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‘The Dozen Most Overrated Black People’
Racism pays at Columbia University and the Huffington Post.
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Hill’s list is the sort of worthless tripe we’ve all come to expect from Columbia University professors (which is why I donate no money to my alma mater.) Nevertheless, it’s a sad reminder that race relations in this country are kept strained far more by “respectable” blacks than by any mainstream whites. A white person who wrote a color-reversed analogue to Hill’s article would instantly, and deservedly, lose respectability. Yet Hill doesn’t just get away with this damaging garbage; he is fêted for it, with Ebony magazine calling him “Bold and Beautiful.”
Indeed, how could a “hip-hop intellectual” not be oh-so-respected by all of us? Must not the author of “Schooling Hip-Hop: New Directions in Hip-Hop Based Education” be revered as an expert on race, a fount of wisdom about conservative white people, and eagerly sought out by media and academia alike to pontificate on items completely outside of his tremendously valuable expertise in the “anthropology of education”?
Perhaps his past lecture on “The Importance of the Nation of Islam to Hip-Hop Culture” (again, I kid you not) made Bill O’Reilly think that he should discuss Iran with Dr. Hill. I hear rapper Jay-Z (whom Hill calls a “public intellectual”) is big in Tehran’s famously raucous nightclubs.
When I make any comment about race on the radio, such as about how the welfare state tends to keep black people poor or how the war on drugs is a racist policy, I always get at least one call excoriating me for daring to put myself in a black man’s shoes (even though that isn’t what I am doing and even though I am arguing that certain government policies are harming blacks disproportionately). Yet Hill is somehow Carnac the Magnificent when it comes to telling the world what white people think — and that they think it because they are white.
This cannot remain acceptable in America — by which I do not mean that Hill should not be heard, but rather than he should not be heard without the challenges he so richly deserves.
The media and Columbia University do the nation a disservice by giving this transparently racist pseudo-intellectual an uncontested platform from which to further divide the nation and harm American education at all levels. While one would hope that our fellow citizens are smart enough to see through Mr. Hill, to see how his words rip off our nation’s slowly healing race scabs, I am skeptical, particularly with the general lack of skeptical voices questioning Hill’s rhetoric, motivation, and destructive impact.
Other than asking Hill about Iran, Bill O’Reilly is better than his usual populist self when it comes to his occasional debates with Hill, standing up against the race-hustler’s baseless charges of congenital racism among non-liberal whites. Even after Fox News “fired” Hill in 2009 for his support of two convicted cop-killers, O’Reilly had him back on the air, including again this year.
Yet the fact that so-called “conservative” O’Reilly has given so much airtime to the race-conspiracy-minded Hill was lost on equally race-minded Ebony magazine interviewer dream hampton (lack of capitalization being how she spells her own name) who, in her January 2012 interview with Hill, framed a question, without a trace of irony, thus: “Your TV career began and flourished at Fox, who are notorious for their bias.”
If Mark Lamont Hill thinks writing about “overrated white people” is funny, that says a lot about the man. If he was serious, it says even more.
To Dr. Hill I say: Racist, heal thyself.
About the Author
Ross Kaminsky is a self-employed trader and investor and is a senior fellow of the Heartland Institute. He is the host of The Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver’s NewsRadio 850 KOA at 11 AM on most Sundays. You can reach Ross by e-mail at rossputin(at)rossputin(dot)com.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 10.10.12 @ 6:33AM
The comments are nothing more than an off shoot of Jeremiah Wright's "all white people are evil" sentiments. Barack Obama listened to that crud for 20 years.
That leads to the next thought. Over rated black men. Number 1. Barack Obama.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 8:14AM
Once again, the N*gro gets a pass.
"I think he's equally Misguided".
He's ANOTHER White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating/Black Muslim Loving radical PIECE OF S**T. Just like his Homeboy - that Homo in the White House.
This "Professor" LOVES Jeremiah Wright. He LOVES Louis Farrakhan. He LOVES Van Jones, Al Sharpton, The Black Panthers, The Nation of Islam, The Muslim Brotherhood, Chavez, Castro, and I'mahandajob in Iran.
What he doesn't like is WHITEY and JEWBOY.
Guys like Ross, still wanna Play the Game with one hand tied behind their backs. Bulls**t.
Go to Drudge. Watch the Video of these Black Sc*mbags, as they go on the Rampage, in Virginia, ripping down people's Romney Signs from Private Property. Look at the Video of the White Schoolteacher being Knocked Out by one of these Cckcsckrs, with a Sucker Punch, and then Laugh all the way to their Next Crime.
Detroit has OFFICIALLY become a No Go Zone.
Don't believe me. Ask Detroit's Police Chief.
Cleveland and Oakland look like Post Apocalyptic Hellholes, crawling with Mutants.
OBAMAPHONE! ROMNEY SUCKS!
Poor Dear. She sounds so misguided.
Hill is a Piece of Garbage.
Period.
And, people like Ross, will GET IT, when these ANIMALS attack Him and His.
When they Steal His Stuff, and Kill His Loved Ones.
Until then?
I'm the bad guy. But, I'm not Misguided.
I'm a No Good Racist, who needs to be CENSORED!
Just you wait.
Joellen| 10.10.12 @ 8:45AM
If any of you remember Alan Keyes or Rev Peterson, they had these race baiters pegged from day one. Have you noticed they never get air time because they have been deemed "too extreme" but yet Sharpton has his own show, Jackson is still called a Reverend, and this guy gets read and commented on. He like Noonan I skip over where-ever their articles appear.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 8:56AM
Is "REVEREND" Jackson still having his GAY Manservant fetch his Whore - Tamara Holder - up to his Hotel Room, when he's in Town?
And why, pray tell, is this Whore still a guest on Fox?
And why, pray tell, does Hannity still have this Whore on his Radio Show?
One more reason not to watch.
And one of the reasons that Hannity's Show is the one I listen to the Least.
scotchieguy| 10.10.12 @ 12:22PM
Talk about overrated. Hannity is the most overrated talk show host in the country. He hasn't an original thought in his mind, just another Rush wannabe. The thing that puzzles me is how Levin can have such high praise for the guy. Levin is brilliant, Hannity is a fraud, and he proves it every time he has "The Architect" (roll my eyes) on his overrated show. Plus, he throws that stupid football like a girl, and who is "Sweet Baby James?" Another original, what else is new?
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 12:46PM
Wow, Scotchieguy - I could not possibly agree more. I've had these very same thoughts.
Hannity is a preening poseur; the only reason he's a conservative is because he's trying to live up to his father's expectations of what being a "man" is. There is not one thought in Hannity's head that got there honestly or of its own volition. He's jaw-droppingly vain and self-impressed, and I haven't been able to bear his double-digit IQ for the last four years. Just can't abide blinkered, pedantic dogmatism regardless of which side of the aisle it comes from.
I will say that, as long as the execrable, moronic, pandering, idiotic, bloviating, narcissistic, ignorant, loud, lying O'Reilly is on Fox News's prime time, Hannity will never be the worst nighttime personality.
Although an appearance on O'Reilly must be very attractive to prospective guests: The only prep you have to do is to practice saying, "Well, Bill . . . "
You'll never get another word out.
KennesawJack| 10.10.12 @ 1:37PM
Gryz, true for both of them. O'Reilly had Brit Hume on the other night and he continually interrupted Hume. On his best day, O'Reilly is NO Brit Hume. I stopped watching Hannity long ago, primarily because of his inability to allow a guest to finish a sentence and I watch O'Reilly infrequently. Cavuto over on Fox Business is a much better program.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 1:55PM
Yeah, I had Hannity on last night (a very unusual occurrence anymore) and he was doing a split screen with David Limbaugh and Juan Williams - as usual, Hannity got into it with Williams; Limbaugh might as well have not been there.
And David Limbaugh is to Sean Hannity what Albert Einstein is to Eva Longoria. But Hannity couldn't let go of his ego and let the smarter guy talk - he actually seems to believe he's a Real Big Thinker, which he most definitely is not. He is absolutely insufferable.
Sometimes Hume disappoints me because he pulls his punches, but the guy has more knowledge and bona fide credentials in his little finger than Hannity does in his entire ego-bloated body.
Anthony| 10.10.12 @ 1:42PM
I have stated such in the past about Hannity and even how Rush has lost much of his previous mojo, compared to Levin.
I wonder how Levin REALLY feels about playing 2nd fiddle to Rush when clearly he is smarter, better educated, more well read, and better prepared than Rush.
Rush in his glory days was top notch, it's been years since we've seen that Rush.
Sadly, as his show has deteriorated, his ego has grown out of control. His show prep consists of waltzing in 15 mins before the show and asking his staff what sound bites they put together.
When not watching FOX or the Golf Channel on tv while doing his show, Rush manages to make some good points, but not like the old days.
Levin will make a great successor to Rush at the noon time hour.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 2:07PM
Agreed, Anthony.
I have finally quit listening to Rush Limbaugh - or I should say I'm in the final stages of quitting him; I wind up turning him off anymore a few minutes into his latest rant, as I did today. He's always been over-the-top obnoxious, but he used to have something to say.
No more. He can peddle his gargantuan ego and his thousands of annoying tics and self-aggrandizing bromides ("DON'T DOUBT ME!"), along with his stupid tea, and his attempt to graft coolness onto himself by being an Apple fanboy (and he knows far, far less about technology than he pretends) to someone else.
Levin is indeed a real thinker, and he's always got great insights; I never fail to learn something when I listen to Levin (by contrast, these days Rush makes one point and then spends an hour or so running it into the ground until you can't take it anymore, or else he robotically repeats his "greatest hits" rants as in, "we want everybody to succeed," and "they can't win in the arena of ideas" and "liberals are showing us who they are" - yada yada yada).
My personal favorite is Mark Steyn. When he subs for Rush, it makes my day.
BTW, from the very few snippets of the O'Reilly/Stuart debate I heard, I'd say the intellectually unimpressive Stuart mopped the floor with the big moron.
CrackerHound| 10.10.12 @ 2:16PM
Don't underestimate the art of showmanship and captivating an audience. Levin is great, but he could never pull in the numbers Rush can.
I appreciate the anti-Limbaugh opinions here but I think they are flat out wrong. Rush is brilliant. He doesn't REALLY have an over inflated ego. It's part of the cigar smoking, rich bragging, self promotion that puts the libs in a serious rage and is why he does it. He PLAYS the sterotypical conservative up to a tee. There is no one who can present the high level of opinions and facts while being entertaining and humorous at the same time like Limbaugh.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 3:30PM
I don't like his brand of showmanship. I find it, and him, tiresome in the extreme. Besides, 90% of his audience is conservatives, so he's playing all of that shtick to annoy the other 10%? That's not good business. The truth is, for some reason that's inexplicable to me, many conservatives love that showboating.
I think his shtick is a persona, yes, but one that is based in his childhood. I think he was the weird kid who took delight in practical jokes, indulging in arcane lingo, developing a self-aggrandizing personality in order to pre-empt those who might talk him down.
And his sense of humor is incredibly puerile. I mean, "sexretary?" really? I could go on and on about how juvenile his sense of humor is. These things, combined with his repeated use of phrases like "big whup," a saying that children used in the 60s, show me that this persona is probably very much the real Rush Limbaugh - when he was 15 years old.
Everybody is entitled to his or her opinion, and I’m glad he’s out there evangelizing - seriously. But I don't think he's funny or witty in the least, and I would agree that the sharpness of his commentary has slipped.
Also, if someone acts like a jerk every time I'm around him, and other people tell me he's really a very nice person, it doesn't really matter what he's "really" like.
I still think he's a great influence - I just can't stand him anymore.
Anthony| 10.10.12 @ 4:22PM
We owe a lot to Rush, and I will always commend him for coming upon the scene and shaking the entire MSM on their heads. Without Rush conservatism would not have advanced as far as it has. He created a format for talk radio that was unheard of, and is still the model to follow. I will and do still listen to him, but I sense not for long.
Unfortunately, Rush shares many traits and charateristics that the elites he criticizes on the left do. He is smug, he has become lazy and he refuses to listen to constructive criticism, using the canard that if he listened to all his critics, he'd never be able to do his show. That is the thinkng of a supreme narcisist, like Obozo himself, who can never believe anybody has something constructive to offer.
He tends to believe that some of his "insights"are uniquely his, yet I've noticed that many a comment posted at TAS seem to find their way to his mouth.
He, like A-Rod, used to knock fastballs out of the park regularly, but more often than not, he leaves juicy hangers barely hit upon or missed entirely, as he scampers off to the next topic. The amount of good material he leaves untouched is a shame!! .
His hearing loss has disrupted the flow of the show, and it really annoys me that he thinks he can watch T.V. and do his show at the same time, instead of concentrating. I find this to be really rude to us, his listeners.
I guess after 24+ years, it gets old, but now is the time we need him the most, and at his very best.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 5:08PM
That's two comments I've seen that he watches TV during his show - I'm not a Rush subscriber (I was at one time); I'm guessing you can see this on the "ditto cam." I also get annoyed with his endless one-sided (to us) conversations with "Snerdley."
I don't think Rush is original in terms of most of his insights. Occasionally, yes, but I agree - he gets a lot of that stuff from sources you and I can access. It wasn't that way before the Internet; his "stack of stuff" was a well-filtered compendium of important items; now we can all easily create our own stacks of stuff.
Anyway, if it is true that he watches TV during his show, that's pretty shameful.
And his endless hawking of his tea annoys me, too - as well as his genuflecting before Apple. Whenever Rush talks about technology - or football - I turn the channel (well, I don't even listen much at all anymore). If I want to know about technology or football, I'll listen to someone who isn't talking out his ass.
He always gets onto new bits of shtick - right now it's that incessant cartoonish sniffing he engages in - that are real turn-offs. Making sure his listeners hear that he's got a cigar in his mouth is another eye-roller.
I really like his brother - no affectation whatsoever. But Rush is just a big, fat ball of self-aggrandizement with SOME value to add still. But, again, as far as I'm concerned, you can stick a fork in him - he's DONE.
Ghost of Cicero (NB) | 10.12.12 @ 12:14AM
My only quibble with your post is almost insignificant, but you've always known me to be a "foodie." That man's iced tea is some GOOD STUFF. I've only ever bought one case, & wish to hell they had it in more stores, because its GOOD. Hell, if ole Arnie Palmer can sell HIS stuff in every mini-mart from NYC to Adak, AK (and his tea's REALLY good, too), then so can Rush.
Other than that, I agree completely with you!
CrackerHound| 10.10.12 @ 2:07PM
I must agree to the Hannity sentiments. It's kind of embarrasing having him represent conservatives. He doesn't seem very bright..and notice how many times he says "in other words"...very, very irritating. And the vain way he talks about himself constantly in his aww shucks manner and how he worked his way to the top from a waiter and construction worker.
I do have a disagreement with you Anthony. I still think Rush is great. the most important conservative around and he's still very sharp. I do like Levin though and I know he feels the same way I do about Rush.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 3:36PM
Also, if you played a drinking game during Hannity's radio show in which you took a shot every time he misused the word "literally," you'd be dead drunk five minutes into the show.
Yup, I agree about his talking about himself and that "aw shucks" crap. When he starts talking about his cars, and, as you say, how he came up from nothing - well, there's a reason I never watch or listen to him anymore (last night was an anomaly).
To each his own about Rush. I'm one of those people who prefers my commentary to be delivered with straight talk stripped of the egotistical packaging. But, as I say, many conservatives love that about Rush.
Jade12| 10.10.12 @ 3:08PM
Plus he has those annoying libs like Bob Beckel on? Why? If I want to hear a lying liberal I will turn on CNN, MSNBC, ABC,CBS, NBC etc.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 3:37PM
Bob Beckel really should be a doorstop. That's what he's suited for.
Talk about lucky - this brain-dead liberal tape recorder and party hack makes a good living. Why Fox likes him is beyond me.
CJW| 10.10.12 @ 4:12PM
Beckel ran the Mondale campaign in 1984, where RR won 49 states and Mondale one. Of course this was before we had 57 states, so maybe we should give Mondale those 7 new states discovered by Obama and Biden.
Winning that one state qualifies Beckel as a deep, thoughtful Dem strategist, and to give advice to everybody.
Seek| 10.10.12 @ 4:08PM
Levin is brilliant? I wouldn't say as much. He's pretty good once in a while, but as a radio host he's over his head. He's dogmatic as hell, interrupts guests who have a differing opinion, and consistently injects "pregnant pauses" into his delivery. I don't think I've heard more dead air on any other radio talk show, save for maybe the horrible Jeffrey Kuhner.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 4:24PM
Only a guy that's In Over His Head, as a Commentor, would suggest that Mark Levin is in Over His Head as a Radio Host.
JmsA| 10.10.12 @ 5:11PM
Seek: 69%
Oldefarte| 10.10.12 @ 3:17PM
Wow shazam, I did not know this. I just learned something new. Talk about the [political] National Inquirer or People. Good stuff!!!!
Oldefarte| 10.10.12 @ 3:22PM
PS: Wait, clue me in. I seem to recall reading something to the effect that this woman and Lawrence O. of MSNBC had a relationship??????
Cobalt| 10.10.12 @ 9:15AM
"Black Mob Violence And The Media Silence"
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/bla.....a-silence/
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 12:34PM
Just yesterday Drudge had a video of a white teacher walking past a bunch of black teenagers; one of them sucker-punches the teacher out of the blue; the teacher goes down like a ton of bricks, hitting his head on the curb.
This is America today. We aren't moving toward Martin Luther King's vision of judging people based on the content of their character; we are moving toward an all-out race war.
And that's just peachy keen with both black "activists" and white liberals. Of course the blacks are merely wreaking vengeance on us whites; the white liberals believe we deserve this comeuppance (well, not them personally, but the abstract, random white person they don't know is a small price to pay).
More to the point, they will say nothing about this alarming increase in black-on-white mob violence (not just gang violence, but everyday groups of black males and females spontaneously harming whites). Why? They would rather live in this roiling, ugly, seething world because the policies that brought it about stroke their egos, and their egos are more important to them than the abject, real-world tribal violence into which America is descending.
As for Hill, he is a pseudo-intellectual, a product of doctrinaire victimology and a race hustler himself, an angry street thug dressed up in a professor's robe. Sad.
We should all take Purp's advice: Simply institute white slavery in America for 300 years or so to even things out.
After the race war thins the herd, that is.
CJW| 10.10.12 @ 1:15PM
The incident you described occurred in downtown Pittsburgh, America's most livable city. A 15 year old black male was arrested yesterday, and charged with simple assault, a midemeanor, and will be tried as a juvenile. He should be charged with a hate crime as an adult.
This type of attack, called a "knockout," is the first in our city,but has occurred in Philly, St Louis and others. The object is to punch a white person to knock him out. Sort of like when the criminal Oakland Raiders defensive backs would knock out a receiver.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 1:48PM
Thanks for the clarification, CJW.
Actually, I disagree with the whole ludicrous concept of hate crimes - an assault is an assault, a murder is a murder, etc.
But I'm sure you are merely turning liberals' policies back on them, in effect saying, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander," with which I agree.
But we both know that only white people commit hate crimes - which is why George Zimmerman was shoehorned into a brand-new - and laughable - racial category: "White Hispanic."
I'm sure that this particular case, like so many others, will remain underreported by the craven, self-flattering, hypocritical press. And the liberal culture will determine that the 15 year-old is actually a victim of white policies and attitudes over the last 1,500 years; really, how could he have acted any differently, since George Bush was president and Dick Cheney was vice president? We should give this kid a medal for his show of restraint - borrowing Obama's logic vis a vis the economy, that kid COULD have done so much worse - knifed the guy, shot the guy, crushed his skull. All he did was punch him.
So, really, isn't that kid a hero, and shouldn't he be up for a Nobel prize, or something?
Jes' sayin', y'all.
KennesawJack| 10.10.12 @ 7:49PM
Holder declared open season on white folks when he let the Black Panther piss ants off the hook.
Jade12| 10.10.12 @ 3:10PM
Minorities are RARELY charged with hate crimes while whites are almost ALWAYS charged with them.
Oldefarte| 10.10.12 @ 10:57AM
Amen to that [all EXCEPT about Ross, who has the b**ls to write/comment about this issue while others]! You just extended Ross' argument in non-PC BLUNT TRUTHFULNESS. Thank you!!!!!
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 11:42AM
TLP,
I was going to note, but Olde did it for me, that it doesn't seem quite fair to criticize me for "playing the game" when I wrote an article in a way that I think few people would.
Maybe not as aggressive as you would like, but I also think that your level of aggressiveness on this topic would make the piece less effective among any "moderates" or unaffiliated types who might read it.
Furthermore, my intent is to come across with less anger and more rationality.
It is not that I disagree with most of your views on this, but I am not just writing for those who feel as strongly as you have or have thought about the issues as much as you have.
William L. Gensert| 10.10.12 @ 12:29PM
I agree, Mr. Kaminsky, I think your article has the perfect pitch. Bitterness and anger loses the audience. For instance, I stopped reading the TLP post, because I didn't like the way he framed his argument, only going back to finish it after reading your response.
From my article Friday in AT:
I had my first article published in American Thinker in June of 2011. The article cost me a friend of 37 years, a woman I had been introducing to people as my sister for decades. She called me a racist for saying Obama was America's worst president. As an African-American, she felt it was her right to judge me by the color of my skin and not the content of my character.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 2:48PM
You're exactly who I'm talking about.
Tim is Mean.
He uses Bad Words.
He's turning off the Moderates.
If you wanna Defeat Your Enemy?
You must BECOME your Enemy.
I call'em like see'em.
If that's too much REALITY for you?
Too bad.
Who the Fck are you, anyway?
And, why should I care?
Now, go sit on the toilet, and pee.
Idiot.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 3:08PM
You are a very strange guy, Tim.
I never told you that you need to care about my writing.
Please feel free not to read it. Nobody's forcing you.
In the meantime, you keep coming back perhaps because you amuse yourself with petty insults.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:15PM
In my own Defence - That was meant for your new best friend - That idiot - Gensert.
Not you.
I actually like you.
And, like any Friend would do - I'm trying to push you Out Of Your Shell, so you can be the Best You Can Be.
Like I am.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:17PM
Everything isn't always about You, ya know.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 3:11PM
Great piece, Mr. Gensert...
It is indeed time to fight. Glad to be fighting alongside you (despite TLP's odd criticisms of me here.)
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:23PM
Yeah. Go and fight alongside Mr. Insert, or whoever the Hell he is.
Mr. Blog that NOBODY goes to.
You should be fighting with Me.
Mr. Congeniality.
Join me.
You can be Robin.
Think about it.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 4:45PM
I am fighting with (alongside, not against) you, TLP, and glad to be doing so!
Perhaps my writing in a way that is less aggressive than you like on an occasional issue is actually a good opening for you...though I think my articles are mostly at the right tone if my goal is try to try to influence those who might have their minds changed by logic and evidence.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:27PM
Point taken.
Now, when are you going to come to MY CONTEST?
Go to last Friday's "Stay on the Bus" story, and check it out.
If you're one of us?
You'll check it out.
It's HILARIOUS.
Join Us this Friday.
Your Friend: Batman.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:27PM
Point taken.
Now, when are you going to come to MY CONTEST?
Go to last Friday's "Stay on the Bus" story, and check it out.
If you're one of us?
You'll check it out.
It's HILARIOUS.
Join Us this Friday.
Your Friend: Batman.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:27PM
Point taken.
Now, when are you going to come to MY CONTEST?
Go to last Friday's "Stay on the Bus" story, and check it out.
If you're one of us?
You'll check it out.
It's HILARIOUS.
Join Us this Friday.
Your Friend: Batman.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:28PM
Stupid Router.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:29PM
Stupid Router.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:30PM
DAMN IT!
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:30PM
DAMN IT!
Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:40PM
William:
I must disagree with you, slightly. Buchanan was America's worst President. Obama is merely the worst since the Civil War. (He would probably fit in as number 3 worst, since it is hard to top the incompetence of Buchanan, and John Tyler was a traitor.)
Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:42PM
Mr. Gensert: do try going to a pain clinic if you have not already done so. Marvelous work can be done with chronic pain these days using non-opioids.
Your pain, I care about, and I wish to see improved.
KennesawJack| 10.10.12 @ 1:39PM
Ross, at the end of the day, Tim may very well be the MOST rational person on this site. BTW, I thought your article was excellent.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 2:58PM
"BYW, I thought your article was excellent."
You are SO SCREWED on Friday.
(Just kidding)
Stkman| 10.10.12 @ 4:19PM
Ross,
The point Tim is trying to make, in my opinion, is that we must satnd up to this now and call a spade a spade. We've tried to be nice and patient and it has been to the detriment of not only the country, but our society as a whole.
If blacks can't tell their kids to stay in school, then we will. If blacks can't make their boys wear a belt, then we will, so on and so on.
In other words, if black don't want whitey telling them what to do and how to behave then they'd better figure out real quick they lose when they gat the race war they so desparately want.
I don't want a race war, none of us do, but if thats what it takes to save our civilization, then lets get it on now!
I hope I interpreted you correctly Tim.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 4:30PM
Sort of.
I'm not saying anything about a Race War.
I'm just Sick og The Double Standard accorded to Black Scumbags like Sharpton, Hill, and The White Hating/Jew Hating/America Hating Homo Muslim in the White House. But, thanks anyway,
See you on Friday?
Stkman| 10.10.12 @ 4:51PM
Count on it.
SUBVET| 10.10.12 @ 8:30PM
Rush refered to HIM as a "teachers lounge lizzard"........also heard the word jig-a-boo.
Cobalt| 10.10.12 @ 12:18PM
OBAMA' S RING: 'THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH'
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/oba.....but-allah/
Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:33PM
Barack Obama
Jeremiah Wright
Hell, pick any head of the Black Studies Department at a Major University to round out the 10.
Underrated Black men:
Start with Ben Carson, MD and Charles Drew MD and go from there. I bet almost no one posting at the Huffington Post Blog would recognize either of those names.
loulou| 10.11.12 @ 12:33AM
neurosurgeon and blood typing. Don't forget Geo Washington Carver.
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.10.12 @ 9:09AM
"Although history proves that Christopher Columbus was an immoral treasure hunter who merely stumbled upon a region that had already been "discovered" by indigenous non-whites, we continue to praise the vicious conquistador as a hero."
Hill shows here that he is an intellectual posseur. What is sad about it is that many, if not most, of his professorial colleagues agree with him about Columbus, and teach it to their students.
There are some real white racists out there -- who hawk their books on Amazon.com -- and it's hard enough defending the color-blind society without blacks like Hill giving the racists one more reason to say, "see I told you."
Anthony| 10.10.12 @ 10:49AM
Yes, bashing Columbus came into vogue in the early '90s when leftists began judging this 15th Century man by 21st Century mores.
Of course, this application of political correctness and moral relevancy is never applied to leftists.
Columbus sailed under Queen Isabella of Spain, hence, Professor Hill and his collegues are indicting Hispanics around the world as racists.
Ah, if only America remained the virginal paradise of the indigenous non -white tribes, but then again, Elizabeth (pale-face) Warren would be president, not Obozo.
Be careful what you wish for professor Hill, and are you now Obozo's Columbia successor to the Chomm Gang, and do you all meet weekly and smoke intercepted blunts?
Stkman| 10.10.12 @ 4:44PM
No Columbus would mean that those natives would still be without the wheel. They'd still be using flint to start a fire and they'd still be getting massacred by other Indians. The same plagues that ravaged Europe also ravaged North America, and no, the white man did not bring the plague to North America. North America had its own version of plague.
So basically what we hare hearing from natives is that they would prefer to be ignorant and blame the success of Anglo Europeans rather than their own ignorance for their failures.
One day someone will come conquer us as well. But we won't blame them for it, we will blame our own leaders.
Jack London| 10.10.12 @ 6:38AM
"Some, like me, wonder if the article was supposed to be funny."
Yes Ross, indeed it was. You didn't have to waste an article on this. Stop reading stuff that just confuses you and makes both your knees jerk at once.
Darin| 10.10.12 @ 7:03AM
I'm curious as to how you know the intent of the author to know the artical was supposed to be funny. Is the author known for writing satire? Do you know him personally? Or are you just projecting what you want the answer to be?
Isn't it interesting that liberals always get such a pass (they were joking) while conservatives are thrown to the wolves (they must have been serious and thus must be executed).
drudge ette obama| 10.10.12 @ 7:15AM
Excellent point, Darin. I have never found this man to base his comments on humor - he is deadly serious.
Bob Grant| 10.10.12 @ 9:50AM
Darin,
Show me a liberal intellectual - black or white - who doesn't claim to possess mind reading abilities.
Aristocat| 10.10.12 @ 7:47AM
1) Barack Hussein Obama
2) Michelle Obama
3) Al Sharpton
4) Jesse Jackson
5) Lamar Kardashian
6) Kobe Bryant
7) OJ Simpson
8) Harry Belafonte
9) Eric Holder
10) Valerie Jarrett
Aristocat| 10.10.12 @ 7:49AM
11) Jeremiah Wright
12) Mark LaMont Hill
benny havens| 10.10.12 @ 8:09AM
11) William Jefferson Clinton
Maxwell| 10.10.12 @ 8:33AM
Everyone forgot Charles 'The round Mound of Rebound' Barkley who said, I hate all white people.
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.10.12 @ 8:55AM
Maxwell, did Barkley really say that in all seriousness? I'm curious how he could believe that since he is married to a white woman.
Maxwell| 10.10.12 @ 10:06AM
Yes, he sure did. I'll never forget it either.
Frank Drackman| 10.10.12 @ 8:57AM
I think it's Charles "Turribul" Barkley...
Bishop TuTu ,Nelson Mandela, Jamarcus Russell(what a backfield!)...
Jeez, "Kid" from "Kid n Play" has more
Gravitas...
Frank
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.10.12 @ 1:21PM
Did Barkley say he hated all white people or "That's why I hate white people" in response to a question or some other stimulus?
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.10.12 @ 8:54AM
Good one benny....
KennesawJack| 10.10.12 @ 9:07AM
13) Cornell West
14) Al Sharpton (whoops! somebody already said him)
15) Tavis Smiley
16) Snoop Dogshit
17) Tupak Shakur (well, used to be)
18) Danny Glover
19) Al Sharpton (whoops! again)
20) Whoopi Goldberg
21) Louis Farrakhan
22) Mike Tyson
23) Al Sharpton (sorry, can't help myself)
John Navratil| 10.10.12 @ 9:51AM
24) Morgan Freeman
25) Quanell X (you have to be from Houston)
John Navratil| 10.10.12 @ 9:53AM
26) Sheila Jackson-Lee
27) Maxine Waters
28) Cynthia McKinney
Stkman| 10.10.12 @ 4:46PM
29) Samuel L Jackson
30) every black wannabe in Hollywood and New York City
scotchieguy| 10.10.12 @ 12:31PM
Donovan McNabb
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 1:18PM
I will NEVER forget the Rush Limbaugh flap over McNab when Limbaugh foolishly joined - what was it, the ESPN commentariat?
That blew my mind, and brought into sharp relief the way liberals think: Limbaugh spoke the truth - that McNabb was overrated (was he ever!!!) and that the media were squishy on him because he was black.
He lost his job over speaking the truth.
As far as liberals are concerned, sic semper veritas.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 1:18PM
I will NEVER forget the Rush Limbaugh flap over McNab when Limbaugh foolishly joined - what was it, the ESPN commentariat?
That blew my mind, and brought into sharp relief the way liberals think: Limbaugh spoke the truth - that McNabb was overrated (was he ever!!!) and that the media were squishy on him because he was black.
He lost his job over speaking the truth.
As far as liberals are concerned, sic semper veritas.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 1:19PM
Sorry for the double post - having a terrible time with this web site posting comments.
Cobalt| 10.10.12 @ 9:16AM
13) Toure
loulou| 10.10.12 @ 12:36PM
13) Whoopi Goldberg
14) Samuel L. Jackson
15) Spike Lee
16) Vernon Jordan
17) Deval Patrick
The list could go on forever.
Stan Redmond| 10.10.12 @ 9:30AM
Mumiah Abu Jamal, Cop Killer
Huey Newton, Murderer
Eldridge Cleaver, Rapist
That Little Punk Toure, resident racist at MSNBC
Spike Lee
Angela Davis
Winnie "The Necklace" Mendela
KennesawJack| 10.10.12 @ 9:34AM
'Dat list do go on an' on, don't it?
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 1:36PM
It's racist of you, Kennesaw Jack, to judge the people listed above as terrible people just because they're, uh, terrible people.
They're black, and, as Barack Obama's sycomphants have taught us, any word spoken against any black person - unless he or she is a conservative - is clearly racism.
Black liberals can do no wrong! They're all good, super-intelligent, morally superior, wonderful paragons of humanity! In fact, black people are superior to white people. After all, that makes the NPR crowd feel mighty good about themselves, and, really now, isn't that all that matters?
On the other hand, the pop culture lynching party is standing room only when it comes to blacks who wander off the reservation and espouse conservative principles - the courageous actress Stacey Dash is only the latest example.
Even though I never heard of her before she tweeted support for Romney - defying the white liberal overseers' marching orders - she is now one of my favorite performers.
In the liberal mind, Al Sharpton - a charlatan, fraudulent race-baiter - is a hero. And Allen West - courageous American war veteran, principled conservative and decent human being - deserves to be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
That's the liberal mind. And yet they never, ever seem to comprehend that what they really stand for, behind all of their vain, preening, halo-burnishing policies and pronouncements, is amorality, destruction, and nihilism.
KennesawJack| 10.10.12 @ 1:45PM
My bad, Gryz. I was always taught to call a spade a spade.
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 2:37PM
:-)
If you ever expect to be accepted by liberals, you must learn to call a spade whatever the thought police tell you to call it.
While you're at it, you can learn to call the following things by their neologisms:
Liberal greed - compassion
Racism favoring blacks - affirmative action
Oppressing blacks - the war on poverty
Keeping blacks unemployed - minimum wage
Keeping blacks in slums - rent control
Destroying the black family - social justice
Inculcating black gang activity - welfare
Promoting dependency: EBT card
Ginning up racial hatred - celebrating diversity
Crony socialism/tyranny - Democrat Party
Appeasing Al Qaeda - The Obama doctrine
Government theft of private money - fairness
Destroying the U.S. dollar - Quantitative easing
Mob violence - legitimate protests
Black-on-white violence - Nothing - does not exist
Cradle-to-grave government control - Obamacare
Nihilism - progressivism
That's only the tip of the alice-in-wonderland iceberg, sadley.
KennesawJack| 10.10.12 @ 2:52PM
Thanks, Gryz. I'll try to get these all memorized in case their on a quiz for the contest Friday but you forgot one, White guilt - Reparations.
CrackerHound| 10.10.12 @ 3:22PM
LOL..excellent!
apologizing to Muslims and Russians-reset
apologizing to white people-beer summit
Grzmlyk| 10.10.12 @ 3:52PM
This should be a board game!
Hey, Mainstream media, George Orwell called. he wants his "Newspeak" back.
Aristocat| 10.10.12 @ 2:28PM
Well done, sir...beats my list...
Curtis Rasmussen| 10.10.12 @ 11:55AM
Frank Marshall Davis
Mark Lloyd
Ronald Everett
Oldefarte| 10.10.12 @ 10:59AM
The TRUTH is never confusing to non-morons!!!!!
Meadow Lemon| 10.10.12 @ 7:07AM
I haven't read the article, but Hill does appear occasionally on Red Eye with Greg Gutfield, so he does have a sense of humor. Surprisingly, he and Rush Limbaugh agree on the issue of Donovan McNabb being overrated and goes one step further in regards to ALL black QBs.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 8:46AM
Let's remember that olde Song -
Smiiiiiling Faces.
Smiling Faces, sometiiiiimes
don't tell the Truth.
Smiiiiilin Faces.
Smiling Faces, tell Liiiiies.
These Black Revolutionaries have changed their Methodologies.
One need only look to Van Jones, and to what he has said about "The way to go Forward, with Taking Down this Country".
Don't be fooled by his Pretty Face.
He's 100% SCUMBAG, through and through.
Dodd2| 10.10.12 @ 7:12AM
"To Dr. Hill I say: Racist, heal thyself."
Exactly.
Hill himself is another example of the damage of affirmative action (i.,e., racial quotas) has done.
drudge ette obama| 10.10.12 @ 7:12AM
Along with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, this is one guest commentator that I routinely switch channels on Fox when he arrives. I can't stand his machine gun voice and can't understand why anyone would take a course, paying good money for it, that is taught by him.
He is begging for attention with this stupid article about the underrated white people...it's more racist fuel and has no real purpose other than to put this tiny man into the spotlight so he can continue to get tv gigs. Turn him off, like a blog troll.
Taxguy| 10.10.12 @ 7:26AM
You are spot on. I can't stand either of these blabbermouths. A real teacher's college would not allow anyone to teach teachers who hasn't been a teacher.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 8:49AM
Then, don't watch it.
I don't.
Glenn/Rush/Sean/Levin, and even Savage.
That's all I need.
I go to Drudge.
I go to CNSNEWS.
And, look how Awesome I am.
Oldefarte| 10.10.12 @ 11:01AM
Additionally, you tell the TRUTH!!!!
Jade12| 10.10.12 @ 3:18PM
Yes he does and he does it in a way that some people don't get.
If you have EVER been on the receiving end of black hatred towards whites time and time again you will understand exactly where he is coming from. BEEN THERE EXPERIENCED THAT!
scotchieguy| 10.10.12 @ 12:35PM
Did you listen to Beck today? HE had on Ted Nugent. He begged Nooge to take him hunting. I say invite the prez too. Maybe he will actually will learn something useful for once in his life. Imagine that, Beck, Nooge and the prez on a hunting trip. I suppose Cheney would really round out the foursome.
Go get 'em, Nooge!!
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:01PM
If he's gonna invite The Muslim?
Then he should invite Dick Cheney, as well.
For obvious reasons.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:04PM
I really shoulda finished your post, before I posted.
Sorry.
loulou| 10.10.12 @ 12:38PM
What's wrong with Savage, TLP?
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:03PM
Nothing.
That's why I put him on my list.
(What are you wearing?)
Hat Tip - Don Imus.
Nancy in NC| 10.10.12 @ 7:33AM
The hypocrisy of the left rears its ugly face again. If this was Hill's attempt at humor, it was pathetic.
Just as Ross noted, the door only swings one way with these Marxist morons. No matter how funny an article called "Overrated Black People" was, they would never see the humor and it would be a death knell for the writer.
Von Mises Jr| 10.10.12 @ 8:58AM
Actually, the truth is that the premise of the argument is incorrect.
It is not an issue of race, but one of ideology. Ninety-percent-plus of the black population vote for the Democrats that champion socialism. So it is not that they are black that causes them to be wrong, but that the majority of blacks are Democrats and therefore their ideologies cause them to be overrated. Socialism is a lie, and all liberals are overrated.
You cannot get stellar reviews for your positions when your arguments are specious. The problem is that many blacks are not as diverse as the white, Asian and many Hispanic that many have a different worldview.
Doctor Right| 10.10.12 @ 7:43AM
"Hill's list of the 15 most overrated white people includes 16 entries"
LOL!
Affirmative Action strikes again at our nation's "elite" (sarcasm intended) universities.
Doctor Right| 10.10.12 @ 7:53AM
I'm going to write a book called "The Most Over-Rated Black Liberals in America."
I'm not going to insert a pre-determined number of subjects into the title because, frankly, the list is so damn big that it may require several volumes. Make no mistake - it's an exhaustive undertaking!
But I'll start with the man at the top, who coincidentally will also be headlining the companion series entitled "The Most Over-Rated White Liberals in America." Ironic, huh?
After Obama, we'll do a chapter on Bill Clinton, our real first black President. Then we'll dig into Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farakhan, Will Smith, Snoop Dawg, etc, etc, all the way down to that annoying woman who appears on Hannity with that everpresent, excrement-eating grin on her face.
I may have to quit my job, but this is a book that needs to be written.
Houdini| 10.10.12 @ 2:03PM
It would be easier to write "Most Under-rated White Liberals". Think of the time and trees saved.
CJW| 10.10.12 @ 8:05AM
Most overrated white people:
1. Barry Hussein and Bubba. A tie.
2. Hillary Clinton
3. Joey Biden
4. Nancy Pelosi
5. Harry Reid
6. Bill O'Reilly
7.Chuck Schumer
8. John Stewart
9. anyone who takes Lamont Hill seriously. Hill is an idiot.
Joellen| 10.10.12 @ 8:51AM
10) Katie Curic and all of the elite media
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 8:58AM
Albert Constantine Jr.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 9:24AM
Sorry.
11) Albert Constantine Jr.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.10.12 @ 1:25PM
I didn't know I had a rating, but now I have to write an acceptance speech thanking you for my nomination.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:07PM
You're killing me.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.10.12 @ 3:35PM
I would like to thank Mr. Pennell for the nomination as Number 11 on the list of most over-rated white people. While I am uncertain if I can increase my rating to the Top Ten , I look forward to an opportunity to either increase my overratedness, or, if I use the Obama method, pull down those above me to a point where we can all share the number one spot. Failing that, perhaps I can use Obama Plan B, and eliminate all of those on the list above me, so that I can occupy the spot alone.
CJW| 10.10.12 @ 4:03PM
Albert
Bubba and O count as one half, so number 10 is open on my list, if you want it.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 10.10.12 @ 4:16PM
I appreciate the offer, CJW, but, as John Houseman might say, I want to get there the old-fashioned way, and EEEAAARRRNNN it (or I get get there the new way, and steal it).
squalis| 10.10.12 @ 9:25AM
Bill Maher
scotchieguy| 10.10.12 @ 12:38PM
Algore
Cobalt| 10.10.12 @ 10:56AM
Paula Krugman
Chris Matthews
Elizabeth Warren
Bill Maher
Michael Moore
Janeane Garofalo
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
Barbara Streisand
Al Franken
Bill Moyers
Jane Fonda
Susan Sarandon
The Kennedys
Cobalt| 10.10.12 @ 5:10PM
David Letterman
Rob Reiner
Robert Redford
Alan Alda
Andrea Mitchell
Rosanne Barr
Rosie O'Donnell
Steven Spielberg
Keith Olbermann
Ed Asner
Alec Baldwin
Glenn Close
Arianna Huffington
Martin Sheen
Madonna
Oldefarte| 10.10.12 @ 11:03AM
No, no, no! The very top of the list should always be reserved for [1] JFK and all of the Kennedys and [2] Lyndon Baines Johnson!!!!!!!!!!
JmsA| 10.11.12 @ 1:13AM
Oldefarte, time has rewarded you with infinitely incisive wisdom.
Pecos Pete| 10.10.12 @ 1:43PM
Woodrow Wilson!
jaytrain| 10.10.12 @ 8:13AM
Teachers College is a joke . Many years ago , Columbia University had the good sense to have this trade school isolated from the rest of the university as unfit for serious people . And rest assured , none of its graduates will ever dirty their hands with real teaching : TC grads go where the money is , administration and curriculum design . TC is best thought of as the prime example of the truth of the old saw " Those who can do , those who can't, teach . And those who can't teach , teach teachers . Mr Hill must fit right in .
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 8:59AM
"Those who can't do..................
tankrtrash| 10.10.12 @ 8:32AM
Affirmative Action is at the core of Dr. Hill's antagonism. It's the 20 ton chip on his shoulder. Imagine ....you're a professor at an elite university, teaching a curriculum that addresses the importance of "HipHop" in education and "The Nation of Islam" , but deep down inside, you know you're not there because of your superior intellect, but because of the color of your skin..... a determination made by a bunch of liberal white people who wanted to feel good about themselves.
What does that do to your feelings of self-worth?? Is it any wonder Dr. Hill is packing a huge woody for the white race.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 9:12AM
You're absolutely right.
Hip Hop and The Religion of The Mother Wheel.
He should Grow a Pair, and prove to everyone that he Belongs at that School.
Maybe an Ebonics Class? A Class on Wearing One's Hat the wrong way. Or perhaps, a Class on the Fine Art of Keeping One's Pants in the Up Position without a Belt. Getting Jiggy with it, in an Unjiggy World. Keeping the Sheen in your hair from Bursting in to flames when you're lightin that Blunt. Or, a Class in keepin your Hos from finding out bout your B*tches. And, your B*tches from finding out bout your Ho's. It's kinda like Algebra for Life's Perennial Bottom rung of the ladder.
tankrtrash| 10.10.12 @ 9:29AM
Exactly.
In the words of another Icon of black culture...
"Michele got a fat ass"
Jade12| 10.10.12 @ 3:22PM
ROFL!!
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 4:39PM
I don't know what that means, but I will defend to the Death, your right to say it.
Paul McGrath| 10.10.12 @ 8:44PM
IT means "roll on the floor laughing." There are two counterparts: ROFLMAO, and ROFLMFAO. I'm sure you can figure these out.
(This, by the way, is someone who used to think that people were calling me a "little old lady." )
Alej| 10.10.12 @ 9:12AM
Anyone who has seen "Professor" Marc Lamont Hill on television has seen a fast-talking diddybopping charade of an "educator" whose mouth far exceeds his brain capacity... his "professorship" is as much a result of affirmative action as his appearances on a TV screen are.
Bill8472| 10.10.12 @ 9:22AM
Mr. Hill ought to think twice before he begins making lists of overrated white people in America in the present day; he might encounter someone who has the guts to make a list of overrated black people in America in the present day. That list would be pretty long, longer than 15 people. I can name a bunch of overrated contemporary black people right off the top of my head. Let's see:
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
Eric Holder
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Al Sharpton
Louis Gates
Who's that Senator or Representative who asked the admiral about some Pacific island tipping over from all the naval personnel on it? Some Georgia Congressman, Hank something (Johnson?), that's it.
How about the black legislator who hid the patronage money in his refrigerator? Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-Louisiana)
Samuel L. Jackson
Jeremiah Wright
Andrew Young
Whoopi Goldberg
Harry Belafonte
Dick Gregory
Toni Morrison
Kanye West
Cornell West
Oh, I could go on and on...
cuban pete| 10.10.12 @ 10:01AM
Bill:
A good list but you missed Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson. Awhile ago he had a column in the Chicago Sun Times and he shows up on talk shows from time to time.
I don't believe this guy can separate red twine from green. Think of the tuition parents pay to have their kids exposed to this goof. Yikes!!
Bill8472| 10.10.12 @ 11:45AM
Him, and who was that academic who advanced Critical Race Theory? He's overrated too, as is the reporter who tried to put some conservative on the spot with questions about him.
Derrick Bell, that's the guy. Overrated.
Anthony| 10.10.12 @ 11:38AM
Shelia Jackson Lee, Member of the Black Congressional Caucus: "Is that where our astronauts landed?", when commenting on the Martian rover landing and subsequent pictures.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 11:43AM
I would prefer a list of overrated people regardless of color.
Bill8472| 10.10.12 @ 11:46AM
Pick a bunch of people, regardless of race, from the variety of lists that posters here have made.
tankrtrash| 10.10.12 @ 12:22PM
How about 95% of the United States Congress, The Senate, anybody with a Starsbucks franchise, and that slimy little rat-faced f*cker Paul Krugmann
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 12:46PM
Now you're talking, except that at least Starbucks actually does create jobs. Also, Howard Schultz has been slightly better lately:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sta.....s-morning/
Finally, I would say that your description of Paul Krugman is an insult to slimy little rat-faced %e;rs; who truly don't deserve to be grouped in with a form of life as low as Krugman.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 3:09PM
Ross Kaminsky.
(Just kidding)
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 4:47PM
Man, can't even get a break on my birthday, TLP?!?
;-)
CJW| 10.10.12 @ 5:07PM
Happy Birthday, Ross.
Keep writing.
TLP| 10.10.12 @ 7:36PM
Indeed.
Happy Birthday Ross.
If you want a Present?
I suggest you come to The Contest on Friday.
PRIZES!
Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:35PM
Happy B-day, Ross! And 120 more.
Bill8472| 10.10.12 @ 9:28AM
Anyone who continually insists that American is so damagingly racist may eventually help create a social environment where people who have the power to actually do harm may say, "Okay, might as well be hanged for a sheep as a goat" and actually give vent to some real racism instead of the phony variety that black racists claim to fear.
DTOM| 10.10.12 @ 9:55AM
Bill;
I think it was Aesop who first told the story of the boy who cried wolf, er racist...
And it was the Bible that told of the wolf in sheep's clothing, er Racist in Democrat clothing...
There is NOTHING new under the sun, nothing. (also Biblical...)
DTOM
PolishKnight| 10.10.12 @ 9:57AM
I read the article referenced and either the author with his list is crazy (he goes after Obama's economic team and Bill Clinton), truly sincere about a leftist race dogma, or joking. Or a combination of all three (I wouldn't be surprised.)
Which gets me to ponder: Those are also three categories of leftists:
1) Useful idiot cheerleaders (guys who believe in Marxism and leftism, even as both contradict each other and themselves, but don't mind.)
2) Welfare recipients and entitlement seekers. They don't really care about ideology and simply vote with their pocketbook or what they perceive are going to get them stuff at the expense of someone else. They don't care whether it's fair that Robin Hood robs from the rich to give to them (the poor) or even if they're really poor (Wall Street Democrat supporting cronies) getting stuff robbed from working class Americans (the "rich").
3) The most cynical of all: Politicians and party members whose authority and day-to-day living is made based upon winning elections and don't care at all about ideology or even about whose house is being robbed and whose taking home the goodies. They just stamp the documents. These slime exist in BOTH parties.
Hmmm, it also reminds me of the film "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" which many say is a morality play. In the above case, there are no "good" people but rather 1) Stupid, 2) Ugly, 3) Bad.
Kilgore Trout| 10.10.12 @ 11:21AM
Hill holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections between culture, politics, and education. He is particularly interested in locating various sites of possibility for political resistance, identity work, and knowledge production outside of formal schooling contexts. Particular sites of inquiry include prisons, black bookstores, and youth cultural production.
In other words he is a "HipHop Intellectual" which means less than bupkis.
WHO THE BLEEP CARES WHAT THIS PHONY SAYS OR THINKS? In a sane world he'd be shinin shoes or servin coffee.
Bill8472| 10.10.12 @ 11:48AM
Research into the "intersections between culture, politics, and education" sounds like an entirely subjective exercise. What about that interest could possible justify a Ph.D.?
loulou| 10.10.12 @ 12:41PM
PhD from what department--Black Studies?
derfel cadarn| 10.10.12 @ 11:25AM
If the Dr Hill and "his" people are so superior and excessively intelligent why have they allow themselves to be herded onto the Democratic plantation of of government assistance ? Why have they not banded together and emigrated to a place and founded their own nation and shown the world thweir capabilities ? Because, though they are not less than other people they have been convinced by such people as Dr. Hill that they do not possess the abilities to make those journeys and must there accept whatever handouts Daddy government wishes to supply. These are not a free people only the chains have been renamed to ensnare the innocent. Until the black population realizes they can be anything they wish as long as the work hard at their dream,they will remain fettered by Massa government.
Oldefarte| 10.10.12 @ 11:26AM
Brown vs. Bd. of Ed.'s 1954 SCOTUS decision SHOULD HAVE eliminated all excuses from African-Americans but of course did not do so. Why? Simply, because in most cases they are typically lazy [and don't expend the required efforts toward success], and they obtained from said decision the same schools, textbooks, teachers, classrooms, school libraries,computers, etc that attending non-AA's had. The civil rights movement [ie Hill etc] constantly apply EXCUSES for their race's FAILURES, since blacks are equally capable of successes as are other groups. Many other groups [Irish, Italians, Jews, etc] have historically been discriminated against, but have risen up to success by means of hard work, determination and obtained education [through public schools]. No one will take you seriously if you're wacked out on drugs, committing thefts/assaults/rapes, defining yourselves as "African" American instead of simply American, purposely selecting different/non-conformist clothes, music, verbage-language, attitudes etc. If one wnats/desires to be different [and correspondingly STUPID and non-successful] then don't become upset when others rightly describe you as what they see, hear, and experience and know as truth from you. If blacks/AA's wish to be accepted and not discriminated against, then their attitude-adjustment is a must!!!!!!!!!
Jade12| 10.10.12 @ 3:26PM
Amen!
Who Knows?| 10.10.12 @ 11:44AM
The Hill, you say?
They say talk is cheap. Well, Einstein is just the latest genius to remind us that it’s all relative.
Lawyer “talk” is NOT cheap!
Apparently this Hill guy, who I’ve never heard of or seen---I outgrew the need or desire to watch TV “personalities”, even FOX stalwarts---says stupid things, in some people’s opinion.
Precedent is prescient.
To be a “normal” human being is to desire to---STAND OUT. It’s in the sperm-inspired genes. So, every newbie gets educated, 24/7, as they are flooded with sounds and images, and for some, sometimes fists and belts.
How to be noticed? Why, this toothy broad, on Jeopardy, perfectly illustrated this, by having the tits, er balls, to show off by telling the world that she goes to Laundromats, and gets in dryers for a low rent roller coaster ride.
Did you notice THAT?
Ol Professor Hill sure seems to have found his niche.
Ah, to be rich and/or famous---that’s the ticket: NOT.
As we all learn, eventually, sooner or later, sacrifice is the form of the universe.
Letting go trumps standing out, even when one SEEMS to be outstanding.
Paul McGrath| 10.10.12 @ 12:10PM
I don't think Hill was trying to do anything other than to write an amusing article. The problem is, it's not. It's not clever or humorous or insightful in any way. And there's no point. What's the point of this? We all have likes and dislikes in the world. His are no more exceptional than anyone else's. In fact, many of the comments here are far more original and interesting than those contained in his insipid article.
What a lightweight.
JD| 10.10.12 @ 12:23PM
Leftists require that we on the Right be as stupid as they tell everyone that we are.
Here a number of them are actually telling us to be so stupid as to believe that Hill's article was satire. Absurd! The language was unmistakeably vindictive, and every person listed was an enemy of the Left (or at least, those leftists who condemn Obama's economics team for being "not left enough").
In particular, he highlighted Ronald Reagan, calling him "overrated" simply because the Left thinks less of him than the Right does. A truly accurate list would have included FDR in that spot.
The list was naked Hate, and it illustrates a difference between Left and Right.
The Left consistently falsely accuses the Right of hate, and the Right's response is to deny the lies. But the Left celebrates its own hate, proudly displaying it. It doesn't deny its hate when conservatives call it out - it spins it into a positive - a "truth that needs to be told".
The Left can never be wrong so long as it rewrites dictionaries and history books to make everything it does "right".
Seek| 10.10.12 @ 12:28PM
If anyone qualifies as an overrated black person, Martin Luther King Jr. surely would top the list. I'm tired of "conservatives" like Kaminsky who enjoy pretending he was a Great Man and a Republican Conservative, fully deserving of a holiday named after him. MLK was a radical egalitarian, and indeed said so many times. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other black civil rights radicals, far from negating King's "dream," in fact are ratifying it.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 12:48PM
Did I "pretend" King was a great man? No, but I also do think he was good and important, even if imperfect. That said, I remember thinking at the time that his holiday was created that it's BS that he gets his own day but Washington and Lincoln have to share one (President's Day). When I was a kid, those two greatest of presidents each had his birthday celebrated.
Anyway, my point was about King's "dream" rather than King himself, and that particular dream is one well worth supporting -- especially for conservatives and Republicans.
Jack London| 10.10.12 @ 5:14PM
"Anyway, my point was about King's "dream" rather than King himself, and that particular dream is one well worth supporting -- especially for conservatives and Republicans."
You mean like with the voter suppression ID laws, Ross?
eloris| 10.10.12 @ 6:51PM
Wow, I've seen non sequiturs in my time but...wow.
JD| 10.10.12 @ 11:13PM
Voter ID laws protect the right to vote from those who would bury it in fraud.
Occam's Tool| 10.10.12 @ 11:37PM
Showing an ID to vote is hardly voter suppression when showing ID was necessary to get into the Democratic national Convention, Jack.
You trivialize true voter suppression with moronic complaints, Jack.
Petronius| 10.10.12 @ 1:32PM
Who's rating who here? All plantations were burned in the 1860's. Not so. We are powerless to remove the ironclad cabal controling the Government plantation we labor to sustain. It's quite impossible to rid ourselves of the crushing authority telling Us who we must accept, accommodate, and support, while we forgo the prosperity We Earned which They confiscate. White people are Subjects because we have no collective identity, be it racial, national, or familial, due to self loathing inflicted on us by Liberals who run universities. The primitive tribalism binding other races no longer exists among Caucasians. Whites are pigeon holed by which schools we attended, careers, club memberships, and amusements. Whites commit social suicide, dividing ourselves through cultural demolition, and by refusal of lower class whites to compete heads up. Charles Murray is right. They might as well be black. Nobody can be White without the competence and desire. By that measure, Asians are Whiter than we are. But our polity is the same. Dr. Price's Roobism still dominates. Most people simply want to be "in on the fix." Honesty, industry, and accomplishment: those things are for chumps.
Those lists of blacks in other comments are not over rated. They're the best extortionists on earth next to churches and charities. And traditional "White Americans" cannot be made to understand the Fact that All institutions controlling our lives are Rackets.
Ronsch| 10.10.12 @ 1:50PM
Ross,
Thank you for another fine article...However, I must say the time to "play nice" is long over. It is time to call out the race-baiters on their faux charges of racism at every turn...Al Sharpton, the "reverend" Jesse Jackson, the honorable Ms. Lee-Jackson, NerObama, NAACP, SPLC, Eric Holder, Jeremiah Wright, La Raza, etc. must be fought, and platitudes and niceties are not going to work. They haven't worked so far and have just resulted in empowering those same individuals and groups to hammer their misbegotten message into the American psyche. It is time for the message, sound bites and other evidence to be called what it is, placed in the public eye, and for the conservative media to stop going along with the "gaffe" story...Racism is their message and they are out there preaching it to the gullible.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 3:06PM
Ronsch,
I think that simply by writing the article, I'm not "playing nice." Most would have just let it go and not invite controversy.
Thanks for the compliment as well!
RGK
Butch| 10.10.12 @ 2:26PM
OK, I have read the articles and all of the comments up until now. So who are the 15? I inferred Columbus and Bill Clinton. Who else? Anybody? I am not about to read Huffpo.
JD| 10.10.12 @ 3:32PM
Hill's list:
(He introduces the article with Christopher Columbus, since it's Columbus Day, complaining that Columbus was an oppressive invader)
Elvis Presley
Ronald Reagan
Justin Bieber
Donald Trump
Prince Harry
Tim Tebow
Obama's Economic Team
William Shakespeare
Babe Ruth
Kate Middleton
Joel Osteen
The NHL (except black players)
Bill Clinton
Eminem
Bill Walton
Sarah Palin
Butch| 10.10.12 @ 4:00PM
Thanks, JD. Don't follow Hockey much--are there any black players? I don't think I've ever seen one, but I never see very much.
JD| 10.10.12 @ 4:12PM
Apparently there's only one right now. Thus the hate.
Ross Kaminsky| 10.10.12 @ 4:51PM
Actually, as a Washington Capitols fan, I can tell you that there's another black player whom Hill didn't mention: Joel Ward
http://capitals.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8468208
But actually, there are quite a few others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....an_descent
StanAmSpec| 10.11.12 @ 1:29PM
Loony, Shakespeare? I mean has anything except the King James Bible effected the English language more? Babe Ruth . . . most women know that's stupid. How can Tim Tebow be "overrated" when he's not played enough to even really be rated?
JohnIM_MD| 10.10.12 @ 6:36PM
Hills's article makes my blood boil, but at some point I may be moved to compassion rather than disdain. If you noticed, his list is confined to a "black" pages of the Huff Post, as if for black eyes only. I suppose this might be due to a readership that is limited.
Cincinnatius| 10.10.12 @ 7:17PM
Hill falls under the mantra uttered by the great American philosopher Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does. IF he is representative of the caliber of professors in residence at Columbia, there are a lot of people paying a lot of money for a worthless education/experience. It goes beyond unbelievable!
Leveut| 10.10.12 @ 10:08PM
After all, another well-known organizer famously mentioned that he'd "been in 57 states [and had] one left to go."
*Sigh* The lovely and gracious Kaminsky is closer than many. What our illustrious and supremely knowledegable (just ask him) President said was that he had been to 57 states, his staff would not let him go to Hawaii and Alaska, and he had one other one to go to.
StanAmSpec| 10.11.12 @ 1:26PM
It says a lot about our education system. Both, the obviously poor and narrow education Dr. Hill received, but also the unfortunately poor and narrow education he's giving his students.
Ghost of Cicero (NB) | 10.12.12 @ 12:40AM
TLP:
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