Class act, as always:
LIMBAUGH: It’s — you know, it’s just — it’s just we can’t hit the girl. I don’t care how far feminism’s saying, you can’t hit the girl, and you can’t — you can’t criticize the little black man-child. You just can’t do it, ’cause it’s just not right. It’s not fair. He’s […]

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Via TPM, GOP stalwart Grover Norquist drops by the offices of the LA Times, where he has this to say about the Democratic nominee:
“John Kerry with a tan.”
Could have been worse, though, as Greg Sargent notes:
He could have termed the Illinois Senator “John Kerry in blackface.”

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Well, it’s Texas Republicans. So I suppose this is to be expected.

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Poor wingnuts. Just can’t help themselves.

Quoth Sadly! No:
Maybe next time FOX can express shock that catering at Obama’s fund raisers doesn’t consist solely of fried chicken and 40Oz. bottles of King Cobra.
And as one of the commenters notes, sound money is on Fox using the “N” word (”innocently,” of course) by the end of June.
The […]

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Digby coins a new term, in response to this piece:
The main obstacle standing between Barack Obama and the White House was distilled into five words by a local television correspondent in South Charleston, W.Va., earlier this month.
Prefacing a question about the challenges of winning over white, blue-collar voters, the reporter offered this observation: “They think […]

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Takes Al-Jazeera to do this kind of report, I suppose. It’s right on the money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8J9laUNgL4

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Note today from a former VERY big wig in the local Republican Party - who agreed entirely with last week’s bit about Obama and the latent racism of some who won’t vote for him.
And another curious reaction to all that, as well: Several notes, this week, from readers who ID themselves as black and Latino. […]

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Via Will Bunch at Attytood, something David Gergen said last night that Hillary should be saying:
GERGEN: And it also raises the question in my judgment of whether she shouldn’t say, you know, if you want to vote against him because he’s black, I don’t want your vote. I don’t want to win that way. This […]

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Depressing. Via Sullivan, Obama volunteers recount some of their rather sad experiences:
“The first person I encountered was like, ‘I’ll never vote for a black person,’ ” recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. “People just weren’t receptive.”
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Karen Seifert, a volunteer from New York, was outside of the largest polling location in Lackawanna County, […]

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Tucker Carlson and Christine Todd Whitman are on “The Verdict” right now wondering why people in West Virginia and Kentucky are going to vote for Hillary instead of Obama.
Gee - maybe because Obama is black?
There are of course reasons why people wouldn’t vote for Obama, legitimate reasons. But when, in a state (West Virginia) that’s […]

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Depends on what people think it says about your race.

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Via Kos, Republican (of course) congressman Geoff Davis of Kentucky says this, over the weekend, about Barack Obama:
“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Emphasis added.
You […]

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Days later and I’m still sort of flabbergasted over the Obama photo flap. This is supposed to be offensive… why, exactly?

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The right’s race-baiting of Obama? It’s already begun (emphasis added)…
Did the weakest Dem candidate for the general election won tonight? I think so. By sending forth Hussein Osama out of Iowa, Democrats have unwittingly weakened their general election prospects.
Hussein’s exotic mixture of radical liberalism, Kwanzaa Socialism, antipathy towards the unborn, and weakness against his jihadi […]

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I see the thread on the continuing series of racial issues in Warwick has produced the inevitable argument that the confederate flag isn’t really about racism at all, it’s about heritage and pride and etc. etc. etc.
There is maybe, perhaps a grain of truth in this if you are in fact from the south. But […]

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Warwick story makes the Associated Press, meaning it will be carried in newspapers around the state today - and around the nation, probably to a lesser extent.
The story mentions the Jena 6 incident, as have some of the local pieces. Cops in Lititz say there’s no connection, though I suspect there is (that’s the subject for […]

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Era does the story that needed to be done, about the fact that there are numerous parents saying hey - we brought some of these racial issues to the school district’s attention months ago, and nothing was done.
Unsurprisingly, a district spokeswoman quoted superintendent John George as saying, “At this point, we are moving forward, not […]

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So Warwick is bringing the hammer down, as it must. Interesting. I suspect this one’s going to fester for a while - at last night’s meetings several parents said they brought racial incidents/comments to the district’s attention long ago, and nothing was done. That is an angle worth exploring, and I’m certain the papers here will do so. Because […]

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Update: Tomorrow’s two stories are up. District superintendent Dr. John George spoke with reporter Paul Franz, told him there were 12 kids involved in the incident - and that the district is keeping both an eye on them and on the web.
Second story guages some reaction in Lititz. Some people have no real idea what’s […]

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More on the incident at Warwick in this morning’s Intell. Few new details beyond the fact that the district is apparently going to be searching kids again next week, which is probably wise.
What we’d heard, that no one has really gotten into yet, is the fact that there’s a group of kids at Warwick, some […]

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