Good morning! On MTP I have had the dubious pleasure of watching four mega rich white people

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

talk about what black voters "want" and what they "think". With utter and complete certainty.

They are apparently getting paid very large amounts of money because they "understand" black voters and aren't afraid to say so.

They are a bit irony impaired in that they really think they are the "spokespeople" for that particular demographic.

Is there ANY MSM Sunday morning political show that at least attempts to provide something other than race/gender baiting?

MKJ

[HughMoran]

1. That'll teach ya

to watch that filth!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

14. You know, sometimes I just can't

look away.

Boy, if there was anyone who fit the "talking head" model it's Russert.

And, on edit, I'll just have to quit cold turkey. Except to watch a Dem candidate for pres., who hopefully will finally tell Tim to shut up and ask a question. :shrug:

Only, with a tad of diplomacy, of course.

MKJ

[HughMoran]

18. Tim is more like a "talking planetoid"

Talk about a mammoth sized head - holy shit!

[old guy]

22. Hence his nickname "pumpkin head"

I think of him every time I see a pumpkin. I wonder if Halloween is his favorite holiday?

[peacetalksforall]

23. At a certain point in time you don't have to watch because you figure out

that they are nearly 100% predictable. If they go over or under expectations - it will be posted on DU and may make youtube - so you really don't miss anything - AND - you don't have the spinning anger in your gut. You know it's going on, but you don't have to experience it. And there is great pleasure in knowing that you have not watched the advertising of their sponsors.

I watched MSNBC for years because I kept trying to figure out what was happening to tv and if what I was hearing was real? I found it was real, realized that it was 100% slanted against (me), learned who the operatives were, learned about the foundations they represented. It all came together - a grand batallion helping their war effort - the war on me, against me.

[bahrbearian]

24. You made it all the way through McCain?

My blood pressure hit the roof on that interview.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

25. I was puttering around, doing morning stuff with MTP in the background. I did hear McCain hearts the

sacrifices of "our young people" in uniform.

He was exceedingly awful, from what I did catch.

:-(

[ursi]

2. why don't the idiot pawns invite some real black people on there?

[Thrill]

3. Clinton insulted black americans in South Carolina

She brought Black politicians from NY down to SC, to tell them who they should vote for. my Black friends were not happy about that. The last thing people down in this area want is to be insulted like that by someone from up North. It backfired

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

7. If it makes you feel any better, they talked about "Bilary" and complained bitterly about her

attachment to her husband. I mean, what's up with that? MKJ

[DURHAM D]

26. That's pretty funny -

the Clinton campaign used the local South Carolina Dem organization. The Obama campaign built their organization from scratch with imports from Chicago and elsewhere.

You have been rolled by the Chicago machine. Congratulations.

[hiaasenrocks]

4. Welcome to the punditry.

I can't think of a single ethnic group, income group, gender, etc. that has not heard some pundit telling the world what that member of that group thinks.

It happens all the time. There's nothing unique about the situation you describe.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

Here I thought this was a once in a lifetime event.

Thanks for clarifying. :-) MKJ

[Vanje]

5. Sorry I missed it. Was David Brooks on?

When I want to feel the pulse of the African American community, I listen to Brooks. That guy is so down wid it.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

8. HA!

:rofl:

MKJ

[Sanity Claws]

9. I can just see him singing, "Who let the dogs out?"

He and Mitt should team up as a rap duo.

[Lerkfish]

32. well, that's on a par in my opinion to Bill claiming to be the first black president.

equally racially insensitive.

IMHO

[EffieBlack]

28. THAT is FUNNY!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[thunder rising]

6. And they make their observations without a clue as to how absurd they look and sound

[rodeodance]

21. Fish swimming in water do not know that water surrounds them

[MADem]

10. I watched a bunch of drunken assholes cheering on our Patriots!

MTP and EVERY news program was preempted by a rally for the Pats...!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

13. The rally dialog was probably more intellectual, or if nothing else, on point.

MKJ

[pdxmom]

11. There was an editorial in my paper this morning talking about the same

thing regarding the Latino vote. A bunch of talking heads, spouting their "expert" opinion on the Latino vote, who have absolutely no understanding of that community.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

19. That's true, I heard a quick mention of the Latino vote by Russert. I guess even the MTP

panel isn't so dense that they don't recognize they couldn't even begin to make anything up that didn't sound self satirical when discussing that particular voter bloc with in any length.

F**ing race baiting creeps.


:mad:

[MoonRiver]

12. It was a revolting sham of a "news" program.

NBC and MSNBC have become cheap tabloid networks.

[OHdem10]

15. Those rich white pundits fare much better under GOP Governance

Keeping this Race Gender Race Gender going assures
the GOP some strenth in the nexr election.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

16. Indeed, they really value their tax cuts and investments.

MKJ

[MissWaverly]

17. I switched to ABC This Week

I left during the McCain and I always do what's right for America, he gives the same speech all the time, how no one has figured this
out scares me. It is the clueless Sunday Talk Show. The GOP have been sound leaders and fiscal managers for the last 8 years,
that's why the world and the US is on the brink of financial disaster and the Middle East is a cauldron of violence and misery.

[EffieBlack]

30. They're just as bad

This week, at least, they had Donna Brazile on - but their commentary is usually just as lily-white as Meet the Press.

Nothing like watching white folks sitting around on Sunday morning talking about black folks, is there?

[MissWaverly]

33. the problem is they are in never never land

the wolf is at our door throughout this country and they are worried about whether or not someone really saw a UFO, it just goes
to show how clueless they are.

[K Gardner]

20. Right in line with the constant harping of a proud racist, Pat Buchanan, touting the success

and wonder of the race-baiting campaign against Obama. It is thoroughly disgusting and beyond me that the networks allow this garbage to be spewed as intelligent commentary.

[Warren Stupidity]

27. If its any help they are just as divorced from us white peasants too.

I never watch the clowns anymore.

[EffieBlack]

29. Not surprising . . .

Check this out: www.nul.org/publications/policyinstitute/Apartheid_Report.pdf

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

31. Thanks for posting.

That's a good read. The transcripts and the tables are instructive.

MKJ