TV snippets and interviews of liberals and their acolytes have become reductio ad absurdum.
Over at Real Clear Politics on the female Rachel Maddow Show, we have an expert on race relations wisely deciphering that Bachmann's comment that 53% of the public pay all the taxes, as opposed to the 47% who pay nothing, is, well, racist.
MSNBC race relations commentator extraordinare Melissa Harris Perry explains it is racist when Michele Bachmann points out only 53% of Americans pay federal income tax and says we all need to pay.Considering that only 12% of the population is Black, those figures just don't work out, but why worry about that?
"What that is meant to imply is that there is a whole group that is dependent," Harris Perry analyzed.
Harris Perry says that 53% talk is just codeword for the "2011 version of the welfare queen."
And, seriously, why worry about the fact that half the population pays for the freeloading other half?
You can watch the video over at Real Clear Politics.
Ah, well, you can pretty much write off MSNBC, where they aren't even trying at much of anything anymore.
Keith Koffler at Politico expands on the goal of our president's reelection campaign:
But in these same remarks, Obama also subtly suggested something far worse — that his opponents are racially biased.You've heard the constant and repeated reminders that it's not fair that the "millionaires and billionaires" (which include the Obamas, BTW) get to keep their money. They should give it to the 47% who do not pay any federal income tax, in fact who receive tax "rebates" on money they never paid in.
“I ran for president for the same reason many people came to this country in the first place,” he explained. “Because I believe America should be a place where you can always make it if you try, a place where every child, no matter what they look like [or] where they come from should have a chance to succeed. I still believe in that America. I believe we can be that America again.”
The clear suggestion is that someone has made this country a place where what a child looks like can hinder them — and Obama is the one who can erase the discrimination that has been permitted to return.
See, there is a problem with this line of reasoning.
Sometimes (certainly not always) some of that 47% is broke for a reason. Sometimes (not always) it's their own fault.
Sometimes some of those 47% are actually, well, lazy, getting up at 2 in the afternoon, watching tv all day, unwilling to work at much of anything, much less even wash the dishes or vacuum the carpet.
If we encourage that kind of behavior, we will not only not succeed, we'll roll backwards down the hill.
Dividing the classes is an evil cynical way to win. If you win, the country is divided miserably, uninspired to do much of anything but gripe.
If you lose, you've certainly worked negatively to destroy the American spirit and work ethic.
At this point, Barack Hussein Obama has surely become the anti-Reagan.
Apparently it's midnight in America.
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