Playing the Race Card for Political Advantage
July 20th, 2010 at 6:58 pm by CrankyReally? Get the hell out of here!
Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.
My gawd, there it is in black and white. Here is the how of an increasingly tired playing of the race card. I always thought that calling racism on such thoughtcrimes as fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility and limited government was just the kneejerk response by lazy liberals. Who knew?
Read it all here.
July 21st, 2010 at 1:47 am
Awww, Cranky. You left out the juicy Ackerman quote about how he wants to smash every rightwingers face through plate glass, take a picture and send it out on Christmas cards as a warning to all the rest of us.
It’s beyond time that these skinny, little pasty-faced Internet macho punks get their stuck-up noses bloodied.
There’s a new Civil War in this country. One side just hasn’t acknowledged that it’s been declared on them in secret.