MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry Likens "Derogatory Term" Obamacare To The N-Word

MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY, MSNBC: I want to talk today about a controversial word. It’s a word that has been with us for years. And like it or not, it’s indelibly printed in the pages of American history. A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean. The word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man. To render him inferior and unequal and to diminish his accomplishments.

President Obama has been labelled with this word by his opponents. And at first he rose above it, hoping that if he could just make a cause for what he achieved, his opponents would fail in making their label stick. But no matter how many successes that he had as president, he realized there were still many people for whom he’d never be anything more than that one disparaging word. A belief he knew was held not just by his political opponents, but also by a significant portion of the American electorate.

And so he decided, if you can’t beat them, you’ve got to join them. And he embraced the word and made it his own, sending his opposition a message they weren’t expecting -- 'if that’s what you want me to be, I’ll be that.' Y’all know the word that I’m talking about. Obamacare. That's right! I said it and I’m not ashamed and neither is President Obama. Because he knows that of all his victories over two terms in office his legacy is ultimately going to be remembered for this one single word.

I mean, what do you call the president who rescues the U.S. auto industry?Obamacare. What do you call the president who finally eliminates Osama bin Laden? Obamacare. What do you call the president who ends Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Say it with me! Obamacare.

Heard the one about the president who pulled us out of the greatest recession since the Great Depression? Yep. Obamacare. And what about the one, you know, about the president who reduced drug sentencing disparities? Obamacare. Stop if you have heard this one. A group of underpaid women and the president, who passed the pay equity law, walk into a bar -- okay, so you can see where I'm going with this.

Short of bringing about world peace before he leaves office, the Affordable Care Act will loom large in the president's legacy as the singular accomplishment of his two terms. And now following the relaunch of the new and improved and fully operational Healthcare.gov website, the president is not only owning it, but doubling down and putting a great spotlight on the Obama in Obamacare. (Melissa Harris Perry, December 8, 2013)

Food stamp nation: Should this woman qualify for SNAP benefits?

Posted at 9:44 am on November 23, 2013 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments

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Been on the phone with food stamps for the longest 😩
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HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) November 04, 2013

[Update: @_EatMyTweets13 locked down her Twitter account just before noon ET on Saturday. Twitchy has added screenshots of photos to this post so that they can still be viewed by our readers.]
Think the food stamp system isn’t broken? Meet @_EatMyTweets13.
According to her Twitter feed, @_EatMyTweets13 called to check her food stamp balance earlier this month. She was surprised to learn that she’s still getting assistance and the balance has grown to $400.

My food stamp account looking like 400 because I didn't know I still was getting them . 👏—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) November 04, 2013

Many of our elected officials caw about how food stamp fraud, illegal sale of EBT cards and benefits that exceed need are the stuff of myth. Oh, and of course nasty conservatives hate the poor because they won’t increase entitlements.
But evidently @_EatMyTweets13 doesn’t exactly need SNAP benefits to meet her nutritional needs.

I might let them build up and sell them—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) November 04, 2013

Hey, guys, she’s got a cable bill to pay.

My cable bill 140 😩—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) November 04, 2013

There’s no evidence that this young woman committed food stamp fraud. All we know is that according to her tweets, she receives benefits she doesn’t seem to use. But D.C. pander-bears continue to protect a system in which people who do just fine without food stamps look forward to a taxpayer-funded payday each month.
What else do we know about @_EatMyTweets13?
She has an iPhone. (Service plans don’t come cheap.)

Phoning wit my best friend http://t.co/80apffd08T—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) October 28, 2013

“@JUICY_BRI: Quote this with a mirror picture.” http://t.co/WmkXZxTnKM—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) October 25, 2013

And she likes to use that iPhone to tweet about her surprisingly high food stamp balance.

She has WiFi:

Trying to get new wifi . Dish suck ass man it's like we don't even have wifi .—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) September 08, 2013

And she seems to have money for weed.

Need to smoke me a joint . Let me call my weed man 💨💨💨—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) October 25, 2013

https://twitter.com/_EatMyTweets13/status/393561509441568768

Let me get dressed to go get me some weed—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) October 27, 2013

She cranks up her air conditioning like it’s going out of style.

I'm cold but I won't turn off the ac because its going to be hot after 5 min—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) September 19, 2013

It's soooo cold in my house . Everybody keep telling me to turn the AC off . Hell no—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) October 25, 2013

And she likes to hit IHOP, Hooters and TGI Fridays for grub.

Hooters got some good ass wings you just gotta get them HOT and breaded 😩—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) September 10, 2013

Hungry about to go to ihop when my phone finish updating—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) September 19, 2013

At TGI FRIDAYS . I needed to take myself out . I had a rough week—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) September 28, 2013

Tgi Fridays always get my money .—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) September 28, 2013

So … what’s on her agenda for next week?

I wanna go to Black Fridays this year. I need some new clothes and my mama iPad for her birthday—
HBD COURTNEY (@_EatMyTweets13) November 21, 2013

Obama Care Navigators instructed to LIE !!!!!!!!!!!

ObamaCare navigators are told to lie. Not only that but there are 50,000 people that may have signed up for obamacare and that just happens to be the number of navigators.... huh ??? 

LENO: Obama would have been better off Smoking Crack.

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Jay Leno Smokes Obama

Biggest Lie of any President in 237 years.

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