Young Turks: Obama To Discriminate Against White Men -- Time's Mark Halperin

[CherylK]

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[Quantess]

1. Hmm. Well maybe Mark Halperin thinks the Supreme Court should be all white males.

Who knows, maybe the guy is annoyed that Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsberg are on the Supreme Court. That would not be an unfair question to ask him.

[ScottZ]

2. This silly statement inspired the following comic strip by August J. Pollack

[ProfessorPlum]

3. Great comic - it reminds me of one by Tom Tomorrow from

about 10 years ago - I'll see if I can find it.

[ProfessorPlum]

4. Found it

Not quite on topic, but gives a similar scope to the relativity of problems.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I'd say that is exactly on topic.

[Liberal_Christian]

8. pathetic

I am white. I am ashamed to be white; not because of some bitter african american on a white-guilt bender, but because of other white people like THIS. "African americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are"??????? ARE-YOU-FUCKING-KIDDING-ME. I'd expect something like this out of redneck KKK weekly but THE WALL STREET JOURNAL????? ARE-YOU-FUCKING-KIDDING-ME.

[Wetzelbill]

5. Honestly Halperin is just being Halperin

He can't be as dense as he comes off as. I think he just tries too hard to give cutting edge analysis that he ends up saying and writing about the dumbest things. Plus he buys into every right-wing and conventional wisdom talking point out there. I think he looks at it and tries to put his special "Mark Halperin spin" on it and out comes some knuckleheaded thing that leaves everybody scratching their heads. He must be a hard working guy but he has no analytical skills at all. I remember when he said that McCain not knowing how many houses he owned would come back and hurt Obama. WTF? He said it on the This Week roundtable and George Steph just looked at him like an alien flew out of his skull. He can't be as dumb as he seems sometimes though, he wouldn't have been able to function in life if that was true.

[Seldona]

7. You'd be surprised.

I have seen people barely able to find their way to work managing places.

Unfortunately it isn't what you know in many cases, it is who you know, despite the intellectual prowess and experience of the applicant. Not that I am knocking them, as I have owned and intend to own a family business again, but that tends to happen in situations like that. Not that it is limited to those situations. Far from it.

I have had some astoundingly stupid bosses.

[Seldona]

6. We can laugh at Mark Halperin despite whom the President picks.

I know I am.

:rofl:

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. My white male husband howled and said...

"I guess I need to fight back. When do we take to the streets? Hey babe, go get me some coffee and find my shoes so I can march."

I really hope I don't need the sarcasm tag for that.

[pleah]

9. K&R