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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir: ‘IRS’ is the new ‘n***er’
« on: June 05, 2013, 11:11:00 pm »

According to MSNBC host Martin Bashir, Republican criticisms of the Internal Revenue Service are little more than thinly-veiled racist attacks on President Obama.

“This strategy is nothing new, and it was explained way back in 1981 by Lee Atwater, who was Bush 41′s chief strategist,” Bashir said on the Wednesday broadcast of his television show. “In a tape recording, Mr. Atwater revealed how Republicans evolved their language to achieve the same purpose. He said, ‘You start out in 1954 by saying ‘n-word, n-word, n-word.’ By 1968, you can’t say ‘n-word.’ That hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like ‘forced busing,’ ‘states rights’ and all that stuff and you’re getting so abstract. Now you’re talking about cutting taxes. ‘We want to cut this’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘n-word, n-word.’”

“So this afternoon, we welcome the latest phrase in the lexicon of Republican attacks on this president — ‘the IRS,’ three letters that sound so innocent, but we know what you mean.”

 http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/05/msnbcs-martin-bashir-irs-is-the-new-ner/
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Re: MSNBC’s Martin Bashir: ‘IRS’ is the new ‘n***er’
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2013, 02:29:12 am »
Huh??????????
I wonder when the lies will stop and truth begin, even as grim as the truth may be. And then I remember that for 70 years, the reign of terror in Russia called itself "the people's government." We have so far to fall, yet we are falling fast and Hell yawns to receive us.

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Re: MSNBC’s Martin Bashir: ‘IRS’ is the new ‘n***er’
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2013, 03:35:10 am »
‘the IRS,’ three letters that sound so innocent, but we know what you mean.”

Yeah, Martin, I know what they mean: the Internal Revenue Service. And if you were seriously paying attention of late, instead of wallowing in your own weird form of racism, you would know why that acronym has been in the news so much lately.
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