| Tavis says The White House Targeted his Sponsors | |
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| Topic Started: Jun 2 2013, 02:43 PM (303 Views) | |
| BlackvoicesRevenge | Jun 2 2013, 02:43 PM Post #1 |
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Our brother Tavis Smiley has come forward with the claim that the WH pressured his sponsors to not support his State of the Black Union seminars. Glenn Beck has made the SAME allegation and now we are seeing that the IRS has ADMITTED to targeting people. What do you say about this allegation? Should Tavis prosecute since black people hate him anyway? On Friday, television and radio host Tavis Smiley celebrated the 10th anniversary of his Tavis Smiley show on PBS and defended his right to critique President Obama, reports Lynn Elber of the Associated Press (via the Huffington Post). According to Elber, Smiley says freedom of speech hasn't come without its price and that sponsors have been pressured to bow out of his projects. Smiley declined to identify the companies, saying he wasn't authorized to disclose their names. While he said he understands the desire of blacks to stand protectively by the first African-American president, he's adamant about his right to take Obama to task on rising black unemployment, the use of military drones and other issues. "This administration does not like to be criticized. And the irony of it is, there's nothing I have tried to hold the president accountable on that my white progressive colleagues have not," Smiley said. "They're labeled courageous critics, but if I say it, I'm an 'Obama critic.' There's race at play in the very question." When asked about the allegations in the AP article, Smiley's spokeswoman Leshelle V. Sargent told Richard Prince's Journal-isms that "we are uninterested in subjecting former, present or future supporters to further scrutiny." |
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| LadyBug1 | Jun 2 2013, 03:00 PM Post #2 |
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I'm not surprised. |
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| Snidely Whiplash | Jun 2 2013, 04:27 PM Post #3 |
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Let's just say I know he's right in his assertion. |
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| The SOLE Controller | Jun 2 2013, 09:09 PM Post #4 |
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That's correct. Me & Tavis have been catching hell from Black America--- since the morning after the 2008 Iowa Caucus!! |
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| Snidely Whiplash | Jun 2 2013, 09:13 PM Post #5 |
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^^^I know Cornell voted for BO in 2012. Do you know if Tavis did as well? |
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| The SOLE Controller | Jun 3 2013, 06:20 AM Post #6 |
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That's the thing about Tavis which nobody stops to think about; he's voted twice for Obama/been supporting Obama since Hillary Clinton gave her concession speech in Aug'08----But since he loves Black America, more than he loves Obama... Then this is what we have, 5 years later Edited by The SOLE Controller, Jun 3 2013, 06:21 AM.
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| Snidely Whiplash | Jun 3 2013, 11:23 AM Post #7 |
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So eve after the first term when we all knew better, he sacrificed his principles and voted for him anyway. Then he finds out team obama fucked him. Was it worth sacrificing your principles? |
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