Sen. Cruz: The Real Story of What Is Happening in Washington ( 59:47 )
Published on Sep 28, 2015
It really IS worth your time.
Posted on 09/29/2015 2:01:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s not just Trump. Cruz, Carson, others—it’s a festival of hate out there. And it’s only going to get worse, and worse.
It appears that the GOP has traded in its dog whistle for a bullhorn when it comes to bigotry in the 2016 race for president. It’s as if the Republican presidential candidates are regressing to a time long gone.
There was a time decades ago that conservatives, and even Democrats like George Wallace, could and would openly demonize minorities in the most vile terms to attract white voters. But soon they realized the need to be subtler because times were changing.
The late GOP strategist Lee Atwater summed it up as follows (and forgive me the blunt language, but it’s what he said): “You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘nigger’—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract.”
So began the racial “dog whistle,” or the politically acceptable way of telling white people in a coded message that we will keep you safe from blacks, immigrants, etc. The first Republican to utilize this is generally seen as Barry Goldwater during his run for president in 1964. Goldwater’s campaign sought to capitalize on the backlash among conservative whites to the recently enacted Civil Rights Act. One famous example came shortly after the July 1964 riots in Harlem when he stated, “Our wives, all women, feel unsafe on our streets.” The message being that blacks are coming to rape your women and I will protect you.
In 1968, Richard Nixon ushered in the Southern Strategy, which Nixon’s special counsel, John Ehrlichman, candidly summarized as, “We’ll go after the racists.”
Nixon used the dog whistle of opposing “forced busing” and promising “law and order,” which were polite ways to say he would slow down desegregation and protect white America from black criminals.
And it has gone on from there in varying degrees. There was Ronald Reagan’s invocation of “states rights” in his speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, and 1988 of course we had George H.W. Bush’s infamous Willie Horton campaign commercial.
Interestingly, during the 1996 presidential race, Bob Dole steered clear of dog whistles during his losing campaign. And George W. Bush, while supporting a constitutional amendment opposing gay marriage in 2004, refused to “kick gays” as some on the right urged him to do. Bush even rejected Muslim bashing after 9/11, instead making it clear that, “The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends.”
Now, there’s no longer a need to be politically correct when demonizing minorities. The GOP has gone full bigotry.
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GOP frontrunner Donald Trump appears to have cherry-picked the most effective dog whistles from past GOP campaigns and then injected them with steroids. Trump has plagiarized Nixon’s practice of appealing to the “silent majority” (white people) and promising “law and order.”
But he has gone much further. Trump not only released a Latino version of Bush’s Willie Horton ad which featured images of three scary-looking Latino men who had committed crimes, he has made stoking the flames of fear of Latino immigrants a central tenet of his campaign.
Trump told us in his very first speech as a presidential candidate that Mexico is “sending people” to America who “are bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” And on the campaign trail he has continued telling crowds that “illegals” had “raped, sodomized, tortured and killed” American women. (The GOP loves to invoke rape.)
Jeb Bush said over the weekend that Democrats lure black people to support them with the promise of “free stuff.” At least when Mitt Romney made his infamous comments that 47 percent of Americans support the Democrats because they “are dependent upon government,” he only implied it was minorities. But not Bush. (By the way, Goldwater made a similar remark in 1964 when he said, “We can’t out-promise the Democrats.”)
And Ted Cruz has unequivocally stoked the flames of hate versus the LGBT community with his recent remarks that the gay activists are waging a “jihad” against “people of faith who respect the biblical teaching that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.”
Then there’s Ben Carson, running neck and neck with Trump. Carson declared last week that Islam is incompatible with the Constitution and he would not support a Muslim American for president. On Sunday, Carson inadvertently summed up the GOP’s theme in 2016 when he told CNN’s Jake Tapper that only the media types are upset with these intolerant comments, “because the American people, the majority of them, agree and they understand exactly what I am saying.”
Yes, we do understand exactly what Carson and the other GOP candidates are saying. It’s no longer code; it’s now in our face. The GOP’s 2016 platform is that Latino immigrants are coming to rape you, blacks want handouts, gays are waging a holy war versus Christians, and Muslims are not loyal to America.
The scariest part of all this is that we are just a few months into the race. Who knows how much more ugly and hateful this campaign could get before November 8, 2016? But given the frontrunners in the GOP race, I would predict it might just become the most bigoted and vile campaign in the modern era of American politics.
Liberal heads exploding everywhere.
Pallywood is now producing comedies, eh?
The democrats were the ones in 1954 using racial slurs, and then they were the ones in 1968 championing forced bussing and consolidation of federal power. Leftists continually want to assign blame for their own past racism to try an blunt criticism of their current racist proposals.
The Daily Beast recently pussed out and stopped having comments.
So I don’t pay any attention to them.
Any website or internet news outlet that doesn’t have open comments following an essay or article is run by cowards, and I won’t bother reading their stuff.
Palestinian-American Comedian
“Two sons of pigs and doges walk into a gas oven...”
Well Lardy Bee!!!! Someone is finally getting it!!!! I can't believe my eyes....
Well I can't say all is getting it, the lying media, the stupid talking heads, the ‘heads up someone’s butt’ GOPee’s are still in the dark ages....but people are coming awake!!!
Now if the above fore mentioned would just wake up to this isn't their election, it has nothing to do with them and their ‘money’ to buy off a candidate, and that we are going to vote for who WE want to vote for, and they can spend the national debt over again, they are NOT going to win this time...The Legal American Voter is going to win this one!!!!
Our local Gannett newsrag changed their online forum policy a couple of years back; they now require Facebook for commenting. Topics that used to get hundreds of responses now get a dozen or two; those that used to get a couple of dozen now get a few if any.
This rag-head should go back to the Middle East. Maybe he could be funny over there.
Lots of “news” sites have cut off comments. Many others openly delete the ones they dont like for no reason, and still others shadow-ban posters that wont fall into line.
Don’t the Democrats remember their governor, George Wallace? That was not so long ago. And then there is Bill Clinton, mentored by segregationist Senator Fulbright.
This was supposed to be Hillary's turn...
LOL, clean up in leftist media. Heads have exploded everywhere. Consider the source - The Daily Beast - if that’s it’s real name.
“So began the racial “dog whistle,””
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IF you can hear the dog whistle,
then you’re the dog.
This is another example of why only 7% of Americans really trust the mediots/media
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3342618/posts
All-Time Low: Only 7% Say They Have Great Deal of Trust in American Media
Cybercast News Service ^ | September 29, 2015 | 11:34 AM EDT | Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on 9/29/2015, 1:19:06 PM by Olog-hai
A Gallup poll released yesterday shows that an all-time low of 7 percent of Americans say that they have a great deal of trust and confidence in the media.
At the other end of the spectrum, a record high of 24 percent said their trust and confidence in the media is “none.”
The combined 60 percent who say they have either no trust in the media (24 percent) or not very much trust (36 percent) also matched an all-time high. […]
Democrats were far more likely than Republicans or Independents to have trust and confidence in the media, according to Gallup.
In the new poll, 55 percent of Democrats said they had a great deal or fair amount of trust and confidence in the media. By contrast, only 33 percent of Independents and only 32 percent of Republicans said they had a great deal or fair amount of confidence in the media. …
Any “news” site or blog that cuts out the comments is admitting rhetorical defeat, and that they are a bunch of cowards.
I don’t discourse with known, admitted cowards. Why bother?
Cowards, admitting defeat. Avoid them.
Yep. It costs Weekly Standard a lot of credibility in my eyes, too.
Nobody hates better than a leftist.
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