Np: Rant of the Day

[David Morris]

It really isn't "Rich Rage." It's (as Rachel said) racial fear-mongering.

A good take on the interview:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_07/019115.php


The whole thing is worth watching, but I was especially struck, not just by
Rachel's composure in the face of ignorance and bigotry, but by Bachanan's
transparency. Rachel asked, for example, for his thoughts on 108 out of 110
Supreme Court justices being white. Buchanan replied, "White men were 100%
of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people that signed
the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg
and Vicksburg, probably close to 100% of the people who died at Normandy.
This has been a country built basically by white folks."

Towards the end of the segment, Buchanan went after Rachel on a more
personal level, suggesting she doesn't know about the challenges facing
working class people. (He obviously doesn't know anything about her
background.) She
replied<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/rachel-maddow-duels-with_n_237036.html>,
"I don't need a lecture from you about whether or not I know, what I think
about working class Americans... For you to privilege race... and say that
what we need to tap politically is white people's racial grievance, you're
playing with fire and dating yourself."
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