I saw one part of the debate the other night. It just happened to be when Newt took Juan Williams behind the woodshed and showed him his brickbat.
Here’s the entire exchange. Newt dominates Juan throughout.
Did you hear the dogwhistle?
Oh yeah, there was a racist dogwhistle in there. According to Chris Matthews, when Newt called Juan Williams, “Juan,” that was racist.
“That use of the name ‘Juan,’ the way he did it. You can’t argue these things. You either see them or you don’t. It’s just the way he did that. I sensed a little applause when he said ‘Let me help you’ when he answered the Juan question. It’s in the eye of the beholder. And, by the way, calling someone a racist is the worst way to get them to stop being racist because everyone gets defensive. … So it’s stupid to say it but, honestly, if you notice it, you sort of ought to blow the whistle. Because there is a dog whistle going on here.”
It’s all code. Newt is speaking in racist dogwhistle to get the rabid racists dogs in the audience howling in approval.
Right.
In Matthews’ world, janitorial means black.
You can see what I was talking about the other day when I wrote:
While President Obama is often not blaming his race on the opposition to his policies, he doesn’t have to because he has so many willing proxies to do it for him.
Expect it to be one of the foundations of the Democrats campaign against the Republican candidate…”
If you cannot even call someone by his name without being called a racist for it, there is nothing that can be done that will not be racist. The Democrats will not have a positive record to run on this year, so the focus will be on the character assassination of the Republican candidate. And the weapon of choice is an avalanche of allegations of racism.
