Posted on 01/20/2010 7:39:56 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
This clip from this morning’s Morning Joe is currently making the rounds due to Peggy Noonan’s remark that today’s Mass. special election GOP candidate Scott Brown is popular because he “looks like an American” (which is not the full quote, though she doesn’t exactly redeem herself either). Actually, Noonan’s remark may be the least offensive to come out of this morning’s chat session on the subject; Donny Deutsch thinks the fact Brown not black or a woman may offer a “visceral comfort” to voters. The more things change, etc.
“We’re going back to basics, we’ve obviously had our first African American president we’ve had the female candidates and whatnot [and whatnot!] you look at him he looks like the candidate, the traditional view of the candidate, and is there a visceral comfort in that for people? I’m just curious from real kind of sociological point of view.”
Ah yes! The sociological point of view! Read: are people less scared because he’s white. Peggy Noonan can actually be heard disagreeing with Deutsch in the background before she goes on to note that Brown does mark a change in the voting habits of a Massachusett because he looks like “a new sort of Republican…he’s a regular guy who looks like an American from the middle, or self-made into a middle class, upper middle class guy…we’re seeing some evolution of what Republicans in Mass are right now.”
So basically a bunch of white people spent part of their morning remarking on how safe and attractive a Republican candidate is. Also, Mike Barnicle thinks Coakley is reminiscent of your least favorite substitute school teacher. Video below.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/donny-deutsch-voters-may-be-comforted-by-scott-browns-white-maleness/
“Voters May Be ‘Comforted’ By Scott Brown’s White Maleness”
I am.
C’mom DD—get with the program already. Its all about the TRUCK dontchyaknow. Even the TRUCK had the Big O all flummoxed in a wad.
Liberals are such racists.
Yes, both are males; but neither one is a man.
AFAIC, I'd not have voted for her, regardless of her politics.
Her gender didn't factor into it at all, if she was male I'd use the same type-reference.
I think he may have offered my wife “visceral comfort” after she saw his Cosmo pictures.
Brown/Palin 2012
Lol
White Maleness? Only liberals are obsessed with race! Only liberals hate people because they are of a certain race.
Little Donnie Douche hasn't studied his Martin Luther King much eh?
I LOVE HOW THE OTHER side can live with the fact that 95% of black american voters elected obama because he was a brother...but as soon as we elect someone based on the issues it is because of his white maleness....these people have no clue at all and that is why they will go down in flames....
It wasn’t so much the white maleness (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but this statement of purpose that offered me visceral comfort: “Raising taxes, taking over our health care, and giving new rights to terrorists is the wrong agenda for our country.”
The MSNBC viewship numbers will jump due to conservatives tuning in to watch the meltdown.
The more the leftist elites believe this foolishness, the easier it will be to continue to blind side them.
And this is why Obama and his fellow narcissists will continue to ram healthcare and other unpopular programs down our throats.
Did you mean denial or senile? Both fit.
Us Texans think alike--albeit you a natural one and me a yankee transplant. Oh yeh-- I drive a truck too! eheheheh!
She doesnt help us at all.
The dems always pull out the race card when all else fails. No one even listens to that anymore.
Pretty much says it all.
Clueless libtards. Desperately overanalyzing in hopes of creating a reason for Coakly’s loss that fits their template. Get going down the wrong road, assclowns, and keep losing.
If he is against judging poeple by the color of their skin,
then why is he judging people by the color of their skin?
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