Janeane Garofalo’s pretzel logic on Herman Cain
Via RealClearPolitics, Janeane Garofalo said this while talking to Keith Olbermann (and what an erudite and open-minded duo they make):
Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican party, conservative movement and tea party movement, one and the same.
People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say “Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man.”
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You know, considering how many large demographic groups conservatives and Republicans hate and are “against” (all women, all blacks, all immigrants, every kind of minority) it’s rather remarkable that they ever win any elections, isn’t it? I mean, when your supporters are solely wealthy white males it’s rather limiting in terms of numbers at the polls. But then—I must remind myself—entire books have been written on how they wickedly trick people into voting against themselves over and over again.
Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann demonstrate that there are some who will never escape the kind of circular political insanity to which they have committed themselves. Or if there was any way for them to escape it, it would require an earthquake the likes of which is beyond my capacity to conceive.
For all of her accusations of racism, it is Janeane Garofalo herself, clearly, who is incapable of seeing past what someone is (a black person) and engaging instead with their opinions about issues based on the merits.
