NBC's Andrea Mitchell: Iowa is 'too white'

So your evidence is your "mind reading capability"... back on planet Earth, we usually stick to analysing WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID.

 

Yes .... that's kind of the point, not sure what you are trying to argue here. Whether she's right or wrong is irrelevant, the context the statement was made in was not racist.

 

I'd really like to hear her describe Harlem as "too black." Or California as "too secular." In fact, I dare you, liberal media. Take a risk and play by one standard. I don't think you have the guts to treat the goose and the gander the same. Can you prove me wrong? Run a story on a place that is "too black and too secular" or "too arab and too Muslim" or any other group beside whites and evangelicals. Prove you are are as objective as you say you are. Prove you are not biased. I'm waiting.

 

The "context" of her statement doesn't make any sense in light of the facts. She is attempting to paint Iowa and the people who live there in a certain way, and cast that 'certain way' in a negative light.

To say a state is "Too White, evangelical, and rural" is pointless (unless you're trying to project something), when a state that's "too White...etc" passed the ultimate litmus test by helping to elect the first "Black" president.

She is most certainly displaying thinly veiled bigotry.

 

...I thought you were a genius?...you know that in the case of interracial children the child is recognized as the father's ethnicity...my daughter is considered "white" even though my wife, her mother, is filipino...you never cease to amaze me with what you post...


Kabuki Joe

 

No more a mind reader than you are.

 

...you're a protestant?...you are pro choice and pro gay rights?...



Kabuki Joe

 

You seem to be saying she's racist because she's wrong, she may well be wrong, but I just can't see how that makes her racist. The only thing she was trying to project was whether Iowa is a good representation of the whole nation in the election. You seem to be jumping through a lot of hoops to, make it sound racist.

 

Really, I didn't need to be a mind reader... just a competent reader to spot this...

"The rap on Iowa: It doesn't represent the rest of the country, too white, too evangelical, too rural. Still here, politics are personal," Mitchell said on Sunday's broadcast on NBC's "Nightly News".

You stick with your crystal ball and I'll stick with my eyeballs.

 

...they don't...if you are pro choice and/or pro gay rights you don't have faith...


Kabuki Joe

 

NY is TOO black.

 

What is the point in saying "too white... etc", when it's already been shown that Iowa will vote for the opposite of what they're "too much" of? What's the point in questioning the presidential predictability or validity of a state's caucuses... a state which has rejected some really popular White Conservatives btw (as more ethnically diverse sates may do as well)... and then finishing off by saying that Iowa is "too White... etc"?

It doesn't make any sense... she could have left that whole bit out.

 

It wasn't too white when they picked a black guy, so what's changed? Oh that's right, that liberal fantasy called 'context' when your double standards are exposed...

 

For what ?

I'll take it that you have no further meaningful rebuttals.

 

Iowa may have voted for Obama in 2008, but other largely white states did not. Idaho and Kentucky for example. That fact makes Iowa quite a poor indicator of the nation as a whole. The real point here is that Iowa does not have a good representation of the nation's demographic, whether they vote for black candidates or not is irrelevant, an 89% white, rural state does not reflect the US as a whole... that just isn't racist, it's just true.

 

Its just too black.

 

Ok ?.......

 

WASP is a figure of speech...I was born Protestant and that is the extent of my religious faith.

Personally, I think all major religions are a complete and total waste of time.

 

Dey just average white folks...

Too white? Iowa is 91% white, but does that mean it shouldn't vote first?
January 3, 2012 - Too white: Iowa, which plays a big role in the presidential nominating process, is not racially representative of the US, an NBC correspondent recently noted. But in other ways, analysts say, Iowa reflects the national average.

 

Is Harlem a representative sample of the US as a whole? Why not? Is the answer racist?

Get a grip.

 

I wonder if so called "journalist" like this airbag ever sit back, and take a moment to ponder why media is the second most distrusted institution in America.

 

So, you're of the opinion that Iowa is a good bell weather to represent the views of the nation as a whole?

 

I would say so, unless Iowa wasn't to white, evangelical, and rural when Barrak Obama won the state in 2008.

 

The the nation as white, evangelical, and rural as Iowa... in the sense that Iowa stands as an accurate face for the United States?

 

So, your of the opinion that because Obama won Iowa in 2008, that Iowa is representative of the country as a whole? That's pretty idiotic, in my opinion. Almost as idiotic as feigning outrage over Andrea Mitchell's comments.