Nice one-two punch at Salon's War Room: Steve Kornacki looks at how Islamophobia has replaced anti-Communism as the unifying force for Republicans ("The Republican Party of the Bush years had the same magnetic allure to Islamophobes as today's does, even if it didn't use quite the same inflammatory rhetoric."), while Alex Pareene takes on a Wall Street Journal editorial about who's to blame for unemployment ("While the actual 'data' show a miserable climate in which there are millions more jobless people than there are job openings (there are 3 million openings and 17 million jobless, according to the 'chart'), the Journal's Mark Whitehouse found anecdotal evidence of employers who desperately want to hire people, but simply can't find any applicants. Sure, 'many employers are inundated with applicants,' but 'a surprising number' can't find anyone to hire, anywhere!"). Good stuff.
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Pareene is kicking ass over there. And apparently ignoring the dipshit commenters who get after him if he is even slightly critical of Israel.
Really Steve? I suppose this Bush idea in the 2000 campaign was very anti-Muslim.
http://bit.ly/9kpsEL
and this, from Jake Tapper at Salon, about W's proposed meeting with Arab leaders on 9/11, which, obviously, never occurred:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/feature/2001/09/17/muslims/
I suppose we can't count on Kornacki to research his own archives. Though, going from powerful electoral bloc to being demonized by the same party can occur when representatives from your bloc decide to FLY AIRLINERS INTO YOUR BUILDINGS.
The Republicans campaign as if they want to appeal to many groups: African-Americans, women, Jewish and Arab voters, and (of course) Christians. Basically everyone who isn't a self-declared liberal. But once they're in power, Pareene points out, their policies are narrower.
He's also specifically talking about the Bush years post-9/11, not the campaign. I don't see how these links refute anything argued by Pareene.
ALex Pareene SUXXors. If the shift key on his keyboard broke he'd lose his entire voice.