You know who I hate? People who call us racists day after day after day after day.
Via Newsbusters:
On Thursday’s The Last Word show on MSNBC, host Lawrence O’Donnell and MSNBC contributor Joy Reid asserted that Republicans who oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants are “haters of” and “don’t like” Hispanics as the panel discussed the concerns expressed by Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh about increasing the number of immigrants in the U.S. by tens of millions.
After coining the term “Limbaugh cohort” to refer to those who oppose amnesty, Reid asserted:
“The polls show that, right now, Hispanics tend to favor Democratic policies. And again, they don’t have confidence that they can ever change that because they don’t like these people. It’s hard to get people to vote for you when you don’t like them.”
O’Donnell soon introduced the word “haters” as he repeated Reid’s point:
“Yeah, and, E.J., that’s one of the problems of this debate going on for Boehner and people who want the Republican party to have a future, is there will be more commentaries like that from the Ann Coulters, from the Limbaughs. They’ll be talking about this endlessly, and they will absolutely be publicly characterizing the Republican party, in effect, as Joy says, haters of these people. I mean, you didn’t hear anything in what Ann Coulter just said that indicates that she has any positive feelings about the people that we’re talking about here.”