Posts Tagged ‘racism’

Pick your “-ism.” When socialism and terrorism are waved like red herrings to obscure the campaign trail, historical revisionism can’t be far behind. If your political playbook is straight out of Richard Nixon and your policies emulate George W. Bush, why wouldn’t you want to re-write history?
Russ Rymer presents a nuanced interpretation of John Lewis’s [...]

Frank Rich calls the hate speech incited at McCain/Palin rallies “Weimar-like rage.” It’s a deft inversion worthy of Republican rhetoric. “Weimar” is code, of course, for “Nazi” and the festering discontent that Nazism fed upon. Nothing new about that. Radicals like Frank Hussein Rich see Nazis behind every innocent club and cudgel. Rich traces some [...]

On The Media: Transcript of “Smear Campaign” (October 10, 2008):
There’s been a lot of coverage of attempts to convince voters that Barack Obama is a Muslim. But according to a report released by the liberal watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, no one’s talking about the underlying presumption: Muslim is a pejorative term. FAIR’s [...]

Chilling observations from Douglass K. Daniel, a writer and editor with the Washington bureau of The Associated Press.Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge:
Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience [...]