re: #50 The Ghost of a Flea

I’m supposed to be impressed that the NRO subcontracts the actual N-bombing to affiliates?

Yes, this.

After Buckley figured out that the overt racism that National Review specialized in was no longer considered de rigueur, he and the rest of the RW media took Lee Atwater’s strategy to heart, deliberately couching all their previously overt racism in talk of welfare queens, urban crime, The Bell Curve, and gangs/thugs/rappers. They let the loonies keep going on their merry way dropping racial slurs and N-words everywhere while they tried to be respectable.

Sorry, but just because you dress it up and make it look less offensive doesn’t mean that the underlying racism doesn’t exist, or that it isn’t being exploited by the RW to win elections and gain a bunch of useful idiots to argue their agenda for them.