And his Justice Department’s refusal to prosecute same for voter intimidation? Probably just a coincidence.
Let’s see if the Washington Post, who is spending quite a bit of its energy on trying to tether Rick Perry to an old “racist” rock he had nothing to do with (and that his family literally reacted against), finds time to cover this latest apparent Obama brush with race-baiting Black nationalist radicals.
Because Lord knows they did such a bang-up job of vetting him the first time around.
Here’s the difference between then and now, though: in 2008, we were told Obama was a good man, and that his inherent goodness was tied to his being an historical figure — a kind of Magical Negro summoned by America to apply the salve to its collective racial guilt. In 2012, however, the GOP — or at least, many of us here on the extremist fringes of hard right racist constitutionalism and small government radicalism — aren’t going to play the McCain game of “it’s racist to question a black candidate’s associations, political upbringing, academic record, or ‘religious’ training in a church preaching Black Liberation Theology, so shut up, purists, and let the Won ascend. The era of Reagan is over!”
Instead, we’re going to go all Visigothy and make sure Obama’s associations — from Wright to Ayers to the New Black Panthers, to his Justice Department scandals and cronyism and disdain for free market capitalism — are publicized, trumpeted, and readily available to those who wish to view Obama’s real record and place it into any context they feel is appropriate vis-a-vis this President.
Imagine: letting the voters decide what information is useful in determining who they vote for and why! — rather than letting a timid GOP and an advocacy progressivist media manufacture a candidate whose very real past told those of us willing to look just exactly what he’d do were he elected President.
Fundamental transformation? Sure thing: how about we start with a fundamental transformation of the legacy media and insist that they do their goddamn jobs?
Because if this Perry story is any indication, they have every intention of doing what they did in 2007-2008 — namely, doubling down on their very obvious and pernicious shilling for the democratic socialists.
Probably hoping for a bailout, is my guess.
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update: Resist we much!
A message to Herman Cain: many of your erstwhile supporters are surprised and a bit put off by your adoption of leftist race-baiting tactics of the kind Sharpton is using here.
We hold out hope that you were misinformed about the particulars of the charges against Gov Perry upon which you commented, and that you’ll re-think your response and offer a clarification.
Because here’s the thing: we already have a race-baiting President willing to divide the country and play identity politics coalitions against one another to foment manufactured hatreds that distract from the bloated and rogue federal government’s role in our economic and social collapses.
We don’t need another one.
HERESY!
That kind of talk will get you visited by a Face Dancer.
The Spice Must Flow, the Balance Maintained.
Herman does need to take time to stop and think on occasions like that. It’s not as if he’s uniquely attracting the same people who put Jim Blutarski in the U.S. Senate.
nicely said Mr. Jeff
John Blutarsky. Why did I think it was Jim?
I was in a subway car with a bunch of NBPP members once. I was kind of uncomfortable at first because they make for an intimidating presence, but after about five minutes or so I realized that they were pretty much poseur fags.
This story is just too stupid. They should be ashamed of themselves.
If Perry were smart he’d have “Macaca” painted on the rock.
I actually Tweeted Cain this morning. Not that I’m expecting an answer or clarification from him because of it, but so that the people who read his Tweets know the mood of conservatives who are appalled when meaning is corrupted, usurped, and then wielded by those who created it as a weapon against those they hope to attribute it to.
Glenn Reynold’s is pretty down on Cain too.
Mickey Kaus, on the other hand, sees wheels within wheels.
Eh, a black man don’t like the word nigger. I’m neither surprised, shocked, or disappointed.
I mean, I can see where some may be disappointed Cain was ensnared in the media’s gotcha game, but if we participate in the outrage we’re also ensnared in the game.
It’s all very cynical.
Not so. This provides a nice test: Cain may have been misled. How will he respond when possessed of all the facts? It matters.
I’m going with “Misled”:
“There isn’t a more vile, negative word than the n-word,” Cain said on Fox. “And for him to leave it there as long as he did before he painted over it, it’s just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country.”
if it were true, Cain would be correct in his criticism.
Yes, it matters. But first we have to understand Cain was responding to a possibly misleading story. Even Perry agrees with Cains sentiments, if Cain had the story right. Perry says Cain doesn’t, his family immediately covered the offensive name. So, the story isn’t whether there was a racial name for the property, even Perry says there was, but what the Perry’s did about it. Cain was misled about that.
In other words, I don’t see Cain as a race baiter, at most he goofed by taking a news story at face value.
Or, you know, what Carin said…
[…] Jeff G: A message to Herman Cain: many of your erstwhile supporters are surprised and a bit put off by […]
In an unrelated related vein, IYKWIM, Proggs give no indication that they
canwill ever see past the D following Obama.If PROSECUTE BUSH FOR WAR CRIMES!™ only applied as, you know, a principle or something.
Perry’s camp says as much.
I have to say that I have never been a Cain fan and really like Perry, but to take up that ridiculous story and give it legitimacy as the black conservative candidate made my blood boil. The news on the radio on the hour had the story and misstated it completely directly connecting Perry to what has now evolved into a “racist camp” where he took people all the time.
I’m just your average political junkie and I read Hugh Hewitts takedown and almost immediately knew that the story was bogus. Cain is a presidential candidate who presumably has advisors keeping him updated and yet he still jumped on this as a way to hurt Perry perpetuating the MSM attempts to destroy a candidate. I think he is naive, untested in the political arena and attempting to run for President when he has never run for political office before is the height of hubris.
I believe as much. But how he reacts once given the facts matters to me.
Google seems rather desperate to get this story out search results.
Interesting.
Bleeping View ladies get lost, bleeped.
Sherri Shepherd is a racist.