Tag Archives: Cornel West

Obamabots to Cornel West: Shut the f*ck up!

Posted on September 2, 2013 by oddmanout215

Cornel West recently called MSNBC’s Al Sharpton “the bonafide house negro of the Barack Obama plantation” in connection with media coverage of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. A … Continue reading →

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Obama’s Penny pal (the rich take care of their own)

Posted on May 18, 2013 by oddmanout215

It’s no secret that six members of the Walton gang — the Walmart Waltons — have more wealth that the bottom 40 percent of American households. This is up from the 30 percent more they enjoyed in 2007, before the … Continue reading →

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NYT’s Ginia B. admits Occupy is for real

Posted on October 2, 2011 by oddmanout215

In her article today, Ginia Bellafante didn’t call Occupy Wall Street “pantomime progressivism” — an improvement — but it seems she still doesn’t quite get what’s going on in Lower Manhattan. Bellafante’s lede refers to Occupy as “ideologically vague and … Continue reading →

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