The N-Word Uttered Approvingly on MSNBC
Elie Mystal is a talking head on MSNBC. Over the weekend, he called Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker a “negro” on MSNBC to the affirmations of the host. His casually racist point was, “Walker is gonna do what he’s told, and that's what Republicans like. That's what Republicans want from their negroes: to do what they’re told.”
Mystal will be given a pass by the press, by the Democrats, and by the left. Should anyone say Mystal is going to perform like that because that’s what MSNBC wants from theirs, well, that person would be vilified.
Herschel Walker, for his part, responded by saying he’d pray for Mystal and the MSNBC host because they need Jesus.
As one of the ongoing examples of press bias, if someone on Tucker Carlson’s program referred to a Democrat candidate in that way, virtually every elected Republican would have a microphone shoved in their face asking if they affirm or disagree with whichever talking head said it.
We’ve seen this happen where a local politico in some town you’ve never heard of says something racist, and the person is a Republican, national Republicans get grilled by the press about it.
But call a black man a negro on national television and the press mounts no inquiry if the man has an “R” next to his name.
Raphael Warnock has not been asked if he agrees with Mystal’s language and characterization. If someone on Fox said that about Warnock, you and I both know Walker would be asked.
It is another double standard and bit of passive racism and bias in the political press worth noting. It is also worth noting that MSNBC is owned by Comcast, which itself appears fine with this level of racism on its network.
Housekeeping
I kinda went viral on the internet yesterday over my post on GOP spam. A number of readers pointed out, however, that this email goes to their spam folder.
Here’s what happens — a number of people get pissed off at what I write. They flag my email as spam. That suggests to internet companies over time that my emails are spam.
In fact, right now, emails that come from ewerickson.com are regularly sent to spam. My assistant, director of radio programming, and director of digital programming all have had that problem lately. It has to do with other people flagging us as spam because they don’t like us.
To fight back and fix the issue, I kindly suggest you reply to this if you are reading it from your email inbox. You don’t have to write a long note. Just send back a hello or something. Replying in sufficient quantity suggests our emails are not spam and helps correct the same filters that suggested we were spam.
Fortune 500 Racism
Major American companies have jointly filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court. They are asking the Court to uphold willful and active racial discrimination in the country. Some of these companies have racism problems themselves. Now they want the Supreme Court to affirm it is legal to discriminate against kids in college admissions racially. Here is the list:
And yes, these companies support active and willful race-based discrimination in college admissions. They write in defense of Harvard, which has actively discriminated against Asian-American and white applicants for admissions. These same companies have supported “stop Asian hate” campaigns while supporting active discrimination against Asian-American students.
Missouri
Eric Grietens is a sociopathic wife beater who tied a woman up in his basement and assaulted her. He had to step down as Missouri Governor. He is running a sociopathic campaign for the United States Senate in Missouri.
Eric Schmitt is the Missouri Attorney General and also a Senate candidate and the preferred choice of conservatives.
Eric McElroy is one of the other twenty-one candidates who qualified for the Missouri GOP Senate Primary. No one really knows who he is.
Instead of taking a stand against the sociopathic wife beater, President Trump endorsed “Eric” in Missouri. His son’s girlfriend is working for Grietens. His endorsement came after Trump publicly criticized Schmitt.
The endorsement is willfully nebulous. Trump would still be President if he had any kind of character, but his lack of character and impulse control is what tired the American people on him. When you get furious with all the people who voted for Biden, you should blame the man who can’t denounce a wife beater, not the people who decided to move on from him.
I am reliably told a Trump with good character and impulse control does exist in the multiverse and goes by the name Ron DeSantis.
Keep up the good work! Spam-breakfast of Champions! (See what I did there? My last name is Champion 😂)
I heard Mystal's rant and he is a world class jerk. He's wrong about pretty much everything, but I suspect he usually is. This notion that every black man or woman who isn't liberal gets called names (remember how ugly it got with Condoleeza Rice, a woman of outstanding credentials?) is intellectually dishonest and is the refuge of hacks. The word "negro" isn't an insult until used in this context by a jackass.
Also, I liked Walker's response. Perhaps not the most articulate of men, he's still head and shoulders above his critics.