Not-So-Secret Republican Agenda
At last! The Secret Republican Agenda has been revealed:*
During the May 16 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly claimed that The New York Times and "many far-left thinkers believe the white power structure that controls America is bad, so a drastic change is needed." O'Reilly continued: "According to the lefty zealots, the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide, a rainbow coalition, if you will." O'Reilly's comments came during a discussion of opposition by the Times and others to deploying the National Guard to help secure the border.
It's so nice to have spelled out what we've known for so long: the Republican Party is the party of angry white men. It's also convenient that the racism that has for so long been encoded and shrouded in euphemism can now be discussed openly by party whitespokesmen.
Apparently, in a secret plot O'Reilly called "the browning of America", liberals are encouraging illegal aliens to flood the American Southwest so that America can become more multi-cultural (said with a sneering expression) and (fie!) liberal. Of course, illegal aliens don't vote, but I'm sure we liberals will come up with a way around that. Not to mention that flooding California will hardly make it more liberal. Shouldn't we be browning all the states rather than just concentrating on southwestern electoral votes?
Gosh, I guess we lefty multi-culturalists aren't all that smart. Darn!
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* "O'Reilly claimed NY Times, other 'lefty zealots' believe 'the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide'", Media Matters, 17 May 2006.
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on Friday, 19 May 2006 at 04.24
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This is classic O'Reilly demagoguery and pure rip-and-read, straight from RNC HQ, or Rove's office. The idea, obviously, is to excite the hard-right base. "It's them against us and if we're not careful, they're going to take over."
Implicit in it is that to keep that from happening, everyone better donate to the Republicans and get out and vote Republican in November.
The "rainbow coalition" reference is especially telling. To the knuckle draggers who make up the hard core of O'Reilly's audience, mentioning that generates visions of a president who actually might invite Jesse Jackson to the White House to discuss policy, and Congress people who'd do the same. Yikes!
It's certainly true that people on the left want to oust those in power in D.C., who are predominantly whites and Christians. But it's not because of they're being white and Christian. It's because they're incompetent and, too often, corrupt.