Thaddeus Matthews talk radio show host in Memphis berates and belittles GOP Congressional candidate Charlotte Bergmann on the air.
*Memphis, Tennessee’s airwaves are still sizzling from a recent radio interview that ended with the radio show host threatening his own guest.
A black female GOP candidate running for congress really brought out the bad side of this guy.
We can understand being impatient with Republican/Tea Party nuts, but he went just a little too far.
So is this guy an asshole? I don’t necessarily care about him cursing out a Republican, but his behavior was shockingly irresponsible. Apart from the numerous likely FCC violations resulting from his profanity laced tirade, how can you be calling out folk’s phone number over the air? And how does he even know why the person was calling? Maybe the person wanted to applaud him for the way he dealt with her.
This guy is ignorant.
And what’s up with the question, “do you as a black woman support Barack Obama?” So that’s the new test for blackness? Whether or not you support Obama. The man who it was just revealed, no surprise to me, was only interested in getting a health care bill pass for selfish reasons. Just to prop up his legacy. No care for the fact that there was no public option or there would be an expensive mandate. Just whatever it takes for the insurance companies to comply and to get those damn Republican votes for the bill to pass.
“The new book Fighting For Our Health by Richard Kirsch explains how the “weak-kneed” Obama administration made backroom deals with the healthcare industry which led to removal of the public option, among other things. “
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcG3oEPdku4
Folks, we got sold down the river by Barack and his handlers.
Sounds to me like you yourself has some issues with the president. And exactly what ‘source’ did this revealing news about getting the insurance bill passed for’ his own selfish legacy’ come from? Newt Gingrich? Sarah Palin? Oh wait, don’t tell me, Herman Cain? Richard Kirsch may think that the prez is ‘weak-kneed,’ but considering he threw caution to the wind and ran for, and WON the presidency, I’d say his knees are stronger than both his and yours. He’s in the White House; you’re posting on a blog on EURWEB. Nuff said!
You are such a typical Obama apologist. Instead of counteracting the criticism, you try to personally attack the messenger, both me and Richard Kirsh. But I must give you some credit for incorporating an interesting technique. That is, trying to lump me with the racist Obama detractors by saying that they also think he is weak-kneed. Bu t like every Obama apologist before you, your argument is weak and did not quite make the grade. Newt and Palin, unlike me, are not in favor of real health care reform. They would never refer to Obama as weak-kneed for weakening the bill to appease the Republicans. So you might want to explain how that comparison came about.
But do you even know who Richard Kirsh is and why his assessment is so incriminating?
“Richard Kirsch, directed the advocacy group Health Care for America Now during the push for reform. HCAN is a well financed umbrella group backed by scores of liberal groups, unions, and other reformers — making Kirsch a close witness to the entire saga. He confirms that the White House treated the public option like a bargaining chip with powerful industry players, and believes that when his group became most critical of the bill mid-way through the fight, that top White House aides sought to have him canned.
He had inside information and knew exactly what was going on. You also seem to miss the point with Richard Kirsh weak-kneed reference. He was being complimentary in calling Obama weak-kneed, when the evidence indicates that Obama’s motives were more nefarious.
“The White House had negotiated a number of deals with the health industry, designed to win their support for reform, including agreeing to oppose a robust public option, which would have the greatest clout to control how much providers got paid,” writes Kirsch, largely confirming what has become an open secret in Washington.
One of these deals which Obama worked out was a mandate in which the insurance companies would get more money than they could ever dream of. What sense does that make? Why should we be forced to pay private insurance companies when we could have a public insurance option subsidized by the government instead? And even more interesting, is that not only did Obama campaigned for the public option, but he laughed at Hilary Clinton when she proposed having a mandate. Now of course Obama will tell you that he never campaigned for the public option, which technically he didn’t, since the term was not coined at that time.
So you are right. Obama is not weak-kneed. He’s strong-kneed when it comes to the agenda of corporate America and his own selfish ambitions. Obama was never interested in passing that bill for the sake of helping Americans to get affordable health care. It was all his selfish desire to be credited with a health care reform bill, even a weak one which meant that insurance companies would become unimaginable wealthy off the backs of poor people through the mandate.
Be a proud black man and stop apologizing for the obvious flaws of this half white man. As Glenn Ford of Black Agenda Report noted:
“Still unwilling or unable to admit that they were “psyched out” by Barack Obama and his corporate handlers, Lefties search for psychological reasons that the First Black President has been such a disappointment. It’s the failure to fight thing, or the lack of vision thing, or the failure to communicate thing, they say. “It isn’t that Obama has trouble conveying his vision, it’s that his actual vision is unacceptable to progressives.” As for his willingness to fight, Obama fought his own left wing, and “stomped their butts into the dirt” over his corporate health care plan.”
So why don’t you give us your opinion on Obama’s real motives, since you don’t thing they were selfish ?
Come on. Throw me a bone, because I can’t see any other explanation for his actions.
“And exactly what ‘source’ did this revealing news about getting the insurance bill passed for’ his own selfish legacy’ come from?”
You want to know exactly? It came from my own independent assessment of Obama. If Palin and Newt said it also, I wasn’t even aware. The evidence presented by Richard Kirsh showed that Obama had no interest in passing a health care plan designed to help struggling Americans. And if you didn’t have your head stuck so tightly up your ass, you would have no problem seeing that also. The fact that he rejected the public option, even when then polls showed that even Republican voters were in favor of it, reveals that he had some hidden agenda. This is the same Obama seen here chastising Hillary Clinton in the debates against the vices inherent in having a mandate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOJBiklP1Q
Progressives argued that it would be better not to have a bill than one designed to screw poor people and benefit the insurance companies. If it was not for his selfish ambition, then what was it for his insistence against the public option in favor of a system where there would be a mandate to line the pockets of insurance companies? Oh, a desire to satisfy his corporate backers? Maybe. Either way, his intentions were less than honorable.
The man is not even black, but all these black people refusing to accept him for what he actually is. And it’s not as if for a lack of warning signs.
Even before he was elected, his response to the Sean Bell verdict was, “We’re a nation of laws, so we respect the verdict that came down.”
Respect?!
Yeah, that’s what your hero said then. Basically saying to white people, “don’t make the mistake of associating me with them black people and their issues. You don’t have to worry about me starting no shit by advocating for them in their quest for justice.”
After he became president and the Congressional Black Caucus said there should be targeted programs to address the disproportionately high unemployment affecting black people, Obama responded that they wanted him to do something “illegal.” Saying instead that “a rising tide lifts all boat. “ Here again, the same coded message to whites. “Don’t worry about me starting no shit on behalf of black people.”
He has a black man for Attorney General but won’t allow him to issue an edict against racial profiling, the main reason leading to black men being arrested and charged twelve times that of the average public on drug charges. This is even when every study shows blacks using the same or fewer drugs than the rest of America. A recent studied showing teen drug and alcohol use lowest amongst blacks. But the juvenile black drug arrest rate was nearly three times that of whites, and in 2008 it remained almost double.
Obama won’t even use the word black anymore and when Eric Holder made the mistake of saying that America was coward when it came to discussing race, Obama promptly muzzled him.
So why the fuck does black people still go out of their way to apologize for this mulatto?
Is it low self esteem?