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

[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...

[rockinqsranch]

Jamie, YOU ARE one stupid B——!

[trisham]

Well said!

[jazusamo]

LOL! Looks like Jamie boy got his ovaries tipped over Sarah Palin just telling the truth, at least she exploded another liberal diseased mind.

Thanks for the post and ping!

[Steve_Seattle]

"Yup, that's racist alright."

In order to call Gingrich's comment racist, he had to give it an incorrect interpretation. Gingrich did not say, "Blacks want food stamps instead of jobs." He was actually saying, "All that blacks are getting from Obama is food stamps; his policies are not growing the economy and creating new jobs."

[LibLieSlayer]

My President!

[sergeantdave]

Jamie Chandler is a 50 IQ knuckle-dragging ape. He should move to North Korea where he can be with his own kind.

[M-cubed]

If Palin ate a slice of watermelon on the 4th of July....Shed be accused of “coded racism”.....The PDS has no limits

[9YearLurker]

I guess so!

(I wasn’t paying attention.)

[Steve_Seattle]

From the article: "The president had said that his approval rating suffers because some people don't like the idea of having a black president."

Dear Jamie: The president did not turn from white to black in 2013, therefore that is not why his approval rating dropped. His approval rating dropped because of his policies - a sluggish economy with unemployment still at well-above-average levels, massive NSA snooping on virtually every citizen, IRS targeting of political opponents, bungling and lying related to Benghazi, and - above all - the disastrous, incompetent rollout of the ACA. Keep your slanderous charges of "coded" racism to yourself.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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

You show me an expression which “objective” journalists deem to be “code” for racism, and I’ll show you an expression of thought which the “objective” journalist is attempting to censor. The journalist assays to make expression of that thought impossible.

[a fool in paradise]

Jamie P. Chandler is a political scientist at Hunter College and The Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York. Follow him on Twitte

[onyx]

LOL! Looks like Jamie boy got his ovaries tipped over Sarah Palin just telling the truth, at least she exploded another liberal diseased mind.

Perfect statement from you, dearest jaz!!!

[onyx]

AMEN!!!

[McGruff]

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

Both statements are true.

[DallasSun]

Are you serious? In a debate? Hello?

[LibLieSlayer]

Bigot, butt pirate, communist, woman hating, transgendered toad from an alternate Universe.

[onyx]

LOLOLOL. You’re right!

[DallasSun]

LOL Sarah. Tell us what you really think. It is good to see you, Sarah. Hope you are well.

[Zeppo]

Amazingly, Sarah Palin is “living rent free” in Jamie Chandler’s mind.

His article is nothing more than a pathetic cry for attention by a libtard loser.

“Look at me, Sarah. I’m smart. I’m important. I’m progressive. I’m an impeccably-manscaped metrosexual. I can spout DNC talking points as well as any wind-up doll. Yet for all of my qualities, I have no name recognition. People think that I’m just another clueless nebbish. I write for US News & World Report, fer god’s sake. But that can change. Yes we can. Oh, please, please, please respond to my article, Sarah. Just say my name and I’ve got it made. Maybe I can get me a gig on MSNBC, or at least get invited to party with cool people like Ed Schultz and Martin Bashir so that people will stop thinking that I’m such a dork.”

[Sarah Barracuda]

All is well, same ol same ol here in looney liberal LA..hope all is well with you