Even Tuckser Carlson ........ And my prophecy came true..

[bluedog]

BRAD BLAKEMAN, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT BUSH: Monday February 20

BLAKEMAN: First of all, you pointed out in the setup to this piece, that unfortunately, there is a racist attitude against Arabs in our country. So are we surprised when the Arabs have this kind of hatred towards the United States?

CARLSON: Oh, so they hate us because we're racist? Is that what you're saying?

BLAKEMAN: No. There has to be a better understanding between the United States and the Muslim world and the Arab world and vice versa.

CARLSON: It's our fault. It's actually our fault. It's our fault. I understand why they hate us, because we're racist. I'm voting independent after that.

BLAKEMAN: No, you said it—you said it in the setup to the piece. You said, isn't it racist when you asked that woman—isn't it racist to be against thing...

CARLSON: No. Brad...

BLAKEMAN: ... just because they're Arabs?

CARLSON: What I said was, this is an argument that is being whispered now. Very soon you will hear it spoken out loud. ""And my prophecy came true. You just said it out loud.'''

BLAKEMAN: I'm repeating what you said.

CARLSON: No. You suggested they hate us. Isn't that “no wonder they hate us; because we're racist.”

BLAKEMAN: No, I didn't say that. I said—I said there's got to be understanding on both sides. It's a very troubled area of the world, and there's got to be better understanding about the United States' views of the Arab world and vice versa.

CARLSON: OK. Well, I predict you're going to hear more people allied

to the Bush administration suggest critics of this deal are somehow

bigoted, just as you heard when critics of Harriet Miers were called

sexist. It's the last refuge of people who have no argument. And I'm just

· I hope we don't hear it, but I bet we're going to.

Brad Blakeman, thanks a lot for coming on...

BLAKEMAN: Thanks Tucker.

CARLSON: ... and defending the difficult.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11477033/

[SillyGoose]

1. "It's the last refuge of people who have no argument."

The RWers are in a lather over this. Good. Maybe they will wake up and smell the coffee about the bunch of goons in the WH.

[Flying Dream Blues]

2. Once again feeling my screenname....

The same people who defend profiling and have dragged countless Muslims off to Guantanamo Bay for dubious ties to terrorism, are now accusing critics of their port scam of being RACIST? I need a new head, this one has exploded one too many times.

[zbdent]

3. Oh, yeah . . . "some people say this is because we're a racist nation"

I'm going to go out and kill any of those damn "some people" . . .

jk

[Katherine Brengle]

4. Interesting--hasn't Bowtie Boy used the "liberals are racist" argument

in the past?

Just curious...

[poverlay]

5. At least a million times we have been flogged with "Liberals only want to

attack terrorists with understanding"?

I just fell off the couch when I heard the bit about "understanding" out of Blakeman.

This government's tactics really are to do whatever they want and defend their power with whatever will work...