Posted on 08/04/2012 5:06:28 PM PDT by chessplayer
On the Saturday Washington Post “On Faith” page, columnist and Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller insisted it was not a news story that black ministers came to the National Press Club and insisted Obama’s support for gay marriage “might cost him the election.”
It’s not a story, Miller insisted, because Rev William Owens is “enough to make a cynic blush...He’s a figurehead in what political operatives call an ‘Astroturf’ campaign...and his threat is not a threat.” Miller complained about the news sites that somehow found this “nearly empty” press conference newsworthy:
CNN, Fox News, NBC, the New York Post, the Daily Caller and the Christian Post, among others, followed the story. Headlines underscored the potential threat: “Obama’s support for gay marriage ‘might cost him the election,’” wrote NBC.com.
Andrew Mach at NBC.com reported the same thing Miller found so off-putting and artificial: Rev. Owens is associated with the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes gay marriage lobbyists across the country. Miller felt pressed to admit there was a “glimmer of honesty” in this publicity against Obama: "In every craven political maneuver, there is a glimmer of honesty, however, and this case is no exception. The African American community has been slower than the American majority to accept same-sex marriage."
But Miller said Owens was also “Astroturf” because most black Americans will stick with Obama seemingly no matter how much of Christianity he opposes in the public square. She quoted David Bositis of the liberal Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies: “I would place the odds of African Americans defecting the president as about the same as the odds of an asteroid hitting the Earth and wiping out all human life.”
Panic among media slaveholders.
Miller is essentially telling blacks that they are "more Democrat than Christian".
Some would beg to differ.
Lisa Miller is a slobbering whore of Babylon. How dare she call them astro-turf! Has she been cavorting with Satan’s disciple, Nancy Pelousy? Lisa’s the one that’s astro turf, she should be melted down, tarred and feathered and drive out of town on a rail.
Yes, "ignore the black pastors who oppose homo marriage. Now if they supported it and approved of Obama, then we'd want to you listen to them (and we, the "news" media, would be shouting it from the rooftops)".
It doesn’t get much more grassroots than pastors. This is how the monolithic black vote starts to crack.
Someone who doesn't declare blind allegiance based on skin color is "astroturfing"? "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil..."
Not only does she presume to decide who is an authentic Black and which one is astroturf, but she can’t even imagine a Black thinking for himself. It would be really bad news if she inherits a plantation.
Blacks are not 'white liberal elites' - even if their votes are what keeps white liberal elites in power... and Lisa needs to understand that...
Lisa Miller is a member in good standing of the white liberal media elite"
http://www.lisaxmiller.com/lisa-miller-newsweek/
It's doubtful she is acquainted with any blacks other than the affirmative action tokens her circle may keep at hand to assuage their "commitment to diversity".
Unless the GOP develops a minority outreach they won’t cross over to our side. Indians, Chinese and Asians in general should all be Republicans. They know socialism firsthand, yet the Dems capture these business owners right away. GOP outreach is non-existent.
The vast majority of blacks are conservatives and know the importance of marriage and family. We need to get Allen West and Herman Cain on the Tom Joyner Show and tell it like it is. Go head to head with these mindless Step-n-fetch-its on the Dem plantation.
The Elite Liberals are the worst racists in the world. Blacks are their pets. They see them as inferior and in need of mentoring and control. All’s good as long as they don’t move into the neighborhood.
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