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The National Reviews Jillian Kay Melchior is ecstatic to find a black man shining shoes at the convention center where CPAC is being held.
With the amazingly tone-deaf title: Putting the Shine on CPAC.
And yes, they really did use this photo to illustrate the article:
You know that Republican rebranding meme theyve been trying to push since they lost the election? In two days, CPAC has pretty much killed that meme dead.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/41740_And_Now_the_National_Review_Chimes_In-_Putting_the_Shine_on_CPAC
edited to add:
I was able to create a pension for myself by creating an entrepreneurial activity, Wright says. He noticed that fewer people were entering the shoe-shining profession, and I saw that as an entrepreneurial opportunity an ethic that sits well with the CPAC crowd
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)What are they trying to say there?
Oh ... ah ... well ... yeah.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)that's what shoe-shining is called now?
Warpy
(111,339 posts)between the batshit crazy rhetoric, the cluelessness exemplified by this picture, and the lineup of losers and has beens they had speaking.
They'll continue to sputter on in Dixie and in parts of the Moron Corridor, but that's about it.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Then they will not change.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)God. He had to find a way to survive after getting shafted on his airline pension! I admire his drive but I am disgusted that we can't make pensions guaranteed.
siligut
(12,272 posts)The GOPigs are just trying to suck-up to the happy black people.
drm604
(16,230 posts)I was able to create a pension for myself by creating an entrepreneurial activity, Wright says. He noticed that fewer people were entering the shoe-shining profession, and I saw that as an entrepreneurial opportunity an ethic that sits well with the CPAC crowd.
They take a tragic story of a man who is forced to spend his retirement shining shoes because his employer defaulted on his pension, and they make it sound like the man is an entrepreneur living the American dream.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)of hell.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Kind of like W. praising the woman with three jobs...
Blue Palasky
(81 posts)now this pic just pisses me off.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)First, they feel really sorry for a couple of rapists, THEN they think this shoe shine picture is supposed to make everyone feel real nostalgic ....or superior...or WTF I have no idea. The corporate/republican owned media and their CPAC sponsors.
They are so absolutely clueless.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)and put it in the face of the gullible repeatedly as if it's the way it should be, the ignorant will believe it and follow it. I look at it as an opportunity to show how ugly and backward the RW can be and it seems logical that the rest of America can see it too. That just isn't the way it works. Repeat the lie and the stupid will follow.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)mercymechap
(579 posts)There's the stuffy old white man, and he's probably thinking that the guy shining his shoes is so lucky to have such a fine job, shining his shoes.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Bigredhunk
(1,351 posts)smh
LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)alfredo
(60,075 posts)Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)...shudder...
alfredo
(60,075 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Those fuckwits!
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Did he charge $100 a shine??
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,145 posts)been the former American Middle Class worker.
smallcat88
(426 posts)Remember, this is the party who keeps losing elections by going to far to the right and then surmising that they're losing because their candidates aren't conservative enough. I defy anyone to find two working brain cells to rub together in that entire party.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)It's a perfect Onion article.
The fact it's an actual article in the National Review is breathtaking in it's blindness.
This is why the conservatives believe that Colbert is an actual right wing show.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)He's where he's at because of the unbridled corporatism (and it's usual shellacking of workers) that the Conservaturds wholeheartedly support. Mr. Wright was robbed of a retirement, but in the eyes of the Reaganites decided to "Make Lemonade".
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)If he did he would know how to shine his own damn shoes.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)Even more terrifying than the original