Sorry. You will just have to bear with me on the baseball allusions now that Spring Training is in full swing (couldn’t resist that pun -sorry).
John Conyers stepped up to the plate on this federal judge for his racist and misogynist “joke” about Barack Obama. As you all know, I am no Obama fan, but my issues with him have to do with primary campaign activities, as well as policy moves (and lack of same) since he took office. Racism has no role, should not, in ANY American discussion, campaign, or courthouse.
John Conyers is one of those people with whom I would trust my life without ever having been fortunate enough to meet him. Bottom line, I guess, is that I would trust him to be POTUS. He is not running for that, but he is rightfully calling out Richard F. Cebull for his racist remarks.
Here is a clip from tonight’s The Ed Show on the issue. Value added: our homegirl, Karen Finney comments. She happens to have some experience in this racist arena. I love her. “He’s old enough to know.” (The judge). Yes, Karen. He’s also old enough to be removed from the bench since he lives in a different century from the rest of us. I hope Rep. Conyers extracts some payment I hope it is the max.
Vodpod videos no longer available.John Conyers at the Plate, posted with vodpod
This judge sure sounds like someone who “has a personal bias or prejudice.” And Karen Finney is right about how they’re always so sorry when they get caught.
John Conyers, Carl Levin= I feel like I’m watching the local news.
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Caught or called out – or in Rush’s case boycotted into oblivion (we hope). Who have been called out and have yet to take a strong position against Rush and his outrageous attacks? The leading Republican candidates.
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Just wondering– has Rush donated to any of the GOP candidates or to their superpacs? I hope Obama returns that million he got from Bill Maher, but I doubt he will. I’m still waiting for him to apologize for playing “99 Problems But A Btch Ain’t One Of Them” at his 2008 campaign rallies.
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Not to mention his obscene “c” word comment. Been boycotting him since then.
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Kirsten Powers is really doing an outstanding job of getting out the message that misogynist slurs are not acceptable, regardless of one’s political affiliation.
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Good for her I see she is also going after Maher. You know, I saw one of my FB friends put up a notice that BM was going to be on Leno that night and I felt like defriending him just for that!
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