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To Be Fair to Rachel Maddow . . .

Posted on | February 8, 2010 | 22 Comments

. . . it was hard to tell exactly what the sounds coming from the MSNBC host meant. They were sort of a little bit muffled by, you know, the pudding in her mouth:

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Maddow’s quote:

Just for reference here, when Tom Tancredo talks about literacy tests, that’s what they used in the south to keep black people from voting before civil rights legislation and court rulings put a stop to that.
So the convention opened with a clarion call to bring back the literacy tests for voting. And as you could hear, the tea party convention crowd erupted in cheers at the suggestion, although, to be fair, it was sort of hard to tell exactly what the sounds coming from the crowd meant. They were sort of a little bit muffled by, you know, the white hoods.

Hat-tip to Ed Driscoll, who explains more. And kudos to the brilliant mind who produced this aphorism: 

“Breitbart said reporters put all news involving conservatives into two basic buckets: ‘racism and Watergate.”

Amen.

Category: Andrew Breitbart, MSNBC, Racism, Tea Party

Comments

22 Responses to “To Be Fair to Rachel Maddow . . .”

  1. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 8th, 2010 @ 5:11 pm

    Why do they think that modern literacy tests would stop blacks from voting? Since when is literacy a racial trait?

  2. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 8th, 2010 @ 12:11 pm

    Why do they think that modern literacy tests would stop blacks from voting? Since when is literacy a racial trait?

  3. KingShamus
    February 8th, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

    To be fair, Rachel Maddow is more of a man than Chris Matthews and Keef Overbite combined.

  4. KingShamus
    February 8th, 2010 @ 12:32 pm

    To be fair, Rachel Maddow is more of a man than Chris Matthews and Keef Overbite combined.

  5. Americaneocon
    February 8th, 2010 @ 5:53 pm

    I scooped you on this one, friend! See, ‘Rachel Maddow: Calling for ‘Civics Literacy’ Makes You a ‘White Hooded’ Racist’.

  6. Americaneocon
    February 8th, 2010 @ 12:53 pm

    I scooped you on this one, friend! See, ‘Rachel Maddow: Calling for ‘Civics Literacy’ Makes You a ‘White Hooded’ Racist’.

  7. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 8th, 2010 @ 6:04 pm

    By the way, what’s with the pudding? Is it one of those things that I’m happy to have missed in Boston?

  8. Roxeanne de Luca
    February 8th, 2010 @ 1:04 pm

    By the way, what’s with the pudding? Is it one of those things that I’m happy to have missed in Boston?

  9. Chuck Cross
    February 8th, 2010 @ 6:28 pm

    Mark Steyn wrote a great column about Declinistan, and I think the literacy of the average voter dovetails with our slide.

    I get the feeling that voters who are tax-eaters are more likely to vote themselves a bigger piece of pie, rather than if a candidate only wants to protect their freedom to go bake their own pie.

  10. Chuck Cross
    February 8th, 2010 @ 1:28 pm

    Mark Steyn wrote a great column about Declinistan, and I think the literacy of the average voter dovetails with our slide.

    I get the feeling that voters who are tax-eaters are more likely to vote themselves a bigger piece of pie, rather than if a candidate only wants to protect their freedom to go bake their own pie.

  11. Patrick
    February 8th, 2010 @ 6:37 pm

    I hate to be the one to say this Mr. McCain. But I agree with Maddow. Tom Tancredo is a flat out racist bigot.

    and I’ll explain why, Mr. McCain. My Father is 63 years old. He hails from Middlesburo, Kentucky. He is, as you know, white. My Father has an 8’th Grade education. My mom says he is, but never diagnosed, dyslexic. My Father can barely read. He does not write that well either. If something like this was passed, MY DADDY would not be able to vote either.

    So, yeah, the dude is a racist; he is also a god damned Anti-Semitic jack wad too. Neo-Con = JEW… remember that.

    I’ll tell ya…. if that is what the Republican Party is headed toward. I want zero to do with it. I believe illegal immigration is wrong as hell. But racism towards ANY minority is wrong too. Can’t find evil with evil. and Tom Tancredo is damned Evil.

    Here’s my Blog posting on it:

    http://www.politicalbyline.com/2010/02/06/tom-tancredo-calls-for-the-bringing-back-on-jim-crow-era-laws-insults-jews/

  12. Patrick
    February 8th, 2010 @ 1:37 pm

    I hate to be the one to say this Mr. McCain. But I agree with Maddow. Tom Tancredo is a flat out racist bigot.

    and I’ll explain why, Mr. McCain. My Father is 63 years old. He hails from Middlesburo, Kentucky. He is, as you know, white. My Father has an 8’th Grade education. My mom says he is, but never diagnosed, dyslexic. My Father can barely read. He does not write that well either. If something like this was passed, MY DADDY would not be able to vote either.

    So, yeah, the dude is a racist; he is also a god damned Anti-Semitic jack wad too. Neo-Con = JEW… remember that.

    I’ll tell ya…. if that is what the Republican Party is headed toward. I want zero to do with it. I believe illegal immigration is wrong as hell. But racism towards ANY minority is wrong too. Can’t find evil with evil. and Tom Tancredo is damned Evil.

    Here’s my Blog posting on it:

    http://www.politicalbyline.com/2010/02/06/tom-tancredo-calls-for-the-bringing-back-on-jim-crow-era-laws-insults-jews/

  13. Patrick
    February 8th, 2010 @ 6:39 pm

    “Can’t find evil with evil”

    Ooops!

    Make that Cannot FIGHT Evil with Evil..

    😳

  14. Patrick
    February 8th, 2010 @ 1:39 pm

    “Can’t find evil with evil”

    Ooops!

    Make that Cannot FIGHT Evil with Evil..

    😳

  15. Red
    February 8th, 2010 @ 6:58 pm

    Ronnie Manilow is the stupidest guy on television next to Matthews and Olbermann. They are msnbc’s answer to the ‘Three Stooges’.

  16. Red
    February 8th, 2010 @ 1:58 pm

    Ronnie Manilow is the stupidest guy on television next to Matthews and Olbermann. They are msnbc’s answer to the ‘Three Stooges’.

  17. Stogie
    February 9th, 2010 @ 5:26 am

    So Patrick, you’re telling us that dyslexic is a race? “Racism towards any minority is wrong too.” Who said otherwise?

    Let me ask you a question. Are you a liberal “concern troll,” posing as a conservative in order to get your dumbass positions through without any rebuttal?

  18. Stogie
    February 9th, 2010 @ 12:26 am

    So Patrick, you’re telling us that dyslexic is a race? “Racism towards any minority is wrong too.” Who said otherwise?

    Let me ask you a question. Are you a liberal “concern troll,” posing as a conservative in order to get your dumbass positions through without any rebuttal?

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    February 9th, 2010 @ 12:28 am

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  20. Lazarus Long
    February 9th, 2010 @ 2:25 pm

    “…when Tom Tancredo talks about literacy tests, that’s what they used in the south to keep black people from voting”

    The “they” she’s talking about is the Democrat party.

    BTW, the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat party.

    The Democrat Party has always been the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and socialism.

  21. Lazarus Long
    February 9th, 2010 @ 9:25 am

    “…when Tom Tancredo talks about literacy tests, that’s what they used in the south to keep black people from voting”

    The “they” she’s talking about is the Democrat party.

    BTW, the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat party.

    The Democrat Party has always been the party of the four S’s: slavery, secession, segregation and socialism.

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    February 12th, 2010 @ 11:56 pm

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