Time: The McCain Campaign Is Racist!

weeklystandard.com ^ | September 19, 2008 | John McCormack

[Free ThinkerNY]

Time's Karen Tumuly writes that "McCain Plays the Race Card" in an ad featuring former disgraced Fannie Mae executive Franklin Raines:

This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman.

Let me stipulate: Obama's Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn't even mention a far more significant tie--that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama's vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama's principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.

And the image of the victim doesn't seem accidental either, given the fact that older white women are a key swing constituency in this election.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another typical, white lefty DemocRAT playing the race card. Wonderful!!!

[popdonnelly]

I get it: if you criticize a white man, it’s okay, but if you criticize a black man, it’s racism. Makes perfect sense. In other words, no criticism of Franklin Raines is permissible, even if it’s grounded in fact and relevant.

The Obama supporters in the media seem desperate.

[popdonnelly]

I get it: if you criticize a white man, it’s okay, but if you criticize a black man, it’s racism. Makes perfect sense. In other words, no criticism of Franklin Raines is impermissible, even if it’s grounded in fact and relevant.

The Obama supporters in the media seem desperate.

[savedbygrace]

The corrupt MSM, and Time, are trivializing racism by making these ridiculous charges.

There is very real racism in this country, but the McCain ad is not it.

0 chose Johnson to lead his VP selection committee, but AFAIK, Johnson was not previously advising Team 0. Raines was a known adviser to Team 0 - that’s why the ad shows him and not Johnson.

[Lexington Green]

Cry race and loose the hounds of sleeze!

[weegee]

Let me stipulate: Obama's Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn't even mention a far more significant tie--that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama's vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama's principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.

I just hopped in from another Fannie Mae thread that called out Obama's connections to Jim Johnson. The lead poster correctly said that Obama is up to his eyeballs in corrupt CEOs.

Why call them all out in one ad? Why give him an opportunity to label an entire ad "a lie" on the basis of him disagreeing with a charge leveled about ONE corrupt figure?

Time Lies Warner needs to be defunded. Our tax dollars should not fund their partisan yellow journalism in our schools and public libraries.

[weegee]

FUN with Obama's Speech this morning (Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 )

[Ann Archy]

How LOW we have come when just showing a PICTURE of a Black man is RACIST! These lefties are RACIST themselves.

[nonsporting]

If people think the cries of "racism" are bad now, just imagine what it'll be like, if Obama gets elected. We will be beat up for the next 4+ years by this same charge, if any should take a principled stand against any of his/Dems socialist policies.

Obama delendus est!

[Ann Archy]

Jim Johnson, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick...uh-oh....does mentioning her name make me anti-Semitic....they should ALL be in PRISON!

[MortMan]

Actually, Rush has revealed that there is a second ad that features Johnson. The Obamahdi’s charge is a flat-out LIE.

[roses of sharon]

Karen Tumulty Sees Racist People
Posted by: Erick Erickson

Friday, September 19, 2008 at 10:18AM

John McCain is the second coming of the Ku Klux Klan according to Karen Tumulty, Time Magazine’s political correspondent.

Why? Because John McCain has put out an ad showing Barack Obama’s ties to Harold Raines of Fannie Mae.

Raines is black. Obama is black. Therefore John McCain is a dirty racist.

Seriously.

See it for yourself.

Now, she says that if McCain wasn’t a racist, he would have done an ad going after Obama for his more substantial ties to Jim Johnson, a white guy.

She never bothered to check her facts. McCain has put out an ad connecting Obama to Johnson.

Tumulty is still unpersuaded and has not, as of now, updated her post.

You can email her at karen_tumulty@timemagazine.com or call her at 202-861-4055 and ask her to set the record straight.

[John Robie]

Keep playing the race card leftists. It will really help. The left-wing media is criminal propagandists.

[Turret Gunner A20]

I get it: if you criticize a white man, it’s okay, but if you criticize a black man, it’s racism. Makes perfect sense. In other words, no criticism of Franklin Raines is permissible, even particularly if it’s grounded in fact and relevant.

There, fixed it.

[Sigurdrifta]

I think this guy had a connection with Perseus, the folks who published the McClellan “book”, which leads us back to George Soros.