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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 12:15 PM Apr 2014

George Will: Obama and Holder blurt out ‘race card’ because of liberal ‘Tourette syndrome’

By David Edwards
Sunday, April 13, 2014 12:01 EDT

Fox News contributor George Will on Sunday accused Attorney General Eric Holder, President Barack Obama and other liberals of having a mental disorder that made them repeatedly “play the race card.”

Speaking to Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in New York on Wednesday, Holder had reflected on the way that Rep. Louie Gohmert had treated him during a recent hearing, and noted that many black leaders were facing the same type of “ugly and divisive” civil rights issues.

Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume asserted on Sunday that both Obama and Holder had “benefited politically enormously from the fact that they are African-American, and the first to hold the jobs that they hold.”

“To those two men, race has been both a shield and a sword that they have used effectively to defend themselves, and to attack others,” Hume said, adding that he found the behavior “depressing.”

A Fox News viewer on Twitter complained to the panel that the president and attorney general “race bait,” and wanted to know why it was acceptable to call white people “racists.”

“Look, liberalism has a kind of Tourette’s syndrome these days,” Will opined. “Just constantly saying the word ‘racism’ and ‘racist.’”

“Liberalism hasn’t had a new idea since the 1960s — except Obamacare — and the country doesn’t like it,” he continued. “Foreign policy is a shambles, from Russia to Iran to Syria to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And the recovery is unprecedentedly bad.”

“So, what do you do? You say, ‘Anyone who criticizes us is a racist.’”

Will argued that racism had become a joke among young people, who he said called each other “racists” for remarking on the weather.

“It is so inappropriate, the constant invocation of this, that I think it is becoming a national mirth.”

Watch the video below from Fox News’ Fox News Sunday, broadcast March 13, 2014.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/13/george-will-obama-and-holder-blurt-out-race-card-because-of-liberal-tourette-syndrome/

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George Will: Obama and Holder blurt out ‘race card’ because of liberal ‘Tourette syndrome’ (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2014 OP
Uh, BITE me, Poindexter! Cirque du So-What Apr 2014 #1
"Their movement is in big trouble" rock Apr 2014 #6
The GOP is so sure of its ideas they want no toilets at Miami-Dade polling places BeyondGeography Apr 2014 #2
When Did Obama Play The Race Card? Dirty Socialist Apr 2014 #3
This is copied from Lewis Black who said Glenn Beck has "Nazi Tourettes". CJCRANE Apr 2014 #4
I'd love to snatch that fake looking toupee off his head and toss it at the camera kimbutgar Apr 2014 #5
Oh well, someones gotta protect the White race MrScorpio Apr 2014 #7

Cirque du So-What

(25,941 posts)
1. Uh, BITE me, Poindexter!
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 12:24 PM
Apr 2014

Gone is the day when little Georgie Will can have any hope of being taken seriously. If he's considered an 'intellectual' in conservatroid circles, their movement is in big trouble.

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
2. The GOP is so sure of its ideas they want no toilets at Miami-Dade polling places
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 12:27 PM
Apr 2014

Go home and hug your Reagan doll, old fool.

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)
3. When Did Obama Play The Race Card?
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 12:31 PM
Apr 2014

Good journalists present evidence. Fwill is just blowing hot air...again.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
4. This is copied from Lewis Black who said Glenn Beck has "Nazi Tourettes".
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 12:36 PM
Apr 2014

It's just the usual wingnut tactic of taking a liberal insult and reversing it.

kimbutgar

(21,157 posts)
5. I'd love to snatch that fake looking toupee off his head and toss it at the camera
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 02:57 PM
Apr 2014

George Will is a dinosaur who needs to retire. He offers nothing but stale old commentary for the Fox brain washed old white people. George Will is so out of touch it's laughable and sad at the same time.

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)
7. Oh well, someones gotta protect the White race
Sun Apr 13, 2014, 03:22 PM
Apr 2014

Or at least, think they do. It's gotta be Will and Hume, that's what they're paid to do.

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