Democrat Harry Reid Apologizes For Racist Remarks About Obama
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 9, 2010, 1:39 PM
It looks like Robert KKK Byrd may not be alone.
(NY Daily News Photo)
Democrat Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized today for his racist remarks about Barack Obama.
The Fix reported:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) apologized today for referring to President Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect” in private conversations during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” said Reid in a statement. “I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.”
The Senate Majority Leader was officially neutral in the primary fight between Obama and then Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). Reid’s remarks about Obama were revealed in “Game Change“, a book detailing the 2008 race penned by Time’s Mark Halperin and New York magazine’s John Heilemann.
The details about Reid’s remarks were first reported by the Atlantic.
It’s not the first time Reid was accused of racism. In 2009 Harry Reid was forced to defend his support for African-American politicians in a testy exchange with David Gregory on “Meet the Press” after it was disclosed that he had opposed three other black potential replaces for President-elect Barack Obama.
More… Perfunction has audio of another racist remark by a prominent democrat.
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Published May 23, 2012 at 11:51 pm - 66 Comments
jorgen commented:
“light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect”
Maybe it was the only positive things he could find about O’barmy?
Scott commented:
Harry’s going to have the opportunity to spend alot more time with his family after November.
daryl commented:
Whut yew tawkin’ ’bout hairy??
crystal commented:
A racist deomcrat???
*THUD*
Curth commented:
Dems are the most hateful, racist critters on earth, yet somehow they have conned black America into thinking they care for them. Don’t foget Biden’s “clean articulate” comment , nor Jimmy Carters “Black boy” comment about Obama.
Liz commented:
I’ll go to jail before I buy insurance of any kind from these blood suckers. I have the right to fight tyranny, and NOWHERE in the Constitution is the federal government given authority to force unwanted purchases on individual citizens.
Scott commented:
Just read Chuck Todd’s twitter page. He claims he’s being reminded by alot of GOPers that Trent Lott was forced to step down as Majority Leader for making a race related comment.
How long before Obama very publicly accepts Reid’s apology and showers him with praise in an attempt to prevent the Republicans from politicizing Reid’s racial slur?
MochaLite commented:
Well, I appreciate anything that reveals Reid’s sliminess and dishonesty (only sorry when you get caught).
However, it’s also a shame that simple factual statements are racist these days. Does anyone anwhere really think that Obama would have been elected if he had looked and sounded like a rapper?
Boogy commented:
It’s OK, he is a democrat. They can use racial epitaphs all day long. Look at Obummer said the Pennsylvanian white people were evil, they cling to their Christian religion and citizen rights to own guns. Can’t get a more racist President or person that that.
Viv commented:
And just look how quickly Obama responded to Reid’s apology…quicker than flies on a dog turd. How come it takes him so long to respond to terrorist atrocities?
NeoKong commented:
Well at least he didn’t say “macacca”
bg commented:
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ht squeaky & others in previous posts..
YT keeps DELETING it.. gah!!
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Mike W commented:
Just wonder if the “Magic Negro” saw how well he was polling while he was on vacation. Now that he is back he is once again aiming for the bottom. Like Neo-Neocon and The Anchoress pointed out in their articles a King does best when he doesnt do anything.
bg commented:
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via GP
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GrayRider commented:
You know how this sort of thing works. Since it’s a DEMOCRAT that uttered this stuff, none of the state run media report on it. On the other hand, if it was a REPUBLICAN that said the same thing, it would have made front page headlines in the NY Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, etc. and after the Republican apologized he would have been forced from office.
Blue Collar Todd commented:
I tend to think about what if Harry Reid had thought just the opposite, since he had a clear idea about what a “no negro dialect” is. What if he had thought that Obama did in fact have a “negro dialect”? And what exactly does Reid think about those African Americans who do have a “negro dialect” since he makes a distinction about it?
anon commented:
There are no racist dems. None. Only Republicans are racist. Garofalo said so and we all know that she is always right. No exception.
Karu commented:
I wish Harry would go back to Searchlight, NV.
where he’s from.
Mammy in Alabamy commented:
It seems that Democrats who keep electing this idiot have problems with long-term memory….remember Ole Hairy on Clarence Thomas’ nomination in ’04? Most of these old coots are racists in liberals’ clothing!
Elizabeth K. commented:
Ouch! It makes you think that those who are screeching loudest about racism re: Obama are probably those who secretly are racist, or who at the very least have been unable to grow beyond stereotypes. I think that for so many of a certain generation, Obama’s election was really about them: a final symbol of the racist past they had personally buried. But perhaps not deep enough, it seems.
Joanne commented:
What Reid said was true, but he feels the need to apologize for the truth. Is being light-skinned and having no Negro dialect a bad thing? Obama is half white isn’t he, and he was raised by his white mother and white grandparents, so what’s the problem……just more political correctness.
Go MO Red commented:
Seriously folks, when are black people ever going to wake up and realize the Democrats are racists that want nothing more than to continue to subjugate these people rather than lift them up. My owe my, I wonder what they say about Jewish people too behind closed doors, but they sure like their money.
YeahRight commented:
…funny….it took the lamestreammedia almost two years to report this…wonder who are the biggest racists — democruds or journalists?
bg commented:
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Scott @ 2:02 pm #2
eh, i don’t believe Reid, Pelosi, Dodd &/or many of the other old timers in either party are “worrying” about winning more elections.. heck, they can easily retire & live off of the interest on what they have accrued via all the SACRIFICES they’ve made serving “we the people”.. GAH!!
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shiba07 commented:
the left are nothing but racist pigs. dems were the ones against freeing the slaves, were for the jim crow laws, started the kkk, pushed abortion on the black culture, made many blacks slaves to the state with welfare, yet we’re racist. go figure.
bg commented:
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oh yeah, ya gotta ask..
why the conjured up race card distraction again??
my bet is..
health care is about to be passed, do not stop at C-span,
go straight to WH par-tay & collect bribe, uh, reward!!
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Boogy commented:
Obama’s election was really about them: a final symbol of the racist past they had personally buried.
Elizabeth K.
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Uhh, the Chinese are really upset. If you voted for Obummer and not a Chinese person ( perhaps a write in ballot) you are a racist through-and-through! The notion one has to vote for Obummer or one is a racist is a straw-man argument. Just as the Chinese example here. Dems did not want Gonzalez on the Court, so they must be fully racist, including Obummer. They kept voting Gonzalez down. Must be anti-brown, that demoncrat party of materialist subjectivity.
Chisum commented:
Well Well Well
Anyone see a pattern here?
Willie And The Java Jive
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/01/09/the-java-jive-2/
Jamest155 commented:
The democratic party is and historically has been the party of rascism. When the Republican party was established to fight slavery, the dem party was for slavery. It was democrats who started the KKK. It was democrats who blocked black children from entering desegregated schools. It was democrats who sicked dogs and used hoses and clubs on black people. It was President Eisenhower, a Republican, who first tried to pass the Civil Rights Act, but it was blocked by democrats. When Pres. Kennedy passed the same Act, it was passed because of Republican support in congress. All of the original black leaders, senators, congressman were all Republican.
bg commented:
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to whom it may concern..
everyone in Obama’s background either are or were racist, bigoted, &/or, prejudice one way or another.. especially Barry, uh, ‘Barack chosen name Hussein Obama’ himself & wifey dearest..
just a sampling
of the truth..
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Hugh commented:
Gross. Need I say more?
Deanna commented:
The most interesting part of Reid’s comments wasn’t the “light-skinned” or “negro dialect.” It was…”with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” Is he suggesting that Obama has been utilizing another speech pattern when speaking to African-Americans?