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Tomasky Trashes The South: 'Reactionary', 'Fetid', 'Nuclear Waste Site' of Racial Resentment
newsbusters.org ^ | 12-8-2014 | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/08/2014 8:21:55 AM PST by servo1969

Michael Tomasky is not content to argue, in the wake of Mary Landrieu's defeat, that Democrats should write off the South as politically unfriendly territory.  In his Daily Beast item of today, Tomasky goes to great lengths to trash the region in the ugliest of terms.

"Reactionary, prejudice-infested, fetid, reject[ing] nearly everything that’s good about this country, just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment," is how Tomasky slurs most of the South, saying "almost the entire region" is as he describes it. 

Remind us now, Michael: just who's "choleric?" Tomasky then has the temerity to shed a crocodile tear, lamenting that his utter contempt for the South is "made even sadder because on the whole they’re such nice people! (I truly mean that.)"

Toward the end of his column, Tomasky even seems to favor secession, calling the South "[a] different country. And maybe someday it really should be. I’ll save that for another column."

Michael Tomasky, champion of the New Confederacy?  Who knew?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; beast; dailybeast; landrieu; michaeltomasky; south; tomasky
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To: vette6387
Actually, if we just walled off the Northeast, Chicago, and parts of California, we’d have our country back. Let them have the UN too.

I don't think you even have to go that far. Just wall off each megalopolis. For example, the Northeast can return to some sanity if just the corridor from D.C. to Boston is encased in carbonite.
41 posted on 12/08/2014 10:12:06 AM PST by needmorePaine
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To: servo1969

//Well, bless his heart.//

lol, for real.


42 posted on 12/08/2014 10:12:58 AM PST by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: TMA62
Note that the recent iconic racially charged incidents (Ferguson, NYC) as well as the Rodney King one (Calif), have occured not in the south but in cities and states run by DEMOCRATS???

The big riots in the 60's were Newark, LA and Detroit.

Far away from Dixie.

43 posted on 12/08/2014 10:38:25 AM PST by eddie willers
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To: needmorePaine

“I don’t think you even have to go that far. Just wall off each megalopolis. For example, the Northeast can return to some sanity if just the corridor from D.C. to Boston is encased in carbonite.”

Probably true. I live about 30 miles east of San Francisco, and we are light-years away from that place politically.


44 posted on 12/08/2014 11:41:12 AM PST by vette6387
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To: babble-on
So you actually are a racist. One meets so few of them in daily life.

Um, what? I just said it wasn't about race.

45 posted on 12/08/2014 12:27:32 PM PST by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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