Np: Rant of the Day

[Robin Landseadel]

In today's HuffPo, Rachel Maddow takes on Lynch-Man Pat ["Southern  
Strategy"] Buchanan & Jason Linkins gets into a fine, fine lather:

	So yes. before we rush off and do something foolish like
	appoint Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, which would
	give Caucasians the biggest sad of their misbegotten lives, let's
	try to remember that it was white people that built this city, on
	rock and roll (which they stole from black people!).

	And, look, sure, there was that one time that a bunch of white
	people decided to sell a crap-ton of bad mortgages, chop them
	up into junk-ass derivative marm, and sell it to one another
	while leveraging it all out the ying-yang and getting it bona-fide
	ratings from Moody's and backing it all on a daisy-chain of
	gossamer horseshit from AIG, only to have the whole
	arrangement implode in a furious supernova of massive
	systemic risk that nearly destroyed the entire global economy,
	but believe me, ALL THOSE HONKY-CRACKERS WERE JUST
	HAVING AN OFF DAY, NO WORRIES! And hey, the good news
	is that all those white people learned from their experience, and
	came up with an awesome plan to get American taxpayers to
	put everything right, and make them all unbelievably wealthy
	again.

	You know, there's always someone who'll point out that it's not
	fair that there's a National Association for the Advancement of
	Colored People, when a National Association for the
	Advancement of White People would be decried as racist. But
	you know what? There is a National Association for the
	Advancement of White People! We just pronounce it, "Troubled
	Asset Relief Program."

	http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/rachel-maddow-takes-on-pa_n_237146.html
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