Juan Williams plays dumb
By Don Surber
Daily Mail Blogs
January 30, 2012
One reason many liberals were overjoyed with the election of Barack Obama was that they could use his race to shield their socialistic policies. This is why the R-word was the first one out of the lips of many critics when people formed the Tea Party. They could not wait to label critics as racist.
I am not saying that no conservatives are racist. What I am saying is that the trumped up charge of racism is a diversion from the real issue: President Obama is bankrupting the country.
He expanded the welfare state to the point where you get 2 years of unemployment, not simply the 6 months your employer’s insurance purchased. Spending on entitlements skyrocketed on his watch. So have false charges of racism from the Left.
The latest in Juan Williams, who wrote in a piece for the Hill:
The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are “entitlement society” — as used by Mitt Romney — and “poor work ethic” and “food stamp president” — as used by Newt Gingrich. References to a lack of respect for the “Founding Fathers” and the “Constitution” also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core “old-fashioned American values.”
The code also extends to attacks on legal immigrants, always carefully lumped in with illegal immigrants, as people seeking “amnesty” and taking jobs from Americans.
How convenient. Racial code words just happen to entail every conservative criticism of socialistic programs.
Remainder of article @ http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/50670
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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