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Owner59 -> RE: "the exacerbation of and the exploitation of racial conflict" (3/31/2012 10:54:15 PM)
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"MSNBC’s Martin Bashir talks with columnist Jonathan Alter and Mother Jones’ David Corn about the misguided attempts by Republicans like Newt Gingrich to whip up racial tension via the Trayvon Martin case.
>>> turning now to the trayvon martin investigation, and for some, this case has turned into an opportunity to rehearse racial stereo types and smear the president. yes. smear the president for remarks like this.
>> i think all of us have to do some soul searching to figure out how does thing like this happen. that mean we examine the laws and the context for what happened. as well as the specifics of the incident. if i had a son, he would look like trayvon.
>> and of course, you remember what newt gingrich had to say about that.
>> what the president that in a sense is disgraceful. any young american of any ethnic background should be safe. period. is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be okay because it didn't look like him? that's just nonsense.
>> right. disgraceful. the daily caller went further suggesting the president only spoke out because he was pressured by black radicals. quote, following demands by the new black panthers and others on the scene in sanford, florida, the white house get involved. obama jumped into the fight. now, like a per verse game of telephone by which the president's remarks are disported into something hostile, we have georgezimmerman 's father speaking out saying this about the atmosphere surrounding this tragic loss of life.
>> i guess he would have preferred my son being beaten to death. i never foresaw so much hate coming from the president, the congressional black caucus , the naacp, every organization imaginable is trying to get notoriety get note noteriety or profit from this in some way. but there's so much hate.
>> all of this while suggesting that nobody should rush to judgment, so long as that, of course, doesn't include judging the character of trayvon martin. joining me now in new york, nbc political analystjonathan alter , analyst, and david kohn and author of the book "showdown." you write that the birth of a conspiracy theory rempresented a dominant theme. obama was the somewhat not quite real american who truly understood and treasured the nation. so i guess when the president offers condolences to the parents of trayvon martin, he's immediately attacked by newt gingrich for doing so and they all talk about the hate that's going around. where is the hate coming from?
>> it might have come from the barrel of the gun that night. if you remember " jurassic park ," the dinosaur that spits toxic poison, for the president to suggest that it's okay if this had been a young white man who had been shot, it's not only ridiculous, it's playing the newt card that the president is accusing gingrich as playing. it may be one facet of this tragedy. i'm kind of inclined to give every parent in this situation a bit of a pass. i think georgezimmerman 's father's comments won't mean a lot when we put it into context at the end of the investigation and know for sure what happened, but for newt to get out there and try to stir this up and suggest that barack obama is anti-white, that was really despicable, but what do you expect when you're in the death throes of a campaign.
>> newt has been playing this to the campaign. in louisiana last night, somebody shouting that the president is a muslim and wants to destroy the country and gingrich not clarifying the matter at all, just letting it go."
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/46896759/#46896759
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