This just in from the AP - in the Brave New World in which everyone is a racist for fifteen minutes, the charge loses its sting. Too bad, since there are real racists and sometimes racism is a real problem.
GREAT MINDS RUN IN THE SAME CHANNEL, OR, FOOLS THINK ALIKE: Reading down I see that Prof. Sean Wilentz is quoted with the "cry wolf" metaphor. I guess we were both inspired by the "Dept. of the Obvious" memo that led to me headline.
There was only one boy crying wolf in the story. In the racism story, there seems to be an endless supply of criers.
Posted by: Buford Gooch | September 17, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Dog whistle of diminishing returns.
Posted by: hit and run | September 17, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Yup. These tools blew their race card wad in the primary and general. And clearly they didn't learn their lesson THEN. Calling people racists just pisses them off more.
-Signed 'Racist' 'Bitter' 'Hag' who supported Hillary in the Primaries.
Posted by: jess | September 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM
More evidence of Pelosi's warning that dangerous rhetoric is creating a climate where political violence is apt to occur: Link.">http://www.adn.com/3437/story/938914.html">Link.
OT,
Bishop, by chance were you in New Jersey yesterday?
Posted by: daddy | September 18, 2009 at 05:14 AM
"Boy"?
"Boy"?
Who you callin' "boy", you racist!
Posted by: Semantic Putz | September 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM
It isn't just that it's not working. It's that it's counterproductive for the Dems. My husband, a quintessential moderate, left the Democratic party because he grew angry with its constant race and class warfare and he was boiling mad at the charge that Obama's critics are racist..and he HATES Jimmy Carter even though he really hates almost no one or no thing.
Posted by: clarice | September 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM