Palin Quoted Anti-Semite In Convention Speech

[Wetzelbill]

Palin Quoted Anti-Semite In Convention Speech

Thomas Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal:

It tells us something about Sarah Palin's homage to small-town America, delivered to an enthusiastic GOP convention last week, that she chose to fire it up with an unsourced quotation from the all-time champion of fake populism, the belligerent right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler.

"We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity," the vice-presidential candidate said, quoting an anonymous "writer," which is to say, Pegler, who must have penned that mellifluous line when not writing his more controversial stuff. As the New York Times pointed out in its obituary of him in 1969, Pegler once lamented that a would-be assassin "hit the wrong man" when gunning for Franklin Roosevelt.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/10/palin-quoted-anti-semite_n_125429.html

[mucifer]

1. dammmmmm!

[Wetzelbill]

2. the Thomas Frank article is fantastic all around

He's a great political thinker, I like his stuff.

[Gasping4Truth]

3. Yes it is

Some excerpts:

A few days ago I talked politics with Donn Teske, the president of the Kansas Farmers Union and a former Republican. Barack Obama may come from a big city, he admits, but the Farmers Union gives him a 100% rating for his votes in Congress. John McCain gets a 0%. "If any farmer in the Plains States looked at McCain's voting record on ag issues," Mr. Teske says, "no one would vote for him."

<McCain> seems to think that small-town people can be easily played. Just choose a running mate who knows how to skin a moose and all will be forgiven. Drive them off the land, shutter their towns, toss their life chances into the grinders of big agriculture . . . and praise their values. The TV eminences will coo in appreciation of your in-touch authenticity, and the carnival will move on.

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[Wetzelbill]

4. the Farmers Union stats would be good for a campaign ad

In the midwest, plus MT and the Dakotas. Obama 100% vs McCain 0%.

That also could be a reason why Iowa is going Blue this year.

[crickets]

5. Agreed! Also, it's pleasantly surprising that this article is from WSJ.

Cuts right to the heart of the matter: politicians love to butter you up while they're lying to you. It's a tactic as old as dirt.
Wake up, America!

[Wetzelbill]

6. Yeah no kidding

I didn't even know Frank wrote for them at all.