Matt Taibbi: McCain's Coded Racial Appeals Are Going To Fail; They May Never Use Them Again



Rolling Stone correspondent Matt Taibbi said on WNYC's Presidential debate Preview show this morning from Hofstra University, that if you scratch the surface, you can see the less-than coded racial appeals in the McCain-Palin campaign. Taibbi recited a list of the Republican Party's some recent history of coded appeals -- Willie Horton, Reagan's "Welfare Queen" -- noting that this is nothing new.

The Franklin Raines commercial, Taibbi cited, exhibit coded appeals, as well as the "race traitor" William Ayers, who threw his lot with the black radicals. "It just seems to me that this is the strategy that they seem to pursue because they can't focus in on anything else," said Taibbi. Sarah Palin, Taibbi noted, uses coded words that "any white person" can understand. Taibbi concluded of the coded appeals "it's gonna fail this time, and that's historic -- they may never use them again"