Hillary superfan Froma Harrop issues an "apology" about Bernie and doubles down

[cali]

in calling.him a racist, insisting that bernie "fled" to Vermont because of it's demographics.

Journalist, my ass. Just a loathsome piece of crap who has perfected the art of using an apology to smear. Passive aggressively.

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That doesn’t mean I haven’t regretted things I’ve said or the tone used. I have. So here’s a compromise: I will issue one apology a year.
And the winner for 2015 is … Bernie Sanders.

Why Bernie? Some liberal friends complain that I’ve been overly dismissive of the senator from Vermont’s candidacy. They have cause.

I was especially rough in pointing out the cracks in Bernie’s self-portrait of a national force for civil rights. Perhaps I overdid it.

But the fact remains that he fled the troubled New York of the ‘60s for the whitest state in the nation. It baffles that he shares his campaign stage with Cornel West, a black academic who condemns Barack Obama in nasty racial terms.

On advancing civil rights, Bernie’s been totally on board. Still, one can see why ordinary African-Americans seem to relate better to Hillary Clinton.

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But there’s a big question besides “can you win?” That is, “what would happen if you did?” For all your solid thinking, you’ve never been able to work with others in Washington, and we’re not just talking about Republicans. You often can’t get along with liberal Democrats.

Your “holier than thou” attitude, as former Rep. Barney Frank put it, has kept you from actively participating in the formation of laws. That bill you negotiated with conservatives to improve veterans’ health care doesn’t count. Helping veterans is not a hard sell.

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http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/an-apology-to-bernie-sanders/

[tazkcmo]

1. "That bill you negotiated with conservatives to improve veterans’ health care doesn’t count."

You don't count. That bill got me and thousands of other vets into the VA to get some much needed care. Personally, it probably helped save my life. Doesn't count? If it's so easy, then why didn't Sistah Clinton do anything about the VA while she was Senator? After all, with her IWR vote, she directly contributed to the plight of veterans. Doesn't count. The "contributions" you're making to this country land you in the negative column. F off, lady. It counts.

[cali]

2. I too moved to Vermont from the city

Not because I wanted to live in some all white enclave,but because I wanted to live in a rural place and I had close friends who had formed a commune.

[jwirr]

22. A lot of us moved to rural areas in the back to the earth

movement in the 60s. Race had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was a way to drop out of the bigger, better and more materialism of the times and it is no different today.

[roguevalley]

46. I moved to Alaska. How is moving to a slower place racism? I don't get

some people.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Wait, wut? That racist is criticizing others for the way they talk about Obama?

Obama scores as exotic who says nothing
by Froma Harrop
DECEMBER 27, 2006

Obama's appeal comes not from the things he says, but from who is saying them. He scores as an exotic who talks of barbershops and church socials in the flat tones you'd expect from any son of the prairie.

Had Bayh been half-Kenyan and raised in Hawaii by white grandparents from Kansas, he too would have become a political star, at least for the month of December. But he is a conventional white man. When Bayh speaks in the quiet Midwestern way, he gets tarred as lackluster.

...

The senator dislikes the "either-or" type of debate and warns against "false choices." He's not too left, not too right. Sort of black, and sort of white.

Obama is humble in all the right places. Before a thousand swooning fans in New Hampshire, he says, Evita-like: "This isn't about me. This is about you." One gets the impression from his public appearances and book, "The Audacity of Hope," that he doesn't even get a haircut without first consulting his wife.

...

What Obama really thinks should be done about health care and the terrorist threat remain secrets that his book does not unlock. His two years in the Senate certainly haven't revealed any bold policy ideas.

http://freepress.org/article/obama-scores-exotic-who-says-nothing

Now that's hypocrisy.

[Eric J in MN]

29. So in 2006, she wanted "less glamorous contenders who actually say something."

In 2015, we have Bernie Sanders, who has messy hair and whose ideas on Single Payer health care, marijuana legalization, and free tuition are elaborated in Senate bills he introduced.

She should be praising Sanders instead of writing a fake apology which smears him.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Harrop is a very nasty pundit, an apologist for homophobes who spews verbiage

recklessly and with only her own advantage in mind.

[earthside]

36. Harrop is of that generation ...

... of women who see Hillary as their last hope of installing a 1960s-type feminist to power.

I think that is why they were intensely bitter and angry about Obama in 2008 who stole what they thought should have been Hillary's nomination. And they are even more angry now that anyone, especially a genuinely progressive man, challenges Hillary yet again.

They think their feminist history and advocacy has earned them the right to have one of their cohort become President.
How dare anyone on the perceived left run against their chosen standard-bearer -- it is Hillary's turn. Period.

Of course, Hillary Clinton is not Bella Abzug or Shirley Chislom or Betty Friedan or Pat Schroeder, etc. Hillary is the product of marrying strategically and hop-scotching over the real revolutionary efforts of the 1960s 'Women's Liberation' movement, in my opinion.

So, I think Hillary is an ersatz feminist compared even now to Elizabeth Warren or Patty Murray, et al., who really made it to positions of prominence and influence all on their own.

It must be a real frustration to this bunch, too, that young women and men are finding the income equality message of Sen. Sanders so compelling and gender so secondary. The issues and the new milieu of economic distress is passing by Hillary Clinton and her cadre of supporters.

[The Golden One]

38. I loved Pat Schroeder.

She was my representative growing up in Denver. Her successor, Diana DeGette continues on her work, fighting for women's rights and childrens' rights.

[earthside]

39. I am very fortunate ...

... to be old enough to have known Pat Schroeder when she was active with the public ... and some of the wonderful women who first organized the NWPC.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. I think you're on to something.

[Hiraeth]

5. Is this the Ann Coulter of the left?

[Doctor_J]

7. not too many Hillary supporters are leftists

And many of them seem to have a lot in common with coulter

[Hiraeth]

8. point taken. n/t

[redstateblues]

23. Bullshit. Stupid insult

[MisterP]

43. that's why they double down on the rhetoric of everyone else being racist or sexist or right-handed

they focus on word choice or Sanders's penis and scream that any demurral is just further proof of their point

it's like Rahm winning earlier this year by going on the NoI's shows--pure button-pushing politics

[Dustlawyer]

11. She is RW. Just another "D" grade shill.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. I like the idea of a pro forma annual apology.

Nothing says "integrity" like "I'm going write a lot of regrettable horseshit every year and then follow up with an annual oops-my-bad" while doubling down on the horseshit.

[JoePhilly]

9. Who?

[Mbrow]

10. +1

Just some corporate Shill. Nothing worth reading.

[cali]

14. Widely syndicated columnist

Froma Harrop (born March 18, 1950 in New York City) is an American writer and author.

She is best known for her bi-weekly syndicated column which appears in about 200 news outlets including the Seattle Times, Newsday, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Arizona Republic, Detroit News, and Real Clear Politics and The Providence Journal. She is represented by Creators Syndicate Inc. in Los Angeles.

Media Matters ranks her column 20th nationally in total readership and 14th in large newspaper concentration.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froma_Harrop

[JoePhilly]

15. Yea, never heard of her.

But hey, whatever gets the outrage meter to move on a slow day I guess.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Many Obama supporters remember her racist attacks on Obama the 'exotic' candidate

but some of them seem to have forgotten that and now they post her materials as if she was not infamous for her racism in 08. Even when they are reminded of the facts, many are willing to cite her.

[JoePhilly]

17. Maybe, but I have no recollection of her ...

... and if I'd need to go back to 2007-2008 to find something interesting or relevant, or infuriating that she said, she can't be all that important.

[Bluenorthwest]

25. See I can't hold back my memory to serve your poor one, that's not my job.

I just told you why I don't care for her. I've met people who never heard of Einstein. This is not indicative of Albert's irrelevance.

[cali]

19. Lol. Yes, indeed, if the great JoePhilly has never heard of her

that invalidates any criticism and renders it as faux outrage.

And of course it doesn't bother you at all when hill is labeled a racist in the MSM. Oh wait, for all the Clintonite catterwalling about how unfair the MSM is to Hillary, that doesn't happen.

[JoePhilly]

21. I'm happy you recognize my "greatness." Its taken you too long.

The media blows all kinds of stupid shit out of proportion.

And sadly some lose their collective minds over it.

But how you spend your time is up to you.

[redstateblues]

26. There are some nasty Sanders peeps

Out this morning. It is amazing how some of the them need to gin up the anger. It's part of what fuels the Sanders campaign. Probably one reason for the 30% ceiling

[truebluegreen]

30. "Bullshit. Stupid insult"

[Doctor_J]

42. And who cares if harrop was a racist in 2008? now we like Hillary so anything harrop says is

just fine.

Flexible morals come in handy when supporting Mrs Clinton

[floriduck]

34. Everyone loves to look at a car wreck. nm

[NCTraveler]

12. Party on sister!!!

Super fans unite!!!!

https://m.

[ValasHune]

13. Harrop is tateless....apology my ass !

That was the most condescending, holier than thou, and here is some more venom from me to you.......but I apologize piece of trash article i have ever read.

[stupidicus]

18. I can see why she'd appeal to HC supporters

Why the AA community would have more of an affinity with HC remains a mystery to me, given her husbands role in various laws that have devastated their community, starting with welfare and criminal justice "reforms".

[sarge43]

20. Yeah, Vermonters are mouthbreathing racists

which explains why twice 67% of them voted for Barack Obama.

Clue phone, sweetie, being white doesn't automatically make someone a racist.

[hack89]

24. A lot of truth in that article. Nt

[cali]

35. Do tell what you find truthful

In that twisted backhanded apology.

[hack89]

37. The "does not play well with others " part. nt

[cali]

40. Not remotely true and the evidence is clear.

[hack89]

41. He shits on the Democratic party until he needs their money

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To further his political agenda. Can you understand why that bothers some?

[PatrynXX]

27. is this person talking about hillary or who?

certainly not Bernie because nothing makes sense anywhere. he gets along fine with both Democrats and Republicans. Hillary doesn't get alone with alot of Democrats and well we know that. Gets along fine with some Conservatives can't say Republicans. Possibly the same reason why I say there is the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party. no R and D. Tea Party made a mess of that and I was never a big Bill Clinton fan to begin with. Namely he's no pro Environment guy. The only reason it looked that was was because of Al Gore. Course Al Gore had his problems with someone called Tipper Gore and censorship which is more or less an advertisement since the dawn of time. Did not become the NC-17 she wanted. except at Walmart.

[Babel_17]

28. And the KKK headquarters are in Arkansas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan#Current_Klan_organizations

The Women of the Ku Klux Klan have their headquarters in Arkansas as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan#Second_Wave

Whatever standards we apply to the Clintons moving to their state, should be used with Sanders.

[Oilwellian]

31. She sounds like the left's version of...

Lucianne Goldberg. Ick.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. "It baffles that he shares his campaign stage with Cornel West" Harrop doesn't even see

Harrop doesn't even see the internal logical contradictions within her writing.

She is not interested in exploring what baffles her because she stopped thinking prematurely when she reached her bizarre conclusion and then she began writing her piece.

[99th_Monkey]

33. From a is obviously clueless about the 60s' activist 'Back to the Land" movement.

Or being deliberately deceptive. Either way, it's a big stretch to call that an "apology".

[Warren DeMontague]

44. Phish is from Vermont. And Ben and Jerry's! You dont get any whiter than that.

How dare he. HOW DARE HE!!!!!!