Newenglanddeac
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This argument would hold a lot more water for you (and not seem 100% tone-deaf as to what the Pubs are doing) if the Republicans weren't currently going balls to the wall to defend a man accused by four different women of pedophilia, but you do you man.
I get what you’re saying, but at the same time it wasn’t like Trump was hiding his racism.
No.
It wasn’t like only liberals were saying it and it had to be discovered and this was hindering the discovery process.
Oh, absolutely not. See this was my life for a year and a half, where I’m on the air, as a conservative talk-show host, saying this man is actually every stereotype that the left has had of racist and xenophobic, misogynist conservatives. You’re not really going to embrace him, are you? Yet the response I got was people saying, “Well, yes, but that’s what they always say.”
As I say in the book, a political party that had taken these racial issues more seriously never would have embraced Donald Trump, but obviously they had cultivated indifference to this, this racial language and racist tropes, and you saw the consequences.
Your book was called A Nation of Moochers, and I found this quote about you calling Michelle Obama a “mooch” on air. That came across like a wink at your audience. What do you make of it now?
Yeah, that was … I am certainly not proud of that at all. And it only happened once, and frankly I thought that it was … who knows, you know, it was a brain-fart type thing. I think I had heard someone use that on another show and I thought that it was a common parlance and I was immediately informed, “Why would you do that? It is fundamentally disrespectful.” So I never did it again. That is something I am not offering any rationalization for. Yeah, sorry about that. This is of course a problem doing 5,000 shows over 20 years, 3½ hours a day. You will say stupid things, and that was one of them.
Because we were talking about the ways in which we play into things.
Is there a gap between what people heard and how they were reacting to that? In retrospect, I don’t know. Was that something that was fostering some sort a stereotype that I might not have been conscious of at the time? I was just being flip. Those are the type of things where you go back and say, “What did I say that might have been heard in that particular way?”
So you didn’t intend it to be a racial stereotype about a lazy black woman, but you think that’s how people might have heard it?
It’s the kind of thing that was certainly not constructive, yeah.
When you look at the title of your book, do you think that was a brain fart? How much of the stuff that you did, do you in hindsight see a signal?
Look, I definitely did not intend that to be a racial connotation, but I can understand how people might misinterpret it. That book, for example, at least half of it is about corporate welfare and Goldman Sachs, and that sort of thing. In retrospect, I can understand how if people were looking for that type of a signal, they might have interpreted it that way. That is part of the rethinking I am doing here.
Latest poll from Alabama shows the race in a tie. The poll was fielded on Thursday (day Moore story broke) so it likely doesn't account for its full impact. I also have never heard of this polling house so no idea how credible it is.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/e...ate_special_election_moore_vs_jones-6271.html
I didn't take the first poll serious. Not sure about the second. A third would be hard to ignore. I think polls showing Jones up would motivate both sides, but it's not clear what it would motivate Republicans to do.
Here's a question I haven't seen asked. If Moore dating teenagers was an open secret in Alabama circles, why didn't establishment Pubs dig up the dirt when trying to get Strange the nomination?
Could Alabama actually postpone this election to allow an untainted candidate like Strange back into the race? Seems like the timing of this news *should* essentially hand a safe Pub seat to dems.
Alabama voters chose Moore. He had plenty of taint on him before this.
Alabama voters chose Moore. He had plenty of taint on him before this.
What is wrong with judges not believing in the rule of law?
What is wrong with judges not believing in the rule of law?
He believed in law... God’s Law.
speaking of dumb boycotts...
i found it very interesting that republicans disrespected the troops by boycotting a day (NFL games) that the troops are being praised, because they believe NFL players kneeling is disrespecting the troops.
that is some damn idiot logic
A year ago, Democrats threw $200,000 and a first-tier candidate at Senate District 37, trying to unseat incumbent Republican Dan Newberry.
They lost the conservative west Tulsa County district by 15 percentage points.
This year, with Newberry leaving the Senate, Democrats entered a lightly funded, little-known 26-year-old lesbian.
She won by 31 votes.
Allison Ikley-Freeman’s victory Tuesday over Republican Brian O’Hara continued a string of Democratic special election upsets over the past two years. It gives Democrats three special election victories in predominantly Republican districts in the Tulsa area in the past two years, including two this year.