[VIDEO] OH YES SHE DID: MSNBC Panelist L. Joy Williams Calls Ben Carson a ‘Safe Negro’

Posted: November 3, 2015 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Joe Scarborough, L. Joy Williams, Left-wing politics, Mark Halperin, media, Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe, MSNBC, National Prayer Breakfast, news, O’Brien Murray, Racism, Republican Party (United States), video |Leave a comment

Black, female, hispanic, and gay Republicans are often criticized harshly for abandoning the Democratic party, but the jabs against Dr. Ben Carson on MSNBC’s UP were particularly harsh.

[Read the full story here, at Red Alert Politics]

Political strategists L. Joy Williams and O’Brien Murray were discussing the massive appeal Carson has over the GOP primary electorate. According to Real Clear Politics, the neurosurgeon is in a statistical tie for first place nationally with Donald Trump.

Watch the clip below:

Murray credited his popularity with his speech at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast criticizing Obamacare.

“It was his attack of Obama, and frankly a black man attacking a black president, which is something people get away. Remember he stood in front of the president and he made his bona fides originally attacking the president face-to-face, at a prayer breakfast, mind you.”

— O’Brien Murray

Williams added that many white conservatives are afraid to criticize Obama because of the race issue, so they found a champion in Carson’s comments.

Williams said people support Carson because they think, “oh, there’s another black man commenting negatively against the president. I don’t feel comfortable doing so because of the race factor, so here’s someone that can do it.”