When "Skinny" Means "Black" (Obamaniac racial paranoia)

slate.com ^ | August 4, 2008 | Timothy Noah

[Free ThinkerNY]

In the Aug. 1 Wall Street Journal, Amy Chozick asked, "[C]ould Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Most Americans, Chozick points out, aren't skinny. Fully 66 percent of all citizens who've reached voting age are overweight, and 32 percent are obese. To be thin is to be different physically. Not that there's anything wrong, mind you, with being a skinny person. But would you want your sister to marry one? Would you want a whole family of skinny people to move in next door? "I won't vote for any beanpole guy," an "unnamed Clinton supporter" wrote on a Yahoo politics message board. My point is that any discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race.

Chozick insists that she didn't intend her playful feature about Obama's physique as potential electoral liability to carry any racial subtext. "I can't even respond to that," she told me. "That's ridiculous." Bob Christie, Dow Jones' vice president of communications, phoned me in a flash to reaffirm that message. I believe Chozick and Christie when they say that the Journal never intended skinniness to serve as a proxy for race. (Full disclosure: I was a reporter in the Journal's Washington bureau a dozen years ago. I know neither Chozick nor Christie. Fuller disclosure: I phoned my former Journal colleague, Michel Martin, an African-American journalist who is now host of NPR's "Tell Me More," which frequently addresses matters of race, to ask whether she was offended. She was not. )

But I firmly disagree that a racial reading of Chozick's story is "ridiculous," and I would counter that any failure on Chozick's part to recognize such is just a wee bit clueless.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

I forgot—can’t use Skin, or Black, or watermelon, or fried chicken. I should have said Mr. Obama should cultivate a profound sense of humor to laugh at the crude attacks leveled at him.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Soon "liberal" will be considered code for "uppity." If someone criticizes Obama's plans to raise taxes, what they will really mean is that he looks too much like one of the Harlem Globetrotters. The racial Rorschach tests will get more interesting as time goes on.

If a white voter thinks he is too skinny, what they are really thinking is that he might try to slide down their chimney to rob their house. He needs to go back to the communication tricks he wrote about in Dreams of My Father, you know, "no sudden moves." The global socialism speech in Berlin was a little too shifty, too sudden, too flim-flam.

He needs to review some video footage of how Eddie Haskell used to talk to Mrs. Cleaver. He's already been wrestling with an Eddie Haskell Factor so the pointers may be useful. The more Obama gets too know his inner Eddie Haskell, the easier it will be to overcome some of his excesses and Dionysian exuberance.

[JRandomFreeper]

How am I gonna 'splain that to my dear friend, who is a bit thick, and the smartest, most beautiful woman I've ever spent time with.

Oh, and she's really black, unlike the Messiah wanna-be.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I'm glad his inner-commie has been displaying itself lately.

This country can't afford to elect a commie. We'd be ruined for two generations, if we could ever recover.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

There is a conflict between his inner Eddie Haskell and inner Mao Tse Tung. This comes out at times in goofy ways.

[Don Corleone]

Never trust a skinny cook (except Giada).

[grey_whiskers]

My point is that any discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race.

OK, why beat around the...Bush?

Let's call Obama what he is:

He's a SMOC.

Scrawny
Metrosexual
Of
Color

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

We want to know how he managed to get this far in life with absolutely nothing to put on his resume.

This is why he thinks putting more air in your tires will save gasoline.

Look how much mileage he's gotten out of inflating his resume!

Cheers!

[Gabz]

Never trust a skinny cook (except Giada).

Hey -- no fair........

[the anti-liberal]

A SMOC and a HAM [Halfrican-American Marxist].

SMOCHAM or HAMSMOC

[Gabz]

We’ll have to trade notes on how to do that ‘splainin’, won’t we?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"This is why he thinks putting more air in your tires will save gasoline. Look how much mileage he's gotten out of inflating his resume!"
28 posted on Monday, August 04, 2008 10:57:21 PM by grey_whiskers

Stage two of his energy policy is wheatgrass enemas. A leaner driver gets better gas mileage.

[onlylewis]

Tim Noah writer of this article says ,but I firmly disagree that a racial reading of Chozick’s story is “ridiculous,” and I would counter that any failure on Chozick’s part to recognize such is just a wee bit clueless.

Mr. Noah I believe you are not just clueless but you are also ridiculous. If you can not recognize that the politically correct portion of this population is taking advantage of everyone else, you are more than clueless you are hopeless. We can not walk around this nation and wonder if because someone said skinny or used the word black (ie.black hole, in the black,etc) and worry if we hurt someones feelings. People like you are making it very hard for people who truly face race discrimination. Take a long hard look at how stupid saying that calling a skinny man skinny is racial. Get a life and stop traveling on the same road as people like jackson, sharpton and the rest of that group of racist pigs. It's simple if you are tall and skinny you can be called.

[Frank_2001]

“I would think a lot of people are waking up to this one-trick pony. Oooh! Was that racist?”

I think “one trick pony” is OK, but “dark horse” or “black stallion”, would definitely be out;)

[grey_whiskers]

Can't be. Don't you know he's a Muslim? /sarc>

Cheers!

[DManA]

Is it safe to mention he looves round ball?

[weegee]

So Fat Albert and Pigmeat and Rerun and Barry White and Sir Mix A Lot and Biggie Smalls and the Fat Boys etc were the EXCEPTION???

[weegee]

Isn’t he a conservative these days? He was an officer for awhile. Considering the pest he was on tv as a child actor, he managed to keep himself from being a pain.

[weegee]

He may be a Greenie Weenie on the outside and a Red Commie on the inside but you’d better stay away from that term people use to describe other Green Reds.

[weegee]

I want to know how much rent they are going to charge conservatives when they send us to the gulags.