White supremacy wins again: Melissa Harris Perry and the racial false equivalence

[JustAnotherGen]

6. It's an article about Christie

But shows how the white guy got the benefit of the doubt over an apology and references Melissa.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/long-tough-guy-christie-exposed-article-1.1575899#ixzz2qNDQkE4X

When Melissa Harris-Perry tried to skate across the frozen pond of militant ethnic humor, the likes of Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter were outraged.

Hannity wondered, with pomposity sharpened to a razor edge, if Harris-Perry’s tearful apology was heartfelt or a cynical attempt to keep her MSNBC job after her network fired Martin Bashir and Alec Baldwin for saying things defined as contemptible. Coulter went even further, calling Harris-Perry no more than MSNBC’s “token” black woman, one among many ethnic tokens.

One of Fox News’ big flock of lightweight blondes, Coulter at least has nerve, along with a plethora of factoids. But I doubt even she could have helped New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who bellyflopped at his press conference last week as he tried to clear the air about why his administration had purposefully snarled traffic on the George Washington Bridge to punish its political enemies.

For nearly two hours, the phony Tony Soprano, who loves to joke about the unforgiving concrete of his “New Jersey style,” played at contrition, absurdly swearing he hasn’t a revenge-minded bone in his body.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/long-tough-guy-christie-exposed-article-1.1575899#ixzz2qNRTx2cA


Where are these people saying he was just trying to keep his job at Fox?