Posted on 08/24/2012 5:52:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney cracked a joke at a campaign stop this afternoon in Michigan which has people on both sides of the aisle in a frenzy. Some say it was a poke at birthers, yet birthers are taking it to mean that Romney’s coming on board with them. Some say it was a poke at liberals who whisper about Romney’s racist undertones. In response, liberals are… well, continuing to call Romney a racist.
But I disagree with both of these assumptions. I think the joke was aimed squarely at the media.
Let’s face it — the “birther” movement has had no bigger fan than the mainstream media who likes to paint all Republicans as hateful racists who cling to God, guns and conspiracy theories to protect themselves from an apocalyptic invasion of minorities and gays, or something. So while the reporters at the Romney rally today gasped at Romney’s supposedly overt racism, the audience got the joke, responding to Romney’s dry humor with applause and laughter.
It’s a perfect example of a “secondary reaction” joke, Ace of Spades HQ writes. “The joke itself is lame. The humor comes from imagining the reaction of the thin-skinned Obama and his hyperprotective partisans in the press.”
It’s true — the reaction of the media to Romney’s joke has been hysterical:
– Never one to overreact, MSNBC calmly discussed the “breaking news” of Romney’s quip and labeled it the “most despicable bigotry we can imagine.” (Seriously? Dear MSNBC, open a history book once in a while, will ya?)
– Mediaite’s resident boy-who-cried-racist Tommy Christopher proclaimed that MSNBC’s Touré was right in accusing Romney of using “n***rization” as a campaign tool to “racially marginalize” President Obama.
–CNN’s John King tweeted that his “birther comment” ruined a perfectly good day for Romney.
–Reporters at the Huffington Post were beside themselves, saying it was “awkward for Romney to play on the birther conspiracies that have plagued Barack Obama.” Uh, awkward for whom, exactly?
–Salon.com headlined their report, “Romney Goes Birther,” and said the joke was proof the GOP candidate was “doubling down on whiteness.”
–The Washington Post also weighed in, writing that Romney’s joke “injected the toxic issue of birtherism into an already bitter presidential race.” Wah-wah.
Like the media and any other “rational” person, the Obama camp also didn‘t think Romney’s joke was funny:
“Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them,” said campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt. “Gov. Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America.”
The outraged Obama campaign wasted no time in trying to use this “new low for Romney” as a springboard for a new email fundraising push. Yet the Obama campaign itself has repeatedly joked about the conspiracy theories surrounding President Obama’s birth certificate — they even make money off of it!
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Gee, you know who else likes to joke about birthers? Barack Obama does:
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I think perhaps Romney should just randomly insert the words “birth certificate” into every stump speech he delivers from here on out — it’s the best way to get media attention. Obama accuses Romney of being a tax-dodging felon and the media yawns. Romney cracks a birth certificate joke and they soil themselves. I bet if Ann Romney added “birth certificate” to her remarks at the upcoming convention, the media wouldn’t hesitate to broadcast it.
I hear Donald Trump has a BIG surprise at the convention. I suspect that Breitbart investigative reporter has arrived back to the states from Indonesia with a copy of the proof Obama is an Indonesian citizen.
It has caused a “stir”... “Stir” was the word sent out by the White House.
Let the media prove otherwise.
I hear that Salon.com polled their entire readership for their reactions to Mitt’s comment. Two readers said they opposed it, and the third kept trying to bite her ward attendant and had to be tasered.
I sure hope so
But I disagree with both of these assumptions. I think the joke was aimed squarely at the media.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving group
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
More than that—Laws and taxes apply to white people only.
Seems as though the average American is the only one who believes he’s a fraud. All the news outlets and talking heads including many on fox think it’s preposterous and continue to make us all feel as though we are silly. Well Im preposterous and silly and I believe he is an imposter
It also brings attention to all the other documents he refuses to release. It gets people thinking about it. They wonder why he's so secretive and protective about his past - especially now that there's a movie out there about it.
Romney will get people to think (and maybe check out the new Oboma movie), and that's why the liberal media immediately went into protective mode.
Let them foam; they all seem to have the PC, and left wing rabies!
Just think of how easy and how much fun “0” could have at our expense by just presenting a non forged original long form birth certificate!!!
Cost him what maybe $15.
I still like to see libs go bonkers when you call him the “magic negro”.
And honest, that’s mild compared to what I usually call this marxist kenyan fraud of a “magic negro”.
If Obama and all his enablers get their underware in knots over one little comment, common sense indicates there must be something to the birth certificate forgery controversy.
LOL
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