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| The racist right wants to take down Rev. Perm. |
You would think that it's possible for the conservatives to actually have a real reason to go after the controversial civil rights leader. But unfortunately, they have nothing but smoke and whole lot of hot air in this attempt.
David Horowitz, a former leftist radical who associated with the Black Panthers back in the 1960s. He found himself a god named Reagan and became a right wing extremist. He along with Breitfart's Ben Shapiro have teamed up to target MSNBC and Media Matters for America for what they've perceived as liberal bias in the junk food media.
Yeah, like GOP Sundays need more Democrats.
Yeah, how many progressive radio shows are on the AM dial?
How many news programs featured Democrats other than President Barack Obama?
When's the last time I haven't seen a camera in the face of Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John McCain (R-Arizona), Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina), Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota), Congressman Eric Cantor (R-Virginia), Congressman Pete King (R-New York), Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Congressman John Boehner (R-Ohio)?
The first target is Rev. Perm. The National Action Network founder is been in the news for his support of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the parents of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin. The unarmed teenager set off a firestorm of racial unrest within the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement.
The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman saga set off a meme for every crime that involves a racial aspect.
Again, whenever a crime comes forth and it involves Black or Hispanic criminal and a White victim, it drives the racist right nuts. They believe that the junk food media sweeps these issues under rug. They believe that every crime in America is caused by Blacks, only!
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| David Horowitz, a right wing bigot. |
It's a requirement of the racist right to attach either Trayvon Martin, the "Obama's sons" quote or Black crime statistics to every event that involves a racial aspect. The racial extremist's word vomits will usually have a racial slur or a condescending stereotype of the Black community as a whole.
So this group called Truth Revolt is targeting Ritz Crackers, owned by Chicago-based Mondelez International. They the company to cut its ties.
The group goes as far to say that Rev. Perm is a "racial extortionist".
“Sharpton is a racial extortionist who has instigated racial animosities, violence, and division in America for the last forty years,” write the boycott’s organizers. “In better times, Sharpton would be stigmatized and condemned for the damage he has done. But today he is a primetime host on MSNBC—the charter cable news network for NBC News, and a favored outlet for the Obama administration’s spin doctors.”
Hey, name one violent event that Rev. Perm attended?
The Daily Beast reports that the group's attempts to take down Rev. Perm is because of his gave at Kean College in 1994, in which he said: “Do some cracker come and tell you, ‘Well my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,’ you better hold your pocket. That ain’t nothing to be proud of, that means their forefathers was crooks.”
“Sharpton doesn’t dislike all ‘crackers,’” Shapiro writes on the Truth Revolt website.
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| Breitfart's chief Ben Shapiro. The conservative agitator is boycotting Rev. Perm. |
The group says Rev. Perm is worthy of a boycott because of his role in the Tawana Brawley case and the Crown Heights riots in New York in the 1980s. He has since run for mayor of New York and for president of the United States, and has become a sought-after political powerbroker in New York and in Washington, D.C., where he has met several times with President Obama.
Asked why the group was dredging up 25-year-old incidents to spur a boycott, Shapiro said Rev. Perm has not recanted those incidents and that he has gone yet further by leading rallies against George Zimmerman to protest the Trayvon Martin shooting.
“He went down to Sanford and threatened civil disobedience against the city if Zimmerman wasn’t arrested and then used that as fodder for his show,” Shapiro said. “He uses the platform of his show for a racially divisive shakedown of the kind that he [promoted] during the Tawana Brawley case.”
Representatives for Rev. Perm and MSNBC did not respond to request for comment.
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| Do you think this is racist? |
Truth Revolt was founded earlier this year and is designed as a counterweight to Media Matters, a liberal media watchdog group that calls attention to contentious, offensive, or erroneous statements by members of the media. But while Media Matters focuses mostly on conservative talk radio hosts and Fox News, Truth Revolt will take on the mainstream press for what it sees as often an hidden liberal agenda. And Truth Revolt plans to bring active pressure to bear on sponsors and advertisers, as it is doing with Ritz and Rev. Perm.
“The goal is to be a response not only to Media Matters but to a new tactic used plentifully by the left, which is the attempt to go after conservative hosts and commentators by cutting off their base of support, both in the funding community and in the advertising community,” said Shapiro.
Shapiro himself was the target of media critics earlier this year when he reported that Chuck Hagel had given paid speeches for a group called “Friends of Hamas.” The group turned out to be fictitious, made up by a New York Daily News writer, who inquired rhetorically about it in a message to a GOP congressional aide, who then apparently passed along the made-up name to Shapiro.
Shapiro defended his conduct during that saga, saying he was merely reporting the rumor and that his reporting was of a similar standard to that in The Washington Post and other mainstream outlets.
“Everybody is an imperfect messenger,” he said. “If this is the argument, that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, then there are never going to be any journalistic standards. I am still searching for the journalist who has never made a mistake.”
And he said boycotts like the one aimed at Rev. Perm are just the beginning.
“Politics is a hard-nosed game, and the right has been playing Marquess of Queensbury Rules for a long time on this,” he said.
Somehow, I have a feeling that Rev. Perm will address the Breitfart people on his show soon.
So we'll see how it goes. In the meantime, here's Rev. Perm making his case against the Stallmigos!
