Republicans Blast Nevada Rancher for Failing to Use Commonly Accepted Racial Code Words

[babylonsister]

April 24, 2014
Republicans Blast Nevada Rancher for Failing to Use Commonly Accepted Racial Code Words


WASHINGTON — Republican politicians blasted the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy on Thursday for making flagrantly racist remarks instead of employing the subtler racial code words the G.O.P. has been using for decades.

“We Republicans have worked long and hard to develop insidious racial code words like ‘entitlement society’ and ‘personal responsibility,’?” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky). “There is no excuse for offensive racist comments like the ones Cliven Bundy made when there are so many subtler ways of making the exact same point.”

Fox News also blasted the rancher, saying in a statement, “Cliven Bundy’s outrageous racist remarks undermine decades of progress in our effort to come up with cleverer ways of saying the same thing.”



















Posted by Andy Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/04/republicans-blast-nevada-rancher-for-failing-to-use-commonly-accepted-racial-code-words.html

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Isn't that the damnest truth.

The Rethug code words are 50 centers,Bundy only uses two bit words. That and Priesthood Speak.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. LOL!!!

Borowitz is by far the best satirist out there.

[rhett o rick]

3. k&r thanks for posting. nm

[Jefferson23]

4. Spot on, this is their craft...well done. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. They should've partnered old Cliven with these guys. How they can continue to support the GOP is...

nothing short of amazing.

[malaise]

6. Freaking perfect

I didn't even need the link

[The Magistrate]

7. Cold But Fair, Ma'am

[wandy]

8. And bundy did this just after the GOP worked so hard to change their "image". n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. What's his problem?

Doesn't he know subtle dog whistle words.

[Iliyah]

10. Blah people and our blacks are better than yours

[eShirl]

11. right on

[ErikJ]

12. Sounds like Lee Atwaters infamous quote in 1981.

It has become, for liberals and leftists enraged by the way Republicans never suffer the consequences for turning electoral politics into a cesspool, a kind of smoking gun. The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:

"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

Now, the same indefatigable researcher who brought us Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” remarks, James Carter IV, has dug up the entire forty-two-minute interview from which that quote derives. Here, The Nation publishes it in its entirety for the very first time.

Listen to the full forty-two-minute conversation with Atwater:

http://www.thenation.com/article/170841/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy#

[msanthrope]

13. He should have said "urban." That's how I order my coffee. nt