“Uncle Tom”, as written, is a hero.

Paulie’s headline is spot on, whether Mike Gillis, Nader Apologizer, thinks so or not. Nader said something inflammatory, and something that was about as racially charged as what Rev. James Manning said.

but this is interesting….al-Zawahri may have concluded that Obama has already made (in his viewpoint) a bad choice, whereas Nader is suggesting the choice is still ahead…I don’t see that as being a big distinction.

But here is the text of the malcom x speech that al-Zawahri referred to:

“To understand this, you have to go back to what [the] young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro — back during slavery. There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes – they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good ’cause they ate his food — what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master’s house quicker than the master would. The house Negro, if the master said, “We got a good house here,” the house Negro would say, “Yeah, we got a good house here.” Whenever the master said “we,” he said “we.” That’s how you can tell a house Negro.

If the master’s house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, “What’s the matter, boss, we sick?” We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s run away, let’s escape, let’s separate,” the house Negro would look at you and say, “Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?” That was that house Negro.”

I’m not equating them.

There were similar themes sounded, although hardly in the same way.

I’ve covered this story from different angles, including Nader’s own. I’ll continue to do so.

The story is getting definite media attention, judging by the google news hits anyway, so we’d be remiss not to cover something that includes Nader. Nor can we make all our stories about him positive. Given that we’ve printed numerous Nader press releases, videos, blogs, etc., I’d say we are hardly here to slam the man – but at the same time, we are here to cover the criticism of him which is widespread as well.

Even when Democrats finally win, they just can’t fucking let it go. Even more than two weeks after he said it.

It feels like articles like this weren’t written to highlight Manning or l-Zawahri, but to have an excuse to compare Nader to them.

He says one completely valid thing in a bad way at 1 am and let’s on pile onto him. It certainly cancels out every good thing the man has ever said and done.

Oh yeah. Far more offensive that say — voting to make it easier for the government to spy on its citizens without a warrant, voting to fund an illegal war, cheerleading the bailout, voting for the PATRIOT Act….and on and on.

It really feels like the media is only mentioning al-Zawahri and Manning as an excuse to attack Nader again and equate him with these clowns.

And shame on IPR for equating them in the headline.

It made some things clear about this position, al-Zawahri was taking.

I don’t agree with Malcom X or al-Zawahri, but if you read the speach, if anything, it makes Nader look even worse. Why? because al-Zawahri may just have been taking an islamic fundamentalist viewpoint, that was not based on his own racism, but rather the teachings of Malcom X.

Was Malcom X a racist? I don’t think so. I don’t like the man, but he was trying to make a point within the context of his world view.

Todays loser: Nader

I also don’t see much difference in the meaning.

Arent both racial slurs?

Barack Obama has been called a house negro by Ralph Nader, separatist Baptist preacher James Manning and homicide bombers Al Qaeda.

Before the actual Nader quote they give the pretense “Ralph Nader Calls Obama Uncle Tom”. So yeah, I would say they do misrepresent the truth to say the least.

As far as I can tell al-Zawahri blatantly called Obama a racial slur. Besides, it’s obviously another biased article in favor of the Democrats that attempts to vainly vilify Nader.

Why?

Nader said it. So did Al-Zawahiri…