Grasping at Straws: Olbermann Claims Obama 'Arrogant' Label a Racist Euphemism

[Ritewanger]

a racist is someone who makes a living out of racial issues, like Keith Olberman

[papavalium]

LOL ODORMANN outs himself. Calling people racist when you don't like em....make you RACIST!!!

Just think if someone said he was "Articulate"..or "in the past he would be serving us coffee", or dang go "to 7-Eleven and you need to speak pakistani." Oh I guess none of these evil white guys was VP Joe Biden or Bill Clinton.

[woodycoat]

Guess I'm a racist against white people cause I think Olberdouche is an 'arrogant' pseudo-intellectual ...and a clown.

[CarribeanBeachbum06]

Liberals are going to scratch their heads wondering how they lost Congress. ARROGANCE! Olbermann can try to excuse these actions by spinning it as racism but the American people know what arrogance is. Nice try Olbermann. Do you really think your Air America crowd keeps believing you?

[frednoname1]

RACIST????

LOL

Let me help you out olbermann, liberals when they are losing an argument start calling the people they are losing to, racists.

Racist. What a joke!!!

[sushimoustache]

Thanks for keeping this front and center. Those Faux News jackasses can't hide from Olberman's discerning judgement.

[InvestigatorDave]

Of the 6, only 2 were from FNC. Is it your position that only the FNC employees were "jackasses"?

At what point in time did calling someone arrogant become code for anything other than the definition of "arrogant"? Is is now not permissible to use the word "arrogant", or only not permissible to do so when describing a minority? How can one tell when the speaker means the true definition of "arrogant" versus the word being used as code?

Please advise.

[sushimoustache]

Answer is - it's best not done. Unfair? So were exclusions of blacks from whole categories of professions only a generation ago; restrictive covenants; tuskegee experiments; and more recently steering prime- qualified blacks into sub-prime mortgages... but I digress. It would be fine to call a black person arrogant if they actually were... and if you had a record of thusly labeling similar behavior by a white president. Remember Bush SS privatization? "Political capital, I'm going to spend it"?

[frednoname1]

Bush was arrogant. Obama is far more arogant. If that makes me racist in you eyes, I DONT CARE. Because quite frankly this who racist argument is weak at best and has no logical backing at all unless you are the type who views everything through the prism of skin color.

[FontanaCinemas]

How is Obama arrogant?

[frednoname1]

Wow, really? Have you listened to the guy? He talks down to everyone.

[frednoname1]

And please explain to me why black people getting subprime is racist when the majority of people getting them were WHITE???

[sushimoustache]

@frednoname1

Black people who *qualified* *for* *prime* *mortgage* *terms* were getting steered towards sub-prime mortgages. And Obama has *yet* to announce that "God talks to him and tells him what to do."

[frednoname1]

@sushimoustache

Sure they were. Its all the evil white republicans as well right? The poor ignorant black people of course (remember this is YOUR theory) never were smart enough to read the terms right??

LOL What a joke. ALL races got sucked into them. Including my mother. Who luckly sold in time.

All religous people believe god talks to them.

You think this is just bush??? LOL

[FontanaCinemas]

You are incorrect, not all religious people believe god talks to them

Only the batshit crazy ones (i.e. BUSH)

[frednoname1]

@FontanaCinemas

LOL what do you think prayer is??

[InvestigatorDave]

Are you actually saying that it is best if one never calls anyone "arrogant" or best if one never calls minority person "arrogant"?

Regardless of "best practices" -- as described by no less an authority than you -- I see that you still permit the use of the word "arrogant " in relation to a black person. However, that is if -- and only if -- one has also has recorded proof of also calling a white POTUS "arrogant".

Wow. That's alot of crap to go thru just to use a perfectly fine word.

[frednoname1]

The logic, as I understand it, is that a white person can never call a black person arrogant because of jim crow laws, the tuskegee experiments, restrictive convenants, and of all things, sub-prime mortgages. NONE of which the said white person had anything to do with. The sole exception is if you have documented proof that at one point you called a white president "arrogant".

The whole thing is stupid and a really weak attempt to suppress anti-obama speach but trying to shame us into silence

[frednoname1]

Not going to work.

[FontanaCinemas]

well, when it is clear the guy ISN'T being arrogant, you have to start thinking WHY he might be calling the guy arrogant.

There is a REASON they were all calling him those kinds of words like "cocky" and "arrogant" and "punk".

He was not acting in any way to deserve to be called such words. There is a REASON they were calling him these words.

[frednoname1]

And the REASON must be because of his skin color and thier skin color? What do you call people who judge people by thier skin color....

[InvestigatorDave]

These speakers who were quoted believed he was being arrogant. I believe he was being arrogant, condescending, and classless. There is a clear difference of opinion between you and the speakers and I as to whether he was being arrogant or not; therefore it is NOT clear he was not being arrogant. It is debatable.

"There is a reason they were calling him these words." Yeah, because he earned the description in their opinion. No secret code words, just good old fashioned description.

[FontanaCinemas]

And intelligent people that can read between the lines understand that your judgments are based in racism, not in reality.

We can watch the president and know how he is coming off. Then you loony tunes can make up stuff all you want, but it isn't justified, and it isn't true.

Good luck to you!

[frednoname1]

@FontanaCinemas

Intelligent people think they can read minds?

[InvestigatorDave]

Fontana:

I was willing to concede that you might have a valid opinion that Obama was not being arrogant, despite the belief of all those quoted and myself feeling otherwise. It is a difference of opinion on that matter. I watched the same speech you did, but had a different opinion of his attitude.

You cannot assign racism as the reason for my evaluation of his behavior because you do not know my heart -- or anything about me. I suspect you know as little about the others who commented.

[FontanaCinemas]

I want to add the point here that I did not vote for Obama, nor do I support him.

But I call a spade a spade.

I voted for Ron Paul, and I would much rather have him as president.

But it is so transparent when these political people say what they say. It is so transparent.

It's actually scary how obvious their actions are.

I don't understand why they aren't afraid to be so blatantly racist.

I would much rather see a Republican ticket with some bipartisanship to boot. Ron Paul Dennis Kucinic 2012

[InvestigatorDave]

To be clear:

You, someone who is lecturing me on the need to be intelligent, and the evils of racism in "coded speech" has elected to use the phrase "calling a spade a spade" in the same posting as the name "Obama".

Geez, I love irony!

[FontanaCinemas]

That's true, you got me.

But I wasn't aware of that saying having any racist connotations until I just looked it up.

You have just pointed out a true instance of irony.

Good work!