On 12/31/2013 8:08 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 12/31/13, 3:47 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

The various hosts of MSNBC shows have been featuring "Highlights" of
their 2013 shows. Someone put together this compilation that is pretty
funny. (link below)

BTW, one of the show hosts ... Melissa Harris Perry ... demonstrated
that racism is alive and well even among the highly educated members of
"academia" that Perry represents. She is the daughter of a college
dean, has a bachelor's degree in English and a PhD in political science.
In addition to being an MSNBC show host, she is also a professor at
Tulane University. She's also African-American.

During her year in review show on Sunday, she showed a picture of Mitt
Romney's large family that included Mitt Romney holding his son's
adopted toddler on his knee. The toddler happens to be African-American.

What fun Perry and her panel had mocking the Romney family. Comments
like, "One thing is not like the others", "Token baby", etc., plus the
typical anti-conservative political comments.

So much for the "enlightened" ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpRA5H3iuMQ#t=44










Sometimes it is really difficult to ignore "the stupid" in the
Republican Party:



The divide between Republicans and Democrats on their views of the
scientific theory of evolution is widening, according to a new poll
released by the Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project.

The overall percentage of Americans who say "humans and other living
things evolved over time" (60 percent) versus those who believe "humans
and other living things have existed in their present form since the
beginning of time" (33 percent) is about the same as it was in a similar
poll four years ago. But the political gap has widened substantially.

In 2009, 54 percent of Republicans said they accepted the theory of
evolution as true, compared with 64 percent of Democrats. But in the
intervening years, opinions appear to have evolved: In the latest poll,
nearly half of Republicans (48 percent) believed in a static view of
human and animal origins, while just 30 percent of Democrats expressed
that point of view. Independents tracked closely with the breakdown for
Democrats.

"The gap is coming from the Republicans, where fewer are now saying that
humans have evolved over time," says Cary Funk, a Pew senior researcher
who conducted the analysis, .

Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of those surveyed by Pew said they
believed that a "supreme being guided evolution for the purpose of
creating humans and other life in the form it exists today."

According to Pew:

"A majority of white evangelical Protestants (64%) and half of
black Protestants (50%) say that humans have existed in their present
form since the beginning of time. But in other large religious groups, a
minority holds this view. In fact, nearly eight-in-ten white mainline
Protestants (78%) say that humans and other living things have evolved
over time. Three-quarters of the religiously unaffiliated (76%) and 68%
of white non-Hispanic Catholics say the same. About half of Hispanic
Catholics (53%) believe that humans have evolved over time, while 31%
reject that idea."

Broken down by age, respondents 18-29 years old were about 20 percent
more likely to accept evolution as were the 65+ age group. The gap
between college graduates (72 percent accepted evolution) and people
with a high school diploma or less (51 percent accepted evolution) was
also fairly pronounced.

The Pew survey sampled 1,983 respondents, with a margin of error of plus
or minus 3 percentage points.

As , the issue of evolution — in particular in states where there have
been high-profile fights over how it is presented in public school
classrooms — has increasingly placed members of the scientific community
at odds with politicians and local school boards.

http://tinyurl.com/qzp8llt


Since "the beginning of time." Conservatives belief man and dinosaurs
walked the earth together, and that "The Flintstones" was the first
reality show.


What does any of that have to do with Dr. Melissa Harris Perry and her
liberal panel yukking it up and high-fiving each other about Mitt
Romney's son adopting an African-American baby?