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Andrew Sullivan on BBC Radio 4: Palin Represents 'An America That Is Definitionally White'
NewsBusters ^ | November 9, 2010 | Ken Shepherd

Posted on 11/09/2010 7:29:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

"Sarah Palin represents an America this is absolutely, definitionally white, that's very much rural America."

That's how The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan summed up the former Alaska governor in his appearance on the November 7 BBC Radio 4 "Americana" program.

Echoing Peter Jennings' infamous description of the 1994 midterms, the liberal British-born blogger added of 2010 voters that they had "had a panic, a tantrum."

For his part, Washington-based "Americana" host Matt Frei reinforced Sullivan's analysis, labeling Palin the "Evita of the North" and generally failed to question Sullivan's analysis.

"Despite all the kind of hullabaloo about the Tea Party, and they did have a very energetic campaign, and we were all fascinated by them, they didn't do that well, not as well as they thought they would," Frei helpfully offered Sullivan. The Atlantic blogger agreed, adding, "Without [the Tea Party candidates] the Republicans would have won the Senate. I think that's quite clear."

Sullivan rebuked both liberals and conservatives for having "misjudged" Obama.

"The Left wanted him to be this iconic transformational figure, and the right needed a bogeyman, so, he's stuck in the middle," Sullivan protested.

Of course in doing so, Sullivan completely neglected the fact that Obama and his campaign surrogates sold the then-candidateto the 2008 electorate as precisely an "iconic transformational figure" and that conservatives have legitimate grievances over his policies, such as ObamaCare and stimulus spending.

Sullivan, however, did predict a silver lining to the midterm shellacking that Obama and the Democrats suffered:

I happen to think that in the long run, the middle will work, and the more tempestuous American politics becomes -- especially when it's gridlocked -- the more people seek some sort of calm guy in the middle of it all.

Perhaps Sullivan thinks an Obama figure is needed for America's long-term decline, which he also predicted:

MATT FREI: Do you think the American people are aware of the power of India and China and what this could mean to the supremacy of this country?

ANDREW SULLIVAN: I think they are at a nervous, subliminal level. I don't think they've really faced up to it and addressed it, which is hence this, what I would call almost neurosis about continuing to say America is number one when America may not be number one anymore. I'm just not sure that this isn't cyclical, this isn't the new normal, this isn't the recessionary economy we're always going to live in and that's a hard thing for Americans to adjust to. They do not want to ackowledge that their elevator up has stalled.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2010; aidsdementia; andrewsullivan; homosexualagenda; milkyloads; palin; sarahpalin; sullivan; talkradio; teaparty; teapartyexpress; teapartyrebellion
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To: Tempest

There is no doubt that black slaves and other minorities were exploited, but there is abundant evidence that whites struggled and worked like hell in areas where there were no such minorities. There is also no doubt that in the U.S., as in no other nation, oppressed minorities rose to prosperity and even greatness.


41 posted on 11/09/2010 9:55:47 PM PST by hellbender
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Hillbuzz guys love Sarah Palin.
My theory is that Andrew has an attraction to Sarah Palin, and that his confusing his sexuality. That makes Andrew an angry, frustrated man.


42 posted on 11/09/2010 10:14:22 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Tempest

My Irish Ancestor came as an indentured servant.


43 posted on 11/09/2010 10:16:42 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: buccaneer81

What is it with you people?

Lisa is the last person I would vote for - I have posted pretty much nothing but pro-Miller stuff, even when he shot himself in the foot -again and again and again.

Not everyone in Alasla worships at the altar of Palin. Many of us think she was, in fact, a piss poor govenor.

I’m happy she is making a difference, has written a book and has a slot on Fox.

Doesn’t mean I have to like her policy decisions.

My post was to show why the “Evita of the North’ was a poorly done swipe.... Sorry you misunderstood.


44 posted on 11/09/2010 10:40:27 PM PST by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Poor Todd, and all of Sarah and Todd;s children and their grandson, are going to be surprised when they discover that she hates all non-whites.

Todd Palin was born and raised in Dillingham to James F. "Jim" and Blanche Palin (née Kallstorm). His father, a native of Seattle, Washington, is a former general manager of Matanuska Electrical Association. His mother, a former secretary of the Alaska Federation of Natives, is one-quarter Yup'ik, and his maternal grandmother, Helena (Bartman) Andree, is a member of the Curyung tribe. His paternal grandfather, Frederick William Palin, was born in Hartney, Manitoba, Canada in February 1905.

45 posted on 11/10/2010 2:00:43 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

>>> Andrew Sullivan on BBC Radio 4: Palin Represents ‘An America That Is Definitionally White’

So Sarah qualifies as a MSNBC host?

Kewl


46 posted on 11/10/2010 3:28:32 AM PST by tlb
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow. Just wow. Powerful stupid there from both of them.


47 posted on 11/10/2010 3:50:13 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Palin Represents 'An America That Is Definitionally White'

I'm not sure what is wrong with that. White culture in America is doing better than Black culture in America and there are many Blacks that know that and are "acting white".

48 posted on 11/10/2010 11:21:34 AM PST by bkepley
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“What is it with homosexuals and their crazy, irrational hatred of Governor Sarah Palin?”

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They correctly recognize that she is BY FAR the most galvanizing force in mobilizing the moral majority (raise your wrinkled hand if you are old enough to remember that phrase-shat upon repeatedly by the propagandizing Left), which disdains the perversion of homosexuality.


49 posted on 11/10/2010 11:25:34 AM PST by EyeGuy (RaceMarxist Obama: The Politics of Vengeance)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And what’s the problem with being white?


50 posted on 11/10/2010 11:50:03 AM PST by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: machogirl

I’m sorry to hear that.


51 posted on 11/10/2010 9:49:52 PM PST by Tempest (I give up)
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To: Tempest

I’m not. I’m glad to be here.


52 posted on 11/11/2010 12:39:53 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: machogirl

I don’t imagine that you could’ve immigrated here on your own...


53 posted on 11/11/2010 6:23:53 PM PST by Tempest (I give up)
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To: Tempest

I was BORN HERE. The Cherokee blood line was BORN HERE.
Is there something I’m not getting? My family lines had no slaves and I’m so poor from being laid off I don’t have a pot to pee in. I haven’t immigrated from anywhere. I’m an American.


54 posted on 11/11/2010 8:52:29 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another useful idiot that will be the first to go if the muzzies, marxists, maoists, communist, facists or socialists win the day.


55 posted on 11/12/2010 5:56:46 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Why is it when I hear compromise I hear crickets)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
" What is it with homosexuals and their crazy, irrational hatred "

Well, worshiping poop has a bad effect on their sanity.
56 posted on 11/13/2010 9:10:06 AM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I guess the AIDS-ridden homosexual doesn't know she's married to a man who is part (nonwhite) eskimo.

Definitionally white. Right. Sullivan is definitionally a diseased a**hole.

57 posted on 11/15/2010 2:29:59 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Josh Painter
Silly Sully is a flippin fool.

That happens when the AIDS bug starts to melt your brain.

Soon Andrew will be joining Petah Jennings wherever it is that ignorant smug foreign America-bashers go when they die.

58 posted on 11/15/2010 2:49:34 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: CaspersGh0sts

Take a peek at the success of Latin America and Africa, I’ll keep the US


59 posted on 11/30/2010 7:08:57 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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