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NBC Panelist: Ad Calling Obama A Celebrity 'Another Attempt' to Paint Him As 'Other'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/05/02/nbc-panelist-ad-calling-obama-celebrity-another-attempt-paint-him-othe ^

Posted on 05/02/2012 5:18:14 PM PDT by chessplayer

On Wednesday's NBC Today, panelist and attorney Star Jones fretted over a recent campaign ad mocking President Obama's celebrity status and implied racial overtones in the criticism: "...what worries me is that it's another attempt to paint Obama as an 'other.' You know, they tried that with 'Oh, he ate dog meat when he was a boy.'" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]

Even fellow liberal panelist, advertising executive Donny Deutsch, called out Jones for her suggestion: "I hope this is not a black/white issue....Star, you're misreading." Jones stood by her accusation: "When you're pointing the finger saying he's different than us in some way, I think it's a....subconscious attempt to differentiate him from the rest."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
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Dog whistles everywhere. Saying he acts like a celebrity is racist. Saying he ate dog meat as a kid is racist.
1 posted on 05/02/2012 5:18:23 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Star Jones had better remember the crook-N-Chief is half WHITE. Jones is racist for denying his mother is a white woman, not a black woman. Obama is not black, he is multiracial.

Star Jones is a racist!


2 posted on 05/02/2012 5:33:04 PM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!!)
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To: chessplayer

sure it wasn’t “m”other?


3 posted on 05/02/2012 5:33:17 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: chessplayer
Star, you married a gay man and had ad sponsors pay for your fake wedding.

Why would any one take you seriously?

4 posted on 05/02/2012 5:41:24 PM PDT by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: chessplayer

Why mince words: Obama is an “other”. He has virtually nothing in common with most Americans, including most African-Americans.


5 posted on 05/02/2012 5:51:50 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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To: chessplayer

He ate dog meat and liked it!


6 posted on 05/02/2012 5:58:38 PM PDT by GOPJ (Had a Christian minister yelled at a bunch of gay students - the New York Times would have covered i)
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To: chessplayer
the boy is a cult of personality...
7 posted on 05/02/2012 6:25:28 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: chessplayer

And the Romney dog-in-a-crate story was not an attempt to “paint him as ‘other’”?


8 posted on 05/02/2012 6:26:01 PM PDT by TChad
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He ate dog meat and liked it!

Now, be fair. He did not say that he liked it, he said that it was tough.

And what do you do to soften up tough meat?

You beat the hell out of it with one of these:

So, Obama was just saying that he thought the dog he ate should have been beaten with a mallet that had little spikes on it. Had the dog been beaten properly, Obama would have enjoyed eating it more.

9 posted on 05/02/2012 6:53:55 PM PDT by TChad
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10 posted on 05/02/2012 7:26:11 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
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To: chessplayer

Yet Star Jones has been affirmative action’d for every gig she’s gotten

Including this one. Is that “racist” Star?


11 posted on 05/02/2012 7:53:52 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Fat, drunk and stupid = Dumb, dependent, and Democrat)
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To: TChad
“A Dog In Every Pot” - freeper ETL

ETL;s come up with a nice campaign slogan for Obama and team... thought you would enjoy ...

12 posted on 05/03/2012 3:01:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (“A Dog In Every Pot” - freeper ETL)
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To: GOPJ
“A Dog In Every Pot” - freeper ETL

I used that as a tagline on a few posts. I stole it from cartoonist Michael Ramirez:

http://news.investors.com/editorialcartoons/cartoon.aspx?id=609613

13 posted on 05/03/2012 7:23:43 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad

Sometimes great minds think in the same ruts...


14 posted on 05/04/2012 3:42:22 PM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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To: TChad

Sometimes great minds think in the same ruts... Thanks for the link.


15 posted on 05/04/2012 3:42:42 PM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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To: GOPJ

That’s right. In fact, he specifically said in that book that dog was more tender than snake.


16 posted on 05/04/2012 3:49:03 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I’ve eaten rattlesnake - years ago - and remember it being tender - kind of like chicken... Then again mom was a terrible cook - and often ‘chicken’ was like rubber...


17 posted on 05/04/2012 7:50:12 PM PDT by GOPJ ( "A Dog In Every Pot" - freeper ETL)
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