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MSNBC Contributor: Racism Is Behind People Calling Obama‘s Court Comments ’Bullying’

While participating in a roundtable discussion on ABC’s “This Week,” Georgetown University professor and MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson posited that only a racist person would refer to the president’s Supreme Court comments as “bullying.”

“Look all of this ‘othering’ of Obama, like he’s from some other planet. Everything he does is subject to a different lens and seen through a microscope that really tends to pick him apart,” Dyson said.

“I think it’s indivisible from the broader issue of his race, of his being a black man with a certain kind of authority. These are impolite things we don’t want to talk about. We think that they’re being extraordinary ratcheted up. But I don’t see any other way to explain it but a remarkable resistance to the integrity of this man that has no other explanation [emphasis added],” he added.

Watch via ABC News (at the 1:50 mark):

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“When you hear Republicans say that President Obama is being a bully, you hear racial subtexts?” ABC host Jack Tapper asked.

“Of course,” Dyson answered.

He continued:

Bully — I mean look this guy — if — if you can’t deal with this reasoned, articulate expression of difference and dissent and calling that bullying. And on the one hand Obama has to be worried about, I can’t be an angry black man. I can’t speak up in a certain way. He’s already constrained by the stereotypes that prevail. If you can’t even take his dissent as an expression of legitimate disagreement and instead of ascribing to him bullying…

Translation: What President Obama said about the Supreme Court wasn’t all that bad and the only reason people are criticizing him for it is because, well, they‘re kinda’-sorta’ racist.

Conservative author and columnist George Will wasn’t buying it.

“[R]egardless of his skin pigmentation, what he said was factually, demonstrably false. He said something would be unprecedented that has many precedents, probably thousands since 1803,” Will noted.

“That I don’t have a problem with,” Dyson responded, “I’m talking about the overall response to him and the picking apart and the refusal to concede legitimacy of difference. Not to point out where you would disagree with him. I think that’s powerful.”

Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, weighed in on Dyson’s comments.

“Can I say this — the president is known as an extremely bright man. He was an instructor of constitutional law,” Noonan noted.

MSNBC Contributor: Racist To Call the Presidents Supreme Court Comments BullyingPeggy Noonan & George Will

“For him to say something so deeply incorrect and almost unknowing about the — the purpose of the Supreme Court seemed provocative. At the very least sloppy and what the heck is he doing? But at the most, provocative. A real brush back. A real, I’m going to go to war with the court,” she added.

“Those familiar with Dyson know this to be his common position on anything involving Obama: any criticism of the President is because he’s black. Period. End of story,” News Busters’ Noel Sheppard writes.

Indeed. It seems the only difference here is that unlike MSNBC (Dyson’s home field), “This Week” hosts panelists who are willing to challenge the notion that anyone who criticizes the president — especially on things like woefully-inarticulate warnings to the Supreme Court — is kinda’-sorta’ racist.

(H/T: WZ)

Comments (203)

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  • jimbob50
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:57pm

    I’m sorry but just in case you did not get the word, Obama’s Race card has expired.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:11pm

      yep he is a white african american

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:21pm

      But what if it was Obama’s white half that was bullying the SCOTUS? Has Dyson asked that important question?

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:21pm

      as soon as libs start losing an argument with their messiah, they have to throw race out there.

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:29pm

      Michael Eric Dyson – Oh puuuuuuuleeeeeesssseeee, put a friggin sock in it! You are nothing more than a liberal mouthpiece for this socialist administration if you think that just because someone calls the president for BULLYING the Supreme Court, that’s racism.

      Isn’t it nice how you race baiters always, always have that card to play. You are such manipulators that you have to pull that crap all the friggin time when you know you can’t defend a position intellectually.

      Why aren’t you down here ion Sanford Florida marching with your racist buddies Al and Jesse you crumb. Get off it already!!!

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    • seeker9
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:34pm

      Dyson is a contributor for msnbc. More precisely, he is a campaigner for the demo-marxist party. (Personally, I call him a motor-mouth.)

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    • karencole
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:39pm

      Yup….no one brings up the fact that Obama is a black man more than another black man, or more than a democrat….hmmm and who are the racists?

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    • Jinglebob
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:40pm

      People. Everything is NOW Racism!

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    • azjoannie
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:41pm

      When will they realize that the race card just doesn’t work any more. It does not matter – they have killed and written the obituary for the race card!

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    • IndyGuy
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:44pm

      Hey Dyson you idiot…The race card doesn’t work anymore….Idiots like yourself have worn it out…..Get a clue…

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    • angelcat
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:50pm

      Ho hum! Just the same old over- used, usually unwarranted race card again. Everything is racism according to this group. If you are black, you can do no wrong, say no wrong, think no wrong. If anyone disagrees with you or proves you wrong, you are a racist. The truth is that the card is now so overused that it is no longer effective or respected even on those few occasions when it is warranted.,

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    • Reason365
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:51pm

      A bully is a bully is a bully. Only time race enters in is when a lib opens their pie hole

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:54pm

      .
      OLDGUY49 I’ll go with Half White African, but I would not go as far as to call him an American………

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:56pm

      Reminds me of the story about crying wolf. No one is buying it anymore.

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    • db321
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:11pm

      I wish the Liberals would come out with a Racial Play Book – I am so confused who is a raciest and who is not.

      Also – I am real tied of the threat coming from the Black Panther talking about have to cross the Red Sea of Blood of White People in America.

      Eric Holder will not do his job – so as an American Patriot – I’ll do mine and say – STOP IT or Let’s get the Party Started. I’m tired of being pushed up against the wall.

      Every since Obama took office – everything I did in life that was good and right about America has suddenly become the problem and what’s wrong with America.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:24pm

      Personally, I don‘t like Obama because he’s criminally inept and purposely trying to destroy our nation as founded, not because he’s black. Michael Dyson, on the other hand . . .

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    • robert
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:33pm

      “Racism Is Behind People Calling Obama‘s Court Comments ’Bullying’

      To those on here who are so quick to scream racist or racism here’s a perfect example of what you help to perpetuate.

      What it amounts to is supporting black, anti-white racists like this character here whose every answer to every issue is white racism. And he does that not because he truly believes it, but he knows it is the best way to avoid discussing issues he doesn’t want to face and it gives him a scapegoat with which to blame black inability to achieve in this country as other groups have.

      Because blacks have out of control high crime rates and abysmally low academic achievement he blames it all on racism that doesn’t exist and slavery two hundred years ago. He carefully avoids discussing why other non-white groups in the US do just fine, because the fact that they do shatters his whining complaints as totally without merit.

      Anybody with any real pride in himself and his people would never stoop to such devious tactics.

      Unfortunately, however, his hate rhetoric is still accepted by a certain percentage of the population who are not the brightest bulbs around, but, fortunately, with each passing month, their numbers are growing smaller, thanks to the internet and the widespread dissemination of information.

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    • Treaty
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:45pm

      So very tired of the victim mentality. Please, please, please vote this guy out and never re-elect someone that is gonna play this card at every turn.

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    • rawmilker
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:45pm

      So I guess my information here will be considered racist by informing everyone that odumbo admin has sold he the rights to processing our election results to a private company in Spain which by the way, it’s CEO, formerly of Globalnet, is a major Odumbass contributor…

      IF this isn’t considered election rigging, I don’t know what is….

      http://conservativebyte.com/2012/04/michael-savage-how-obama-fixed-2012-election/

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    • SEPARATENOW
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:59pm

      Professor Dyson, Ron White must have had you in mind when he quipped, “You can’t fix stupid.”

      You and the remainder of the left believes our Constitution itself is racist and therefore must be destroyed. The left’s actions cannot be construed as anything, but a proof of that.

      They stupidly believe Constitutionalists are stupid. Wrong.

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    • Jimbo65
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 5:24pm

      Expired indeed. There comes a point when you call your critics racist often enough, they say, “You want to see racist? I’ll show you racist!” Sadly that point has come for many.

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 5:29pm

      Well, now it’s official:any criticism of Obama at all,or anyone that is at least half of any color or race but European Caucasian is racism and therefor to be dismissed, rendering the person unconditionally and eternally beyond reproach. Unless your name is George Zimmerman,that is.

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    • yiska8
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 5:46pm

      Bullies come in all colors Dyson. If you could get off your knees and look up from underneath your King’s robe, you might come to accept that. Barry is a tyrant, so calling him a bully is soooo 2009. Hey Noonan, you’re a little late, if you’re just now noticing just how sloppy this guy is with or without a telepromter. Sloppy with wording? And yet we have Obamacare with over 1500 pages of tyrannical words that he never read. No one read it. A day late and a dollar short Pegs.

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    • Wartface
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 6:14pm

      Guy’s like this along with Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson and Jerimiah Wright are nothing but race baiter’s. It is always their #1 tool. Screw them!

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 6:45pm

      So it has become racist for someone (white) to call some one racist?

      Well, we have finally gone beyond the realm of common intelligence into the the sub darwinian zone.

      Intellectual pygmies reign within the realm of media like insects in a rain forest.

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    • Skee
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 11:17pm

      DNC must have sent out orders to the drones.
      Obama’s record is a catastrophe, go back to
      standard response“ I know you are but what am I”.
      This is an affective arguement our Democratic
      base can understand.

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 12:47am

      Everyone who disagrees with this Obamanation fiasco..
      is Racist, they have taken us back to the 50′s…WTF ???

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    • INOGAWD
      Posted on April 10, 2012 at 1:01am

      “kinda’-sorta’ racist” this is Journalism ?? GOOD GAWD !!
      The MEDIA is a F’N JOKE.. WOW !!!! ‘kinda’-sorta’ like the
      GSA CLOWN…..

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on April 11, 2012 at 12:25pm

      And the term lost all meaning what so ever…….if you look up racism in the dictionary it says.
      A term used by leftist to change the subject on a debate they can’t win.

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  • possom
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:55pm

    Constantly accusing people of being racist is racist!

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:01pm

      Exactly .. and who the H do they think elected Obama .. blacks are not the majority in this country .. let’s correct that error in November .. not because he is black but because he is a MARXIST!

      OMG 2012!

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:55pm

    This racist b/s in regard to our Marxist president is getting old fast.

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  • GoodCook
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:54pm

    Spoken like a true Racist. Only those that see race in everything can be called racist. The rest of see an issue.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:00pm

      The problem is they know they are on the losing side of logic. When you cannot destroy the message, destroy the messengers. Straight from the Alinsky playbook.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:54pm

    So Obama doesn’t want to be viewed as an angry black man? Well, alrighty then…. How about being viewed as an idiot, a race baiter, the Boy Wonder, a complete fraud, Mr Angry Black Woman, a Kenyan, the worst president since Jimmy Carter, a tool of the Left, favored politician of the Axis of Evil, and a complete and utter failure? Would THAT be OK instead?

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  • grimmy
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:53pm

    Yep, anyone who doesnt agree with the idiot in chief,is a racist.The left will beat this dead horde for forever and a day,i dont even care about racism anymore, nor do i care who is or isnt,the words racist and racism are meaningless to me. So all you left wing commies out there that keep pushing your race war agenda,remember,sometimes you get what you wish for……….

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:51pm

    BREAKING…Man arrested for letting a Racist fart near the White House.

    A man visiting near the White House and after eating Onion Rings let a whale of a fart, and MSMNC reports it was a white man fart so therefore it was a Racist fart. MSNBC called the Police and the man was arrested and charged with passing gas in a racisit way FILM at 11

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:51pm

    “It’s racist .” Now where have I heard that before ? ?? Oh, I remember: anytime someone criticizes Obama’s policies, it’s racism ! That and Blame Bush ! ( Ridiculous and so over-worked that it is a horse that will not run this time. But can see with what you Democrats are doing with the Trayvon Martin case : YOU guys are sure trying to make RACE the biggest vote getting/ country dividing issue of the election ! Pretty transparent. Sorry, Democrats you‘ll have to find another excuse to overlook this administration’s failures )

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    • Marine25
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Are all politicians that complain about “judicial activism” called bullies and accused of ignoring 200 years of judicial precedent?
      No, it seems to be just this one.

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:14pm

      MARINE: No president has dressed down the SCOTUS , as they sat before him and the entire country, in a State of the Union Speech over a decision HE did not like. No president has spoken out about a decision which is being decided by them before it was announced. No, this president has gone way beyond talking about ” judicial activism.“ He is displaying bullying ”executive activism.” No comparison.

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:06pm

      @MARINE25

      No, only the ones who do. You guys gotta get over the race thing. First of all, he’s mixed, not black. He is not a decendent of slaves. He was raised with a silver spoon and is an elitist. He knows what he said is not true. He’s a Chicago thug politician. Nothing to do with race. Everything to do with being a Chicago thug Marxist.

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  • momrules
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:51pm

    Oh get over it!!
    I am sick to death of the very word RACIST. When I talk about Barack Obama I talk about this completely horrible, treasonist, unAmerican fraud who currently occupies the White House. I do not care about the color of his skin.
    The only racists out there are the ones who will forgive him for the destruction of our great country and WILL VOTE for him again only because of his skin color.

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  • Uechi
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:50pm

    Would the crticism have been the same if the President had been white and not a Marxist POF like Barry?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:56pm

      I don’t care what a race baiting hack like Dyson thinks. It’s time to take that little tactic away from liberals.

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    • happ77
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 5:14pm

      Me thinks yes.

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  • SpeckledPup
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:49pm

    msdnc, naturally, the #1 network of anti-white-ism.

    how many normal everyday white Americans have noticed every single tv ‘drama’-type show on the primetime obamanetworks has replaced all of their white ‘leader’ characters with black ”authority” figures. == talk about subliminal indoctrination. == started with #1 show NCIS when they killed off the little redhead white woman and put a ‘devious’ angry black man “director‘ in charge to help obama mainstream into America’s living rooms. ==== disgusting. and totally obamahollywood RACIST against white American ‘leaders’.

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    • dont_tax_me_bro
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:52pm

      The funny thing is that most of their hosts are WHITE MALES. Either they are complete hypocrites or just have so much white guilt built into them that they believe they have to bow down to every minority.

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    • SpeckledPup
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:14pm

      ah, they may be white male hosts, but they are all grossly effeminate, useless democrats who bow to obama — no wonder, obama is so effeminate and feminine, and look at those horrifyingly fugly democrat bull ‘women’. those democrat men with their ‘tingles’ cannot tell obama from a democrat bull woman.

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  • DAL223
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:48pm

    woefully-inarticulate warnings to the Supreme Court — is kinda’-sorta’ racist

    Really ! why is it everytime someone says anything about the Prez , is racist . The guy’s a Marxist ! not a racist ….he was directly threatening the court and he shouldn’t get away with it !

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:47pm

    It doesn’t matter what race you are…if you disagree with anything the progressives (black or white) are pushing…then you’re a racist.
    Makes it easier for them to “argue” that way.
    This dyson character is just another brick in their wall.

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:55pm

      yes. wonder if they would call Justice Thomas a racist since he is conservative ? LOL

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    • thecid100
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:20pm

      No, judge Thomas is an Oreo or a coconut to them. He’s only black on the outside, and white on the inside. And, of course, white=bad.

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  • kdshell1
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:47pm

    It’s racist to make an unfounded accusation of racism, and people should be called to task for their own racist attacks. Such racism is itself insulting.

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  • Duey2000
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:45pm

    So what of the President’s comments on the Zimmerman/Martin debacle? Instead of standing up and saying that this is a tragedy no matter what the color of anybody’s skin is, he stands up and relates the murdered young man to himself because of the color of his skin. Racist? Racism is when you make a generalization based on the color of a person’s skin. If you had never seen Obama’s face and only read about what he was doing and the things that he was saying, you would be crying foul!

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  • susie4dy
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Are people still watching MSNBC? Why? They lie!

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  • BrerRabbit
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Dam$….just what isn’t racism these days.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:45pm

    The left is like a broken record. Same old stuff over and over.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:12pm

      In Dyson‘s he’s also being a DJ and scratching it over and over….is that racist by the way?

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:30pm

      Very racist. It’s off to the re education camp for you!

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    • Oilbama
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 3:56pm

      I hear ya, I’ve got racial subtexts in my stool.

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  • dmerwin
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:44pm

    In fact it must be “racist” to disagree with any thing he says or any policy he supports. What a crock of shiite.

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  • kentuckypatriot
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:44pm

    Oh come on!! PSMBC, how stupid do you think the majority is? The race card is sooooooooooo worn out, can’t you think of anything better then that? If Pres Bush did something liike this, would it be a fair assessment to say it’s racist? Oh, I get it, it’s only racist ;cause zero is prez and he’s a mixed breed,. is that it?

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:44pm

    Doesn’t matter how many times MSMBC hosts are told that its not his skin color, its his agenda, they just don’t have the intelligence to comphrend that truth. It is much, much easier to cry racism than to defend the indefensecible.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:43pm

    dyson is consumed with white hate..unless of course he,s dealing with the progressive white slaves over at msnbc…they know thier place…i think after 31/2 yrs of obama were seeing that yes he is a bully and a racist to boot….sad but true

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  • dont_tax_me_bro
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:42pm

    If the Blaze didnt constantly report about MSNBC no one would know that MSNBC even exists because no one watches it.

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    • Harvey
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 4:37pm

      Not one person i know would be caught watching MSNBC.The people that are associated with this station is all outcast from somewhere,probably CBS or ABC and NBC.You know the idiots that wont report the truth.

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  • kaydeebeau
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:41pm

    Not racist – Marxist maybe……

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:53pm

      as in union tactic..gangster…gangs…mobs…

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:40pm

    With MSNBC (aka propaganda machinery of Kaiser Obama), what else is new? They view anything that is said against the President as a threat and ‘racist’ and ‘hate filled’ and the usual spewing of lies and distortions they thrive on.

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