Here’s a less than illuminating passage from a hot-off-the-presses New York Times story on Scott Walker bowing out of the presidential race, headlined “Scott Walker’s Dismal Finish Is a Fitting Result, Old Foes Say” :
Old political adversaries of Mr. Walker greeted his dour denouement as a fitting result for a politician who they say began and furthered his career here with a divisive style, a penchant for turning out conservative supporters rather than working with opponents, and tacit racial appeals in one of the nation’s most segregated cities. But the irony is that Mr. Walker was eclipsed by candidates who have ignited the Republican base with more overtly nativist and, their critics argue, racist appeals.
Emphasis added. You do have to love that the Times chooses to hang accusations of racism in the current GOP race on the arguments of unnamed critics. The rest of the article recounts criticism of Walker’s tough-on-crime campaign for Seventh District Assembly seat in Milwaukee in 1990. He was 23 years-old and running against a black Democrat. The details recounted are both dubious and old news.
It’s really a mystery why Republicans feel the Times has a liberal bias.
