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CNN's Jen Psaki: President Trump's New 'Cheatin Obama' Nickname Might Have 'Racial Undertones'
News Busters ^ | April 5, 2018 2:22 PM EDT | By Ryan Foley |

Posted on 04/05/2018 6:11:13 PM PDT by ethom

During The Lead With Jake Tapper, former State Department spokeswoman and Obama communications director under President Obama Jen Psaki accused President Trump's new nickname for the former President, "Cheatin' Obama" of having racial undertones.

President Trump, who has become known for branding opponents in both political parties with nicknames, finally unveiled a nickname for his predecessor. When pointing to a Rasmussen poll showing that he had a 50 percent approval rating, the President said that his approval rating was higher than that of “Cheatin’ Obama” at the same time during his presidency.

Host Jake Tapper asked Psaki, now a CNN contributor, for her take on the nickname. According to Psaki:“Given Trump’s history, you can also guess that he might have, there might be racial undertones there. He was the founder of the birther movement. Perhaps I’m going to a very evil place with that but I think that history tells us that’s a possibility.”

Tapper then asked her if “you think he’s saying that because he’s black he cheats?” She responded: “Who knows,” adding that “without the context of his history,” she would not have attributed such sinister motives to the nickname. She also discounted the Rasmussen poll, stressing that the rolling averages have more significance than individual polls: “It’s sort of sad, actually, that he’s grabbing this outlier poll.”

As for the “birther” movement, let’s remember who started it. Before President Obama could face off against the Republicans, he had to get past Hillary Clinton; who many initially viewed as the frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in the 2008 presidential election. The Democratic primary that year closely divided the Democratic Party with Appalachian voters and older voters supporting Clinton while younger voters and African-Americans supported Obama.

Painting Obama as an outsider was one of the tactics used by Clinton campaign staffers in an attempt to boost her candidacy. Clinton confidante Sid Blumenthal had asked McClatchy’s James Asher to look into whether or not President Obama was born in Kenya. In addition, pollster Mark Penn had encouraged the Clinton campaign to focus on the young Illinois Senator’s “lack of American roots” and emphasize the fact that she was “born in the middle of America in the middle class in the middle of the last century.”

CNN has spent quite a bit of time trying to paint President Trump as a racist this week by pointing to his tweets about illegal immigration. President Trump’s new nickname for President Obama seems like the latest exhibit that Psaki and friends will use in their attempt to the President as a racist in the court of public opinion.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: boogedyboogedy; cheetachromemf; clintonnonnews; cnn; jaketapper; jenpsaki; mediawingofthednc; nowthatsitalian; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; racecard; x44
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To: Oratam

All of these coconspirator criminals should be exiled for the rest of their malignant, worthless lives. Pox on all of them.


41 posted on 04/05/2018 8:12:47 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oratam

All of these coconspirator criminals should be exiled for the rest of their malignant, worthless lives. Pox on all of them.


42 posted on 04/05/2018 8:12:56 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Oratam

All of these coconspirator criminals should be exiled for the rest of their malignant, worthless lives. Pox on all of them.


43 posted on 04/05/2018 8:13:20 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: xrmusn

I hate people who hate people who hate.

I won’t stands fer it I tells ya!

I’ll bet she calls him Mocha Barry.


44 posted on 04/05/2018 8:15:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: ethom

Yet more race mongering from Ryan Foley. The whole meme about Obama is that ANY criticism of Obama the liberal Alinsky fascist is somehow “racist,” another quick draw McGraw with a race card.

Cheatin’ Obama is a good term. It is wholesome because Barrack Obama tried to destroy American institutions at every turn in order to establish his draconian utopia.

This is a great article on why Cheatin’ Obama is a highly appropriate name:

“Barrack Obama: The Quintessential Liberal Fascist”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


45 posted on 04/05/2018 8:17:35 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: ethom

46 posted on 04/05/2018 8:18:27 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: ethom

It was considered racist for any white man to criticize any Obama policy. I had to shoot down that argument more than once.


47 posted on 04/05/2018 8:34:42 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: ethom

Racists see racism everywhere. It’s their vile leftism destroying what’s left of their feeble minds.


48 posted on 04/05/2018 8:42:22 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Mental Cancer on Society!)
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To: ethom
CNN's Jen Psaki: President Trump's New 'Cheatin Obama' Nickname Might Have 'Racial Undertones'...doesn't everything negative about any black whose supporters don't want to admit he might be a sleeze and thug?......
49 posted on 04/05/2018 8:45:57 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: ethom
Tapper then asked her if “you think he’s saying that because he’s black he cheats?” She responded: “Who knows,” [...]

A: "Obama was a bad president."

B: "Is 'B' saying that because Obama is [half] Black he was a bad president?"

C: "That's exactly the problem: We can't know for sure!"

Regards,

50 posted on 04/05/2018 8:56:30 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ethom

Oh, that’s a relief. Now, if it had overtones we would have something to worry about, but undertones definitely gets a pass.


51 posted on 04/05/2018 9:13:51 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: ethom

Right guy: “We’ve got to put a stop to these rapists, thugs, drug dealers, cheaters, street criminals ...”

MSNBCNN host: “That’s racist dog whistles”

Right guy: “I’m talking about criminals of any race”

MSNBCNN: “No! When we see that, we know you’re talking about blacks and Mexicans! You right-wing racists just want to keep them down!”


52 posted on 04/05/2018 9:24:18 PM PDT by Rainier1789 (My Constitution has a 2nd and 10th Amendment)
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To: Oratam

The sad faces of people who weren’t getting America destroyed fast enough


53 posted on 04/05/2018 9:45:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ethom

I still use the term “magic negro”.


54 posted on 04/06/2018 1:45:39 AM PDT by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: ethom

I don’t give a damn if obamma is black.
I do give a damn that he hates America, hates Christians and is a homosexual.


55 posted on 04/06/2018 5:10:11 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Balance the budget, tax the internet and the Church.)
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To: ethom

Jen, ya ignorant slut ...


56 posted on 04/06/2018 8:02:39 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth
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To: Oratam

Group mug shot.


57 posted on 04/06/2018 11:19:00 PM PDT by robel
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