Why actor Morgan Freeman needs a Politics 101 class

Morgan Freeman appeared on a CNN talk show and leveled racism charges at those who don’t agree with President Barack Obama’s big government policies.

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Mexico exodus: Foreign policy disaster for the U.S.

Memin Penguin, a character created by a Mexican artist, perceived as racist-based in the U.S., is still popular in Mexico.You can’t cover politics without noticing a steady stream of news releases and policy statements on what wonks and pundits call immigration. Left leaners paint the millions entering the U.S. with one brush—humble farm workers hoping to improve their lot. Right leaners see the influx as an invasion made up of people no one can document.

Commerce chambers and advocates for the hotel, ski resort and construction sectors among others see foreign citizens who come here to work (legally or illegally) as taking jobs Americans won’t take. Remember the hoopla in 2005 when Mexico president Vicente Fox said, “[I]legals do the work that ‘not even black people want to do,’ implying that African Americans make up the lowest rungs of society. “ [The San Francisco Chronicle]

Fox was criticizing citizens of Arizona who were concerned about the deluge of foreign citizens in their state. The Chronicle reminded us Mexico unveiled postage stamps about a month later “featuring none other than a black character like something out of a minstrel show.”

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‘Don’t Vote’ ad riles pundits, raises questions on identity politics, double standard

A commercial some are calling the ‘Don’t Vote’ ad is riling pundits because the message tells Hispanics not to vote. A politics writer with The Las Vegas Review-Journal called the ad “the most despicable and offensive political ad of Nevada's 2010 season…”

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Olbermann complaint points to all white MSNBC lineup

This video created by the Dallas Tea Party shows MSNBC leftwinger Keith Olbermann chastising Tea Partiers about their lack of diversity. He starts with skin color. I'm not aware whether Tea Party groups have ever run a statistical analysis on the racial background of participants. I mean you'd ordinarily have less minority members since they're in the minority, right?

Of course, even if you have all those white people, anyone who can process a real thought as opposed to retrogressive dogma (excluding most at MSNBC) would realize there is an astounding amount of diversity regardless of skin color. Isn't that what America is all about?

Sidenote to Olbermann: even white people have their differences.

The Texas Tea Party came up with their own assessment. Enjoy the commentary on MSNBC's all white-skinned (are they all Northeastern Democrats?) lineup. I'm betting there's not a Republican in that crowd. I don't see any handicapped people. Or extremely old people (although Matthews looks kind of old). And gosh, I don't see anyone wearing clothing that would suggest she is Muslim. What faiths are represented by the MSNBC lineup?

And personally speaking, we prefer our commentary from Rachel Maddow. She not only manages to display intelligence, she doesn't get those googly eyes Olbermann and Chris Matthews get when they have those Freudian hysteria moments.

This video is likely to give you one of those Chris Matthews leg tingles--it's that good.

Hat tip to Brad Bashem, one of my Facebook buddies, who linked us to Atlas Shrugs where Pamela Geller writes and where we found this perfectly delightful video.

Defense for Harry at WaPo but he’s only half the Democrat scandal

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s defense is in full swing, with select Democrat-friendly media assisting. The Washington Post led yesterday with the header, “Racial comments prove Steele and Reid aren’t so different after all.”

Say what?

Reid’s prejudice is really only half of the Democrat scandal. But we have to start somewhere so we’ll start with the assault on Steele. It's a textbook example of media bias.

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Reid’s remarks another example of Dem hypocrisy on race

Commentary by Kay B. Day 

General Dwight D. Eisenhower stopping for noon mess by the roadside during an inspection tour in Tunisia, 1943. As president, Eisenhower laid the foundation for sweeping changes in civil rights. [U.S. Army photograph]Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is up front and center right now, with media reporting and analysts debating his questionable remarks about President Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign. Do remarks by Reid alluding to the president—“light-skinned” and “no Negro dialect” (unless Obama wanted to engage in it)—point to Democrat obsession with race?

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