Comments on: Surrender Monkey Friday: Excitable Andy Purchases His Clown Suit http://www.thepiratescove.us/2009/02/13/surrender-monkey-friday-excitable-andy-purchases-his-clown-suit/ If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: HMS Nerd http://www.thepiratescove.us/2009/02/13/surrender-monkey-friday-excitable-andy-purchases-his-clown-suit/comment-page-1/#comment-122337 HMS Nerd Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:55:14 +0000 http://www.thepiratescove.us/?p=7177#comment-122337 p-( The thing you need to see here is that while considered dissent on policy and gamesmanship around re-districinting are COMPLETELY in line with some of the most vibrant and healthy American political traditions, the rhetoric utilized by conservatives in regards to the census issue tie-in here do pander to a racist slice of the party's base. A groundless thematic assertion of corruption underlies even the way Fox says the word 'Chicago' now. See: http://www.newsy.com/videos/sen_gregg_not_a_good_fit/ It's the 2009 equivalent to "NEW YORK CITY?...get a rope." It needn't be blatant to exist and affect people. p-( The thing you need to see here is that while considered dissent on policy and gamesmanship around re-districinting are COMPLETELY in line with some of the most vibrant and healthy American political traditions, the rhetoric utilized by conservatives in regards to the census issue tie-in here do pander to a racist slice of the party’s base. A groundless thematic assertion of corruption underlies even the way Fox says the word ‘Chicago’ now. See: http://www.newsy.com/videos/sen_gregg_not_a_good_fit/

It’s the 2009 equivalent to “NEW YORK CITY?…get a rope.” It needn’t be blatant to exist and affect people.

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