The advertisement was for Poland. Are there black people in Poland? Seriously, I don't know but that might explain the change. Naw, lets stick with "Microsoft is racist".
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The advertisement was for Poland. Are there black people in Poland? Seriously, I don't know but that might explain the change.
President Obama's aides were so furious that Gov. Paterson dragged him into a rant about racism that they sent a message sharply criticizing the governor's comments just hours after he made them, The Post has learned.
Aides to Obama were angered by Paterson's tirade on liberal talk-radio station WWRL on Friday, sources said.
Paterson blamed his political woes on racially slanted coverage and predicted the president would be the next "victim" of biased media.
That's right. The President wants to decide when to play the race card. He doesn't want it played for him.
Does he look white to you?
Rice as witch doctor is acceptable:
I couldn't find a link from any media outlet claiming that portraying Dr. Rice as a witch doctor was racist, but found 56 links declaring Obama as a witch doctor is an outrage. Attorney Charles Ogletree said Gates might sue the department and would bring forward witnesses who say they've had similar experiences with Crowley. When asked for specific examples, Ogletree said only that they may come out in time depending on how the police department handles the situation moving forward.
Alan McDonald, who represents Sgt. James Crowley, said the veteran cop who teaches a racial profiling class for rookie police officers has not ruled out filing a defamation of character or libel lawsuit."He is exploring all of his options,'' McDonald told ABC News.
I'm glad to see cooler heads continue to prevail. And the President isn't helping the situation.
UPDATE: Obama kinda-sorta apologizes for calling police officer stupid.
Just hours after Cambridge police union officials called on Obama to apologize for saying the officers involved in the incident behaved "stupidly," Obama conceded that he erred in his "choice of words."
Obama said he spoke to James Crowley, the sergeant who arrested Gates, "and I have to tell you that, as I said yesterday, my impression of him is that he was an outstanding police officer...and that was confirmed in the phone conversation."
"In my choice of words, I unfortunately gave the impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sergeant Crowley specifically," Obama said, walking back his sharpest criticism.
But, the president said: "I continue to believe, based on what I have heard, that there was an overreaction in pulling Prof. Gates out of his home and to the station. I also continue to believe, based on what I heard, that Prof. Gates probably overreacted as well."
He says Obama enjoys a positive relationship with the law enforcement community and then states they endorsed McCain? What? What the hell is he talking about? How does who the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed for President play into this situation?Earlier in the day, Gibbs had dismissed a suggestion that the backlash from police groups could be distressing to the White House, given that Obama has enjoyed a positive relationship with the law enforcement community.
"I think the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed McCain," Gibbs fired back, referring to Obama's Republican opponent in the 2008 election. "If I'm not mistaken."
The White House tried today to calm a hubbub over President Barack Obama’s comments about a white police officer’s arrest of a black scholar near Boston, saying Obama was not calling the officer "stupid."So Boston police officer's are NOT stupid, but they ARE racist.Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama felt that when it was clear that Harvard scholar Louis Gates Jr. was not a burglary suspect last week, "at that point, cooler heads on all sides should have prevailed."
"We don't have the money. We're just a small club. We're volunteers," she said. "I hope we can teach our children a lesson -- that you should admit errors. We should have done things differently. And if there are differences, we can overcome them."And then there's this:
"The children are not doing well at all ... it's really coming to the surface how these children have been affected," she said. "They're asking questions [like] are they too dark to go into the pool?"Right, lady...I smell some exploitation of young children taking place.
It gets worse, though. Chris Parry, it appears, has advocated on his Daily Kos blog any number of egregious offenses, among them: posting hate speech on sites like Free Republic and blaming it on conservatives. Parry posted under the name "hollywoodoz" on Daily Kos, where his signature was "Fool me once, I'll punch you in the fucking head." Parry outed himself as hollywoodoz here, where he discloses the company he helped start. In essence: Parry, the journalist, found his story right where he'd been circling it for a very long time, and reported it as news. Sigh.