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12/09/2013

ABC, NBC Rewrite History to Bash Reagan During Mandela Coverage

Posted by Brian

Sometimes, it's not what you say, but what you don't say that is important.

NBC's Andrea Mitchell spoke of President Reagan's support of the South African apartheid regime, and of Congress' override of his veto to impose economic sanctions on the regime. A similar story was relayed by human rights attorney Gay McDougall, who stated "Americans took a stand against Apartheid and said no to our government, when Ronald Reagan wanted to solidify, you know, U.S. support for Apartheid."

But that is only part of the story, and the part they leave out (intentionally, I believe), is eloquently communicated by Joel Pollack, who is actually from South Africa:

"The ANC [African National Congress] remained banned in the country [S. Africa], but its military wing continued to operate within Southern Africa, with assistance from the Soviet Union. The decision to align with the Soviet Union would later haunt the ANC, as it alienated the United States and Great Britain, which were otherwise inclined to support the anti-apartheid movement (and did so, albeit in limited fashion). While Mandela was in prison, the Soviet-trained leaders of the ANC's army committed human rights abuses in military camps outside the country, and used terror attacks on civilians inside South Africa."

(Hear Joel Pollack's discussion with Mark Levin on the life of Nelson Mandela. An excellent piece, and well worth the time to listen.) (H/T to Right Scoop)

This places the story in a whole different context to that which people like Andrea Mitchell, Gay McDougall and others on the left would want you to believe, especially about someone they so readily despise, like Ronald Reagan.

NBC and ABC Bash Reagan as Pro-Apartheid During Mandela Coverage
By Kyle Drennen | December 6, 2013 | 12:03

Amid the tributes looking back at the life of former South African President Nelson Mandela following his death on Thursday, Friday's NBC Today and ABC's Good Morning America both managed to take shots at Ronald Reagan for not being supportive of Mandela during Apartheid. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]

On Today, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell proclaimed: "The U.S. wasn't always on Mandela's side. In the 1980s, President Reagan supported the Apartheid regime, a cold war ally, even as protests broke out on college campuses across America demanding that the U.S. punish the regime....Finally, Congress, including key Republicans, overrode Reagan's veto, imposing the economic sanctions that helped break the Apartheid regime."
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10/29/2012

Daily Beast's Sullivan: Obama Loss = Rise Of The Confederacy

Posted by Brian

Andrew Sullivan is the latest to take up the torch that an Obama loss will only be because of rampant racism among whites, particularly white males.

God, how much energy must it take to do these mental gymnastics to convince yourself that, regardless of the lack of any proof for your theory, you still can manage to come to a conclusion that flies in the face of rational thought.
I could more easily say, and with more data to back it up, that if Obama wins it is because of the racist blacks in the country who are voting for Obama simply because he is black! And I would be right! How else do you explain a poll reporting that Obama pulls 94% of the black vote, while Mitt Romney pulls in exactly, are you ready for this, ZERO percent(!)? That can only be explained by a completely monolithic world-view across an entire race of people who see Barack Obama and Mitt Romney only by the color of their skin, and not the content of their character. Under Obama, the black community has actually done worse economically compared to other racial groups, so it would only be logical to think that some blacks who voted for Obama in 2008 would peel away to Romney. But Obama's support in the black community has remained virtually unchanged. So you have to assume that regardless of his policies, his leadership, or character, their decision first and foremost is based on Obama's skin color. This, after decades of being propagandized by the race-hustlers (Jackson, Sharpton), race baiters (CBC, NAACP, etc.), and the true plantation owners, known as the Democrat leadership.
However, I believe that the polls, like most of them, are wrong, and are being used to drive a narrative. The narrative being that it is practically treasonous for a black person to vote for anyone but a Democrat, and especially a black Democrat. I believe that the media will be surprised to find out on election day, that more than a few will vote for Romney, and many others, realizing Obama's impact on the black community has been devastating, and not wanting to vote for four more years of Obama, but unwilling to vote for Romney, will simply sit out the Presidential vote.
Obama I believe, will lose on November 6th, but it won't be cause of racist whites, but may include a blacks who are dispirited after 4 years of being sold a bill of goods.

ANDREW SULLIVAN: RACIST ROMNEY VOTERS LIKE 'THE OLD CONFEDERACY'
by WARNER TODD HUSTON 28 Oct 2012

On the Sunday, October 28 edition of ABC's This Week, Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast claimed that Obama might lose this election because the whole South is filled with racists that are somehow just like the Old Confederacy.

As George Will noted, according to Sullivan all the whites that were not racist in 2008 suddenly are racist in 2012. In a discussion of the "racial gap" in this year's election, Sullivan declared all southerners to be racists and are sliding back into the civil war. "If Virginia and Florida go back to the Republicans, it's the Confederacy, entirely. You put the map of the civil war over this electoral map you got the civil war," he said.

1/21/2012

Levin: Tell ABC's Ross To 'Find Out Who Obama's Drug Pusher Was'