Any Criticism Of Obama Is Racist
This
is the kind of garbage analysis of race and elections that might lose the White
House for the Dems:
When the controversy over Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright reached critical
mass last week, it was the political equivalent of the green flag at a NASCAR
race. The conservative strategists and talkers had been slowly circling the
track, feet itchy on the accelerator, just waiting for the signal to floor it.
But now, as The Politico reported in a story titled "GOP sees Rev. Wright
as path to victory," the Republican strategists know exactly what must
be done, starting with famed ad man Alex Castellanos:"All the sudden you’ve got two dots, and two dots make a line,"
said Castellanos. "You start getting some sense of who he is, and it’s
not the Obama you thought. He’s not the Tiger Woods of politics."
Got that? If you even hint that Obama is not as pure in thought and
background as Tiger Woods, you are guilty of playing the Willie Horton card.
The author of this piece, Paul Waldman, who is a ‘senior fellow’ at the execrable
Media Matters then goes on to say this:
As Castellanos knows well, these kinds of attacks have their greatest
power when they tap into pre-existing archetypes voters already carry with them,
and the deeper they reside in our lizard brains the better. So they will make
sure white Americans know that Obama is not Tiger Woods. He’s not the unthreatening
black man, he’s the scary black man. He’s Al Sharpton, he’s Malcom X, he’s Huey
Newton. He’ll throw grievance in your face, make you feel guilty, and who knows,
maybe kill you and rape your wife.
For a guy who claims to be against ‘hate’ he sure has some hateful things to
say about Republicans here. Of course none of it is true – where have conservatives
been claiming that Obama is Malcolm X? The conservative critique of Obama over
Wright is that Obama showed extremely poor judgment and taste in choosing this
man as a pastor, and that Obama passively or tacitly agrees with Wright. I have
not seen any conservatives arguing that Obama himself is another Wright or Malcom
X. Waldman’s perception and judgment on this matter is so skewed and warped,
he can’t even admit that it was the liberal MSM that opened up this can of worms
for Obama, not the ‘right-wing attack machine’. The American people right away
saw for themselves what a fraud Obama is when he claims to be a racial healer
while holding fast to his black racist preacher. Waldman needs to somehow blame
white racism for all this, while refusing to recognize that it is black racism
that is causing all of these problems for Obama.
Waldman comes up with a lot more silly liberal gibberish, basically amounting
to "hey whitey, shut up, or we will tar you as a racist." And that
is exactly what Waldman and Media Matters intend to do, because they are losing
the argument here and losing it badly. They are desperate to somehow
turn this Wright thing around. So they fling themselves into brainless liberal
attack mode, which is to screech at anyone they disagree with in the
hopes that their foe will slink away out of annoyance at the sheer noise of
it all, and ultimately shame them into voting for Obama.
When are liberals ever going to learn that trying to scold someone into voting
a certain way simply does not work?
Crossposted from Ken McCracken
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