As CNN Unveils New Show: Kathleen Parker's Controversial Obama Column

from The Nation:



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Parker, on the other hand, borrowed the words of another to set forth her central premise. She opened her mid-May column by quoting 24-year-old Josh Fry of West Virginia who said he backed John McCain over Barack Obama in that state's primary: "His feelings aren't racist, he explained. He would just be more comfortable with 'someone who is a full-blooded American as president.'" Of course, West Virginia went strongly against Obama in both the primary and later in the general.

But Parker assured us that her own views had nothing to do with race:



Parker, of course, ignored the fact that Obama, in fact, is half-white, is related (god help us) to Dick Cheney, and can trace his family back as far as McCain in America -- to George Washington, even. And speaking of "generations of sacrifice": Obama's grandfather fought in World War II.

Those fine small-town Americans may not know any of that -- and Parker sure didn't remind them. "What they know," she related, "is that their forefathers fought and died for an America that has worked pretty well for more than 200 years. What they sense is that their heritage is being swept under the carpet while multiculturalism becomes the new national narrative. And they fear what else might get lost in the remodeling of America." ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blog/155156/cnn-unveils-new-show-kathleen-parkers-controversial-obama-column

What the hell is "blood equity????????????" And what mythical "once-upon-a-time America" is she talking about? The one where nearly all of us are not immigrants or the descendants of immigrants? If you want to talk about some mystical "blood equity" what about the first people's who were here 10,000 or so years before the rest of us?

"Full-blooded" Americans? Was this swill actually published in any sort of mainstream outlet?

edit to clarify

She is trying to explain a cultural movement which is occurring. People like Josh Fry exist. What motivates them? Why are they like they are?


JFK's primary victory in West Virginia was a sign that anti-Catholic feeling in this country, demonstrated by Al Smith's loss in the 1928 presidential election, were beginning to subside.

Parker is reporting and commenting on an emerging anti-immigrant backlash which could affect future elections.

Don't shoot messengers!

belongs to them, and that if they only elected the right people (that look like them), America would finally go back to 1953 where it belongs.

is an attempt to validate it the same way Parker tried to do in the article--should be condemned, not treated as benign and legitimate.

ignorance, stupidity, and racism as cultural expressions.

"Full Blooded," as if being a "real American" is some sort of birthright granted through eugenics.

"American values" were "hard won" by immigrants who fought against nativist crap like Parker and the GOOP are spreading. They were also "hard won" by African Americans, who fought to prove that their Black blood was not inferior. If anything, the strongest "sense of America" comes from those who come here in search of a better life, rather than those who already have that "better life" and seek to deny the greatness of America to those immigrants who seek it.


Fuck that.

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Yeah Kathleen, that explains it. It's not that Obama is Black, it's that his father's family didn't sacrifice for this country as a slave or survive the brutality of Reconstruction, it's that they were too new. :eyes: What a bunch of horse shit.

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Before our exercise in Iraq, our local paper ran one of her columns which criticized Sadaam Hussein for mistreating his dogs.

It's not as though I approve of dog mistreatment, but I saw her criticism of Hussein as just another piece of propaganda coming from the right to make Americans hate Iraqis so that they would approve of the invasion of Iraq. She was just adding her part in that barrage of opionion-building.

Of course, the coutry bought all that garbage, and look where it got us.

I would not listen to her.

ancestors immigrated here less than a century ago--and they weren't Northern European. Shame I can never be a real 'murkan.

Probably not. Native Americans are probably counted in the multicultural groups that are degrading true American values.

They're all a bunch of fringe, racist motherfuckers who only get media attention because they're controversial. They are a blip on the radar. Ignore them.

She suggests that the president, who was not only born in the US but was raised primarily IN the US by native Kansans, isn't a "full-blooded American"? That's a low point even for her.

of the liberal American Experiment in Liberal Government? Dis-owned! (while their twisted images are still used to sell products and candidates, without their permission)

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"Parker, of course, ignored the fact that Obama, in fact, is half-white, is related (god help us) to Dick Cheney, and can trace his family back as far as McCain in America -- to George Washington, even. And speaking of "generations of sacrifice": Obama's grandfather fought in World War II."

Nah. She didn't ignore anything. It's just that in America, black ancestry will "negate" any european ancestry one might have, even if it's half. That one drop rule isn't going anywhere.

And we all know that blacks in America aren't "real" Americans. :sarcasm: It is killing some of these racist white people that a black person is representing them and their country. KILLING. THEM.


Personally, they can fear and whine and wring their hands all they want and lament the passing of America as they once knew it until they're blue in the face, for all I care. As I saw written earlier today, demographics is destiny, and the America these people are losing is giving way to something better, thank goodness.

E pluribus unum.

PS-I hope Rachel Maddow kicks her ass.

CNN "Headline News", no less.
They are FOX-lite.

wrote a column calling for the Democratic candidates to be lined up and shot. Her rhetorical technique then (as now) was to attribute her nasty fascist sentiments to someone else: in 2004, that someone else was an supposedly an American soldier serving in Iraq. Apparently, somebody had second thoughts about the column, because a few hours later the wire services sent out a corrected version in which the American soldier merely wanted the Democratic candidates to be lined up and slapped. But a few papers didn't get the correction and printed the original version

Native Americans, perhaps?