George Will: Criticizing racism = liberal McCarthyism: when in doubt, blame people for racism

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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George Will: What we’re hearing is the liberals’ McCarthyism, which is, when in doubt, blame people for racism.

By Heather Monday Sep 21, 2009 2:00pm

STEPHANOPOULOS: The debate not coming down as President Obama called for. Let me bring the roundtable back in. I’m joined by George Will, Peggy Noonan, Bob Reich, Ed Gillespie, and Donna Brazile.

And, George, as we -- as we get to this, let me show two magazine covers from this week. First, Time magazine, Glenn Beck, mad man, and the angry style of American politics. And then in the New York magazine coming out tomorrow, there’s the tattooed face of Barack Obama , big headline, “Hate.”

We -- we heard President Obama say he thinks that a lot of anti- government feeling, the idea that the government can’t do anything right, is behind all this. What’s your theory?

WILL: The president’s right about that. What we’re hearing is the liberals’ McCarthyism, which is, when in doubt, blame people for racism. Litigators have an old argument: When the law’s on your side, argue the law. When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When neither’s on your side, pound the table. This amounts to pounding the table.

I have yet to see evidence, is there -- does evidence even intrude in this conversation? Is there any evidence that these people are racists? I think not.

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[emulatorloo]

1. "When neither’s on your side, pound the table. This amounts to pounding the table."

Gee George, pretty much sums up the GOP and Teabag crowd, don't you think?

[Bicoastal]

2. Rich white oligarchs are the real victims here, folks!

They may not survive the winter...:cry:

[imdjh]

3. Donna: "We know racism; we don’t have to be told or taught that. That -- that much we do know. " nt

[edc]

4. I'm fed up

with hearing about extremism on the left from Blue Dogs like Reich. Someone really needs to ask George Will and the rest of the dying conservative elite how it is exactly that societies racist elements are always on their side.

[Maccagirl]

5. There's tons of evidence of race being at the core of the

angry rhetoric, Will. All you have to do is look for it instead of dismissing it. The righties know Obama can't answer that quetion any other way and they can use his words to bolster their argument-makes my ill.

[quaker bill]

6. it is not that all teabaggers are racist

it is that most racists are also teabaggers.

As far as Will is concerned, a line from the South sums it nicely:

When you lie with dogs, you are likely to get fleas.

BTW George, the law and the facts are on our side, or perhaps, you just slept through the last 8 years.

[provis99]

7. George Will is a racist.

I'll bet he masturbates to pictures of Adolph Hitler while wearing a Klan robe.