Thread: Lawrence O'Donnell is an ignoramous and Cain basically destroyed his interview lol

Herman Cain mopped the floor with him. Lawrence O'Donnell's questions, when not outright misleading, were offensive in equal measure. This made me happy to watch lol.

Cain was tenacious, factual, on-point and un-flustered.

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Cain just gained even more legitimacy in my eyes.

Yup

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Here's Harry Belafonte's take on Herm.


http://us.cnn.com/video/#/video/best...-belafonte.cnn

Harry Belafonte....

Originally Posted by Harry Belafonte

"Who is he?"
"It's very hard to comment on somebody who is so denied intelligence..."
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"....and certainly someone who is as denied a view of history such as he reveals, he knows very little...."

Hmm that's hard hitting stuff there Trigger. We should pay attention to what Belafonte says why?

He then complains that Cain got lucky and tries to parallel that luck into a lack of knowledge about the plight of blacks? So let me get this straight...successful (or as Belafonte puts it "lucky") blacks have no perspective on their own history or the things that the black community has gone though? Got it. I guess it's time to stop listening to Harry Belafonte for the same reason? Cause he's a lucky rich SOB too. Right?

At any rate, Belafonte then goes on to speak about the prison population and it's minority make percentages. And unemployment and it's minority percentages. He claims then that black people "aren't having the best time of it." How is that related to Cain or a criticism of Cain? No idea. Non sequitur if you ask me.

He then decides to "double dip" and play the evil racist Republican card saying that Republicans, Tea Partys and the "extreme right (lol), are in some evil diabolical plot to continue to present what

Originally Posted by Harry Belafonte

"...their image of representation of blacks, or the "real negros" and are pushing these images of what blacks should look up to are.....so there is Condolezza Rice and Collin Powell, they are heroes for some people but for a lot of us they are not and Herman Cain is just the latest example of what is totally false to the needs of our community and the needs of our nation, I think he's a bad apple......"

So he picks out two extremely well educated and arguably well respected members of the black community who have held hugely influential roles in our government and the world stage.....and then denigrates them. Claims that they are not who they say they that are. Claims that they are false and shams and only propped up by Republicans. He throws Cain into the mix at the same time. In all honesty, it's pretty shameful. In Belafonte's eyes they, the three called out by name (and the assumption is all other blacks who are not democrats), have sold out, are in the process of selling out, or are incapable of being full thinking humans in their own right because of a difference of political philosophy. It's shameful. It's fucking insulting in all honesty and I'm not black or a Republican.

As counterpoint, who would Belafonte hold up as "good models" for the black community? Himself? Sharpton? Jackson? Rangel? Waters? Name some names. Rappers? Athletes? Oh I know, he'll say Martin Luther King Jr. And that's fine and perfectly acceptable. Except I am positive that if you asked Rice and Powell and even Cain who one of their heroes is I guarantee that King is up there...top 5.

But this is the type of drivel and tripe that I'll fight all the time. This pseudo-intellectual shit being spewed as if it has merit. Why? Because Belafonte is a public figure of some note? Because he's in possession of a "gravelly" voice which lends subconscious credence to what he says. Please. No wait....bitch please.

Oh and look, this isn't Cain's first rodeo either. And his knocks on government (in this case Healthcare) spending sound a lot like they do today.

You mean he didnt break out a chaulk board for a timy spot talking with the pres on tv? That fucking bastard. How dare he try to use his time wisely.

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

Alundil, I have no dog in this hunt but...why you riding this man's nuts so hard? Are you stumping for him?

Trigger, other than I am in agreement with a number of his positions moreso than the rest of the current crop of candidates (sitting it otherwise) no I'm not stumping for him. It never ceases to amaze though that the left (look no further than the most recent two examples if belafonte and o'donnell) will use race to demonize someone like Cain (or Rice or even Powell) and it gets a pass. I could've put that o'donnell bit in the other thread about bias and double standards and it would have applied there as well.

Do I have a dog in this hunt, not explicitly related to Cain, no. Do I have a problem with the fact that people make up nasty ass shit and get away with it? Yup.

But since you posted the Belafonte bit, is that your position? You support Belafonte's idea that Rice and Powell (even though he ha supported dem ideas in the past and for a time the current administration) and Cain are simple-minded puppets? Do tell.

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