(A quick note to Cory Booker: The country just suffered for eight years under a slightly cool but woefully inexperienced senator-turned-president who was noticed because of his rhetoric and elected only because of his skin color. You may think Barack Obama paved your way to the White House; in fact he littered it with road spikes.)
Today’s Blood Libel: A Democrat Specialty
January 13, 2017 Ross Kaminsky
Obama, Lewis, and Booker join in the fun.
The modern political equivalent of “blood libel”
is the incessant claim — sometimes by people ignorant enough to say it
explicitly and sometimes by people too cowardly to say what they mean,
instead resorting to cheap innuendo while slaying quivering white straw
men — that Republicans are irredeemably racist.
The caricature, no better than virulently hateful cartoon representations of Jews
over the centuries, rhetorically dresses Republicans in jackboots and
puts white sheets over their heads and paints them with pencil-thin
mustaches (though perhaps not all at the same time). Of course, an older
southern gentleman is particularly at risk of being so attired in the
imaginations of too many through the ethically unhinged voices of
self-styled champions of the downtrodden.This race libel has been on full dismal display in recent days from the venomous President Barack Obama, the venerable Representative John Lewis, and the venal Senator Cory Booker.
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