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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 07, 2012 55 Comments

From Chris Rock: With time standing still, Rock was right. There was slavery in much of the British Colonies, and Independence Day did not end that immediately.  It took about 90 years and a civil war to do that, although many slaves gained their freedom in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 30, 2012 45 Comments

From Dr. Jack Kevorkian's lawyer comes possibly the worst form of attorney advertising ever, a massive play of the race card designed to drum up business in the Detroit area. (h/t OcTEApi in Tip Line) Did anyone question whether George Romney was qualified to be President?  Hello Geoffrey Fieger,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 09, 2012 38 Comments

Mike Lupica is a sports writer who now is a political columnist.  Lupica suffers from Keith Olbermann Disease. Lupica hasn't been mentioned much here, but we did call him out when he claimed that a Stop Obama sign was a call to violence based on race: We are 100 yards, no...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2012 33 Comments

Obama has lost roughly 40% of the Democratic primary vote to an imprisoned felon in West Virginia, to "uncommitted" in Kentucky, and to a Tennesee lawyer who "could fit snugly on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC show" and who no one in Arkansas likely had heard of before...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 24, 2012 25 Comments

Don't say I haven't been warning you. While the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh has been only marginally effective, Color of Change has had more success getting major companies to drop their participation in the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) by falsely tying ALEC's support of "stand your...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 12, 2012 28 Comments

Via The Daily Mail (Britain): Police chiefs have banned the word ‘blacklist’ over fears it is racist. They have also struck out its opposite – ‘whitelist’ – which is used by IT workers for a list of acceptable email contacts. Scotland Yard employees have been told to use...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 11, 2012 38 Comments

Is there any part of the Democratic campaign agenda that is not planned out and contrived? As you know, the deliberate use of the race card to advanced the Democratic Party agenda has been documented here hundreds of times. An article at The Washington Examiner, House Dems trained to make...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2012 30 Comments

Today seems to be a turning point in the Elizabeth Warren-Cherokee story.  Her shifting and implausible explanations have made her a laughing-stock, never good for any candidate.  Warren has lost the argument, and her credibility. Her story about why she listed herself as a minority on...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 28, 2012 60 Comments

The Battle of the English Language continues. There is an organized movement by the Applied Research Center, of which Rashad Robinson of Color of Change is a Board member, to ban the use of the term "illegal alien" as racist. What race is an illegal alient?  Let's not...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2012 52 Comments

There has been a pressure campaign against corporate sponsors of the American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC) led by Color of Change and some of the same groups targeting conservative talk radio: Here’s how it works.  An issue which is neutral, such as voter i.d. laws, is portrayed as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 49 Comments

You all know about the secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers. Media Matters threw its full weight into the boycott, continues to work on it, and so-called "independent" groups continue to tweet away and call mostly local advertisers. The boycott intimidation tactics failed to remove Limbaugh from...

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