harry's in a lot of trouble
harried says something he apparently should not have said
and were judge whether he's filter products for
but the first off
uh... it's comes from rogue a book to mark halperin uh... has written about
his experience in two thousand eight campaign anirudh john
highland it's called the in change
and apparently harried said in a private conversation
that he was well but hope on this
or carpool gaps ok that's no problem at all that sounds good
but he said
uh... that he might be helped by the fact that he's a quote
light-skinned african-american
and here comes the really bad part
with no negro dialect
unless you want to go
all right now
uh... let's bring that
down in three different sects ic number one
uh... he's a light skin after well
icassp eighties half what they have plaxo
in some ways that may seem like an afro-american
now is that a
you know uh... a racist uh... thing to say no yet
now does that help a politically
it might
you know it given the context in the history of this country
that that's what harried is commenting on world that's a perfectly normal
comment
i have no before that at all
and
uh... if he's saying hey you know what i'm a little bit more comfortable with
them
because he's a lot of skip every murders wills or dark skin every way
that we would have knots evasion straight but he didn't set proposal
anyone who's telling you that he's implying that he implied that that's
just not at all
in what he said so
that's point number one that's not that much trouble
if you go to the negro dot
you know it's
it's a hell of a funny way of saying if you know
and um...
so double one
does he this harry think you-know-what
of these negroes in their dialect i don't know it's hard to tell i'll i'm
agin not given
the history of harriet now he's voter nays acted which is very important
countries important
uh... it seems more to me
that he's
old-school
you know some all of the folks stages grew up in a different time when you
would say negro or
color guy uh... and people will go around the because nobody can speeches
he says near all the time uses color bad all the time
it in fact of course the n_ double a_c_p_ vcp stance for colored people
all school is it not advisable to put it that way
come on how you got no band that that's crazy what they say the word island for
the year two thousand eight
that's not supported so
of course that's gonna causing trouble
i think the third part of it actually that
that people are talking about enough might be the most problematic park
unless he wanted a have one
he has no no when theodore dot the legal is what i want that implies that he
picks up mom is a little fate
that you know he does it have an accent or dialect
but that if he was somewhere where you have won all the sudden he would have
won
okay maybe just call it a partridge acted and we've seen
giver politicians including a about when they go in the south
a little bit more of a southern dialup
will put it politely like that not no words that i read would use
worked there for black people or white people or whatever it might be right
i think that that
is is maybe the worst insults cocom and that whole sentence
some people say
but you guys to be an affair here if this is a conservative who said it
directors had off
that's fairly for
so
let's say that's fair or unfair
uh... number one by the way i don't want anybody to be missing exit
dumb thing for harry to say
because
you've got to know better in the year two thousand eight
to put it that way even if you think that
even if you're making a political comment and you know i made a comment
about oh well you know i don't like the negro dot i like the right
dole you know i like these lights catherine i don't care you don't put it
that way that's dumb
and number two though cause political damage will get back to them a little
bit okay
but now why would we treated service and democrats a little differently
that's when republicans into service was a kid action karta battles that
so much of
uh... statements or in their context enough are in their inferences and
implications right so
if someone uh... who's voted against civil rights legislation voted against
the legislation that pierre south african americans throughout their whole
career
so i thought about heroes
well can you come at some of the little different perspective you know what
at one oh one but i guess as things may be settled rabin
with affirmative action as i do any pics maybe towards minorities
but once he starts out about negro descended with that
you begin the question
is that fair i think i think perfectly fair
i think we live in a world full of contacts and we tried it
divine why people voted the way they did in
what leads their actions the center or said the things that they said
now somebody's
voted to help african-americans that active health african-americans are a
whole life that doesn't mean they can't be racist
doesn't mean they don't have all some old school thoughts and maybe read at
some of those things
does it mean
uh... date you give 'em
maybe the benefit of the doubt as to whether he meant to be racist when he's
never acted racist
i think that's a fair conclusion
now look
dvds on for a conclusion understood if you are let harry to have it
lebanon no before that i read you know from doing this show is about their work
i have a worldwide
uh... but if he asked me about this specific
comment i think it's dumb
but i don't think its
race
okay
as far as we can tell up by the way i'm
open to being proven otherwise if you show me other kinds of other actions by
harry
is as i said a million times about the contacts now
the political bent
all he's a lot of trouble man
it like i chose that mark albert book has been million damaging stories about
so later from politicians including john edwards and
joe biden in sap ailments that are etcetera
the only one anybody's talking about at this point is harry
why of course the right wing median this country's solve strong
so the man they picked up on that with ballistic god blacksmith rush limbaugh
although starbuck shows
on twenty four seven loop
ares races ares races harry's racist etcetera etcetera
now that's all anybody's talking about that harry dot terrible numbers for his
reelection campaign
nevada to begin with
now you have this customers the on top of it
and it does not look good
it that's that's hot low for a guy who was already politically speaking if you
believe the polls
it look like on its last legs
uh... this might be a straw that that camel's back can take
look at my cost them with uh... his
progressive supporters if they believe that
you know he meant that in a bad way if they don't show up to vote or they go to
vote against them off
he's in a world of travel
and emiko costume even more than independence that republicans were gonna
vote yes and about anyway
but independents are critical here and it might do even more damage there
whether what he said is bad or not
perception matters a lot in politics
and at the perception is
is to puncture one if a person has raised by this is a huge problem
number two if they perceive him as
yeah are bad politician and we
and always failing or having to respond to controversies arnie's customers is
whether the writer they're wrong they add up in political terms
you don't understand that reality
so then a day
harry because of this
has really stepped in it
and he's got a perform some sort of magic trick to be able to get reelected
itna bada i think he's an old world over