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.
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.
Vodpod videos no longer available.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.
Vodpod videos no longer available.This evening, she appeared with Reverend Al on Politics Nation and had this to say.
Vodpod videos no longer available.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’.)
It’s interesting that Dylan said he’s never criticized President Obama, but in his diatribe at Karen he said referring to PBO, “…a man who I believe has behaved in a grossly incompetent fashion when it comes to administrating our financial system and our policy making.” Dylan has a long history of rants against President Obama and I think he needs to review his archives to find out that Karen’s view was spot on.
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I think there is one that has gone viral more than once. Karen was certainly aware of his position as witnessed by how she prefaced it. In all fairness all around – on her Twitter wall that day a mass of her defenders did speak up (and included DR in their @s) about his treatment of her. I just wonder where those “PBO” posse women were THAT day..
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I adore Karen Finney and think she and Jonathan Capehart should have their own shows on MSNBC, maybe taking the place of Dylan’s. I saw it live, but wasn’t on twitter much that day and didn’t see the attack or I would have definitely had her back. I hope she doesn’t go back on his show and sticks with Tamron, TomRob, Rachel, Lawrence, and the like. MSNBC needs to ditch Dylan. It’s one show I refuse to watch.
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I am usually at work when DR is on. I peeked at her twitter wall to see whose show she was on and saw all these people telling DR to stop attacking her. I record them so I usually see them long after everyone has reacted. She knew he was going to detonate. Just wondered where that woman (you know the one) happened to be that day, Seems she is incapable of typing a positive tweet about Ms.Finney
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Ms. Finney brings objective, fair, intelligent comments and observations that not only support President Obama, but help to identify where he and the American people can do better. No one has and does support the President better and I look forward to her comments everytime. Please keep it up. I am an American and strong supporter of the President.
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