Times ed board: McCain move 'racially tinged'

Politico ^ | 08/01/2008 | Ben Smith

[TheThinker]

It was smart of McCain to jump out front and call Obama on race-baiting. Ozbama’s reputation is already tarnished somewhat in that regard. Don’t go too far, Johnny, or it might backfire.

[weegee]

From this review, the NYet Times apparently supports “racially tinged” movies at least sometimes:

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE3DD173CF934A15750C0A964958260

White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
March 27, 1992
Review/Film; “Oh Well, Jumping Isn’t Everything”

“The torrent of your-mama comic insults heard in the basketball film “White Men Can’t Jump” suggests constant antipathy among the film’s racially mixed cast of characters. So does the fact that the actors are forever shoving one another’s shoulders when they deliver these lines.”

“Like the movie characters they are, Billy and Sidney develop a close rapport forged out of enthusiastically traded wisecracks (Sidney’s friends often refer to Billy in terms of “The Brady Bunch” or “The Andy Griffith Show”).”

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And there was an inter-racial romance in this film too.

But NO ONE is tying Obama to Britney Paris ROMANTICALLY or SEXUALLY.

Obama is bitching about how McCain won’t debate the issues with him. Obama is the one who turned down McCain’s offer for 10 town hall style debates.

Obama talks trash and his mouth writes checks his a** can’t cash.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I long for the day when a few thousand people will gather outside the Times building in protest against its continued existence, with grim reapers, town criers, and signs saying “Go Fold Yourself!” Maybe a dump truck loaded with unsold papers, and a six-foot-tall canary in NYT diapers pouring white-out on their doorstep.

[Heartland Mom]

There was absolutely nothing racist about the ad. People looking to find racism will find it everywhere. I'm surprised BHO, since he is so consumed with finding it everywhere, failed to notice it when he was attending Rev. Wright's "church" for 20 years.

This is actually very encouraging news because the racism card is usually played when they can't think of anything else.

[PghBaldy]

I have read libs who said it implies that Obama is a threat to white woman.

[PghBaldy]

If McCain had used vapid black celebs, the talk would have been... McCain is pointing out that Obama is black. He can’t win, therefore he has to just charge ahead. NOTHING he does will be innocent to the cynical left. ANYTHING can be implied with anything to do with Obama.

[MortMan]

NYTimes is egregiously conflating the “celebrity” comparison with the “Call me” message from a white actress in the anti-Ford ad. The “call me” was unquestionably sleazy - although apparently quite accurate in Ford’s case. It also wasn’t racist, due to its grounding in truth, but was definitely portrayed that way.

In this case, there is no “there” there.

[PghBaldy]

If they say he is young and inexperienced, people will say he called Obama “boy.” McCain just has to accept this and keep going. Heck, he can do ads about how anything that belittles Obama is interpreted as racist and how Obama is playing the race card. There are more whites than blacks in this country.