Comments on: NYT: McCain campaign’s “Celeb” ad was …. racist (MORE: VIDEO – MCCAIN DEFENDS AD)

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Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:08:40 +0000

[...] know… let’s have Obama play the race card… that’ll help, right? Oops… too late. Thing is, Obama shouldn’t be playing that card too much either… the voters he thinks [...]

By: Neo

Neo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:01:49 +0000

Expect to see the Gallup numbers showing McCain in a clear tie or better today. The MSM has invested too much to let their investment go down the tubes based on something as trival as the “facts.”

McCain really seems to have this snake by the tail. With the “bare-knuckle” support of the NYTimes being necessary to attempt to stop the hemeroging, it’s obvious that McCain has hit the jugular of Campaign Obama.

And this racist claim is just so bogus to not be believed. The only campaign who even mentioned race until the McCain campaign comments yesterday was .. you guessed it .. the Obama campaign, who kept referring to racial stereotypes of whites.

By: benning

benning — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:15:49 +0000

“Dealing from the bottom of the deck” is a very old phrase having to do with cheating in card play. Any political conotation is dependent on the context. As for the NYSlimes, who cares what they say? They are a wholly-pimped subsidiary of the Democratic Party.

Have thier subscription levels stopped dropping yet?

Meh!

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:46:41 +0000

From the NYT piece quoted:

The most recent ad compares the presumptive Democratic nominee for president to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton — suggesting to voters that he’s nothing more than a bubble-headed, publicity-seeking celebrity.

The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives, some of whom work for Mr. McCain now, ran against Harold Ford

So let me get this straight – hinting that Obama’s not exactly MENSA material is racist? In whose eyes?

Not mine, for sure. I’m prepared to take an oath in front of a grand jury that I’ve met idiots of all races, genders, religions, national origins, you name it.

No…it’s the NYT that for some reason thinks that black = stupid. They may be trying to flog McCain with this drivel, but they’re actually revealing their own brand of racist thought.

By: A Second Hand Conjecture » Running Against the New York Times

A Second Hand Conjecture » Running Against the New York Times — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:15:15 +0000

[...] Perhaps Mr. Riley’s allegation in Newsday that the McCain “Celeb” ad exposed some sort of crypto-racist subterfuge, is more widely shared among Obama’s media advocates than one might have assumed. For the queen of that kingdom evidently shares the sentiment: The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives, some of whom work for Mr. McCain now, ran against Harold Ford, a black candidate for Senate in Tennessee in 2006. That assault, too, began with videos juxtaposing Mr. Ford with young, white women. (The New York Times via Sister Toldjah) [...]

By: camojack

camojack — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:22:50 +0000

I have no problem with the concept of a non-White president.

That being said, I have a BIG problem with Obama; not because of his ethnic makeup, but due to the man himself.