If u cn rd ths pst, u r a Racist

posted at 9:49 am on September 17, 2009 by Howard Portnoy
[ Moonbats ]   

Dr. Joe Klein has delivered his learned diagnosis. No, it’s not a brain tumor, though that might be welcome news. It turns out that we who stand opposed to policies of the current administration are racist.

In what has to be one of the most psychologically revealing portraits ever — albeit not of the patient but of the diagnostician — Klein presents an airtight argument for his immediate confinement to a mental hospital for psychiatric evaluation. You want to talk about demons? Try putting yourself in this poor bastard’s shoes:

My sense of the teabaggers is . . . complicated: they are primarily working-class, largely rural and elderly white people. They are freaked by the economy. They are also freaked by the government spending–TARP, the stimulus package etc.–that was necessary to avoid a financial collapse. (I’m not sure Keynes is taught in very many American high schools.) But most of all, they are freaked by an amorphous feeling that they [sic] America they imagined they were living in–Sarah Palin’s fantasy America–is a different place now, changing for the worse, overrun by furriners of all sorts: Latinos, South Asians, East Asians, homosexuals…to say nothing of liberated, uppity blacks.

I might joke here (“he knows us so well it’s scary!”) if this weren’t so pathetically delusional.

Klein goes on to explain how our hatred of Obama is based on “what used to be called miscegenation–a mixed marriage,” but this just shows Klein doesn’t what century it is. (“Mr. Klein, do you know where you are? Do you know why we’ve brought you here and why you have been restrained?”) Yes, people used to oppose mixed marriages. People used to do a lot of other things. They used to place a defenseless individual in an arena with a man-eating tiger for their personal amusement. Can Klein differentiate between now and then? (“Mr. Klein, do you recognize this woman? She’s your wife, Mr. Klein. Do you know her name?”)

At least Klein hasn’t lost his sense of humor. He correctly observes that Obama “is a liberal,” then adds, ostensibly for comedic effect “even if a prohibitively moderate one.” Only Klein isn’t joking. He really believes this. He really seems to believe lots of things.

In an ultimate act of self-deception, Klein ends his article this way: “I take comfort in this: the racists and nativists have always been with us, and they have always lost. They will lose this time, too.”

To which I respond, right on, Joe. Keeping writing brilliant, incisive commentary like this to help “the cause.” We racists can use all the help you can muster. Oh . . . and ignore those scary-looking cattle prods, humming with electricity. (“We are not going to hurt you, Mr. Klein. We are to help you, even if we have to shock you back to reality.”)

Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions

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