"Let's Just Call It Race Baiting"

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/04/27/lets_just_call_it_race_baiting.html

Let's Just Call It Race Baiting


David Remnick: "The one radical thing about Barack Obama is his race, his name. Of course, there is nothing innately radical about being black or having Hussein as middle name; what is radical is that he has those attributes and is sitting in the Oval Office. And even now, more than two years after the fact, this is deeply disturbing to many people, and, at the same time, the easiest way to arouse visceral opposition to him. Let's be even plainer: to do what Trump has done (and he is only the latest and loudest and most spectacularly hirsute) is a conscious form of race-baiting, of fear-mongering. And if that makes Donald Trump proud, then what does that say for him? Perhaps now he will go away, satisfied that this passage has sufficiently restored his fame quotient and television ratings. The shame is that there are still many more around who, in the name of truth-telling, are prepared to pump the atmosphere full of poison."

Full article here:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/trump-birtherism-and-race-baiting.html

[JoePhilly]

1. GOP Southern Strategy, same as it ever was.

[Historic NY]

2. with a northern bigoted jackass.

[JoePhilly]

3. I'd add the word "opportunist" ... Trump understands the GOP's base.

Trump's just the latest mouth piece. Trump, Rush, Beck, O'Reilly, all of Fox news really, many GOP congressmen ... they understand the GOP's true base, and they speak to it. Their Dog whistle terms and attacks have become easier and easier to hear in this case.

The media should call it by its official name, the GOP Southern Strategy. Describe the history of that term. It explains why we now have lots of old white folks flipping out because a black guy is in the white house.