Reddit reviews Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters

Published in 2008:

John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters

https://www.amazon.com/Gook-John-McCains-Racism-Matters/dp/0967943345
McCain again. This is fun.

Couldn't possibly have been that the only time "the klu klux klan" was mentioned in the tapper interview occurred during crosstalk ^^primary ^^sources ^^op which might have made it difficult to hear that part. Which couldn't possibly be one of the things Trump mentions afterwards?

> I could hardly hear what he's saying. I hear various groups. I don't mind disavowing anyone. I disavowed Duke the day before at a major conference

The last part sort of raising the question as to why the media needs to keep asking him to disavow when he's already disavowed.

But of course, courting the racist vote, a staggering .2% of the GP is a good strategy, and that's why Trump's whistling at dogs all day, because by only dog whistling, nobody would pick up on it (what's the point of a dog whistle, amirite?) and therefore the majority of people who dislike racists and racism wouldn't be exposed to the idea that Trump is a racist.

An idea that couldn't possibly be lazily applied to every. republican. candidate. ever.?

Because, you know, every republican candidate is hitler.

>Hillary Clinton was the only person from a list of possible Presidential nominees with such a low approval rating as Trump - Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are closer to 50% than 30%, unlike Trump.

It's easy to be popular when you aren't in the public eye. democrats as a whole have a lower approval than trump, which is what matters now.


>There's something about the way that Trump talks and acts that puts off more Americans than are usually put off by Republican Presidents - there are a whole host of statistics showing that people find Trump to be very untrustworthy, etc.

I dislike repeating myself, please read and respond to what I actually say. To repeat, "and so are his democratic opponents. approval for everyone is down, clearly something more substantial than trump is at work."

>The tax cuts passed in part because that's one of the main Republican ideas that they all agree on. I'd say the ACA repeal could've happened under Pence, because he's more steeped in the nuances and negotiations of such bills than Trump.

In other words, "trump should resign because pence is better and I know this because I think pence is better". You are assuming the thing you are supposed to be trying to prove, please stop.

>Also, with Trump capable of attacking any bill that comes out, and thus turning his base, and thus, the Republican base, against the ideas, the Republicans have seemed far less willing to push for or compromise with Democrats on various issues. Less likely to agree with Democrats on basic facts, to pass bills like DACA which have an 80% approval rating among the people, etc.

Polling on issues like this is meaningless. People like DACA they also like the idea of deporting illegals and lower immigration. the population is schizophrenic, and there's no idea that can't poll 60+ percent support. Pointing this out proves nothing.

>The tax cuts had almost nothing to do with Trump -

The people involved thought differently, but I'm sure you know better than them, right?

>The book is gossipy, and lacks verifiability, but several news outlets have managed to get certain details, such as the idea that Trump had all his briefings cut down to one page, because he hated reading too much,

That, or he's a wharton MBA and MBAs are literally taught to do that sort of thing as standard practice. But why read basic management books when you can just assume something shity about trump, right?

>What do you feel are the Democratic attacks that are the most baseless and damaging towards Trump, that actually had an impact on policymaking?

Where to begin? You've not made a single, verifiable claim about policy anywhere in what you have said. Not one.

>They're playing a partisan role, partially, but I think that Trump himself has some characteristics that are upsetting many parts of the country, and the Democrats are simply playing on those characteristics more, now.

He has one characteristic, an R by his name. That's enough.


>Pence would never say stuff that divides the country, at least, not as much as Trump does.

Again, you can't just assume the thing you are trying to rpove.

>The fact is, Republican approval of the NFL plummeted, shortly after Trump's attacks on the anthem protesters. And the drop in viewership this year is a few points higher than usual.

No, this isn't a fact. the fact is that NFL ratings have been falling for years. Please don't just make shit up.

>Pence wouldn't attack private institutions like that, nor would he cause such a divide and rancor in the country, which only energizes his opponents, and makes it harder for the Democrats to compromise with him, without appeasing the demands of their base.

Why on earth would you assume this?


>I don't know any prominent Republican politician who has been credibly accused of being a racist.

Yes you do, every single one, without exception. If you truly don't see this, then you need to get your head out of the sand. Democrats accuse every republican of the slightest importance of being racist every chance they get. THAT is what has poisoned the well of public discourse, not trump. Trump is a consequence of the things you are accusing him of, not a cause.

There's literally entire books written on John McCain's racism.

Sorry, I missed some of your points at the end.

>I'm sorry you think a vulgar t-shirt is the equivalent of a slogan adopted first by white supremacists and then decades later by Trump, but you're making a false equivalency here.

What slogan are you referring to? "Make America Great Again" is ripped of from Reagan's campaign slogan. Are you calling Reagan a racist now too? Can you cite any evidence that "white supremacists" first used the slogan?

Comparing a red hat to a KKK hood is a false equivalency.

> Take it from a gay man or a person of color: we see these hats as symbols of hate.

Can I ask why? Do you even personally know a Trump supporter, much less someone who owns one of these hates? Take it from a white straight man. I don't give a shit what your race or sexuality is.

>That's not because we just suddenly decided to hate Trump.

Oh yes it is. Trump was the first president in history to be in favor of same sex marriage, but you probably didn't even know that. Prior to 2015, he was pals with Hillary, and even donated to her Senate campaign with her famously attending his wedding. Then he challenged Democrat's power, and they told you to hate him. I don't fault you. The Dems are the best propagandists there are.

>Broadly speaking LGBT folks and black people (90+% of both groups) now refuse to vote for Republicans. You'lle this didn't happen with the Bush, McCain, or Reagan campaigns.

"This didn't happen with..." Lol, you're joking, right? They DID THE EXACT SAME THING WITH THEM. Kanye West went on national tv during a telethon to help Katrina victims and said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people". Bush is a Nazi. Bush is a war criminal. Bush hates gays. I grew up listening to all of that. I even believed a little of it at the time.

People having written books about how McCain was a terrible evil no good very bad racist in 2008...only to have Obama give a glowing eulogy about him a decade later.

Joe Biden said of Romney, that if elected, he'd put black people back in chains.

Reagan, too, as we're told by the left, was a vile racist who stoked fears of anti-white racism...because only a racist would care about racist directed at white people...

Democrats don't have any policies that sell well, so they use the same trick they've used for the last 50 years. They call everyone a racist, and then hope you fall for it.

"We never said McCain was a racist!

Yeah, about that:

https://www.amazon.com/Gook-John-McCains-Racism-Matters/dp/0967943345

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101102216.html?noredirect=on

https://www.thenation.com/article/john-mccain-racist/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/oct/14/mccain-palin-obama-racism

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/01/campaign.wrap/

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Veiled-racism-seen-in-new-attacks-on-Obama-3266286.php

http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-goldberg19-2008oct19-story.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/10/mccain_calls_obama_that_one_wh.html

We can do the same thing for senile if you like.

No, I don't 'gotta respect McCain' just because he sometimes acts more dignified than the rest of his party. He is where he is because of his dad. He's shown himself to be racist again and again. That's why he didn't mind launching racially-coded attacks on Obama during the campaign.

You realize that there are assholes in both parties right? Or are you trying to argue that Liberals have the superior belief system, because no one in that group uses insulting nicknames? At least it's creative, as opposed to calling every leading Republican candidate of the past 30 years a racist...

http://www.amazon.com/Gook-John-McCains-Racism-Matters/dp/0967943345

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/02/mitt-romneys-shockingly-racist-acceptance-speech/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mike-myers-kanye-west-spoke-706420

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/11/noam-chomsky-ronald-reagan-was-an-extreme-racist/

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/the-modern-war-on-drugs-began-as-nixon-s-assault-on-blacks

> You are defending the Nazi event filled with Nazi's and Holocaust deniers.

The neo-Nazis came out way later in the evening. Did I oppose the removal of Robert E Lee’s statue by a bunch of butthurt Leftists who are in no-way affected by it? Absolutely. Not bc I’m fond of him as a historical figure but bc Lee was just the start. Nowadays, Leftists want to get rid of ANY statue, memorial, monument, namesake from Founders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson bc they owned slaves at one point.

>Christian Picciolini, US author of Memoirs of a Skinhead and former neo-Nazi...

Oh honey, you think what he said/wrote is unique to Trump? As I’ve said many times before, this tactic of calling the sitting Republican president or presidential candidate (and/or their rhetoric) a Nazi, White Supremacist, KKK, racist, etc, is a tired old song.
Some poor loser wrote a whole academic paper on president Bush “white supremacist” rhetoric when he used the phrase “War on Terror” was just really a war on brown people. (1 2) and the same crap against John McCain (1 2 3) and even Mitt Romney, who was the mellowest candidate of the last 50 years (1).

So again, absolutely nothing of substance. Meanwhile, democrats continue to support racist policies like affirmative action and employment quotas which are disproportionately affecting Asians and Jews. But yeah, Trump bashing illegal immigrants of all races is worse 🤣.