Wednesday, January 08, 2003
A new style of class warfare — the affluent afflicting the afflicted
Looks like Mo Dowd has had enough:
But at their convention in New York, they can produce a hip-hop show that camouflages their hip-G.O.P. policies. Just as they did in Philadelphia in 2000, when they put on a minstrel show for the Babbity white guys in the stands.
A black woman sang "The Star-Spangled Banner," a Latino activist yelled "Puerto Rico, I love you!" Hispanics wore sombreros and a woman spoke who had won the Miss America pageant with an insulin pump under her evening gown.
This urban pageant was meant to signal suburbanites that W. was not scary, even if he had made that pilgrimage to Bob Jones U. — where the minorities on stage wouldn't even be allowed to hold hands with the white delegates.
The Bushies are giving tax breaks to the wrong Americans, hyperventilating over the wrong country and the wrong villains, and labeling the wrong Pakistanis terrorists.
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The gangs of New York have nothing on the gang in the White House.
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