There is a person, and I will refrain from disclosing her screen name, but she knows who she is, who leads a posse of women who think that this woman does not do/say enough to defend Barack Obama.
Karen Finney
They attack her mercilessly on Twitter for not supporting “PBO” sufficiently while never specifying which of her remarks they find objectionable or anemic.
This past Super Tuesday, the above, Karen Finney, was a guest on the panel at The Ed Show. She asked this question.
edshow, posted with vodpod
Her remarks precipitated a hailstorm of criticism on her Twitter wall from southern conservative women who accused her of calling them racists – a statement she never made.
Yesterday, as a regular member of the panel on the Dylan Ratigan show, she incited the legendary wrath of Ratigan with this perfectly innocent comment delivered, I would add, with her signature dimpled smile and a sweet voice.
Ratigan, posted with vodpod
This evening, she appeared with Reverend Al on Politics Nation and had this to say.
Rev Al posted withvodpod
Looking at her Twitter wall , the more active of her social nets, right now, I am wondering where the “PBO” posse is hiding? Why did they not come out and defend her when the Southern Conservative Women’s posse went after her on Tuesday night and said they were called racist – which they were not? Why are they not up there praising her for absorbing the wrath of Ratigan for saying something nice about President Obama? Why are they not encouraging her remarks to Rev. Al tonight? Why do they post on her wall ONLY when they feel she is not defensive enough toward “PBO?” Why did they not defend her against the unfair attacks by the SCW posse? I wonder exactly what it is Ms. Finney is expected to do in order to please people.
I am not here to defend “PBO” with whom you all know I have issues. If you read the pages about why we are here and the mission statement, however, you will see why I very appropriately defend Ms. Finney on this page. She is a homegirl. She defends women’s rights with logic and passion.
She has drawn fire from both sides. In many ways I consider that a good thing. She is objective, logical, and analytical. She is not pushing hard for any particular candidate – very unusual on MSBNC. She is doing her job as she understands it to be: analyzing the events under discussion in a circumspect way. I think she does a fine job, and this week I thought she deserved the support of some who relentlessly criticize her.
Well this is one venue where I can defend her as well as promote her since I think her brand of objective analysis could be better represented on the channel where she regularly occupies one or another panel. She should have her own show there. I probably still would need to consult her Twitter wall to find out who else’s show she would be appearing on, but I would know that there would be an hour in the day or week that I could DVR regularly and find Karen there speaking out on women’s issues and maybe sometimes saying the president did a pretty good job at something because nobody totally sucks all the time at everything … except maybe Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. I won’t even bother with Newt. Just thought I would mention her to those of you who don’t have any team-owning friends. Now y’all in Puerto Rico go out there and learn English the way those guys mastered Southern American English!
So, Karen, you have a posse of homegirls and homeboys right here. We have your back!
(Full disclosure: The author has PR cousins, some of whom are very politically active in the Republican Party. They have native speaker level proficiency in English. Just sayin’.)
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The panelists after the debate. Dan Rosenblum
