Newt Gingrich finds this hysterical.
The New York Times editorial board has shocked the world again with
this surprising nugget of analysis; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was
playing to the latent racism of South Carolina voters when he answered honestly
Juan Williams’s pointedly racial question at Monday night’s debate.
“For
months, Mr. Gingrich has made racial resentment an integral part of his platform
as a conservative challenger to Mitt Romney,” reads the Times editorial
“Preaching
Division in South Carolina.” Who knew?
The
exchange that the Times specifically takes issue with was when Williams
asked Gingrich if calling President Obama a “food stamp president” (a phrase he
has been using for months) was not belittling “black Americans” – a telling
sentiment in itself. Gingrich responded “no,” and went on to say correctly that
during Obama’s administration, the rate of recipients of nutritional assistance
has increased dramatically.
“The
fact is that Mr. Obama has “put” no one on food stamps,” the Times
clarifies. “Mr. Obama eased the eligibility requirements as part of his stimulus
program, a desperately needed measure that helped struggling families and the
economy.” The Times is perfectly aware that the food stamp
metric is a sad measure of the strength of the U.S. economy and the state of the
nation – they also know how poorly it reflects on the Obama White House.
The
Times also took issue with Gingrich’s proposal, also months old, that high
school age children be allowed to perform basic janitorial duties as part-time
work after school – the benefits would be to decrease public school funds spent
on unionized janitorial labor and to decrease the rate of high school drop
outs.
MSNBC
anchors Chris
Matthews and Alex
Wagner echoed the Times’ sentiment yesterday – Matthews found
particular animus in the way Gingrich addressed “Juan” by his name in answering
his question. This dramatic flair by Gingrich was, no doubt, influenced by the
animated crowd’s “boos” which followed William’s leading question.
This is the real issue with which
the Times takes issue with; just how powerful Gingrich’s answer was
with the crowd at the Myrtle Beach debate. The crowd leapt to its feet to give
the former House Speaker a standing ovation that continued into the commercial
break.
“For
these divisive thoughts, Mr. Gingrich earned his ovation and Mr. Williams won a
round of boos,” says the Times. Conservatives have long become used to
being called racist for advocating self-reliance; indeed, conservative voters
see the rate at which the left becomes self-righteously livid over imagined
racial infringements as a measure of success.
That
South Carolina recently elected a black, Republican Congressman to represent the
district where Secession was born and where the first guns were fired on Fort
Sumter in 1861 (Rep. Tim Scott), does nothing to alleviate the sins of our
fathers for the luminaries in the 52-story New York Times
building.
Liberals
believe Gingrich to be a weaker Republican candidate than Romney – precisely
because he articulates conservative beliefs and values combatively and
unapologetically. They imagine that American would reject a candidate that
lectures the president on revered national values like perseverance,
self-determination and hard labor. They may be correct, but it would be the
lecture and not the substance of the argument that American’s would
reject.
The
perennial, thinly-veiled critique of Republican candidates who advocate for work
over handouts as racist is no substitute for substantial criticism – it is the
last gasp of a defunct ideology that has no better rebuttal than to accuse its
opponents of malice. The voters are savvy enough to recognize this, whether the
New York Times or MSNBC know it or not.
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