Kevin Fobbs
Is Sarah Palin's "shuck and jive" Obama comment racist
By Kevin Fobbs
This week former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin penned an article on Facebook with the title "Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies," This has set off a firestorm of criticism throughout the liberal punditry world. MNBC's Chris Matthews has railed against Palin, calling her comments of having "a particular ethnic connection" and that she aimed "to throw it at the president as an ethnic shot is pretty blatant."
Palin's use of a phrase which has a clear connection to negative stereotypical behavior that was used against black people is not open to debate. The context in which it was used demonstrates more of unfamiliarity with history than it seems to have with racist intent. There is a serious question that is still left on the table unanswered. Should Chris Matthews and other liberals who are quite familiar with its historical intent, context as well as usage, receive a free pass when they have used the phrase on several occasions without similar howls of protest.
What about President Obama's own White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who used the phrase last year in September 2011? In talking to the press corps at the beginning of a White House briefing, he stated, "Sorry. I'm going to shuck and jive! Time to shuck and jive." So America gets it, only certain people can say it. Where was the liberal rap on the knuckles for insulting black people or his boss?
In fact, Chris Matthews the self appointed defender of the liberal faith used the phrase in 2010 when fellow MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow was discussing her ratings driven trip to Afghanistan. Matthews reportedly asked Maddow, "What has it been like, as you shuck and jive, hang out with the men over there, the women over there, in uniform risking their lives every day?"
Did Matthews become suddenly affected with "Obamnesia," the known malady which infects liberals' with sudden outbursts of hypocrisy and a temporary loss of liberal fictional talking points? Matthews clearly had a strong case of this. Yet, where was the outcry from the defenders of the liberal faith? Was Matthews hoping that Maddow would discuss how she found proud black soldiers risking their lives, engaging in being foot shuffling' Negros?
What about New Governor Andrew Cuomo, who while New York Attorney General, in 2008 targeted democrat presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama for his all too frequent side stepping of the facts? Out of frustration, Cuomo blasted Obama in a radio interview by stating, "You can't shuck and jive at a press conference!
Where were the liberal siren and alarm bells in 2008? Where was Chris Matthew's denunciation or even Rev. Jesse Jackson, or the other liberal pundits? Meanwhile, some of the liberal cleanup crew likened Cuomo's comments to a boxer who was "bobbing and weaving" around the facts. So was it racist or was it inarticulate?
The plain truth of the matter is that the phrase is a phrase that has no place in American discussion. Yet it should serve as a reminder that beneath the comments of a Governor Cuomo or a Sarah Palin when referring to the ever evasive bobbing and weaving conduct of a presidential candidate Obama or a President Obama, his lies have consequences. His lies have purposely covered up true facts about the murders of 4 innocent Americans in Benghazi.
America and the world should not only be angry, but it should be outraged that the liberal media journalists and self appointed pundit fact checkers did not do their job in 2008. They should have dug deeper into the content of what New York Attorney General Cuomo was referring to about Obama's well honed evasive nature to dodge facts about his racist minister, his birth records, his college application, college records and even his true record of accomplishment in Chicago.
The true bottom line in this made up racial campaign issue, is that America may have actually voted for a Manchurian-style socialist candidate, who charmed the mainstream liberal press into white guilt. So one has to still ask the question, was it racist that Sarah Palin used the phrase "Shuck and Jive," when angered that a president mangles the truth, and subverts the legacy of four proud Americans who died in Benghazi?
The truth is that this phrase did not kill Americans.
The truth is that a president black or white who covers up the truth about what he knew, when he knew it and what his administration did not do to prevent is more important than an archaic phrase.
The true racism is how an American mainstream media can keep giving a president of the United States an affirmative action-type break and pretend Americans in Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Colorado or anyone else cannot tell the truth about his lies.
The real racism is that the media protected this man of color, because they did not do their job to seek the truth when it was more convenient to believe Obama's fiction. Four Americans were murdered and on November 6th President Obama must answer for it.
© Kevin Fobbs
October 26, 2012
This week former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin penned an article on Facebook with the title "Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies," This has set off a firestorm of criticism throughout the liberal punditry world. MNBC's Chris Matthews has railed against Palin, calling her comments of having "a particular ethnic connection" and that she aimed "to throw it at the president as an ethnic shot is pretty blatant."
Palin's use of a phrase which has a clear connection to negative stereotypical behavior that was used against black people is not open to debate. The context in which it was used demonstrates more of unfamiliarity with history than it seems to have with racist intent. There is a serious question that is still left on the table unanswered. Should Chris Matthews and other liberals who are quite familiar with its historical intent, context as well as usage, receive a free pass when they have used the phrase on several occasions without similar howls of protest.
What about President Obama's own White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who used the phrase last year in September 2011? In talking to the press corps at the beginning of a White House briefing, he stated, "Sorry. I'm going to shuck and jive! Time to shuck and jive." So America gets it, only certain people can say it. Where was the liberal rap on the knuckles for insulting black people or his boss?
In fact, Chris Matthews the self appointed defender of the liberal faith used the phrase in 2010 when fellow MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow was discussing her ratings driven trip to Afghanistan. Matthews reportedly asked Maddow, "What has it been like, as you shuck and jive, hang out with the men over there, the women over there, in uniform risking their lives every day?"
Did Matthews become suddenly affected with "Obamnesia," the known malady which infects liberals' with sudden outbursts of hypocrisy and a temporary loss of liberal fictional talking points? Matthews clearly had a strong case of this. Yet, where was the outcry from the defenders of the liberal faith? Was Matthews hoping that Maddow would discuss how she found proud black soldiers risking their lives, engaging in being foot shuffling' Negros?
What about New Governor Andrew Cuomo, who while New York Attorney General, in 2008 targeted democrat presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama for his all too frequent side stepping of the facts? Out of frustration, Cuomo blasted Obama in a radio interview by stating, "You can't shuck and jive at a press conference!
Where were the liberal siren and alarm bells in 2008? Where was Chris Matthew's denunciation or even Rev. Jesse Jackson, or the other liberal pundits? Meanwhile, some of the liberal cleanup crew likened Cuomo's comments to a boxer who was "bobbing and weaving" around the facts. So was it racist or was it inarticulate?
The plain truth of the matter is that the phrase is a phrase that has no place in American discussion. Yet it should serve as a reminder that beneath the comments of a Governor Cuomo or a Sarah Palin when referring to the ever evasive bobbing and weaving conduct of a presidential candidate Obama or a President Obama, his lies have consequences. His lies have purposely covered up true facts about the murders of 4 innocent Americans in Benghazi.
America and the world should not only be angry, but it should be outraged that the liberal media journalists and self appointed pundit fact checkers did not do their job in 2008. They should have dug deeper into the content of what New York Attorney General Cuomo was referring to about Obama's well honed evasive nature to dodge facts about his racist minister, his birth records, his college application, college records and even his true record of accomplishment in Chicago.
The true bottom line in this made up racial campaign issue, is that America may have actually voted for a Manchurian-style socialist candidate, who charmed the mainstream liberal press into white guilt. So one has to still ask the question, was it racist that Sarah Palin used the phrase "Shuck and Jive," when angered that a president mangles the truth, and subverts the legacy of four proud Americans who died in Benghazi?
The truth is that this phrase did not kill Americans.
The truth is that a president black or white who covers up the truth about what he knew, when he knew it and what his administration did not do to prevent is more important than an archaic phrase.
The true racism is how an American mainstream media can keep giving a president of the United States an affirmative action-type break and pretend Americans in Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Colorado or anyone else cannot tell the truth about his lies.
The real racism is that the media protected this man of color, because they did not do their job to seek the truth when it was more convenient to believe Obama's fiction. Four Americans were murdered and on November 6th President Obama must answer for it.
© Kevin Fobbs
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