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Taking Apart Cornel West’s Boilerplate Mantra That Ole President Obama Is A Baby Killer.

March 21, 2015 by  
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Cornel was recently on the David Letterman show spewing what has become his boilerplate mantra about President Obama being a baby killer again. Most Americans understand why President Obama think it necessary to use drones in Afghanistan, because they’re thinkers. Cornel West is not – he’s a regurgitator. His entire reputation is built around his ability to regurgitate the words of dead White men. That’s not intellect. Intellect is having the ability to take the information being regurgitated and manipulating it in new and creative ways. Here are a few things that most of us clearly recognize but West is far too bitter, and/or shallow-minded, to see:
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Much like Ben Carson and Tavis Smiley,  Cornel West doesn’t seem to recognize that he’s destroyed his public image by allowing his self-serving agenda to take precedence over his common sense. Also like the two gentleman previously mentioned, he’s dropped like a rock from a stellar personality that the Black community pointed to with pride, to a public embarrassment that many Black people wish would simply go away.
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One of the reasons that’s the case with all three of these gentlemen are their public pronouncements that tend to negate the very intellectual excellence in which the Black community took such pride. In the case of West, he’s mortally wounded his legacy in the Black community with his reckless, unscholarly, and unsubstantiated rants about President Obama. He also tends to be inconsistent. For example, while responding to a criticism lodged against him by comedian, Steve Harvey, he said, “When you are trying to talk about issues that affect the people, name calling gets in the way. Name-calling is nothing but another weapon of mass distraction.”  Then later, he goes on to call President Obama – the first Black president of the United States – “a drone president, and a baby killer.”  So in his own words, he’s become “a weapon of mass distraction” – and one of the GOP’s most effective weapons, a valuable tool for undermining the interests of the very people that he claims to love so dearly.

About Drones

When Tavis Smiley and Cornel West began to lose the confidence of the Black community, they tried to broaden their constituency by refocusing their criticism of President Obama from poverty to the war in Afghanistan. Time.com reported West as saying in 2012 that he didn’t vote. “I couldn’t vote for a war criminal,” he said, calling Obama’s administration a “drone presidency.”West-Smiley-2015

While I don’t like killing machines either, I’ve had to take into account the fact that Obama is charged with the responsibility of seeing to it that Al Qaeda, ISIS, or no other terrorist group manages to get their hands on Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal – and let us not forget that they located Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan living comfortably, and casually, within the shadow of that arsenal. So while West would have us believe that Obama is in Afghanistan just killing people for the hell of it, or for the oil companies, that’s a myth. He’s trying to make sure that YOUR family is not blown up by angry religious fanatics who think that God will bless them if they blow up the United States.
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So while war, and killing, is an ugly business, it is very much a reality in the world we live in. So as I see it, if we have to lob missiles into an area filled with innocent people – since hiding behind human shields seems to be the terrorists’ preferred mode of defense – the drone is a far better alternative than simply firing missiles and such blindly.
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Consider this. If you were an Afghan and lived next door to a terrorist, would want to have someone blindly firing missiles in your direction, possibly taking out your home and family, or maybe even the entire town just to get one man, or would you rather they sent in drones with television cameras where they can specifically target the person they’re after? One drone pilot said that they even wait for the target’s family to leave the house before they fire a missile to take out the target. So the fact is, if you have to go to war, drones often SAVE lives.
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So what is West jumping up and down about? This is one of the reasons that I often question the popular belief that West has such a powerful intellect. It’s one thing to have the ability to remember and regurgitate the words of dead White men, and yet another to be able to think for yourself and connect the dots. So on this issue, West is either grossly uninformed, has an inability to connect the dots, or he’s purposely trying to mislead the people (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/us/drone-pilots-waiting-for-a-kill-shot-7000-miles-away.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&).
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Cornel West’s Gargantuous Ego

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The problem is, Cornel West has evolved into a bad joke – a raving hypocritical egomaniac and intellectual fraud –  and I know that with certainty, because I’ve done over 30 articles on him and his former road dawg, Tavis Smiley, so I’ve become one of the world’s greatest authorities on both of them (If you ever want to know about either one of those two, just combine my name and theirs in Google).

West seems to be so envious of President Obama that it’s driven him out of his mind.  I think part of the problem is, West was a big shot Ivy League professor when Barack Obama was a skinny little college student, but then, Obama had the nerve to butt in line to become a senator, and then President of the United States.  That drove Cornel West crazy. West can’t stand ANYBODY taking him out of the limelight – he even criticized Jay-Z’s partial ownership of a sports team.  How dare Jay-Z be so arrogant! Doesn’t he know that CORNEL WEST is the only Black man with gorilla nuts around here!!!? He’s also gone after just about every Black news commentator on television – Al Sharpton, Melessa Harris-Perry, Michael Eric Dyson – and every one of them has more sense than he does. The man is simply a clueless egomaniac who thinks that Moses ordered the Red Sea to scoot over so Cornel West could take center stage. His attitude seems to suggest, “Who do you think you are, trying to upstage me? I’m Cornel West! I’m right up there with White folks, so stay in yo place, boy! – I mean, my dear and precious brother.” He’s become mesmerized by his own myth.
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And what about his reputation as a scholar?  A true scholar – or even an efficient-thinking high school student – should know that you never base your opinions on unsubstantiated assumptions. Yet, West is ALWAYS going around talking about what’s on Obama’s mind. How in the hell does he know what Obama is thinking!!!? He can’t read Obama’s mind – unless God gave him that skill as part of West’s “Black prophetic tradition” and didn’t tell anybody.  If he was as qualified to think as Barack Obama HE’D be president. But just the mere thought of that is an hilariously bad joke, because just like many Republicans, he carries himself like a recklessly irate child having a tantrum in a supermarket. Agree with him or not, President Obama is a thoughtful adult, while Cornel West thinks with the inefficiency of a irresponsible and reckless child. So he couldn’t possibly know what’s on Barack Obama’s mind.
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I’ve made some serious allegations here, and on the surface it may seem like I’m doing the very same thing to Cornel West that he’s doing to President Obama. But there’s one huge difference. Unlike Cornel, my allegations are not just hyperbole, innuendo, and ad hominem attacks. My allegations and criticism of Cornel West are based on facts that I can fully substantiate, in the fact is, Cornel West is one of the major reasons the poor (who he claims to love so dearly) are in the situation they’re in.
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After Ralph Nader was rejected for the 2000 presidential nomination by the Democratic voters, instead of acknowledging his rejection and falling into line to help defeat the Republicans, Nader went into a petulant snit and ran as a third party candidate. It was clear that he purposely ran as a third party candidate with the mean-spirited intent of sabotaging the Democratic effort, because third parties never win; the only purpose that third parties ever serve is to help elect the people that you like least, because they divide the vote of like-minded people.
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Cornel West joined Nader in this foolish – or treacherous, you make the determination – campaign, and as a result, George W. Bush won the election over Al Gore by winning Florida by a mere 537 votes. The Nader/West coalition peeled off 97,488 votes from Gore in Florida alone. So when I say that Cornel West is more than a little responsible for George W. Bush becoming President of the United States, and thus, your current economic condition, don’t take my word for it – you do the math.

Most people, if they were sincere, would look at the disastrous results of their activities and be devastated. After all, causing Bush to be elected was the worst possible outcome for everything West is SUPPOSE to believe in. So most people would conclude that they had made a grave error, and that they would never do anything to divide the progressive vote again. But not Cornel , he teamed up with Ralph Nader yet again in the 2012 election against Obama, and tried do the very same thing that they’d done in the 2000 election that resulted in Bush’s presidency. The only thing that stopped them was this time the people weren’t buying it.
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So as I pointed out above, either Cornel West is a grossly inefficient thinker, or there’s a more malevolent agenda afoot. Did you hear him calling George W. Bush a baby killer?  Hmmm . . .
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The Gross Hypocrisy of Cornel West
In addition to Cornel’s outlandish public stupidity, he’s also a hypocrite.  West said, “Regardless of your popularity, where’s your [Obama’s] integrity?” Where’s West’s integrity?  He got a lot of publicity for going to Ferguson and being arrested, but doing 3 minutes in jail was worth it to him for the photo op and all of the valuable publicity. He was on a book tour, and he was going around the country undermining the Democratic efforts in the midterm elections at the time, so if they wouldn’t have arrested him, just like they arrested those White folks, Cornel West would have filed a discrimination suit against the city – “Why couldn’t I go to jail, just like those White folks?”
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On the other hand, where was he and Tavis Smiley during the demonstrations against Tavis Smiley’s benefactor, Walmart? In spite of the fact that Smiley and West profess to be so concerned about the poor that they rode all across the country on a bus ranting about it  (again, during the 2012 election, thereby, helping the Republican Party – they tend to engage in this sort of Democratic sabotage every election)  they’ve ducked the Walmart demonstrations three (count ’em, 3) years in a row – and one demonstration was being held at a Walmart two blocks from Smiley’s office! And Walmart is THE most egregious abuser of the working poor in America. I predicted, in print, two years in a row, that they weren’t  going to show up – and sure enough, I was right:
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” Unlike most TV hosts, who simply do their jobs and collect a paycheck from a network, Smiley has to go out and raise most of the money for his program, which costs between $7 million and $8 million a year to produce. PBS generally contributes about $1 million of that sum. The rest comes from corporate sponsors, which Smiley has to round up himself.
“The sluggish economy and reduced corporate spending have threatened the show’s viability. But luckily for Smiley, Wal-Mart, a longtime sponsor, stepped up again, this time with a three-year commitment. (PBS can only offer a maximum of two years on renewals because, as a government-supported entity, it must be periodically authorized by Congress.) But Wal-Mart covers only about a quarter of the costs” – Los Angeles Times  (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/12/entertainment/la-et-st-tavis-smiley-pbs-20131212).
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And then there was Tavis Smiley’s involvement in the Wells Fargo “Ghetto Scam,” where over 30,000 minorities lost their homes and life savings. The Department of Justice said it was the second largest housing discrimination case in this nation’s history. Wells Fargo ended up having to pay $175 million to settle the case, and Cornel West was attached at the hip with Tavis Smiley during that time. Yet, we didn’t hear a “mumblin word” from West about the scandal ( http://wattree.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-question-for-both-tavis-smiley-and.html).
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So where is Cornel West’s integrity? Both Cornel West and Tavis Smiley have fallen victim to a very basic common-sense principle – Before you point your finger at others, you should smell it first.
Staff Writer; Eric L. Wattree
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5 Responses to “Taking Apart Cornel West’s Boilerplate Mantra That Ole President Obama Is A Baby Killer.”
  1. Marque,
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    I look at everything, and everybody, objectively, because I’m an efficient enough thinker to recognize that trying to delude yourself doesn’t change the facts, and the fact is President Obama is one of the greatest presidents this country has ever had – and I would say that if he were White. But I’ve also written articles criticizing him, but when I do, I do it very respectfully, and I always bring suggestions to the table that are possible solutions for the problem that I’m being critical of.
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    But in general, yes, I support him, and I’m not going let anyone try to make me feel guilty for supporting the first Black President of the United States. I think any Black person who doesn’t is an idiot, because President Obama is the most high- profile symbol of Black competence in the world. So any Black who doesn’t support him is a Charles Barkley-type idiot who doesn’t have sense enough to support his own people.
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    What people like Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and Boyce Watkins see coming from the community regarding their inccessant criticism of President Obama is Black outrage over their indulging in the crabs-in-a-barrel tradition that was inbred in us as slaves. Black people recognize that many of President Obama’s Black critics, including Cornel West, aren’t really interested in policy; they’re just using public policy as a pretext for attacking the President himself, and they’re so steeped in their Willie Lynch mentality that they either don’t realize, or don’t care that they’re doing a grave disservice not only to the African-American community, but to Black people all over the world.
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    Because the fact is, many of Obama’s White conservative critics aren’t really interested in policy either. Like Obama’s Black critics, they have an ulterior motive as well, but their motive has nothing to do with crabs-in-a-barrel. Their primary motive is defending their claim of White superiority – and President Obama, in his soft-spoken and laid-back way, is dragging that claim through the mud. That’s why racists and conservatives hate him so.
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    Conservatives recognize, as we all should – and especially Black people – that President Obama is not just another president. Again, President Obama is the most high-profile symbol of Black competence in the world. In addition, what he has accomplished is the perfect equivalent of a conquered slave rising to become the emperor of Rome – and, one of its greatest emperors. So Barack Obama is going to be remembered by posterity as one of the greatest men in ALL of human history, and his story will be inspiring Black children a thousand years from now.
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    Racists and conservatives recognize that fact, so naturally, they’re desperate to tear down Barack Obama’s image, and build up the image of criminals like Ronald Wilson Reagan, and there is no excuse for Black idiots like Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, and Boyce Watkins not to recognize that fact. That’s what makes them so despicable. Instead of trying to help racists tear down this Black icon, they should be offering RESPECTFUL suggestions in an attempt to ENSURE that Barack Obama is remembered as one of the greatest Presidents that this nation has ever had, even if they have to drag him up Mt. Rushmore kicking and screaming. But instead, they’re allowing themselves to be pointed to by racists who are claiming, “See, even Black people know he doesn’t live up to the standard of White presidents.”
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    Thus, people like Smiley and West are giving their own egos, self-service, and their Willie Lynch-inspired need to tear-down a Black historic icon priority over Black history, and the role that history is going to play in helping to raise the self-concept of the Black culture. In short, they’re sabotaging the self-esteem of Black children who are yet unborn. The mere thought of that kind of ignorant selfishness is absolutely disgusting – and especially when clothed in faux scholarship.

  2. Marque-Anthony says:

    It amazes me how many of you insult people of color who disagree with President Obama. Have you looked at his voting record when he was an Illinois U.S. Senator? Have you looked at the NDAA he signed which wiped away your 5th and 14th amendment rights? Have you pulled up a list of his executive orders? Or are you just standing by hi because he looks like us? Wake up people and use your computer to research – not just for Facebook.

    Whether Cornell West is a turncoat like Herman Cain and Jessey Lee Petterson or not is not the point. His disposition and motives do not change the facts. President Obama’s personal, public and political support of homosexuality has hurt the African American family. And his pro choice position and support is support of the death of millions of unborn children in a Eugenics type move through abortion.

    You guys should look on this website, find and read my article on Eugenics: Population Control or look up the King Alfred Plan or Rex 84. WAKE UP! Just because someone looks like you, that neither means they are of you nor for you. Look at the facts – not just the ones that support your love for Obama.

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    Don’t be so easily fooled by someone who looks like us. President Obama has done good things, yes, but every coin has TWO sides and most of our people refuse to look at the other side of what our President has done. He should be fact checked and held up to scrutiny regardless of who or what color he is. Color is not a free pass. You wanted to fact check Bush and look at the bad he did but you refuse to look at President Obama on all sides. Liking a President does not change the facts. A coin always has two sides

  3. Robert,
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    I’m giving Cornel West priority because he’s a turncoat, and he’s much more insidious:
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    IF WE’RE STUPID ENOUGH NOT TO VOTE IN 2016, WE’RE DONE AS A DEMOCRATIC NATION
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    During The Critical 2014 Election That Gave the GOP The Senate Majority, Both Tavis Smiley, And Cornel West Implied That Black People Would Be Justified In Not Voting. Now, As A Direct Result Of Many People Listening To This Idiocy, The GOP has Taken Over Both The House And The Senate, And They’re Trying To Take Away Health Care To Over 20 Million people, Take Away Child Care Credits To Working Mothers, And Anything Else They Can Get Away With. And Why? To Give Billionaires A Bigger Tax Cut.
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    Thank You, Tavis Smiley; Thank you Cornel West. You’ve Both Done A Tremendous Service For The Poor People You Claim To Love So Desperately. It’s Just Like When You Helped Get Bush Elected in 2000, West. Great Job, My Man!!!
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    Did you vote for Obama in ‘12?
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    Cornel West:
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    “I didn’t vote for anybody. I couldn’t vote for a war criminal. He’s tied to war crimes and drones dropping bombs on innocent people.”
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    Tavis Smiley:
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    “- No Good Reason To Vote ‘If You’re Black Or Brown, Other Than Helping To Save The Democrats’ Hide,”
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    I HAVE TO SCRATCH MY HEAD TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND HOW ANYBODY COULD ACTUALLY ADMIRE TWO PEOPLE WHO COULD SAY SOMETHING SO IDIOTIC TO BLACK PEOPLE – ESPECIALLY, CONSIDERING OUR HISTORY AND WHAT WE HAD TO GO THROUGH TO OBTAIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE
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    HERE’S WHAT MARTIN LUTHER KING AND PRESIDENT JOHNSON HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT WHEN THE PRESIDENT WAS SIGNING THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT:
    Martin Luther King
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    “Voting is the foundation stone for political action. The basic elements so vital to Negro advancement can only be achieved by seeking redress from government at local, state and Federal levels. To do this the vote is essential.”
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    President Lyndon B. Johnson
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    “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men,” declared President Lyndon B. Johnson when he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”
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    “All the participants in the bloody events at Selma, Alabama, which led up to that legislation, agreed with the president.”
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    DON’T BE CRAZY. TAVIS SMILEY HAS A SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH WALMART, WHICH MEANS, BY EXTENSION, THE KOCH BROTHERS.
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    Eric L. Wattree

  4. Gary says:

    It is always interesting that those so called educated Obama types speak in terms of another persons understanding. I’d guess it gives you a reason to feel some intellectual advantage. There is no division with type of people who support or disapprove of Drones. We are wrong to watch people or command the skies of another country. If we’d ever stop our activities and understand what we’d feel if another country controlled our skies, we would know why the terrorist makes those choices against us. Stop with the who understands bit! Kids are being killed while the perpetrators only need to say “he lunged forward, looked suspicious, went for my gun, or simply put them in the mindset of not returning home to their respective families”. Never is the reality of killing, not wounding, an unarmed man an issue. Keep claiming to be an intellectual while the realities of common sense seem to be so troublesome that your exceptional rules prevent you from knowing right from wrong.

  5. ROBERT says:

    HEY ERIC, it’s funny how you can talk about CORNEL WEST, TAVIS SMILEY,THE REPUBLICANS, THE TEA PARTY etc, but a JEW from another country comes to AMERICA , hijack OBAMA’S foreign policy ,turns his own senate and congress against him {including the black ones} and now we hear that IRAN is backing out of the negotiations because they realize this punk is not really president and nothing he say’s can be relied on and you’re writing a article about CORNEL WEST!

    AND to make matters worse ,after BIBI emasculates this punk before the country and the whole world, OBAMA calls him and congratulate him for his election victory, would you do that ERIC, because only a slave would!

    STOP your crap you stupid fool, BIBI outted of all you JEW owned black slave DEMOCRAT’S the game is over!

    http://theafricanspear.com/

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