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Limbagh was on the Maddow Show? Really?

Possibly related to the Ogletree story, but probably not.  This is just getting stupider and stupider.  Stories are getting all sorts of attention without listing sources or implying false ones.  Take a look at Casey Gane-McCalla of NewsOne For Black America

Rush Limbaugh recently discussed Professor Charles Ogletree’s statement on the Rachel Maddow Show which implied that Palin was deriding Obama by referring to him as a Professor. He went into a long discussion about Clarence Thomas and the word “uppity,” before calling Obama “uppity.”

Only one little problem with that.  Limbaugh does not appear on the show's guest list.  Ogletree does, 8 FEB 2009.  What Gane-McCalla is talking about are Limbaugh's comments from Limbaugh's own show and Gane-McCalla misrepresents them too.  Maybe just bad wording?  If you read the above enough and know Limbaugh was not on the Maddow show it reads okay.

Oh, wait, I get it! The Higher Ed story didn't attribute the Rachael Maddow Show with the quotes!  When I was going through that story I was wondering where the quotes came from.  Jack Stripling never mentions.  I had the impression that he had interviewed Professer Ogletree, but then I found out Ogletree had been on the Maddow show.

No, that's not it.

Maddow begins talking to the professor at 7:39, then they mention Palin at 10:17.  No talk of implying professors are uppity.  The talk is about Tancredo's stupid speech calling for literacy tests.

Maybe I missed it on the video.  How about the transcript?  Palin is mentioned twelve times on the page, only ten in the transcript.  Uppity does not appear.  Professor Ogletree speaks about Palin here for a bit:

What‘s important about all of this, Rachel, I think, is that the majority of Americans, black and white, see that this president is trying to do a good job. They‘re not going to play the race-baiting. They‘re not going to—and Sarah Palin on Saturday, I heard her talk about, “We don‘t want a professor of law who talks about the Constitution and rights. We want the commander in chief.


What‘s the difference? Isn‘t the law meaningful? Doesn‘t it mean something? Doesn‘t the Constitution mean something?

I think we need to go back to a 101 constitutional law test or civics test for folks who are going to talk about that, for everybody to understand that we are a society who believes in equal justice under the law, one person, one vote. And if you get more than, more votes than your opponent, you win. It‘s over. Get over it and let‘s move forward.

Still nothing like what Ogltree is implied as saying by Jack Stripling at Inside Higher Ed.

Maddow tosses the racism bomb at Palin here, when chatting with David Weigel:

MADDOW: And I am fired up about the Tom Tancredo call for the return to literacy tests thing, not so much that he would do it because he does stuff like that all the time, but that people would cheer for it. And I guess I see the choose Ron Paul versus choose Sarah Palin test as kind of a litmus test for the politics of the tea party movement. That combined with cheering Tancredo on this, I think, very racist appeal makes me feel the modern tea party movement is an outgrowth of the sort of angry people we saw frustrated during the McCain/Palin campaign, saying un-politically correct things at rallies. Not an outgrowth of the people who had done tea parties before.

So, where is Stripling getting this stuff?

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Hark, is that the Racism Dog Whistle coming from the Teacher's Lounge?

The Uppity Professor

UPDATE: Professor Ogletree was on MSNBC 8 FEB 2009.  Not sure if Jack Stripling is gitting his imagined thoughts of Professer Ogletree from that appearance.  He does not mention contacting the Professor independantly.  My take on it here.

Seems like the Left is trying to make hay of Sarah Palin's mentioning that President Obama was a Professor during her Nashvill Tea Party speech.  Obama sure thinks he was a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, but people close to various Clinton activities have expressed doubt.  So, what's the problem?

Took me a while to find the original source for the latest leftoid imagineing of racism.  The Wall Street Journal had the source noted as Inside Higher Ed.  Oddly, they don't have their own big story on the front page, a little searching worked and it looks like Sarah Palin is a popular topic over there.

Neil Gross, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, is quoted in Professor in Chief  by Jack Stripling:

“When Palin and others describe Obama as professorial in style, they are invoking themes and tropes that have a long history in American politics,” says Neil Gross, an associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. “That longstanding tendency in American politics is also in this case being drawn together with an implicit criticism of liberal professors, which really only became a mainstay of conservative discourse in the 1950s.”

That rings pretty true.  Other examples are given in following paragraphs.  One that was missing was former Professor George Will's story of an early run for office by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his opponent welcoming "Professor Moynihan" to the race.  Moynihan's response: "The mud-slinging has begun!"

What has become the money-passage, Harvard Professor and founding executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Charles J. Ogletree, weighs in (or not) with accusation of racism, for calling Obama a Professor:

“I think anyone who examines it closely and carefully will see this type of criticism of Obama will ultimately be counterproductive,” Ogletree says. “Do you want to tell your children we don’t want smart people in government?”




Ogletree, founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, says he sees the “professor” label as a thinly veiled attack on Obama’s race. Calling Obama “the professor” walks dangerously close to labeling him “uppity,” a term with racial overtones that has surfaced in the political arena before, Ogletree said. Describing his divisive confirmation hearings as a “circus,” Justice Clarence Thomas called the proceedings “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.…” It is perhaps ironic, then, that Ogletree, who represented Anita Hill when she made harassment allegations against Thomas in 1991, now sees a bit of the “uppity” label being placed on Obama.



“The idea is that he’s not one of us,” Ogletree says of the professor label. “He has these ideas that are left wing, that are socialist, that he’s palling around with terrorists -- those were buzzwords, but the reality was they were looking at this president as an African American who was out of place.”

 
That's the closest I could find to a source.  Not even full quotes.  Where did Ogletree actually say that Palin was calling Obama uppity, or coming danger-close?  It's all in the paraphrasing by the subjective writer.

Maybe Stripling thinks that Ogletree thinks Palin is calling Obama uppity?  Code-words are mentioned, but it looks like it is two Leftists speaking to each other in code and one of them writing it out for the rest of us from a decaying memory and active imagination.  Anybody have a decoder ring?  When did Professor come to mean uppity?
 
Whatever the case, this nonsense about 'code words' is getting pretty old.  It is just a vehicle for the accusor to make up whatever he wants about the accused.
 
The Wall Street Journal link above has a good story on this topic.  They even mention the CNN "go gangsta" incident that did not seem to get as much traction as this.
 
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