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Monday, August 4, 2014

Mo Brooks, Asshole of the Day for August 4, 2014

by TeaPartyCat ()
According to the Census Bureau whites are 77.7% of the US population. Of course for some that’s not enough. After all the president is only half white, and there are plenty of racist idiots who dispute even the 50% figure.
And with the population still a supermajority of whiteness, it would just be ridiculous for Rep. Mo Brooks to claim there is a War On Whites:
This is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else,” he said during an interview Monday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. “It’s part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well that’s not true.”
Brooks was responding to comments made by National Journal’s Ron Fournier, who told Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday that “the fastest growing voting bloc in this country thinks the Republican Party hates them. This party, your party, cannot be the party of the future beyond November if you’re seen as the party of white people.”
Yes, yes, it’s really quite something here. Rep. Brooks is saying that Obama wants to divide the country along racial lines, even though Obama’s side would be outnumbered 3-to-1.
Newsflash: you can’t win a majority by championing the 22% against the 77%! The math just won’t work.
Of course as Bill Clinton pointed out in 2012, Republican command of math hasn’t been all that strong lately, so I suppose it’s possible that Brooks doesn’t realize that 77% is greater than 22%.
But math aside, it’s clear what Rep. Brooks’ purpose is— to rile up white people along racial lines against Democrats in general and Obama in particular. He wants whites to feel like victims. He wants a white backlash.
And what’s this backlash to? The specific trigger for Brooks was the idea that Hispanics would think the GOP “Autopsy report”, from the party itself, not Democrats, said the following:
Republicans hate them on the basis of how racist and xenophobic they are being on the issue of immigration. This is not crazy talk— only a year ago
If Hispanic Americans perceive that [a] GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States (i.e. self-deportation), they will not pay attention to our next sentence. It does not matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies.
So, no, there is no War On Whites in general, and certainly not on the specific issue of immigration or the border specifically. But Rep. Brooks says there is as a way of riling up racists, and for that, he is Asshole of the Day.

It is Mo Brooks’ first time as Asshole of the Day.
Full story: HuffPo
UPDATE: Rep. Brooks, when asked to clarify, repeats “War On Whites” claim
Stephanie Doty
Weary of Wonderland
August 4, 2014

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