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Shuster Plays Dumb on Race Card
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/01/2008 4:30:45 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Serious question: can David Shuster possibly be this clueless? Wherever you come down on the issue of who's playing the race card, one thing is glaringly, blindingly, incandescently obvious: when Barack Obama says McCain will point out Obama doesn't look like the other guys on the currency, the Dem candidate is doing much more than making the innocuous point that he is the first black major-party presidential nominee. Yet that is precisely how David Shuster chose to misinterpret Obama's remark on today's Morning Joe. Fortunately, Tiki Barber was there to run to daylight through the gaping hole in logic Shuster had opened up.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; davidshuster; johnmccain; race; racecard

1 posted on 08/01/2008 4:30:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Willful ignorance ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 08/01/2008 4:31:23 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama plays the race card:Who had July 31th in the pool?


3 posted on 08/01/2008 4:33:50 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus (( commander of the simian host))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He’s not playing!


4 posted on 08/01/2008 4:35:07 AM PDT by MortMan (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mark, why are you so sure he is “playing” dumb?

Pretty much represents all lib’s ability to process information and apply logic.


5 posted on 08/01/2008 4:35:32 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Shuster, the same dipsh*t that said America doesn’t give a heck about the surge’s success.


6 posted on 08/01/2008 4:37:57 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: Dr. Ursus

July 31??

The presumptuous one, Hussein has been playing the race card for some time now. This is nothing new.


7 posted on 08/01/2008 4:38:25 AM PDT by Howie66 (To the RAT Party: How can I question your patriotism? You have none, so what's your point?)
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To: Lee'sGhost; MortMan

I kind of figured some folks would jump on that ;-)

Let’s say I was giving Shuster the benefit of the doubt.


8 posted on 08/01/2008 4:38:33 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Obama communication director Robert "Baghdad Bob" Gibbs

LOL. Fabulous, Mark. I hope that gets picked up and repeated many times over the next few months. Well done.

9 posted on 08/01/2008 4:38:46 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Give Tikki Barber credit for stating the obvious. He tried to be nice by saying “they (meaning the McCain campaign) have not done that YET.”

That’s the best we can hope for I guess.

And this is the second time I’ve heard Obama play the race card against McCain. Last time he called said “They” as well.

That ranks right up there with “you people.”


10 posted on 08/01/2008 4:41:50 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: savedbygrace

Thanks, sbg. Here’s one of my favorites by Gibbs: his denying that when the Obama campaign hoodwinked reporters onto the press plane to Chicago so Obama could meet in private with Hillary, there was no intent to deceive:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2008/06/06/robert-gibbs-man-willing-say-anything-obama


11 posted on 08/01/2008 4:44:21 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; Lee'sGhost

Your “benefit of the doubt” must be like democrat unemployment benefits - endless! ;-P


12 posted on 08/01/2008 4:46:17 AM PDT by MortMan (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Fortunately, Tiki Barber was there to run to daylight through the gaping hole in logic Shuster had opened up.

LOL... DAYLIGHT?! All the ex-football player said was McCain's campaign hasn't used race as an issue... YET. Usually... there's always a Dem flak there ready to say that Republicans ALWAYS are racist in their campaigns and McCain will sooner or later revert to form.

13 posted on 08/01/2008 4:50:19 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: MortMan

Shuster is without a doubt the dumbest male on the show followed by Mika.


14 posted on 08/01/2008 4:54:25 AM PDT by roj
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gibbs has earned the Baghdad Bob moniker. That’s why it’s so funny.


15 posted on 08/01/2008 4:56:24 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
when Barack Obama says McCain will point out Obama doesn't look like the other guys on the currency, the Dem candidate is doing much more than making the innocuous point that he is the first black major-party presidential nominee.

Like John Edwards, Obama is merely channeling McCain and knows what he will say even before McCain does.

Obama and his myrmidons like Shuster believe that Americans are dumber than he is. Facts notwithstanding, he will get a pass for his future-tense claim.

As for playing the race card, Obama has been playing it all along - this is just the first time he is doing it openly.

16 posted on 08/01/2008 4:59:33 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: roj

There are at least 3 ways to take your remark, and they’re all pretty funny! ;-P


17 posted on 08/01/2008 5:10:21 AM PDT by MortMan (Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Not clueless, Shuster is just another typical lying liberal.


18 posted on 08/01/2008 5:44:28 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

well:
“when Barack Obama says McCain will point out Obama doesn’t look like the other guys on the currency”

Of course you don’t osamaobama-you look like an f’in marxist-they don’t.


19 posted on 08/01/2008 6:03:42 AM PDT by mrmargaritaville
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To: mrmargaritaville

Don’t forget that shuster is a FOX NEWS reject who also came out with the devastarting (to him) line about Chelsea Clinton being “pimped out” by her mother’s campaign.


20 posted on 08/01/2008 6:29:06 AM PDT by yorkie01
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To: SolidWood

Schuster is the most smug and arrogant POS in television today.


21 posted on 08/01/2008 7:02:33 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Shuster has been a lying punk for as long as I can remember. You could not pay me enough to listen to that scumbag.


22 posted on 08/01/2008 12:23:14 PM PDT by Enchante ( Celebutante Obambi goes to GERMANY to apologize for unwarranted (sic) aggression! Brilliant!!)
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