Jennifer Rubin Whitesplains: There Is No Racism, and Obama Is ‘Not a Good Person’ for Talking About It

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Here’s the Washington Post’s resident right wing propagandist Jennifer Rubin, white-splaining that there’s no racism in America, and calling President Obama “the absolute worst.”

According to Rubin, racism effectively ended with the repeal of Jim Crow laws and no one experiences racism these days, except for Obama who seeks to use race “as a crutch or a method of stirring up his base.”

She says Obama isn’t letting people “get out of this racial archaeology” so they are “held prisoners forever in a past that most Americans have never personally experienced.”

Rubin explained that Obama’s recent remarks on race prove that he is “the absolute worst.”

“I do not think that this man is a good person,” Rubin said. “He wants to incite people and to rally people for political ends; that is not a good person.”

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110 comments
1 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:12:57am

Ugh, somebody stop the bullshit train please.

I want to get off.

2 Carlos Dangler  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:13:26am

OK, Jennifer…if there’s no racism in America today, then how about you “race-swap” in a inner-city neighborhood for six months and come back to us? Somehow, I don’t think you’d be singing the same song.

3 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:13:41am

Nobody knows racism more than Jen Rubin, who knows it doesn’t exist anymore, except when Libtards talk about it. //

4 Kragar  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:13:46am

I’d sure like to visit this “America” where most people never experienced racism. It sounds like a nifty alternate dimension.

5 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:14:16am
‘According to Rubin, racism effectively ended with the repeal of Jim Crow laws and no one experiences racism these days, except for Obama who seeks to use race “as a crutch or a method of stirring up his base.”’

Because there’s no better authority on how black men are treated than a white woman.
//

6 Lidane  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:14:17am

Jennifer Rubin’s salary is wasted money and her column is wasted space.

The Washington Post would be better served by using her salary to hire interns.

7 klys  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:14:38am

re: #4 Kragar

I’d sure like to visit this “America” where most people never experienced racism. It sounds like a nifty alternate dimension.

Well, I mean, it’s not that hard.

Just be born white.

…I really wish I could put sarcasm tags on this.

8 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:15:34am
She says Obama isn’t letting people “get out of this racial archaeology” so they are “held prisoners forever in a past that most Americans have never personally experienced.”

Archaeology usually deals with stuff older than last February.

And older than yesterday and today.

9 Single-handed sailor  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:16:15am

Yeah, sure. There’s no antisemitism since WWII, either.

10 Gus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:16:29am

Still crazy after all these years.

11 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:17:38am

I never experienced racism until I walked downtown holding hands with an aboriginal woman.

12 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:17:40am

re: #4 Kragar

I’d sure like to visit this “America” where most people never experienced racism. It sounds like a nifty alternate dimension.

Why, hell, I’ve rarely if ever experienced any racism directed at me, therefore nobody has. Similarly, nobody ever paid me less because of my gender, so sexism is also a thing of the past. And nobody ever beat me up for being gay, so there’s no homophobia either.
//

I am starting to believe that Conservatism, like sociopathy, is based in a lack of empathy. Over and over I’ve seen Conservatives demonstrate that they cannot comprehend anyone’s life experience being different from their own.

13 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:18:55am

re: #6 Lidane

Jennifer Rubin’s salary is wasted money and her column is wasted space.

The Washington Post would be better served by using her salary to hire interns.

The Washington Post would be better served by replacing her column inches with blank white space. Certainly humankind would be better served.

14 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:19:10am

re: #12 GeneJockey

Why, hell, I’ve rarely if ever experienced any racism directed at me, therefore nobody has. Similarly, nobody ever paid me less because of my gender, so sexism is also a thing of the past. And nobody ever beat me up for being gay, so there’s no homophobia either.
//

I am starting to believe that Conservatism, like sociopathy, is based in a lack of empathy. Over and over I’ve seen Conservatives demonstrate that they cannot comprehend anyone’s life experience being different from their own.

That.

15 b.d.  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:20:20am

re: #6 Lidane

Jennifer Rubin’s salary is wasted money and her column is wasted space.

The Washington Post would be better served by using her salary to hire interns.

How many people buy the Washington Post because it contains a Jennifer Rubin article?

16 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:21:46am

Rather funny to hear Rubin and others talk of the end of racism, all while ignoring the comments that actually indicate that racism is alive and thriving among their very supporters.

But to hear Rubin and others talk about it, it’s the act of pointing out racism that is inherently racism. Bass-ackward, but there it is.

17 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:22:00am

Rubin is ignorant and so is the WAPO for keeping her on.

Have none of them any shame whatsoever?

18 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:22:13am

re: #14 b_sharp

That.

Seriously, it even comes out in things like Voter ID. They can’t grasp that millions live and go about their daily business without a government issued photo ID. You can even cite people you know personally, and they just don’t get it.

19 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:22:46am

ONLY LIBTURDS CAN BE TEH REAL RASSISTS!!11 SUM BLAH DUDE DR. BEN CASEY SAID SO & HE IS A BLAH DUDE!!!11 RETWEEEEEEEEET

20 Kragar  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:22:47am

Report: Cuccinelli Supported Laws Criminalizing Extramarital Sex

Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli once suggested as a state senator that laws criminalizing extramarital sex “ought to stay on the books,” Politico reported Tuesday.

“Frankly it wouldn’t hurt to enforce them more,” Cuccinelli is quoted saying in Richmond’s Style Weekly magazine in 2008.

Cuccinelli was paraphrased as comparing adultery to “perjury inasmuch as the occasional prosecution or two would get people thinking twice.”

21 darthstar  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:23:31am

Mansplaining, whitesplaining…what the fuck happened to the English language?

22 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:23:53am

re: #20 Kragar

Report: Cuccinelli Supported Laws Criminalizing Extramarital Sex

Cucci will be caught with a dead girl or a live boy or both. It is only a matter of time.

23 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:24:33am

re: #21 darthstar

Mansplaining, whitesplaining…what the fuck happened to the English language?

I’d tell you, but I’d be accused of old-dudesplaining.

24 Archangelus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:24:51am

“racism effectively ended with the repeal of Jim Crow laws and no one experiences racism these days” - What world is Rubin living in? Because it sure as hell isn’t this one!

25 brennant  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:25:03am

re: #21 darthstar

Mansplaining, whitesplaining…what the fuck happened to the English language?

GET OFF MY LAWN!

26 OhNoZombies!  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:25:09am

But Tavis and Cornell said…
///
Never liked Tavis, but Cornell West, is now dead to me.
I guess Larry Summers was on to something.

27 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:25:10am

re: #20 Kragar

Less government. Don’t Tread On Me. Liberty. //

28 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:25:57am

re: #16 lawhawk

Rather funny to hear Rubin and others talk of the end of racism, all while ignoring the comments that actually indicate that racism is alive and thriving among their very supporters.

But to hear Rubin and others talk about it, it’s the act of pointing out racism that is inherently racism. Bass-ackward, but there it is.

Seriously. The whole argument boils down to “N*ggers are the REAL racists!”

29 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:26:28am

Is “Prudence” Jennifer Rubin’s Twitter handle?

30 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:26:51am
31 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:28:06am

DERP

32 Kragar  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:29:01am

re: #30 lawhawk

Early reports are coming out the Royal baby’s name will be Stormageddon.

33 Gus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:29:19am

re: #31 Vicious Babushka

DERP

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Wait. So now they hate the CSA battle flag? I’m confused.

34 b_sharp  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:29:24am

re: #21 darthstar

Mansplaining, whitesplaining…what the fuck happened to the English language?

It’s been neologised.

It’s always been a mess of borrowed and made up words.

35 Archangelus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:30:09am

re: #32 Kragar

Early reports are coming out the Royal baby’s name will be Stormageddon.

Sadly ‘Dark Lord Of All’ probably qualifies as too long of a middle name…

36 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:30:13am

re: #32 Kragar

Daniel Stormborn. /GoT

37 Kragar  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:30:13am

re: #31 Vicious Babushka

DERP

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Which explains why all those good ole boys who vote Republican have it plastered on everything.

38 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:30:36am

re: #31 Vicious Babushka

DERP

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Republicans passed the Voting Rights Act! Which we just successfully gutted, because Those People won’t vote for us!.

39 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:30:47am

re: #20 Kragar

Report: Cuccinelli Supported Laws Criminalizing Extramarital Sex

This guy is a fucked up power hungry asshole. Yeah let’s put adulterers in jail. Okay Ayatollah Cuccinnelli.

40 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:30:49am

re: #35 Death to violence!

Sadly ‘Dark Lord Of All’ probably qualifies as too long of a middle name…

no such thing as a name too long for a royal baby…

41 SpaceJesus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:31:11am

watching this at home for lunch and my dog won’t stop barking at rubin

42 Lidane  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:31:21am

re: #12 GeneJockey

I am starting to believe that Conservatism, like sociopathy, is based in a lack of empathy.

I don’t know that it’s an innate lack of empathy like a sociopath. I think it’s more a learned behavior. Conservatives have created an entire alternate reality— their own media, their own version of history, their own version of science, etc. — that exists to reinforce their innate biases and worldview. Everything outside of that is conisdered evil, disorderd, and wrong.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Somalia is a capitalist paradise. Birth control pills cause abortion. Minorities acknowledging that racism still exists means the minorities are the real racists. Sharia law is bad, but society should adhere to Christian theology.

No one believes these things innately. They’re taught. THAT is the problem. There are real sociopaths teaching conservatives a worldview that reflects theirs, and that’s a problem.

Over and over I’ve seen Conservatives demonstrate that they cannot comprehend anyone’s life experience being different from their own.

When you live your entire life in a bubble, it’s hard to relate to anything outside of it.

43 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:31:51am

re: #35 Death to violence!

Sadly ‘Dark Lord Of All’ probably qualifies as too long of a middle name…

Not for a kid whose Granddad is named Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor.

44 SteveMcGazi  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:31:56am

The Confederate Battle Flag is like “fuggetabouit”. What it means depends on sho uses it and for what purpose.

45 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:31:59am

re: #40 Backwoods_Sleuth

no such thing as a name too long for a royal baby…

and that doesn’t even include the multitude of endless titles…

46 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:32:59am

re: #37 Kragar

Which explains why all those good ole boys who vote Republican have it plastered on everything.

It’s actually inaccurate even historically. There were Democratic unionists. Stephen Douglas, Lincoln’s famous debate opponent for one and there were many former Whigs who went along with secession. But history aside, claiming the CSA flag is the flag of the “Democrat party” while at the same whining that party wants too much federal power is too funny.

47 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:33:21am
48 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:33:25am

Do these folks even realize that the Democrats and Republicans were once one party?

History? How the frak does that work?

49 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:34:06am

re: #48 lawhawk

Do these folks even realize that the Democrats and Republicans were once one party?

History? How the frak does that work?

Indeed, both of our major parties are descendants of the old Democratic-Republican Party. The Federalists have no direct heirs.

50 Kragar  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:34:24am

re: #48 lawhawk

Do these folks even realize that the Democrats and Republicans were once one party?

History? How the frak does that work?

Step 1) Read the Bible

There is no Step 2.

51 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:34:53am

re: #48 lawhawk

Do these folks even realize that the Democrats and Republicans were once one party?

History? How the frak does that work?

You frack the big party by injecting money into it and see what part bubbles out?

;)

52 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:34:54am

re: #33 Gus

Wait. So now they hate the CSA battle flag? I’m confused.

BECAUSE DEMOCRATS WAS ALL RACIST & STUFF IN 1860!!11

Actually RWNJ’s probably don’t even realize that there was a 4-way election in 1860: GOP, National Democratic (Northern Democrats, who are the Dems of today), Constitutional Democrat (Southern Democrats) and Constitutional Union. The latter two parties formed the Confederate states.

53 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:35:02am

Rubin’s a willing clueless dolt. The Post should be ashamed that they pay her good money that could be going towards coffee and donuts.

54 Lidane  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:36:33am

re: #48 lawhawk

History? How the frak does that work?

You’re talking about the same people who conveniently ignore the fact that every Confederate state mentioned slavery as a major reason to secede. Then they tell you the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery.

History isn’t their strong suit. For that matter, neither is reality.

55 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:36:35am

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

BECAUSE DEMOCRATS WAS ALL RACIST & STUFF IN 1860!!11

Actually RWNJ’s probably don’t even realize that there was a 4-way election in 1860: GOP, National Democratic (Northern Democrats, who are the Dems of today), Constitutional Democrat (Southern Democrats) and Constitutional Union. The latter two parties formed the Confederate states.

Constitutions Union for what it’s worth were Southern Whigs. A lot of the slave owning aristocracy were actually members of the Whig Party before it split over slavery. The Democratic Party was more less the party of farmers, laborers during that time.

56 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:36:58am

Meanwhile, nuttiness closer to home:

57 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:37:30am

re: #41 SpaceJesus

watching this at home for lunch and my dog won’t stop barking at rubin

Is this your dog?

58 Gus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:37:34am

re: #56 lawhawk

Meanwhile, nuttiness closer to home:

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I sense booze.

59 OhNoZombies!  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:38:15am

re: #48 lawhawk

Do these folks even realize that the Democrats and Republicans were once one party?

History? How the frak does that work?

Well if it doesn’t work, just change it.
-Texas

60 Gus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:38:15am

re: #57 wrenchwench

Is this your dog?

[Faints]

61 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:39:40am

re: #7 klys

Well, I mean, it’s not that hard.

Just be born white.

…I really wish I could put sarcasm tags on this.

You are quite right. White people in America don’t understand racism. They have never been in the minority and they have seldom been persecuted against or treated as second class merely because of who they are.

I am white and I admit I don’t fully understand the reality of racism because I’ve never walked in those shoes.

If I lived in an African country, it would be different.

62 AntonSirius  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:40:29am

re: #17 Justanotherhuman

Rubin is ignorant and so is the WAPO for keeping her on.

Have none of them any shame whatsoever?


The thing is, that’s not exactly an idle threat on my part. One of my side jobs is covering the Washington Nationals for a subscription fantasy sports site, and on the average day I link to WaPo’s sports section at least a couple of times, and those updates get spread out to ESPN and Yahoo and CBS and a bunch of others.

But I can always find other sources for those updates.

63 BongCrodny  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:40:51am

re: #6 Lidane

Jennifer Rubin’s salary is wasted money and her column is wasted space.

The Washington Post would be better served by using her salary to hire interns.

They’d also be better suited taking her salary and just burning it.

64 SpaceJesus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:41:21am

re: #57 wrenchwench

Nope. Here he is from this last weekend though with my friend’s aussie

Image: kNDOLI8.jpg


(they’re bff’s)

65 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:41:54am

re: #63 BongCrodny

Take her salary and pay for a Nate Silver feed.

Silver is worth everything ESPN / Disney / ABC paid for him.

66 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:42:02am

Anyone else noticed how pretty much all right wing personalities have a well practiced “smug” look?

67 BongCrodny  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:42:48am

re: #56 lawhawk

Meanwhile, nuttiness closer to home:

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IT’S OVER, ANTHONY. JUST GO THE FUCK HOME!

68 erik_t  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:44:03am

I would challenge Ms. Rubin to pull up the transcript and walk us through, sentence by sentence, where Obama is wrong and in what sections he is attempting to incite violence, or where the most powerful person on the planet is using race as a “crutch”, since he so clearly can’t hack it on his own merits.

I know, I know, it’s a long speech. It’ll surely take time to tease out the pages and pages of breathless horror contained within. I’ll wait.

69 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:44:05am

re: #65 lawhawk

Take her salary and pay for a Nate Silver feed.

Silver is worth everything ESPN / Disney / ABC paid for him.

That was a brilliant move on their part. I am actually as an sports fan looking forward to hearing some of Nate’s sports commentary.

70 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:44:35am

re: #42 Lidane

I don’t know that it’s an innate lack of empathy like a sociopath. I think it’s more a learned behavior. Conservatives have created an entire alternate reality— their own media, their own version of history, their own version of science, etc. — that exists to reinforce their innate biases and worldview. Everything outside of that is conisdered evil, disorderd, and wrong.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Somalia is a capitalist paradise. Birth control pills cause abortion. Minorities acknowledging that racism still exists means the minorities are the real racists. Sharia law is bad, but society should adhere to Christian theology.

No one believes these things innately. They’re taught. THAT is the problem. There are real sociopaths teaching conservatives a worldview that reflects theirs, and that’s a problem.

When you live your entire life in a bubble, it’s hard to relate to anything outside of it.

That cart will work better with the horse in front.
//

But seriously, I think they choose their bubble because of their lack of empathy, rather than lacking empathy because of the bubble. Too many times, I’ve heard Wingnuts say that when they heard Rush Limbaugh (or other Conservative hatespewer), they had finally heard someone who thought like them.

I think that the fear of ‘Other’, the fear of change and of uncertainty, the unwillingness to tolerate nuance, and the need for simple black-and-white situations and solutions is a core part of their personalities. Is it innate? I don’t know. But it must be learned early.

71 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:44:53am

re: #68 erik_t

I would challenge Ms. Rubin to pull up the transcript and walk us through, sentence by sentence, where Obama is wrong and in what sections he is attempting to incite violence, or where the most powerful person on the planet is using race as a “crutch”, since he so clearly can’t hack it on his own merits.

I know, I know, it’s a long speech. It’ll surely take time to tease out the pages and pages of breathless horror contained within. I’ll wait.

Oh you can’t ask her to do that. It would mean asking her to be something other than the sorry excuse for a journalist she is. Her sole purpose is to just bitch and bitch about Obama and the left.

72 Dr Lizardo  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:47:41am

re: #11 b_sharp

I never experienced racism until I walked downtown holding hands with an aboriginal woman.

I experienced bigotry when I lived with an ex-girlfriend, who was black. I heard it all, including the ever-classic “ni***r-lover”.

If this woman really believes racism no longer exists in the US, she’s got her head up her culo.

73 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:50:07am

re: #56 lawhawk

Meanwhile, nuttiness closer to home:

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Stick a fork in that Wiener, it’s done.

74 Gus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:50:36am

Carlos Danger

75 Kragar  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:51:28am

re: #74 Gus

Carlos Danger

Baby name?

76 Lidane  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:51:32am

re: #65 lawhawk

Take her salary and pay for a Nate Silver feed.

Silver is worth everything ESPN / Disney / ABC paid for him.

And then some. The guy is brilliant.

Watching his sports commentary will be interesting.

77 Gus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:52:23am

re: #75 Kragar

Baby name?

Weiner’s nick.

78 Ming  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:52:41am

I did a double-take when I read the quote from Jennifer Rubin in the LGF post: “He [she’s talking about President Obama] wants to incite people and to rally people for political ends; that is not a good person.”

What a perfect description of herself, and many right-wing spokespeople.

I have to wonder if she has any conscious awareness of the irony. Also, I wonder what goes on in the minds of people who read her columns, or watch her on TV. Fox News “incites people for political ends” every day.

79 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:52:54am

re: #73 GeneJockey

You’d think so, but like bad dates, bad politicos keep coming back for more in NYC. I was just reading that David Paterson (who took over as governor for Spitzer but immediately ran into scandals of his own) is now considering a run for the Congressional seat currently held by none other than Charles Rangel (who’s had plenty of scandals of his own, including failing to pay taxes despite being the Chair of the committee in Congress that writes the tax code) if Rangel retires.

It’s a revolving door of rogues and misfits. And people wonder why Congress has such low ratings - we keep electing and reelecting them - even after they’ve had scandal atop scandal.

80 Gus  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:53:02am

re: #75 Kragar

Baby name?

Although that might work too.

81 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:53:53am

re: #77 Gus

Weiner’s nick.

Sure it’s not Carlos DANGLER?
//

82 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:54:27am

I’m gonna come right out and say it. There are individuals who are just assholes and deserve all the downdings they get.

83 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:54:35am

re: #76 Lidane

He got his start in baseball stats circles. He then applied the statistics to polling - and showed that the pundits and prognosticators were clueless. That apparently didn’t sit well with the establishment types in the NYT editorial department.

Silver’s career is still on an upswing. Same can’t be said for the NYT editorial department.

84 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:54:41am
85 ipsos  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:54:50am

I miss @JRubinBIogger. That was some quality parody right there.

86 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:54:57am

You know, Berkshire Hathaway owns the largest chunk of WaPo shares. I don’t know why Buffet doesn’t clean out the stupid. May he feels it’d be too obviously political, but you could due it on pure journalistic merit and still get good results.

87 RadicalModerate  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:55:22am

This must be one of those cases of “non-racism” that Rubin is talking about:

ACLU Sues St. Louis County Police Department Over Sunshine Law in Racial Profiling Case

In May, we wrote about the controversy surrounding Patrick Hayes, a St. Louis county police lieutenant who is accused of ordering cops to profile minorities for arrests, allegedly making statements like “Let’s have a black day” and “Let’s make the jail cells more colorful.”

Since the case first made headlines, the whistleblower who made the allegations has come forward and the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri has also pursued records in this case through the state’s Sunshine Law. Sgt. Daniel O’Neil, who wrote anonymous letters to higher-ups, has filed a formal discrimination complaint against the county police department — and today the ACLU-EM announced it has also filed a lawsuit, alleging that the department is violating Missouri’s records law by refusing to hand over documents.

“We are very disappointed,” Grant Doty, staff attorney with the ACLU-EM, tells Daily RFT. “We were very patient in trying to work with them…. Our last resort was a lawsuit.”

88 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:55:28am

There is no racism, but mooslims are evil

*spit*

89 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:57:42am

re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg

You are quite right. White people men in America don’t understand racism. They have never been in the minority and they have seldom been persecuted against or treated as second class merely because of who they are.

I am white and I admit I don’t fully understand the reality of racism because I’ve never walked in those shoes.

If I lived in an African country, it would be different.

FTFY

90 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:58:02am

re: #87 RadicalModerate

This must be one of those cases of “non-racism” that Rubin is talking about:

ACLU Sues St. Louis County Police Department Over Sunshine Law in Racial Profiling Case

It doesn’t effect her so it doesn’t exist.

91 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 11:58:24am

re: #75 Kragar

Baby name?

No, no, no. Danger should be the MIDDLE name.

92 MuggsMcguinness  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:03:16pm

Doesn’t get more ironic and laughable than this. And I suppose, Ms. Rubin, that there is no anti-Semitism either; that ended after WW II, right?
That is as rife as racism and for her to deny one and acknowledge the other is hypocritical. Being Jewish myself and having served for a time in Texas, I can attest to hearing the phrase “Jew them down” as an everyday way to discuss bargaining, and that was when everyone knew I was Jewish. Who knows what was said when I wasn’t around.

93 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:03:32pm

re: #84 Vicious Babushka

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In a country where wages as a percent of GDP are at an all-time low, and corporate profits as a percent of GDP are at an all-time high, where the rich are richer than anyone has ever been in the history of ever but the median wage is lower than it was 10 years ago, the Right believes the problem with the economy is regular working people make too much money.

94 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:05:15pm

re: #92 MuggsMcguinness

Welcome, hatchling.

95 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:07:29pm

re: #92 MuggsMcguinness

And Rubin still couldn’t buy her way into some country clubs in the south.

96 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:08:06pm

Observation but the people who claim racism is gone or otherwise rare are the same people who claim that it’s toughest being white and or male.

97 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:10:04pm

re: #92 MuggsMcguinness

Doesn’t get more ironic and laughable than this. And I suppose, Ms. Rubin, that there is no anti-Semitism either; that ended after WW II, right?
That is as rife as racism and for her to deny one and acknowledge the other is hypocritical. Being Jewish myself and having served for a time in Texas, I can attest to hearing the phrase “Jew them down” as an everyday way to discuss bargaining, and that was when everyone knew I was Jewish. Who knows what was said when I wasn’t around.

I’m not Jewish but my father was in a Costco once in line with this guy raving about the Jews this and the Jews that. I guess my Dad got tired of the usual bs and told the guy he was Jewish. Guy immediately went quiet. People are such bigots and the worst are those who convince themselves their bigotry is okay because “they’re not politically correct people, so deal with it.” BTW welcome aboard.

98 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:12:30pm

re: #96 HappyWarrior

Observation but the people who claim racism is gone or otherwise rare are the same people who claim that it’s toughest being white and or male.

Well, yeah - because all the racism is gone and we have to compete!
//

99 Internet Tough Guy  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:13:57pm

If Obama is the “absolute worst”, what does Ms. Rubin want to happen to him?

100 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:15:31pm

Rubin said. “He wants to incite

is there to be no end of wingnuts ‘explaining’ what progressives think or want?

101 MuggsMcguinness  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:20:46pm

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. I enjoy this site for its objectivity, almost impossible to find. God forbid anyone should have mixed feelings about a subject. When BS is BS call it by its name, right or left. The labels Right and Left are about as meaningful as KFC, which used to be called Kentucky Fried Chicken - although I would mind seeing a certain Kentucky conservative fried.

102 geoffm33  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:31:55pm

@MassGovernor paying off his bet from the Stanley Cup Finals

103 GunstarGreen  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 12:37:23pm

re: #33 Gus

Wait. So now they hate the CSA battle flag? I’m confused.

Republicans don’t have principles, and don’t bother with silly things like consistency. They can use the CSA battle flag to attack Democrats now, in their minds, so now it’s bad despite the fact that no modern Democrat ever flew that flag from their truck.

104 Ace-o-aces  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 2:34:34pm

re: #20 Kragar

Report: Cuccinelli Supported Laws Criminalizing Extramarital Sex

Because they are the party of small government.

105 Ace-o-aces  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 2:42:46pm

re: #31 Vicious Babushka

But wait, I thought the Civil War was about “State’s Rights”?

106 BeenHereAwhile  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 2:44:49pm

re: #69 HappyWarrior

re: #65 lawhawk

Take her salary and pay for a Nate Silver feed.

Silver is worth everything ESPN / Disney / ABC paid for him.

That was a brilliant move on their part. I am actually as an sports fan looking forward to hearing some of Nate’s sports commentary.

It’s win-win for ESPN, ABC & Nate Silver.

Silver will get to run his own shop, doing his first love sports data; and political data crunching during political campaigns.

Silver will create a lot of traffic for ESPN & ABC.

107 BroncD  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 2:58:15pm

“his base” = pesky negroes

108 palomino  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 3:00:45pm

Rubin and nearly every pundit and politician use words to “incite people to rally for political ends.” That’s almost the definition of the president’s bully pulpit, and it’s largely the job definition of a pundit/political activist. Somehow it’s wrong when Obama does it about anything, yet perfectly acceptable when Rubin does it regarding issues important to her. A total bullshit double standard.

109 Mateo Scourge  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 3:18:30pm

re: #108 palomino

Rubin and nearly every pundit and politician use words to “incite people to rally for political ends.” That’s almost the definition of the president’s bully pulpit, and it’s largely the job definition of a pundit/political activist. Somehow it’s wrong when Obama does it about anything, yet perfectly acceptable when Rubin does it regarding issues important to her. A total bullshit double standard.

Of course! They get to complain the President isn’t ‘leading’, then when he says anything, they get to say he’s injecting himself into the issue.

110 CuriousLurker  Tue, Jul 23, 2013 7:22:39pm

Using your logic, Ms. Rubin, I guess anti-Semitism effectively ended with the fall of the Third Reich and subsequent 1948 establishment of the independent state of Israel, and anyone who claims anti-Semitism is alive & well is not is a good person as they’re clearly only trying to rally people for political ends, correct? //


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