LiveBlog for Friday, July 29, 2011

(Affect(ing) a black accent to recount San Francisco mayor Willie Brown asking) "Who is this "Emily List? She's supportin' all these people. She's supportin' Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She's supported Sen. Barbara Boxer....She supported everybody. Why won't she support me?" -- Hillary Clinton. Source: John Broder of the LA Times

"Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve's ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve's fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him." -- Roger Clinton, the President's brother on audiotape

"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." -- Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?" -- Song from the show of left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." -- Mike Wallace, CBS News. Source: Newsmax

Black on Black

"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture." -- Harry Belafonte

"Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them." -- Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager for the 2000 election

(On Clarence Thomas) "A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom." -- Spike Lee

"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black." -- California State Senator Diane Watson's on Ward Connerly's interracial marriage

Comments From The Past

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." -- Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.

"I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities." -- Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK.

"These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means." -- Democrat Bull Connor (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." -- Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler's Book, "Inside The White House"

(On New York) "K*ketown." -- Harry Truman in a personal letter

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America." Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess

"There's some people who've gone over the state and said, 'Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation.' Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? You're either for it or you're against it. There's not any middle ground as I know of." -- Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace (1959)

On Jews

"You f*cking Jew b@stard." -- Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" and has been verified by Paul Fray and three witnesses.

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes." -- Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002

"Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984

'Hymies.' 'Hymietown.' -- Jesse Jackson's description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.

"Jews — that's J-E-W-S." -- Democratic state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002

On Whites

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." -- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

(I) "will not let the white boys win in this election." -- Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager on the 2000 election

"The old white boys got taken fair and square." -- San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election

"There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time." -- Former Klansman and Current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" in March of 2001

"The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won't pay for much family planning." -- Jocelyn Elders

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York

"There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there." -- USA Today columnist Julienne Malveaux

"We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." -- Former Rep. Gus Savage (D-Illinois) after his defeat 1992

"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ, cited in "Democrats Do the Dumbest Things

"The white race is the cancer of human history." -- Susan Sontag

"Reparations are a really good way for white people to admit they're wrong." -- Zack Webb, University Of Kentucky NAACP

a few of us (dem's and independent's) got together tonight. we wanted to write each show we know. I wish sometimes you could be a little more serious with these problems and hate the republican's on your own time. I had not listened to your show, and a friend suggested I do. We have written Ed Shultz, Norman Goldman, and some others. They all said don't write S. Miller it's a waste of time. Thought you would like to know. One of our group spent years in radio and said that we are probably not your demographic. He said 18 to 24 probably loves her. Sure would be nice to take you more seriously....

I've got his 2012 campaign slogan! Joe Walsh; working hard to reform entitlements for dependent children.

If Sarah Palin is caribou barbie does that make Michelle Bachmann hillbilly barbie? You get one guess on who's husband would make the best Ken.

Keep ticking off a tea-bagger, they'll get teste.

#34: Witchy O'Donnell lays it all out there - warts and all.

Dear Stephanie and "Gang",
You are all great and I listen lots.
Just wanted to tell you what a great job you and your guests and regulars do!
Have (1st time ever) written, called and emailed my President, Congressmen, and Dick Durbin, my Senator.
You, Ed, and Thom inspired me to finally take, at least start to take some action and do something.
My political ideas are pretty close to Senator Bernie Sanders (Emailed him, too.) and Dennis Kucinich. Just FYI!
Please, Please keep up the light-hearted and right minded and good hearted work!

Again THANKS, Peter Economos

PS: Suprise, I am a registered Republican (Haven't voted GOP for 20 plus years!)
College Degree in Commerce and a Small businessman for 24 yrs..
After selling my business in 1999, I got a job and became a member of a union (SEIU) and without
their health insurance I would lost everything when got Cancer in 2003! (Heath insurance was costing me close to $1000.00 a month for my family when I was only 52 yrs. old!)
Ryan's plan, what a joke , what planet does he live on?
I am a survivor and doubt that I would have been without that Union and their insurance.
In fact, (I dought that the Doctors would have done the operation that saved my life)
I would be dead and/or broke or "both" without Medicare and Social Security.
(Regan/Bush did nothing for small business, FYI)
Surprise, I am 65 yrs. old and white.
My parents were Republican and voted for your Father and my Dad was a young Republican and hated FDR but took Social Security and Medicare. Especially when he was on dialysis for 3 yrs.!
Just to brag; on my mother's side of my family My (many Great) Grandfather was the 3rd man in, behind Ethan Allen, into Fort Ticonderoga at the first victory over the British in the year 1775!!
My Great Great Grandpa fought in the Civil War for the North (Have 2 pics. of him, too!).
The rest of the family fought in most of this Country's legitimate wars, too, including WW2.
That side of the family came to the Colonies in the 1600s!
My Dad's family have been here for over 100 yrs.
All this "long story" just to tell you I am "REAL AMERICAN" and this is how I think and vote!
So there Yurtle!
Keep it up please. We need you all!
Thanks again.

you get hairy feet from playing with yourself, Christine

For those of us who are old enough to remember the original Saturday Night Live skits, Laura Ingram sounds just like one of the Coneheads.

secular left? as opposed to christo-fascist right, Ingraham?

Didn't quite get Jim's "Do The Right Thing" reference.

this guy's a tool

Article II Section 3 gives the Executive branch the power to enforce the law. The Constitution is the supreme law of the nation, so there is no legal bar to presidential action in this matter.

That's not what the constitution says, it states,
"Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article"

Which means Congress has the power to enforce the article, but doesn't take an act of Congress, nor is it required

#26 Right on!!

We are all in a very leaky economic boat, all responsible people are trying to bail like crazy to keep us from sinking and the tea party is busy drilling a hole in the bottom.

#21: Someone needs to throw a cordon round that caucus before it does any more damage.

wtf does Obama think is going to happen from the "useless eaters" calling their congress-people? crikey.

"Duh, what's the pres'dent talking about triple-A's for? All my remotes run on double-A's, so I'm good to go. Don't tax my double-A's!"

Mama's Mama had GOT to go and see Steph et al

Boner needs to grab his caucus in both hands and flog the hell out of it.

I love always hearing about what the unelected Karl Rove, the unelected Grover Norquist and the unelected Lush Rimjob think, because some ELECTED representatives always have to get their approval for some reason.

I think that was Danielle.

Bravo Christine!

#15: A bridge falls down, people die; villagers with pitchforks and torches go looking for the monster that made it happen. Turns out the big bad gub'mint was the only thing holding the bridge UP. Lesson learned? Till next time...

good morning fellow handbasket-riders. i picked a helluva day to quit chew sticks

Maybe actually starting to drown government (teachers, military families, FAA air controllers) in a bathtub will backfire on the right and people will start to appreciate what government and community action do for them and reject the whole "gub'ment is bad" meme. Maybe.

Morning all. Re. "Who needs the FAA": remember the politician who landed his plane on a closed runway, endangering ground crew? That's the Ayn Rand way - if you've got a plane you can put down wherever you want. Stupid bureaucrats telling me where to land...

Hi Steph, John, and Mooks,

I haven't been able to listen in AGES, & this is my first time posting on the live blog. Congrats on being Woman of the Year in Talkers mag, Steph!

Bill Maher was on Laurence O'Donnell recently and said several important things that I wish Obama would take to heart. Dems in general & the Prez miss opportunities to educate the American people. Here is a simple statement that should be repeated continuously:

The Debt Ceiling is about the past. The Budget is about the future. — Bill Maher

Why Obama continues to allow the 2 to be confused in the minds of the American public is beyond me!!!

Get the trains running. Auto spell makes me chew my hair.

7 Bamalam, 8 Robby, as to Chris's concern, remember, people love dictators who het the trains running on time after a period of chaos.

I am really surprised it took this long for the CEOs of J P Morgan et al to sit up and take notice and start to rein in their paid political lackeys. Apparently the Chinese (our biggest debt holders) have been paying closer attention than Wall Street. A letter to the White House? Just now? Really? From where, Martha's Vineyard?

If you think for a second that the American people would be more understanding about Obama NOT using the 14th Amendment when it's the only option left than him using it and saving millions from total and complete financial ruin and looking like a "Dictator" then you have about as much understanding about how things work as the rest of these Tea Party morons.

Regarding not wanting Obama to use the 14th Amendment, get over it. Truman signed an executive order invoking the 14th after Congress was unable to pass a bill to raise the debt ceiling. Obama would not be the first to do so as precedent has already been set as a result.

Happy Friday Board - looks like a great show today.

Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is 86, formerly sane politician Elizabeth Dole is 75 and her fellow Republican Marilyn Quayle turns 62, actor Stephen Dorff is 38, country music's Martina McBride is 45, documentary producer Ken Burns and Project Runway's Tim Gunn are both 58, Sopranos actor Tony Sirico is 69 and costume designer Ray Aghayan is 77. Happy Birthdays Leos!

Anyone read Paul Krugman's latest in the New York Times: The Centrist Cop-out? Great article, and required reading for all you sexy-liberal listeners out there. cheers and happy friday!!!!

Sue! Just heard you on Bill Press. You nailed it!

The smart thing for Congress to do would be to come together and put the teabaggers in their place (on the fringe.) Left and right should come together, pass the debt ceiling with a clean bill. Then, put the "tax and cut" talks where they belong......in the budget talks. Expose these a$$hats to the voters. Demonstrate that these teabaggers are the ones responsible for this artificial crisis. We're all about to suffer economically because of these nutters. It's unreal.

Yes. :wink: I agree with you.

A week ago in his press conference, Obama wondered about the Republicans: "can they say 'yes' to anything?" I think his question was answered yesterday.