 Harold Ford and fiance Emily Threlkeld |
If I passed the guy on the street, I would not identify him as black.
Gotta love it: Blacks Angered By Harold Ford Jr.’s Bride Choice
Posted on 07/31/2008 7:46:51 PM PDT by JRochelle
It wasnt so long ago that John McCain was The New York Times' favorite Republican.
Now, the editorial board is apparently so fed up that they can't wait until next day's paper and is blogging about him in the middle of the day:
[T]here was something surreal, and offensive, about today’s soundbite from the campaign of Senator John McCain.
The presumptive Republican nominee has embarked on a bare-knuckled barrage of negative advertising aimed at belittling Mr. Obama. The most recent ad compares the presumptive Democratic nominee for president to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton — suggesting to voters that he’s nothing more than a bubble-headed, publicity-seeking celebrity.
The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives, some of whom work for Mr. McCain now, ran against Harold Ford, a black candidate for Senate in Tennessee in 2006. That assault, too, began with videos juxtaposing Mr. Ford with young, white women.
Mr. Obama called Mr. McCain on the ploy, saying, quite rightly, that the Republicans are trying to scare voters by pointing out that he “doesn’t look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills.’’
But Rick Davis, Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, had a snappy answer. “Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,” he said. “It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.’’
The retort was, we must say, not only contemptible, but shrewd. It puts the sin for the racial attack not on those who made it, but on the victim of the attack.
It also — and we wish this were coincidence, but we doubt it — conjurs up another loaded racial image.
The phrase dealing the race card “from the bottom of the deck” entered the national lexicon during the O.J. Simpson saga. Robert Shapiro, one of Mr. Simpson’s lawyers, famously declared of himself, Johnny Cochran and the rest of the Simpson defense team, “Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.”round
McCain’s campaign is dancing around an excellent campaign theme; and that is that the media has created Obama’s candidacy, like the television show created the Monkees. He (McCain) needs to sharpen it more and present it as an attack on an unethical media that won’t look like cheap shots at Obama personally. Obama’s campaign has become a marketing event by partisan ‘journalism’ and he’s just going along for the free ride. Obama should never be blamed (or credited) with engineering the PR hysteria that’s engulfed his candidacy; even he couldn’t afford the kind of coverage the press is giving him. It’s not his fault.
I admit to watching a few minutes of hardball,and i have your answer from that rachel woman.... “just like with harold ford, bambi and two white women”....that is all they need! mind blowing.
Harold Ford and fiance Emily Threlkeld |
If I passed the guy on the street, I would not identify him as black.
Gotta love it: Blacks Angered By Harold Ford Jr.’s Bride Choice
Yep. Ford looks like a “young White man”.
"pathetic" says it all for me.
Obama is not the President yet. What does he mean by "all those other Presidents"?
Well, they forgot to attack McCain on that other white fear. The prejudice of a black man with a blond woman. I’m sure the Times or someone else on the left will run with that one eventually.
LOL. Good catch.
Ugh, my brain hurts from trying to wrap itself around these insane liberal rantings! And from a formerly “respected” newspaper???
A racial attack with Britney and Paris? What???????????????
Thanks, but in fairness the credit goes to the Instapundit for catching it first. I can’t take credit for it. The source is www.instapundit.com It’s a good aggregate done by Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds. Daily must read for me, just like FR is.
Every time I think the NY Times bozos have shown the depths of their depravity and dementia, they come back to show they can sink lower still. Now McCain is simply not ‘allowed’ to criticize the divine Obambi, because ANYTHING you say about the Obamanator can be twisted and distorted into something said to hint remotely of something ‘racial’.......
F*** these jokers. They need to be crushed, period, driven from public life forever, total disgrace.
Don’t be so dumb.
ANY critcism of Obama is, by definition, racist.
Or at least, that’s what any Obama supporter will tell you.
The really obnoxious part of this whole argument is that liberals assume such "subliminal racism" works, because thero are soooo many of us evil white rednecks who will recoil at the thought of a black man with a white woman. Talk about being stuck in the 1930s! To people like the New York Times editors, there are folks walking around the streets of Nashville in white sheets and hoods, and lynchings are a regular occurrence everywhere outside of New York City.
So just HOW did a black man get to be the Democratic nominee for President in such a horribly racist country?
You know, I think it might be worth some money and some screaming by the liberal media for McCain to come out with a new ad that talks about Barack Obama and simply shows an empty picture frame. The narrator should then say “this is supposed to be a picture of Barack Obama. But the New York Times says it’s racist to actually show his picture in an ad. So we’ll just tell you that he’s wrong for America. Not because he’s black, but because he’s inexperienced, insincere, and incapable of telling you what he really means.”
Good idea!! If the McCain campaign doesn’t do something like that soon we should suggest it to 3rd party groups (527s etc.) that might work up a good ad on that basis. If well executed it really could be a very effective message.
Who ya gonna believe? The NY Times or your lying ears?
** suggesting to voters that he’s nothing more than a bubble-headed, publicity-seeking celebrity.**
Well, isn’t he? Obamanation, that is.
“The more that Obama claims to be a victim of racism, the less “post-racial” he becomes, and the more he becomes the candidate for the the black people. And therefore, the less white votes he will get.”
Which is precisely why the New York Slimes and their ilk will put the white guilt campaign into overdrive going into the election...If McCain begins to move ahead in the polls (I doubt it as they are ridiculously biased), this will reach absurd proportions.
Too funny. The NYT didn’t like the Harold Ford ad that only ran on the news and on the internet? They thought that was racist? hahahahahahahaha. That wasn’t racist. It hit the mark, and it was the best political ad I’ve seen in years. roflol
I haven’t watched the Britney/Paris ad. I don’t want to be disappointed that it doesn’t meet up to my high expectations.
I want to see t-shirts with President Obama’s “Alfred E. Neuman” mug superimposed on a dollar bill.
Oh please.
And I don't recall the NYet Times taking the LA Weekly to task for portraying Condi Rice as a gansta thug with gold teeth.
This is an ugly campaign alright becuase Stalinists in the media are doing their dammedist to denounce anyone who stands opposed to the Obamessiah.
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