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How Sarah Palin Exploits Right-Wing Racism (They're fuming over her MLK-day message to Barry)
US News and World Report ^ | January 21, 2014 | Jamie Chandler

Posted on 01/22/2014 2:02:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Once again, the curmudgeonly Sarah Palin didn't let a holiday pass without reminding us that she has Facebook page. On Martin Luther King Day, she posted a response to President Obama's New Yorker interview where she called on him to honor MLK by not playing the race card. The president had said that his approval rating suffers because some people don't like the idea of having a black president.

Now her post doesn't rival some of her other holiday harangues, such as her book "Good Tidings and Great Joys," a how-to-guide to fighting back against the War on Christmas, or her Veteran's Day appearance on the "Today Show" where she railed against the Affordable Care Act for the millionth time. But it was a gem just the same: an offensive exploitation of racism by accusing the president of racism.

Palin forgets that Republicans have made great use of race-baiting rhetoric over the last six years, attacking the president and his policies with coded language connecting poverty to racial stereotypes. During his 2012 presidential run, Newt Gingrich argued blacks should demand jobs and not food stamps. More recently, Heritage Action attacked food stamps and Head Start as two programs that promote a culture of dependency, code words that imply African-Americans are lazy...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blahblahblah; catfight; getpalin; jamiechandler; mlk; obama; palin; palinderangement; pds; racecard; racism
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No, he's serious.
1 posted on 01/22/2014 2:02:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reince Priebus and Obama want to import 20 million foreign workers because it will help blacks.


2 posted on 01/22/2014 2:03:10 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Way too much power to be lost if blacks lose their victimhood and entitlement status.


3 posted on 01/22/2014 2:04:53 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

"Jamie" ... Chandler, the author of this thang.
4 posted on 01/22/2014 2:05:24 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What really bugs libs is that Sarah would clean the Hillabeast’s clock in an honest debate.

Really.


5 posted on 01/22/2014 2:05:31 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

You’re right.


6 posted on 01/22/2014 2:06:18 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Frankly, I’m more concerned with Left-wing racism... against the Conservative Race.


7 posted on 01/22/2014 2:06:20 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Talking openly about Obama’s failed policies and quoting him verbatim = Race-baiting rhetoric


8 posted on 01/22/2014 2:06:33 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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"Jamie P. Chandler is an American political scientist, television commentator, and writer. He is an expert on American elections, public opinion, Congress, US foreign policy, and the Middle East. He teaches at City University of New York Hunter College[1] and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership."

Source: Wikipedia

9 posted on 01/22/2014 2:08:02 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

no, to get 20 million new democratic voters


10 posted on 01/22/2014 2:08:56 PM PST by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: C210N
Frankly, I’m more concerned with Left-wing racism... against the Conservative Race.

Frankly, I’m more concerned with Left-wing racism... against the HUMAN Race.

11 posted on 01/22/2014 2:09:42 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: MrB

I have suggested before that Sarah take her message straight to black America. Look how the left are hyperventilating. She touched a nerve.


12 posted on 01/22/2014 2:10:17 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The vast preponderance of racism in this country exists on the Left, not the Right. How is Sarah Palin “exploiting right-wing racism” but Al Sharpton and Jessuh Jagmo and the Trayvonites are just seekers after justice?

That race boat done sailed and sunk. Try again ...


13 posted on 01/22/2014 2:12:16 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Da Coyote

14 posted on 01/22/2014 2:13:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a joke. USNWR accuses Republicans of “code words” while dismissing Obama’s direct statement that some people “dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president”.


15 posted on 01/22/2014 2:13:50 PM PST by Ray76 (How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
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To: SpaceBar

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs and the one that hollars is the one that got hit.


16 posted on 01/22/2014 2:15:02 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I stopped reading at “using coded language.” These people are hysterical. PDS is alive and well.


17 posted on 01/22/2014 2:17:02 PM PST by GSWarrior
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Jamie Chandler is so popular and well known that he Retweeted his on Tweet about his article...several times.

Retweeted by Jamie Chandler
U.S. News Opinion;@USNewsOpinion · Jan 20 Congress lacks compassion for those without a job, says @jamie_chandler http://ow.ly/sHAKA

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produced a short documentary in 2011 The Faces of Occupy Wall Street

He appeared in September 2012 in the episode “Professor is ‘Hot for his Age’

Jamie P. Chandler is a political scientist at
The Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership


18 posted on 01/22/2014 2:17:06 PM PST by kcvl
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I know he’s serious, that’s the thing that is laughable
about them.
I know, I KNOW that he doesn’t have the understanding
to figure out that “a gem just the same: an offensive exploitation of racism by accusing the president of
racism.” is the same thing as the President exploiting
racism by accusing the American people of racism!

That is what I FIND OFFENSIVE!!!

That an American President, no matter his race would
use race as an excuse for his own failed policies
I FIND ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!

Even when my appreciation of the man is at zero I
find he can always do something to drag the office
down farther.


19 posted on 01/22/2014 2:17:31 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this satire? It sure reads like it.


20 posted on 01/22/2014 2:17:47 PM PST by zeebee (There are no coincidences.)
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