MSNBC Co-Host Touré: Romney Is Taking Part in the ‘Ni**erization’ of Obama
- Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:13pm by
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On Thursday, the panel of MSNBC’s “The Cycle” dissected Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s claim that President Obama should “take [his] campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.” Though many would simply write this off as standard campaign rhetoric, co-host Touré argued that Romney was using “deep stereotypes” about black people, calling the comments the “ni**erization” of Obama.
“That really bothered me,” he said. “You notice he said anger twice. He’s really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama, the ‘otherization,’ he’s not like us.”
“I know it’s a heavy thing, I don’t say it lightly, but this is ‘ni**erization,’”Touré continued, shocking his co-panelists. “You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.”
S.E. Cupp was particularly disturbed to hear Touré’s accusation. She argued that Vice President Joe Biden’s “put y’all back in chains” remarks were much more racially offensive, yet he was calling Romney a “racist” for calling Obama “angry.”
“Do you see how dishonest that is?” Cupp asked.
After initially denying that he was calling anyone a racist, Touré clarified his position after Cupp asked, “Certainly you were implying that Mitt Romney and the base will respond to this dog-whistle, racially-charged coding, and hate Obama, the angry black man?”
“Absolutely,” he replied.
“That’s so irresponsible,” Cupp shot back.
“This is not a revolutionary comment,” Touré said. “This is a constituency all-white party that rejects the black vote.”
“You have two white guys in Joe Biden and Mitt Romney,” Cupp interjected. “Joe Biden made the overtly racial comment and has a history of making bigoted remarks. Mitt Romney was responding to the comment. Yet he is the one responsible for the whole Republican history of racism in politics?”
“That’s not what Touré is saying?” co-host Krystal Ball said, defending Touré. “You’re twisting his words.”
“No, he can speak for himself,” Cupp said.
“He’s using the playbook Republicans have been using for decades now,” Touré added.
Touré’s comments are beyond offensive. It should be interesting to see if he faces any type of disciplinary action at MSNBC.
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RossPoldark
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:34pmToure sounds like a racist sterotyping black people.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:45pmThat’s exactly what I thought….
I bet he would have gotten along with the first slave owner in the United States… Which by the way, for all of you playing at home, WAS BLACK….
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:53pmThis guy sounds like the other blacks who wander around with chips on their shoulders rather than trying to get over that their own people sold them in Africa to slave traders, NOT us.
Report Post »These people were sold all over the world, That was then, this is now, get over it. Just remember it was a Republican President who freed the slaves, that was Abraham Lincoln. Remember it was the Democrats who ran the KKK. And, you still embrace the Democrats?
pavepaws
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:55pmI don’t think Obama needs any help.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:55pmI saw that on MSNBC and changed the channel afterwards to CNN only to hear a white (progressive) lady say the Republican party is the “all white” party.
I waited for the host to to start running off the names of black Republicans but instead, just something a bit like “oh, you can’t say that“ to which she replied ”it’s the all white party”.
Here comes the serious race baiting folks. Joe was told to say what he said to flame the fans and 2 stations were doing it at the same time today.
Report Post »js1964
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:56pmagree
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:04pmHi MONK, same goes for the Tea Party. And, even continue to say All White when photos of the party gathering with many blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in them. I suppose soon that Tea will be so racist that restaurants will have to stop serving it. Bloomberg will get right on that.
Report Post »grimmster
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:06pmBlacks dont need Romney to n***erize themselves…..
Report Post »jthirteen
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:06pmWas the KKK not established by Democrats? Can we not stop generalizing all people based on party affiliations? Ridiculous. For more views on President Obama and the campaign, visit the site below and leave some feedback for the authors. May not be as good as the TheBlaze, but you have to start somewhere.
http://j13sanityexperiment.blogspot.com/
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:08pmThe Monk, are you trying to torture yourself? You were watching Toure on MSNBC and then switched it to CNN real quick. I go months without even watching any news on the idiot box. I get enough of Toure waxing poetic on the Blaze. These Obozo surrogates and commie news networks are just not watchable. A little advice for your sanity don’t watch the Commie Networks. Barrack Hussein Obozo is on entertainment tonight tonight, I heard. The last time I watched entertainment tonight with 35 years ago when Elvis Died. and I‘m in my forty’s
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:16pmHi RJJ,
I’m still going to add a few pinches of “black tea” to my homemade (5000 year old recipe) for “Yogi Tea”.
I feel sorry for the Indians and Chinese in New York City….. no black tea allowed.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:18pmDid this guy not get the word that Obama is a half breed. How can you call a man that had a white momma a ***** just because he had a black daddy. I’m rated 1/16 th Chicmauga Cherokee, so why can’t someone take a blood sample from Obama and give him a degree of blood linage. The whole Obama organization has a fixtation on Dee-kaw-no-dee.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:25pmWell Turkey13 your 1/16 more Cherokee than Obozo’s friend Warren.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:32pmObama is not cool enough to be a REAL black American. He is an elitist, gay, black Muslim who hates America.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:43pmIts just Obama’s communist racial hatred and division campaign strategy……Its going to get a lot worse as the elections get closer.
Report Post »akairey
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:47pm@onikaze-
Report Post »I hit the buzzard first! “Who is Anthony Johnson?” To add on, John Casor was his first legalized slave!
What do I WIN?!!
nealb4zodd
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:49pmS.E. is spot on. – its insane. . its ok to disagree with policy and politics of Obama. .and Romney if that’s your thing. – But why is it that the democrats and liberal news commentators rambling behind a desk get away with their downright mean choice of words and rhetoric to disagree with someone like Romney. Meanwhile like SE points out . .Idiot Biden . .which btw my criticism of calling Biden as idiot is not racist or hateful . its fact. – - but MY GAAAWWWWD this attempt to categorize and box conservatives as racist and hateful is headscratchingly baseless while they seen to get away with it day after day. – - democrats are simply allowed to throw mud and get away with it. .and its uncalled for.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:50pm@akairey
LOL….. If not for Glenn Back and David Burton none of us would have EVER known that. : )
Report Post »Sara123
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:55pmHe’s a black racist who stereotypes white people with leftist race hate slogans and doctrines. Black racism is the “code” he projects onto Romney. He can read whitey evil in that white boy, Romney. This is because he‘s a racially superior black man in liberalism’s new and improved racist hate game.
Liberals turned racism up-side-down and blessed it holy diversity. It’s just as ugly and deadly. See the Liberals’ racist Klan with the Tan – the black panthers. Did you hear anyone on MSNBC discussing that overt violent racism? Me neither. Insane people.
Report Post »GreatDayITM
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:00pmLife would be so much better had planes and boats not been invented.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:20pmDivisive, angry, and hateful is a stereotype? It has nothing to do with race… I see Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Whats-her-face Schultz, Chris Matthews, Sean Penn, Grr-awful-low, Rosanne Barr… the same way. It has nothing to do with race. You can add crazy and/or stupid to the list on most of them too.
Report Post »HoneyBager7x7
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:27pmGrimmster: Blacks dont need Romney to n***erize themselves…..
TRUTH!
Touré: This is a constituency all-white party that rejects the black vote.
Did this fool ever read history? Slavery, KKK, Jim Crow – Democrats
Someone get this kid a REAL book to read.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:51pmWill somebody please tell me what the hell these code words are.
Report Post »That’s all I hear is code words from these idiots, do we have a secret
Society with secret stuff?
I forgot I’m a democrat so I just figure these people are idiots that
do not admit Hussain is ruining my country.
flrick
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:04pmAnother dopey liberal getting away with racist comments that would never be tolerated from someone they disagree with. What the hell kind of name is toure’ anyway? Sounds kinda ge’.
Report Post »dmerwin
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:09pmMSNBC Co-Host Touré: Romney Is Taking Part in the ‘Ni**erization’ of Obama
Report Post »No Toure, You and your colleagues are.
desertspeaks
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:26pmthe newest racist mouth piece see’s the future and is setting himself up as the next racist in line to succeed the old racist mouth pieces jesse jackson and al shapton after their demise.
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:26pmHey, MSNBC Turdball,
The ONLY one doing what you are accusing Romney of……is YOU !
You are a discredit to your race, the country and yourself.
Little instigating, mealy-mouthed twits like you, Toure’
Report Post »are the ones throwing gaseous rags on a tinderbox that have all your fingerprints on.
Grow up, ya’ little creep & take responsibility for your OWN actions & words.
YOU represent EVERYTHING that is wrong with America, leave alone the world, at large !
Mojoron
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:28pmThat kind of talk leaves it wide open for people like me to make a comment regarding Obama’s state in life, but being a good Christian I will not.
Report Post »TunaBlue
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:47pmThis is what a college education will buy you in today’s world.
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 8:53pmI hope they keep this up. People are SOOOO sick of the racism card. I think they will vote Obama out just to put a stop to THAT. The racism card just turns everyone off, except maybe the blacks that buy it.
Report Post »damnedifwedont
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:04pmI just want to know how much they paid him.
Report Post »Ballot_Box_Revolution
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:39pmok so let me get this straight??….A white person, can not call another white person angry, if he is the VP of a black president, because then that reflects up to the black president, making the white person racist………even when anger is obvious? So the president can not be called angry….even when/if he is, because that would make you a racist…….LMFAO
This is exactly why Romney would be a better choice, even if his policies were exactly the same as Obama’s…Tired of cutting through the race tape to get to the core of the argument, and before the tape is cut through it is time to take a hard break, and next topic…
Report Post »Independent4233
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 9:54pmI can’t imagine why anyone would care what this incompetent dork says.
He’s about as qualified to be a journalist as Oprah Winfrey is to be a brain surgeon.
He was hired by the Marxist network MSNBC strictly because he’s black, and he’s aMarxist, but I‘m betting he couldn’t understand the communist manifesto if he read it.
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 3:32amI think Mr. Le Toure is the racist. He’s the one assuming blacks are hateful. He just has a guilty conscience is all.
Report Post »js1964
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 7:02amAgreed! Touré is a racist. He needs to grow up.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 7:15amI thought Romney was talking about Obama going back to the mob mentality of Chicago. It‘s a stereotype of Union thugs and mobsters that live in Chicago that break people’s legs if they don’t play ball right. I thought most mobsters were white Italians? Unless he (the co-host of MSNBC) is saying all angry people in Chicago are black gangstas.
Report Post »226crimsontrace
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 8:15amI want Tourde to define his new word so that I know how to not use it
Report Post »Pearsontech
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 10:35amJust have to say that I couldn’t even finish reading this article. I got to the first few quotes from this idiot and I had to stop because I felt too much rage brewing. Better to just stop reading and say the hell with it.
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 11:31amCan Anglo’s use that term, or are they relegated to a synonym like African-American-ization?
I’m going to attempt to rhyme that term in my next rap song, all 10 syllables.
Report Post »buyundbuy
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 12:26pmThey can’t talk about the real issues like unemployment, the economy. the budget deficit and the national debt plus folks on welfare, disability……
So….they go back to their old standby…..Racism.
Report Post »Glynrd Skynrd
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 1:37pm4-3-2-1…… So ticks the clock on Touré final 15 seconds of glory.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 3:01pmI really don’t believe there is a ***** on the face of the planet that would not rather be white. That, IMHO, is the source of their anger.
Report Post »Tom K
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 3:22pm@ ROSSPOLDARK : This junk from Toure’ at MSNBC + Obama‘s Campaign travels remind me of an old Beatles’ song: One line goes something like; ” The niggerization tour is coming to take you away, coming to take you away, take you today”.
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 10:46pmIf Toure is correct, I don’t think there are any liberals (especially the “angry” ones) who are smart enough to catch on to this “racial coding”….. Romney is obviously talking about how dirty politics have aways been in Chicago, Illinois… ie. the corrupt Democratic machine… Think about Daley, Blaggo, Rahn Emmanuel… Barack Obama, Bill Ayres, …. Notice I only mentioned one ni**er… Toure’s word, not mine.
Report Post »Longhorns62
Posted on August 18, 2012 at 12:46pmBarry and his buddies love to play the race card. Barry cannot stand on his record. No way we are talking about that.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:34pmHey….you can’t use that word even with stars (smile)….private joke to moderator.
Report Post »RickN
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:33pmMay I use this type of “logic”? Here goes…Whe Barack Obama says things like “Hope”…what he’s doing is insulting German-Americans, because I knew this girl named Hope once. That really bothers me! And when he says “change”, that’s really code for “he wants all little kids to get changed!” This may mean he’s a child-molester! That really bothers me too!
Report Post »PhineasJWhoopee
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:33pmObama needs absolutely no help doing that himself.
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:43pmPlease give me the address for the Republican racial code words. There must have been a mix-up in the mail. Racial dog whistles don’t work on older Republicans because of a hearing loss in the higher frequencies. These astute liberals have found out about our secret meetings and handshakes. The clandestine niggerization of my precinct is nearly complete and we received the first shipment chains and manacles.
In November, all you women can get out your aprons and party like its 1954.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:32pmToure??? I’m stuck there. Toure??? Wait.. wait… and Krystal Ball???
Report Post »Spankster
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:09pmI heard that Toure was really named Tyrone,and Krystall Ball,LMAO now that’s original.
Report Post »Energized
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:32pmA new and approved (by our bros in da hood) approach:
Report Post »“Revenge Racism” You can see it happening all over the country, and it is getting worse! Racism IS racism no matter how you try to rationalize your actions.
Dirty Harry
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:32pmThat Krystall Ball chick, what is up with that chin? It’s bizzarly out of proporton to her face. Odd. Id didn’t hear much of the discussion, I was distracted by her stranglely small chin.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:32pmSimply Desperation.
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:31pmWell I’am glad to see people know about obama and that is with a little o.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:30pmI am 64 and clearly remember the civil rights era and the black militant movement of the late 1960‘s and 70’s. I encountered it in the Army. What I see know is not as violent but seems more devisive. Doesn’t this idiot know that words have consequences beyond the sound bite? I sometimes believe people like this fool will only be satisfied with blood in the streets. Politics have always been slug fests but it seems hate is now the driver. If someone wants to harm my family or myself because I am white, keep in mind I won’t care what color that person is when I act.
Report Post »oldeagle101
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:48pmAgreed!!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:10pmWell put.
Report Post »RIGHTHOOK
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 7:58pmYou are correct sir! And the entire lib media has turned it up to a remarkable degree especially since Ryan showed up. It was rude and misleading before but now it is despicable. I glanced at USA Today each day this week and they are right there with Toure’. It’s pathetic and all by design.
Report Post »zjak
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:29pmStay classy liberals, your rhetoric will be your unraveling, America is starting to wake up. Independents like myself are starting to look past the lies and have discovered the truth behind your hidden agenda.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:28pmAnd how many of you pay for Comcast Cable? They are the parent company of MSNBC.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:43pmSo he’s going to exacerbate the prob. and say something like that!
Report Post »You know to get it out in the open and make things better..right!!
Another BHO (**** hanger on’er)
nocomment
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:27pmThat’s brilliant Junior.
NOW PUT DOWN THE REEFER!
Report Post »FaithfulFriend
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:25pmFinally. Another n word light skinned people can’t say.
Report Post »SquidVetOhio
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:25pmNow I know we’re going to win this election. This guys are completely un-hinged and it’s only August!
Report Post »jerseyflash
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:40pmThis guy is the POSTER CHILD for Chucky Schumers “STUPID PEOPLE” or ” SAY ANYTHING…DO ANYTHING…BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE ARE STUPID ” !!!!!
When RESCUE AND RECOVERT WIN THIS ELECTION….THE DEMO/LIBS WILL NOT SEE DAYLIGHT….MAYBE….NEVER….we could be mother-russia…one party system….I never thought of it that way
Wake-up America…Vote Nov 2012…ONLY WE CAN MAKE THE CHANGE !!!!!
Report Post »RDavis49
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:24pmTouré, you are one stuip uninformed idiot. You can’t decern anything. You’re so black minded that nothing else matters to you. If anyone has done anything to Obama, it’s Obama himself. Get a life !!!!!! It amazes me how any self respecting media would even give you an ear let alone a say on their site.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:56pmTouré Neblett, He is trying to be more like Van Jones and does his best to put a good twist on facts. Spins like a disk jockey. Then, he just gets dirty while at it. Even Jones doesn’t pull such filth.
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on August 17, 2012 at 1:57amVan Jones resigned as Green Jobs czar. He was doing an outstanding job and we need him now more than ever.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:23pmI hope Toure and Beckel have a happy life together.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:35pmThey’d make a nice couple.
Report Post »normbal
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:22pmSeems to me, if we accept Toure’s word of the day, that President Obeyme is doing this to himself by denying to take ANY action against militant New Black Panther aggressions (intimidation, communicating a threat) for starters. Can white people use this term now? I thought not.
Report Post »68Patriot
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:20pmNOPE you dope. OBAMA is doing that all by himself.
68
Report Post »thibx
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:20pmi believe the democrats have lost theirs minds, if they ever had one.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:20pmHA! These people have become a laughing stock. Nothing but caricatures of themselves. They are really grasping at straws now.
Report Post »GaryInTheMiddle
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:20pm‘NIGGERIZATION’ OF OBAMA? Really. What does that even mean?
Report Post »v15
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:20pmAs soon as I heard that word, I immediately remembered Chris Rock’s standup back in 1996 that really defined (at least in my mind) the difference between “*******” and black peoples.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
It is a racist term that black people invented to separate themselves from people in their own race that give them a bad name. It tries to paint a picture in your head of an evil black guy chasing white women and stealing TV sets. Toure was trying to say “anger” was a loaded code word for this, which is total bs.
Report Post »ROYSTOLL2
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:33pmI don’t know what it means but it must mean something to these “Obama Intellectuals”. It is obvious that they know they are going to lose in November because they are playing the race card on a daily basis. How can anybody with an IQ of at least 75 even consider voting for such a morally bankrupt group? Oddly enough it is the Black Americans that have been hurt the most by this corrupt administration as their unemployment is way up over every other group. If the public were to give the media an enema, that would stick the tube in MSNBC.
Report Post »Altair
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:42pm“‘NIGGERIZATION’ OF OBAMA? ”
Redundant phraseology.
Larry E
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:19pmI don’t know, but it seems to me that Glorious Leader and Moochelle are doing a bang-up job of what Knothead Toure accuses Romney of doing. The folks he referred to can be of any race in my experience, but they all think that someone owes them a living like the wealthy or the small business owners. That’s what Glorious Leader and Moochelle have been yammering away about and fostering since before he was elected.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:45pmExactly … his SUPPORT of The NBPP … and other racists .. his Trayvon comments. Obama is the one calling attention to what MSNBC accuses others of doing.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:19pmWhat a bunch of crap? To these leftist blacks….everything is raaaaaaacist and everything has a double-meaning and is code for something. These people are paranoid to the hilt. They also are worried when Romney has hit on obama’s true nature.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 6:00pmBack in chains is not racist,while using the word anger twice in a speech is? Hunh?
Report Post »cookcountypatriot
Posted on August 16, 2012 at 5:15pmheck…msnbc has been doing that for yrs.,…after all your there right toure..lol
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