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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:04 PM
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George Will: George Wallace stood up for an "aggrieved minority"!!
:rofl:

Of course the "aggrieved minority" here is white folks who hated black folks getting some rights.

:rofl:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200706250006

"In his column in the July 2 edition of Newsweek, George F. Will described former Alabama Gov. George Wallace as an independent candidate who "succeed in giving an aggrieved minority a voice." According to Will, the "aggrieved minority" Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign spoke for was made up of "people furious about the '60s tumults." In fact, Wallace openly campaigned against civil rights legislation, and, in the words of The Washington Post's obituary of Wallace, ran a presidential campaign "in which he vilified blacks."

Will wrote in his column:

The most consequential American third-party candidate was Ralph Nader in 2000. But for his 97,488 votes in Florida, which George W. Bush won by 537 votes, Al Gore probably would be finishing his second term. But even successful independent or third-party candidates have one thing in common: They lose.

A candidate can succeed in giving an aggrieved minority a voice -- e.g., George Wallace, speaking for people furious about the '60s tumults. A candidate can highlight an issue, as Ross Perot did with the deficit in 1992. A candidate can advertise an entire agenda that the two major parties are slow to consider, as Socialist candidate Norman Thomas did several times. "
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:06 PM
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1. I have no doubt that "Whitey" will someday soon be an "aggrieved minority",
but it sure wasn't the case in 1968!
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:07 PM
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2. Well, he did
Unfortunately, what that minority was aggravated about was not morally, ethically, or Constitutionally proper.

So all the Georges (Bush, Will, Wallace) can go screw themselves.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:08 PM
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3. lol! When you put it that way, I feel bad for all of the *good* George's of the world.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:11 PM
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4. Trent Lott unavailable for comment.
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dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:14 PM
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5. wow, just wow
Yet he will not lose a single paper over this, mark my words.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:25 PM
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7. Of course not. lol!
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:15 PM
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6. Stom Thurmond agrees with George Will
and so does David Duke
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:33 PM
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8. LMAO just reading your headline
"aggrieved minority". Like those poor aggrieved RW talkers that only have 95% of the airwaves or the "aggrieved" TV and newspaper conservatives who only own about 99% of the outlets.
Class, can anyone else think of similar aggrieved minorities?
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:36 PM
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9. The aggrieved christian minority.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:37 PM
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11. This is classic RW talk M.O.
oh the poor poor white male oh how will they ever be able to overcome?!?!?!

George Will is a bag of turds with bad eyesight
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:37 PM
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10. Plenty of people on this board do the same thing
Edited on Mon Jun-25-07 03:38 PM by alcibiades_mystery
They fly into an utter rage when it is suggested that violence against women in this country is different than violence against men.

They hate Mexicans, but love Lou Dobbs' Mexican wife.

They oppose boycotts, and hate sit-ins.

They think that violence by blacks is downplayed (!!!!) in US media and popular culture.

They are bigots, of course, and have no place in a progressive party, but they fancy themselves believers in justice. They populate this board in large numbers. Put up a post on rap music or domestic violence and watch them flock to it.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 03:41 PM
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12. Imus' racism immediately turned into a rappers' lyrics debate, for example.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 04:23 PM
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13. Indeed
It's the old saw, whereby the supposed desire for "equity" in representation is really a mask for continued hegemony.
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predfan Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 04:48 PM
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14. Anyone who lived in the South during the 50's and 60's
understands the growth of the Republican Party in the South has far more to do with George Wallace than with the great savior Ronald Reagan. The American Independence Party simply blended into the Republican Party, a brilliant political strategy but one which certainly threw southern blacks and moderate whites under the bus.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 04:51 PM
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15. George Will reinvents the vernacular
"Aggrieved minority". Look George, you dropped your veil.
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