Frank Rich calls out the racists among us
One of the things that has been bothering me over the last week of coverage of the teetering on the brink of fascism Republican campaign has been the absence of the MSM to call it what it is: race-baiting. White pundits were unable to see “that one” for what it was — an intentional effort to objectify, and thus dehumanize a black man. Thankfully, we have Frank Rich who accurately connects the dots from Jim Crow to Tucker Eskew. Those people, and you know who I mean, are definitely pond scum.
No less disconcerting was a still-unexplained passage of Palin’s convention speech: Her use of an unattributed quote praising small-town America (as opposed to, say, Chicago and its community organizers) from Westbrook Pegler, the mid-century Hearst columnist famous for his anti-Semitism, racism and violent rhetorical excess. After an assassin tried to kill F.D.R. at a Florida rally and murdered Chicago’s mayor instead in 1933, Pegler wrote that it was “regrettable that Giuseppe Zangara shot the wrong man.” In the ’60s, Pegler had a wish for Bobby Kennedy: “Some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow falls.”
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