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MSNBC Hosts a Lynch Mob

By Jeffrey Lord on 3.29.12 @ 6:08AM

If racism killed Trayvon Martin, why is Al Sharpton a television host?

“Race has no place in American life or law.”
— President John F. Kennedy

David Dinkins.… You wanna be the only n…. on television, the only n…. in the newspaper, the only n…to talk.… Don’t cover them, don’t talk to them, cause you got the only n… problem. Cause you know if a black man stood up next to ya they would see you for the whore that you really are.
— MSNBC Host Al Sharpton

Is this becoming America’s first televised lynch mob?

Hosted by Al Sharpton and brought to you by MSNBC?

Let’s talk about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.

What are we really seeing here in the middle of this tragedy? And make no mistake this is a very real tragedy for Trayvon Martin’s parents and family.

Is this becoming about race? Yes indeed. (See here, as Al Sharpton does his thing.)

But not the way the left-stream media wants you to think about race.

First?

History. Important history.

Let’s start with a question about you and your doctor. And no, we’re not talking health care here today.

So you have a doctor, and have had that doctor for years. You go into to see him/her for a regular physical, or maybe you have a particular ailment you want to get checked out.

What happens when the doctor walks in the door to the examining room?

Here’s what doesn’t happen. The doctor doesn’t ask for your name — because he/she knows it already. The doctor doesn’t pull out a blank sheet of paper and start asking questions about your medical history. Why? Because, if this has been your doctor for years — he/she knows your medical history already. What they open is your file, a file that contains that medical history. And whether you are getting a routine physical or checking out a particular problem, your life didn’t start when you walked into the doctor’s office that day. Whatever the doctor is going to say to you —he/she will say it based on an understanding of your personal medical history.

It is no different with a nation — or a political party or philosophy. News events may look like something brand new — but in point of fact, that is never the case. Ever. Nations have histories. Political parties have histories. Political philosophies have histories.

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About the Author

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

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aware| 3.29.12 @ 7:31AM

Distractions continue.

Jack in Wi.| 3.29.12 @ 7:41AM

Lord writes another pile of hooey and nonsense. Tucker in his story above has a much saner and sounder essay on the subject of George Zimmerman.

tired of you| 3.29.12 @ 8:22AM

Why do you post at about 6:25 or 6:30 A.M. every morning on at least 3 or 4 TAS articles? Every stinkin' morning?

Get a life.

You really are pathetic. (after just five months of reading here, I can predict already what you'll say -- and the hour you'll write it)

Bob K.| 3.29.12 @ 10:41AM

Because he is a Progressive Troll from Wisconsin, the state that was run for years by Progressives. He also supports the recall of the Governor.

Jack in Wi.| 3.29.12 @ 12:33PM

I am a real conservative not a Neoconservative. You boys would not know the difference. I like people like Ron Paul, Bob Taft, Pat Buchanan, Scott Walker, Joe McCarthy, Murray Rothbard, Russell Kirk, Herbert Hoover for foreign policy, and Bob Novak. I was a subscriber to National Review for 42 years until the Neocns took over and ruined the publication. I had dinner with Mr. Buckley on a couple of occasion. I went to Reagan's second innaugeration in 1985 and Bush's in 1989. I will match my conservative credentials with anyone here.

I would also like to thank the editors of the webbsite for the very free commenting policy, they have here. It leads to a lot of intellectual stimulation.

Vern Crisler| 3.29.12 @ 2:09PM

Murray Rothbard a conservative? You must not have been paying attention at the WFB dinners.

Moe Blotz| 3.29.12 @ 3:42PM

Conservatism is not about whom you know and who you blow. Conservatives go about their lives and business earning a living and trying to make our country a better place than what it was when we arrived. Conservatives do not brag about their associations or achievements, but share what they have learned with those who seek to expand their own knowledge. Blowhards and braggarts belong in the party that begins with D.

Jack in Wi.| 3.29.12 @ 4:29PM

I employed thousands of people during a long career in business. How do you think I got to go to all these events? I was once one of the super fatcats. A real conservative isn't for endless war and bailouts like the 3 stooges Mitt, Newt and Rick.

Quartermaster| 3.29.12 @ 5:02PM

A good many of the conservatives that like to post here need to do a bit of historical research. Conservatism includes a very large portion of libertarianism. Most of you would probably detest what the founders actually were. People like Santorum are not conservatives, no matter what they think they are. They are legitimately called Neoconservatives because they are, in their hearts, statists.

Moe, what you think conservatives do would be impossible without liberty, as we are seeing increasingly. Even people like Reagan had serious problems in that regard. Reagan himself said he didn't leave the Democrat Party, it left him. He came of age during the FDR misrule, so one must ask what Democrat party left him.

Moe Blotz| 3.30.12 @ 7:18AM

Right in Q-master. Conservatism would be nowt without Liberty. Free men and women trying to meet God's expectations whilst working hard in using all the talents with which we have been blessed. Jack thinks he is better than the next bloke because he made a lot of money in a long business career. William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan were humble, and that is an alien word to Jack who uses personal pronouns as much as BHO.

Oldefarte| 3.29.12 @ 4:57PM

No IDIOT, Lord writes political prose that resembles a good wine, the best classical music and the TRUTH [something you'd know absolutely nothing about since you're what's known as STUPID]!!! Why don't you instead concern yourself with your supposedly fellow Wisconsin's [Scott Walker's] political troubles from being harrassed by progressive labor unions [most of which comes from outside your state and infiltrated into same by the C&P radicals controlling our country]??????

Bubba T. | 3.29.12 @ 10:23AM

A quick answer to the front page teaser question of Lord's column this morning is simple: He's Black.

Mull it over, kids. Does anyone, (other than the drooling Uncle Clint and his roommate Alan types) think for a New York minute that a white supremacist group like (say) KKK, Inc. would be given a pass for offering a ten grand "contract" on the suspect in a shooting? Having said that, we all know the game's rigged whole 'nother way when the Air Jordan's are on the other foot.

So, pahhhleeez! Spare me the liberal indignation. At least until all the facts are in. Then again, if you're an illiterate leftist ... factz don't meen nuttin'.

If the shooting had turned another way, and the races were flipped, I've not a doubt in my mind that Team Obama's Justice Department would be moving on the white sheet gang faster than Eric Holder at a Hoodies 'R Us half-0ff sale.

In the hood, it is what it be.

Clint| 3.29.12 @ 7:49AM

"There is a Black on Black Race War that accounts for about 95% of the Blacks being slaughtered. Say between 14-18,000 a year. The other 5% are killed by Hispanics, Whites and an occasional "Other". "

Mike Hawk| 3.29.12 @ 9:54AM

How about doing something besides cut and paste. Do you have any thoughts of your own aside from threats and insults??.. or Rube Paul quotes. Who made this statement??

Clint| 3.29.12 @ 3:23PM

You Seem So Cranky & Upset Again Today, RINO-CINO Hawk.

Eat Your Prunes.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.

Oldefarte| 3.29.12 @ 4:59PM

Shazam, that's really relevant, fool!!!!!

Clint| 3.29.12 @ 5:37PM

Olderthanfarts Is The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooge,Who's Gonna Vote For The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Fop Frontman, Mittens Romney.

We Are Being Set Up By RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.

These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.

Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail....

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.

Appleby| 3.29.12 @ 8:08AM

This is very true, Jack the Socialist to the contrary. For many, many years in our neighbourhood in New York, the very high crime rate in the Black communities has been shrugged off with "So long as they're only killing each other." Maybe we ought to stand back and let them thin the gene pool until they themselves have had enough and decide to do something about it.

SUBVET| 3.29.12 @ 12:29PM

George Carlin thaught the same thing about inmates in prision. He thought open all interior gates drop food to them and let things happen.

George I miss you.

Legarto Rey| 3.29.12 @ 3:48PM

The sad reality is that leftist elites are obviously aware that between abortion of black fetuses and the hyper-murderous urban, black male polulation under 25yo, we are looking at modern eugenics of african-americans. The left has zero empathy and indeed is actively advocating for this!

Timothy L. Pennell| 3.29.12 @ 8:41AM

When did we become TWO Countries? Let me rephrase that.

When did we become ONE Country, with TWO sets of Standards?

I notice that the word N*gger, has been Bleeped out of Sharpton's Quote.
Interesting.

He says N*gger, like some people say "Good Morning". In fact, Blacks in General, throw N*gger around, willy nilly, all the time. Ever hear of NWA? That's a Black "Music" Group - N*ggers With Attitudes. It seems that these N*ggers, have Attitudes, and why wouldn't they? They've been getting a Free Ride for the Last 30 Years.

Faggot/N*gger/Punkass Homos. I thought that these words were VERBOTEN?

C*nt/Tw*t/Wh*re/Sl*t. I thought that we weren't ALLOWED to say those words? It seems that those Rules only apply to ONE GROUP. White Conservatives.

Did you know that we have Tape of Tom Hanks in Black Face? Did you know that Ted Danson was on stage in Black Face, throwing the N*gger Word around, like there's no Tomorrow? Anything happen to them? Do they still have Careers?

We have a President who sat in a Hate Church, and listened to his POS Pastor use the word N*gger, for 20 Years. He listened to more Hate Speech in that "Church" than most people hear at a Klan Rally. (Or when Alan pays Jack to tie him up, and "Punish" him) Did he leave the "Church"? Did he denounce his Hate Filled/Racist/Anti-Semite Pastor?

No. He had him perform his Wedding, and Baptize his kids, instead.

Does anyone think that ANY White Politician that sat in a Racist/Anti-Semitic Pastors' Church for 5 Minutes, would get a FREE PASS from Everyone? Do they think he would get a Free Pass from ANYONE?

The Leader of the Democrats, in the Senate - Robert Byrd, was a KLANSMAN. He was a Grand Kleagle. A Recruiter for the Klan. Anybody ever see him get a bad time, from the Liberal Press?

Anyone?

When he went on Meet The Press, he spoke very nonchalantly about "Black N*ggers, and White N*ggers". No Bleeps. No Outrage. No NYT Editorials the next day, calling for his head.

I will admit, he had a point. There are Black N*ggers and White N*ggers. (If I may borrow the parlance of the Former Democrat Leader of the Senate.) And, with that being said, I nominate Al Sharpton as N*gger #1. I mean. If he's not a N*gger? Who is? He's a Racist. He hates Whites and Jews, and (obviously) Greek Homos, and Queers and Faggots. And he says it OUT LOUD, and into the Bullhorn, while looking in to the Cameras.

But, "It's okay". He's a Community Activist. And, a Black one, at that. He can do anything he wants.

He can turn New York City Upside Down, and put Racial Tensions on edge, with a PHONY STORY about a young Black Girl being Raped by White Men. He actually claimed that an Assistant D.A. in that Case was in on the Rape, and that the Bronx D.A. had been Masturbating over a picture of the lying Black Girl.

Al Sharpton has a Show on MSNBC.

He revved up a Black Mob in Crown Heights, after a Car, driven by a young Jew, jumped the Curb, and killed a young Black Boy, by accident. For 3 Days and Nights, he and his LYNCH MOB, roamed the streets of Crown heights, "Looking for Jews to Kill". An Australian Jewish Exchange Student - Yankel Rosenbaum - was Stabbed to Death by Sharpton's Mob, during Sharpton's POGROM, while Black Mayor - David Dinkins - ordered his Police to DO NOTHING.

Al Sharpton has a Show on MSNBC.

He brought another Mob, to a "White Interloper's" Store, in Brooklyn. He revved up his Homies, until one of them went inside and MURDERED everyone who wasn't Black, before Torching Freddy's Clothing Emporium to the ground.

Al Sharpton has a Show on MSNBC.

He owes well over a MILLION DOLLARS in back Taxes. He's paid No Fine. He's owed this money for Years. He's paid no fine. His "Office" mysteriously Burned, like Freddy's, and wouldn't you know it? All of his Records were destroyed. He's never paid a fine.

He's what you call - One Badass N*gga with Attitude. And, why wouldn't he? He's gotten away with Everything, including MURDER.

Al Sharpton has a Show on MSNBC.

Is anyone surprised?

Mike W| 3.29.12 @ 9:28AM

The most shocking sentence - "Al Sharpton has a show on MSNBC'. A legitimate network (somewhat) has the black equivalent of David Duke, with a national show.

Alan| 3.29.12 @ 9:50AM

That right there should tell anybody everything they need to know about the "media" i.e. the new Pravda. The fact that they still have a herd of idiots that believe the BS they crank out is all the more amazing.

Cathy| 3.29.12 @ 10:15PM

Timothy, if I remember correctly, those victims at Freddy's Fashion Mart died in the fire and they were black and Hispanic. Why this man Al Sharpton is given any legitimacy whatsoever is as mind-boggling to me as the way that Ted Kennedy continues to be lionized.

KyMouse| 3.29.12 @ 2:32PM

The restricted use of certain words is just one more sign of our society's destruction -- one group insisting that it alone is allowed to use a certain word.

If the N-word and the Q-word (which I wouldn't want to use anyway) are so offensive, no one should use them; however, the groups to which they refer use them with pride. It's the attitude of "I have the right and the freedom to say this, but you don't" that worries me.

Okay, there are also a lot of other things that worry me about where our society is heading...

Too Late To Impeach| 3.29.12 @ 11:55PM

C'mon folks, surely you know this by now:
The reason blacks can use the black version of the "N" word is because it's not really the same word. It's "adopted" yes, but it's "adapted". Used among blacks it doesn't carry the same meaning. By the way, it's not "N*gger", it's "Nigga". Can be used casually in all sorts of ways by blacks, but spoken by a black it's not imbued with racist intent. The racist word is "N*gger" which is what white people use. It ain't a friendly term. That's a mile away from what blacks use. And yes, it's not a good idea for a white to use the word nigga, unless in fairly rare cases where he's accepted as "one of us" among black friends and they all accept him talking that way because he has adopted their culture, music and speech patterns, and they know and like him. I doubt that white women would use it among black friends though, but I can't say for sure. So Niggas With Attitude (NWA) gets a pass.... And so, I'm afraid, does Al Sharpton

Too Late To Impeach| 3.30.12 @ 12:07AM

I forgot to add:

"Nigga" as spoken among blacks can mean something simple like guy, dude, fellow... like "Look at that nigga over there. Or it can be used to indicate praise, favoritism, affiliation, like "That's my nigga!" Or it can be used as a put-down like "That nigga!" (such as meaning he's "common" or a con-man, for example). But it ain't used the same as "N*gger" as the white folks use it. That's why I say: Different word.

Indy| 3.29.12 @ 9:10AM

I recommend "White Guilt" by Shelby Steele, from the freedoms gained by the Civil Rights Movement to becomming the "collective", Mr. Steele explains how that happened.

Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams - are you proud of your network? Your silence on Al Sharpton, an employee of MSNBC speaks wonders.

Are there any blacks on the Left who will speak out and call for calm while we go through the judicial process? To date, charges have not been filed, reviews are underway, we do not know all of the facts, yet Sharpton / Spike Lee / Louis Farrakhan / Black Panthers seem to have convicted Zimmerman in the press. What happened to due process?

Teaghan| 3.29.12 @ 9:45AM

No blacks will call for calm. They are to busy doning hoodies and giving incoherant rants in congress to keep the pot stirred.
If the police decide to revisit the case and do infact charge Zimmerman, how the hell will he ever get a fair trial? Now that dear leader has inserted his ugly racist nose into it and made it clear where he stands.

Teaghan| 3.29.12 @ 9:45AM

Stan REdmond| 3.29.12 @ 3:26PM

Both Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell have great pieces over at Townhall.

Indy| 3.29.12 @ 3:46PM

Stan,

Thank you I will hop over and read them, two of my favorite Americans (well, outside of my family members)

Alan| 3.29.12 @ 9:44AM

Yeh, I can see a group of white racists putting up a public bounty on a black person and everybody stands down and lets it ride, oh yeh, I can see that. Thats how far gone this whole country is. As far as anybody in the leftist "media" taking issue with that, they might as well resign because they know what happens when you "turn" on the team. Your blackballed.

Alan| 3.29.12 @ 4:53PM

Now we have @killzimmerman on Twitter and they(twitter) don't have the stomach to remove it. They don't want to "offend" anybody by removing somebody who proposes to murder somebody who hasn't been convicted of anything yet! I seriously hope people see just where we are as a society. Nobody, not this race pimp of a President, nor his race pimp lap dog Attorney General nor his sicophant media have one word for any of it. Nobody has to balls to call it what it is. Hypocritical stooges on one side and a bunch of cowards on the other. Take a good look everybody, thats what running your country.

Von Mises Jr.| 3.29.12 @ 9:47AM

Liberals think in terms of groups because they are a group. They, by definition of their belief in the collective, surrender all individuality and originality. They may sub-divide themseves into colors and sexual preferences; but they are by definition nothing more than drones.

Rush had a monolog yesterday about how really unimpressive liberal thinkers such as Jeffrey Toobin really are. They are not educated, but inculcated. He and his buddies at CNN and MSNBC never considered seriously that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. They exist in a classroom, and life is an experiment in which they are continually surprised.
It is the same with the liberal rank and file. I find it hilarious that when my liberal neighbors pick an argument with me over abortion; if I argue states rights, they are dumbfounded. They only know the argument they were indoctrinated with, and any deviation short-circuits their brains.

Von Mises, who was quoted by Mr. Lord, studied Max Weber, a sociologist, enlightenment philosophers and then wrote "Socialism" and "Theory and History" on socialist thought, as well as Bohm-Bawerk, Menger, Bastiat and Schumpeter to improve their theories on "utility" and other aspects of "human action."
Liberal still cling to Marxism that was an illogical hodge-podge of "material productive forces" leading to socialist "Utopia," Public Ownership of the means of production," and "One World Government." Marx could not defend his theories, and neither can liberal intellectuals to this day. The ides are several hundred years old, and they are a reaction to the end of serfdom. It is based on "class struggle" that existed in Europe with a Monarchy, Nobles, Aristocrats and serfs. So instead of changing their failed theories, they create the classes out of fantasy.
Liberals are in general the most ignorant among us, regardless of whether they were indoctrinated in Harvard or a Detroit Middle School.

Surly Curmudgen| 3.29.12 @ 10:04AM

Those most enamored of communism/socialism are the least productive members of society who want those goodies that accrue to the most productive. Their agenda is detrimental to a productive society resulting in their attempt to hide that agenda by calling themselves progressives or liberals. These communist/socialists who call themselves progressives or liberals now control both parties and those two parties are rapidly bringing this nation to rule by man, loss of all property and enslavement.

Are we going to allow them continued control of the debate and blissfully accept their utopia?

Von Mises Jr.| 3.29.12 @ 10:55AM

You are surely correct, Surly. But there is hope, and it isn't the hope from the dope that is our "Dear Leader."
Americans for Prosperity had over 50 buses arrive in DC Tuesday where we heard Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Jim DeMint, Scott Garrett, Mchelle Bachmann, Brent Bozell and other great Americans. Congressman Allen West also gave a stirring speech, and I had the distinct pleasure of shaking his hand and speaking with him afterward.
There are many strong conservatives with intelligence and courage in the Republican Party. The trick is to replace McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, McLame and Lindsay "Lohan" Graham with more great men and women such as those who spoke to us Tuesday.

albert constantine jr.| 3.29.12 @ 12:48PM

If I recall correctly, Max Weber also gave us the concept of bureaucracy, and thought of it as a good thing.

Vern Crisler| 3.29.12 @ 2:12PM

Um, Weber didn't give us bureaucracy; he studied it in the context of rationalization.

gearjammer| 3.29.12 @ 9:50AM

So what do decent people do ?

shane teton | 3.29.12 @ 10:05AM

move away from the cities to the west... get solar, water source and hunker down

aware| 3.29.12 @ 8:09PM

Do it NOW. Why get trampled at the exits later?

Surly Curmudgen| 3.29.12 @ 10:08AM

Throughout history when the citizens of a nation find that they can not and will not be accorded either justice or redress from those, Judges, bureaucrats, or politicians, tasked with administering justice and or redress, the citizens find they must correct these miscreants, quite often violently, by hanging, guillotine, or simply shooting.

From watching what is happening in our nation, a correct observation would be that judges, bureaucrats, and politicians, have failed to study or acquire any knowledge of such history.

gearjammer| 3.29.12 @ 10:15AM

This will recquire our military and police to be neutral. Or, split and take sides. Thus, a nasty civil war. I say a severe economic boycott-a strike by us. Our demands 2 separate confederations of states and counties.

Crassus| 3.29.12 @ 11:25AM

Buy yourself a gun and dig in. That's all that's left.

aware| 3.29.12 @ 8:12PM

Do this NOW also. After you get out of the cities. The best way to not be a victim is not being there.

Anthony| 3.29.12 @ 10:34AM

All factions of the Americn left are pushing for a total breakdown of our society. MSLSD and their whorish, disgusting race baiting host, Al Sharpton ought to be ashamed for fanning the racial flames, but this is what they want!!!
The New Black Panthers are operating totally outside the law, even boasting that we "don't follow the White Man's law", and neither our black president, black Attorney general nor the authorities in Florida have done a damn thing about it.
A black congressman dresses like a street thug on the floor of the house calling for racial disharmony. Gee, no demand for an apology, or maybe a slap on the hand? Maybe if he said "you lie" he would have been sanctioned by the House.
This is Duke Lacrosse time 10. As Joe Klein of the leftist media has told us, facts don't matter, as long as the "narrative" is correct. And the correct narrative for the left is that America is still a rampantly racist society. We're still pre- '60s in their minds.
So, all you Obozo voters who thought that by voting for our first black president, that it would bring you and America absolution, you're DEAD WRONG.
Nothing assuages the left. Timidity, cowardice, and appeasement only brings more. This is basic human nature 101. Rs don't get it!!!
This summer is going "hot"; it's been in the works for months, starting with OWS. The left wants a complete breakdown of society so the Muslim Marxist can issue martial law. Oh wait, didn't he just sign that E.O.?
Welcome to post racial America, leftist style.

cuban pete| 3.29.12 @ 11:25AM

"dresses like a street thug...."
Hell, he used to be a street thug.

Tim the Enchanter| 3.29.12 @ 2:24PM

"..used to be?" The only thing that's different is the passage of a bit of time.

cuban pete| 3.29.12 @ 2:39PM

Right you are Tim.
He just said he misses the old BP days.

Mark Ira Kaufman| 3.29.12 @ 2:30PM

At least MSNBC has Joe Scarborough?

Who is his 'loyal opposition' analog at Fox News?

One of the night janitors?

oldfart| 3.29.12 @ 10:35AM

Not only the ‘Reverend’ Sharpton but Spike Lee as well sending out the WRONG address where Zimmerman is supposed to have lived. It seems the only recourse is to start taking the idiots to court for personal defamation, inciting to riot and a host of other crimes and misdemeanors that a lawyer can think up. Go after MSNBC, NBC Universal and Comcast for permitting, this overt racism. Not until you hit the owners with multi-million dollar lawsuits with this kind of trash stop.

LiveFreeOrDie| 3.29.12 @ 9:46PM

Spike Lee settles lawsuit:

http://www.chron.com/news/arti.....444927.php

Bill| 3.29.12 @ 10:47AM

Al Sharpton is the "Joseph Goebbles" and a "f***ing n************. No Apology!

RCV| 3.29.12 @ 12:34PM

Of course not, Bill. We all know what you are.

Bill| 3.29.12 @ 1:48PM

Al Sharpton is "pathological liar."

RCV| 3.29.12 @ 2:46PM

Al Sharpton is indeed a pathological liar and a despicable racist. You sir are also a despicable racist.

Bill| 3.29.12 @ 2:56PM

I am a true patriot and an ardent defender of our liberty and the constitution. I ain't no racist.

Todd S| 3.29.12 @ 5:41PM

You can't say you want all the black people out of Florida and not be racist Bill. Whether you like it or not, they are citizens and have rights. What Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others including a good part of the media are doing to stir them up in an angry mob over this is despicable but judge every individual for their own actions. Like MLK said, judge every man on the content of his character regardless of color, race or sex.

Nick| 3.30.12 @ 12:39AM

"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:

http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403

You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!

Nick| 3.30.12 @ 12:39AM

http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403

You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!

Leonard Gilbert| 3.30.12 @ 11:10AM

Ditto...

Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.29.12 @ 10:57AM

With the Obamacare debacle, soaring unemployment and gas prices and now the embarrassment of having his budget rejected by his own party, the time has come to admit that Obama is an embarrassment and his election a mistake. And you think the timing of this Trayvon Martin thing was just a coincidence?
By the way, William Tucker has shown himself to be a horse's ass.

Stan REdmond| 3.29.12 @ 3:29PM

It will certainly be interesting listening to the inept Carney spin this utter rejection of the Obama budget as the fault of the republicans.

Citizen Jerry| 3.29.12 @ 11:10AM

Any network with even a modicum of ethics and responsibility would have fired this professional race hustler long ago. But we're talking about MSNBC here

wally| 3.29.12 @ 11:28AM

Know what I like about Al Sharpton?

Nothing.

john| 3.29.12 @ 11:47AM

msnbc?? Are they still around? I have them blocked so I wouldn't know. Anyhow The fearless sharptounge and the Revvvurnd jasksoon( Rush does it better) will bring justice, just like the Twanny Brawley case. By the way how did that episode turn out????

Mike Hawk| 3.29.12 @ 2:59PM

That would be Je$$e Ja¢k$on maybe??

Mark| 3.29.12 @ 12:17PM

Blacks are unhappy WITH a black president, and they will be unhappy after that black president is gone from office. Thay are un unhappy group of people. Period. They've been that way my whole life, well after emancipation. Well after the 1965 Civil Rights Act signing. What else is new here?

Leonard Gilbert| 3.29.12 @ 12:47PM

I don't think that's an accurate observation Mark. I know a lot of Americans of Color who are happy...but, 95% of them WILL vote for Barack Obama because they percieve him as a light skinned "Black Man" when it is just as possible and probable that he is instead...a dark skinned white guy... who is just conning them out of their vote.
Maybe they should judge by examining what race his closest advisors are..starting with David Axlerod and working their way down through the ranks until they get to a black person...on his staff, not his cabinet.

Teaghan| 3.29.12 @ 3:18PM

obama's now referred to as a "white-black".
Zimmerman is a white hispanic, sooo.......

Mark Ira Kaufman| 3.29.12 @ 2:24PM

Liberals are blah blah blah…

But conservatives are REALLY blah blah blah!

Catholics are blah blah blah, except during Lent.

The Jews have been blah blah blah for thousands of years.

Muslims are blah blah blah, except during Ramadan.

Blacks are blah blah blah, but not nearly as blah blah blah as Hispanics!

Thank God white people are still blah blah blah!

Women are blah blah blah in ways men can never understand.

And don’t get me started on accountants!”

Lee Ghume| 3.29.12 @ 3:48PM

What about lawyers?

Resist We Much! | 3.30.12 @ 3:47PM

A couple of us at the bottom of the ocean will set off a global party and maybe insure world peace...or something...or so I have always been told.

Leonard Gilbert| 3.29.12 @ 12:38PM

The defining priciple...
"Supporting a candidate because of the color of their skin makes one as much a racist as opposing them for the color of their skin".
Al Sharpton is as pure a symbol of racism as there is on this planet. At least the vile people in the KKK admitted that they were racists.

Tim| 3.29.12 @ 12:50PM

Obama should have a least pretended to be fair minded and called out the Black Panthers for placing a $1 million bounty.

Really.....Its one thing to be a racist.....its another thing to be so blatant about it......

I don't know if its arrogance on steroids or just plain hate on steroids but it makes no sense that the President would not call out those that place bounties on folks

Todd S| 3.29.12 @ 1:07PM

I think it is fair to say it is also a tragedy for the Zimmerman family as well and may well become a bigger tragedy if the likes of Al Sharpton get the mob "justice" they are looking for. Fact is the Martin family is allowing the likes of Sharpton and Jackson to exploit the situation and it has been reported that they have trademarked slogans for their financial benefit. Obama knows exactly what he is doing, just look at what his buddy Eric Holder is doing at the DOJ. Instead of calling for calm and let a fair impartial investigation take place, he makes a racial comment. He is a POS

Mark Ira Kaufman| 3.29.12 @ 2:28PM

MOB justice is wanting to see Zimmerman receive due process for a very questionable shooting is MOB justice?

If the word "hyperbole" hadn't been invented, there would be no succinct way of describing such a blatant distortion.

Todd S| 3.29.12 @ 3:10PM

You know what I am talking about Mark, do you hear Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or Spike Lee calling for due process? Bullshit

James| 3.29.12 @ 2:07PM

When are conservatives going to use the "C" word.

I mean Comcast, a major owner of MSNBC.

How many of their cable customers realize their monthly fees go toward the support of this execrable channel?

Mark Ira Kaufman| 3.29.12 @ 2:21PM

Funny... I thought a lynch mob was just what the name implies... a mob that will drag someone out into the town square and string him up.

The only thing I've seen from those who don't lap up Mr. Zimmerman's steaming heap of lies [Although he had a 50 lb. advantage over Martin, Zimmerman claims to have been knocked to the ground with a single punch that broke his nose, then had his head slammed into the pavement repeatedly, yet shows up at the police station without a scratch, and never sought medical attention for all the 'injuries he sustained.], are calls for him to be indicted and tried.

Lynch mobs shun that sort of due process.

Perhaps those who shun left-wing hyperbole might consider the possibility that aping the very behavior you assail in others is counter-productive.

It's time to leave the "Well, They started it!" playground fight mentality behind.

Tim the Enchanter| 3.29.12 @ 2:29PM

Where is your source that he "showed up at the police station without a scratch"? You just don't have grass stains, head lacerations and a broken nose one minute, and not the next. I guess the eyewitness that saw Martin pummeling Zimmerman must have made up what he saw, as well. Putz.

Mike Hawk| 3.29.12 @ 2:56PM

I guess he wouldn't clean himself and and would spend time showing off all the blood on his face right. I would suppose the police would let him clean up first, why not you??

Monty Heying | 3.29.12 @ 2:52PM

"... the progressive passion for class warfare." --This is laughable. Class warfare was invented by the ultra-right. They live and breathe it; so they can't see it in themselves. They don't see controlling congress with corporate money as class warfare. They can't see eviscerating social programs as class warfare; no, that's just saving money. They don't see mega-multinational corporations paying zero taxes as class warfare. They don't see a gargantuan defense budget required to protect "American" corporate interests abroad while poor children go hungry and uneducated as class warfare. They don't see billions in foreign aid to facilitate "American" multinational business abroad as foreign aid. They don't see Wall Street brokerage commissions taxed at 15% while "common" wage-earners pay 28% as class warfare.

Teaghan| 3.29.12 @ 3:22PM

Damn! I need some tissues! What an effing sob story! Silly liberal.

Jack London| 3.29.12 @ 3:48PM

Don't worry Monty - when the 1% have 99.9% of the wealth they'll have to turn on each other to get any more.

Controse| 3.29.12 @ 3:04PM

We know the nature of the beast that the Progressive / Communist way of looking at their fellow man is. How do we purge our society of this beast? How about an alternate Hollywood? How about an alternate Broadway? Any ideas out there?

Robert Mugabe| 3.29.12 @ 3:41PM

Soon peace will come to your country and all of you will be like the people in my country. We are all rich here, everyone has at least 10 trillion dollars in their wallets. Barry asks me a lot of qustions, and I am teaching him well, Ha, ha, ho ho. Barry said soon America will be like my country of Zimbabwe, he has only to pass a few more laws and then... His friend Vladimier Putin is going to help him surprise all of you... Ohh darn I let cat out of bag... please act surprised..? OK?

Jack London| 3.29.12 @ 3:42PM

Well Jeffrey:

"Might this be because for almost two centuries progressives like Theodore Bilbo, Hugo Black, Richard Russell and Al Sharpton and Spike Lee and the New Black Panthers got a pass from progressives because they divided Americans by race?"

what do you think would happen if through a miracle of time travel we could put Lee and Sharpton in the same room as Bilbo and co?

gearjammer| 3.29.12 @ 3:43PM

Did you see the way these political black caucus dress. That women in the pink cowboy hat ? The panthers, the crowd converging around Jesse and Al ? The original folks for the civel rights movement had dignity and a certain presence-serious and compelling. They were respactable and millions respected them. Is that not the better path ?

bemused,but not AMUSED| 3.29.12 @ 6:16PM

YEAH... what happened to those "NICE colored folks--our sweet-tempered niggrahs.."--eh?

EVER HEAR THE SAYING, "YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER"?

WTF difference doe it make what people are wearing?... are you listening to the message SHOULD be the more important point, no?

grumpyoldbitch| 3.29.12 @ 4:01PM

Every time I read something about the New Black Panther party I just roll my eyes. There is no party. It's like, 10 people who are media whores. They love to be on camera, the media obliges. If they have 10 grand I'm the Queen of England. Right wing media is just giving them more oxygen and exposure. If you ignore crazy people, eventually they go away.

bemused,but not AMUSED| 3.29.12 @ 4:58PM

"As time went on and slavery gave way (after a small event known as the Civil War) to segregation, lynching and the Ku Klux Klan, the racial worm worked its way deeper and deeper into the soul of what was becoming the American Left.
By the time segregationist Woodrow Wilson became president, the progressive-racist partnership was set in stone. It continued and blossomed under Franklin Roosevelt.
Progressive programs familiar to everyone today were passed with the assistance of some of the most racist politicians in the nation's history. Social Security was championed by Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, a proud racist and member of the Ku Klux Klan. What Americans know as the school lunch program was named for its staunch segregationist sponsor Senator Richard Russell of Georgia. The much recently discussed Glass-Steagall Act was named for its sponsor, the vividly racist Virginia Congressman and Senator (and Wilson Treasury Secretary) Carter Glass."
------------

OY , GEVALT....!!

Mr Lord's constant spewing his poisonous bile about certain individuals WHO JUST HAPPENED to be members of The Democratic Party of the DISTANT PAST, is the rantings of an INSANE PERSON.. it is no surprise to learn that he worked for Reagan..another brain-dead imbecile...

His constant linking of the KKK with progessive/leftist ( and " progressive", at the turn of the 20th Cent. was NOT the same as "leftist", in the slightest...) is the CRAZIEST bit of horse-shit I have EVER HEARD spewed from the right-wing...and that is saying A lOT..

Mr. Lord--HAVE YOU NO SHAME, AT LONG LAST?-- OR.. PERHAPS IT'S TIME TO RE-EVALUTE THE MEDICATIONS YOU ARE ON..??

Jack London| 3.29.12 @ 5:15PM

He does seem to have descended into madness, doesn't he? I expect crude smears here but Lord's latest is complete gibberish. He seems to be trying to say that the racial supremists of old have morphed into Al Sharpton and Spike Lee, and has obviously forgotten that they are black. If he wants a genuine inheritance line from a time when most white people were racist then he need look no further than his rabid followers right here on this page.

Resist We Much! | 3.30.12 @ 3:49PM

Other than Strom Thurmond, please tell me which of the following Democratic Segregationists died as Republicans:

Al Gore, Sr.
Orval Faubus
William J Fullbright
Bull Connor
Robert J Byrd
Fritz Hollings
J. Lister Hill
John Sparkman
John Little McClellan
George A. Smathers
Spessard Holland
Herman Talmadge
Richard Brevard Russell, Jr.
Allen J. Ellender
Russel B Long
James Eastland
John Stennis
B. Everett Jordan
Sam Ervin
Olin D. Johnston
Herbert S. Walters
Absalom Willis Robertson
Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

LiveFreeOrDie| 3.29.12 @ 9:58PM

Robert Byrd?

Mike Hawk| 3.29.12 @ 11:24PM

Let's not forget Hugo Black, Woodrow Wilson, J W Fulbright, Orville Faubus, Lester Maddox, Al Gore Sr. ...etc all Segregationists.

Oldefarte| 3.29.12 @ 5:25PM

Jeffrey once again knocked it out of the ballpark over the center field wall. Bravo! The liberals/progressives/Democrats or whatever else you wish to term them are the personification of their out-of-the-closet leader at 1600. It used to be stealth politicians named Kennedy, Humphrey, Kerry, Clinton etc that pretended to be JUST LIKE THE REST OF US. No longer, as it's IN YO FACE TIME! We're progressing from YOU'RE A RACIST to YOU BE THE GRAND DRAGON OF THE KKK AND WE GONNA PUT A BOUNTY ON YOUR HONKY ARS; STICK 'EM UP, YOU OWE THE GOVERNMENT 150% OF YOUR INCOME IN TAXES IN REPARATION FOR PAST ENSLAVEMENTS; DON'T ACT UNTIL YOU RECEIVE INSTRUCTION FROM YOUR UNCLE SAM; etc.. As I've said thousands of times here in arguments, IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS! We now have basically two political parties within this country, the Democrats and EVERYBODY ELSE. There are no conservatives or moderates within the former, only radical flame-throwers and academia eggheads. What Jeffrey indicates is totally true and accurate, and the one/only solution [other than packing heat and/or jumping off of a bridge from frustration] is to simply PULL THE REPUBLICAN ENTIRE TICKET LEVER WHEN VOTING [and thereafter weeding out the bad from the good resulting from same]!!!!!!!!!!

Ken| 3.29.12 @ 6:36PM

Interesting that also today in The American Spectator William Tucker writes on the same subject matter from a disappointingly liberal aspect, utterly wasting my time. Fortunately I can always count on Jeffrey Lord to keep up the good name of The American Spectator with sound reasoning and complete thoroughness.
The fact that the resident liberal troll here, Jack in Wi, loved the Tucker article and hated Lord's is yet another vote in your favor, Mr. Lord!

Rick_in_VA| 3.29.12 @ 7:08PM

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson proved a long time ago that they are nothing but race pimps.

Stan REdmond| 3.30.12 @ 12:08AM

Sharpton is perfect as MSNBC's lynch mob leader. He alone led a lynch mob that killed 8 people in Freddy's Fashion Mart. If you want a professional you go to REAL professional. ESPECIALLY professionals, like Sharpton, who get away with it.

Stan REdmond| 3.30.12 @ 12:10AM

AND, when you want a professional lynch mob leader, Sharpton ain't no "Punk Faggot."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IdddtgP2o

Resist We Much! | 3.30.12 @ 3:45PM

Sharpton just wants another Jewish scalp to hang next to that of Yankel Rosenbaum.

Zimmerman's father is Jewish.

LIBERALPARASITES| 3.31.12 @ 10:47PM

When we gave women the right to vote that was the beginning of the end of western civilization and real Christianity...

danshanteal| 4.1.12 @ 3:20PM

Amazing Grace. The truth unfolds.

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