MSNBC Host Actually Says Talking About Obama Golfing Is Racist Attempt to Link Him to Tiger Woods & Sex
- Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:13pm by
Becket Adams
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Did you know that when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday criticized President Barack Obama for playing many, many, many rounds of golf, he was actually linking the president to the sex-crazed lifestyle of professional golfer Tiger Woods?
If you think this claims is just a wee bit out there, you’re not alone. Glenn Beck and his crew had a wonderful time mocking it. More on that later.
First, here’s a look at what Sen. McConnell said:
“For four years, Barack Obama has been running from the nation’s problems, he hasn’t been working to earn re-election. He has been working to earn a spot on the PGA Tour,” Sen. McConnell said.
Apparently, this isn‘t just a dig at the president’s record. It‘s an attempt to make American’s think the president is, um, sex-starved and stuff.
“Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He is trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely, the — lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama,” said MSNBC host (of course) Lawrence O’Donnell.
Really?
“Lawrence — don’t you think — don’t you think that what he’s really trying to do is to suggest that the president is not paying attention to the central issues that come with the responsibility he has?” MSNBC’s Martin Bashir asked.
“Is he really — Mitch McConnell really making a connection with Tiger Woods who, of course, has become infamous for chasing various cocktail waitresses around Las Vegas and so on?” he added.
“Martin, there are many, many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point up want to make. If he wanted to make the point that you just suggested and I think he does want to make that point, they had a menu of a minimum of ten different kinds of images that they could have raised,” O’Donnell argued.
“And I promise you, the speech writers went through, rejecting three or four before they land order that one. That’s the one they want for a very deliberate reason. That — there’s — these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches,” he added.
“You really believe that about Mitch McConnell?” a confused-looking Bashir asked.
“I know these people are insensitive. I know the speechwriters are insensitive. I know the way they work. They do not have the same sensitivity level that other speechwriters do. But when you get to the Tiger Woods reference, there were people in the speech writing room, I know this, without a shadow of a doubt, who said wait a minute, do we really want to go there?” O’Donnell said.
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt”? Then it must be true.
“Do we really want to go to Tiger Woods and the vote in the room was yes, we do. Mitch McConnell agreed to do it,” O’Donnell added.
“Wow. Things are getting lower and lower by the day,” Bashir said.
The Beck radio crew had a slew of fun mocking the idea, using plenty of sarcasm and hyperbole to debunk the idea and pointing out that there are some liberals who will do plenty of mental gymnastics to accuse conservatives of racism. We’ll be adding that audio shortly.
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(H/T: Human Events & WFB). Front page photos courtesy the AP.
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Comments (204)
republic2011
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:40pmThey sure are reaching…
Report Post »PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:56pmThey have lost their minds. LOL
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:01pmI woke up this morning and went to work… I MUST BE A RACIST!!
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:02pmHonestly, I didn’t make that connection. It takes MSNBC to make a mountain out of that molehill.
Silversmith
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:03pmlmao, grassp, they r looking 4 a bail out.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:03pmThey should interview the golf cheater TW’s wife. She was just evidently a loose impediment.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:12pmVery soon MSNBC will say that brushing your teeth everyday is racist because they‘re white and you’re giving them special treatment instead of allowing them to go black.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:13pmGrasp? Meet Straw…..
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:39pmThe word has lost all meaning…..But just so you know they’re throwing everything they can and just hoping something sticks. It’s all they have left I hope all you people posting facts and paying attention are happy. You’re crippled the Democrats by shining a light on the things they do. Reducing them to nothing more than factless instigating mud slingers…Darn I’m racist now for using cripple because Eddie Murphy faked being cripple in Trading Places.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:39pmObama + Golf = Laser Focus on the Economy
Report Post »PokeySD
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:50pm@Johnjamison, you have it wrong. You can’t say crippled because of the Crips, because mentioning anything close to gangs is racist. Similarly, you can’t say that Obama is sucking the life “blood” out of the economy.
Report Post »Bilko
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:59pmThey’re scared shirtless
Report Post »FEMALL
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:14pm@ term limits for congress;
Lawrence O’Donnell + 6 months=Home Shopping Network 3AM slot
O’Donnell +McConnell = 60 share in Ireland
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:36pmLets talk about the link between Obama and fast and furious ,All the missing stimulus money, The failed green energy programs,the leaks on top secret military operations and list goes on.
Report Post »Cry_Havoc
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:39pmI put bl@ckberry jam on my white toast. OMG, WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT??!!
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:25pmHOLY COW! So, if someone says, “There are bluer skies ahead,” what they really mean is that Republicans want to kill innocent penguins because water is blue and ice is made of water and they want the polar ice caps to melt because REPUBLICANS HATE PENGUINS!
Liberal logic… I understand now! How did I completely overlook the connections that don’t exist for so long?
Report Post »ComeNovember2012
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:26pmTW’s ex wife must be racist. She took a golf club to a black suv! I drive a white car. I must be racist!
Report Post »DownWithDems
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:41pmThe NY Obama Loving, Socialist Loving, Left Loving, Times.
When you think they cannot get any lower, they just get even lower.
Hopefully the Next stop is Hell. May they take their supporters with them!
If you know anyone who is still dumb enough to read the Times, tell them
the word Boycott sounds appropriate.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/new-york-times-puts-son-satan-ryan-front-page_651233.html
Report Post »QuoteMaster
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 7:55pm“A house divided against itself can not stand.” Abraham Lincoln
Holy Cow, Abrahma Lincoln must be racist because he said ‘House divided’ implying divorce, and a study done by a probably-trustworthy source shows that blacks have more divorces than whites! Don’t believe me? Lincoln was a Republican! (Cue dramatic music)
MSMBC logic is, how do I put this nicely, idiotic.
“I understand how liberals think. Because I was a child once too. But unlike them, I moved on from my childish ways.” Michael Savage.
Report Post »GravityGuy
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 8:49pmUnbelievable – Clearly you are racist when you have to point out that you have a job. The obvious underlying connotation is that you are mocking black people who don’t have jobs as being lazy or somehow undeserving of a job.
How did you not see it? It’ll be on MSNBC within the hour… racist.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 5:59amThey have turned every comment into racism and as a result it is losing its value. The biggest racists in this campaign are the Obamas and those who worship them.
OMG Nov 6, 2012
Report Post »Trollkiller68
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 9:03pmThey’re reaching alright, reaching for their crack pipe. This guy sounds like he’s been hit in the head with a golf club. How did these idiots ever find jobs working in the media? Out of ideas and out of time!
Report Post »db321
Posted on September 1, 2012 at 11:19amThis 4 years of being racist has been difficult. I liked it before Obama was elected, when I didn’t have a racist bone in my body.
Report Post »tj1961
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:40pmTo these brain stems EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE!!!!
Report Post »EastTexas
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:52pmIt’s all they have left.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:17pmVisit this 4 min video to see if you are a RACIST http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/must-see-video-on-how-to-be-a-racist/ This is great.
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:39pmIn a November 11 2005 Newsmaker interview, Lawrence described himself as a European Socialist.
Report Post »European??? Socialist??? Now it doesn’t take much of a stretch when talking about European Socialists to be reminded of the most famous european socialists of all- that’s right the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the NSDAP. OMG, Lawrence is a friggin’ NAZI.
Jaycen
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:21pmSorry, Ron. O‘Donnel is not a Nationalist Socialist Worker’s Party member. He’d have to be patriotic.
O’Donnel is an Internationalist Socialist (Union or non-Union doesn’t really member). He wants the U.N. to run the world.
Report Post »berlet98
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:39pmSick Liberal Puppies: Part One
Some years ago, I inadvertently cornered a huge raccoon gorging on dog food in the back of my garage. Surprised and angered by my interruption of its late night meal, the raccoon reacted by baring its teeth and snarling menacingly–much like liberals literally and metaphorically act when they smell defeat.
A liberal low-life hacked into Mia Love’s Wikipedia page and posted scurrilous comments about the African-American mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, GOP candidate for Congress, and Tuesday’s brilliant speaker at the RNC convention.
Calling the conservative Ms. Love a “token,” an “Aunt Tom,” a “House ******” and a “dirty, worthless whore” constituted a common instance of racist, leftist misogyny and wasn’t unusual for our liberal friends.
Yahoo News’ Washington bureau chief David Chalian once again betrayed the liberal taint of the media when he was overheard on a hot mic slandering the presumptive Republican nominee for president and his wife.
The churlish Chalian remarked that Mitt and Ann Romney were “not concerned at all” and indeed were “happy to have a party [the convention] with black people drowning” because of tropical storm Isaac. As disgusting as it was, his racist slur was not unusual for a liberal.
That Yahoo fired Chalian doesn’t mitigate the unavoidable truth that America’s left-wingers are largely composed of mean-spirited, misanthropic sickos who, confronted wit
Report Post »Stelex
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:08pmJust wait till the night they lose. Scorched Earth anyone
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:38pmThese guys are grasping at straws .. They have partially lost the women vote at least the married, hard working, and don‘t expect much from the gov’t. The still have the Sandra Fluks in their pocket and the muslims. They are afraid to loose a big chunk of the Black/Hispanic vote so they keep race baiting us to keep that portion on their plantation.
Report Post »RickN
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:38pmRomney: “I accept your nomination for President of the United States!”
O’Donnell: “We all know that when Mitt Romney says ”accept”, it’s code for black people ACCEPTING food stamps, and once again shows the racism which is instilled deep within the Republican Party. Let’s go to chris Matthews for his thoughts. Chris!”
Matthews: “(Slobbering uncontrolably) Mitt Romney once again is reaching out to the birthers by saying things like “President of the United States”! This is code! He know’s his base thinks of Kenya when they hear those words! Just more red-meat for his base of birthers and Teabaggers!”
These guys are LOSERS!
Report Post »Arc
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:37pmIf theblaze does not point out the stupidity of those numbsculls, they will continue to think they are RELEVANT.
Report Post »RedManBlueState
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:24pmI’m not usually a grammar Nazi, but having a misspelling and a typo while insulting another person’s intelligence makes you look like a freaking MORON!! Your browser even underlines them in RED for you as you’re typing.
theblaze numbsculls
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:42pmYet you ARE a grammar nazi
Report Post »freedom101
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:15pmREDMANBLUESTATE and other people who get uptight about grammar on message boards: let it go!
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:18pmno grammer for you!!!
Report Post »ComeNovember2012
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:29pmOh man…if you’re a grammar nazi, you must be racist because you would have a fit reading ebonics!
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 6:20pm@redmanbluestate–
While I am a prescriptive grammarian and rarely miss orthographic foibles, it‘s always the message that’s most important. Lording your knowledge of morphology and syntax, does nothing but point to YOU as an elitist MORON!
Report Post »Mike Benton
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:36pmIt is getting lower and lower because for these clowns there is no bottom…they will go to the depth of Hell if they have to.
Report Post »Neils60
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:35pmOnly a “moonbat” could find McConnell’s statement even remotely tinged with racism. And, yet, a remark by one of their “prominent” commentators, following President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress 2009, “I forgot that he (President Obama) was black for an hour”, went unscathed and untouched by his colleagues, his audience and fellow moonbats everywhere.
Report Post »FREEDOMoverFEAR
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:46pmWho knew you couldn’t call a monkey, a monkey?
Now that’s how you do racism
Report Post »Silver Lining
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 5:52pmLet us not forget good old Joe Biden’s take on Barry … “”I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
Report Post »mitchemm
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:32pmLiberals are always looking for shadows in the dark.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:08pmCareful, that double entendre could earn you the racist moniker (not from me)
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:32pmThey inject racism where there is none, its all they have. I feel sorry for them, they are so pathetic. Its hard to watch. Nothing is more unattractive than desparate, progressive, angry, Obama lovers.
Report Post »zorro
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:32pmI am at a loss for words. I can’t believe the racism so prevalent in the Republican Party. Thank goodness Americans have people like Lawrence O’Donnell to tell us, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what these racist, homophobic, puppy-killing bastards mean.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:44pmYou mean Larry the Nazi??
Report Post »ComeNovember2012
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 4:32pm“Puppy killing?” You may get Oblah-blah’s attention…man, that was racist of me.
Report Post »LivesinIndy
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:31pmWe have just seen directly inside O‘Donnell’s brain. I’m not sure what is there EXACTLY – only – it seems to have pathways that find the most random, far-fetched, & nefarious interpretations. Maybe he’s the racist guy, because he seems fixated on Race. Larry, the President spends hundreds of hours on Golf courses. Larry, what if it’s the white half of Obama trying for the PGA? It’s a parallel universe.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:37pmObama takes his frustration out on poor white balls. That’s racist!!!!
Report Post »Eastinfection
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:29pmKeep chasing those windmills Don QuixOdonnell ! You and Poncho Schultz can just keep on riding your white-guilt train round and round in circles. BTW- Do you guys still lay head-to-toe massaging each other’s feet?
Report Post »LivesinIndy
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:39pmBravo!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:41pmEASTINFECTION, Bwahahahahaha! I‘m can easily picture Pancho Schultz on his saddled ass following a mounted QuixO’Donnell holding onto his broken lance. That was a good one.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:29pmWhen relating a statement about Obama, I don’t think Tiger Woods was the proper one. I think it related more to Barney Franks.
Report Post »landman1
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 3:32pmAny comparison to Tiger and Obama’s golf game is a true insult to Tiger and anyone who has ever played the game. O’Donnell is the most angry individual that you will ever encounter. He is a guy who needs to be popular and can’t get any traction even at this own network. They replaced him with Al Sharpton for God’s sake at the prime time slot.. Who wouldn’t be angry and disillusioned. He and only he could come up with a racial component to Sen McConnell’s speech. Everyone knows that the whole MSNBC crowd are mere shills for Obama and will do and say anything to further Obama’s chances. But O’Donnell must be given the “ Hemingway of *********” award for this attempt to smear the conservatives. Repulsive!
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:29pmThere so stupid it does not deserve a comment .
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:17pmWhy not just set a bag full-o-hammers on the desk next to you while your on air! Something smart in the picture is needed!!!!
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 2:25pmOk I now have to say if the other reporters on MSNBC Moe , Larry , Curly . We will have to add Lawrence O’Donnell as Shemp ?
Report Post »zafars
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:28pmTiger Woods is a great player, and asides from his scandal, any reference to playing gold with him is surely a compliment. anyway these 2 jokers , and they are competing with quite a few on MSNBC , always lighten my day.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:25pmTrying to keep a running tally of what references to Obama are “racist”. It’s tough. Here’s a partial: His Name, “Cool”, Welfare, Food Stamps, Golf, Basketball, Religion, Tax Policy, Foreign Policy…
Report Post »jdtanker
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:25pmThese guys are idiots. IT’S THE AMOUNT OF GOLF ROUNDS OBAMA IS PLAYING! UNBELIEVABLE!
Report Post »the_system_disconnect
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:32pmJust like the crazy amount of sex he has with anyone who is not his wife :P
NBC, You just keep getting more stupid.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:25pmNo wonder nobody watches MSLSD as Levin calls it.
Report Post »tweetybird
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:24pmWow…..Lawrence O’Donnell is grasping at straws BIG TIME. Desperate attempt to push the “racism” agenda.
Report Post »LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:24pmAre you kidding me????? So, if we are linking Obama to Tiger Woods/Sex shinanigans; and by that perverted definition, “being rascist”…..shall we be called racists for Condi Rice getting a green jacket?
OK, I know we just sent a rover to Mars; but somehow, I think we have been sending more advanced spacecraft to Mars that are capable of bringing back large payloads for 50 years; and what it brought back were liberals. They have got to be from another planet. So much for the theory that there is more intelligent life in outer space.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:23pmHow many black golfers are there besides Tiger Woods? I thought he had a tough time because it was a “white man’s” sport? I’d think people would get in more trouble linking him to basketball. Really? Golf is now racist?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:30pmIt‘s racist to Odumber’s white half. I mean, isn’t it obvious? sarc/
Report Post »grimmster
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:21pmMy question to the Blaze is, why keep giving these morons publicity,we all know what they say, its rehashed every stinking day.These losers are not worth it, let their careers slowly die off….
Report Post »LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:25pmthe reason why Blaze does this is to highlight how either deceiving, idiotic, or racist the left actually is.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:31pmJust to keep us fired up and the comments comming.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:34pmagree…unfotunately the country is slowly dying off waiting to see this 40 year infestation take that course…at 65 , I’m not as patient as you…He!! , I don’t even buy green bananas…so watching this red brigade crowd (that’s a lie) hearing about these twits is disturbing at best…vet 66′-68′ will work for free and have own tools..
Report Post »2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:00pmIts called humor. The madcap bufoons on MSNBC are the modern court jesters of the political world.
Report Post »Incredulous321
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 1:50pmMy brother was watching these morons last night and quoted some of their ridiculous crap back to me. There are libs that believe this stuff, and while we know it’s ignorant, they still have a vote. That’s why we need to see this. It may be an impossible task, but we need to keep pointing out the lunacy of being a left winger.
Report Post »Man-On-A-Mission
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:17pmMuch to do about nothing.
Report Post »Skippy_John_Jones
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:26pmUh, that would be “much ADO about nothing”.
Idiot.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 30, 2012 at 12:44pmMAN_ON_A_MISSION:
Report Post »He is correct. It’s “much to do about nothing”. We are talking about What’s His Face!!!!!!