6 Comments

1. Ken  •  Jul 14, 2008 @2:53 pm
   

   Good God.

2. Jesse  •  Jul 14, 2008 @3:27 pm
   

   I can't wait for the next line of questions:

   I was in the grocery store the other day, and I may have heard someone call Obama a jigaboo. Do any of you think Obama is a classic jigaboo?
   
   In fairness to McLaughlin, I think there was a fairly legitimate question in there, but something about how he phrased it made it seem kind of … icky.

3. Sarkus  •  Jul 14, 2008 @3:41 pm
   

   I used to watch McLaughlin quite a lot and then went through a phase where I didn't. I've recently seen the show several times and there is no question in my mind that he is beginning to show his age. He's always been somewhat prickly but now I don't think he is quite quick enough to play that game without guffaws like this.

   It wouldn't surprise me if he retires in the next few years.

   By the way, he's 81.

4. Dave  •  Jul 14, 2008 @4:43 pm
   

   When Pat Buchanon came on, and made his comments, I couldn't help but think the exact same thing. Damn John, Pat Buchanon sounds completely lucid next to your ranting.

5. tgb  •  Jul 14, 2008 @4:45 pm
   

   http://youtube.com/watch?v=jsj4s9z-EAE

6. jrobert  •  Sep 11, 2008 @3:49 pm
   

   McLaughlin is said to have two Master`s Degrees and one Ph.D.

   And yet on his show he said some of the dumbest things a person could possibly have said.John McLaughlin falls into the category of educated people that I like to call "smart -dumb people." Sure they`re intelligent but they lack common sense or they just have really out of date ideas.

   I don`t think Jesse Jackson made a legitimate point about Barack Obama talking down to black people. The black community does need to start taking personal responsibilitiy,to adress why so many fathers aren`t in the home,to adress why more young black men(and hispanic men) are in penitentaries than there are in college. These are very important things to talk about instead of just sweeping them under the rug and hoping they go away.Because guess what, they won`t..

   The whole "oreo" argument doesn`t have a leg to stand on.Sure I`m sure some people will view Barack Obama that way but he is smart enough to know that if he can`t appeal to everyone from all backgrounds he will lose this election.Black people make up %12 of the population in America if Obama got every black person eighteen and over to vote for him alone he would still lose the election by a landslide. I`m a black person myself and I don`t think Obama is "acting white" at all. Spike Lee was right,there are a lot of well-educated black people who speak the way Senator Obama does. I`m going to college to get my education and I love reading. If not playing age-old cultural stereotypes makes me a "oreo" than I guess the entire generation of young African-Americans who stood on the shoulders of Dr.King and the civil rights movement are "oreos". So many people(educated ones included) have this out-dated concept of what being a black person means(in large part because of the emergence of hip hop).Senator Obama defies stereotypes,I like to do the same,myself. The question could`ve been a legitimate one but McLaughlin seemed to share this view of Obama as much as Revrend Jackson does thereby negating the veracity of his argument.