re: #396 wrenchwench

1. Being born in 1941 is irrelevant. My dad was born in 1930 and he was never a racist (that I know of). How do you know he ‘miswrote’?

As Charles quoted:

“I didn’t write one line, I wrote a column,” he told the Huffington Post in an interview. “The column is about Tea Party extremism and I was not expressing my views, I was expressing the views of what I think some people in the Tea Party held.”

Unless someone convinces me otherwise, I take that at face value.

2. Ignorance is no excuse for a man who is a writer, and has been for so long. Presumably he’s a reader too.

True. Cohen screwed up. Nothing in my comment is meant to indicate otherwise.

3. The Cruzes are not interracial. And I don’t see why Cohen should not let his racist freak flag fly.

According to Wikipedia, Daddy Cruz is named Rafael Bienvenido Cruz; mom is Irish-Italian. Daddy’s first and middle names are consistent with the Hispanic surname.

4. Yup.

Indeed. The Web seems more effective at polarizing than at facilitating common ground.

(I’ll hang around a bit to see if you reply but may not respond in turn: I’ve already been logged in considerably longer than intended.)