Wingnut Crap of the Week (via Firedoglake)

[NYCGirl]

http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/12/late-night-wingnut-crap-of-the-week-18/

Greater Wingnuttia is outraged that Barack Obama said people in small towns with crappy economies might be "bitter" about how they're ignored by the federal government and as a consequence develop irrational political resentments often centering around God & guns & Arabs & gays & immigrants.

This outrage is comical in that pretty much all the right blogosphere does is endlessly screech out irrational political resentments centering around God & guns & Arabs & gays & immigrants. And, of course, liberals. Which explains all the hysterical wingnut squawking over Obama's "gaffe" -- it'd be pretty bad for GOP business if vicious scapegoating ever went out of style. It's all they have: if they didn't have "bitterness," they wouldn't have squat. The Right blog dingleberries would no longer be scary clowns -- just creepy and pathetic clowns, which, uh, they also happen to be at the moment...

As Roy Edroso (http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2008_04_06_archive.html#536277714730516354) says, if the prospect of even a semi-honest national dialogue on race freaked them out, the prospect of a national dialogue on class makes them even squirmier. Hence all the race, rube, and red baiting. I mean, come on. The party of Rush & Rove whining about someone saying people are "bitter"? Sheesh.

The delightful cherry? Via Oliver Willis, David Sirota shows that McCain's said the same stuff he's now going after Obama for, only smarmier. And on top of that, McCain really and for true does too want 100 years or more of war in Iraq -- but in that case, the wingnuts scream "context!" and the media thoughtfully decides to give it to them, even though the "context" makes it worse. Because everyone knows McCain's not insane! Unless you're so gauche and ill-bred as to actually pay attention to the crazy shit that constantly comes out of his mouth.

Crap.

[ClassWarrior]

1. K&R

NGU.

[Hamlette]

2. the McCain quote...for those who want/need it, IS worse, it calls rural Americans racist.

Anti-immigrant passion also owes much to the disproportionate influence of a few small states in the nominating process. National polls show that, as an issue, immigration is far behind the Iraq war, terrorism, the economy, and health care as a concern to most Americans; a recent Pew poll shows that, nationally, only six per cent of voters offer immigration as the most important issue facing the country. But in Iowa and South Carolina, two of the three most important early states, it is a top concern for the Republicans who are most likely to vote.

"It's the influx of illegals into places where they've never seen a Hispanic influence before," McCain told me. "You probably see more emotion in Iowa than you do in Arizona on this issue. I was in a town in Iowa, and twenty years ago there were no Hispanics in the town. Then a meatpacking facility was opened up. Now twenty per cent of their population is Hispanic. There were senior citizens there who were--'concerned' is not the word. They see this as an assault on their culture, what they view as an impact on what have been their traditions in Iowa, in the small towns in Iowa. So you get questions like 'Why do I have to punch 1 for English?' 'Why can't they speak English?' It's become larger than just the fact that we need to enforce our borders."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/mccain-said-it-before-he_b_96314.html

[NYCGirl]

3. Thank you for posting that link.

:hi:

[Hamlette]

4. sure...I had to follow back a bit to find it so I thought I'd make it easier

It's said differently but its the same thing.

[NYCGirl]

5. Kick