ABC smells racism behind Walmart’s price cutting of black barbie dolls.
Walmart is raising eyebrows after cutting the price of a black Barbie doll to nearly half of that of the doll’s white counterpart at one store and possibly others.
…”To prepare for (s)pring inventory, a number of items are marked for clearance, ” spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien said in an e-mail. “… Both are great dolls. The red price sticker indicates that this particular doll was on clearance when the photo was taken, and though both dolls were priced the same to start, one was marked down due to its lower sales to hopefully increase purchase from customers.”
“Pricing like items differently is a part of inventory management in retailing,” O’Brien said.
But critics say Walmart should have been more sensitive in its pricing choice.
“The implication of the lowering of the price is that’s devaluing the black doll,” said Thelma Dye, the executive director of the Northside Center for Child Development, a Harlem, N.Y. organization founded by pioneering psychologists and segregation researchers Kenneth B. Clark and Marnie Phipps Clark.
This is so dumb. Goods are priced based on sales. The price of the doll with the lower number of sales was cut so that sales would pick up.
ABC is scraping the bottom of the barrel here. It isn’t necessarily surprising that they were able to find so many race-obsessed “critics” to spout such nonsense. The race mongering industry is thriving, after all.
But this is a clear case of starting from a conclusion (raaaaaacism), and finding a story to fit it. Just imagine, for instance, if the price differential had been reversed. What is black barbie cost more?
Why, that would be racist against black barbie, too. Rather than being “devauled,” ABC would find “critics” to argue that Walmart was trying to hurt sales of black barbie and keep it out of the hands of poorer black customers.
This is agenda journalism, plain and simple.
Hat-tip: Right Wing News
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I warned you they would do this:
Leave a comment[Bedell's] view of the government appears well out on the extreme—until you see what some people close to the center of power are saying these days.
“America is teetering towards tyranny,” Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina told the Conservative Political Action Conference last month. He accused the governing Democrats of peddling socialist policies “that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world.”
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Mitchell Blatt put this compilation together (via GayPatriot):
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How is that even possible for a network so far past moonbat that it makes Rosie O’Donnell look sane? I’m glad you asked:
Comcast can’t clean house fast enough.
Hat-tip: RedState
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Frank Rich writes a lot of nonsense. His latest column can only be described as deranged, as he flails about trying to tar the entire conservative and tea party movements as unhinged. In order to do so, he must play fast and loose with the facts. One such lie involves the man who flew a plan into an IRS building:
Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a “Tea Party terrorist.” But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner.
He’s not a card-carrying member, but there are disturbing “overlaps.” You see how he does that? Very sneaky.
Yet the picture he paints of Stack as a right-wing nut is entirely dishonest, though he is not the first to try do so.
Left out of Rich’s characterization of Stack are the many aspects of his manifesto which overlap mainstream leftwing thought, including that of Frank Rich. He attacks drug and insurance companies. He complains about corporate profits. He swipes at organized religion. He calls George W. Bush a “puppet.” And then he finally ends by mocking capitalism.
But Frank Rich sees overlaps with the Tea Party.
The truth is that Joseph Stack will not fit into any tidy ideological box. His rant runs the ideological spectrum, making it easy to find a sentence here or there to hang around the neck of whomever one seeks to target for guilt by association of thought. The only real theme that unifies it all is that he saw our government as broken. It seems most Americans, from left and right, are guilty of agreeing.
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One of the biggest applause lines at CPAC not involving a chalk board was when Rep. Mike Pence called for an end to all federal funding for Planned Parenthood. It’s not just that the organization performs abortions, as other pro-life lines didn’t get the same level of enthusiastic response. It’s that the organization is as morally and legally corrupt as ACORN.
Video via Blogger of the Year Ed Morrissey at HotAir:
The film was produced by Lila Rose and Live Action Films, who have now exposed criminal behavior at multiple Planned Parenthood locations.
This is the kind of raw journalism we need, like what James O’Keefe did with ACORN. The traditional press won’t do it. They refuse to expose the organization that make up the base of the Democratic Party. We have to do it ourselves. Kudos to these people for exposing such corruption of our taxpayer dollars.
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What happens when Andrew Breitbart runs into O’Keefe smearing, racist-calling liar Max Blumenthal? Fireworks!
(via Big Journalism)
Breitbart was also ambushed by an obnoxious, professional agitator from Philly:
Midnight Blue Says has more footage of Breitbart with the Philly fanatic.
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You’d think the media would stop being surprised by new jobless claims.
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It’s as predictable as the sun. Conservatives are in the news, so the left cries racism. What horrible racism was committed this time? According to the New York Times, a speaker criticized Obama “in racial tones,” blares the headline. But where is the actual racism? Only this single line deals with the accusation:
He then mocked what he described, with a Chris Rock voice, as “diversity,” including, he said, college classes on “cyber feminism” and “what it means to be a feminist new black man.”
A Chris Rock voice! What was this idiot listening to? That’s how the guy talks. He talked in the same voice the entire time.
More stupid accusations of racism at Newsbusters.
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Who do you think is practicing which? Via Johnny Dollar:
Hat-tip: NewsBusters
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