Posted on 10/20/2008 3:28:08 AM PDT by NCDragon
WASHINGTON Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos in a rally of thousands yell something offensive and incendiary, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just guilty by association with total strangers, mind you but worse: guilty according to The New York Times of "race-baiting and xenophobia."
But should you bring up Barack Obama's real associations 20 years with Jeremiah Wright, working on two foundations and distributing money with William Ayers, citing the raving Michael Pfleger as one who helps him keep his moral compass (Chicago Sun-Times, April 2004) and the long-standing relationship with the left-wing vote-fraud specialist ACORN you have crossed the line into illegitimate guilt by association. Moreover, it is tinged with racism.
The fact that, when John McCain actually heard one of those nasty things said about Obama, he incurred the boos of his own crowd by insisting that Obama is "a decent person that you do not have to be scared (of) as president" makes no difference. It surely did not stop John Lewis from comparing McCain to George Wallace.
The search for McCain's racial offenses is untiring and often unhinged. Remember McCain's Berlin/celebrity ad that showed a shot of Paris Hilton? An appalling attempt to exploit white hostility at the idea of black men "becoming sexually involved with white women," fulminated New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. He took to TV to denounce McCain's exhumation of that most vile prejudice, pointing out McCain's gratuitous insertion in the ad of "two phallic symbols," the Washington Monument and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Seattle Times? Wow. I know - opinion, but still...
Very true.
Krauthammer?
Beyond me? Why McCain didn’t say BTW, “Umm, not only was Wallace a racist but as most segregationists, a Democrat to boot!”
Time for McCain and Palin to use the race card, I would say. Time for them to start telling the Dems and the media “stop saying anyone who opposes 0bama is racist.” This is the real divisiveness. Republicans have always stood for equal rights for all with special rights for none. For Democrat agitators and left wing columnists and “journalists” to smear McCain supporters and 0bama opponents as racist is evil and counterproductive. They are the ones who foster racial divisions.
The outcry from the media elites would be deafening but this kind of message might just further galvanize McCain’s conservative support. And it might sway a few of those wavering voters.
This story has been proved to be a reporter's fabrication. I realize this Krauthammer column is several days old, but the fact that he accepted the lie demonstrates the weakness of our insulated-from-reality "news" system.
After the dollar bill comment, Krauthammer left out the end of Obama's statement ... "and did I mention he is black?".
This paragraph alone made it worth reading. Thanks.
Duh.
Yep
"Remember McCain's Berlin/celebrity ad that showed a shot of Paris Hilton? "
It's time to update the celebrity ad again. There may be more to this liberal
Da Vinci Code of conservative Freudian symbols. He's right - it's a sex thing
with us. Conservative Freudian subliminal symbolism is sexier and unashamedly
pro-erection and pro-male-fantasy. None of this liberal PC unisex castration
nonsense.
"Ann Coulter, Camille Paglia, call your offices..."
I guess Krauth just didn’t like the debate and has come somewhat back to his senses, at least for a while.
Don't count on it. After the 3rd debate how could any thinking person be SOOOOOO wrong. It's no longer hammer time for me. Adios Charles.
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