Daily Gut: What Harry Said About Barry

Agreed. Reid is a jerk who spoke inarfully, but truthfully. Politics, like marketing, involves images. The image of a well-spoken nonthreatening black guy like Obama was an easier sale with America than if you have the same collection of policies in the personage of Al Shaprton. The fact that both are empy suits reinforces the point. Image can even override substance, as it did here. Mccain ran an awful campaign nad is a cantenkerous crank(suspect he was at all times moments away from telling the neighbors' kids to get off his lawn), but if you look a the 2 men and their experiences it shouldn't have been a contest. In fact the Dem campaign sold the image of Obama like soap. In one of his 3 autobiographies(before he was 45 having accomplished little other than getting born to those points!) Obama even mentions people fill his empty vessel image with what ever they want. And being vague but polite was even better.

Now the joke's on us. As above, fault Reid for many dishonest things. Herein he simply told the truth.

no argument there…

It's just the irony of it all!

Hey Greg, that was an absolutely hysterical show you did last night. I never laughed so hard. Ann Coulter and Dr. Hill are a great combination together. Keep it up guys!

Reid is guilty of butchering the King's english, but I don't think he should be forced out. I'd rather see him forced out at his election and do something more at his energy level, Maybe he could give tours at the Reno Historical Society.
MC Gaffemaster- Joe Biden cringes at that comment.

Democrats have now made it "PC" to degrade our fellow Americans!!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!! Where will this fiasco end??? These people should be incarcerated, not empowered, not for this stupidity, but for many other blatant idiotic intrusions upon "Liberties"!!!!!

Thanks for posting this. For some reason, FNC sometimes goes FUBAR and mixes the audio from comercials during their programming on DirecTV and the audio for that segment was indecipherable on my Tivo.

I'm a fan of Red Eye since the beginning, and love the guests of all political and social stripes–except one. Marc Lamont Hill puts on a cute show of liberal affability, but his credentials are as genuine as a three-dollar bill, and his published views are racist, crypto-communist and generally loathsome. He has a degree in "hip hop culture" and a pseudo-doctorate in education. He has published praise for cop-murderers such as Mumia Abu-Jamal and tweeted his love for a cop-killing black liberation terrorist from the 70s who is in permanent flight from felony charges and living comfortably in Cuba. Red Eye is free to have any guest it wants, just as I am free to do what I almost never do last night–I switched to another channel. Ditto for each time O'Reilly gives this Brooks Brothers clown unearned legitimacy. Obsequiously referring to Hill as "doctor" and "professor" simply proves how little value there is to politically-correct academic degrees. I suggest that before anyone pays any further attention to Hill, google his name and decide for yourself if the man deserves a spot on national TV, let alone a generally moderate-conservative channel.

LawHawkSF: I don't get it either. Fox News Channel fired Hill as a paid contributor when his true background finally got out. Why the Fox hosts continue to feature him is beyond me and my friends who watch Red Eye. As you said, they're free to do that, and we're free to watch re-runs on another channel.

Reid deserved to be hoisted with his own petard, especially after characterizing dissenters as racists and his rewriting of history accusing the Republican party of being the party of slavery. Reid should be dragged through the coals all the way until election day when he's kicked to the curb.

I can appreciate the fact that Rupert Murdoch gives his hosts free choices of whom they will feature on any given night. Hill's true background and written paper trail, however, should remind those hosts that just because you can do something, it doesn't follow that you should do it.

SCR: I can even tolerate Sharpton (and Jesse Jackson). Except for the "reverend" part, they tell you exactly where they're coming from and don't have "hidden personas." Hill hides behind the gentle, humorous "professor" image, but his real background would make your hair stand on end.

The network fired him as a paid contributor. The individual program hosts are free to hire him either from their own budget or out of their own pockets. That simply means he is no longer officially a member of the Fox News team, but he wasn't banned from appearing on any of Fox's shows. Murdock made a good decision. I wish I could say the same for the hosts who still feature him.

The Democrats lord over the black community like feudal lords over a community of serfs. They like to portray themselves as the noble patriarchs, looking after their underlings, but the position itself makes it hard for the Democrat overlords not to grow disdain in their hearts for black Americans, and inevitably grow to view them as children incapable of looking out for their own interests.

Black Americans can break free of the political stranglehold the Democratic Party has over them, and finally be able to realize their own potential, and forge a community as great or greater than any other in the United States.

In my wildest history nerd fantasies they decided to replace it with Latin, restoring that honorable language to its rightful place in our education system.

Latin, and the history of Rome and its continued traditions found even today, are essential for young minds to understand the roots of Western Culture, a culture as ancient as most others, as vibrant as any other and more powerful than any period.

You are a nerd.

The most telling thing regarding Harry A-hole Reid's comment is the extent to which the U.S. Senate is an aristocracy far removed from the thought, minds, needs, wants of average Americans of all races. Negro Dialect? What planet is this mo-fo from?

it just goes to show who is really in charge when it comes to voting. the mass vote of the people doesn't count it is all polite political exercise, while the real voters that count are the house of Senate, Congressmen and the Representatives who hand picked out out this faire skinned black man as candidate for president, cause the Clinton's well are to much of an embarrassment to Washington, and all others were not progressive enough. so teh big O got the go.

Hi all. I agree with LadyHawke. Last night when I saw he was a guest I just turned off the TV. I heard him a few times before and this guy is just as much as a race-baiter as the Reverend Al is. It's great the Greg has the freedom to choose his guests (and he usually has at least one liberal, not counting Bill) however this guy really is the scrappings from the bottom of the barrel.

and so he will. All we pointed out is the delicious irony of it all…

What's going to happen to the United Negro College Fund?????

The AAACF?

The Authentic African-American College Fund? Just a guess.

And let's not forget Geraldine Ferraro who was forced to leave Hillary's campaign when she said about the same thing Reid said — that if Obama were white, he wouldn't have a chance.

What about George Allen's use of the word Macaca — a word that isn't even in the dictionary, but one the Democrats and its sycophants in the Propaganda Media used to drive him out of office?

Greta Van Susteren pointed out the other night that it was mainly women who got trashed in "Game Change" (Hillary, Palin, Elizabeth Edwards). She might be right. I understand Hillary and Sarah Palin come off badly, and in the excerpt I read the writers totally trashed Elizabeth Edwards. Elizabeth may well be the harridan described, but she wasn't running for office, her husband WAS running around on her, she tragically lost a child, had just gotten an awful diagnosis and was dealing with incurable cancer and the possibility of dying before her young children reached adulthood. Couldn't they cut the poor woman some slack?

Included in the excerpt (about Edwards) the writers slipped in the snide suggestion that McCain was dealing with his own infidelity problems with a lobbyist (an accusation totally unproven and perhaps made up by the NY Times in an effort to elect Obama). To their discredit, the authors even managed to slip in that CIndy McCain had a lover. Huh! Where did THAT come from?

Apparently the only female who comes off without being trashed is Michelle Obama which causes one to wonder if race trumps sex (no pun intended) in the Democratic Party.

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Really? If I were Harry Reid would it appear immediately?

It's probably more nefarious than that — Harry's votes which enslave blacks eventually will enslave us all. Remember their counterparts in the USSR had the backing of the "workers" and engineered "the dictatorship of the proletariat" then proceeded to enslave those same workers — those they didn't put in the gulag, starve or kill outright. What happened in November 08 was a second Bolshevik Revolution only this time they didn't have to use bullets. "Revolutions" have changed since 1917 — All the dictators of this century were ELECTED.

Reid didn't tell a lie or the truth. He gave his subjective opinion on how he views Americans of pallor.

Based upon nothing more than race, he considers us to be racists. Which makes him a racist.

The debate shouldn't even include Obama, because Reid wasn't insulting him, he was insulting us. And by us I mean all Americans.

If he was forced out (but he won't be, dems have no shame), it could throw off negotiations just enough to cause the vote to be pushed out after the State of the Union speech. And that's really the motivation these days, make sure Obama has something to say in that speech so he doesn't come off as an empty suit.

Can you imagine the back stabbing that would be going on over his leadership position? Rush said he's heard rumors Schummer is already maneuvering for it.

Yep, they drove me out of the left too. Thank goodness.

I thought they already did: National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.

Excellent observation.

Going by the assumption that the "SF" in your name represents San Francisco, you may have been infected with a logical-tolerant viral version of liberalism.

Also the west coast in general seems to be particularly susceptible to liberalism, possibly because of the sun and surf.

Other than that, all I can think of is what happened to me. I didn't really leave the democrats, they left me following 9/11, especially when BDS settled in big time.

So what's your story of coming out?

Oh yeah. No doubt he's a unique piece of political crap. One thing that still confuses me is how people like Reid can insult so many people, yet still get reelected? I know how socialist Utopias do it, with guns.

But also notice the experienced politician. It's no accident that was laid out as a subjective statement. Force of habit: always frame words in ways that can't be objectively judged. They know you can't objectively judge a subjective argument.

Sure sign of a modern liberal.

I know, trust me I know, remember, I'm from NY, the state that thrust upon you the likes of Se. Clinton and Sen. Schummer.

At some point, they can cross the line, your example of Daschle is perfect.

I guess the question I'm mulling is at what point do modern liberals even say 'enough.'?

Which doesn't really have an answer.

"So, the one time the guy tells the truth he gets gored, but all the lies he tells are applauded."

An excellent observation. The way Reid put it was rude, but yes, the way we think now about what can be said and what cannot is heavily warped.

I can't understand the desire Red Eye has to get him on the show. He's never challenged. They must think he's a "safe" black to have on the show.

Madmill: He's moderately amusing, and he doesn't have any of the obvious traits of a radical America-hater that we're all used to seeing. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing. I just can't believe that in order to have him on, they can totally ignore his background and/or pretend they don't know it. "What a nice guy. Gee, a guy like that couldn't really be espousing anything totally crazy, could he? And after all, he's a Columbia professor of [fill in the blank]." It can mislead the young and naive into thinking that his loathsome views might have some validity. HIs support of Gates in the Cambridge Police fiasco was tame enough for the mainstream. But what about his non-mainstream view that it's often justified for a black person to shoot a police officer in the back to avoid arrest, or lie in wait for the oppressive white cops to show up so you can murder them in cold blood to make a political statement?

liberals are pretty much fools; they emotionalize all of their decisions. But true moderates are fleeing the Dems in droves. That might be enough…

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