I know I'm quoting out of context, but still:

[lesbiassparrow]

From Frank Rich 'In Defense of White Americans"

"It’s past time to come to the unfairly maligned white America’s defense.

That includes acknowledging that the so-called liberal media, among their other failures this year, have helped ratchet up this election cycle’s prevailing antiwhite bias."

To comment would be gilding the lily.

(Though, do you think he even read through that column before it got published? I eagerly await his hard hitting column on how the media is now meanly picking on rich bankers, who suffer from being maligned for the current economic crisis, a cruelty which has made them all depressed and unable to enjoy rolling in money like they used to.)

Comments

[jenavira.livejournal.com]

No, he still can't top Michael Savage: "The only people who don't seem to vote based on race are whites of European origin."

I nearly injured myself laughing at that one.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Wow, Savage's comments are almost awe-inspiring in their ability to ignore history.

[oxymoron67.livejournal.com]

Wow. I almost gave myself an aneurysm from laughter reading both Savage and Rich.

Scary.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

The Rich piece is so dreadfully written too. I WANT HIS JOB! I COULD WRITE PROSE THAT CRAPPY ABOUT THINGS I THOUGHT UP IN TWO MINUTES BEFORE DEADLINE DEEP THINGS.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Actually, as ham-handed as that sentence is and how awful when taken out of context, I find myself having to come to his defense. (And I tend to think he's a complete jerk, so it buuuuuurns.) Based on the rest of the article, his actual point seems to be the complete opposite of what this line makes it sounds like, and though he says it very badly, I think what he means (and what I kind of can't argue with him about) is that the press is making it sound as if the election is more about race, and that race matters more to the electorate, than is actually true. But as a shitty piece of prose, that line is hard to beat.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, which was why I put in the bit about this being taken out of context and I think I might have given him a pass (while rolling my eyes) if it weren't for the comment I quote combined with this later in the article:

"There are even “racists for Obama,” as Politico labels the phenomenon: White Americans whose distrust of black people in general crumbles when they actually get to know specific black people, including a presidential candidate who extends a genuine helping hand in a time of national crisis."

I don't really know what he's trying to say here, except I get the strong impression this is his version of the 'some of my best friends are X argument' and he sincerely believes that you're not really racist if you grudgingly don't hate all people of a different colour when you need their help.

Plus the whole article so blindingly badly written that it offends me on the grounds of its dreadful prose as well. Good knows how much the NY Times pays him for this stuff.