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How Sarah Palin Exploits Right-Wing Racism (They're fuming over her MLK-day message to Barry)
US News and World Report ^ | January 21, 2014 | Jamie Chandler

Posted on 01/22/2014 2:02:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Once again, the curmudgeonly Sarah Palin didn't let a holiday pass without reminding us that she has Facebook page. On Martin Luther King Day, she posted a response to President Obama's New Yorker interview where she called on him to honor MLK by not playing the race card. The president had said that his approval rating suffers because some people don't like the idea of having a black president.

Now her post doesn't rival some of her other holiday harangues, such as her book "Good Tidings and Great Joys," a how-to-guide to fighting back against the War on Christmas, or her Veteran's Day appearance on the "Today Show" where she railed against the Affordable Care Act for the millionth time. But it was a gem just the same: an offensive exploitation of racism by accusing the president of racism.

Palin forgets that Republicans have made great use of race-baiting rhetoric over the last six years, attacking the president and his policies with coded language connecting poverty to racial stereotypes. During his 2012 presidential run, Newt Gingrich argued blacks should demand jobs and not food stamps. More recently, Heritage Action attacked food stamps and Head Start as two programs that promote a culture of dependency, code words that imply African-Americans are lazy...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blahblahblah; catfight; getpalin; jamiechandler; mlk; obama; palin; palinderangement; pds; racecard; racism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jamie, I’ll keep saying this until it sinks in: I can think of three Obama appointees who are both white and (for now) former presidential candidates. And I don’t particularly respect them either. Biden and Kerry are comic relief, and Hillary got her people killed...but what difference at this point does it make?


41 posted on 01/22/2014 2:32:53 PM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2016: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: MrB
Way too much power to be lost if blacks lose their victimhood and entitlement status.

Which they will, if we get many more Mexicans in the country .... all whining for the glories of "lost" New Mexico, California, Texas ..... viva Aztlan! Y abajo los gringos, mate los todos ayayayayayyyy!"

I'm waiting for the NWO PTB to flash the green light for a language- and ethnicity-based civil war in the U.S. which they can then "broker" to screw Norman Rockwell's America and get even for World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the Iraq War.

Teach those uppity 'Murricans. Teach them some respeck. </off LBJ>

42 posted on 01/22/2014 2:33:17 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Charles Henrickson; PJ-Comix

Sniff, sniff.

Do I smell at DuFu in the offing?


43 posted on 01/22/2014 2:34:38 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

What HE said!

44 posted on 01/22/2014 2:35:17 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: tet68

Meh. I’m white.

I can’t be expected to be anything but oppressive to non-whites.
Y’all dark people be funny.
Minority girl bleed alot?


45 posted on 01/22/2014 2:40:38 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Has U.S. News really sunk this low?


46 posted on 01/22/2014 2:41:16 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: MrB

47 posted on 01/22/2014 2:41:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals just can’t stand it when their own blatant racism is thrown back in their face..A cockroaches opinion is more important to me than this liberal lunatic


48 posted on 01/22/2014 2:46:22 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The article on IRS treatment of politically-active 501(c)'s et cetera actually criticized what the IRS has been doing.

Obama's administration of the IRS rates FAIL even from a liberal like this one.

The advocate of using SPLC tags to cut people off tax preferments was actually advocated by someone else. The author of this article, Chandler, is replying to a Forbes writer's critique of the original idea, which was brought forward by a Georgia academic.

</off traffic cop>

49 posted on 01/22/2014 2:48:26 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: 9YearLurker

It ain’t your grandfather’s USN&WR and hasn’t been for some time. I remember when it was the most conservative & business-oriented of the three major news magazines, but that ship has sailed.


50 posted on 01/22/2014 2:48:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the curmudgeonly Sarah Palin

Well at least this “journalist” does not have an agenda......


51 posted on 01/22/2014 2:50:04 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: trisham

And is dumber than a rock and not near as useful.


52 posted on 01/22/2014 2:50:45 PM PST by mulligan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No one plays the race card more or better then Obama..


53 posted on 01/22/2014 2:50:47 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s such a great movie.


54 posted on 01/22/2014 2:53:38 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: KC_Lion; eCSMaster; editor-surveyor; el_texicano; elephant; EnglishCon; EXCH54FE; exit82; ...
Sarah Palin's Awesome Ping List


"May we always be happy and our enemies know it."

55 posted on 01/22/2014 2:54:00 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Quick Facts: Political Scientists

2012 Median Pay $102,000 per year
$49.04 per hour

Entry-Level Education Master’s degree

Work Experience in a Related Occupation None
On-the-job Training None

Number of Jobs, 2012 6,600

Job Outlook, 2012-22 21% (Faster than average)

Employment Change, 2012-22 1,400

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/political-scientists.htm


56 posted on 01/22/2014 2:54:12 PM PST by kcvl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Geeeez, I forgot to ping her list till just now.


57 posted on 01/22/2014 2:54:57 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: mulligan

Liberals are clueless and arrogant in a very strange, illogical and suicidal way.


58 posted on 01/22/2014 2:55:05 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

It never occurs to guys like this that their own speech comes across as hateful and slanderous to those at which it is directed. Moreover, their accusations of racism are typically based on their interpretation of so-called “code words,” rather than on any overtly racist content. And when people of their own political persuasion express overtly racist and sexist sentiments against conservative minorities and women, they are silent.


59 posted on 01/22/2014 3:01:29 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Newt Gingrich argued blacks should demand jobs and not food stamps"

Yup, that's racist alright.

60 posted on 01/22/2014 3:02:21 PM PST by MNnice
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