Racist right revealed
Thanks to Katrina all the wingers you’d already expected of were racist shitheads, exposed themselves to the world in all their naked, racist glory, says Steve Gilliard:
At every turn, the right has stepped up to the plate like John Cole and Cuinning Realist, or revealed their race hatred, like the folks at the Corner. I mean, people like John Derbyshire have dug up their 1964 nigger hatred guide. I wonder if they pipe in Johnny Rebel and Skrewdriver as they work?
I think it reveals something else, that the divide on the right which is coming is going to be about how they see America. Joe Scarborough has long been a whipping boy for the left, but he actually stood up and tried to help people. The Manchester Union Leader, so right that it should be printed in German, ripped into Bush for his failures. I think a lot of these people see Americans in trouble and want to help them. They certainly act that way.
The Southern Strategy has been exposed for what it was, a fraud to con whites into hating blacks while benefitting the rich. Oddly enough, Bush’s crony state has failed white Mississippi as badly as black New Orleans. Many conservatives have demanded both accountability and effective responses.
But there are others, like the folks at the Corner, who need to prove how good it is to be white.