Are you Freepers obsessed with my little crutch -- and if so, does that make you racist pigs?
Posted on 03/31/2010 5:32:12 AM PDT by Zakeet
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist badly needs some help in his Senate race, as he's currently trailing fellow Republican Marco Rubio. He'd hoped to get some of that help with an endorsement from retired Col. Bud Day, a former Swift Boat Vet. Instead, Crist got a new round of controversy, thanks to some remarks by Day:
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"You've got the black one with the reading thing. He can go as fast as the speed of light and has no idea what he's saying," Day said. "I put Rubio in that same category, except I don't know if he's using one of those readers."
This all seems to be related to the idea, inexplicably almost now taken as gospel on the right, that Obama can't speak without a teleprompter. At the New Republic, Jonathan Chait calls this a "racist trope" and suggests that this particular example is, essentially, Rubio's chickens coming home to roost, as the former Florida House speaker has used it himself.
I'm not quite as sure that the idea itself is tied to racism; clearly this example has some serious racial overtones, and that may be a part of it, but I also think it's tied to a desire on the part of some Republicans to get some intellectual vindication for former President George W. Bush. What do you all think?
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Are you Freepers obsessed with my little crutch -- and if so, does that make you racist pigs?
....*smiles* corpse.....well it wasn’t written that way.
Of COURSE it is!
EVERY criticism of 0bama is racist!
I just looked at wikipedia’s article on a teleprompter. They had a photo of the president using a teleprompter....President Bush!
Good grief!
Haven’t you folkes figured it out BY NOW???
ANY criticism of Zero Soterio—ANY CRITICIZIM AT ALL— is ipso facto RACIST!
YOU are a racist.
The fact you read this is proof.
PROOF POSITIVE!!
shame on us.
what politician doesn’t use a teleprompter?
Check it out: "inexplicably" - no, fully "explicable". Because it's true.
Look at what this person is doing - taking a valid criticism, and calling it "inexplicable", then relegating it to the realm of an untruth.
In front of 6 year olds????
Sarah Palin
I call it his “head’s up his a$$” display...............
Oh, for SURE!
EVERYBODY knows that only ‘people of color’ use teleprompters! It’s been a trademark of his ‘race’ since, like, forever!
..and your point is? I don’t think we ever heard of President Bush using it in a sixth grade classroom? This man does not have a single thought without it. Anyway, who writes his stuff anyway?
...ever notice a dog stops chasing when it gets it’s tail?
The issue isn't his use of it, it's his complete and utter dependence on it.
This is not racist, because Rahm is calling the shots.
A better question would be “Why does the left ignore his dependence on a crutch?”.
Actually, I don’t have an irrational predjudice of dark skinned people. I have an rational contempt for thin skinned people.
And, really, who cares what these morons in the media say anymore.
You might be called a racist toward Obama if:
1) You disagree with his NCAA final four picks
2) you prefer Stevie Wonder’s Songs from the Keys of Life over Innervisions.
3) Smoke cigars rather than cigarettes
4) Admire Thomas Sowell over Rev Wright
5) Enjoy reading Milton Friedman over Norm Chomsky
6) Believe Good Times was much funnier than the Jeffersons
7) Wonder silently why NO ONE at Columbia University in the early 80’s has any recollections of a young Barrack
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