Just imagine if a conservative commentator or someone from the political right had said something on national TV as outrageous as what the MSNBC political contributor/pundit Michael Dyson had recently said about a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and what was said about this same Justice by a sitting U.S. Congressman. Every major network, liberal press media would be calling for more than an apology, they would want his/her head on a platter. Missed these comments, well you most likely did for they were buried by the main stream media and can only now be found online. By the way, the Congressman has since apologized but not Dyson or anyone from MSNBC.
Both were referring to Justice Clarence Thomas in response to the voting rights decision handed down. Dyson compared Justice Thomas to “like a Jew inviting a metaphoric Hitler to commit holocaust and genocide upon his own people”. While Ryan Winkle, D-Minnesota, referred to Justice Thomas as ‘Uncle Thomas in relation to a black person being an Uncle Tom. Mind you this was a sitting member of Congress. Now I know some will say so what, only words and to a degree they are right. But, as I stated, reverse the rolls, have a conservative or someone on the political right make such comments. What would happen? Think about that for just a moment.
Richard Poulton
East Haven