(Hey
radioactiveart, this is an example when LJ is a hundred times more effective as a medium - in this case for thoughts longer than a synapse - than FB, if not more effective as a platform. Just sayin'.)
I don't make it a habit of watching the morning pundits because they all just infuriate me. Every issue they touch upon is deeper than they give them credit
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Over lunch I turned on Rush to see what he had to say and my god: he was putting on a fucking minstrel show - literally - trying to prove how racist Reid was. RUSH FUCKING LIMBAUGH.
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Rush Limbaugh, April 5th, 2004:
And I’m not going to believe this business that you don’t like heavy metal [Senator Kerry]. I mean, I think heavy metal’s probably your anthem. You know, from the Vietnam era and all that. But here, again, don’t stand up for white music. Associate yourself with rap.
More fun with my defacto sister-in-law. We had a huge debate on Thanksgiving about why African-Americans today don't have greater emnity for the African forebears who sold them into slavery rather than the white people who kept them enslaved.
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At least they're leaving Biden alone to mourn the death of his mother.
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I'm surprised they're not braying about seeing her death certificate.
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Republicans are great at this game of catch a fumble and then say the bigoted thing that's been itching in their craw to say over and over and over again, to reinforce and reinstate the bigoted stereotypes.
bait & switch, bait & switch, bait & switch.
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I've basically reduced myself down to the 10 minutes the Today Show spends on politics and then walk away.
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I just want them to pass a health care bill and work on the jobs issue in this country among other things. I'm not impressed by the issue or republicans faux-outrage about it.
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You know, I'm not as up to speed as I should be on this story...because when I read Reid's remarks, it struck me that I could comfortably hear a lot of people I know say exactly that, in a sarcastic tone, when describing certain voters who said they'd have no problem voting for a black candidate while internally adding, "provided the candidate isn't 'too black'. "
Does that make sense? I'm not sure I'm making myself clear. I'm trying to ask if Reid's remarks were a commentary on the state of mind of certain voters who don't see themselves as being racist, but who secretly harbor, um, "reservations."
IF that was the case, then there's even more bullshit to be called on the news shows for taking things out of context.
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That said, I don't think you see the fury that would follow a comment like this because no one disagrees with it. There's no way for Reid to have said it and not sounded racist - can YOU think of a way to say the same thing without sounding racist? - but that just means he shouldn't have bothered pointing it out at all.
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