Posted on 01/14/2016 10:56:04 AM PST by McGruff
Hardline conservatives should be celebrating the Republican response speech to the State of the Union, offered by Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina. The speech was a testament to how far the party is willing to go to cater to the putrid racism of the conservative base, as Haley, using her own background as the child of Indian immigrants, demonized immigrants and refugees fleeing war, and, in a particularly odious display, used the murder of nine people at the hands of a racist to scold Black Lives Matter protesters for speaking out.
But the right just ain't having it, it turns out. That's because, even though Haley was willing to sign off on most of the agenda items of the bigoted base, she insisted on doing so using the coded language that conservatives have used for decades now to convey racist ideas while pretending to be not racist. These days, the base wants to communicate racist ideas with bullhorns, not nudges. And Haley's old school style, of declaring that conservatives aren't racist while winking at the audience, just isn't going to fly.
The backlash against Haley started immediately on Twitter, with prominent figures on the right such as Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, John Nolte, and, of course, Ann Coulter, flipping out and attacking Haley.
This burst of outrage at Haley for using coded instead of blunt attacks on immigrants and anti-racist activists got juice, of course, from Donald Trump, who responded by saying she's "very weak on illegal immigration."
She's Paul Ryan's stooge. Ryan selected her to give the SOU "rebuttal." Ryan is a traitor and a disgrace. Maybe Nikki should have figured that out.
Why post this excrement?
Has Amanda Marcotte ever been outside of her plastic bubble?
Reality must be as much of a mystery to her as non-euclidian geometry must’ve been to a brain-damaged caveman 4000 years ago.
I’m totally amazed that someone so completely disconnected with normal humans is able to grasp the concept of writing.
I bet she writes an article about me for being insensitive to the plight bubble people and cavemen.
Sounds like she is racist against white people. I hope her pogrom fails.
Haley and Trump both surrendered on the Confederate Battle Flag...per soebarkah’s “orders”.
Every time I read something from Salon I feel like I need to take a shower.
Ah, yes, yet another headline that made me say “Salon” before even clicking on the link. No, what Haley is taking heat for is turning a reply to 0bama’s SOTU speech into an anti-Trump polemic. Racism got nothin’ to do with it, but it has become what the word “patriotism” used to be, the last refuge of the scoundrel.
I wonder why Miss Nikki failed to hear Maxine Waters and the other race hustlers complaining about all those loud voices a few years ago. Oh yeah, that’s right, Miss Nikki got elected mainly because of Tea Party support.
I’m going there to read some absurd comments. I hope I make it back!
Salon pajama bois clutching their pearls and having a case of the vapors. Quick! To the fainting couches!
“putrid racism of the conservative base” - Amanda Marcotte
ANOTHER twisted, sick propagandist writing for Salon. Go figure.
Putrid propaganda from another “progressive”. There are no checks and balances on evil.
No, they were basically saying that she's not racist enough for conservatives, but they still called her racist.
Know your enema...I mean enemy.
What I posted yesterday seems to be proven by this insane* rant.
“Few people believe the false accusations of racism.
We in the USA have had a steady dose of phony accusations from the Left for FOUR DECADES! The open sewer called the “media†seems to read only from the Little Red Book and Goebbel’s notes.
Many of the American people are waking up from their slumber and realizing that the State controlled media has been spreading Socialism for a generation. Socialism cannot possibly succeed if it tells the truth.”
* Amanda’s article is so far beyond insane that there doesn’t seem to be a word for the ignorance combined with the excessive nonsense in her flaming screed.
Well stated. I’m not a racist. I am however, a culturalist. I don’t want to live according to the childlike and violent values of Mexico. I don’t want to live anywhere near moslem cultures.
If someone from there wants to have turkey at thanksgiving, honor America, and leave the old world foulness behind, I’ll listen.
Bring your food, your music, your literature. All the rest sucks, that’s why you left.
I am a culturalist.
Not possible. Bill Paxton is better looking.
Just the typical SALAON nonsense.
So are they...to liberals, they really don't care what your skin color is, look how they treat Clarence Thomas, he's not "black" to them, because he doesn't subscribe to their view of what Black Culture should be.
“the putrid racism of the conservative base”
I can’t stand this girl. I can’t stand comments like these. Pure bullsh$t.
How’s this for racist “get em outta here”. :-)
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