Cal Thomas and Race
Cal Thomas, on Fox News', The Five repeated the lie of omission about the Dixiecrat history in the civil rights movement. His whole career in print, and as a talking head on TV, has been as spin-meister spewing the most vile of half-truths and lies. So I went to his FB page to find his reminiscence of covering the MLK "I Have a Dream" speech as a cub reporter, and left him this:
After your comments on "The Five", today, you should refrain from talking about the history of race relations. With that ridiculously evil smirk, you repeated the lie of omission about the history of the Democratic Party during that era. You know what I'm talking about. Every thinking American knows what I'm talking about. You know what the Republican Southern Strategy was. You know what Johnson had to say about the future of the party in the South. You also know that the Freedom Riders and the southern black civil rights activists never went to the Republican Party, nor "conservatives" of any stripe looking for help and justice. You know they found their allies in the northern, liberal wing of the Democrats.
And you know damn well what happened to the Dixiecrats. They went running into the hands of the party that would callously coddle them for votes and power. The Dixiecrats of old are the Tea Party of today, holding your precious Republican Party hostage, and you know it, and you foster them.
You should be ashamed of yourself, but you've been this kind of equivocator for most of your shameful career.
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Cal Thomas' page can be found here, if you wish to weigh in:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cal-Thomas-Townhallcom-Columnist/131286766961052
It looks like the Teabaggers and their supporters are going to try to use this lie as a talking point to co-opt the memory of Dr. King and the civil rights movement. Watch as it becomes a common trope on Fox and talk radio. Time will tell if America is smart enough to reject it and call them on it.
After your comments on "The Five", today, you should refrain from talking about the history of race relations. With that ridiculously evil smirk, you repeated the lie of omission about the history of the Democratic Party during that era. You know what I'm talking about. Every thinking American knows what I'm talking about. You know what the Republican Southern Strategy was. You know what Johnson had to say about the future of the party in the South. You also know that the Freedom Riders and the southern black civil rights activists never went to the Republican Party, nor "conservatives" of any stripe looking for help and justice. You know they found their allies in the northern, liberal wing of the Democrats.
And you know damn well what happened to the Dixiecrats. They went running into the hands of the party that would callously coddle them for votes and power. The Dixiecrats of old are the Tea Party of today, holding your precious Republican Party hostage, and you know it, and you foster them.
You should be ashamed of yourself, but you've been this kind of equivocator for most of your shameful career.
____________
Cal Thomas' page can be found here, if you wish to weigh in:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cal-Thomas-Townhallcom-Columnist/131286766961052
It looks like the Teabaggers and their supporters are going to try to use this lie as a talking point to co-opt the memory of Dr. King and the civil rights movement. Watch as it becomes a common trope on Fox and talk radio. Time will tell if America is smart enough to reject it and call them on it.
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