Joan Walsh: 'It's Almost Certainly a Fact That Romney Is More Comfortable Around White People'

As NewsBusters reported Saturday, Politico has officially cut ties with White House correspondent Joe Williams for saying presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is more comfortable around "white folks."

Throwing caution to the wind, Salon editor at large Joan Walsh on Thursday doubled-down on these caustic comments writing, "It’s almost certainly a fact that Mitt Romney is more comfortable around white people":

What precipitated these comments from Walsh was her desire to defend herself from a NewsBusters article reporting racist remarks she made on Monday subsequently linked by the Drudge Report Wednesday:

Talk about the pot and the kettle, Walsh at this point in her career spends most of her time on MSNBC taking umbrage with every conservative on the planet.

If there were a methadone treatment for umbrage-addiction, Walsh's recommended dosage would 100 time mine.

voted for McCain versus 40 percent that voted for Obama. This wasn't that much different than the total white population which went 55-43.

In 2010, 60 percent of whites voted for Republican House members. There was no "Vote by Race and Age" category in those exit polls, but 59 percent of those 65 and over voted Republican.

As such, in the previous two elections, there wasn't a huge difference between how whites and older whites voted.

But the reality is that ageism isn't the issue. It's that Walsh accused any segment of one race of not understanding how something works.

She tried to defend herself thusly:

On “they don’t quite understand healthcare [reform]” – well, that almost goes without saying, because to be honest, almost nobody entirely understands it. It is complicated, I’ll concede that. But that’s a dodge I don’t need to use. The Tea Party’s failure to understand the healthcare system, and not merely Obamacare, is immortalized in its members’ many demands to “keep government out of my Medicare” — reported not only by President Obama but by conservative Republican Bob Inglis.

I would agree that "almost nobody entirely understands" healthcare, but that's not what she said. She specifically accused older whites of not understanding it.

As for the Tea Party sign regarding keeping government out of Medicare, that point was specific to the section in ObamaCare that takes money from Medicare to fund it.

Many seniors on both sides of the aisle were displeased by this thereby making this Tea Party claim by Walsh a red herring that so many of her ilk like to resort to.

But here was the real laugher: "We are living in a moment when right-wing extremists are casting any critical observation about white people as racism — and the mainstream media, already tongue-tied about race, has no idea how to respond."

This from a woman who casts any critical observation about Obama as racist. One example among many was when she accused Newt Gingrich of racism for calling Obama "the most successful food stamp president in American history,"

She also agreed in November 2010 that conservative criticism of Obama's trip to India had racist overtones.

The fact is that Walsh smells racism in everything associated with this president, and has been pointing fingers at white people for months if not years:

Actual Joan Walsh Salon Headline: 'What’s The Matter With White People?'

Joan Walsh: GOP 'The Party of Old White Men'

In this instance, I very much agree that citing race statistics when covering politics or the economy should not be deemed as racist.

However, when you point fingers at part of an ethnic group for not understanding something, that's a whole different story?

Being white and old doesn't make people stupid, and saying it does is racist no matter how you try to defend it.

It is a metaphysical certitude Walsh and her ilk would be shouting racism from the rooftops if a conservative commentator said there is "an older black base that doesn’t quite understand how healthcare works."

As that most certainly would have started a liberal firestorm, it should be equally offensive when the word "white" is substituted for "black."

Are we supposed to be worries because Mitt Romney is comfortable around white people? So am I, because that is the culture I was raised in.

Whom are they kidding? I think themselves. It would be very normal for black folks to be more comfortable around other black people. That is common sense and human nature.

I am getting tired of these phony, liberal elitists making insipid comments as though they have discovered some new phenomenon, and that being a normal human being is something to be ashamed of.

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