Posted on 08/05/2008 4:27:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Somebody call the Epidemiology Branch at the NIH. It's looking as if we're on the verge of a full-fledged epidemic of Obamania. As we noted here, NYT columnist experienced an acute case of the malady on live national TV yesterday, seeing visions of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Washington Monument where none existed in the McCain Obama/Spears/Hilton ad. By yesterday evening, Keith Olbermann had contracted the affliction in aggravated form, claiming, as NewsBuster Brad Wilmouth has noted, to see no fewer than three phallic symbols in the same commercial.
Now, yet another variant of the dread disease can be reported, affecting mental rather than visual acuity. In When "Skinny" Means "Black" at his "Chatterbox" column at Slate, Timothy Noah claims to see, yes, racism, in mention of the fact that Barack Obama is thin.
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My apologies to all. I of course meant to call for YaYa123 to rest in “peace.”
If it is racist to call Obama “skinny”, then it can’t be racist to call Oprah “fat.”
Wrong! Rule #1: everything is racist ;-)
“People were brought here for their bodies?” Barak is not descended from slaves but from slave owners and not even in the more usual sense of his ggrandfather had his way with his ggrandmother. Good grief.
Timmy the Bigoted Pig, would see racism in a yawn at 2:30 in the morning, if he could use it to smear the “enemy”. Just like David Gergen and many more of the Liberal Pravda Press.
The left wants to silence us with the amorphous “code for race” BS so that whenever we point out where Obama is different, we’re really donning our white sheets and burning a cross on his front lawn. Today it’s his thinness, tomorrow it will be his manner of speech, and the day after will be his policies. The degree to which they’re successful is the degree to which we allow ourselves to be placed in that box.
Who knew noticing his pipe cleaner arms and legs would be considered ‘racist’
Reminds me of the Eddie Murphy routine where he said he was just looking for racism at the airport when a somebody asked if the bag belonged to him and he said, “Yes it’s my bag, what, a black man can’t have a suitcase?”
These people are just absolute psychos. They are to be laughed at. This nonsense is even dumber that the whole “subliminal RATS” message of 2000.
You will probably need to re-post the ping list for the intended parties to see this.
Regards,
AM
Thanks! Will do.
With apologies for possible double-ping, Obamania outbreak ping to Today show list.
This item is dedicated to the memory of YaYa123, a great FReeper and wonderful member of the Today show ping list, who often commented with brio and flair. May she rest in peace.
Coalition troops in somalia called the locals “skinnys”. Not because they were black, because they were under-fed and spent all day chewing a leafy stimulant.
Amen!
Obama’s the most articulate, skinny, basketball playing, community organizing guy I’ve ever seen!
The media has become completely unhinged.
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