I officially unmasked myself and started going by my real name but kept the “Southern Avenger” moniker. I toned down my rhetoric, even as I made many of the same arguments about illegal immigration and other issues. I began to focus on what might be done to rescue the Republican Party from the damage wrought by President George W. Bush, who put conservatives in the unfortunate position of defending unpopular wars and ignoring the largest government expansion in history.
via Confessions of a Right-Wing Shock Jock – Jack Hunter – POLITICO Magazine.
This, is, uh…probably the most damning paragraph in the piece (which as a whole is pretty dang damning). It is so because of the part I bolded…
You see…this is the kind of cosmetic change these folks went through as the culture at large rejected their out and out racism. It goes from “We need to end welfare because the lazy niggers are robbing us blind” to “We need to end welfare because libertarianism”.
And this is his apology piece.
Same argument…slightly different rhetoric. This stuff still appeals to the folks that know the reason for the rhetoric, but the coded appeals have now skipped a generation and many young “libertarians” don’t realize what the real reasons for the policy positions were in the first place.