Fareed Zakaria on Trump's birtherism: ''I regard this as coded racism, frankly.''

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

"I don’t think there’s any other word for it."

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/22/fareed-zakaria-on-the-donald-trump-fantasy

2. The ‘birther’ issue is coded racism

Then there is the ‘birther’ issue. I regard this as coded racism, frankly. I don’t think there’s any other word for it.

For goodness' sake, George Stephanopoulos displayed Obama's Certificate of Live Birth on network TV and this rumor still doesn't die. Put it this way: If the President was a white man named John Smith with the other background issues being the same - foreign student father, mother in Hawaii, etc. - would there be any of these dark insinuations? Trump should be ashamed of himself. But then, I suppose, he wouldn't be Donald Trump.

I don’t think that the 'birther' issue the real appeal of Trump, anyway. It has just helped Trump get free media and rise up in the polls. His real appeal is the fantasy that he can somehow get us out of the mess we’re in.

The reality, however, is that only we can get us out of the mess we’re in. (more at link)

[blondeatlast]

1. Twenty-some odd years ago, every decent journalist would be saying it. How far we've fallen

that only one journalist will now.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. I suppose the likes of Maddow, Olbermann, Shultz etc. must have gone there at some time, or not? -nt

[blondeatlast]

3. Good point, but I can't say that I know. While I'm not disdainful of TV, I just

almost never have it on. :shrug:

I remember talk earlier this week about Maddow broaching the subject regarding Big Top (Donald Trump), I think.

[slay]

4. That's because it is.

n/t

[xphile]

5. Ya think?

Next on the news: Water is wet.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. Well, yeah. Department of Redundancy Department. We report. You yawn. -nt

[msanthrope]

7. What the fuck is 'coded' about it??? n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. It's coded in ASCII if you read in on the Internet.

And it's coded with Frequency Modulation if you hear it on the radio.