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Tomasky Trashes The South: 'Reactionary, Fetid, Nuclear Waste Site'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/08/2014 6:24:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Michael Tomasky is not content to argue, in the wake of Mary Landrieu's defeat, that Democrats should write off the South as politically-unfriendly territory.

In his Daily Beast item of today, Tomasky goes to great lengths to trash the region in the ugliest of terms. "Reactionary, prejudice-infested, fetid, reject[ing] nearly everything that’s good about this country, just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment," is how Tomasky slurs most of the South, saying "almost the entire South" is as he describes it.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bigot; dailybeast; keystonexl; marylandrieu; michaeltomasky; opec; override; thesouth; veto
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To: N. Theknow

Yes, Paterson is a gem. Last week they announced that throughout the Paterson school district, 19 students tested high enough for college admission.

NINETEEN!


41 posted on 12/08/2014 6:57:16 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: RatRipper

Well said.
However, I differ with you on one point. I think his cranium is filled with fecal matter; not scrambled eggs. What came out his mouth has a male bovine odor to it.


42 posted on 12/08/2014 7:00:05 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest



43 posted on 12/08/2014 7:01:00 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Tucker39

I stand corrected!!! LOL!


44 posted on 12/08/2014 7:02:11 AM PST by RatRipper (No need to rob others; democRATS will steal and share a tiny bit with you.)
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To: Lazamataz
Toward the end of his column, Tomasky even seems to favor secession, calling the South "[a] different country. And maybe someday it really should be. I’ll save that for another column."

FINALLY. Something a liberal writes that I can get enthusiastic over!

Ditto.

45 posted on 12/08/2014 7:03:40 AM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m for the South declaring independence. That will mean turning off the pipelines to the North, of course, but there is enough hot air from Lefty writers to keep them warm.


46 posted on 12/08/2014 7:03:47 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
'Reactionary, Fetid, Nuclear Waste Site'

That's today's Mainstream Media and their Websites; void of the facts and pushing socialism as fast as they can.

47 posted on 12/08/2014 7:06:25 AM PST by sr4402
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I never heard of him. Who cares what he says?


48 posted on 12/08/2014 7:08:32 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: ThunderSleeps

If not for the one redeeming quality of the piece (I learned what choleric meant), this would be pure polemic porn.


49 posted on 12/08/2014 7:13:39 AM PST by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: Red Badger

Southside Chicago, South-Central LA, South Boston....

You just proved his point!

/S


50 posted on 12/08/2014 7:14:12 AM PST by BwanaNdege (I wonder which side they choose whe)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Uh-oh, does this mean the NorthEast is gonna secede from the Union? Their slavery to leftist ideology seems to be eating at their judgemental collective conscience.


51 posted on 12/08/2014 7:14:34 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Tucker39

“If the south is that bad, how come so many of murders take place in Chicago, Detroit, New York, DC and other northern cities?”

Good question; the answer probably includes a disarmed population.


52 posted on 12/08/2014 7:15:45 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Never heard of him...


53 posted on 12/08/2014 7:19:07 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Jewbacca

Or the SOUTHside of Chicago


54 posted on 12/08/2014 7:22:25 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Daily Beast? Really? Huffington Post, Slate, Salon, and the Daily Beast have less credibility combined than Infowars; yet they (Infowars) are banned from FR.


55 posted on 12/08/2014 7:22:47 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescInfowars has more credibilty)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Have you seen the preview for the new movie about Moses? It shows that big wall of water? That’s actually a news clip of all the liberal tears flooding out of Boston.


56 posted on 12/08/2014 7:24:27 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And there you have it, Southerners. This is the distilled opinion of the Liberal Establishment toward you, and by extension, any part of America that doesn’t agree with its “enlightened” viewpoint.

These people make Marie Antoinette look like a communist.


57 posted on 12/08/2014 7:24:32 AM PST by IronJack
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’m surprised he never mentioned the millions of Rednecks with rifles.


58 posted on 12/08/2014 7:27:40 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: kearnyirish2
It's actually a bit more complicated than that--and worse, in some ways. Here's how Wiki summarizes it:

Bergen County developed as the largest slaveholding county in the state,[1] in part because many slaves were used as laborers in its ports and cities. After the Revolutionary War, many northern states rapidly passed laws to abolish slavery, but New Jersey did not pass abolish it until 1804, and then in a process of gradual emancipation similar to that of New York. But, in New Jersey, some slaves were held as late as 1865. (In New York, they were all freed by 1827.) The law made African Americans free at birth, but it required children (born to slave mothers), to serve lengthy apprenticeships as a type of indentured servant until early adulthood for the masters of their slave mothers. New Jersey was the last of the Northern states to abolish slavery completely. The last 16 slaves in New Jersey were freed in 1865 by the Thirteenth Amendment.[2]

59 posted on 12/08/2014 7:29:26 AM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

My understanding is that slavery was outlawed in NJ in 1846; Bergen County was also home to “Skunk Hollow”, a settlement of free blacks from the early 1800s (at a time when most weren’t free).


60 posted on 12/08/2014 7:34:51 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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