The most recognized is Roland Martin, a nationally syndicated columnist and author; Donna Brazile is a Democratic strategist with CNN's election team; Amy Holmes is a conservative strategist and former political speech writer; and Jamal Simmons is a political strategist and media consultant. These TV journalists too often get the most talking time on race and gender issues or most recently "breaking down" the Rev. Wright circus. But that's not always the case.So, is some major prime-time stardom in the future for any of these these fast- talking political know-it-alls? If you don't count Katie Couric, white men host every major Sunday morning talk show, the prime-time cable news programs and the network evening news shows. ...
Black Political Pundits/h2>
Which black political pundit do you like the most?
- Donna Brazile
- Roland Martin
- Amy Holmes
- Jamal Simmons
"Whatever progress has been made with contributors and commentators as of late, the cable networks have a long way to go before they look like the American people," Karl Frisch, the spokesman for liberal television watchdog group Media Matters for America, told the The New York Times earlier this month on a profile that explored the connection race and gender politics being explored by a diverse panel of pundits.
And now Harold Ford Jr., a former congressman from Tennessee, made his MSNBC debut as a political analyst, after leaving Fox News, according to the Times.
Who would you like to see with their own prime-time show?
1. www.andwearenotsaved.blogspot.com
ABC News did the unspeakable, they were fair and unbiased. Unlike the past 20 debates, whereby all of the questions were centered on Hillary Clinton and her missteps or Bill's, this debate rendered itself to an even playing field. Some in the media say the questions asked of Sen. Barack Obama where out of lined. What do they say about the questions asked of Clinton in all of the previous debates. Fair game? Even if she is detested or despised, I would think all would have he decency to recognize who unfairly she was being treated. Yes perhaps she is the pariah to many, but the treatment she has gotten up until last Wednesday's debate was done right unfair and rude. Even if all want Obama to win, this doesn't negate the fact the race has not been fair. We can question her background and years in the White House for a lifetime, we can also discuss she and Bill's past history, but it doesn't relate any more to the race than the discussions of Obama and Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers or does it?
The liberal media along with the Democratic Party decided after Obama's win in Iowa that he would be the candidate of choice and have not stop since to make certain he is given the crown, even at the expense of taking democracy and trouncing on it and not keeping with its true virtues. Thus making whatever move Clinton make seem corrupt, undemocratic and flat out unbecoming to the party. Obama on the other hand has been given a complete pass, as a result he grows stronger in the polls but without substance or basic understanding of the political scene. He would be wised to welcome the challenges brought on by Clinton as see them as strenghtening mechanisms preparing him for the general election. Instead, he crys foul play and the media and democratic big whigs hover around him not allowing him to grow. This isn't democracy but rather a farce.
rj at 11:06PM on Apr 20th 2008