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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 05, 2010 10 Comments

If Alan Grayson and Al Franken could do it, why not Keith?  Now that he is suspended indefinitely without pay by MSNBC for failing to disclose his campaign contributions to Democrats, Olbermann can become part of the team, instead of just watching from the bleachers.What other...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 18, 2010 7 Comments

Democrat Jack Conway's advertisement asserting that there are "questions" about Republican Rand Paul's Christianity, raises in interesting issue.Substitute Barack Obama for Rand Paul, tweak a few of the allegations, and you would have an advertisement as to which the mainstream media and left-wing blogosphere would...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 16, 2010 1 Comment

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:This post is about Barack Obama's meeting with a group of black journalists and bloggers this week at the White House.  As reported at Real Clear Politics, Obama caused some...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 09, 2010 36 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Here we go again.I have posted before about the idiocy of playing the race card not based on the words actually used, but based upon the sound of the words,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 03, 2010 10 Comments

Ben Jealous, President of the NAACP, has launched a high-profile media and web campaign to demand that people in the Tea Party movement renounce racist "elements" in the movement.  As I have posted before, Mr. Jealous took islolated, and in some cases planted, signs at...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 02, 2010 11 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Gloria Allred earns a special place at the Saturday Night Card Game table for her performance this week in jumping the race card shark with a late-September Surprise on Meg Whitman,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 29, 2010 7 Comments

Guenter Lewy, an emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachetts, filed a defamation lawsuit in 2008 against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and two one of its employees, (including Mark Potok) David Holthouse.The lawsuit arose from Lewy's historical research in which he...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 25, 2010 19 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Democrat Loretta Sanchez (CA-47) is being challenged by Republican Van Tran, who is of Vietnamese descent.  Sanchez made news when she said:"El Viatnamese y los republicanos tratando de tomar...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 18, 2010 3 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:We all know how nothing brings out the race card from the overwhelmingly white media like a crowd of overwhelmingly white Tea Partiers.  This video from Black & Right (via...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 11, 2010 5 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Usually, on Saturday nights I focus on the people who tear us apart by injecting race into politics, by manipulating our feelings, by seeking political gain from the worst...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2010 13 Comments

Sam Stein writes at HuffPo today that increasingly libertarian social attitudes in the Republican Party combined with the failure of Democrats to live up to campaign promises, has led Democratic Party insiders to worry that "the Obama administration risks losing the gay rights community (or at least...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 21, 2010 7 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:I will not use that word even to talk about the word.  I will not say the word even in condemning people who call other people the word.  I also will hesitate...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2010 5 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain: I would like to think we have hit rock bottom when The New York Times launches a major research project and runs a feature article decrying the underrepresentation...

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