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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US News & World Report once, long ago was a great magazine. What utter rubbish.
The idea of “code words” cracks me up.
Almost always it’s a reference to their subpar culture that they say is a “code word” for racism.
No, sir - that’s culturist, and not “racist”. And yes, sir, THAT culture IS subpar and needs to be reformed or eliminated as detrimental to society at large.
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