By Charles P. Pierce on
March 13, 2014
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-poverty-culture-problem-031214
Oh, Paul Ryan. Your
zombie-eyed granny starving won't get you into heaven any more.
The ZEGS from Wisconsin stepped on another rake yesterday while talking on
Bill (Sportin' Life) Bennett's electric radio program. This is what he said.
"That's this tailspin
or spiral that we're looking at in our communities...Your buddy Charles Murray
or Bob Putnam over at Harvard, those guys have written books on this...We have
got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not
working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning
the value and the culture of work...There is a real culture problem here that
has to be dealt with."
(Let us pause for a moment
and admire the shiny brass balls it takes to have a discussion imply that
"inner city" men have a problem with their ethic between a guy who
went to high school and college on Social Security survivor's benefits --
You're welcome, dickhead -- and a problem gambler who'd bet on which of his
toenails would grow the fastest. Big shiny brass balls. See them gleam.)
This is not a dogwhistle. I
mean, really, Charles Fking Murray? This is a goddamn air-raid siren.
If you're
talking about a "cultural problem" in the "inner city," and
citing Charles Murray while you're doing it, well, you're pretty much
broadcasting in the clear to the people you want to reach. That entire phony
"listening tour" that you went on? Useless now. Want to run for
president? You just wrote a radio and television ad for any Democrat who wants
to run for president, including all of the dead ones. Your campaign is in the
wind now, dude. Between this and that stupid brown paper bag fable that you
cribbed at CPAC, you're no more ready for primetime than you were when Uncle
Joe Biden laughed you off the stage back in 2012.
[...]
This is the risk of making a
career within the conservative bubble. Sooner or later, you blurt something out
in the code and the rest of the world hears it. He didn't say "inner
city" by accident. He didn't cite a white supremacist like Murray by
accident. He didn't go on Bennett's radio show accidentally. He knew what he
was saying and to what audience. He was extremely articulate. And he remains
the biggest fake in American politics
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