Whoppers Of The Week

And finally, speaking of gifts:  The gift that keeps on giving — Jeff Jacoby.

One thing that’s always baffled me is how racists think they can speak in “code” that nobody but other racists will understand.  Jeff Jacoby, who once lectured the Pope on the theology of capital punishment (article is archived, so there’s a fee to read it if you don’t take my word for it), complains about the President’s “swelling ego”.  Jacoby, still seething that African-Americans have sought to be anything besides railroad porters, pro basketball players, busboys, or pancake-box icons, thinly disguises his disgust for “uppity blacks”, “Negroes that don’t know their place”, “Colored people not deferential enough to their white superiors”, etc. in 21st-century language.  

He makes his case on the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which right-wingers have used to reassert one of the great tropes of Reagan revisionism — that Reagan himself was responsible for the breakup of the Soviet Union, and not a variety of factors that had nothing to do with Reagan, the U.S., or the Cold War.  And despite the fact that Reagan and his apologists did nothing to dispel this myth, Jacoby presents this whopper within a whopper within a whopper:  

Reagan maintained that there was no limit to what someone could achieve if he didn’t mind who got the credit.

Jeff Jacoby’s status as the perennial gold medalist of right-wing whopperdom is secure.

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