Posted on 04/27/2011 6:35:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Via Mediaite, a stern lesson about not showing “insane disrespect to the president” from a show that used to be co-hosted by a 9/11 Truther. Trump’s very Trump-ish response to the accusation: “There is nobody who’s less of a racist than me.” I hope they have him back as a guest soon. An hour of banter like that between him and Whoopi would be a dream come true.
A question via lefty Tommy Christopher and righty Philip Klein: Did Obama make a mistake by playing Trump’s game and finally producing the birth certificate? Both say yes for various reasons, among them that this will encourage other species of conspiracy theorists to press their own claims harder. The thing is, The One might not have had the luxury of taking the high road. Thanks to Trump mainstreaming this issue, it may have been starting to bite politically — not necessarily among true-believing Birthers, who’ll never be dissuaded from their position, but among people who hadn’t followed it until someone with a media profile as high as Trump’s started talking about it.
Maybe they ran an internal poll, got some numbers back that they didn’t like, and decided that it was time to end the fun. A telling quote from a Democratic strategist: “This has become more than an obsession among the lunatic fringe.”
Or maybe they just want to feed Trump fever among (some parts of) the base by burnishing the image of him as a guy whom Obama “fears” or whatever. Trump’s numbers are already turning toxic nationally and among independents in swing states; maybe Obama and Plouffe wanted to encourage him to run at a decisive moment by handing him a big “victory,” which will keep the media focused on him and similar kooky material. Ace thinks that theory is too clever by half but I don’t know why. The whole liberal narrative about the tea-party GOP is that it’s insane, and since O has nothing to show centrists and independents after two and a half years in office, he quite reasonably concludes at this point that he’s better off trying to scare them into preferring him over the GOP as the lesser of two evils. His Mediscare tactics towards Ryan aren’t much different. He doesn’t need a plan of his own if he can convince people that his opponent’s a crazy monster, so why not keep as many “monsters” in the race as he can?
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Whoopi be de only racist roun’ here.
I totally agree. She has been chomping at the bit to make it about race.
Her insinuation that since we never asked to see BUSH’s birth certificate, he must be racist. If I can list in the last 8 years, the abuse the state run media pulled on Bush & Palin...it would be unprecedented in its comparison to the treament Obama has received.
LLS
Whoopi, shove it up your smelly Obama.
And then follow it.
Whoppi, distasteful, lack of class, rude, arrogant, sloppy, mean spirited... Can I please put her on the list of people I don’t like.... the color of her skin is beside the point.
When it comes to Whoopi is it ever not about race? She has definitely and sadly overplayed that card.
Will it be a metaphorical rape-rape, Whoopi Caryn Elaine Johnson Goldberg?
Well, Whoopi, at least he’s not a racist racist...
RACIST?.....my beehind......the POTUS is as white as he is black and even more white since he was raised by CAUCASIANS!...well, at least that is what he has “said”....
I love how everybody, including many republicans, think this birther thing was working for Obama, & this revelation of the LFBC is part of some master-plan.
No, it was desperation. Almost 20% of democrats were starting to have doubts about him & almost 50% of independents.
Many were suspicious because it would have been so easy for him to just end it w/ one phone call,requesting & releasing the LFBC, as we saw...
I was in this camp. I was 99.99% sure he was born in the US, but was coming to believe he might be hiding something because he wouldn’t just take five minutes & release the damned thing...
What a lot of people on both sides don’t get is that Obama’s a mind-blowingly over-rated politician, whatever you think of his politics...letting this drag out when it could have been solved was amateur hour.
As for Whoopie, the fact that she won’t call Mel Gibson a racist but Trump is = she thinks Mel might give her a movie roll one day but isn’t interested in being a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice.
Its time to call whoopi a racist to her face...black on white racism..
“Whoopi Goldberg: It’s time to play the race card on Trump”
Was this quote from a few months ago??? This is all you do Whoopi.
Slim-Fast has dropped Whoopi Goldberg from its advertising after the comedian made a sexual joke about George Bush. The Unilever-owned diet food brand acted after Goldberg made fun of the US president at a Democratic fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York last week. "We should keep Bush where he belongs," Goldberg said, gesturing at her genitals, "and not in the White House."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/jul/15/advertising.uselections2004
I thought that the lower the DEFCON number, the higher the likelihood of war...
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