Diegetics

cain said he did not mind the back of the bus.....no wonder that he appeals to you....

Well no, he did not say that.

Wow. Even the Atlantic is disgusted:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/20 ... in/246328/

I think it is safe to say this somewhere near or past Glenn Beck.

I am asking this honestly because I do not watch this sort of thing at all, but this thread piqued my interest so I watched the whole interview. Is Lawrence O'Donnell's treatment of his guest anywhere near the norm now? I found myself in astonished disbelief numerous times during the video.

lawrence o'donnel aside, in his own book cain says he was content with the back of the bus....he should not be allowed near the white house or any other position of authority with that attitude....."but daddy told me not to get in trouble".....coward

He did not say that. You are telling lies from the depths of hell. I know what that makes you.

You're just a liar. You have been exposed. Cain never said that he was comfortable with the back of the bus, as you said he said. You have lied, everyone can see it, you are what you are.

Wow, that was the worst, most disrespectful interview I've ever seen from a corporate media person.

He went out of his way to shred him to pieces; that is hate and disdain for Cain as a person, plain and simple.

Does it matter if Cain, a teenaged/20-something Cain, was involved in a Civil Rights Movement?

Since he doesn't represent himself as being involved back then- or rooting against it- why should it be held against him?

You sure are done for now.

I was the only white person in the room with a bunch of Brooklyn politicos, many of the elders were involved in the civil rights era and anti-Vietnam protests. I think it's naive to think that the Civil Rights movement doesn't loom very large in the black community's mind, particularly the politically motivated part of it. It determined who their leaders were, and still determines it. To think otherwise is to not understand the political landscape.

But...none of them trashed Herman Cain when he was brought up. They just didn't really understand why he'd want to be a part of the Republican Party when the Republican Party got on his case for complaining about 'Niggerhead'. After backing down about Niggerhead, he'll never get the Black Caucus. This is really all you need to understand about whether or not he'll be able to craft crossover appeal among that crowd. Niggerhead just proved that a Black GOP candidate is not possible. Because to get the black vote, he needs to stand firm on issues of racism like Niggerhead. But if he stands firm on those issues, he loses some of the white vote who consider caring about such racism to be 'race-baiting'. They didn't have anything against him at all, they just didn't really see the Republican party as being a realistic option for black people, and couldn't understand how anyone could see it that way, and saw Niggerhead as confirmation of this belief.

Whether or now Lawrence O'Donnell is a dickhead, is well...not really a topic I care about. I only saw him for the first time when he gave that impassioned speech against police brutality and have no opinion of him outside of that particular poignant piece.

The Democrats have a long history of backing down from their niggerheads (remember Perry was a Democrat at the time), doesn't hurt the Democrats any.

Biden: Obama is the first clean black

Reid: I'm really glad that Obama is a light skinned black, and can slip in and out of the negro dialect

Clinton: Obama winning NC is really no big deal, Jesse Jackson did the same thing. This Obama thing is a fairytale. A few years ago he'd be fetching my coffee

Obama: It's not like black people watch Meet the Press

And so on. I'm sure none of it will hurt Cain at all.