Marco Rubio, “Coconut” Or “Great White Hope”?  Kathy Shaidle
writes  Everyone is upset over Donny Deutsch calling Rubio a
“coconut,” and it IS incredibly stupid. But how much more fun is
it that Deutsch had to catch himself before using the old school
expression “great white hope” — and trying and failing to do the
mental gymnastics needed to make that phrase work under the
circumstances. Between the “you know” and the “hope,” you can
just about hear his brain going “oh, wait…”  Newsbusters
reported“MSNBC and CNBC contributor ” and professed Charlie
Crist admirer ” Donny Deutsch used racially charged language
blah blah blah “–sorry, dozed off there for moment. Look,
“Coconut” is a smear like Oreo, Apple, or Banana indicating that
someone is one color on the outside, but white on the inside.
Not that there`s anything wrong with that.  This “Whiteness on
the inside” frequently consists of loyalty to the United States
of America, support for law and order, and not supporting
socialism. Michelle Malkin has been g