On Sunday, the “Fox News Sunday” panel took on the issue of race, discussing Attorney General Eric Holder’s implication last week that he is treated a certain way because of his race.
Fox News political analyst Brit Hume said that Holder and President Obama have “benefited politically enormously from the fact that they are African-American.”
“To those two men, race has been both a shield and a sword that they have used effectively to defend themselves, and to attack others,” Hume said.
Fox News contributor George Will said that liberals haven’t had any new ideas in a few decades, so they accuse people of being racist.
“Look, liberalism has a kind of Tourette’s syndrome these days. Just constantly saying the word ‘racism’ and ‘racist,'” he said. “There’s a kind of intellectual poverty now. Liberalism hasn’t had a new idea since the 1960s — except Obamacare — and the country doesn’t like it. Foreign policy is a shambles, from Russia to Iran to Syria to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And the recovery is unprecedentedly bad.”
“So, what do you do? You say, ‘Anyone who criticizes us is a racist,” Will continued.
Watch the exchange via Raw Story:
“Fox News contributor George Will said that liberals haven’t had any new ideas in a few decades, so they accuse people of being racist.”
Mr Will is full of crap. He should stick to commenting on baseball and leave news to the grown-ups.
Indeed, GOP, 21st century part of ideas.
I find it interesting that I wrote this comment to a story on the main page and here it is in the Hive! I think that’s cool.
Will is not even that good on baseball.
Really, could Hume & Will actually, you know, quote the Prez or the AG “playing the race card.” I think what they really mean is, "Black guys are supposed to shuffle and say ‘yes suh!’ not response as if they were the equals of white men. The racism just drips off of comments like these as a kind of vile poisonous sweat.