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Funny all the gloating going on here. Strange, you all weren't gloating when all those liberals jumped on Scalia being a racist for saying voting was a racial entitlement when he didn't say it.
I believe Scalia's exact words were in referring to the voting rights act..."perpetuation of racial entitlement."
With that said getting back to the OP I am really surprised no one pick up on Krugman allegedly spending on Portugese wine and English cloth. That is such an obvious econ joke someone should have noticed it.
Funny all the gloating going on here. Strange, you all weren't gloating when all those liberals jumped on Scalia being a racist for saying voting was a racial entitlement when he didn't say it.
So now begins the right-wing spin on this story.....
Scalia??
"A satirical item published last week purporting that economist Paul Krugman had filed for bankruptcy has spread to Boston.com and the conservative website Breitbart this morning.
The item originated in The Daily Currant, a satirical news site. Austria's Format online magazine picked it up, and their report was subsequently cited by Boston.com. Then it spread to Breitbart."
It's a spoof. The same website, a competitor of The Onion, has stories about Dennis Rodman moving to North Korea and a scandalous North Korean "Girls Gone Wild" video.
Figures, Breitbart dot com jumped on this hoax and presented it as being true right away as well, yet another reason not to believe anything on that useless rwnj website.
This has just been a WEEK of mistakes. John Kerry wanted to give an award to an Egyptian woman he thought was awesome, he must've forgot to vet her, and she just wants to see "America burn" "every day" and celebrated when 5 Jewish citizens were killed. A spokesperson for the State Department got on the TV and said "never mind." Been a rough week.
The Gate Keepers, lye on both sides of the same coin.
Progressives will never let the full conservative message of the constitution, be heard.
The Constitution is what stands in their way, That is why they go over under and around it.
So you are blaming the Constitution because Cons are so gullible that they will believe anything they read on the internet?
So now begins the right-wing spin on this story.....
Scalia??
No spin on this story. I just think a bunch of people acting all superior about conservatives falling for this satire are funny when liberals went on for pages and pages of comments about how racist Scalia was for something none of them understood. Gee, it had the word "racial" in it and he's a Republican - he must be racist!!!
No spin on this story. I just think a bunch of people acting all superior about conservatives falling for this satire are funny when liberals went on for pages and pages of comments about how racist Scalia was for something none of them understood. Gee, it had the word "racial" in it and he's a Republican - he must be racist!!!
First, it's amazing this thread continues, even though it's based on a totally false premise.
Second, Scalia did in fact speak the words attributed to him, and it wouldn't be at all unreasonable to infer a racist intent from those words.
I knew Scalia, and let's just say this: he's not a nice man.
I believe Scalia's exact words were in referring to the voting rights act..."perpetuation of racial entitlement."
The question was why Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act had been reauthorized multiple times despite out of 3,700 reviews under Section 5 only 1 violation had been found. And Scalia replied with "I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement. It's been written about. Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes."
The phenomenon called perpetuation of racial entitlement is the theory that a piece of legislation that is related to race will tend to get voted on not due to what the legislation actually says or any effects it produces, but purely due to it being related to race. Only 1 out of 3,700 Section 5 submissions was found to have anything objectionable in it, and yet Section 5 gets reauthorized every time.
And how did liberals react..including you, it looks like based on your comment though I can't read your mind..they did exactly what he described. They did not take what he actually said, they just took "Voting Rights Act" and "Racial Entitlement" and assumed he was saying black people had no real right to vote and letting them vote was simply an entitlement, then called him a racist all over the internet.
Second, Scalia did in fact speak the words attributed to him, and it wouldn't be at all unreasonable to infer a racist intent from those words.
Reasonable or not isn't the point. The point is that he didn't say what people said he did. He did not say Voting Rights were a racial entitlement. Never said it. Yet threads were posted here saying he did and there are headlines all over the net saying he did.
But even as far as it being reasonable...what I think is reasonable is finding out what someone actually said before calling them a racist for saying it. You look at his quote and there is zero possible way to make a reasonable inference that there was racist intent.
He said the reason why people vote for the Act is due to the perpetuation phenomenon. There is no way to reasonably infer a racist intent in that remark. None. Take the word "racial" out and there's nothing remotely racist in it.
Merely having the word "racial" in a quote does not infer racism. Perpetuation of Racial Entitlement is the name of a theory. It could be called the XYZ theory. It's like saying it's reasonable to infer the Theory of Relativity refers to mothers and fathers because it seems like "relative" is in it.
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