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Tuesday
Sep272011

AP Labeled 'Racist' For Accurately Transcribing Obama Speech - Race Card 'Alive And Well' Among Democrats

Runs 90 seconds.

Here's the Obama speech to the Congressional Black Caucus.  You decide if the AP was correct in its transcription.  As any regular reader knows well, I abhor racism of all sorts, but this charge is unadulterated nonsense.  As you will read below, the exact thing was done to Bush, and there were never any complaints.

Truth:  92% of Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act, vs. just 62% of Democrats.

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By Paul Joseph Watson

Source - Prison Planet

MSNBC has yet again played the race card to demonize not even criticism, but merely unsympathetic portrayal, of Barack Obama as racist after an AP writer was lambasted for accurately transcribing Obama’s Black Caucus speech.

During his speech, Obama attempted to fool the black audience into thinking he was one of them and not a paid teleprompter reader for Wall Street by dropping the g’s at the end of his words.

“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,” Obama lectured the audience. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

However, after the Associated Press accurately transcribed Obama’s dropped g’s, MSNBC aired a debate segment asking whether the decision not to “clean up” Obama’s words was “racist”.

“On MSNBC, the African-American author Karen Hunter complained the news service transcribed Obama’s speech without cleaning it up as other outlets did–specifically including the “dropped g’s,” reports Yahoo News.

“Hunter called the AP’s version “inherently racist,” sparring with New Republic contributing editor and noted linguistics expert John McWhorter, who argued the g-less version “is actually the correct one,” noting that the president’s victory in the 2008 election was due, in part, to how effortlessly “he can switch into that [black] dialect.”

It goes without saying that Hunter’s claim is completely ridiculous. Obama’s dropping of his g’s was blatantly deliberate. If the AP had “cleaned up” his speech it would have been completely misleading and inaccurate.

Hunter claimed the AP transcriber didn’t “fix” Obama’s grammar because of the color of his skin, while failing to mention the fact that transcripts of George W. Bush’s speeches were routinely transcribed (accurately) by including dropped g’s and other idiosyncratic styles of speech. She then ventured further into the realms of absurdity, claiming the AP writer was using a secret “code” through which to express his racism.

“Normally, I lean toward the clean-it-up school of quote transcribing—for everyone,” AP transcriber Mark Smith told Mediaite. “But in this case, the President appeared to be making such a point of dropping Gs, and doing so in a rhythmic fashion, that for me to insert them would run clearly counter to his meaning. I believe I was respecting his intent in this. Certainly disrespect was the last thing I intended.”

It’s not the first time Hunter has used her platform at MSNBC to imply a failure to observe complete obedience to Obama is racist. Two years ago, she said that people who “disrespected” Obama by being critical of his mandatory health care plan were racist.

As we have documented on numerous occasions, the establishment likes to play the race card in characterizing any criticism, or even any portrayal that could be considered unsympathetic, of Obama as racist. MSNBC has proven itself adept at this dirty trick.

During an appearance on MSNBC’s The Last Word recently, talking head Richard Wolffe mused that Republican opposition to Obama making a speech on a date that clashed with a presidential debate was down to “the color of his skin”.

Back during the Obama Joker poster era, when depictions of the President as the fictional character out of Batman were deemed racist by the establishment media despite identical images being produced of Bush as the Joker for years before, MSNBC host Carlos Watson insinuated that calling Obama a “socialist” to criticize his big government agenda was secret code for a racist slur.

Of course, the ultimate irony of all this is Obama’s attempt to come across as a working class black man by dropping letters as the end of his words. In reality, Obama’s background is about as ‘black working class’ as the Queen of England. He enjoyed a predominantly white, privileged, middle class upbringing and had none of the hardships of the black working man he tries so desperately to impersonate in a bid to re-connect with black voters who are abandoning Obama in droves.

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And here is the MSNBC discussion where Hunter claims racism by AP...

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Reader Comments (12)

Well,the BIG CLUB got me again through MSM. I have to give them credit for their use of misdirection & smoke & mirrors I,m focused on RACISM while HFT can function, from ZERO HEDGE: "Up to 190 milliseconds into the future, or 0.19 fantaseconds is the record so far."but that's not a problem. They can't keep up with my handheld calculator.
I can't believe that Muslim terrorist,illegal immigrants & African Americans are allowed to destroy this country through corporations,Wall Street,the FED & the U.S. GOVT. Something has to be done about this.
WAIT!! Could it be WHITE TRASH that's responsible? NO WAY.
I believe in EQUAL OPPORTUNITY. I don't like ANYBODY.
Sep 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM | Unregistered CommenterTR
Sep 27, 2011 at 4:05 PM | Unregistered CommenterTR
You're right TR...I got a bit sidetracked and pissed off...but I'm back in focus now.
Sep 27, 2011 at 4:13 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
In my opinion, "cleaning up" the speech is the racism.
Sep 27, 2011 at 4:15 PM | Unregistered CommenterMiss Daisy
DB, My comment was not pointed at you. Hell ,I enjoyed your comment. I stay PISSED OFF. How do I regain my focus? I'm just trying to start up the BIGOTS.LOL

Everyone knows that home values will never fall.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/shiller-house-prices-probably-won-t-hit-bottom-162755874.html
Sep 27, 2011 at 4:27 PM | Unregistered CommenterTR
I was just going to post that clip TR. Good timing.
Sep 27, 2011 at 4:36 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
DB, BRILLIANT MINDS travel in the circles.
Sep 27, 2011 at 4:41 PM | Unregistered CommenterTR
Question: these "polls" showing how very sympathetic "conservatives" are to minority issues, supposedly, and how very unsympathetic "liberals" are, supposedly, (how come no one has ever asked me whether I am a liberal or conservative , I am actually both depending on the specific issue at hand, nor how I feel about any of these issues..in my 56 years as an American??? "Funny" how that works out...)....is there a reason for posting these alleged "results"...or just another obvious attempt to drive a wedge, to keep separate two groups of Americans that if they actually sat down and talked, would find common ground of 95+% of the issues?

"Jes' askin' "
Sep 28, 2011 at 7:08 AM | Unregistered Commenterfarang
bho could not tell them the hidden truth that saves them,because he doesn't want the rest of us to know.In his new jobs bill,he invokes the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 title(A) section(7)(42U.S.C. 2000 et seq) and the Gov Employee Rights Act 1991 title (B) sect.302 -304(42)U.S.C.2000e-16B &16c), which gives minority's the edge on getting jobs over anyone else.
Yes he is a racist,but not against the black community.
Sep 28, 2011 at 9:29 AM | Unregistered Commenterstoemy
Farang...I feel the same - I posted the story to show how others play the race card.
Sep 28, 2011 at 9:31 AM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Someone needs to tell Karen Hunter that Obama is half white! Duh!
Sep 29, 2011 at 6:08 PM | Unregistered CommenterTis

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