The Racist Whisperer
You know who I’m going to talk about, don’t you?
Paul Ryan.
Yep. The Veep Loser has learn from Lee Atwater’s Southern Strategy interview, telling Republican politicians how to say the N word without saying the N word.
[Paul Ryan] told [Bob]Bennett there is a “tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.”
In the radio interview, Ryan also referenced conservative author, American Enterprise Institute scholar, and self-described “right-wing ideologue,” Charles Murray, who wrote the controversial book “The Bell Curve,” which claims that black people have inferior intelligence and is the reason for social disadvantages.
“Your buddy Charles Murray or Bob Putnam over at Harvard – those guys have written books on this, which is – we have got this tailspin of culture,” Ryan said.
Now, who could he be talking about?
Me? Is he talking about me? Maybe he’s talking about people who can go borrow money from their parents to start a business? Or maybe that 47%?
Thanks to Lorraine In Spring for the heads up.
Some day soon, it is my fervent hope that Paul Ryan will NOT experience a “tailspin” but will, in fact, experience a full and complete headspin where his stupid head does at least a half dozen complete turns and then pops off the top of his spine like a bit fat water balloon popping!! Head spinning like in the “Exorcist” … yeah, that would work.
1There’s a guy who’s a real expert on inner cities. In his 1st Congressional District, Racine, Kenosha and part of Janesville are the only sizable urban areas, none of them more than 100,000 population. The district averages 87% white with the percentage in the four individual counties within it ranging from 84% to 92%. Truly, here’s a man for all the people … not …
2If you’ve been searching for the perfect example of ‘dog-whistle’ politics – this is it. As for Ryan, he’s the sociopath’s psychopath.
3Our you could turn that around, publius … he’s the psychopath’s sociopath.
4Charlie Pierce says it better than I ever could:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-poverty-culture-problem-031214
5Dog-whistle, to the max.
Luckily for us, people like Ryan can’t stop shooting their mouths off in this fashion—do you think whatever Louie Gohmert has is infectious? They just don’t realize what favors they’re doing for their opponents. Hope they never figure it out……
6I must have the ears of a dog, because that gohmert dog whistle sure sounds like a bullhorn to me. All those gohmert racists have that mean streak in common. Ryan is so mean, he advocates for the starvation of children. He’s against birth control and reproductive choice for women, so he has more children to starve. I’d be happy to hold him ladies, while you slap the gohmerts out of the meanest man in the Clown Cart. Where’s Dick Cheney, when we have a hunting guest for him?
7Paul Ryan better not choke on that silver spoon in his mouth while he speaks. But then he was born with it, so I guess he’s learned to be careful.
8I am so mentally sick of these insular, inbred types like Ryan who claim that the overwhelming problem is laziness. In my view, the overwhelming current problems are the Four T’s: (1) Trade agreements [giving our economy to the Communist Chinese so that we “don’t have to pay lazy ‘commie’ union laborers”]; (2) Tax limits [starting with Howard Jarvis and Prop 13 in California, and then Calif’s ex-gov Reagan in the WH]; (3) Technology [eliminating middle income jobs at a faster rate than my Internet connection]; and (4) the Twenty-Four-Hour News [Fox, as addictive to guys–and gals–like Ryan as are nicotine, methamphetamine, and tax breaks]. The town where I live used to be a four-season beauty, but we’re almost down to the last enterprise, and Rick Perry got it to build a new factory down Texas way after it did fine here for a hundred years. Now I’m about to be physically sick…
9I’ve been trying to rank Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Paul Ryan as to which is most repellent. It is a difficult task.
10I’m amazed that Paul Ryan has the audacity to label anyone outside Beltway……. “lazy”.
11Sorry….
By way of explanation.
The U.S. House of Representatives worked 126 days in 2013.
12Hoo boy! this is going to come back and bite him in the butt big time! The NAACP and the Urban League et al. are not going to let him get away with this! Hell, even the Pope might get after little mister fake pot scrubber at the local food bank!
13Racism has always been the bedrock philosophy of the Republicans, no matter how they try to dress it up, nor how many Herman Cains they trot out in public. They are the party of privilege. Period.
14Also, the Republican’s war on unions has kept the wages of the middle class stagnant for so long that even if there are two wage earners in a family, they still can’t climb out of the financial hole. Lazy, my a$$!
maryelle, racism has been the bedrock philosophy of the Republicans ever since Nixon’s “Southern strategy”.
Prior to that there were some respectable Republicans–an early example is the anti-slavery abolitionists and a later example is the white-gloved, silver tea service Republican women who helped found and support Planned Parenthood.
Of course, they’ve always had their “Wealth Rules & To Hell With the Rest of You” wing–for example Prescott Bush’s coup attempt to remove FDR from office because Prescott Bush supported fascism as the wave of the future.
15Repulsive Ryan is walking it back and tripping all over his gohmerts.
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/03/paul-ryan-walks-back-racist-slam-inner
His “apology” is lamer than his record.
16One thing I learned from being a volunteer story teller in a low income housing project was, everyone there was poor. Some had mental problems, some were lazy, some were ignorant, some were stupid, some were ambitious and worked hard. They all cared about their kids. Most of them wanted to be able to live in a regular house and have a regular job. Some eventually did that. I suggest that Paul Ryan go do volunteer work in a low income housing projects for a year (I did it for five, and we had no budget) and do whatever his supervisor tells him to do with no lectures on the culture of poverty or whatever. You think he’ll go for it?
17@Marge Wood: Not a chance in Hell!
You make the mistake of thinking that he and his ilk are actually interested in reality. They are only interested in riling up their base. And–Boy!–are they base.
18Absolutely RIGHT Paul Ryan! ALL those lazy poor people should get off their duffs and marry wealth, like YOU did!
Paul Ryan went right from driving the weinermobile in college to being a congressional staff weiner. I submit he hasn’t done an HONEST day’s work in the 22 years since.
Now he’s a racist right-winger’s idea of what a non-racist right-winger sounds like.
19What, daChipster? You say Paul Ryan is a “Cinderfella” ?
20While I totally deplore, reject and condemn the renditions (nice word, eh?) the CIA performed against everything held dear in our Constitution and the UCMJ, I could make an exception for Ryan. Yo Brennan, “do you have time for you and your goons to pay this gohmert a visit, before your own firing committee begins?”
If the ladies of The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. prefer something more personal for this gohmert varmint, I’m open to suggestions and will assist you in any way I can. Sure hope Bubba has time for a new client. (me)
21I think he is talking about himself.
22Correct as always, Corinne Sabo. But the goofy gohmert projects onto others and has zero visibility into his own mirror. Without a note, can hear his crying river of denial. In his gohmert mirror he sees himself as a hard working public servant. Poor beleaguered Paul works less than 120 days a year, has a decent salary and lifetime benefits. Not a bad gig, but the part of Ryan that repulses me is that he doesn’t think all Americans deserve the same.
HELLO Congress varmint, we the taxpayers are about too done with you, until the same opportunities are available to true hard working Americans. By the way, there are nearly 11 million hard working Americans waiting for immigration reform. Holy Gohmerts, do you need Senator Murray to do all your work? When eventually do you plan to put pen to paper and create legislation?
New Republicans: sack lunch stealing child abusers, women tramplers and grandparent haters, with too much time on their hands who extend their mean to any minority they can demean. Grampus McCain and his pal annihilate the world Bo Bo Graham were the ‘compassionate’ conservatives. Paul Ryan is the cockroach that would have survived, if the senile Senators had their nuclear war.
23Are you from my neck of woods where Senator Murray is active? if so, yeah!
24And, of course, everything he says is true because racism = over.
25When I first read his comments, I was so struck by Paul Ryan’s arrogance and sense of privilege. I grew up in New York City urban ghettos, in tenements and public housing projects. My very poor family worked every day of their lives. They were never, ever lazy. We were the “working poor” — a population which Paul Ryan has apparently never heard of. We worked our asses off for no money. And Ryan would never have given my hard-working family the time of day. He would just have assumed that we were “lazy” and didn’t want to work because we were so poor. He is looking at the world from the standpoint of white male superior privilege, quoting a white supremacist’s racial theories. Ryan has no clue what he’s talking about, and he should not be involved in making policies that have a negative impact on anti-poverty programs.
26Ms. J — Thank you. Paul Ryan is clueless.
27Ms. J, that is problem with so many of the white male superior privileged persons, they have no understanding of how it really is in America. I agree that these people should not be involved in making policies but, unfortunately, they have the financial means to get into this place where the rest of us do not. This world is based on money, and them that’s got it, got; them’s that don’t, don’t. Very unfair, but true 🙁
Ryan will never get. He is also a self-centered idiot who believes in his supremacy – and he truly is racist, both in color and in societal levels of power. May he crash and burn sooner rather than later!
28@Rubymay You’re welcome! 🙂
29There is a “tailspin of culture, in our Congress in particular, of congress-critters not working and just generations of congress-critters not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.”
There. Fixed it.
30@1smartcanerican said: “believes in his supremacy – and he truly is racist”. Yes, that’s what I find so breathtaking. He is so casual in his arrogance — quoting a white supremacist to make his point about “lazy” inner city (i.e. black) men. He is inherently racist. He doesn’t even realize that he has internalized white supremacist Weltanschauung because at this point his supremacist mindset just comes naturally to him. Simply breathtaking.
31This from a guy who’s lived off the public teat his whole life. Sorry to say he’s from my state. You have my permission to do whatever you want to him. Our governor is pretty much the same.
32“After reading the transcript of yesterday morning’s interview, it is clear that I was inarticulate about the point I was trying to make.”
Inarticulate = you heard what I really think, oops.
33As usual for the GOP leadership, Ryan is convinced that repeating delusional BS makes it reality. The real shame is that it works so well with most conservatives.
34Meanwhile, back on Earth, rAyn is drinking $350 pinot at dinner:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/07/paul-ryans-350-bottle-of-wine/241642/
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