Racist Conservatives

Conservative media has been pushing the notion that the Liberal’s are racist and are the ones that are race bating. I find this notion odd since Liberals have a long history or being champions for civil rights. One of the biggest complaints from the Right is that Liberals want to help too many people. Which is it, are the Liberals racist, or do they want to help too many people? The vast majority of America’s racist history stems from southern conservatives. I’m not saying that all conservatives are racist because most are not. Or that no Liberals are racist because some are. But racism is a way bigger problem on the right than the left. And because of the flagrant racism and race baiting from the right during Obama’s Presidency conservatives have have lost the latino, black, and gay vote. The racism from the Right has pretty much ensured that Obama will be elected again.

I went on MediaMatters.org and did a search on “racist”. Just this one word. 41 pages of stories came up. 34 of the 41 pages were from the time of Obama’s Presidential campaign and beyond. This to me is a pretty strong case that the media on the right has been trying to paint the left and Obama as being racist ever since he decided to run. Here are the links that I feel are racist and race bating from the Right:

• Circling the wagons: Right-wing media figures rush to defend Breitbart 1 hour and 41 minutes ago
• Pat Buchanan: “For the first time in our lifetimes outside the South, white racial consciousness has visibly begun to rise.” 5 hours and 45 minutes ago
• Limbaugh says the NAACP is “now the R-A-C-I-S-M” July 22, 2010 1:07 pm
• Limbaugh: “Andrew Breitbart was exactly right,” Sherrod is “racist — the NAACP is racist” July 22, 2010 12:45 pm
• Limbaugh calls Obama “the most-racial president” July 22, 2010 12:25 pm
• When will Fox & Friends apologize for attacking Sherrod? July 22, 2010 10:03 am
• AP: Breitbart, Fox News ran with “racism” narrative before knowing the facts July 22, 2010 9:08 am
• Figures. Jim Hoft tries to smear Shirley Sherrod with Bill Ayers July 21, 2010 5:51 pm
• “Bravo”: Right-wing media’s initial praise for Breitbart’s “great work” on Sherrod July 21, 2010 1:38 pm
• Hannity attacks Sherrod: “She still admits that she was discriminating against this white farmer” July 21, 2010 12:37 am
• On The O’Reilly Factor, Crowley suggests Sherrod may be among “radicals, racists” in Obama admin July 20, 2010 8:57 pm
• Breitbart: ”It is un-American” that NAACP is accusing tea party of racism “absent evidence” July 20, 2010 7:58 pm
• Beck suggests Sherrod should’ve been made a “czar” because “she fits in with all you Maoists” July 20, 2010 6:24 pm
• Fox smears Sherrod as racist, Sherrod cancels Fox interview July 20, 2010 5:19 pm
• Conservative media criticism: Bozell demands that media cover already-unraveling Sherrod story July 20, 2010 4:43 pm
• Ingraham: “The NAACP has become a push organization for racist sentiments in many ways” July 20, 2010 8:36 am
• Rush calls it “ironic” that the NAACP would call Tea Party racist July 13, 2010 2:32 pm
• CNN’s Kurtz suggests “case [could] be made” that Limbaugh’s race-baiting Obama comments are correct July 11, 2010 12:03 pm
• Beck suggests Obama is sympathetic to New Black Panthers’ hate speech July 09, 2010 10:53 am
• Buchanan says Limbaugh’s attacks on Obama aren’t racist July 08, 2010 6:19 pm
• In Wash. Times op-ed, Ted Nugent uses New Black Panthers case as an excuse for race-baiting July 08, 2010 6:27 am
• Beck tries, fails to link Obama and Ogletree to New Black Panther Party July 07, 2010 7:28 pm
• Beck race-baits DOJ over New Black Panther Party case July 07, 2010 10:25 am
• Breitbart, Asman agree Obama is “defending racism” in Black Panthers case, which is “virtually the same” as being racist July 06, 2010 8:23 pm
• Quinn: Tanning tax is a “race-based tax” from “the most racist administration … since Woodrow Wilson” July 06, 2010 10:00 am
• Conservatives falsely claim Kagan compared NRA to Klan June 19, 2010 8:12 pm
• National Review Online falsely claims Kagan “apparently tied” the NRA to the KKK June 18, 2010 2:57 pm
• Kuhner’s latest tirade smears Obama as a Jew-killing dictator wannabe June 15, 2010 3:29 pm
• Beck distorts Obama’s comments to accuse him of “racism” June 14, 2010 10:08 pm
• Beck suggests that Obama won’t meet with head of BP because “he’s a white CEO” June 14, 2010 7:05 pm
• Beck: “Is it racist to have this conversation about the president’s seemingly racist words?” June 11, 2010 10:57 am
• Beck: “I haven’t done my homework on Rudyard Kipling” but thinks “he stood against” “racist” progressives June 10, 2010 11:19 am
• Glenn Beck promotes book rife with anti-Semitism and racism June 07, 2010 5:33 pm
• Glenn Beck’s new book club pick: Nazi sympathizer who praised Hitler and denounced the Allies June 04, 2010 5:21 pm
• More on Glenn Beck’s new favorite anti-Semitic author, Elizabeth Dilling June 04, 2010 3:46 pm
• Paging Breitbart, another conservative just played the “racist” card June 04, 2010 8:50 am
• Kurtz on Beck’s apology for mocking Malia Obama: “Now about that racist thing …” May 28, 2010 4:38 pm
• Gingrich: Obama “engaged” in “racist dialogue to try to frighten Latinos away from the Republican Party” May 26, 2010 11:02 pm
• John Stossel’s continued advocacy for a right to discriminate May 26, 2010 5:10 pm
• Is John Fund playing the race card? May 21, 2010 10:16 am
• Gingrich: Attacks on AZ law are “left-wing racism” May 20, 2010 10:27 pm
• Stossel calls for repeal of public accommodations section of Civil Rights Act May 20, 2010 2:41
• Beck: “The most racist people to ever live in America were the progressives” May 07, 2010 12:42 pm
• Conservatives’ bogus attacks on Obama’s appeal to minorities: “Race card,” “Southern Strategy,” “racist” April 28, 2010 2:47 pm
• Limbaugh: “Obama’s playing the race card” April 27, 2010 3:21 pm
• Calling the president a racist used to be controversial April 27, 2010 11:37 am
• Wash. Times’ resident race-baiter pushes Drudge’s “race card” claim April 27, 2010 9:35 am
• Limbaugh calls Obama administration a “racist” “regime” April 26, 2010 1:53 pm
• Fox News wants to know: Do Democrats invent racism to trick black people? April 21, 2010 10:58 am
• Fox advances claim that to “keep the blacks voting Democratic” white Democrats have to “convince them America is a racist country” April 21, 2010 6:49 am
• Columnist Willilams: “minimum-wage laws are one of the most effective tools in the arsenals of racists everywhere” April 14, 2010 11:56 pm
• Breitbart accuses Democrats, labor unions of using “racial, racist, racially divisive strategy” April 08, 2010 10:25 pm
• Sowell claims Dems are playing the race card and warns that it could lead to Rwanda-style “slaughters” April 07, 2010 8:43 am
• Beck sub Doc Thompson digs deeper: Tanning tax “is targeted at one race of people” March 30, 2010 10:31 am
• Savage: I’m sick of speaking about Obama in hushed tones because he’s of mixed race March 23, 2010 6:09 pm
• Paging Andrew Breitbart, another wingnut just called Obama a racist March 23, 2010 1:33 pm
• Beck: “There are racists among us. Van Jones is one of them” March 22, 2010 10:42 am
• Hannity defends Beck’s statement that Obama is “a racist” March 09, 2010 10:14 pm
• Tea Party Express’ Williams on Obama: “Our Half White, Racist President” February 23, 2010 10:48 am
• Scarborough asks Rubio if he condemns Beck for calling Obama a racist, comparing him to dictators February 19, 2010 8:03 am
• Glenn Beck breaks down the president’s un-American, African name February 04, 2010 12:27 pm
• Beck on Obama using his real name “Barack”: “You don’t take the name Barack to identify with America,” but with “your heritage,” “radical[s]“ February 04, 2010 10:28 am
• Tucker Carlson: When Dems say Reid supports civil rights, “what they’re saying is he’s for racial set-asides” January 11, 2010 12:33 pm
• American Thinker: “Obama’s racism against whites is upfront, in your face racism” November 23, 2009 1:57 pm
• Media Matters confronts Rupert Murdoch about Obama’s supposed “very racist comment” November 19, 2009 2:24 pm
• Murdoch agrees with Beck that Obama is a racist November 09, 2009 8:53 pm
• Beck purports to address things WH is “upset with,” doesn’t mention that he called Obama a racist October 13, 2009 8:09 am
• HuffPo: NY Post Fires Editor Critical Of Racist Obama-Stimulus Cartoon October 06, 2009 7:54 pm
• Nugent jumps on Beck bandwagon:  Obama and Carter the “real racists” who “have been destroying black America for decades” October 01, 2009 8:35 am
• Saying America’s Voice “wants to attack me as a racist,” Dobbs claims “they are the racists” September 24, 2009 5:57 pm
• Joining Beck, Townhall’s Shapiro calls Obama “a racist” in column titled, “Barack Obama: The Black Jimmy Carter” September 23, 2009 10:02 am
• Jonah Goldberg continues to embarrass himself over Glenn Beck’s “racist” claim September 21, 2009 1:14 pm
• Fox & Friends, which hosted Beck’s claim that Obama is racist, blames Carter for bringing up race September 21, 2009 8:19 am
• The Friday Rush: Limbaugh takes race-baiting to puzzling extremes September 18, 2009 10:10 pm
• Quinn: Democrats are trying to “reestablish a race problem in America” September 17, 2009 3:07 pm
• Beck decries calling people racists; Horowitz says Carter an “anti-Semite,” blacks “the human shields of the Democratic Party” September 16, 2009 7:31 pm
• Limbaugh, playing truth-telling Obama: concept “of individual rights” just “a racist invention of white slaveholders” September 10, 2009 2:09 pm
• Dobbs defends Beck over statement that Obama “has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture” September 08, 2009 6:10 pm
• Quinn says progressives “determined to murder freedom,” calls Congressional Black Caucus a “racist concept” September 04, 2009 4:46 pm
• Bill Cunningham: “Barack Hussein Obama, that’s the racist – obviously” August 24, 2009 12:22 pm
• WND’s Peterson: Obama is “a smooth pathological liar” who “hates white people — especially white men” August 04, 2009 12:45 pm
• National Review: Obama is a “racist” who’s hiding information about his birth certficate July 31, 2009 2:44 pm
• Beck caps off week of race-baiting by calling Obama a “racist” July 30, 2009 12:27 pm
• Beck: Obama supports “racist policy” of Affirmative Action July 29, 2009 1:08 pm
• Beck “stand[s] by” Fox & Friends remarks that “I think the president is a racist” July 29, 2009 10:42 am
• Limbaugh: “I do believe” Obama is an “angry black guy” July 27, 2009 1:50 pm
• SPLC president calls on CNN to “remove Mr. Dobbs from the airwaves” for “peddl[ing] racist conspiracy theories” July 24, 2009 2:33 pm
• Limbaugh: When Obama talks of empathy, he means “I want … racists and bigots” on the Court June 25, 2009 3:19 pm
• Jesse Lee Peterson: Obama is “no different than” Wright and NAACP, who “hate white Americans” June 24, 2009 6:11 pm
• Limbaugh refers to “bigoted Democrats” in Senate while discussing Gingrich’s backtracking on “racist” charge June 03, 2009 1:59 pm
• Limbaugh calls Sotomayor “a reverse racist,” appointed by “the greatest living example of a reverse racist” May 26, 2009 12:45 pm
• Fox hosts priest who compares Obama to “an avowed racist” and “an advocate of terrorism” May 17, 2009 10:42 am
• Reading Nancy Pelosi’s supposedly racist mind February 02, 2009 12:50 pm
• Conservative media figures falsely suggest that Reich proposed excluding white males from stimulus package January 23, 2009 4:34 pm
• Savage: “[T]here’s gonna be a wholesale firing of competent white men in the United States government” November 19, 2008 6:17 pm
• Cunningham alleged that “Obama wants to gas the Jews” October 31, 2008 6:45 pm
• Cunningham guest Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: “[M]ost black people today are racist” October 21, 2008 7:48 pm
• Savage: “I fear that Obama will stir up a race war … in order to seize absolute power” October 09, 2008 12:46 pm
• Rodgers suggested that just as the O.J. Simpson verdict “was a racial vote,” African-Americans support Obama because of “racial brotherhood” October 03, 2008 4:56 pm
• Juan Williams says Michelle Obama “sometimes uses” a “kind of militant anger” August 25, 2008 5:45 pm
• The View’s Hasselbeck: “[C]an white people go to [Obama's] church?” March 11, 2008 7:59 pm
• Hitchens attacked Obama’s “dumb, nasty … racist” church, compared Clintons to zombies, vampires, and werewolves March 05, 2008 4:28 pm
• After asking, “Do the Obamas have a race problem of their own?” Hannity continued to smear Barack and Michelle Obama March 05, 2008 3:15 pm
• Hannity repeatedly distorts passage in Michelle Obama’s senior thesis to suggest alumni views on race are her own February 29, 2008 3:04 pm
• Wash. Post’s Robinson on O’Reilly remark: “There’s certainly nothing at all funny or remotely appropriate about the use of a lynching reference” February 21, 2008 12:44 pm
• On Hannity & Colmes, Rev. Peterson compared Obama’s church to KKK January 23, 2008 6:55 pm
• Investor’s Business Daily earned runner-up in Olbermann’s “Worst Person” for “blatantly untrue, wildly racist” Obama editorial January 17, 2008 3:27 pm