Tag Archives: race baiting

Shirley Sherrod and the politics of white fear

By Mark | July 22, 2010

I was going to write something about the Shirley Sherrod situation last night, but I never got to it, and now it seems like old news. I did, however, want to open up new post, in case people had comments that they wanted to express… For those of you who might be unfamiliar with the […]

Posted in Media, Politics | Also tagged ACORN, Andrew Breitbart, Department of Agriculture, Eugene Robinson, fear mongering, Glenn Beck, NAACP, racism, Shirley Sherrod, tea party, Tom Vilsack | 6 Comments

Dan Fanelli on how, if he’s in Congress, brown people won’t be able to leave the ground

By Mark | May 9, 2010

If you can believe it, these are real ads by one of the guys running in the Republican primary for a chance to take on Congressman Alan Grayson come November. Yup, that’s right… apparently white guys don’t fly planes into buildings… And apparently this kind of disgusting ad is what resonates with the voters of […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged actors playing terrorists, Alan Grayson, Dan Fanelli, Florida, guys trying to look tough, Joe Stack, Joseph Andrew Stack, political ads, profiling, racial profiling, racism, Red Roof Inn, terrorism | 9 Comments

We all work for Fox

By Mark | March 23, 2010

There’s been quite a bit of good analysis in the wake of the Republican implosion on health care, and the pant-shittingly hysterical psychotic meltdown that accompanied it. I particularly liked what Bob Herbert had to say in his New York TImes op-ed today. Here, for those of you who didn’t see it, is a clip: […]