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(December 24th, 2002 -- 12:54 PM EST // link)
HEY LOOK, I'M to the left
of Donna
Brazile on the whole racist Frist thing. Pay no attention to this next time
I refer to myself as being from the moderate wing of the party. Thanks!
-- Josh Marshall
(December 23rd, 2002 -- 10:39 AM EST // link)
LOOK, I'M NOT trying to say that any time a conservative white
politician criticizes a black politician it's evidence of racism, but come on.
If a white politician tries to make an issue of a
race-baiting, crackhead, corrupt, immoral black mayor, what else could it be but
race? Mickey Kaus tries in vain to come up with excuses, but none of that changes
the fact that Frist was wrong on this issue. Non-sequitor advertising isn't
commonplace or anything. And seeing as how it involves attacking a
notorious black figure, do I really need to connect the dots, here?
Not to forget that Tennessee gets back more than it puts in to the federal
coffer. That obviously makes it impossible for Frist to make any calls for less
government corruption without being hypocritical. Hypocritical in an issue
involving a black politician. See how it all connects. SEE?!
Is it me, or is Kaus a little obsessed with the issue?
-- Josh Marshall
(December 23rd, 2002 -- 10:39 AM EST // link)
Mickey Kaus TRIES to suggest
that Frist's use of Sasser is relevent because Sasser was in charge of the
committee regarding funding for Washington DC. Well, I obviously knew that but
didn't mention it because... well, it hurt my argument. The argument being, of
course, that Barry had nothing to do with anything. And he still
doesn't! You see, he wasn't even
marry at the time. The mayor was actually Sharon Pratt Kelly. If Frist was going
to attack DC, why not attack that obscure mayor that no one has ever heard of,
spent considerable airtime explaining who she is, then denouncing her? Instead,
they cut corners and used an infamous figure at the sake of the thorough
accuracy that I've come to expect from political advertising. Can someone
please explain to me how this could be attributed to anything other than racism?
-- Josh Marshall
(December 21st, 2002 -- 2:36 AM EST // link)
Does Bill Frist have issues?
Not only is he some sort of kinda-sorta-crypto-pseudo-racist who said something
about pencils a few years back and had an ad aimed at a notorious black
politician that obviously tie into obvious racism, but he also has a very
annoyingly long CV on his website. Not that I have it in for the guy or
anything...
-- Josh Marshall
(December 20th, 2002 -- 9:49 PM EST // link)
REMEMBER A COUPLE weeks ago when we were all saying
that the issue with Trent Lott was that he was a leader in the party and not
some obscure senator that no one has heard of? Well, with him stepping down from
leadership, we need to figure out something, so let's backtrack on that a little
and point out guns at someone new. Meet obscure senator no one has ever heard
of: Jeff Sessions.
-- Josh Marshall
Joshua Micah Marshall is a writer living in Washington, DC. He is a Contributing Writer for the Washington Monthly and former Washington Editor of the American Prospect. His articles on politics and culture have appeared in The American Prospect, Blueprint, The Boston Globe, The Columbia Journalism Review, Feed, The Financial Times, The New Republic, The New York Post, The New York Times, Newsday, Salon, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, Talk and The Washington Monthly. He has appeared on Fox and Friends (FOX), Hannity and Colmes (FOX), Hardball (MSNBC), O'Reilly Factor (FOX), The Point (CNN), Reliable Sources (CNN), Rivera Live (CNBC), Washington Journal (C-SPAN) and talk radio shows across the United States. He is a graduate of Princeton University and is currently finishing his doctoral dissertation in Colonial American history at Brown University.
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