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“‘Racist’ Is The New ‘Commie’”

March 27, 2009 - 7:37 pm - by Ed Driscoll

The Sheridan Sun has a brief profile of Kathy Shaidle:

“As I like to say, but wish I didn’t have to say it, ‘racist’ is the new ‘commie.’ Back in the 1950s and ’60s, if someone in the arts or politics was labeled a ‘communist,’ it could automatically end their career. Today, the Left, who always condemns that old ‘communist’, blacklisting, have turned around and invented a new ‘magic’ word they use to demonize anyone who disagrees with them: ‘racist’. … It doesn’t matter that these quotes of mine have been edited down to one or two words, chopped up and rearranged and even have had words I didn’t write added to them! People see that and they decide I’m a ‘racist.’”

Or as Kathy and/or Robert Stacy McCain dubbed it (not sure who got there first), the ransom note method of selective misquotation.

Filed under: Liberal Fascism, Oh, That Liberal Media!, The New, New Journalism

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1 Comments, 1 Threads, 2 Trackbacks

  1. 1. MarkD

    I don’t deal with liars, I don’t vote Democratic and I don’t watch the MSM.

    Maybe we could sue for more accurate slogans. “Half the News that’s Fit to Print” is sort of catchy.

    March 30, 2009 - 6:58 am   Link to this Comment