Looks like Brother Cornel is still butt-hurt about President Obama inviting a lowly baggage handler to the inauguration instead of his extra special snowflake self and wants to make sure the racist, sexist, xenophobic demagogue Trump has a chance to piss all over PBO’s legacy:
So honored to have Dr. Cornel West's support! https://t.co/clZDsZuRQx pic.twitter.com/48PZTJ8Xm9
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) July 14, 2016
No worries — if Trump wins (he won’t), Brother Cornel will be fine. The people he pretends to care about for fame and profit, not so much. I guess it’s too late to crowbar out whatever policy planks the rat-bastard nailed into the party platform last week, but the good news is, most people who actually know who Cornel West is realize he was driven off the rails ages ago by jealousy and spite. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Trentrunner
This fucking guy.
Baud
Damn. I hate when Vichy Progressives are people of color or women.
Aqualad08
What a great prize… everyone he supports loses…
rustydude
If one of those planks he nailed into the platform was critical of Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza, then yes, thank you Bernie! (without the sarcasm)
JPL
It’s insulting to the party, that Bernie was running on.
Corner Stone
I apologize for continuing to ask this, but – is there a word for less than irrelevant?
Cat48
Hit the Road, Cornel & don’t you come back, no more, no more. Hopefully she won’t be on your ballot bc she missed some states!
Archon
Why does Cornel West have a platform? Who is he appealing to?
Cuz it sure as heck ain’t black folks.
Ruviana
@Aqualad08: He’s like the Bill Kristol of the left!
Corner Stone
@rustydude:
And then? And then? And then and then and then?
dmsilev
@Corner Stone:
Green?
Trollhattan
Usually when there’s an active grift I can suss out why it’s working, if not generate respect for those falling for it. In this case I can’t; he’s an empty suit with a goofy haircut. Suppose at least Bernie has a goofy haircut, too.
Davis X. Machina
Well, from where Brother West sits, Obama’s legacy is war, racism and finance capitalism — he failed to destroy them.
The last actual black man who ran for president was Eugene V. Debs.
rikyrah
Black folks told y’all about Cornie a long time ago.
Meg
So, is he still on the Democratic party platforms committee then?
SFAW
Actually, Cor
Becnel is playing the long game: once Trump wins, things will get SO bad, that the backlash will power a WAVE of liberalism that will last for14 monthsa generation or more.JPL
@Davis X. Machina: Bernie put him on the rules committee. I think he should be ashamed. Who am I kidding, he was just running a campaign, to highlight himself. He could care less about the democratic party.
scav
Side eye to the side show. Rates a sidebar on, oh, maybe page 16 unless an new lost cat notice needs to be squeezed in.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
I think we can put paid to what Bernie liked about West in the first place. Like likes like, and they both would like to erase Obama’s accomplishments.
Jeffro
@dmsilev: That was on point. Ironically enough, it doubles as an adjective for inexperienced, naive, in over his/her head.
FlipYrWhig
West is like a minstrel show version of a black intellectual, AFAICT. But by his logic — why isn’t _he_ the one running for president? Compared to Jill Stein, Cornel West is a heavyweight with an extensive list of accomplishments. Of course, compared to Jill Stein, Rob Schneider is a heavyweight with an extensive list of accomplishments.
SFAW
@rikyrah:
Oh, yeah? Well, if “black folks” are so smart, why ain’t they President?
Jeffro
@Jeffro: Also, I’ll take a disaster over a catastrophe anyway. ;)
Citizen Alan
To me, Cornel West will always be that grumpy black man on the Zion ruling counsel in Matrix Reloaded… which makes him by far the most prominent individual to support Jill “Wow, they’ll give a medical degree to anyone!” Stein.
burnspbesq
@Corner Stone:
The problem is, he’s not irrelevant. Thousands of young, ignorant Berniacs think the guy is the Authentic Fount of Truth and Wisdom.
Shit like this is going to make it that much harder to beat some sense into these imbeciles–ERR, help these kids figure it out.
Felonius Monk
@Davis X. Machina:
Really?
SFAW
@FlipYrWhig:
Scoff if you will, but “Big Stan” was on a par with the best of
Ed WoodStanley Kubrick or Akira Kurosawa.Corner Stone
@burnspbesq:
You do understand that Bernie supporters largely do not care what a black man, any black man, thinks about any topic, right?
Lalophobia
Apparently it’s gonna be Pence. Not as ‘fun’ as Gingrich would’ve been (the wives jokes write themselves) but considering how badly he handled that ‘you can legally discriminate against gay people’ thing, there might be some mileage to be gotten out of him.
gogol's wife
@Ruviana:
exactly
philadelphialawyer
Cornell is funny…he gets “voice” but then opts for “exit” at the same time!
I don’t care about the platform planks that West helped get passed. They might be good, they might be bad. I really can’t be arsed. What sucks is that a guy, all within the same month or so, accepts a position with a political party, helps write that party’s platform, and then jumps ship from that party.
Lack of personal integrity seems to be the Bernie-Jill-Cornell connection. Bernie: I am all about democracy, the superdelegates suck….er, I think the supers should overrule the pledged delegates, and the votes they are based on…Jill: I am a leftist who abhors secrecy, the MIC State, etc….er, Hillary is bad woman because she jeopardized national security….Cornell: I will join a party committee and help, in a process based on compromise and access for the minority side, write your party platform….er, now I am going to flake on you, and support some other party’s candidate in the same election.
Anything for “the cause” (ie self interest), I guess!
hovercraft
West is an asshole, he has virtually no constituency , so f**k him with a rust spoon. He is purity pony, who will never be satisfied
PsiFighter37
Can’t believe this asshole was given a spot on the platform committee – and then bailed as soon as it was finalized. Fuck him.
Jeffro
@Felonius Monk: I thought it was Bill Clinton??
Shawn in Showme
I’ve read that West has a personal beef with Obama because he wasn’t invited to the inauguration. But there are a ton of black men who are not fans of the Clintons or Obama based on policy alone. The lives of the vast majority of black men have gotten worse the last 8 years, not better.
burnspbesq
@rikyrah:
Does he still have that early-saturday-morning radio show with Montel Williams?
Roger Moore
If all the people who might be swayed by Cornel West switch to supporting Jill Stein, she might have enough voters to fill a phone booth!
Dog Dawg Damn
Looks like another attack in France. Great.
mike in dc
Wow. If I were Sanders (or the DNC) I’d toss him off the Rules Committee immediately. Extraordinary bad faith. I hope he gets booed at his next class.
The Thin Black Duke
In case if you were wondering why Bernie’s attempts to connect with the black community failed…
Punchy
Some major shit went down in Nice France. Truck purposely plowed down peeps partying. Many, many dead/injured.
hovercraft
@rikyrah:
Exactly, his constituency is white liberal purity ponies. Obama failed the man by failing to destroy the system it took 240 years to build, how could he fail to make all of histories wrongs right in four long years. Again f**k him.
Trollhattan
@Shawn in Showme:
Wait, what? Compare and contrast today with Jan 1, 2009 if you would. Show your work.
dmsilev
@mike in dc: I thought he was on the platform committee, which finished its work over the weekend. Presumably, the timing here isn’t a coincidence.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@Roger Moore:
Her contributions were increased 1000% ELEVENTY!!ONE!!! my 2 last Bernie FB feed dead enders posted today. I had to resist commenting; so she’s got $1000 then! unicorns for everyone!!
The Thin Black Duke
@Trollhattan: I guess the GOP were just innocent bystanders.
Betty Cracker
@rustydude: I’m sure anything worthwhile was proposed by non-poseurs like Keith Ellison, not the grandstanding jackass West, who doesn’t know how to run anything but his mouth.
Baud
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: I can see some wingnut billionaire funding her in an effort to hurt Hillary.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
@The Thin Black Duke:
All of the purity ponies who won’t vote for Hillary never blame the Republicans for anything. Why is that?
mike in dc
@dmsilev:
He just burned whatever bridges remained between him and most of the progressive left. Stein won’t even be a rounding error in November.
chopper
see, this is what happens when you let non-democrats run for the democratic nomination.
Roger Moore
@hovercraft:
This isn’t even about what Obama has done as president; it started as a purely personal complaint. West thinks Obama isn’t giving him proper respect for everything he’s done to build Obama’s success, starting with Obama’s failure to use his psychic powers to know Cornel wanted tickets to the inauguration. The man is completely unhinged from logic.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
as predictable as McCain blaming Obama for the attack in Nice, Bernie will wave his hands and declare he can’t speak for Cornel West and why would anyone think he can?
Patricia Kayden
How does it make sense to vote for Jill Stein anyways? It’s not as if she is going to have Representatives or Senators to back her up in the unlikely event that she would win the Presidency(of course, she won’t).
Cornell loves the spotlight and it’s great that we no longer have to pay any attention to him.
rikyrah
@burnspbesq:
I don’t know.
NotMax
@Davis X. Machina
Dang, would have laid real folding money on the table that Dick Gregory and Jesse Jackson are both black men.
Who knew?
Why hello...
I heard Cornel speak at Berkeley in 2000. He is a great speaker. Randomly, I saw him at a play in San Francisco that night. His date was a very attractive white lady, with as light of hair as you can imagine. She looked Swedish. It was just interesting since he wrote a book called Race Matters and seems to believe in sellouts.
mike in dc
@Punchy:
We pretty much have to accept that most of the world is now engaged in an asymmetric war with ISIL/ISIS(and related groups) and that these things are going to keep happening for a while, even months after Raqqah has fallen and their “caliph” is dead. Neither over- nor under- reaction is helpful, imo.
Schlemazel Khan
@hovercraft:
But he had 8 years, not just 4!! With that much time & control of both houses for a couple of them he should have totally righted every wrong, healed every wound and feed us all with 5 loafs and 2 fishes.
hovercraft
Possible terrorist attack in Nice, truck mowed down pedestrians on the seafront watching fireworks.
Roger Moore
@Patricia Kayden:
It’s makes sense two ways:
1) A protest vote to show that you want somebody leftier than whomever the Democrats are offering this election. This even makes some sense if you’re in a “safe” state where throwing away your vote is unlikely to affect the final outcome.
2) As part of a view that voting is about self-actualization rather than anything having to do with choosing our government. There seem to be a disturbingly large number of (privileged) people who see things that way.
The Ancient Randonneur
When Trolling leave it to the weapons-grade experts:
THat is how it’s done.
Schlemazel Khan
@Roger Moore:
The key is you can never be wrong voting for an also ran. No matter who wins you can always claim it would have been better if only people had listened to you and voted for Gus Hall!
This is an old and honorless game played by too many including some in major parties like the GOP. The clowns tried to pull it off on brexit but they failed badly & now can’t claim everything would be better if only people have voted ‘leave’
Trollhattan
@The Ancient Randonneur:
Oh, snap! Well played, White House.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Would take issue with calling it “throwing away your vote.” It’s still a valid vote.
Futilely casting a vote, perhaps, or even a vote of conscience.
Living in Hawaii did provide me the opportunity to have never voted for Bill Clinton. Had it been at all close, that choice would have been different.
rikyrah
Colleagues Mad That Megyn Kelly Isn’t Speaking Up for Roger Ailes
7.14.16
While colleagues at Fox News wonder why she hasn’t spoken publicly in favor of her boss in regard to his sexual-harassment lawsuit, others surmise a feminist balancing act.
Frustration and anger within Fox News are building over primetime star Megyn Kelly’s apparent unwillingness to take sides on behalf of her embattled boss, Roger Ailes, in his publicly damaging legal battle against fired Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson.
“Megyn is being selfish,” a Fox News insider told The Daily Beast on condition of anonymity because this person was not authorized by the network to speak about the subject, on or off the record. “It’s pretty shocking actually.”
The 45-year-old Kelly—a former corporate litigator whose television career has been carefully nurtured by Ailes since he hired her 12 years ago from the local Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate—is a conspicuous outlier among more than a dozen Fox News personalities, mostly women, who in press interviews and other forums have faithfully defended the 76-year-old Ailes against the 50-year-old Carlson’s allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination.
Kelly, who, like Fox News, didn’t respond to requests for comment, is paid an estimated $15 million annually under her current deal as Ailes’s protégé-turned-star anchor. She has her defenders, of course. They argue that she is simply being prudent and smart—and preserving her credibility and independence to field potentially handsome offers from broadcast networks when her Fox News contract is up next summer—by not weighing in on the controversy without knowing the facts.
A number of women currently employed by Fox News have come forward to defend the 74-year-old Ailes — a former aide to President Richard Nixon who started Fox News in the 1990s.
rikyrah
PA Hospital employee fired after saying she’s ‘sick and tired of all this bullsh*t with the black people’
14 JUL 2016 AT 15:42 ET
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital fired a woman who posted on social media how “sick and tired of all this bullsh*t with the black people.”
Diane Amoratis’ Facebook rant, was a response to an anti-police brutality protest near Erie, Pennsylvania that went viral after she posted it.
“They should have bulldozed the BLM protest at the 24/25th district last night. Disgraceful!!! And for all the police officers who have to work amongst these trouble makers, you deserve all the praise in the world,” she said in the post.
“Blacks kill each other every day, all day long, and it’s ok with them. Why not protest when Jamal kills Kalif???? Well, I AM WHITE AND PROUD TO BE WHITE!! WHITE LIVES MATTER!!!! POLICE OFFICERS LIVES MATTER!!!” she continued, before offering advice to the black community. “Keep your circus in your own neighborhood!!! Get a life, a honest job, and RAISE YOUR KIDS TO BE PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS!!!!”
She closed the post by saying, “I am sick and tired of all this bull—- with the black people!! If you don’t like my post, then delete me as your friend.”
Shock and outrage grew and it wasn’t long before a rumor began that she was a nurse at Jefferson University Hospital, however, NBC Philadelphia reports that a spokeswoman for the hospital denied that Amoratis was ever a nurse for the hospital.
The hospital released a statement Wednesday acknowledging an employee had posted “inappropriate and inflammatory comments” on social media and that she had been fired.
Villago Delenda Est
@SFAW: “Nach Drumpf, Uns”.
Worked out really well for the German communists, but of course they had help from Uncle Joe.
RaflW
The going nowhere campaign of Jill Stein is absolutely sure to get our country “beyond this lockjaw situation.”
For a Harvard & Princeton man, he does seem like an idiot.
rikyrah
Trump Explains Palin’s Absence from GOP Convention
July 14, 2016
Sarah Palin isn’t included in the official list of speakers for the Republican National Convention next week, and Donald Trump suggested to the Washington Examiner that her absence is because she lives too far from the venue.
Said Trump: “She was asked. It’s a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love Sarah. Little bit difficult because of, you know, it’s a long ways away.”
rikyrah
Ari Berman
@AriBerman
Congressional Democrats introducing Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2016 today to register 50 million Americans
rikyrah
The wrong state to have an accident
Obamacare was supposed to improve health care equality. But for some people, state politics has made the problem much worse.
By Rachana Pradhan
07/13/16 04:55 AM EDT
ASHLAND CITY, TENN. — In December 2014, Donnie Gene Rippy fell off a roof while shooing away ducks, breaking his back and too many bones to count. He underwent four surgeries to fix his shoulder, wrists and vocal cords.
Rippy, a brick mason, had the misfortune to be uninsured. But his bad luck was compounded by where his accident happened. If he had lived about 50 miles north—that is, anywhere over the Kentucky border—he wouldn’t have to rely on ibuprofen and occasional cortisone shots from a local health department for his persistent back and knee pain. Chances are good he would also have gotten treatment for the memory and mood issues that developed after the fall. And he wouldn’t be mired in more than $60,000 in medical debt.
Kentucky and Tennessee are similar in many ways: geography, demographics, income. But in 2013, the governor of Kentucky embraced the Affordable Care Act, expanding Medicaid coverage to tens of thousands of low-income families. Tennessee did not. As a result, about 280,000 Tennesseans, people like Rippy, don’t have access to the free or low-cost health care enjoyed by their neighbors to the north.
“We’re all in the United States, but yet you have some states that have the Medicaid part of it and some states decided not to take it,” said Rippy’s partner, Betty Batey. “I just don’t think that’s fair.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@RaflW: what the hell does “political lockjaw” mean?
grandpa john
West is another prime candidate for the category of
Goblue72
@Corner Stone: You two gaping rectums need to get a room together.
hovercraft
@The Ancient Randonneur:
I’m a fan of this kind of knife play, Obama has trained his staff well on the ancient art of wielding the shiv and the stiletto.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: What a pathetically transparent lie. He doesn’t want her to show up because she sounded like a babbling meth head when she endorsed Trump, and he’s afraid she’ll give another lunatic performance. Ha! Imagine being such an incomprehensible nitwit that TRUMP finds you embarrassing!
rikyrah
Prayers for the Williams Family
Serena’s Heartbreak: Williams’ Dad Suffers Debilitating Stroke
dr. bloor
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Rather difficult to believe that Brother Doctor West has any familiarity with any form of lockjaw.
rikyrah
Alex IsenstadtVerified account
@politicoalex
SCOOP: GOP convention organizers send SOS to Adelson: We’re underfunded and need $6 mil – ASAP
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Goblue72: Hiya Dwight, how’s our favorite Honorary Twenty-Something/self-loathing middle-aged corporate drone? You taking a well-deserved break from your very real and very successful grass roots activism that you’re so strangely shy about?
LanceThruster
Yeah…well he’s not riding on a pedophile plane so there’s that.
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: What, there are no planes in Alaska?
Roger Moore
@rikyrah:
Or maybe she can’t give Ailes a full-throated defense because she knows what a pack of lies it would be.
daves09
@Roger Moore: Full throated is not. . . ahh, well, maybe it is a good choice of words.
J R in WV
@Schlemazel Khan:
I even met Gus Hall once, a very long time ago. I didn’t know quite who he was at the time, but I figured it out pretty well shortly after. In a dinky apartment in DC…
smintheus
Cornel West is still the same posturing fool he always seemed to be. Obama didn’t drive him off the rails.
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah:
If you voted for any Republican, Ms. Batey, you have no one to blame but yourself.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: What? An ethical bone in her body? What’s she doing at Faux Noise in the first place?
John Weiss
Imagine the overwhelming urge to be rich, famous and important. You know, the urge to be taken seriously.
Makes me hope that the Buddhists and the Hindus are right about re-incarnation as a process to perfection.
I don’t understand that urge but I’m simple like that, thank the gods.
My Truth Hurts
Don’t you ever get tired of using fear and insults to persuade people to vote for your candidate? You seem like a very bitter person. Turn off the news for a few weeks. It will do wonders.
Stein 2016!
glory b
@Baud: It’s happened at least once already.
Halliburton donated six figures to the Greens in PA with the understanding that the payout was to throw the Casey/Santorum race to Santorum. Probably not the first or last time, just the time they got caught.
I wish I could remember his name, the guy who produced Gasland, but he was on the radio yesterday and seemed pretty bitter about the Green Party. He said that he is deep in the conservation scene and has NEVER seen a Green Party rep at anything. He also said they don’t have the infrastructure to be a viable party. It’s just a Jill Stein vanity project.
terry chay
@Shawn in Showme: NOT TRUE AT ALL . Dont let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Tool.
ruemara
@Shawn in Showme: Bullshit. Insurance. Increased hiring. Increased pay. Better VA admin. Not getting shipped off to war.
@glory b: This is true. I loved what I read about the Greens, until I joined and realized they were paper radicals. And under Stein, they’re worse.
Ella in New Mexico
This November, we need change. No Cornell, we need to continue the good stuff, improve the imperfect stuff, and protect the nation from the rule of crazy miscreants. Not change. Change means BAD STUFF.
Yet we are tied in a choice between Trump, who would be a neo-fascist disaster and destructor of the American Constitution rule of law and pretty much life as we have come to know it
and HilaryClinton, a neoliberal disaster who will actually try to govern and make America a litter better after her time in office.
That’s why I am supporting no, Corney, WASTING my vote on Jill Stein.
I am with her-the only progressive woman who has the audacity to call herself that because she’s literally never done a fucking thing but be a bystander with a whole lotta opinion,, fake-run for office she knows she’ll never have to actually occupy, and literally has no idea how to implement any of the things she claims to support in the race-
because we’ve got to get beyond this lock-jaw situation. Even though she literally has a snowballs’ chance in hell of ever crossing the threshold of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue unless she’s invited to a third-tier honorarium dinner, .
And again, because my one vote is being flushed down a toilet, you’re gonna listen to me…WHY?
Marc McKenzie
@Ella in New Mexico: Ella, you said it better than I ever could.
Marc McKenzie
@My Truth Hurts:
My head hurts from reading this bulls**t…
sigaba
@glory b:
I would think the fact that Stein could simply offer Sanders her ticket would confirm this. Aren’t there any Greens out there would be miffed their candidate for president was abdicating and using her vote-of-one to choose a replacement? I suppose not.
I have also been associated in some deep-green causes, peripherally, and have never run into anyone that was involved with the Green Party. Prior to Stein, it was mostly just a single-issue party, that issue being pot.
Citizen Alan
@sigaba:
I forced myself to watch the first hour of the Green Party debate. I was amused by the fact that all three candidates were ridiculous cranks (including Stein, though in her defense, she was the most lucid of the three cranks), but more than that, I was astonished to realize that Greens apparently believe that the Office of President conveys dictatorial powers! One of the candidates seriously claimed that if elected she would solve the problem of gun violence by banning and confiscating all guns in the entire country within the first 100 days.
Vlad
The Sanders delegates on the platform successfully pushed for policy planks on a $15 minimum wage, a public option for health care, Social Security expansion, restrictions on fracking, a carbon tax, marijuana legalization, and opposition to the death penalty.
But by all means – let’s tear out actual progressive policy goals root and branch, in order to demonstrate personal contempt for one particular (and largely irrelevant) dude you don’t like. Because it’s more important to feel righteous than to actually do good in the world.
Ella in New Mexico
@Vlad:
Dude, where you been for the past few months of the “HateHateHATE Bernie” fest? For a lot of people here, it’s become a daily habit, an automatic reaction that’s gonna take a while to wear off.
Especially now that he’s officially dropped out and there’s no one to continuously fixate on…
Miss Bianca
@Ella in New Mexico: Oh, but now Bernie’s getting it from the “left” – if that’s what I’m to call the ex-Bros who are now squawking about voting for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson. Because apparently Bernie has BETRAYED them by endorsing the…wait for it…Democratic candidate!
Ella in New Mexico
@Miss Bianca: Meh–they were never ours in the first place, and I’m not even sure you could call characterize them as “the left”.
Seriously, I know a few, and they are so completely all over the map when it comes to politics. To the point they could vote for Bush one year, sit out another, vote Jesse Ventura another, and Barack Obama the next. And now Johnson (who they absolutely have no IDEA is actually about) or the Stein-board Cutout who is literally just a pretty face.
Oh, and sorry about my snarky Sanders Hater Bait comment above, but it IS Pokemon season and you know what they say…gotta catch ’em all…:-D
Miss Bianca
@Ella in New Mexico: I dunno. The guy who got me to run for Town Council as a Democrat umpty-ump years ago, who always struck me as a died-in-the-wool pramatic Democrat, went full-on Bernie Bro and has now starting ranting on FB about Jill Stein. Either he’s succumbed to raving Clinton Derangement Syndrome, or he’s trollng us all expertly – and frankly, I just don’t think of him as having that Kaufmanesque a sense of humor. (in otherwords, I don’t think he’s really DougJ).