George Will goes all out racist

[Ichingcarpenter]

Americans Might Tolerate This Failed President because he's black.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-on-the-right/100112-627665-obama-re-elected-even-if-hes-failed.htm?p=full

[Indi Guy]

1. Reminds me of Rushbo's critique of Donovan McNabb...

...not so long ago.

[HopeHoops]

2. That wasn't my take on it. Will's a strange one, but I think that column was well written.

I didn't see it as racist and I don't in anyway think he is. Sometimes he's totally off base, but I still reject the notion that he's racist.

Now, that SAID, most of the wingnuts ARE openly racist.

[bigtree]

4. of course, Will is racist and his article's premise was, as well

Now, you can certainly argue that Will sincerely believes that voters are giving the president a break because he's black, but, it is a familiar and deplorable suggestion. All of the sudden, black skin is an asset in presidential politics? Who knew?

Cain was robbed!

[HopeHoops]

6. I've been reading his columns for at least 30 years. I've never found him racist at all.

As I said, I don't always agree with him, but sometimes he's got the situation nailed. I still don't see racism in his commentaries.

[bigtree]

12. heh, I got at least two published letters of mine to him in my scrapbook

I used to tell him all of the time how racist his attitude and writings were; particularly toward the residents of D.C..

As I'm a longtime resident of D.C. and the surrounding area, and an avid reader of the Post, you don't have anything at all on me, as far as knowing and reading and responding to Will. I can still remember how Meg Greenfield reached out to Will and persuaded him to write for them.

[HopeHoops]

21. I respectfully disagree on the D.C. thing. He's against statehood, yes, but because of the...

... Constitution and the necessity to have an impartial capitol. Yes, we have representatives now, but they don't have full rights. Congress sets the budget for DC. I'm personally against any taxes for the residents on the grounds that they aren't represented. I've heard that somewhere before...

And yes, I read the Post for a long time - up until I was 21, met my wife, and went off to college. I'm quite familiar with MD/VA/DC issues.

[Enrique]

5. I think it is highly racist and will hurt Will's reputation

his theory is completely without evidence and it is inflammatory. I'm surprised he went ahead with it and no one stopped him.

I am not saying Will is a racist, certainly not a white supremacist like some people. But what he wrote was very racist, a pretty common form which liberals are sometimes guilty of as well.

[HopeHoops]

7. Well, I'm going to stick up for Will on this one. He's a wingnut, but one of few intelligent ones.

[JoeyT]

11. +1

I don't get why people think he's intelligent. He uses big words from time to time, sometimes even correctly, but lots of people are capable of that.

Wrapping thesaurus pages around a turd doesn't change what it is.

[HopeHoops]

13. I've followed him for a long time and he's often been ahead of the curve.

Yes, he's a wingnut, but he isn't stupid. I'm not sure about the "iota" thing, but he has contributed a lot to political discussion.

[HopeHoops]

22. Yeah, quite a bit of that too. It's easy to spot.

[Ichingcarpenter]

24. Ahead of the Curve......LOL

Boy are you deluded ... I've read him for years too but it seems his opinions on global warming
puts up there with one of your intelligent blowhards.

He's a mental midget, an insufferable asshole, but your remarks don't surprise me that you can't see that this was a racist condensing statement and an assault on the common sense of American people as well as President Obama...

[HopeHoops]

29. Geeze. He's easily at the top of the stack of right wing pundits and shills.

I'll agree with you on the global warming thing. He simply won't admit that it's happening. I still don't consider him a racist, unlike O'Reilly, Hannity, the Coulterbeast and pretty much everyone else on FOX.

[bigtree]

15. +100

[Enrique]

10. I would ask you to not look at it personally

forget about whether Will is a racist, think about what he wrote.

[HopeHoops]

14. I read it. The tone wasn't good, but I can't see him as racist. He defended Powell and Rice.

I just don't attribute that to him.

[Enrique]

17. I don't consider myself racist

but I sometimes think about whether certain attitudes I have might be racist. What about you?

I don't know if George Will is racist and I don't think that is the most important issue. People sometimes make racist statements and then apologize. Sometimes it's sincere, they didn't understand why it was racist. I think it's possible George Will might end up apologizing for this column.

[HopeHoops]

19. I'm about as diametrically opposed to racist as you can get.

I'm also against anti-women, anti-gay, and anti-immigrant attitudes. My ancestry dates back to the 17th century and includes Native American blood, but even THEY were immigrants (across the straights). We're all human, dammit! Animals are equals in my mind. Race and species don't matter. We all inhabit the same planet and have to get along.

And no, I don't have racist attitudes - at all. The longer I live, the more true that's become. I remember my best friend in 9th grade using the term "nigger knocker". I thought it was funny at the time, but I find it highly offensive now. He's still racist (as was his father). My wife taught in SC 27 years ago and her landlady could NOT give a black man a compliment without adding "BLACK" to the sentence - and she corrected my wife. "Bill Cosby's a good BLACK actor." I found that highly offensive on several levels.

[cali]

16. really? it wasn't racist? yes, it was.

stating that if Obama's re-elected it's his skin color that did it is as disgustingly racist as it gets. How come Bush was re-elected? Maybe, just maybe, Obama's skin color has jack shit to do with it.

[HopeHoops]

18. Turn it around - Bush was white. I seriously don't think that was Will's point.

If anything, Obama's skin color works against him in the election. We've got way too many racists in the country. rMoney's "if only I was hispanic" line didn't help much, did it? I've never seen a trace of racism out of Will. Yes, he's wrong a lot, but I refuse to consider him a racist. The history of his columns does NOT show that and never has.

[Scootaloo]

28. Know what your post brings to mind?

[HopeHoops]

30. Is that where the term comes from? Seriously, I've never understood what it means.

And wasn't that Opie driving the boat?

[CBGLuthier]

3. again

The very first time I ever read George Will, over 20 years ago, it was nothing but thinly disguised racism. I have this sneaking suspicious that the man may in fact be a racist.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. This was his surrender op-ed

as he does this as his head does this

When they have nothing else, the only place for them to go is "n****r".

[99Forever]

23. Sooner or later...

... almost all righties slip up and show their ass to the world. Some like this jerk, stay on the soft side of dogwhistle racism for a very long time, but then something triggers them and their actual prejudices come out. I suspect that in this case, the old white man in him sees that the future isn't going to be what the Kochheads and he imagined it would. The tide has turned and they had better be worried, 'cuz a lot of us don't feel very forgiving and we have GOOD reason to be very pissed off.

[KamaAina]

25. Do we tolerate a failed right-wing hack because he's white?

[Johonny]

31. what else do Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Coulter, Will...

have going for them.

[Major Hogwash]

26. It was just a matter of time before he had to 'cement' his conservative credentials

With the other conservatives by making comments about President Obama being black.

[Thrill]

27. I thought they would wait until a week before election

to go all out desperate. But looks like they won't