also known as the cerebral cortex of the left

Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 9:54PM

I don't own boxers so would tighty whities have the same effect? I'm a neophyte when it comes to this stuff.

JF| 5.19.11 @ 3:40PM

"Tighty" will be fine, but the "whitey" part is a problem.

Timothy L. Pennell| 5.17.11 @ 12:26PM

Jon Stewart. No 'h'. Just Jon. How very artiste. How very progressive.
Ladies and gentlemen, if I could get you yo turn your attention to the Liberal Jew, on the television set.
Why do I want you to look at his face? Not, because he is a Jew. CHRIST was a Jew. I have nothing but Love for my "Older Cousins". I want you to look at him, because he is what Lenin called: A USEFEUL IDIOT. (Or, Stalin. One of them)
"It doesn't matter." "Who gives a crap?"
So, he went to a Racist, Anti-Semitic, America hating Church for 20 Years. So, he went to Louis Farrakhan Rallies, and his wife is friends with Farrakhan's wife. So he started his Political career in the living room of 2 DOMESTIC TERRORISTS. So he's good friends with P.L.O. Recruiter - Khalid Rashidi. So, he lived in Indonesia until he was 11. So, he attended Muslim Schools all those years. So, he went to Mosque. So, he knelt on his Prayer rug, facing Mecca, and praying to Allah 5 times a day. So, he wrote in his book that: "If it ever hits the fan, between the Arabs and the Jews, I'm siding with the Arabs". So, so, so, so, so.
Common?
I'd be shocked, if he HADN'T been invited!
I wonder how the Useful Idiot Liberal Jews reconcile with the fact that HAMAS believes that Barry is their DELIVORER? They've given him the name: ABU HUSSAIN, and you can get his likeness, on a MUG, from their Official Web Site.
And, when the Arabs attack Israel, en masse, as they most surely will, what will the Liberal Jew Useful Idiot say then.
After all, what makes more sense? Attacking Israel while your DELIVORER is sitting on America's Throne? Or waiting til later, and take the chance that he's re-elected?
But, then......."Who Cares?"

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 12:58PM

Timothy,

the actions of my American Landtzmen do at times annoy the hell out of me. I have a sense of survival they seem to be missing.

Stormzeye| 5.17.11 @ 5:58PM

Occam,
I'm sure "annoy" is not a strong enough word to explain how you feel. The Jewish-American liberal must be a bigger fool than the Jewish-German who thought that Hitler would deliver him from the terrible effects of the Depression while recognizing his patriotism and allegiance to Germany.

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 7:34PM

I'm on antihypertensives. I try NOT to think about it too much, especially as my whole Chicago/California family voted for Obama.

JF| 5.19.11 @ 3:45PM

My sympathies with regard to your family. Without getting too personal, are they religious Jews or what a rabbi friend of mine called "two-day" Jews (those who hit the synagogue on Yom Kippur and during Passover, but who flinch when they see a Chasid)? It seems to me that the two-day variety mistake "liberal" with "moral," and thus are led down the path of destruction.

SonOfSam| 5.17.11 @ 12:32PM

Oh please, Please, PLEASE let the dumba$$es in the White House keep pulling idiotic stunts like inviting a mouthy punk singing an "amen" from deep within the bowels of the Church of Get Whitey. Let them keep going to the border and making "moats with alligators" jokes. PLEASE let them continue to keep on telling working class white guys that they should somehow come up with 20 grand and get a car that gets "better than 8 miles per gallon". And by all means, lets hope that the TelePrompter in Chief keeps on deluding himself that "capping Usama" will make up for $7 a gallon gasoline, 20% inflation and 10% unemployment. (again, you heard it here first -my prediction for October/November 2012)

That will do quite nicely for reminding the independent voters in this country what "buyers remorse" really means. And it will certainly give them an impetus to do something about it.

Xin loi, ObamaNazi scum

Younger Soldier| 5.21.11 @ 4:22AM

White man angry!! White man crush! AAaaargh!!

Eric R.| 5.17.11 @ 6:28AM

Fantastic article. One quibble: Woodrow Wilson was not "an old fashioned Southern racist". His family were Northern transplants. No, his racism was a far more virulent variety: the progressive, Darwinian eugenicist. Like most "progressives" of his day (e.g. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger) Wilson believed black and brown people were inferior, and steps should be taken to trim their numbers, or at least have big government run their lives - for their own improvement. Today the progressives' racism is enslavement through forced dependency, and what George Bush so eloquently called "the soft bigotry of low expectations".

mike daniels| 5.17.11 @ 10:20AM

Why do we call these people "Progressives"? There is nothing progressive about them any more than "Liberals" are liberal. We need a better name for this brand of hogwash

Old Guy| 5.17.11 @ 12:04PM

They are STATISTS!! Dammit. Call them that!

Patrick| 5.17.11 @ 12:25PM

Oh, they certainly are progressive. Progress towards what is the real question.

SonOfSam| 5.17.11 @ 12:35PM

I agree with Mike D: how the hell can they be "progressives" when their idea of "progress" is to goosestep us all backwards into tyranny?

Gotta wonder: does Jon Stewart EVER even ever so vaguely wonder what will happen to him when the jihadists arrive here in force? Is he SO certain that he can cleverly laugh his way out of the "Daniel Pearl" treatment?

Manya Shochet| 5.17.11 @ 1:16PM

Stewart is performing the Jewish version of Stepin Fetchit. "Feets, do yo' duty!"

JF| 5.19.11 @ 3:47PM

Jon Stewart and his ilk are a lot like abused women who keep going back to their men - they delude themself that it only happened one time, and this time things will be different. The Stewarts of today can't fathom another Holocaust, just as the Germans of 1936 allowed Hitler to proceed because, as Hitler stated, "..no one remembers the Armenians."

borninsocal| 5.17.11 @ 1:48PM

They are "Progs" I have personally used this term in the presence of some of them and they get visibly perturbed.

Dee See| 5.17.11 @ 7:14AM

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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 5.17.11 @ 7:21AM

And in the oddest twist of fates, the government has now taken over where the KuKluxKlan left off. While the Klan had no authority except whatever support they could muster, the federal government has final authority to decide racial issues.

The federal government decides who works and who doesn't, who succeeds and who doesn't and who thrives and who doesn't.

The greatest subsidized group in America is the progressive movement which has received close to 9 trillion dollars and has only succeeded in increasing poverty. Admittedly that is by government measures but that too is controlled by the government.

In essence, the government has become the KuKluxKlan without the ropes and hoods.

RAMIII| 5.17.11 @ 10:09AM

Exactly so!

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 12:44PM

Might I put a plug in for "Liberal Fascism" by Jonah Goldberg? (I have no financial connection with Jonah or the book in any way. But it does outline what a dictatorial swine Wilson was.)

Bill Bissenas| 5.17.11 @ 7:38AM

Wow, first the article on Newt and then this. A.S., you're on fire this week!

Old Soldier| 5.17.11 @ 7:39AM

Of course Jon Stewart got played - along with all the other Jewish liberals who were once actual liberals.

America's Blacks got played even worse. Somehow they have become completely beholden to the party that fought (as in the Civil War) against the emancipation of slaves, the party that imposed Jim Crow, the party that made segregation the official policy of the federal government (Woodrow Wilson), the party that invented welfare and has effectively destroyed the urban black family. Amazing.

Woodrow Wilson was a particularly nasty racist from a long-line of racists and race-baiters.

Younger Soldier| 5.17.11 @ 9:19AM

American Blacks haven't forgotten. All those racist Dixiecrats ran over to the Republican party after opposition to the Civil Rights Bill. I like how Republicans always want to bring up the history of their party as if it is truly relevant to today.

George True| 5.17.11 @ 9:41AM

It most certainly IS relevant. It was the Republicans who passed civil rights in the 60's, NOT the Democrats. And nothing has changed since then. To a Republican, the content of one's character is what matters, then and now. The reason the Democrats still pull the race card is because all they see is race. To them, everything is about race. To a Republican, race is irrelevant.

SonOfSam| 5.17.11 @ 12:38PM

Just curious, how did Al Gore's southern Democrat Senator daddy vote? Anyone? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????
How about Robert "conscience of the senate" Byrd?
anyone?

Tom| 5.17.11 @ 1:14PM

Um, you'd be wrong. The voting differences in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is better explained by geography than party. Southerners voted overwhelmingly for the bill, non-Southerners did not. Not a single Republican Congressman or Senator voted for the bill ( 10 Congressmen and 1 Senator). In fact a higher percentage of Southern Democrats (7% in the House, 5% in the Senate) voted for the bill than Southern Republicans (0% in both houses). The outcome was similar for non-Southern legislators where Democrats(94% in the House, 98% in the Senate) were not likely to vote for the bill than Republicans (85% in the House , 84% in the Senate).

It was not the big R or big D that determined whether a legislator voted for the bill, it was geography. If the legislator was from the old Confederacy he probably voted against it if he was not he probably voted for it.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 9:45AM

Yes, and who passed the Civil Rights Bill?
Republicans.
And who fought against it?
Southern Democrats.
And where were the '60's white anti-integration race riots the worst?
New England, (Boston).
Good luck with your history.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 9:56AM

So how did the Northern Democrats vote? Which party did the president who signed the Civil Rights Bills belong to?

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 10:27AM

House of Representatives:
Democrats for: 152
Democrats against: 96
Republicans for: 138
Republicans against: 34

Senate:
Democrats for: 46
Democrats against: 21
Republicans for: 27
Republicans against: 6

And LBJ was of course a Democrat.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 10:44AM

Not sure how you look at those numbers and claim that republicans passed the legislation. Here's how it breaks down by party and region:

In the house: (for and against)
Southern Democrats: 7–87
Southern Republicans: 0–10
Northern Democrats: 145-9
Northern Republicans: 138-24

In the senate:
Southern Democrats: 1–20
Southern Republicans: 0–1
Northern Democrats: 45-1
Northern Republicans: 27-5

Doesn't it seem like regional background was more important than party affiliation?

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 11:03AM

Of course it was, and of course there were very few Southern Republicans, and of course that biased the voting so a much greater proportion of Republicans were "for" than the Democrats.
Of course, of course, of course.

But the told history (meme) is that of Racist Republicans and Noble Progressive Democrats.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 11:19AM

Replacing one incorrect historical narrative with another incorrect one doesn't do anybody any good, Stammon.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 11:33AM

So you admit your narrative is incorrect? All I did was point out the facts. The voting numbers speak for themselves.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 11:44AM

If someone is claiming that racist republicans led the opposition to the civil rights act, then yes, that's incorrect. As is claiming (like you did) that republicans passed the civil rights act.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 11:58AM

But they did pass the Civil Rights Act.
165 for and 40 against.
Whereas the Dems were;
198 for and 117 against.
If 82 more Repubs had voted against the bill would not have passed.
But the history is always "Racist Republicans".
That is the point. Of course.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 12:38PM

Stammon, the bill was passed by a majority of both political parties. If that's a bi-partisan bill, I don't know what one is. The divisions on the Civil Rights Act were largely regional, not political.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 2:13PM

Boy you cannot see the point for the plank in your eye. Here it is again:
If 82 more Repubs had voted "against" the bill would not have passed.
But the history is always "Racist Republicans".

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 12:52PM

DRed,

this was a bill proposed by a Democratic President that required an overwhelming majority of Republicans to win. Give credit where due.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 1:00PM

Occam (or anyone else), which variable is more predictive when trying to determine how a legislator voted on the bill-party affiliation, or regional location?

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 2:16PM

You absolutely refuse to see anyone else's view if it conflicts with your presuppositions.
Of course the Republicans were more likely to vote for the bill, they were more likely to be Yankees.
That is the whole point, the left's demonetization of the Republicans as racists turns history and facts on their heads.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 2:25PM

Stammon, how many times do I have to say that I agree with you that racist republicans were not the main force behind the opposition to the civil rights act?

Are Republicans still more likely to be Yankees?

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 7:39PM

In this case, as at the time there were very few Southern Republicans, party affiliation was more important.

Further, it was a Democratic President's Bill. I cannot imagine barack Obama voting in a non-partisan way on the flavor of his Jelly in his peanut butter and jelly sandwich, much less anything of import.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 8:48PM

Occam, just look at the numbers. You're wrong. They don't support a vote along partisan lines.

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 2:30AM

Well numbers don't lie. I assume those are correct so I stand corrected. Geography it is.

JF| 5.19.11 @ 3:57PM

One factor you are also forgetting is that the southern contingent saw the federalization of race laws as going against the Constitution in that it usurped powers originally accorded to states. The fight here - as in the War Between The States - was not just about racer, but also about how much the federal government gets to dictate to individual states. This attitude is exemplified in an anecdote from the life of George Wallace. When he was a circuit court judge in Alabama, he oversaw a case involving three black sharecroppers who sued a cotton broker for short-weighting their bales (cheating them out of money.) The sharecroppers were represented by a local black attorney - the broker had two lawyers from New York. Wallace ruled in favor of the sharecroppers, and not only gave them the money they were shorted but added punitive damages. His rationale was that he wasn't crazy about blacks, but he hated Yankees.

Jeffrey Lord| 5.17.11 @ 11:07AM

DRed...

Without the GOP the Civil Rights bills wouldn't have made it.

But that is beside the point.

The real question is: why were these bills needed at all? After all, the issues were resolved after the Civil War with the GOP passage (over Dem opposition) of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments abd a series of civil rights bills which provided everything from voting rights to the right to sue in court to public accomodations.

Yet most of this had to be redone in the 1960's - a 100 years later. Why?

The reason is your side actively and ferociously did everything it could to deny civil rights to blacks. That's why. And if you ever had a school lunch in a public school you will understand just how the game was played.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 11:31AM

My side? That would be offensive if it wasn't so ridiculous.

I've had hundreds of lunches in public school. I must have missed the part of lunch where we learned that political parties were immutable.

Frekki| 5.17.11 @ 12:09PM

Well the Democrats certainly aren't immutable. They've gone from Stephan Douglas and Racial Politics to Barack Obama and Racial Politics,...??
Oh wait, my bad.

Jeffrey Lord| 5.17.11 @ 12:36PM

What you missed with all those lunches, DRed, is that the school lunch program was the creation of one Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, for whom the legislation is in fact named. The bill not only (progressive hook) would feed kids in public schools, it would help Georgia agriculture. The seamy underside? Russell was in the Senate in the first place because he was a thorough-going white supremacist, in the 1950's an author of the Southern Manifesto, and so on and so on and so on. Thus another example of the progressive game: government programs and bureaucracies (unionized) to feed the kids, help the farmers - and all accomplished by getting elected because you preach the doctrine of race.

Ugly, ugly, ugly. Hope you enjoyed lunch!

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 12:51PM

One of the founders and leaders of the conservative coalition was a progressive? Does that mean you're a progressive too, Jeff? You did work for a former hollywood union boss.

Jeffrey Lord| 5.17.11 @ 1:00PM

Nice try.

Richard Russell was a progressive life-long. He was never a "conservative." He was, however, a mentor to that well-known right winger Lyndon Johnson.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 1:24PM

So what was the 'conservative coalition'?

Jeffrey Lord| 5.17.11 @ 3:28PM

A liberal media description. Just like all those old Communists in the Kremlim came to be called "the conservatives in the Kremlin." There were never any conservatives in the Kremlin by definition...and progressives are not conservatives.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 4:54PM

Interesting. It certainly wouldn't be the first time the media mislabeled a politician ideologically.

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 12:57PM

Jeffrey,

thanks for being you. Beautiful article.

Old Soldier| 5.17.11 @ 11:17AM

Really? They haven't forgotten?

Then why do all the liberal history books still treat Wilson like a saint?

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 2:39AM

Why do (you) people always throw labels on everything and anyone you don't agree with? Liberal media, liberal books, liberals. It's just so ridiculous. I worked with this old Tea Party guy and he was just a miserable drag. Every conversation somehow became politicized and it was always the "Libs" fault. As for Wilson it's well known that he was a racist turd. Maybe all the history books YOU've read treated him like a saint. Although I'm not sure what you mean by saint.

Old Soldier| 5.20.11 @ 10:09AM

My grade-school kids' history books are obviously written by leftists. At the end of every chapter is a jab - something like "The Colonists won their freedom, but African slaves and Native Americans were still oppressed..."

In Wilson's Chapter they spik the whole segregating the Federal Goverment thing and hiding his illness and incapacity to govern for the last two years of his administration.

I know, I'm just paranoid about an honest mistake.

WhiteBikerTrash| 5.17.11 @ 1:04PM

The Democratic Plantation

The Democratic Party seems to have a lock on the non Caucasian vote, and knowledge of history would preclude this strange relationship.
First historical note is that the Democratic Party was started by slaveholders to perpetuate slavery, and this thread continues through the Democratic Party to this day.
Blacks "are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both of body and mind."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Co-founder of the Democratic Party (along with Andrew Jackson)
President, 1801-09

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would "place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man."
--Rep. Andrew Johnson, (D., Tenn.), 1844

The Democrats were running the plantation since before this country was formed and before the Democrats became a political party

The control of the subservient has been, and is their goal.
I know, that sounds a little harsh, but in retrospect it seems to make the most sense. Their fights against emancipation, including voters rights to blacks, women, Hispanics, and Orientals Then of course how can we forget the Muscle of the Democratic Party in the teens, twenties , and thirties, The Klu Klux Klan!! For the modern version see the SEIU. If you have a hard time believing this just look up the term “Klan Bake” and wonder why this was not in your 5th grade history book.

Who have been the most obvious racist Presidents?
1. Woodrow Wilson
Wilson’s two-volume book, “A History of the American People”, was so racially biased that D.W. Griffith quoted the sitting president’s writings in his 1915 silent film, The Birth of a Nation, “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self preservation… until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” Not only did Wilson proudly stand by those words, but he also had a private showing of the movie at the White House. After seeing The Birth of a Nation, Wilson said “It is like writing history with lightning, my only regret is that it is all so true.”
A new incarnation of the KKK is directly attributed to the great success of Griffith’s film. The Klan soared in popularity thanks in part to support stemming from the highest office in the land.
Woodrow Wilson took advantage of his presidency to help correct many of what he considered to be the wrongs of the Reconstruction. Wilson believed white southerners to be the only real citizens and feared what might arise from a south “ruled by an ignorant and inferior race.”

2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
From the time FDR took office in 1933, he absolutely refused to desegregate the government. His predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, brought Jim Crow to Washington. Wilson instituted separate facilities -- like drinking fountains and restrooms -- for blacks. He moved black employees into their own buildings or, if that wasn't possible, had partitions set up around them. The Republican platform of June 24, 1940 called for integration of the armed forces, but for the balance of his time in office, FDR refused to order it. FDR refused to even endorse a federal anti-lynch law!
And, let's not forget how FDR threw 110,000 loyal Japanese-Americans into concentration camps, seized their properties and turned their property and possessions over to whites.
3. Lyndon Baines Johnson
Johnson voted with his fellow Southern Democrats in Congress, against civil rights measures such as banning lynching, and eliminating poll taxes.
“President Truman's civil rights program is a farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill. . .. I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill." - Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1948
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." - Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957
Johnson was merely an unprincipled politician who later out of political expediency used the civil rights issue when he realized the worth of the "Black Vote". However he claimed to be an idealist who dreamed of making America a "Great Society". It was Johnson who put the presidential signature to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Are these not the things heroes are made of?
Note, all of these men represented the Democratic Party.

Did you know that according to the Democratic Party’s own history, Barrack Obama is not the first “Black” President? Warren G. Harding was proclaimed and advertized as 1/8 “Black”. Oh by the way, Warren was a Republican and the Democrats were trying to derail his election. They felt they “must put that black man in his place!”
Wow, talk about Political Expedience!!

So, they lost the slaves on the plantations, but they never lost the slave owner attitude.
Now they knew that the days of holding people against their wills were over, so how could they repopulate the plantation?

The Democrats knew they were going to have to reform the plantation, and the slave attitude, so they chose to use the Federal Government to do it!

On the plantation of old how did the slave owner keep the slaves enslaved? He kept the slave dependent on the master, for food clothing and lodging. This worked best if the slave was born into slavery, because they knew no other life or living options. To keep them uninformed about options reading was actually illegal for a slave, and to teach one to read? To the Progressive Democrat of that time, Sin!!

Another control method of many was the destruction, or not allowing forming, of the nuclear family. Slaves were not allowed to marry, nor create any form of family relationship; therefore the slave’s allegiance could only be to the master!

On the Democratic plantation of today they have done the same thing, it’s called “The Great Society”.

Now many have said “Here is proof of L.B.J.’s transformation” but remember what he said?
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference”

How does that fit into their narrative? Ummm, he changed his mind? Or how about he gave “them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference”
And while on this new plantation they were picking new votes for their Democratic Masters!
There is a thread that runs throughout the history of the Democratic Party to this day!

How Ironic the only defense the party of slaveholders has to the people whose beliefs freed the slaves in the first round is “RACIST” and the slaves trapped on the Democratic Plantation agree out of fear of losing their sustenance, Their spot in the Masters heart, and the Plantation!

JKS| 5.17.11 @ 2:18PM

WBT,
This is the best historical analysis of the demcrat party I have seen. Based on what I've learned through my own research, your narrative is factually accurate.
If you don't mind, I would like to use this with attribution to you as 'WhiteBikerTrash'. This sums up my thoughts better than I could ever do.

Nancy G Murdoch| 5.17.11 @ 7:51AM

Thank you, Jeffrey Lord and American Spectator, for doing the honest work most journalist are incapable of or refuse to do.

The candidate that would supposedly end racial tensions in this country has done so much to increase negative discourse. I believe that people appear to be more racially divided now than pre-Obama by a long shot. While the left pits us against each other, this Nation is going down the tubes.

**posttenebraslux**| 5.17.11 @ 8:19AM

Excellent article Mr. Lord, except as Eric of Red State points out the above the pale limit of racism of Mr. Wilson. Your article will help us to peel back the layers. Thank you.

Hillel| 5.17.11 @ 8:29AM

40 years aago I was president of a film society. I showed "Birth of a nation" "Triumph of the Will" and Eisenstein"s "October" (sometiimes called 10 days that shook the world) Great artists are not often good people. The fact is Griffith invented the "grammer of film. Movies still tell stories as griffen did. Eisenstein was a dead end (His Praise of Stalin is Nauseating) Now that she's dead we can say that Leni Reifenstahl was a Nazi. However these people did invent the film.

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 12:54PM

Actually, Hillel, great artists are MOST often not good people. The number of Marian Andersons is small.

ray bob| 5.17.11 @ 8:30AM

the O doesn't do anything without an eye to re-election, eroding support among "his people" had to be checked, Common anyone! well done.

TimH| 5.17.11 @ 8:32AM

Speaking of selective editing, wasn't Stewart part of the chorus banging the drum against Andrew Breitbart for supposedly doing that to Shirley Sherrod?

redmanrt | 5.17.11 @ 8:33AM

"The artist has strong, controversial views on race, using his art to express those views."

I have a problem with the word "art."

Also with calling Stewart intelligent. Last night on O'Reilly he was slippery and clever, mastered his body language, and dodged O'Reilly's direct questions. I guess it depends on what the meaning of intelligent is.

JimH| 5.17.11 @ 8:34AM

First let’s make a distinction. I’m not a fan of Rap, but I recognize that some is better than others. Common’s is crap. To give D.W. Griffin his props, regardless of what you think of his message, Birth of a Nation was a terrific piece of film making. It’s a powerful political film that ranks with others of its kind such as the Potemkin and Triumph of the Will. And like those films, filmmakers since have used much that was developed for those movies. It is ironic that Griffin, a southerner was exploited by Wilson, a northern snob who otherwise would have no use for him. I have not seen the movie for quite a while so maybe someone can refresh my fallible memory. The movie while certainly racist to modern eyes was not so much anti black as it was anti carpetbagger and the other northern exploiters who looted the south after the war and used the freed slaves as proxies to aid them in their theft. I find it difficult to believe that what it portrays was entirely without basis. Also how much did the post Civil War Klan have in common with the populist organization of the depression much less the band of trailer park losers that it is today?

Frank Drackman| 5.17.11 @ 8:37AM

saw Birth of a Nation on Turner Classic Movies a few months ago.
Never heard of it to tell you the truth, damn good movie, and I never even owned slaves.
its like sayin "The Humpty Dance" is racist cause Humpy Hump wore a Groucho Marx nose...

Frank

Melvin| 5.17.11 @ 8:43AM

The vast majority of Black Americans have been blaming White folks for their social ills for so long, I wonder if it could ever be reversed.
There are two Black Americans that can shake this Socialist Democrat Plague off Black America, they're names are Herman Cain, and Congressman Allen West.
These two independent thinkers somehow escaped off the Socialist Democrat Plantation, and both became successes and became Conservatives in their own right, and they did it all without blaming Whitey.
Blaming White Folks for ones social ills is so 60s isn't it?

JimH| 5.17.11 @ 8:51AM

Do not forget Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.

Younger Soldier| 5.17.11 @ 9:22AM

The vast majority? This is based on what? Your say so?

George True| 5.17.11 @ 9:44AM

Probably based on a lifetime of hardly ever meeting any blacks who did not exhibit the "blame whitey" mindset.

Drunken Sailor| 5.17.11 @ 10:35AM

From years of watching Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson

Melvin| 5.17.11 @ 3:58PM

Hmmm, you have just answered your own question.

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 2:46AM

Well that just tells me you haven't been around too many Black people. You just gave your ill informed opinion and you already know what they say about opinions. It doesn't mean diddly poop. Always wanted to use that word in a sentence.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 7:44PM

uh huh. and your contravening evidence?

Cuffs| 5.17.11 @ 12:44PM

No, Melvin! Racism is an industry that has
made the Revs Jackson & Sharpton very rich men.

Matthew Quigley| 5.17.11 @ 8:57AM

No one ever accused Jon Liebowitz of being smart...and this is more proof that he isn't.

vicki wicker| 5.17.11 @ 9:04AM

Well said. Racism will never end until the race baiters like Common stop ginning people up. Common does in America what Hamas and Achmadenijad does in the Middle East.

Michael Tomlinson| 5.17.11 @ 9:04AM

Wilson was a Democrat, so of course he was a racist, aren’t they all? But his racism was tinged with the sickening moral superiority of Northeasterners and the Ivy League – so much like the smarmy Obama.

Timothy L. Pennell| 5.17.11 @ 9:33AM

redmanrt| 5.17.11 @ 12:10PM

"...when the Arabs attack Israel, en masse, as they most surely will..."

Timothey, before that actually happens, the UN-NATO air force (with some support from the US) will step in to responsibly protect the Palestinians and be humiliated by the best air force in the word. After that I think the Arab crowd might cool down for a while.

Clint| 5.17.11 @ 9:35AM

Ummm !

Wilson was born & raised in Virginia & Obama was born(?) but raised primarily in Hawai.

Apparently, by your standards, they are "tinged with the sickening moral superiority of" Hawaiians & Virginians.

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 7:41PM

Wilson was President of Princeton, Clint.

Clint| 5.17.11 @ 10:30PM

You're an insufferable World Class Pseudo-Intellectual Bore.
I grew up not far from Princeton and live near Bryn Mawr where Wilson also was faculty.

My Brother is and has been a Supervisor on Princeton Building Projects.
You're A Pseudo-Intellectual Bloviatin' Jerkwad.

Clint| 5.17.11 @ 10:54PM

Aaaaaaand, we were taught Wilson was Princeton's Prez since we were little grade school kiddies.

Now, Get Bent Tool Job Asshat.

Occam's Tool| 5.19.11 @ 1:37AM

It would be nice if you noted that in your earlier comments, moron. Princeton is, after all, in New Jersey, not Virginia.

I'm only insufferable because you are a maggot.

Occam's Tool| 5.19.11 @ 1:45AM

Aaand, Wilson's racism may have been nurtured in the Old Dominion, but he learned true asshattery at Princeton. You, of course, learned true asshattery while expanding your openings as a terrorist catamite, Clint. You are a stupid, ignorant scumbag.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 7:48PM

an evasion. wilson was a racist.

precisely Lord's point. abettors like you try to move the cross hairs.

Florida University my friend!

Huntigula| 5.17.11 @ 9:43AM

That was one of the most historically anachronistic articles I've ever read. Such false equivalencies may persuade your readers, but anyone with any knowledge of history will know better.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 9:56AM

Actually, as one raised in Yankeeland and Dizie I found it spot on. In the future, will we all look back on the Obama era with the same chagrin as historians do on the post war South. When freed blacks were encouraged and abetted to take over state governments and flaunt their new power in the faces of whites. What ever you believe, the backlash from that helped lead to blacks being trod upon by whites for 100 years.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 10:23AM

Dixie. I really must do spell check more often. The kids have worn the letters off the keyboard playing video games.

Tom| 5.17.11 @ 1:32PM

Oh please. The southern States passed the Black Codes in 1865 and 1866 long before blacks achieved any political prominence. If not for Federal intervention blacks, and poor whites, would not have been able to vote. The animus towards blacks pre-dated Reconstruction and had nothing to do with the short period of time when blacks weilded any influence.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 2:24PM

Yes of course. But with the help and laws imposed from the North, Blacks took over the legislatures in several states. Black militias ran rampant through the streets, and caused much animosity. I don't blame them, if I was a freed slave I'd shove it in the eye of my ex-master too. Hatred and fear of blacks existed before and after the war, but Lincoln's reconstruction would've helped if it had been given a chance.

T Mills| 5.17.11 @ 9:46AM

I take offense at your misuse of a quote by Chaplin!!! You may not know much about him. At times Chaplin was incredibly naive about international politics. He was critisized for it.He wanted to meet everyone he could and learn. He was a self educated man. He was virtually illiterate when he came to America. His genius was utterly remarkable though. In one year he became the most loved and famous man in the world at the ripe age of 24.He made the world happy during times of great sorrow. He wrote directed and scored his films. Who else has done that ?That said, Griffith was a film director. They were contemporaries. Chaplin admired his directing. The content of his movies not so much. The smear campaign against Charlie Chaplin by right wing politicians and the FBI director Hoover is a shameful episode in our country. The gifts that Chaplin contributed to America and the world are many, I beg readers to watch his many astounding , funny and beautiful films. They are still very relevent. Charlie had his faults. He was human and a humanist.He was not a Communist. He was very much a libertarian. He believed in individual liberty for all people. That is why he loved America. He also knew he was free to critisize what he felt was wrong.Woodrow Wilson was a monster though. Shame on us.Shame on us again for the likes of Obama.By the way I am a conservative.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 9:58AM

As much as I loved his work, Chaplin was still a pedophile.

T Mills| 5.17.11 @ 12:21PM

Think what you like. I know you will. You are sadly very misinformed about what happened. I do not pretend that I could say something to change your mind. You are wrong!!!!

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 2:27PM

How am I wrong? Explain. I love Chaplin's work, and have seen every film that has been saved. I would love to learn that I am mistaken in his character.

T Mills| 5.17.11 @ 3:15PM

Read about him. The story of Chaplin is beyond fascinating. Maybe this will add context. I cannot in this space convince you or anyone. I feel he has been more than exonerated. He was not perfect. Lots of men throughout history have loved younger women. Partly this is cultural. It must be put in context. Who condemns them? Chaplin was singled out by J.E. Hoover. We all know about him!!!! It was all rubbish come to find out. What a crying shame!!!! Anyway this article mistates Chaplin in a big way. Out of context!!!! I am not a writer so if I am not perfect with my grammer ya'all please forgive me!!!

Louis Jenkins| 5.17.11 @ 9:46AM

Stewart is an idiot. Obama brought the rapper to town to score points with his 'hood'. Yes, Birth of a Nation is a strange movie and book. I'm more than familiar with Dixon. Sometimes I can't help but agree with the writer when my "redneck" rises, but my heart tells me I am wrong to think such vile thoughts. It is far better for one to stand afar and say "look at what those people did!" Different times? Not really, we must live with them, and hopefully be better. Conservative thought will get us through this mess, one way or the other.

Naru Hodo| 5.17.11 @ 9:56AM

What, exactly, is untrue about Birth Of A Nation? Judging by the state of the USA almost 100 years after the movie was made, blacks are now just like they were then.

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 2:49AM

Kill yourself.

Naru Hodo| 5.18.11 @ 9:36AM

Very articulate, you vermin.

LarryK| 5.17.11 @ 9:58AM

Final Jeopardy Category
"Tools for the Left"
Final Jeopardy answer
" A really smart guy who knows exactly what he is doing."

Answer - Who is Jon Stewart?

Anita| 5.17.11 @ 10:03AM

So, he thinks interracial marriage is wrong. POTUS is half white. So, what will Common do to Michelle? Grill her? Take her out? What's his big plan? And the kiddies? Hmmm.

Drunken Sailor| 5.17.11 @ 10:39AM

Those thought ran through my head too. Here is the son of a interacial marriage promoting the work of a man against interacial marriages. Talk about self-loathing.

Norman Conquest| 5.17.11 @ 10:14AM

The word "racist" has to be the most over-used, cliched, meaningless locution in the American lexicon. If being a racist means that one is tired of hearing endless whining from blacks about how their lot in life is caused by events more than 150 years ago rather than their own lack of initiative then I declare myself a proud racist.

davelnaf| 5.17.11 @ 10:39AM

Fox saw its opportunity and Stewart delivered. What we saw on O’Reilly last night was another example of the Left’s decent down the Rabbit Hole.

davelnaf| 5.17.11 @ 10:45AM

I meant “descent”—sorry about the typo.

DetroitPC| 5.17.11 @ 10:47AM

This is just another example that it is OK to be any other race and be a racist unless you are white in America. As the song goes:

I'm sorry
For something I didn't do
Lynched somebody
But I don't know who
You blame me for slavery
A hundred years before I was born

Guilty of being white

I'm a convict
Of a racist crime
I've only served
19 years of my time

Guilty of being white

Jack London| 5.17.11 @ 11:01AM

This is a ludicrously convoluted article from someone who clearly has no understanding of modern-day American culture. What a senseless waste of space.

skip| 5.17.11 @ 1:26PM

Change the word 'article' in your post to the word 'post' and your post could double as your autobiography, with the added bonus of proof of an actual post with intelligence and honesty here at AmSpec.

da monk| 5.17.11 @ 11:03AM

Let's see: Americans dying in Afganistan, Lybian, Syrians, Tunisians etc asking for democratic governments and dying. World wide economic problems, floods, tornandos, dikes bursting, farm lands flooded, cities and towns going broke. And the American Spectator finds time for a 3 page gerimand tying Jon Stewart to Wodrow Wilson. Must be a slow day at the office.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 7:55PM

yea...who would ever notice that race bating by the Left has supplanted reasoned discussion on all these other issues when confronted by contrarian points-of-view.

the Left is bankrupt....and dragging us all down.

Nunya| 5.17.11 @ 11:05AM

First, I don't watch Jon Stewart, nor do I care a whit about what he thinks or says. He's an idiot, useful or otherwise. The fact that he has a popular show on TV means absolutely nothing to me, it proves nothing but that he's funny at times. Most of the TV shows like Stewarts are aimed at a specific group (leftists) who will laugh at his anti-Bush jokes. He and Bill Maher are in the same category--they both think they're smarter than they are, and they both want everyone to think that they're superior. Frankly, I have no use for either of them and find them both to be objectionable, conceited, sanctimonious a$$holes. Who cares what either of them think?

cuban pete| 5.17.11 @ 12:18PM

Bingo!!

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 2:30PM

There ya go!
I've actually never seen either of them. But I don't watch TV either.

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 2:53AM

Yeah! Who cares what Hannity, Limbaugh or Beck thinks. Those guys are idiots.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 7:56PM

and who cares what younger hoplite imagines?

Controse| 5.17.11 @ 11:05AM

Congratulations and thank you to Mr. Lord. This article ballooned my understanding of the historical roots of what's been going on low these many years. Who knew Orwell was a copycat? I bet he got his idea for "newspeak" from Wilson's legislative agenda "New Freedom."

All the while I was reading this piece a thought came intruding again and again: wait a minute are there not vastly more non-black Americans than black Americans? Obama is mimicking Wilson to the effect of power diving his re-election hopes into the ground. Does he really think that by doing stunts like this to boost is 95% of the black vote to 100% will make a difference? It if far more likely to cut his non-black vote in half or more. But then math was never a progressives long suit.

s bennett| 5.17.11 @ 11:25AM

I wonder of some of the people who criticized this essay are even literate.

Drunken Sailor| 5.17.11 @ 11:38AM

"I wonder if some of the people who criticized this essay are even literate"

I corrected your typo to make you sound more literate.

Stammon| 5.17.11 @ 2:31PM

Ha-hahaha-snort.
Damn, coffee out the nose again!

Reactionary| 5.17.11 @ 11:56AM

So D.W. Griffith went off the rails did he? The other neocons over at Front Page might beg to differ:

http://archive.frontpagemag.co.....rtId=26368

What does "The Other McCain" think of this?

Clem| 5.17.11 @ 12:06PM

Eisenhower would have gotten the civil rights acts past in 1957 had it not been for Johnson and the southern Democrats. They gutted the bill so much that it was more symbolic than substantial. As for the Johnson civil rights act, 67 votes were needed for cloture in the Senate at the time. They needed at least 21 Republicans to cut off debate. Therefore, without the Republicans, there would not have been a Civil Rights Act that year.

T Mills| 5.17.11 @ 12:14PM

I just know you are not talking about my typos Mr. Bennett. T Mills

ScaryAngry Blk Guy| 5.17.11 @ 12:14PM

Convoluted attempt to draw lines between points that don’t exist…
The crux of his argument is that the Common invite was to shore up support amongst the black vote in the same manner in which Wilson's screening of 'Birth of A Nation' at the White House shored up support for him amongst the Southern white vote.
This is disingenuous at best as, first off, Obama is not losing the black vote to any GOP candidate, unlike Wilson who could have lost the Southern white vote to a GOP contender.
Second, inviting Common doesn’t cause Obama’s polling numbers to climb amongst likely black voters but the seemingly ceaseless attacks against President Obama will probably do just that. So thanks right-wingers for attempting to make a non-issue a major story and helping the black community see that the GOP will find nothing too low to attack the President over. You’ve probably helped Obama‘s re-election chances by increasing enthusiasm for those fence-sitters that may not have been looking to vote anyway.

Drunken Sailor| 5.17.11 @ 2:59PM

"Second, inviting Common doesn’t cause Obama’s polling numbers to climb amongst likely black voters"

True, they are all voting for him due to his skin color anyway, but his numbers are slipping among blacks and hispanics. He knows what base's got him elected and is going to pander the them and them alone. Still explain how a child of a interacial marriage invites and praises a artist against interacial marriages. It would appear a effort to enforce his black bonafides. Can't appear to white for the black community or they will brand him a uncle Tom

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 3:03AM

"True, they are all voting for him due to his skin color anyway, but his numbers are slipping among blacks and hispanics."

That is a dumb and ignorant statement. Just because a candidate is Black doesn't mean Black folks are going to vote for him/her. Keep it up smart @ss. People like you posting comments like this only reinforce the determination of sane people to vote for Obama. The Republican Party is becoming the party of old angry White men. Just look at your conventions. One look at the crowd demographics tells you that this party does not represent the views of most Americans.

Drunken Sailor| 5.18.11 @ 11:35AM

Oh really.
"Fully 96 percent of black voters supported Obama and constituted 13 percent of the electorate, a 2-percentage-point rise in their national turnout. As in past years, black women turned out at a higher rate than black men."

Name me any other president that got 96% of any other demographics votes. I have a few black friends that did not vote for him but the majority did. And many of them are honest enough to tell me they voted for him because they felt it was time for a black president. Not because he was the most qualified. Happy to say, some of them are regretting their decision.

Personally I couldnt give a shit about his skin color as long as he had American interest at heart. I do not believe he does.

Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 10:04PM

"first off, Obama is not losing the black vote to any GOP candidate"...

...you might be in for a pleasant surprise. Because the tea partiers put an end to the Obama/Pelosi/Reid socialist juggernaut in 2010, there will be plenty of middle class voters - OF ALL COLORS - who will not be getting their Obama stash and who rely on the private sector to earn a living. They will be exposed to his disastrous economic policies and will not be happy campers come November 2012. Many black middle class voters will not be able to afford Hopey/ Changey anymore 'cause HOPE AINT HIRIN'

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 2:55AM

Spot on with this assessment.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 7:59PM

yawn.....only if they enjoy being unemployed!!!!

vitadMD| 5.17.11 @ 12:15PM

Yet, O'Reilly and Goldberg go out of their way to say what a smart liberal Stewart is. O'Reilly could have presented this kind of a story, but his personal indulgence is more important. It's time for Fox or some other TV news entity to begin anew in truly informing and educating the public. Fox News filled an information vacuum in the 1990's... someone could do that again.

Timothy L. Pennell| 5.17.11 @ 12:26PM

Factchecker| 5.17.11 @ 12:30PM

Hey,before you go accusing people of supporting cop killers and racism do a little more research.

If you listened to even a little bit of Common's work it serves to speak to a community that has suffered under poverty and violence and to motivate them to use education and knowledge to both escape and confront those conditons. Furthermore I find it funny that the author of this article failed to cite and songs by common , or even any lyrics that would help to serve any argument.If you listen to one of Common's most famous songs "I Used To Love H.E.R" it acts as both a narrative of hip-hop and an attack on things like NWA's "Fuck Tha Police".This article is just a nice FYI of what happened in the Wilison house that fails to make an connection to the Obama house, oh and while roasting Jon Stewart because he's a sassy jew.

Manya Shochet| 5.17.11 @ 1:26PM

"Through da window, break his neck
Den his house I start to wreck
Got no reason, what da heck---
Kill muh landlord!
Kill muh land lord!
C-I-L-L muh landlord!"

Curtis Rasmussen| 5.17.11 @ 2:04PM

I heard some of his poetry on the radio. Absolutely vile threats against cops.

Yeah, way to cherry pic your lyrics to fit your agenda.

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 4:55PM

Manya is quoting Eddy Murphy on Saturday Night Live.

Curtis Rasmussen| 5.17.11 @ 6:03PM

I am not replying to Manya, idiot

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 7:36PM

So you're familiar with Common's oeuvre? Or are you basing your opinion on a few songs you heard on the radio?

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 9:03PM

yea...because we all know several mellifluous notes wash over one ringing, strident note.

Jack| 5.18.11 @ 3:28AM

I'm not even going to dignify this "Birth of a Nation" malarkey with a response. But please make at least some attempt to familiarize yourself with Common's work before bashing it. He has an incredible number of songs that reveal him to be a pretty insightful artist worthy of positive attention. He's certainly not your average rapper...

“My circumstance is between Cabrini and Love Jones/ Surrounded by hate, yet I love home/
Asked my guy how he thought traveling the world sound/Found it hard to imagine he hadn't been past downtown/It's deep, I heard the city breathe in its sleep, a reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep/It’s deep, I heard my man breathe in his sleep, a reality I touch, but for me it's hard to keep”

“...the perseverance of a rebel I drop heavier levels/It's unseen or heard, a king with words/
Can't knock the hustle, but I've seen street dreams deferred/Dark spots in my mind where the scene occurred/Some say I'm too deep, I'm in too deep to sleep/Through me, Muhammad will forever speak…”

i could go on and on...

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 9:04PM

hijack...the issue is whether the WH should have invited him.

Jack| 5.20.11 @ 3:23PM

yes, and i take issue with inaccurate characterizations of his body of work feeding people's arguments against him being invited. that is all.

Cuffs| 5.17.11 @ 12:33PM

Come on, guys!
Obama does what he is told and so does Jon Stewart. They are in the game for themselves and
for them it is a game. Neither gives a rat's behind about the people or the country. They are interested in being accepted by the liberal elite
and subsequently getting very rich and enjoying
priviledges we lowly people can only dream of.

Purpleguy| 5.17.11 @ 1:20PM

this is so much rambling hogwash, I cannot begin to tell the point of all this gibberish. Is he supporting Fox News? Is he downgrading Jon Stewart? Is he comparing Obama to Wilson? What a meandering diatribe with no real meat.

Drunken Sailor| 5.17.11 @ 3:01PM

The answer to all your questions is Yes.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 9:05PM

yes...you do have your limitations.

Dr. X| 5.17.11 @ 1:30PM

When I see the likes of Obama, "Common," and Van Jones in the White House of the United States of America, I can't say that I disagree with D.W. Griffith all that much.

skip| 5.17.11 @ 1:32PM

this from an expert of rambling hogwash and meandering gibberish with no real meat.

Louis Tully| 5.17.11 @ 1:33PM

Good article by JL. Too bad he wasn't doing the interview of Stewart, instead of OBlowhard, who is so stupid he got owned by Stewart.

Wayne | 5.17.11 @ 1:38PM

Was thinking the same thing. OBlowhard only cares about OBlowhard.

Nunya| 5.17.11 @ 2:47PM

I used to watch him several years ago, but quit after getting tired of his narcissism.

Wayne | 5.17.11 @ 1:37PM

What an outstanding article with historical context. If I may add to that context?
The Raleigh News and Observer wrote an apology some 6 or 7 years ago for its influence on an actually coup de grat, that actually resulted in the Jim Crow laws. Some 100+ years ago the capital of North Carolina was Wilmington an the black majority controlled the state politics. The Raleigh paper ginned up articles insulting these black political leaders and ran stories about black men raping white women. It was conspiratorial. It was racist and it was seditious. Eventually the KKK and other white racists went down to Wilmington and burned the houses down and dismantled the capital. They shifted the state capital to Raleigh and established the first Jim Crow laws to keep black people out of the elections. The media will collaborate with politicians in dangerous ways, and Stewart needs to look much more closely at what is actually going on today.

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 3:20AM

What is so ironic is I was just watching this piece by a journalist that embedded with the Taliban. They allowed him to film them. In this one particualar clip the fighters take a break and sit around listen to a tape of one of their Islamic clerics. In the translation he is saying that American soldiers are raping 30 Afghan womens every night. The Taliban fighters believe his words get visibly angry after hearing this. This is similar to the misinformation that was put out 100 years ago. You have an illiterate population that is easily influenced by propaganda. Taking it a little bit further. You have Fox News pundits that broadcast to an ignorant core of listeners and they too are easily influenced by propaganda.

albert constantine jr.| 5.18.11 @ 9:30AM

Remove "Fox News" from your post and substitute "CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NY Times, etc" and you describe the broad coalition that is the American Left.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 9:07PM

your missing the implied assertion that younger dimwit possesses a unique ability to divine historical truth.

AnyoneButNewt| 5.17.11 @ 3:00PM

Jon Stewart ceased being funny years ago. And watching that pained look on his face as he desperately defended his dear leader to O'Reilly was just gravy. (Why didn't Bill bring up Obama's parents??!!!) And secondly, Stewart and his audience of trained seals still laugh at The F Word. Then they bleep it out. And its like, "Ooh, I said The F Word. I'm edgy and hip and cool." Yeah, about a million years ago. Now you're just another tired old shock, or should I say, schlock jock.

Oldefarte| 5.17.11 @ 3:23PM

Jeffrey, grat one, as usual! I'll expand your thesis to include the entire historical Democratic Party within my lifetime. When the Kennedys/Johnson tokk over control of same, it was transformed into the model of manipulating races for political advantage. The drive-by liberals within the Democratic Party use their governmental powers as administrators to dispense welfare benefits to impoverished indigents and demand their political loyalty in return. This in a general sense is statist enslavement. These liberal Democrats profess to want to alleviate poverty, racism, illeratcy, ignorance etc; but instead their true agenda is to obtain and hold governmental power, nothing more and notheing less. In doing so, they brainwash through their propaganda [facilitated by the MSM which they control] the masses into believing their bullexcrement. The artful use of Hollywood via movies and television programs [laced with their mind manipulation subtle messages] are the arrows in their political quivers, and sadly these masses buy this brainwashing hook,line and sinker on a hourly/daily basis. The truly sad part is their extreme hypocracy and loathing of the parties which they so manipulate, as can be seen by the current president avoiding DC's public school system and alternatively sending his children to extremely private educational schools [while hypocratically denying governmental funding to be used to send DC school children to charter schools]. These lying, hypocritical, manipulative, deceitful liberal Democrats should all be systematically hounded out of political office, but instead are viewed by their adoring manion-constituents as some kind of heroes/gods, when same are [to most normally intelligent individuals] lying our of both sides of their individual and collective mouths!!!!!!!

Bill A | 5.17.11 @ 3:47PM

And just who is Jon Stewart, and what has he done? He rose to prominence on MTV. His irreverance and sophmoric wit propelled him to become that stations "elder statesman". Post MTV, the Jon Stewart show appears on Comedy Central. A satircal 'news' show appealing to a younger audience. Mr. Stewart has made his living treating serious issues with ridicule and jocularity.
So the question begs, why would people treat this man seriously?

Trinacria| 5.17.11 @ 4:38PM

"Mr. Stewart has made his living treating serious issues with ridicule and jocularity.
So the question begs, why would people treat this man seriously?"

One might ask the same question of an inexperienced, unaccomplished, professional rabble rouser (excuse me, I mean "community organizer") who made his political bones voting on the price of dog licenses in Illinois - the same folks who take the professional clown Stewart seriously judged our present Ass Clown in Chief sufficiently qualified to run the country. Like all great empires, we're crumbling from within...

Bill A | 5.17.11 @ 6:54PM

Touche'.

Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 9:25PM

"One might ask the same question of an inexperienced, unaccomplished, professional rabble rouser (excuse me, I mean "community organizer") who made his political bones voting on the price of dog licenses in Illinois"....

...Heh, Heh, that pretty much is the sum total of experience our current whitehouse occupant possesses.

Oh yea, you forgot that one and only private sector job he briefly had writing newsletters for a small investment firm in Chicago. You know, the one where he felt he was a "spy operating behind enemy lines". Add that to his list of experience.

Dave Trap| 5.17.11 @ 5:53PM

If anybody cares The Ticker Guy has more proof that Obama's birth certificate is a fake.

Check it out, it is interesting.

http://market-ticker.org/

DRed| 5.17.11 @ 7:44PM

Nobody cares.

Who Knows?| 5.17.11 @ 6:25PM

Cancel your cable TV! At least.

I can't yell loud enough how blissful and free it is to never have to see ANY of the top doggies dumping their you-know-what on us, the lower dogs.

Ah, but being youngish, I suppose most people are just like I was, back when it was so much fun to "follow my dream" by paying vital attention on such people as Stewart.

AGAIN---watch Dr. Lustig, M.D. UCSF. His youtube talk now has 1.2 million hits.

Shouldn't YOU joun this bandwagon, and at the least have the opportunity to change YOUR diet, before it's too late?

Excuse moi, as I'm in the middle of my yearly juice and broth fast, getting rid of accumulated fat and toxins.

Read P. Airola---"How To Get Well".

Besides eliminating so much inevitable bodily crap, doing such a relatively easy fast also does wonder for one's feeling of PERSONAL power, because by really living out JUST SAY NO, one escapes the bonds of programming about eating.

I write as one who epitomized the live-to-eat regular fellah! Fro far too long.

AND, if you are not too closed minded about this possibility, know this---most changes that trailblazers make, and have made, were prompted by: ILLNESS.

Just so for me---the bad effects of sugar, FINALLY made me sick, one final time, when I was all of 55.

So, I dropped ALL of this poison, and went from 170 pounds to 140 without even trying.

Sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS, does cause FAT!

Open your minds, and believe what your eyes SEE!

Bon NON-appetite!

LiberalCommonFan| 5.17.11 @ 7:08PM

I challenge anyone here to Google the lyrics to Common's "Retrospect For Life." But since I'm convinced that none of you will, let me sum up the song for you.

This "vile thug rapper", as his detractors called him, is rapping about the consequences of getting his girlfriend pregnant. The end result? Common raps about keeping the child. This song is unapologetically and unequivocally pro-life. But the concept of a Black rapper from Chicago rapping about how important it is to keep the child, even after an unplanned pregnancy, doesn't fit into the image that you want to portray about Common. While Hannity and the ilk at Fox News cherry-picked Common's lyrics, they missed these:

Yo, we gotta start respectin life more y'all
You look at your brother man you gotta see yourself
Gotta see the God within him
Brothers gettin changed real quick over nothin
We losin too many of ours
Gotta recreate y'all

Must have really thought I was God to take the life of my son
I could have sacrificed goin out
To think my homies who did it I used to joke about, from now on
I'ma use self control instead of birth control
Cause $315 ain't worth your soul
$315 ain't worth your soul
$315 ain't worth it

I would think that Conservatives would be glad to have a rapper that made a clearly pro-life song, a song that fits right inside of the Conservative theme of Family Values, visit the White House. Heck, this song could have easily been the theme song for Bristol Palin's situation.

But like I said, you keep on portraying Common as Ice-T Part II. This song, and others in Common's discography, prove that Common is more than just the images that have been portrayed by Fox News.

Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 9:17PM

Liberal Common: It's terrific that the lyrics to that particular rap "song" was about using one's head and, basically, properly conducting oneself in a civilized society. That's great. If that is progress for him, I'm all for it.

What are his current views about the police and Caucasians? Have they evolved as well?

Younger Soldier| 5.18.11 @ 3:28AM

Of course you get only one comment. These cats just want to stay angry. I love it. It's so comical.

carnot| 5.18.11 @ 9:11PM

and you want to equivocate. little boys shouldn't be allowed to play with keyboards.

Tina B| 5.17.11 @ 7:26PM

Mr. Lord, what an awesome history lesson.

And I too watched Stewart, channel surfing, and stopped, and winced, at O'Reilly's lack of ganuchis. And then I felt my BP go up at his assininity. I found myself thinking almost everything you pointed out. And changed the channel.

I am so grateful for your article, and further posts. My upbringing was not political at all, and I am now learning from TAS as well as it's many posters, 130 on this article alone-so far, and I am learning quickly. And it's election time.

Why would anyone complain about your article, as a few folks did, vehemently, declaring Jon Stewart unworthy of our time and thoughts. Au contraire, mon frer.

If you hate him, or missed the so-called interview last night, don't read the article.

It was beautifully written, highly relevant to our current racial situation (a black president and more racism than before?), as well as historically insightful. For this female Conservative, what's not to love?

Tina B| 5.17.11 @ 7:32PM

BTW, I am trying very hard to muster up the nerve to do this anywhere I go if I find myself chatting it up with folks. I say, "I have two words for you, Herman Caine." When they look at me like I have two heads, I add, "in the upcoming election, check him out. Remember, Herman Caine." That's all, if they ask for details, I give em. Just a little name recognition.

Even my libtard friends, yes I have 'em, I'll say it to anyone. I'll keep trying.

Occam's Tool| 5.17.11 @ 7:43PM

Yup, Cain's a goodie.

Jeff Perren | 5.17.11 @ 8:44PM

Mr. Lord makes a mistake in suggesting Wright, Common, or Obama are racist. Blacks can't be racist. Every Progressive says so and we know they are always right about everything, by definition.

Bob Grant| 5.17.11 @ 9:30PM

Quoting Mel Brooks: It's good to have protected class status.

BSDN| 5.18.11 @ 12:10AM

Jon Stuart Leibowitz, as talented as he is, got played when he and everybody else in the progressive lamestream media turned a blind eye to the church Geo. W. Obama attended for twenty years.

If it is not the black version of a KKK church, to attend the white version of a black liberation theology church is something which no white boy - even one so intrepid or Jewish as Jon - could do and remain unscathed in the nuclear first strike by the (white) lamestream media.

That, not to mention the self loathing and self criticism that would have to take place in the show trials conducted by Jon's peers on the national stage before JSL and the rest of the white liberals guilty of white liberal guilt complexes could breath freely, ignore their masochistic racial neuroses and go back to yoking it up about faux conservatives.

Yet a pox on both their houses, whether that of the Geo. Soros funded left or the right financed by the Koch Bros. Both Flush Rumbaugh and Jon stewart Leibowitz are one eyed men. That they complement each other is no compliment or consolation in the long run.

bill reynolds| 5.18.11 @ 2:01AM

Mr. Lord ... A very well researched and presented article. For the record, I responded to some pinhead on The Nation's Blog. Firstly, it was not easy to get on to comment, this I have found to be typical protocol of all the progressive sites which I have tried to comment on. Secondly, after my carefully worded response, ending similarly to yours, they deleted it! Again, typical left tactics. I'm printing copies of yours, and handing it out to the less evolved if and when the argument ever comes up. Especially for those who blindly and ignorantly support the left, and in particular Jon Stewart. Then again, I am reminded of the saying ... Do not cast your pearls before swine ... lest they trample them and devour you in the process. Again many thanks for providing a fair and balanced summary of what occured the past couple of days. We all need to use discretion when dealing with people.

Eddie| 5.18.11 @ 10:56AM

Great, great, super great article. Awesome. I'm sure the other side is steaming- eyes ready to pop out- as they read this masterpiece. This Stewart Little buttkisser is a product of the progressive "educrat" system. He was taught what they thought was important based on THEIR interpretation of history and, of course, NOT ON WHAT THE FACTS OF HISTORY WERE (or are). Democrats/liberals would never allow these truths to be taught or presented to their minions or future sponge brains. Finally, this idiot Stewart never struck me as being smart. Got a break from his buddy Adam Sandler. How anyone finds this annoying piece of manure funny is beyond me. He is useful to his puppet masters. Typical uninformed, liberal, progressive,imbecile. And, yes, he's too stupid to notice.

Dr. Dawkins | 5.18.11 @ 11:53AM

At the end of the day the Common Controversy is exactly that ... common. It's the same old uncritical media hype dressed up in newer, cooler clothes. If the hype goes unchallenged then a large number of news consumers may actually believe these inflated interpretations of otherwise ordinary events. And, they may ignore uncommon and extraordinary events that actually affect their lives.

See more from Dr. Dawkins @ www.marciadawkins.com

Donna| 5.18.11 @ 12:23PM

Every artist has a trajectory of expression. Common is by no means defined by the limited quotables you selected so judiciously to support your paper thin comparison. I am not a Common Fan....

Frankly, this whole article smacks of poor research, and convenient elasticity. Ever shot yourself in the head with a rubber band? That was this article.

The great thing about opinionated, poorly researched, complaint ridden conservatism, is being the true light in the darkness, it attracts the attention and commentary of mosquitoes, chiggers, biting flies, and other easily fooled members of the insect kingdom.

Thankfully this conservative candle is not an electrified bug zapper, but merely an illuminated location where the audience manages to render themselves irrelevant by their own commentary. Thank you.

JeffT| 5.18.11 @ 1:49PM

Someday, the progressives might actually admit that Margaret Sanger was actually a very evil woman. Maybe not in my lifetime, but someday.

Arturo| 5.18.11 @ 8:57PM

Jeffrey Lord got played...
by spending 4 pages and wasting his own time and that of many readers (I was yawning by page 2) in writing about the pseudo-philosophical musings of a TV comedian who he thinks has some sort of responsibility for comprehensive, rational, and historically informed thought. Yeah, Jon Stuart probably isn't as smart as he thinks he is, but who cares? he's a comedic entertainer whose job isn't to be smart; it's to make silly faces and crack facile jokes. Jeffrey Lord, on the other hand, purports to be a serious columnist who, one would think, is smart enough to choose worthy subjects for his columns and the utilisation of his intellectual energy.

So who got played?

Occam's Tool| 5.19.11 @ 1:42AM

People watch Stewart for news and commentary. He is, therefore, important in the political/cultural discourse. He also is an idiot of the magnitude of Clint the resident Stormfront scumbag, who doesn't donate to candidates he supports because it is hard to make money while sitting incontinent in mommy's basement.

Arturo| 5.19.11 @ 9:26AM

Correction: people watch Stewart for entertainment and laughs. If they get any worthwhile news and commentary from it, it's only because other sources provide it so poorly. Unlike Glenn Beck who says he's a clown but pretends to traffic in serious matters, Stewart never claims to be anything but a funny clown. So anybody that thinks he is an appropriate target for serious political debate is... getting played. Like Mr. Lord.

I had a debate with an entertainer the other day, and turns out he knows nothing about the Constitution!! Newsflash! "Bozo the Clown is not a smart as he thinks he is". Now, can I get my paycheck from the American Spectator, please?

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connie bauer| 5.19.11 @ 4:43AM

Woodrow Wilson had many good ideas but in the area of race relations he was quite deficient. Stop trying to act cute and say whatever it is you really want to say.
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icjr | 5.19.11 @ 3:02PM

Personally I don't really see the connection. Nor the analysis made between Woodrow. Wilson, screening the D.W. Griffith "Birth of A Nation" appealing to his Klan Base voters as the write states...Personally, I don't see how Jon Stewart was being played. That's my take it appears that someone is attempting to make a case where there is no case.

Morrisminor| 5.19.11 @ 10:20PM

That is so rational! There is no place for that sort of thinking here.

Jacobite| 5.19.11 @ 3:35PM

What the NAACP realized was that there is no such thing as a color-blind society. You have two choices -- to be the ***ee or the ***or. While the NAACP came to grips with reality, white people have retreated into delusion. Please don't project today's perverted values back into a healthier, normal past. 95% of white people in 1915 were "racists" by today's definition. That's why they ran America and America did so well. About the same percentage of blacks are "racists" today. Looking at black-ruled countries across the sea, our future is certain.

Morrisminor| 5.19.11 @ 10:19PM

Utter rubbish, so now Obama is responsible for Jim Crow too? I guess every guest to the WH now must be vetted by every mental midget cultural guardian less one of them may repeal civil rights or push the launch button on the President's nuclear launch console?

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