Citations:Sister Souljah moment

English citations of Sister Souljah moment

• 1999 February 14, Michael J. Gerson, “Strangers in a Strange Land”, in U.S. News & World Report‎^[1], volume 126, page 32:

  Some moderate Republican operatives argue that their presidential candidate next year may benefit from a "Sister Souljah" moment, picking a public fight with social conservatives, as Bill Clinton did in 1992 with the liberal wing of his own party.

• 2004 April 13, Sheryll Cassin, The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream, Public Affairs, →ISBN, →OL, page 279:

  For me, one of the relatively few black people in the room, it was a minor “Sister Souljah moment.”

• 2005 August 31, Maureen Dowd, “A Lipstick President”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

  No one knows how she'll vote on John Roberts, so this could be her own Sister Souljah moment - will she break with the hard-line left on Judge Roberts?

• 2008 June 17, “Barack Obama's painful truth”, in Boston Herald:

  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had his Sister Souljah moment Sunday.
  Yes, the message of his Father's Day speech at a largely black church on Chicago's South Side was aimed at black fathers, who he said are "missing from too many lives and too many homes.

• 2008 July 10, Dan Balz, “Obama's Accidental Sister Souljah Moment”, The Trail, in The Washington Post‎^[3]:

  He finally had his Sister Souljah moment and didn't even have to show up. Jesse Jackson did it for him solo.

• 2010 September 19, “Our Opinion — Looking for Sister Souljah in Minnesota”, in Grand Forks Herald, North Dakota:

  Since then, "Sister Souljah moments" in politics are said to take place when politicians chastise, distance themselves from or otherwise stand up to a core constituency, often in a way that appeals to centrist or moderate voters.

• 2011 October 19, Robert Schlesinger, “The GOP Needs to Escape the GOP”, in U.S. News & World Report‎^[4], volume 3, number 33, page 18:

  The embodiment of the no-compromise style the public disdains, Bachmann seems congenitally incapable of such a move unless it's a reverse Sister Souljah moment, where she castigates her party for being insufficiently beholden to its base.

• 2012 June 1, Paul McGeough, “This is Romney's campaign to lose”, in The Age‎^[5], Melbourne, →ISSN:

  Elements of the commentariat are demanding a Sister Souljah moment from Mitt Romney. The call harks back to 1992 when candidate Bill Clinton gave the African-American rapper a jab in the ribs for her crazy call for a week in which blacks would kill whites, instead of each other.

• 2012 August 6, Nusholtz, “Romney Could Use a Sister Souljah Moment [comment]”, in The New Republic‎^[6]:

  Romney passed up so many Sister Souljah moments that for him to do so now would be just another flip flop.

• 2012 September 17, Hardball with Chris Matthews‎^[7], Chris Matthews (actor), via MSNBC:

  Determined to get that office, to get that house, he's shown not a single "Sister Souljah" moment, not a moment of independence from the people to whom he's sworn his allegiance.

• 2012 October 6, Ross Douthat, “It Could Be His Party”, in The New York Times‎^[8], →ISSN:

  But this wasn't some sort of Sister Souljah moment, where Romney called out his fellow conservatives in order to curry favor with the center.

• 2013 January 13, “Je Ne Sais What?”, in The Good Wife, season 4, episode 12, spoken by Eli Gold (Alan Cumming):

  This is your Sister Souljah moment. You spoke truth to minority interests, […]