One of the privileges of the Internet is that we get to read some truly vicious and idiotic opinions, in certain comments sections especially. We get to learn how the bottom of the barrel thinks and speaks on political matters, and alas, how well-populated that bottom is. But we sincerely don’t expect to find the editorial board of the Washington Post down there, openly voicing such opinions as divisive and as stupid as this:
Could it be, as members of the Congressional Black Caucus are charging, that the signatories of the letter are targeting Ms. Rice because she is an African American woman? The signatories deny that, and we can’t know their hearts. What we do know is that more than 80 of the signatories are white males, and nearly half are from states of the former Confederacy.
Subscribers to the Washington Post are heartily encouraged to scream cancellation until apologies are forthcoming. More at Legal Insurrection—H/T Instapundit.
November 26th, 2012 | 1:44 am
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November 26th, 2012 | 9:23 am
I am shocked, just shocked, that this example came from the formerly august pages of the Washington Post.
Carl, the MSM has been unworthy of our time or subscriptions for decades.
November 26th, 2012 | 10:16 am
I don’t mind all that much that politicians are craven, despicable, unserious fools and knaves. It was ever so. That’s what checks and balances are for, after all.
It’s the fact that the contemporary MSM is nothing but a pack of boot-licking jackals and vipers that is the real threat to the republic. Oh, there have always been hack journos, but I just don’t see any other kind out there these days. It’s hard to even get outraged about this editorial because it’s such a joke, and criticizing it will just be met with blank stares among so many with closed minds, but I suppose someone has to try. Heck, the new consensus is that you can and should go to prison for making an anti-Islam video, so clearly attacking a hack who promulgates the laughable story that said video got Americans killed in Libya can only be due to the worst possible motive.
In 2016 we’ll have an entire generation of young Americans who won’t know that comedians are “supposed” to ridicule the president, the MSM is “supposed” to “speak truth to power” against the establishment, and that one can in fact be in the political minority without being a vicious racist.
November 26th, 2012 | 1:07 pm
As one who hasn’t bought a physical paper in at least a decade, and who only looks at the post online, non-subscribing is not an option. A more credible threat would be to write to advertisers regarding the paper’s excesses –notably the animated editorial cartoons of Anne Telnaes, who is arguably the most shameless anti-Catholic working for a major publication. Her work would get her fired if her bigotry were directed at any other group.
November 26th, 2012 | 4:11 pm
Nice apposite passage from Diana Schaub’s wonderful Claremont Review of Books essay on the Lincoln-Douglas debates: ” Although the race card has not disappeared from our political deck, these days it requires considerable sleight of hand to introduce it or, better yet, palm it off and accuse your opponent of introducing it.”
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