Early Morning Swim: Say It With Me Now, Everyone — Birtherism is Racism. Period. (VID)
Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:00 AM PDT
After you watch this moving video by Baratunde Thurston, read this by former Bushie David Frum.
How did this poisonous and not very subtly racist allegation get such a grip on our conservative movement and our Republican party?
I know there will be Republican writers and conservative publicists who will now deny that birtherism ever did get a grip. Sorry, that’s just wrong. Not only did Trump surge ahead in Republican polls by flaming racial fires – not only did conservative media outlets from Fox to Drudge to the Breitbart sites indulge the birthers – but so also did every Republican candidate who said, “I take the president at his word.” Birthers did not doubt thepresident’s “word.” They were doubting the official records of the state of Hawaii. It’s like answering a 9/11 conspiracist by saying, “I take the 9/11 families at their word that they lost their loved ones.”
Yet even now, the racialist aspect of the anti-Obama movement has not subsided.
Frum’s a little late to the party. Has he heard of the Southern Strategy or Lee Atwater?
But anyway, I blame Obama for not releasing the long-form first, thereby intentionally confusing these well-meaning folks.
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