en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/330924 Comments by rhoddin http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/05/11/wanda-sykes-gutless-performance/#IDComment21240226 no one cares who you like. and no one , and i mean no one, would turn to a conservative australian for etiquette advice. you're disturbed, i know, but insignificant. Mon, 11 May 2009 14:32:06 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/05/11/wanda-sykes-gutless-performance/#IDComment21240226 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15913943 this is precisely why so many know so little. your link provided one theory. where are the other two? i'm guessing you just went looking for an article that helped make your "case" (this is why conservative radio does so well) and promptly went back to regurgitating it on every blog where the topic pops up. is this your thing? but i see your knowledge on the subject extends beyond a link? a job? absolutely laughable. what did you run, haliburton? and now you're trying to teach econ 101 in here? i guess this is the way it works, eh, old man? Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:04:52 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15913943 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15893510 your time frame of the former bush secretary comments are off, and no that's not what i was referring to. turn off fox news and try reading a bit. you'll be amazed at what's out there when you look. i'm spending this time replying because i don't think you're an idiot - just misinformed. why don't you go back and take a look at the gdp between the years of 1920 and 1940 and write a 10 page essay on the three big theories trying to explain these numbers.(and refrain from regurgitating the same old crap over and over). this will give me a good understanding of what you know, and then we can go from there. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:20:02 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15893510 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15858696 "skills of language appraisal" - lol. i'm guessing you're not a writer or an economist. what a clever retort! you know...to be able to pull off pedantic, you have to actually know something. i suppose in here your inane comments leave many impressed, so it would be my suggestion to you, stay in here and feel good about yourself. but if you get courageous, come see me, and i'll give you a lesson in micro and macro econ. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:03:27 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15858696 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15854638 come on guy, who are you kidding? you try too hard. a show of hands...how many people think gary is gay? ...not that there's anything wrong with being gay Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:11:13 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15854638 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15854382 you should probably check your history on who has class and who doesn't. 43 broke "these highly respected traditions" last week. but who cares? just tell it like it is. but you old crotchety types worry about stupid crap like that or whether or not obama is wearing a jacket. damn you're silly. and are we to believe you know something about macroeconomics because you can spell it? by the look of your posts, i'm guessing that's the extent of your knowledge on the subject. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:04:06 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15854382 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15828929 so let me get this straight...bruce here "teachers" public speaking and is an economist? damn, why aren't you "teachering" us all? Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:46:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15828929 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15822872 good god, you people are pathetic. gary is just spitting out the same ol' cud that he's been chewing for the last 8 years. does his poorly written rant sound any different than rush's or hannity's? gary is just hoping there are enough clowns to go around so that he might make a buck or two. i can't believe you don't use this time to discuss your own party and problems. Jinda, the future of your party and the only politician on the planet that can make palin look like a wise choice, said it best last night: " we idiots can't be trusted by anyone...except other damn idiots- also known as our base". any one of you morons could stand up and take control of the gop in their time of crisis. where's joe the plumber when you need him? all joking aside...you guys are pathetic. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:13:08 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/25/pandering-as-an-art-form/#IDComment15822872 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/22/make-mine-milk/#IDComment15751873 Well I'm sure it's no robot jox. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:25:39 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/22/make-mine-milk/#IDComment15751873 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15739423 You know I read that as well and thought, well show me someone who has written a book and hasn't appeared on the NY Time bestseller list; now that would be impressive. I wonder if his sales will spike after mentioning it here? Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:41:17 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15739423 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15739337 So Gary...what are you 55? What "black history" were they teaching you in your school days? A little Carver perhaps? Slavery? They certainly didn't teach you the meaning of the word replete. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:35:24 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15739337 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/22/sean/#IDComment15703326 You think he's a B-movie actor? I think Andrew Stevens would be insulted. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:59:53 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/22/sean/#IDComment15703326 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/22/am-i-the-only-one-gagging/#IDComment15702986 I wouldn't expect anything less from a hack actor. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:51:54 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/22/am-i-the-only-one-gagging/#IDComment15702986 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15603143 I'd say you were a liar or were underestimating the impact of your stupidity. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:50:38 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15603143 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15596442 According to a Brown University and University of Victoria study that was published last month in the online journal PLoS One, researchers were able to ameliorate white’s racial biases by teaching them to distinguish black peoples’ faces from one another. Basically, seeing black people as individuals diminished white peoples’ discrimination. Imagine that. Now that we know this, are we ready to talk? Maybe not yet. Talking frankly about race is still hard because it’s confusing and uncomfortable. First, white people don’t want to be labeled as prejudiced, so they work hard around blacks not to appear so. A study conducted by researchers at Tufts University and Harvard Business School and published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that many whites — including those as young as 10 years old — are so worried about appearing prejudiced that they act colorblind around blacks, avoiding “talking about race, or even acknowledging racial difference,” even when race is germane. Interestingly, blacks thought that whites who did this were more prejudiced than those who didn’t. Second, that work is exhausting. A 2007 study by researchers at Northwestern and Princeton that was published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science found that interracial interactions leave whites both “cognitively and emotionally” drained because they are trying not to be perceived as prejudiced. The fear of offending isn’t necessarily cowardice, nor is a failure to acknowledge a bias that you don’t know that you have, but they are impediments. We have to forget about who’s a coward and who’s brave, about who feels offended and who gets blamed. Let’s focus on the facts, and let’s just talk. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:27:10 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15596442 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15596435 Now this is worthy of reading(I can't say the same of Graham's) A Nation of Cowards? By CHARLES M. BLOW Published: February 20, 2009 This began as a relatively quiet Black History Month. The biggest highlight was a 72-year-old former Klansman scratching “apologize to John Lewis for beating him up” off his bucket list. Then came Attorney General Eric Holder’s scathing comments about America being “a nation of cowards” because we don’t have “frank” conversations about race. That got a lot of attention. I take exception to Holder’s language, but not his line of reasoning. Calling people cowards is counterproductive. It turns the conversation into a confrontation — moving it beyond the breach of true dialogue and the pale of real understanding. That said, frank conversations are always welcomed. But, before we start, it might be helpful to have a better understanding of the breadth and nature of racial bias. According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll released last month, twice as many blacks as whites thought racism was a big problem in this country, while twice as many whites as blacks thought that blacks had achieved racial equality. Furthermore, according to a 2003 Gallup poll, two in five of blacks said that they felt discriminated against at least once a month, and one in five felt discriminated against every day. But, a CNN poll from last January found that 72 percent of whites thought that blacks overestimated the amount of discrimination against them, while 82 percent of blacks thought that whites underestimated the amount of discrimination against blacks. What explains this wide discrepancy? One factor could be that most whites harbor a hidden racial bias that many are unaware of and don’t consciously agree with. Project Implicit, a virtual laboratory maintained by Harvard, the University of Washington and the University of Virginia, has administered hundreds of thousands of online tests designed to detect hidden racial biases. In tests taken from 2000 to 2006, they found that three-quarters of whites have an implicit pro-white/anti-black bias. (Blacks showed racial biases, too, but unlike whites, they split about evenly between pro-black and pro-white. And, blacks were the most likely of all races to exhibit no bias at all.) In addition, a 2006 study by Harvard researchers published in the journal Psychological Science used these tests to show how this implicit bias is present in white children as young as 6 years old, and how it stays constant into adulthood. (You can take the test yourself.) So why do so many people have this anti-black bias? I called Brian Nosek, an associate professor in psychology at the University of Virginia and the director of Project Implicit, to find out. According to him, our brains automatically make associations based on our experiences and the information we receive, whether we consciously agree with those associations or not. He said that many egalitarian test-takers were shown to have an implicit anti-black bias, much to their chagrin. Professor Nosek took the test himself, and even he showed a pro-white/anti-black bias. Basically, our brains have a mind of their own. This bias can seep into our everyday lives in insidious ways. For example, a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in October found that many white doctors also had an implicit pro-white/anti-black bias, while black doctors showed almost no bias for one race or the other. The paper suggested that these biases may contribute to the unequal treatment of blacks, and that doctors may not even be conscious of it. Can we eradicate this implicit bias? Maybe. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:26:53 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15596435 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15596030 Let me get this straight...Because as a white man I can empathize with the plight of non-whites in our society and can see evidence of racism everyday, I am a racist? And am wallowing in guilt(or should)? Firstly, I am not proud to be white, nor am I ashamed. I was born white. Not much of an accomplishment. So when I come across white "racist pigs", I may feel sad or get pissed, but I never feel guilty. I am an individual. No one else "represents" me or my beliefs. Secondly, I don't feel threatened by a Black History Month when I'm exposed to 11 months of white history. It would do us all some good to learn about other cultures. And I learn a lot during Black History Month. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:08:58 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15596030 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15579665 Your answer just proves my point. Your ignorant ass believes the extent of black history in America is slavery and isms? Educate yourself. And take a look at harry's post while you're at it. Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:37:50 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15579665 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15557908 Where does one start with this inane article? You, Gary, may very well be a racist. Either that, or incredibly insensitive. I'll let you choose. But let me start with your "because I want to be color blind". I'm assuming you struggle with this. Either you are or you're not. Wanting to doesn't make it so. Maybe you should start there and ask yourself why you wrote this silly article. Secondly, I think you should go back and look at your history books, and then maybe you'll discover why there's a need for black history month. I'm white and I know there is very little taught in our schools about the accomplishments and contributions of blacks in our "American History". You think this is a color blind society? How many laps of a blank santa have you or your kids sat on? How many times have you been turned down for a job because of the color of your skin? And if you say you don't see racism, you're lying or just plain blind. This is all I can comment on as I could only stomach 2 paragraphs of your "article". Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:13:14 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15557908 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15555621 your arguments are inane. if you and the author can't understand why there might be a need for black history month, then you should probably go back and read your history books. and what connections? are you for real? Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:54:51 +0000 http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/02/19/im-a-racist-coward/#IDComment15555621