Joe Scum says Cokie Roberts is wrong for calling the Teabaggers racist

[malaise]

because his Congress hated Bill Clinton.
Ignore him Cokie - he's a ReTHUG LIAR

[hobbit709]

1. Intern Joe should take a good hard look at a mirror, if it doesn't crack.

[PearliePoo2]

2. He was all alone sitting there on that one.

Joey Scum is pathetic.
Says he's from the South and he knows there's not a racist element to the dislike of President Obama.
Cokie says she's from the South and "yes there is".
Denial much Scar...who do you think you're kidding?

[oberliner]

3. They'd hate Obama if he was lily-white

Not to say there isn't some racism there too.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. They would hate him if he was white, but the fact that

he's black is what makes the hatred so intense. Sure, they hated Clinton too, but the hatred was not nearly as hot and as deep as it is for Obama.

[oberliner]

5. Would they have a problem with a far RW non-white candidate?

There are some far RW radio personalities and such who are people of color.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Some of them might not have a problem with it, but I think

most of them would. I don't think those black radio jocks will ever be as popular as Rush or Hannity, either.

[MoonRiver]

13. They wouldn't like that candidate,

but would be very happy to use him/her. Colin Powell was their great black hope once upon a time.

[LuvNewcastle]

17. They have a wish to one day take some of the black vote

from the Democrats. If Powell had run as a Republican, they might have gotten the black vote, or a good percentage. But he's probably the only black man who could do that. The white racists found him acceptable because of his military service, but very few people could get both the white racists and large numbers of black people to vote for him.

[Revanchist]

12. Don't forget Bobby Jindal

Was able to get elected in the deep south (Louisiana) as a Republican/Tea Party candidate while looking like this:



After the last election there were some calling him one of the front runners for the 2016 presidential primaries and he might still run.

[oberliner]

14. Many Latino members of Congress are Republican

It might even be a majority.

[LuvNewcastle]

15. But in the South, Jindal is white. He's an honorary white person since he isn't black.

It's a black and white world to racists in the South. You can only be one or the other, so it's perfectly acceptable for a white person to marry a Japanese or Indian person, but not a black person. Racists down here basically have a phobia against black people. Things have changed some regarding Muslims since 9/11, so they hate Muslims too, or really anyone not Christian. But Jindal's a Christian, so they don't have to worry about that.

[Revanchist]

16. I guess I just can't wrap my head around how their minds work.

I was lumping all the racists together where you could be considered a "race traitor" if the other person wasn't white.

[LuvNewcastle]

19. It's bizarre, for sure. Unless you've spent a lot of time talking to these people,

it's very hard to understand how their minds work.

[Lee-Lee]

20. I've seen that

Growing up in a still very racist town I was the dark skinned girl it was OK for the white boys to date.

"Shes an Indian" or something similar were always the first words from their mothers mouth whenever we were out in public and they ran into somebody they new.

I didn't catch on as much then, I was naive and took it as a sort of bragging, but now in retrospect I see it as what it really was.

[LuvNewcastle]

21. It's funny how people deal with their cognitive dissonance.

Southerners had a lot of paradoxes to deal with in order to justify the apartheid system that was in place for so long. In many ways, there's still a kind of social apartheid. I wonder if that will ever go away.

[Lee-Lee]

22. The old ones just have to die off

It is a lot better than it was.

[Enrique]

8. yes it was as intense, maybe more

for example the leading conservative magazine ran a column calling for the death of Clinton's daughter

"I hate Chelsea Clinton"

http://old.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire021501.shtml

[LuvNewcastle]

10. There's no way it was more intense. They talk about killing Obama, FFS.

The only reason they haven't gone after Obama's family is because they know it would cause a backlash. Everybody is more careful about talking about the President's kids these days, and that's mostly because the Clintons set some rules about it back then. I doubt we'll see anything like what they did to Chelsea happen again.

[greenman3610]

7. nobody ever shouted "liar" during a clinton sotu

they hated him, but at least they could stay in their seats and shut up.
with obama, the racism completely overcomes them.

[malaise]

9. Yep

And no Supreme Court Justice ever dissed a President at the SOTU either

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Let alone having the Chief Justice f-ing up the oath of office. nt

[malaise]

18. I don't plan to forget that one

Fugg 'em all.

[KG]

23. Cokie Roberts LOL n/t

[malaise]

24. Double LOL

Imagine quoting her