Friday, August 01, 2008
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"Racially Tinged"? The New York Times Demonstrates Why It Is Bleeding Money
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
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The McCain ad smacking Obama for his "all hat, no cattle" resume has generated a lot of controversy, but the New York Times' assertion that the ad is "racially tinged" tells you everything about the Times and nothing about John McCain.
No American with a brain seriously thinks John McCain would ever approve a "racially tinged" ad, and the attempt to smear McCain as a racist will backfire on the Times and Obama. There's lots to object to in McCain's record whether you are left, right or center --my writing throughout last year detailed the objections of conservatives-- but the idea that Senator McCain would ever countenance an appeal to base instincts will be instantly rejected by voters left, right and center. McCain's been around a long, long time, and voters know him. He's an honorable man, as honorable a man as has ever run for the office. The paper's credibility (and profits) have never been lower, but this sort of absurd attack proves you can indeed fall off the floor. Even as other MSMers are waking up to Obama's many flaws, the Times endorses the pathetic playing of the race card by Obama, and proves that the most elite of elite media is not merely biased towards Obama. It is owned by him.
"Dollar Bill" Obama had a bad few days and reflexively appealed to race, and not for the first time. ("And did I mention, he's black?") Because racism is immoral, the attribution of it to a person innocent of the charge is a slander, and Obama has slandered John McCain and a lot of people as a result. This will not sit well with voters who have deep reservations about the inexperienced, untried "citizen of the world" peddling pompous rhetoric to Europeans while skipping out on meetings with wounded troops. John McCain's "energizer bunny" campaign excites very few people even as it reassures millions, and Obama's impulse to self-destruct should not be under-estimated. Perhaps a majority of Americans still understand that we remain at war with a committed and ruthless enemy, and that sending in a rookie who can't even handle a hard-hitting television ad is not exactly the best bet for the country's safety.
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Thanks for ya input, fo'ty fo', but you a white male southern Californian, transplanted to Fla. No ceegar.
You and Cotton Panties still "smell tear gas.. in Denver", don'tcha? What a pair of nice old gents: get too excited, like above, take your thorazine.
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Toast, Toast, Toaaassstttt...Clueless Toaaassttt! Empty Suit, Oh, Emptyyyyyyy Suitttttt, Empty Suiiiitttt...Yeahhhhh...
That's what O'Bammy is...Oh, Yeahhhhhhhh. |
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Let's hear from a white male southerner or two |
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Let set the record straight, if Obama was "white" Hillary would have won most Black votes. I don't want to hear his promoters crying fowl anymore, over Racial words. Obama accepted the Rev.,Wright racist anti-white spin, until he had to throw him, along with others, under the bridge for political expediency! They trashed Geraldine and Bill etc., for no good reason and now dare to call Mccains Ads racist? Have the Obamagans lost it? Do they not know fact from fiction? How can we have any kind of honest dialogue between the races, if blacks are so sensitive, defensive and overreact? Obama wants it both ways, to play on white guilt, gain their votes, then discredit those who will not vote for him as being racist, to fire up his groopies etc,! Of course. If he loses, it will be because of bias against a black man. They will never accept the fact that their Savior is NOT qualified to be President! Amen |
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about race in this election? McCain is white, Obama is black.
Tell you who cares, the white male South. Let's hear from a white male Southerner or two. |
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"Just stick with loving Bush.
Smooch him like McCain does"
You sadden me, briggsy. Has someone not emptied your drool bucket today? Is that why you're spewing this gibberish?
Someone give briggsy a hug... |
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"Poll after poll after poll has shown that a certain core group of Americans won't vote for a black candidate."
Relevance to the topic please? My contention was that any criticism of dumbo the idiot is framed as racist by his doltish followers- this is relevant how?
"And let's forget about Republicans for a moment - they celebrate their racism"
Unsubstantiated and absurd opinion, but that's never stopped a dimwitted lefty before, now has it?
"Sweet little lie - but that's your stock in trade."
And why is that a lie? Where else have I "lied"? Examples, please.
"Yeah - I notice you don't refer to Sydney McCain - John's middle name - but can't help but refer to Hussein - now I KNOW that's not racism - you just like the way it slips off the tongue, right?"
I refer to obama as b.hussein because I was "instructed" that using dumbo's middle name was "racist"- this is leftist pc thought police absurdity. Which race, pray tell, am I denigrating by using obama's middle name?
"More lies - you're pretty good at it.. "
More stupidity, you're VERY good at that.
I'd point to your asinine jabber about calling b.hussein by his middle name "racist" an extremely apt example of my point- do you do this irony on purpose, or is it an idiot savant style gift?
"I'm sure your genius just lights up any room you happen to grace...."
And I'm certain when you walk into a room people automatically become dumber.
Once again, I'll make it real simple, so maybe even you can get it:
Being a cheapjack Chicago community organizer, a do nothing state legislator, and a u.s. senator for all of 143 days does not qualify one to be President- no matter how well one can read a teleprompter.
You FAIL.
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"Isn't it great when you have this to consume your attention instead of real issues for which I hear one idea--drill. "
Exactly. Most Americans don't have the time or interest to parse the myriad issues. They briefly look at a candidate, his biography, his demeanor, maybe two or three core platform issues, and that's it.
This is one reason leftist elitist weenies don't get elected in this country.
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Every time I see a new, angry, small minded rube like Freddy come around here spewing vitriolic nonsense I wonder which part of the D party they represent? Is it the nuanced part? The moralistic and big hearted part? The spectacularly brilliant part? The happy part? Truly puzzling. |
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Obama's lack of survival skills without his handlers is what makes him EXACTLY like Brittany and Paris. It goes beyond being famous for being famous. Kudos to the McCain campaign.
I can only hope Saturday Night Live can come up with some sort of skit where a candidate screams 'RACIST' every time someone makes a salient point about their candidacy. I know...in my dreams... Perhaps someone should put something of the sort on YouTube. |
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"That's why he and Michelle continue to resume the underlying theme of racial/economic grievances that they've used since their 'organizer' days."
Yeah - and with such a BOOMING economy! What a bunch of DOLTS!
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"It's not desperation, it's actually a fairly canny strategy- not fair, not even close to being honest, but canny."
Not honest? Poll after poll after poll has shown that a certain core group of Americans won't vote for a black candidate. And let's forget about Republicans for a moment - they celebrate their racism - Democrats - are willing to cross the Aisle - after supporting HILLARY - who, also, had as little experience as Obama...
"Essentially they are trying to label anything, ANYTHING said against Obama as racist."
Sweet little lie - but that's your stock in trade.
"Eejit obama fanbois like the slackjawed dolts on this site then dutifully and moronically pick up this message, and start parroting it every time they see someone say something bad about b.hussein. "
Yeah - I notice you don't refer to Sydney McCain - John's middle name - but can't help but refer to Hussein - now I KNOW that's not racism - you just like the way it slips off the tongue, right?
"In this way any criticism of dumbo the idiot, regardless of content, is (they hope) framed as a racist attack."
More lies - you're pretty good at it..
"Sadly, there are many out there stupid enough to buy into it. comrade Briggsy, brain dead fred, etc. would fit that bill."
I'm sure your genius just lights up any room you happen to grace.... |
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Don't think Obama has an impulse to self destruct. He's just a one-trick pony. Can't survive without his handlers carefully managing him. That's why he ditched on the soldiers. That's why he and Michelle continue to resume the underlying theme of racial/economic grievances that they've used since their 'organizer' days.
They are telegenic and can perform for the crowd. But at heart they are very, very small and narrow minded people. |
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Just stick with loving Bush.
Smooch him like McCain does. |
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It's not desperation, it's actually a fairly canny strategy- not fair, not even close to being honest, but canny.
Essentially they are trying to label anything, ANYTHING said against Obama as racist.
Eejit obama fanbois like the slackjawed dolts on this site then dutifully and moronically pick up this message, and start parroting it every time they see someone say something bad about b.hussein.
In this way any criticism of dumbo the idiot, regardless of content, is (they hope) framed as a racist attack.
Sadly, there are many out there stupid enough to buy into it. comrade Briggsy, brain dead fred, etc. would fit that bill.
They can wriggle, they can wiggle, they can try to move the goalposts, they can point their fingers and scream racism until mid November.
But the simple inescapable fact remains:
Being a cheapjack Chicago community organizer, a do nothing state legislator, and a u.s. senator for all of 143 days does not qualify one to be President- no matter how well one can read a teleprompter.
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... then why do he and his tools like those on this site keep referring to his race and calling people racist?
I thought that Down Low O was supposed to elevate us, not drag us into the gutter.
Backlash time, baby!
McCain takes 35+ states.
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Do you think they would have put forth a leftist candidate named Shinjo Adolph Mussobini in 1944?
The audacity of the stupidity!
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The media has been accusing the American people of racism throughout this entire cycle. Whenever an analysis is done on why McCain is so close to Obama it is because votes are scared because he is black.
The reality is pretty clear. Obama has to look at himself as trying out for being president, not acting like he is president already. That worked for George W, but probably won;t work this time.
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There is nothing else other than standard leftist drivel to him. So, he has to play the race card.
Geraldine Ferraro, you know, that former democrat candidate for Vice President, saw this and said it many, many months ago.
All Obama has is race, and the only way he can come close to winning this election is to make white people feel guilty about "racism" and vote for him.
Good luck with that!
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"So McCain gets a pass on his racism and hatred because he was captured invading a nation, dropping bombs on their children, and paying the price "
Let me guess? You were horrified by the Gitmo stories, right? Abu Ghraib was bad too, huh? But McCain needs to "pay the price"? |
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[Seems like Barak Hussein Obama is racially tinged, with just enough african (and arab) blood to pass himself off as a candidate for American blacks, even though he was fed on his white mother's radical anti-American milk.]
Can't imagine at all why some Democrats would ever think Republicans would resort to racialism.
As per the ad, I'm willing to cut McCain slack because, at least to me, I didn't see any racial imagery in the ad and I think it's a mild stretch to assert overt racism.
I did think it was a profoundly stupid ad, given how many politicians win office precisely because of their celebrity.
Now, should one of his advisers have caught the possible interpretation of putting young (reasonably) pretty and loose white women in an ad attacking a black opponent?
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"MLK Day? Voting against ANOTHER federal holiday? Not racist."
Can you list the OTHER federal Holidays McCain voted against?
"Affirmative Action IS racist. McCain is against it."
of course it's racist - because making up for centuries of racism (and sexism, since White women benefitted the most) - by turning the tables even slightly - is racist and sexist itself!
"Civil Rights of 1993? What’s racist about that vote?"
If you have to ask... |
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"Gooks: the Asians who tortured and almost killed him during more than FIVE YEARS in the Hanoi Hilton? I’ll cut him some slack on that."
Interesting. So McCain gets a pass on his racism and hatred because he was captured invading a nation, dropping bombs on their children, and paying the price - so he HATES the Vietnemese, while Black in America - treated for centuries as second class citizens, only recently coming to the table, any resentment THEY may harbor - like Rev. Wright - now that's HATEFUL and racist...
interesting double standard you carry. |
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Obama administered a racism vaccine.
He wants to immunize the voters against the natural appeal from the right to let fear overwhelm better judgment and to disregard their own self interest.
On every level imaginable, it is contrary to the good of the American people to vote for another Cheney Bush term.
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Get a library card and come back later.
Gooks: the Asians who tortured and almost killed him during more than FIVE YEARS in the Hanoi Hilton? I’ll cut him some slack on that.
MLK Day? Voting against ANOTHER federal holiday? Not racist.
Affirmative Action IS racist. McCain is against it.
Civil Rights of 1993? What’s racist about that vote?
As to his supporters and ads…..take your complaint to Jeremiah Wright.
If John McCain was a racist he certainly doesn't walk the walk when it comes to his own family.
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from Barack Obama with no so subtle claims of racism and strange analogies about dollar bills. Really grow up, Barack Obama previously himself compared his celebrity to that of Paris Hilton. I am sure he did not enjoy the suggestion now that he shares Paris Hilton's vapidness, but so what. |
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"It's quite material that the candidate the dems have nominated has as his middle name the guy we took out in Iraq and his last name is one initial away from the last name of the guy we spattered all over the inside of a in Afghanistan. "
it's quite material to retards and drooling racists...
take a look in the mirror if you want to see one... |
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"Why is the Obama campaign playing the race card so early in the campaign? We haven't even had the conventions yet. For goodness sake, most Americans aren't even paying attention yet."
You don't suppose that's because the right wing are a bunch of drooling racists - do you? From the attacks on his family name, the sneaky hints that he's a muslim, the lie that Michelle Obama had a video out there screaming WHITEY, the smears on Rev. Wright - while embraccing Jerry FallHell, the call that Obama is Uppity (presumptuous), the lies about his patriotism - that's pure racism. I know it makes you Klanners uncomfortable to have the sheets pulled away - and I know that too many white folks subscribe to the philosophy that blacks should be grateful that we finally let them come to the table, and, unfortunately, that discussions of race will do Obama's campaign in - but not because it's not true - but because it is... |
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"After the undeniably racist reference to the presidents on our currency .......... and the right calling it out for what it is......"
Racist? I wonder what YOUR definiton of racism is - because calling Obama's reference to dollar bills - featuring our first Slave Holder in Chief, is hardly racist...
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he called Asains 'Gooks"
He voted against MLK day
he's against Affirmative Action
He voted against the Civil Rights act of 1993...
His supporters make fun of Obama's name.
he runs an ad juxtaposing Obama (the black man) against two ditzy blondes (a classic appeal to racism)
but racist?
not John MCain! |
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In 1956 I was a 20 y.o. white guy living in a all white city 30,000. One night I was hanging out with friends when 2 black kids, about our age, came into town. One of my friends said "let's run them out of town." I left shortly there after and I never learned the outcome except that I was ashamed because I had not spoken out and I implicitly knew that my silence was acceptance. "The Board" need not be ashamed but those who accept the racism of the McCain ads should be. |
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After the undeniably racist reference to the presidents on our currency .......... and the right calling it out for what it is......
The Gray Lady ..... comes out with an almost juvenile Tit for Tat.
"Oh yea .... well... your racist tooo ---- SO THERE."
NICE!! |
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Obama's inability to laugh at things is a good point. Most Americans like a person who laugh at his big ears, his funny name, his "blackness," even some of the things his preacher said could have been laughed off. But follow that up with hardhitting words about the simple fact that for Obama your money is his money; he'll give you back only what you need to stay right where you are is the best way. |
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Good question. One possibility is that his internal polling showed that the overseas trip was not playing well at home.
The seven point point daily tracking bounce after the Berlin speech disappeared in less than a week. The race card was an act of desperation to distract from the very recent double dose of bad news for the Dems: polling numbers were collapsing after saturation coverage of what they thought was an international victory lap and, yesterday's GDP report that growth almost doubled in the recent quarter compared to the prior quarter.
As I said yesterday, I smell panic. |
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Why is the Obama campaign playing the race card so early in the campaign? We haven't even had the conventions yet. For goodness sake, most Americans aren't even paying attention yet.
I think they're becoming desperate. I think they had assumed that the media would have already been able to turn Obama into an unstoppable force by now.
But that hasn't turned out to be the case.
Absent any real substance, and given the failure of the media explosion to crown him king, Obama is becoming desperate.
You know the Democrats have to be squirming right now. |
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Look carefully folks, a la Willie Horton, this is the Democratic myth machine at work.
The "racial attacks" by McCain lie will now be repeated and enter into the left wing talking point machine; over time the lie will take on a life of it's own to be utilized by Democrats as an excuse for their upcoming loss of the Presidency in November. |
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The "BHO stuff" is an important part of who he is.
Does a sweet kid vote against protecting the life of babies born during botched abortions? Does a sweet kid make it in South Chicago politics?
It's quite material that the candidate the dems have nominated has as his middle name the guy we took out in Iraq and his last name is one initial away from the last name of the guy we spattered all over the inside of a in Afghanistan.
It's Twilight Zone, but it's very material.
The sad thing is when Republicans let fear of being tarred as "bigoted" keep them from speaking the truth.
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Hewitt and Medved would have very few bloggers if the narrowminded, ignorant, hateful crowd didn't show up. Face it, you guys need them, and McCain can't get elected without them.
I'm sure your so-called "base" has a lot of fine, moral people, but for the good of the country you should either bring them along so they can behave with polite folks or leave them to the John Birch Society.
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Jorge, I am no Obama fan, but the BHO stuff is not the way to go. It makes republicans look like bigots, and allows Obama to smell like a rose.
We should defeat him on policy.
I refer to him as BHMO:
Barack Hannah Montana Obama.
He is a sweet kid, but this is an adult world. We need John McCain.
Respectfully, eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
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Per wiktionary, tinged has to do with a small amount of color.
Seems like Barak Hussein Obama is racially tinged, with just enough african (and arab) blood to pass himself off as a candidate for American blacks, even though he was fed on his white mother's radical anti-American milk.
Sell that tinge, Omassah!
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tinge
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