Like looking at welder-flash
With a big hat tip to Donald Douglas, I’ve got to note Michelle Malkin’s takedown of MSNBC:
The indelible whiteness of MSNBC
MSNBC host Chris Matthews, MSNBC reporter Norah O’Donnell, and MSNBC guest Joan Walsh shamelessly played the race card against Sarah Palin and her book-buying audience last week.
In Michigan, O’Donnell smugly noted that Palin’s fans were “largely white — almost no minorities in this crowd.” Matthews parroted the line, assailing the “white crowd.” Walsh likened the gathering to a “paranoid tea party.” Matthews hammered away at the “monochromatic” scene.
Ahem. Check out the masthead of MSNBC TV, “The Place for Politics.” Wear sunglasses and SPF 30 lotion. You’ll need protection from the blinding white glare:
I mean, didn’t anybody at the network notice all those white faces? And someone sure paid attention: note that all of the pictured anchors are uniformly dressed in black or dark grey
I’ll be the first to say that I think notions of “diversity” are bovine feces; you try to get the best people you can, for whatever position you are trying to fill, period. If they all turn out white, so be it. If they all turn out to be Asian or black, that’s fine, too. But when you are out there, advocating “diversity,” telling people how good and noble and diverse you are, and criticizing other people for not being so, you’d better have your own vessel ship-shape.
I just checked, and the masthead is still up as of 2128 EDT; maybe we ought to have a pool for when it comes down? 
ropelight:
Crickets chirping!
23 November 2009, 10:04 pmYorkshire:
Hippo-crits all
23 November 2009, 10:13 pmropelight:
Hey, how ’bout them Lakers?
23 November 2009, 11:59 pmHarrison:
Great post!
24 November 2009, 12:43 amJohn Hitchcock:
I remember a former President who said his cabinet would “look like the US.” He lied. The US is 1500 miles from north to south and 3000 miles from east to west. That former President didn’t put anyone in the cabinet that was twice as wide as tall.
24 November 2009, 2:09 amYorkshire:
Masthead still there.
24 November 2009, 11:01 amJeff:
John:
Spencer Abraham comes close…
The idea of race-based “diversity” is a foolish one to begin with. I went to undergrad at Vanderbilt, which always bragged about how “diverse” they were… but there really wasn’t that much diversity. When you’re talking about an upper-middle-class white kid, and upper-middle-class black kid, an upper-middle-class Asian kid, and so on, how much diversity is there really?
True diversity is about differing cultures and life experiences. Skin color is an imperfect indicator of this at best, and a misleading substitute for it at worst.
24 November 2009, 1:29 pmropelight:
Jeff, a grad student was on his way home after a late session in the library. As he walked along the lonely sidewalk toward his bicycle, he noticed one of his professors standing under a light pole squinting his eyes and looking all around.
Since the night was dark and foggy, the light shown down in a well defined and well lit cone. The student walked over to the older man and asked the problem. The professor explained he was looking for his lost glasses. So the helpful young student took a quick look all around and announced the glasses just weren’t there.
The professor readily acknowledged that of course no glasses were to be seen under the light, he then pointed way out into the dark fog where he lost them.
Confused, the grad student asked, “If you lost them way over there in the dark, why are you looking for them here under the light?
The professor controlled his urge to smirk at the naive young fellow, and answered, “Because the light here is so much better.”
24 November 2009, 6:26 pmDana Pico:
Still there!
24 November 2009, 7:21 pmNangleator:
Still there?
You think because of a couple blogs, a cable network is going to break contracts with their choice of on-air personalities to hire people that weren’t considered as good so they can comply with some conservative nightmare of Affirmative Action in order to please those conservative blogs?
Seriously?
And, ropelight, go ahead and convince yourself you’re smarter than every professor. We’ll let you have that.
24 November 2009, 11:03 pmJohnC.:
Still, he’s f’in nuts! This guy needs a DR.
24 November 2009, 11:30 pmJeff:
Ropelight, just goes to show - the grad students always know more than the professors
24 November 2009, 11:40 pmJohn Hitchcock:
Two things (both of which angered a lib professor (who wrote a book) the first time I said them):
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
BS
MS (more of the same)
PhD (piled higher and deeper)
Of course the conservative professor with a PhD agreed with me.
25 November 2009, 1:27 amOther Dana:
You think because of a couple blogs, a cable network is going to break contracts with their choice of on-air personalities to hire people that weren’t considered as good so they can comply with some conservative nightmare of Affirmative Action in order to please those conservative blogs?
Surprising but good to know you are patently against affirmative action. And of course the best person for the job is the one who most strongly meets the job description qualifications and experience. I, however, didn’t realize there was a conservative nightmare affirmative action. Go figure.
25 November 2009, 8:39 pmHarrison:
Those who can’t teach teach others to teach.
26 November 2009, 4:48 amYorkshire:
Still There.
26 November 2009, 10:29 pm