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Matt Drudge’s Race Baiting
Why is a minor story about a common occurrence—a student being beaten up on a school bus—being headlined as the top story of the day by Matt Drudge under the headline “White student beaten on school bus; crowd cheers”? It’s the second time this week that Drudge has transparently race-baited his audience: On Monday, Drudge juxtaposed an image of Barack Obama warning that “they can’t stop us” on health care with a picture of Serena Williams’ infamous threatening of a linesperson at the U.S. Open. Michelle Malkin has leaped on board, writing, “I wonder where President Obama will be.” Meanwhile, the police official who originally described the school-bus attack as “racially motivated” is backtracking, saying “after having reviewed the video, it doesn’t strike me nearly as racially motivated.”



cbeenthere
Because Foax and Drudge never let up, never.
pr54321
They never do. It's amazing how hysterical and crazed the right-wing has become lately. I knew there would be a lot of knee-jerk resentment after Obama's election, but I had no idea that his opponents would descend to such pathetic levels.
Remember everything you're witnessing, though, because at some point, people are going to look back on these displays in the same way that people look back at the red-baiting during the McCarthy era and the anti-gay panic surrounding the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s: with shame and disgust. Conservatives by their nature have a tin ear for history. That's why they're conservative.
blahblahyaya
Remember everything you're witnessing because the right is trying to 'handle' this Obama thing the way they did the JFK, MLK and Robert Kennedy obstacles. Whip up irrational fears until one of the crazies does what they ultimately want.
AndreainNY
This headline from The Daily Beast with a straight face.
tankertodd
Editors at TDB, like most liberals, are race-obsessed. I think it's a low-grade version of racism. Sad, really. Martin Luther King wanted a world where people were just people, not colors. Conservatives need to embrace the MLK vision and help bring it to fruition by calling this race obsession out.
cbeenthere
What an inappropriate lecture, a real shame you are not Martin Luther King or anything like him. It rings obscenely hollow from you tanker.
tblunt
Hah!...During the 1950's and sixties conservatives routinely called Martin Luther King a communist...It was constant and 24/7, just like the conservatives call President Obama a communist today...All US white conservatives aren't racist but 95% of US white racists are conservative...History shows it to be true.
tankertodd
-Who's calling MLK a communist NOW? Live in the now, sir. And if 95% of white racists love candy and if you are a candy lover, does that make you racist? Of course not! Your argument is foolish. And I don't have to even challenge your 95% stat which is junk crap you pulled out of your outhouse.
-If you can't refute my arguments, cbeenthere, then be quiet. I invoke MLK because the left loves him. You can't refute my argument because then you refute the left's hero. I also happen to love his "I have a dream" speech, which is quintessentially libertarian and freedom-loving: everything that the American Left hates.
gandolf
Right. There is no credibility when this site or anyone on the left cries, race-baiting, since they do it on a non-stop basis.
This past July, the MSM fell all over itself covering supposed racism when a Philadelphia pool turned away some black kids. The pool claimed it was due to overcrowding and not based on race. Numerous national headlines and TV coverage ensued for days on end.
The same weekend, Drudge carried a story about a white family standing outside a house in Akron, Ohio who was brutally attacked by as many as 50 black youth while they yelled things like, "this is our world" and "this is a black world." It was not considered a "hate crime" and was generally ignored by major media outlets.
So I guess Drudge being the single loud voice that dares to carry stories of alleged black racism, makes him and his website, of course...racist. Case closed.
tankertodd
What is the obsession with race on the left? Every single solitary thing that a liberal looks at is viewed through the lens of race. I can think of nothing more racist at the core. Guess what? Race doesn't explain everything. Most of the time it isn't a factor at all.
Liberals who have this view on life really need to check themselves. Help bring about a color blind society - isn't that what your aim is after all? How will we achieve color blindness when everything is something racist when it's not?
PhilMcRoin
Matt Drudge is a liberal?
devilsadvocate
I checked out the video, and TDB is right. That was shameful. The rest of the students cheered the guy on has he pounded the crap out other guy. School fights do commonly occur, but not all get caught on camera and most are not as bad as this one was.
gandolf
Why is TDB right? Why was it shameful? Drudge's headline was accurate: White student beaten on school bus; crowd cheers. The police officer had initially said he believed it was a racially-motivated crime. If the colors had been reversed, the MSM would have reported it all over the place on far less evidence, as they have so frequently done, if and only if it fit their preconceived progressive/race-based narrative (see above examples of Philly and Akron).
devilsadvocate
I'm talking about the fight. Shameful it is. As for the article, I believe as you do this was a totally newsworthy event.
cbeenthere
What about the all white girls fights that have been recorded on tape, devil, guess you forget how hard life can be.
PhilMcRoin
links please.. lots of them
cbeenthere
Feel free Phil to enter white girls fight, teenagers fight etc etc. It is all out there, and it can mos likely due to baggage passed on by parents. Sad. However, what I saw was on the teevee news quite a while back. You might run across it, but you will find enough others to know of this regrettable fact of life.
cbeenthere
correction it is most likely due...
gandolf
Democrats use race as a demagogic bludgeon to viciously attack political opponents without evidence or conscience. It is a disservice to the nation and diminishes the moral opprobrium that should be reserved for real racists.
They never call out their own, whether it is Jessee Jackson (prominent black Democrat and former Dem Presidential candidate) calling NY hymietown? Al Sharpton inciting race riots resulting in deaths of 8 people? Candidate Obama shamelessly using and embarrassing his ailing grandmother as a campaign prop to help justify the unjustifiable racist church to which he belonged for 20 years? Obama refusing to ask for the resignation of his 20-yr racist lunatic pastor. Democratic organizations including the Whitehouse press office overtly threatening Republicans if they dare defy Sonia Sotomayor because their will be racial reprisals electorally? Ted Kennedy and Senate Democrats targeting Miguel Estrada explicitly and in writing because of his race? Robert Byrd, former KKK member who twice used the term "white niggers" on national TV in 2001 when discussing race relations.
One exception was that Obama Dems and media called out the Clintons in South Carolina last year during the primaries for making racially-tinged statements. The difference? It helped advanced the liberal agenda of course.
neverlate
Race card time from the Liberal media.
PhilMcRoin
what liberal media?
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n--Y--cvillekiddiamondgirl
The news reported, that the bus driver told the white child to sit, and non of the other children wanted him to sit next to them. When he went to sit down the black child started to beat him up., and the rest of the bus cheered. So if thats not discrimination I dont know what is.
Now close your eyes and imagine the story,and it was a black child being beat up!
Keep your eyes closed and imagine it was your child or you!
None of these scenario are good!
As Americans we need to work on this!
hardrain
So 9 out 10 of these posts are written by "conservatives" yammering about race whilst accusing liberals of yammering about race.
Smell the irony?
Ritarita
I was
Wiping away
Tears of laughter
And about to exit when
I saw your post
Hardrain-
diamondgirl
Hey rita/hardrain, Wasn't the article about Race in the first place? There is nothing ironic about my comment. You need to look up the meaning, Google it. Rita I hope had on your depends, with all that laughing, you remind of that little old lady who lived in a shoe, who must be childless. Both your comments showed your lack of ability to have compassion for that child. What I smell is two people who made this issue about right or left, its about Bulling children, in this case it was black beating white, but this can happen to any child any color. All bad!
SaveFerris
Ritarita
Little girl lost
Laughs at a child
Being beaten up on a bus
Did the Holocaust make you laugh too?
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n--Y--cvillekidperiscope
Drudge "the sludge" is the Flush Limbaugh of the right-wing Internet. Drudge has been caught in so many lies that if you plucked out one of his hairs for each lie, the sumbitch would be bald as a bowling ball.
The only reason "The Sludge" and Flush exist, along with Fake News, is to feed the feeble-minded the lies they long to hear each day, so they can hate blacks, femi-nazis (women who think for themselves), or anyone who refuses to knuckle under to the corporate criminals they represent - like Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Brokerage Firms, Big Banks, etc.
"Fascist's R' Us", would be a good title for the aforementioned morons.
PhilMcRoin
I hear it all the time from co-workers (blue collar republicans make no sense at all) when they tell me they have done the research.. said research means they have backed up what Rush and Beck told them on the radio with the cold hard facts of the Drudge report or if they really did their research .. the heritage foundation. It's written right there in actual words on the internet.. not just on the radio..
gandolf
Here's the fun thing about Drudge. The vast majority of his "stories" are just links, to stories reported by other news outlets. That was the case here too. So how does making fun of people for relying on "cold hard facts of the Drudge report" apply?
As criticism, this is unthinking nonsense.
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n--Y--nightdragon83squiggy
Yeah, and let's see, one white kid and how many black kids all taking punches at him while the black kids cheer them on. That has nothing to do with race, right? Wonder if they'll ever bother to tell us why this wasn't racially motivated and what has happened to all the kids?!
cbeenthere
Did the all white girl fights that we have all seen, well, were they based on race, squiggy?
PhilMcRoin
I have seen plenty of examples of racism by people of every race, but what is the point here? What is Drudge trying to say and what is he preaching to his people?
When the neo-con propaganda machine gets called out for using race relations or racism as a tool, you get the same programmed response you see here today in this thread.. and the funniest part is that when you read the posts by the "conservatives" here.. you can actually smell the hate.
PhilMcRoin
the writer forgot to mention that the kids on the bus that did the attacking and cheering were all part of ACORN.. I can't believe drudge didn't mention it either.. or did he?
cbeenthere
You're being sarcastic correct?
periscope
As a white person I'm glad to see the right-wingers are alarmed at any attacks on white people. But what about attacks on black people? Ever hear of Howard Beach in Queens, NY? How about Medgar Evers? How about lynchings?
I'd say attacks on white people and black people are reprehensible and sometimes they are homicidal, but to be outraged by one and not the other is rank, racist hypocrisy.
nortonclybourn
Yeh yeh, race has nothing to do with it. What I want to know is, who is still paying attn to Drudge? I thought he was a one-hit wonder troll of the 1990's.
SaveFerris
No, you are thinking of the TDB circa 2009!
Chi017
If the attackers and people cheering this on were white and the victim were black I imagine the NY Times would be quite interested in this. That would fit their template for a hate crime. This doesn't fit so it doesn't get reported.
flyoverland
This happened not far from me. The local coverage is also saying it was race based, although the school is now trying to spin it as simple "bullying". The town, Belleville, is separated by a highway from East St. Louis. Years ago, Belleville was nearly all white and East St. Louis nearly all black. As blacks have moved into Belleville, there have been numerous accusations of racially motivated incidents. From what I saw on the local news, the black kids told the white kid he couldn't sit on the same seat with them. Local coverage did show a black student stepping in to break up the fight when the white kid "was not defending himself". This was not a fight. it was an attack. The school district canned the bus driver and even suspended students on the bus who were shown to be laughing at the white kid getting pummelled. I think it is unfair to critcize Drudge and others who simply are trying to point out the double standard in a land with a black president. I don't see anyone here blaming the MSM for injecting its agenda into most every story they see fit to report.
AndreainNY
It was a brutal attack. Race factored in, but it could also have been 2 groups of different neighborhoods of the same race. Or two gangs.
My guess is that Drudge would have also shown it if it were whites beating up a black simply for its shock effect and its involving race.
Kind of funny, though. The Daily Beast's article on Drudge's. Piggybacking on a similar trend.
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