Posted on 09/19/2009 3:24:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
IF only it were just about the color of his skin.
With all due respect to Jimmy Carter, the racist component of Obama-hatred has been undeniable since the summer of 2008, when Sarah Palin rallied all-white mobs to the defense of the “real America.” Joe Wilson may or may not be in that camp, but, either way, that’s not the news. As we watched and rewatched the South Carolina congressman’s star turn, what grabbed us was the act itself.
What made the lone, piercing cry of “You lie!” shocking was that it breached a previously secure barrier. It was the first time that the violent rage surging in town-hall meetings all summer blasted into the same room as the president. Wilson’s televised shout was tantamount to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. When he later explained that his behavior was “spontaneous” rather than premeditated, that was even more disturbing. It’s not good for the country that a lawmaker can’t control his anger at Barack Obama. It gives permission to crazy people.
The White House was right not to second Carter’s motion and cue another “national conversation about race.” No matter how many teachable moments we have, some people won’t be taught. (Though how satisfying it would have been for Obama to dismiss Wilson, like the boorish Kanye West, as a “jackass.”) But there is a national conversation we must have right now — the one about what, in addition to race, is driving this anger and what can be done about it. We are kidding ourselves if we think it’s only about bigotry, or health care, or even Obama. The growing minority that feels disenfranchised by Washington can’t be so easily ghettoized and dismissed.
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Frank Rich, you are as pathetic as is humanly possible.
Frank Rich needs his meds adjusted.
What?
Palin was talking skin color?
Talk about the big lie!
Who is Frank Rich?
And why does anyone care?
I’d love to see how many articles have been written about us “racists” over the past week alone. There must be thousands.
>Wilson’s televised shout was tantamount to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater.
No it wasn’t... heck, it wasn’t even tantamount to yelling “LIAR!!” in a crowded theater.
It’s fun to grill them on this. To watch their reactions when you ask if they believe that people back in February just didn’t notice that he was black back then. Does the left really think conservatives are just now discovering, “Hey, wait a minute, this guy looks different than the people I know and agree with.” The whole polling numbers for approval back in February make it absurd to think that everyone who disagrees is a racist.
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The libs are obsessed with Beck... Just like they were obsessed with Hannity, and Limbaugh, and Palin, and...
He writes that “it gives permission to crazy people”. Rich is the”crazy people”. He should be glad that we have a 1st amendment so that he can write this drivel.
Yep, twelve hours per, every day. : - D
The latest echochamber talking point - and I thought the evil conservatives were the ones with the echochamber.
Flow chart to help leftists spot racists:
http://www.missourah.com/2009/09/15/obama-criticism-flow-chart/
And Frank Rich may not know that Hitler, Stalin, Castro and Pol Pot were --- each and every one of them -- socialists.
Oddly, the execrable Frank Rich arrives at the same conclusion as David Brooks: It's Not About Race. And, like Brooks, he ascribes the Tea Party Movement to a "populist" motive -- even likening its leaders -- whoever they are -- to Father Caughlin (as did David Brooks).
The New York Times has evidently made an institutional decision to drop the race card...and play the "populist demagogue" card.
Now, who gets to be Father Caughlin? Is it Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.
“Speaking truth to power” is supposed to be a cleansing, cathartic gesture, the clearing of the miasma formed when thinking is clouded or has become noxious.
Face it, Obama talks one way, and acts another, which sends a broad spectrum of mixed signals. He generates his own “white noise” while sending the very meaning of the words he utters down into some “black hole”.
The Emperor STILL has no clothes. No matter how pretty the words, it is all still lipstick on an extremely ugly visage, and becomes a parody of itself even as he speaks.
From their daily drumbeat of demonization of Sarah to the latest "conservatives are racist" rants by virtually all of the msm, they are throwing everything overboard in hopes of keeping the circling sharks away from the sinking Potemkin, "commander zero" still heroically at the helm, his steely eyes locked on the distant horizon of Hope and Change.
Who is Frank Rich?
The only difference with Glenn he does his homework. That what makes him dangerous. It would be nice if Rush did.
He thinks people are crazy now? Just wait until the next revolution for independence begins....
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