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Melissa Harris Perry on Romney's welfare strategy
the best take I've heard, and the only person I've heard making certain important points.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/48561849#48561849
Beneath a Romney lie, a racist dog whistle
Melissa Harris-Perry, host of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC weekend mornings, talks with Rachel Maddow about why a new ad in which Mitt Romney lies about President Obama and welfare reform is really designed to play on racist associations of blacks and welfare and in particular attempts to turn women away from gender defensiveness to racial resentment.
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Has this really become what the GOP has succumbed to? Apparently it has.