The world according to MSNBC: GOP sees Herman Cain as ‘black man who knows his place’

posted at 2:10 pm on October 29, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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Thank God for liberals. If it weren’t for their superior intellects and keen insights, we knuckle-dragging conservatives wouldn’t understand that our opposition to Barack Obama is nothing more than an outward show of our innate racism.

At least that was the conventional wisdom until Herman Cain, who was born to two blacks parents (making him technically blacker than Obama), rose to the top of the polls of GOP candidates. Liberals scrambled to explain this seeming paradox.

One of their deepest thinkers, Janeane Garofalo, posited intriguingly during an appearance on Countdown with Keith Olbermann that Cain’s popularity somehow “hides the racist element” of the party. Black blogger Goldie Taylor advanced the narrative on Martin Bashir’s show on MSNBC, where she explained that Cain is himself just another racist conservative—that if he “could shed his ethnicity today, if he could become what I call the color of water, he would do it.” (Never mind how she knows this. Call it black women’s intuition.)

The latest analysis of the Cain mutiny comes from MSNBC’s Karen Finney. Also a guest on Martin Bashir’s show, she stated (h/t The Weekly Standard):

One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he’s a black man who knows his place. I know that’s harsh, but that’s how it sure seems to me. [Emphasis added]

It does seem to explain certain otherwise inexplicable details of the Cain candidacy, such as:

• On his campaign bus, he invariably “chooses” a seat in the back.
• There have been numerous references in the blogosphere to Herman Cain’s “baggage.” (Did someone call for a red cap?)
• Cain has been accused (by Martin Bashir, no less—Bashir does get around) of being a “chicken hawk.” I take that to be code for “lover of fried chicken.”

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