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    Olbermann to 'House Call' Organizers: Pay 'Black Faces,' 'Brown Faces' to Attend; Says It Looked Like a 'Pro-Apartheid Rally'
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    Robinson concurred and took it even further by suggesting not just today's event, but the entire Republican Party was "hostile to minorities." "Well, now this is going to sound tendentious, Keith ... But I went to the Republican National Convention last year and you did not see many minorities there. And look, this is a party that has been more and more hostile to minorities, to Latinos, to African-Americans - it's certainly perceived that way. And this didn't help that image at all. That seems to be the hand they've decided to play." Olbermann's "terrifying" declaration was unclear if it was in reference to Robinson's breakdown or the actual Republican Party itself. Full Article at Newsbusters
    Well, now this is going to sound tendentious, Keith ... But I went to the Republican National Convention last year and you did not see many minorities there. And look, this is a party that has been more and more hostile to minorities, to Latinos, to African-Americans - it's certainly perceived that way. And this didn't help that image at all. That seems to be the hand they've decided to play.
    Eugene Robinson – Eugene Robinson SOURCE: Newsbusters 1 month ago
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Olbermann to 'House Call' Organizers: Pay 'Black Faces,' 'Brown Faces' to Attend; Says It Looked Like a 'Pro-Apartheid Rally'
  1. On an associated point with this, how do the organizers of this not realize, ‘You know what, we had better get somehow, even if we have to pay them to show up, some black faces, some brown faces, some Asian people or somebody in this crowd other than the crowd we were seeing?' ... Every piece of videota...
    SOURCE: Newsbusters 1 month ago

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