Prometheus 6

First it was Lanny Davis and now it is Howard Wolfson. What I find interesting is that in both news reports the media's so-called bias toward Barack Obama is cited as the justification or motivating factor for both of them joining Fox.

"Of all of the people that I used to know
Most never adjusted to the great big world
I see them lurking in book stores
Working for the Public Radio
Carrying their babies around in a sack on their back
Moving careful and slow

(Chorus)
"It's money that matters
Hear what I say
It's money that matters
In the USA

"All of these people are much brighter than I
In any fair system they would flourish and thrive
But they barely survive
They eke out a living and they barely survive

"When I was a young boy, maybe thirteen
I took a hard look around me and asked what does it mean?
So I talked to my father, and he didn't know
And I talked to my friend and he didn't know
And I talked to my brother and he didn't know
And I talked to everybody that I knew

(Chorus)
"It's money that matters
Now you know that it's true
It's money that matters
Whatever you do

"Then I talked to a man lived up on the county line
I was washing his car with a friend of mine
He was a little fat guy in a red jumpsuit
I said "You look kind of funny"
He said "I know that I do"

"But I got a great big house on the hill here
And a great big blonde wife inside it
And a great big pool in my backyard and another great big pool
beside it
Sonny it's money that matters, hear what I say
It's money that matters in the USA
It's money that matters
Now you know that it's true
It's money that matters whatever you do"

Randy Newman

When did Lanny Davis and Howard Wolfson become progressives? I must've been watching a Cosby rerun marathon that day.

(I disagree with Cosby's recent politics, but the show is hilarious! Even if a Jewish freshman informed me my sophmore year, that the show was indicative of black people's colorism.)

What is colorism? And is that alleged quality substantively different from your classmate's Jewishness? Or his relatives' Jewishness?

colorism is the black folks internalized "racism" where "lighter is better." You know, the whole brown paper bag thing.

I only mention my classmate's Jewishness because she should've realized that between the two of us, I was probably the better expert on black folks "colorism." She's probably learned the racism has had such an impact that even within the black community, lighter is better. But what she hadn't learned, and many other white folks, is that since the 70s's "black is beautiful" revolution, lighter isn't always better. And, at any rate, The Cosby Show didn't demonstrate that "lighter is better." Denise and Sondra were light-skinned. Sondra married a light-skinned guy. But Claire, Vanessa, Rudy were all brown and with brown-skin men. So, she was just wrong on a number of levels.

The fact of her Jewishness was probably unnecessary. I guess I was trying to describe how "white" she was.

In my generation and among those who came before us, at least among those of us whose roots were in Louisiana, Texas and other portions of the southwest, the term used was "color struck." Colorism sounds too academic.

It does, doesn't it.

Nobody with ANY common sense would be. I'm waiting for the Mark Penn/Dick Morris/Sean Hannity show.