The Other McCain

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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.

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Comments

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

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

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

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

  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

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

  • http://kingshamus.wordpress.com/ KingShamus

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

  • http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com Americaneocon
  • http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com Americaneocon
  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

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

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

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

  • Chuck Cross

    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.

  • Chuck Cross

    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.

  • http://www.politicalbyline.com Patrick

    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/

  • http://www.politicalbyline.com Patrick

    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/

  • http://www.politicalbyline.com Patrick

    “Can’t find evil with evil”

    Ooops!

    Make that Cannot FIGHT Evil with Evil..

    :oops:

  • http://www.politicalbyline.com Patrick

    “Can’t find evil with evil”

    Ooops!

    Make that Cannot FIGHT Evil with Evil..

    :oops:

  • Red

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

  • http://qwertya;tofuroi.blogspot.com Red

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

  • http://www.saberpoint.blogspot.com Stogie

    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?

  • http://www.saberpoint.blogspot.com Stogie

    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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  • Lazarus Long

    “…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.

  • Lazarus Long

    “…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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