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The base turns On Nikki Haley: They don’t want code words, they want to hear blunt racism
SALON ^ | January 14, 2015 | AMANDA MARCOTTE

Posted on 01/14/2016 10:56:04 AM PST by McGruff

Hardline conservatives should be celebrating the Republican response speech to the State of the Union, offered by Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina. The speech was a testament to how far the party is willing to go to cater to the putrid racism of the conservative base, as Haley, using her own background as the child of Indian immigrants, demonized immigrants and refugees fleeing war, and, in a particularly odious display, used the murder of nine people at the hands of a racist to scold Black Lives Matter protesters for speaking out.

But the right just ain't having it, it turns out. That's because, even though Haley was willing to sign off on most of the agenda items of the bigoted base, she insisted on doing so using the coded language that conservatives have used for decades now to convey racist ideas while pretending to be not racist. These days, the base wants to communicate racist ideas with bullhorns, not nudges. And Haley's old school style, of declaring that conservatives aren't racist while winking at the audience, just isn't going to fly.

The backlash against Haley started immediately on Twitter, with prominent figures on the right such as Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, John Nolte, and, of course, Ann Coulter, flipping out and attacking Haley.

This burst of outrage at Haley for using coded instead of blunt attacks on immigrants and anti-racist activists got juice, of course, from Donald Trump, who responded by saying she's "very weak on illegal immigration."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bhosotu; gopresponse; namblanews; nikkihaley; pedophilepaper; rino; saloncrap; uniparty
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To: NOVACPA
Trikki Nikki sold her soul to either Jeb or Rubio.

She's Paul Ryan's stooge. Ryan selected her to give the SOU "rebuttal." Ryan is a traitor and a disgrace. Maybe Nikki should have figured that out.

21 posted on 01/14/2016 11:07:25 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: McGruff

Why post this excrement?


22 posted on 01/14/2016 11:07:54 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: McGruff

Has Amanda Marcotte ever been outside of her plastic bubble?

Reality must be as much of a mystery to her as non-euclidian geometry must’ve been to a brain-damaged caveman 4000 years ago.

I’m totally amazed that someone so completely disconnected with normal humans is able to grasp the concept of writing.

I bet she writes an article about me for being insensitive to the plight bubble people and cavemen.

Sounds like she is racist against white people. I hope her pogrom fails.


23 posted on 01/14/2016 11:08:46 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: WENDLE

Haley and Trump both surrendered on the Confederate Battle Flag...per soebarkah’s “orders”.


24 posted on 01/14/2016 11:09:16 AM PST by onedoug
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To: McGruff

Every time I read something from Salon I feel like I need to take a shower.


25 posted on 01/14/2016 11:09:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: McGruff

Ah, yes, yet another headline that made me say “Salon” before even clicking on the link. No, what Haley is taking heat for is turning a reply to 0bama’s SOTU speech into an anti-Trump polemic. Racism got nothin’ to do with it, but it has become what the word “patriotism” used to be, the last refuge of the scoundrel.


26 posted on 01/14/2016 11:09:41 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: greatvikingone

I wonder why Miss Nikki failed to hear Maxine Waters and the other race hustlers complaining about all those loud voices a few years ago. Oh yeah, that’s right, Miss Nikki got elected mainly because of Tea Party support.


27 posted on 01/14/2016 11:10:00 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: TexasCajun

I’m going there to read some absurd comments. I hope I make it back!


28 posted on 01/14/2016 11:10:28 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: McGruff

Salon pajama bois clutching their pearls and having a case of the vapors. Quick! To the fainting couches!


29 posted on 01/14/2016 11:10:51 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: McGruff

“putrid racism of the conservative base” - Amanda Marcotte

ANOTHER twisted, sick propagandist writing for Salon. Go figure.

Putrid propaganda from another “progressive”. There are no checks and balances on evil.


30 posted on 01/14/2016 11:10:56 AM PST by PGalt
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31 posted on 01/14/2016 11:12:17 AM PST by McGruff (It's us against the Uniparty now.)
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To: TexasCajun
Nikki getting support from liberal Salon.com

No, they were basically saying that she's not racist enough for conservatives, but they still called her racist.

32 posted on 01/14/2016 11:12:17 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: ifinnegan
Why post this excrement?

Know your enema...I mean enemy.

33 posted on 01/14/2016 11:12:51 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: McGruff

What I posted yesterday seems to be proven by this insane* rant.

“Few people believe the false accusations of racism.
We in the USA have had a steady dose of phony accusations from the Left for FOUR DECADES! The open sewer called the “media” seems to read only from the Little Red Book and Goebbel’s notes.

Many of the American people are waking up from their slumber and realizing that the State controlled media has been spreading Socialism for a generation. Socialism cannot possibly succeed if it tells the truth.”

* Amanda’s article is so far beyond insane that there doesn’t seem to be a word for the ignorance combined with the excessive nonsense in her flaming screed.


34 posted on 01/14/2016 11:12:56 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Mears

Well stated. I’m not a racist. I am however, a culturalist. I don’t want to live according to the childlike and violent values of Mexico. I don’t want to live anywhere near moslem cultures.
If someone from there wants to have turkey at thanksgiving, honor America, and leave the old world foulness behind, I’ll listen.
Bring your food, your music, your literature. All the rest sucks, that’s why you left.

I am a culturalist.


35 posted on 01/14/2016 11:13:10 AM PST by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Snickering Hound
I'm pretty sure "she" is actually the actor Bill Paxton in drag.

Not possible. Bill Paxton is better looking.

36 posted on 01/14/2016 11:13:33 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: McGruff

Just the typical SALAON nonsense.


37 posted on 01/14/2016 11:13:39 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: DesertRhino
Well stated. I’m not a racist. I am however, a culturalist.

So are they...to liberals, they really don't care what your skin color is, look how they treat Clarence Thomas, he's not "black" to them, because he doesn't subscribe to their view of what Black Culture should be.

38 posted on 01/14/2016 11:14:47 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: McGruff

“the putrid racism of the conservative base”

I can’t stand this girl. I can’t stand comments like these. Pure bullsh$t.


39 posted on 01/14/2016 11:15:06 AM PST by major-pelham
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To: McGruff

How’s this for racist “get em outta here”. :-)


40 posted on 01/14/2016 11:15:10 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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