Rachel Maddow's Mega-Takedown Of Fox News' 'Scare White People' Tactics (VIDEO)

I have seen this before; what Rachel is talking about. I totally agree with her.

The New Right is the same as the Old Right. No change except there is a little more political correctness nowadays. They do not use the 'n' word except the peasants during the 'rallies'. They do not scream for segregation.

The New Right even purchases minorities to help sell their agenda.

In the end:

SAMO SAMO!!

Just more media savvy is all!!

Perhaps, not with a great deal of faith, but perhaps, this flap may make Democrats a teeny bit less likely to cave at every smear the guano loco right throws out. And Ms. Sherrod should sue the crap out of Andrew Brietbart.

it goes back to the revolutionary war and discussions on slavery!

I think Rachel needs to do a little more research - the "terrify white people" strategy is indeed from the '60s, but it's the 1860s not the 1960s. It was a standard tactic of the Reconstruction-era South to terrify white voters with the threat of "those people" taking over the government. For extra credit, track down some of the discussion around the regulation of cocaine in the early 20th century. A fine example (via Wikipedia):

In 1914, Dr. Christopher Koch of Pennsylvania’s State Pharmacy Board made the racial innuendo explicit, testifying that, “Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain.”

Of course, the fact that there's essentially NO EVIDENCE of this occurring on any sort of scale didn't stop the prohibitionists back then, just as lack of evidence hasn't stopped the RW noise machine from fabricating stories about ACORN, etc.

We all really need to ponder the "zero sum game" that both Rachel and Keith have referenced, the fact that so many uninformed people, particularly those prone to prejudice, seem to think doing something to help equalize benefits for all races somehow takes something away from white folks.

The bozos at FOX News are not content to merely report the news, they feel compelled to create news by injecting themselves into the story.

FOX News Network has always had a socio-political agenda, and so henceforth, they will known as FOX PAC -- they are, after all, little more than a political action committee.

I wonder if the Vilsack response was much more political than it seems. His actions brought the mainstream press into a story that may have only stayed in that ghetto that is Fox News. If he'd done nothing we'd have to listen to them screaming for months. Not that this will stop the screaming, but now more people are aware of Breitbart's continual lying and race-baiting.

Did you watch the whole video? The entire premise was that it's not about race, it's about getting Republican votes by scaring White voters away from the (Black, Radical, Militant) Democrats.

...Well,I just can't wait for R.N.C. chairman Steele to weigh in on this...L.M.A.O. He has set back racial relations with the republicans decades...lol

I saw this last night and I was relieved to see someone in the media "get it." FoxNews is pushing the Souther Strategy on behalf of the Republican Party. It's just that simple and sad. It is pathetic and cynical in the extreme.

Rachel is the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Since we cannot comment on the John Marshal article I'll do it here.

The problem is not that Obama is the bad guy in this.

The problem is that his administration continues to be pussies to the GOP smear machine.

He only seems to show a spine when the outcome is already known or fighting against progressives.

That's the problem.

Are you fired up.

Scare tactics is how the republican party got a slim majority of Americans to re-elect the shrub. Even after we lost two landmarks in NY City and New Orleans under his watch. It works, we are a bunch of sheep looking for a messiah.

Yes, I understand that the real scum in this story is the right wing noise machine and jumping on the administration is sort of like blaming the victim. However, I really can't begin to describe how disappointing it was to have a cabinet level official of this administration swallow the bullshit coming from this source without making sure that it was valid. The only infernence one can make is that they still feel that there was some validity to the bullshit about ACORN that this asshole fabricated. And that is really discouraging. After all of the evidence indicates that he pulled the same shit in that episode. Furthermore, it reminds of the Wen Ho Lee debacle when Bill Richardson was perfectly happy to throw a DOE employee under the bus to turn down the heat on the so called spy scandal at Los Alamos when it turned out that there was really no evidence that this guy did anything at all. These people are supposed to be managers of people who work for them. How are they expected to motivate them and inspire them when they seem perfectly willing to sacrifice them at least provocation? Now, in Vilsack's defense he seems to be genuinely remorseful, but that doesn't change the fact that he really does have something to be remorseful about.

"the political strategy of terrifying white people about the threat posed by black people" goes back to the 1960s,"

actually -- it was used for Prohibition. read about David Okrent's book, "Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition":

...The temperance movement may have used these other causes to win support, but banning alcohol in the United States soon proved to be highly unpopular. Mobsters made millions of dollars from illegal alcohol sales. ...

AND:

On the political beliefs shared by a majority of Prohibitionists

"It largely had to do with a xenophobic, largely anti-immigration feeling that arose in the American Middle West, that arose among white, native-born Protestants. It also had a strong racist element to it. Prohibition was a tool that the white South could use to keep down the black population. In fact, they used Prohibition to keep liquor away from black people but not from white people. So you could find a number of ways that people could come into whatever issue they wanted to use and use Prohibition as their tool. The clearest one, probably, was women's suffrage. Oddly, the suffrage movement and the Prohibition movement were almost one and the same — and you found organizations like the Ku Klux Klan supporting women's suffrage because they believed women would vote on behalf of Prohibition."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126613316

These guys just totally project their sickness onto other people. They are the corrupt, the liars, the ones who try to steal elections - but they accuse others of the exact same things they do.

Rachel actually pulled these punches. Notice the historical bits did not include Lee Atwater's confessions regarding the Bush campaign in '88, not did it include the Rove directed 2000 Bush campaign attack on John McCain's daughter. With a staff as good as hers, Rachel's omissions were deliberate. My guess is that it reflects "direction" by her senior management.

...Well,I just can't wait for R.N.C. chairman Steele to weigh in on this...L.M.A.O. He has set back racial relations with the republicans decades...lol And just out of curiousity,Is it really a good idea to have foreign ownership of a major media outlet? I mean that since the regulations changed some years back regarding "equal time" for opposing views,it seems like things have gotten a bit (Hunter S Thompson)wierd without the laughs,of course...

A very intelligent piece by Rachel, yet again. She did a really good job of connecting Fox dots. I just wish she had a larger audience - her wisdom and research are not being heard by many.

In the last few days I've been reminded of concepts I learned decades ago: Class struggle and false consciousness. They explain a lot of what's happening in America right now. Marx didn't have the right answers, but he sure knew the right questions.

I saw this last night and felt like applauding when it was over. It's so rare in our instant news world for someone to really approach a topic with perspective. Rachel's the only one I know who does it consistently.

As several people have noted, it really is about using race to keep people divided and scared. Sometime in the '80s, the late Mike Royko wrote a great column about people using racial/ethnic divisions to give a sense of superiority to their pathetic lives. Each of the illustrations he created ended with "I may be (poor, ignorant, etc.), but at least I'm not a (name a minority or ethnic group)." Even members of oppressed groups played the at-least-I'm-not game with other groups.

I've remembered bits of that column for more than 20 years because it helped me understand so much of what went on. Sadly, it could still be written today.

Unfortunately, Maddow didn't draw the obvious conclusion from her otherwise-stellar piece:

Calling black folks cowards for not stopping a strategy made by white folks, for white folks, is pretty fucking shitty. Digby, etc. should be listening, but I'm sure they're too busy blaming Obama for something else right about now. And forever.

Wow.

It all fits together.

Unfortunately for the Fox News die-hard, anything Maddow says is lies and "liberal bias", they look at her the same way we look at Glenn Beck, with derision and distrust.

The "scare-white-people" strategy will continue to work as long as corporations like Fox News keep pushing it, like someone pushing a wheel down the road, it just needs a tap every once in a while. It's not going to stop, because there will always be power hungry demagogues around to stir up racial hatred for their own gain.

I come from South Carolina Rachel and if you read V O Keys classic book Southern Politics you will find that race baiting has a long and storied tradition going back well over a century. Pitch Fork Ben Tillman comes to mind as an example from well before R Nixon was a twinkle in his father's eyes.

I am not Obama bashing. I voted for him, I worked as a volunteer on his campaign, I donated money to his fund. I dig President Obama, end of sentence.

However, I don't believe Obama has the steel necessary to confront the divisive issue of race. He is too preoccupied with the possible negative consequences, to chance vindication on principal. He wants to avoid at all costs race defining his tenure. As a strategy fine, but as a tactic unrealistic, in view of the right wing destroy at any cost agenda.

The knee jerk reaction to the Sherrod incident can only come from the top. The proper action should have been administrative leave, followed by a through investigation, which would have taken all of fifteen minutes. Being armed with the truth, he could now denounce the entire anti Obama regime for what it is, and at the same time extend the olive branch. He rather than Sherrod would have been the hapless victim.

Question: Where is the woman that called Sherrod three times demanding her resignation telling her to pull over to the side of the road, and text in your resignation, before the story breaks on the Glan Beck show this evening? Why is she unviable for comment or interview?

Rachel Maddow is a yellow journalist of the highest order and does not have an ethical bone in her lesbian 6 foot body, lies beget lies and she lies with her fellow progressive architects of conjecture!

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"Growing up in a culture permeated with prejudice, imbibing it, so to speak, with their milk, millions of white Americans find that Negroes are useful screens to hide themselves from themselves. Repeated studies have shown that Negro hate is, in part, a socially-sanctioned outlet for personal and social anxieties and frustrations. From this standpoint, racism is a flight from the self, a flight from freedom, a flight from the intolerable burdens of being a man in a menacing world."

Lerone Bennet Jr. Ebony magazine 1965