by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
The Republican Presidential field has devolved into something that rank-and-file Republicans and teabaggers can readily support: a stage full of hate-spewing crackers.
Last night's Republican candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, featured the final five: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, and Paul - and, not for the first time, the audience inserted its own bigoted views into the debate process.
Apparently the most "newsworthy" moment occurred when Fox commentator Juan Williams, a black man, tried to take Newt Gingrich to task over his earlier remarks that poor children in low-income neighborhoods should be given janitorial work in local schools. Williams asked the former Speaker, "Can't you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to Americans, but particularly to black Americans?" Gingrich shot back, "No, I don't see that," to the loud approval of the crowd.
Williams countered with a suggestion that Gingrich's comments had been "intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities." The crowd booed loudly. Gingrich, then smelling blood, began a grand diatribe designed to marginalize and vilify the poor - and received a standing ovation!
Happy Martin Luther King Day from South Carolina, ya'll!
(I wonder if Juan Willliams is yearning for the good old days at NPR?)
Citizen Journalist
The Republican Presidential field has devolved into something that rank-and-file Republicans and teabaggers can readily support: a stage full of hate-spewing crackers.
Last night's Republican candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, featured the final five: Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, and Paul - and, not for the first time, the audience inserted its own bigoted views into the debate process.
Apparently the most "newsworthy" moment occurred when Fox commentator Juan Williams, a black man, tried to take Newt Gingrich to task over his earlier remarks that poor children in low-income neighborhoods should be given janitorial work in local schools. Williams asked the former Speaker, "Can't you see that this is viewed at a minimum as insulting to Americans, but particularly to black Americans?" Gingrich shot back, "No, I don't see that," to the loud approval of the crowd.
Williams countered with a suggestion that Gingrich's comments had been "intended to belittle the poor and racial minorities." The crowd booed loudly. Gingrich, then smelling blood, began a grand diatribe designed to marginalize and vilify the poor - and received a standing ovation!
Happy Martin Luther King Day from South Carolina, ya'll!
(I wonder if Juan Willliams is yearning for the good old days at NPR?)
1 comment:
What boggles my mind is that Romney is far ahead in S. Carolina. He's not nearly right-wing enough.
I kinda thought these nut cases would go bull bore for Santorum.
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