Interesting. I don't like Obama one single bit - never have - but race never entered into it. I absolutely despised Bush - race never entered into that either. But here we are talking about morons. The whole playing field changes. ;-) I am thinking it's more about hatred than race with these guys. They're just trying to hit below the belt - and the worst thing they can think to do is to lower themselves to this sort of rhetoric.
[email protected] wrote: > > > Obama-Haters Becoming Increasingly...Racial In Their Rhetoric > > http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/obama-haters-becoming-increasingly-racial-in-their-rhetoric.php?ref=dc2 > > *By **Eric Kleefeld* > <http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/kleefeld>* - July 28, > 2009, 3:34PM* > > ** > > *An interesting pattern has emerged in the last few weeks, as > President Obama's ratings have started to come down to Earth: You can > really see a type of Obama-hatred out there that really does cross > over into a purely racial territory. * > > *This has gotten especially worse in the aftermath of Obama's comments > and subsequent /mea culpa/ on the Henry Louis Gates arrest, but the > pattern has been there all the same. You can look back to the 2008 > campaign, with the Jeremiah Wright controversies, the phony rumors of > a tape of Michelle Obama defaming whites, and the slow but steady > emergence of the Birthers. And these days, the Birthers seem to be > getting more and more bellicose.* > > *So let's take a look at some of those recent racially-charged attacks > that have circulated against Obama, both right before and after the > Gates incident.* > > *. Above all others, the real celebrity here has been Rush Limbaugh. > He's done this kind of thing before -- remember the "Barack, The Magic > Negro" song? But in the wake of the Gates incident, he's managed to > become even more hard-edged about it. "Here you have a black president > trying to destroy a white policeman," Limbaugh **declared* > <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907240015>* this past Friday. > Yesterday, he **shared a dream he's had* > <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270030>* about the dangers to > capitalism: "I had a dream that I was a slave building a sphinx in a > desert that looked like Obama." And **he joked* > <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270033>* that food-safety > advocates will go after all the unhealthy foods people like to eat, > one by one -- but they'll have to wait until Obama is out of office to > ban /Oreos/.* > > *. Glenn Beck **said this today* > <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907280008>* on Fox News: "This > president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and > over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the > white culture. I don't what it is. You can't sit in a pew with > Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and not hear /some/ of that stuff, and > not have it wash over."* > > *. During his new crusade of Birtherism, Lou Dobbs suggested on his > radio show this past Wednesday, right before the Gates flare-up, that > Obama **could be an illegal immigrant* > <http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/21/dobbs-obama-birth-certificate/>*, > tying this into his usual preoccupation. "I'm starting to think we > have a document issue," Dobbs said. "You suppose he's un-- no, I won't > even use the word 'undocumented,' it wouldn't be right."* > > *. As **we reported last week* > <http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/conservative_activist_forwards_racist_pic_showing.php>*, > > a high-profile conservative activist against Obama on health care was > circulating an e-mail that photoshopped Obama's face onto a > witch-doctor's body. This e-mail had been circulating before the Gates > incident, but still fits into the overall environment of Obama's > ratings having started * > > > > -- Linda *http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/> "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear..." - William Shakespeare * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bangla-vision" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bangla-vision?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
