The problem here is the administration officials appear to have let Fox (gods help me I watched O'Reilly smirking about this fact last night) set the agenda without even stopping to think.
The upside for them is this could turn into a real stick to hit Breitbart, or to give him his full name according to Keith Olberman ("the scum, Breitbart") and the right wing with for months into the election cycle.
There's already signs that the BP and Financial Reform issues have done a lot of harm to the huge wins they should be making in November, and the TEA Party seem to be fantastic at scaring moderate Republicans away.
I'm still boggling at the usual suspect's reactions, especially the guy talking about it who didn't see the video. She had every reason to be a racist, and she overcame it.
There was a professor from Princeton on MSNBC yesterday pointing out that everybody is racist to a degree in some of the things they think and say, it's human, we have problems with the "other". That's not really a problem compared to institutional behaviour where you make such reactions an acceptable thing by law.
What Rand keeps labeling as "racism" in his head is often dislike or, more frequently, tribalist, especially with what he says about... well, practically every non-American nation (especially the French). It's not the government now who've devalued the word, it's people like Rand who don't really get what it meant in the first place.
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The upside for them is this could turn into a real stick to hit Breitbart, or to give him his full name according to Keith Olberman ("the scum, Breitbart") and the right wing with for months into the election cycle.
There's already signs that the BP and Financial Reform issues have done a lot of harm to the huge wins they should be making in November, and the TEA Party seem to be fantastic at scaring moderate Republicans away.
I'm still boggling at the usual suspect's reactions, especially the guy talking about it who didn't see the video. She had every reason to be a racist, and she overcame it.
There was a professor from Princeton on MSNBC yesterday pointing out that everybody is racist to a degree in some of the things they think and say, it's human, we have problems with the "other". That's not really a problem compared to institutional behaviour where you make such reactions an acceptable thing by law.
What Rand keeps labeling as "racism" in his head is often dislike or, more frequently, tribalist, especially with what he says about... well, practically every non-American nation (especially the French). It's not the government now who've devalued the word, it's people like Rand who don't really get what it meant in the first place.