odd couple and their wig-hats
Rudy Giuliani, master-baiter
“The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. That’s going to happen less than one percent of the time," Giuliani said Monday on Fox News. "The danger to a black child -- if it was my child -- the danger is another black."....
Then after the news of no indictment for Wilson and resulting protests that turned violent, Giuliani went on CNN on Tuesday to talk about "racial arsonists" and the need for the black community to be "trained."
"When the president was talking last night about training the police, of course, the police should be trained," he said. "He also should have spent 15 minutes on training the [black] community to stop killing each other. In numbers that are incredible -- incredible -- 93 percent of blacks are shot by other blacks. They are killing each other. And the racial arsonists, who enjoyed last night, this was their day of glory."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
The original point as reframed was made only days before Michael Brown was executed by Darren Wilson
Tea party conservatives supporting state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) have been accusing establishment Republicans supporting Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) of "race-baiting" — but they're using that term in a different way than how it's historically been used, as a sort of shield to try and block accusations of racism.
Since the runoff McDaniel and his supporters have argued that Cochran's campaign won the primary mostly through getting Democrats and African-Americans to vote for him. They did that, they say, by using "race-baiting" ads, which allegedly motivated African-Americans to vote for Cochran because McDaniel is a racist.
The problem is, while this is a technically correct use of the term — which is defined as unfair statements about race — that's not quite how the term race-baiting has usually been used. Typically, it's been used to describe verbal attacks directed at people of a certain racial group to intimidate or otherwise undermine them.