Posted on 09/30/2012 4:50:56 AM PDT by shove_it
Dave Weigel points out the difference between the covert racism of a young cagey Pat Buchanan in the days of the Southern strategy, and overt racism of the pariah Pat Buchanan banished to Fox News (emphasis added): In May of 1970, when he was a young former journalist working for the White House, Pat Buchanan offered President Richard Nixon some tips that he'd never stop using. "I strongly endorse symbolic gestures toward groups," wrote Buchanan, "especially the blacks where symbols count for so much." In order to divide the country effectively, Nixon had to pretend that he wasn't dividing it at all. "The President is President of all the people and while they will never vote for us, we must never let them come to believe we don't give a damn about them -- or that they are outside our province of concern."
Forty-two years and four months later, an older, more widow's-peaked Buchanan appeared on Fox News to explain the leaked video of Mitt Romney talking to donors. Had Romney stumbled when he wrote off the "47 percent" of voters too dependent to vote Republican? No, said Buchanan. "Barack Obama is a drug dealer of welfare. He wants permanent dependency, in my judgment, of all these folks."
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Too late to call me a racist. I’ve already been so named. What are they gonna do? Call me the same name again?
Who the hell cares about charges of racism?? I call a spade a spade.
THE ATLANTIC - It’s full of fish sh-t, old wrecks and crabs.
Outstanding sign!
It’s funny (sad) to see a black person expound on racism - especially by playing the race card - only to prove that he hasn’t got a clue.
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