comment #1

D.Z. says ...

Maybe it's a jab at the Matrix?

comment #2

corey3rd says ...

hopefully Obama will go for the "McCain Success Plan: Upgrade Your Life - Upgrade Your Wife."

comment #3

BurmaShave says ...

How on earth is The One secret racial code? Angram? We really are a bunch of softies on the left.

comment #4

nemo says ...

The One is a racial code term? OK, someone is going to have to explain that. I've never heard of it.

I'm with DZ, I thought The One was an anagram for Neo in The Matrix.

comment #5

Mgmax says ...

Yeah, because your political opponent always stops saying something as soon as you whine about it.

So far, here's the list of complaints about supposed racism that I know of:

--"The One," which so far as I can tell is mockingly referencing a white (BUT PLAYED BY A PART-HAWAIIAN!) character in The Matrix, is supposed to mean... "he's not one of us." That's right, the secret racist code meaning of "one" is "not one." Deep.

--Bob Herbert insisted on an MSNBC program that the McCain version of Obama's Berlin speech included added shots of the Washington monument and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, which were inserted as phallic symbols to appeal to racial fears of black men. Herbert, who has apparently never been to Washington, DC, mistook the Victory Tower in Berlin, the actual backdrop of Obama's speech, for both of the big dicks he fantasized had been roughly inserted by McCain's video editors.

--Amy Sullivan in Time insists that the Ten Commandments ad, mocking Obama's claim to be able to heal the oceans by pairing him with footage of Charlton Heston, is intended to signal to evangelicals that he's... get ready, the Antichrist. Yep, the big one himself. A site called RedState now has T-shirts of an Obama "O" with horns and bumperstickers promoting "Obama/Carpathia '08" (a reference to the Antichrist in the Left Behind novels), which wacky Andrew Sullivan takes very, very, very seriously.

--A vaguely humorous, mostly banal fluff piece in the Wall Street Journal musing that fatass America might not be able to relate to someone as trim and healthy as Obama (thank God Jeff would never say such racist things!) produced a piece by Timothy Noah in Slate revealing the heretofore unknown fact that "skinny" is a racist code word. Since, I guess, only black people are skinny. Fred Astaire and Fat Albert were not available for comment.

Clearly, when McCain's spokesman said the racial card was being dealt from the bottom of the deck, he failed to mention that it was not a full deck they were playing from....

comment #6

Mgmax says ...

Oh, a couple more I just remembered:

--The One himself said that McCain was trying to remind us that Obama doesn't look like those presidents on the dollar bills. Because, of course, McCain goes in for those high cravats and wavy locks like President Jackson and, uh, President Hamilton. I swear, sometimes I don't know if McCain is a senator from Arizona or the lead singer of Paul Revere and the Raiders.

--And of course, the references to Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton in the spot calling Obama a celebrity were designed to evoke fear of black mens' sexuality. Because white people are all worried about protecting Paris Hilton's chastity.

It's going to be a long campaign. And by long, I'm referring to black penises.

comment #7

Count Thread says ...

Wells, please, stop-- have you no shame?

To believe that these are hidden messages is to be a public embarrassment to logic and reality.

You love Obama, you hate McCain. Fine, we fucking get it already.

There are no hidden messages. This ain't "They Live."

comment #8

MDOC says ...

If there is one thing McCain knows it's street terms. Come on, either he's an old man and out of touch or so hip to street slang that he can racially slam Obama overtly. You can't have it both ways. Just stick to calling him Bush JR, and try not to hurt yourself.

comment #9

Indeed says ...

Gimme a break.

This reaching has gone beyond sad and pathetic...

comment #10

Griff says ...

For goodness' sake. Anything can be a "code." College semiotics...words mean...what? What the speaker wants them to mean? What someone tells you they mean? What is Red-State code for? The short answer is "anyone who doesn't believe what I believe."

Remember the movie "Grand Canyon?" Kevin Kline, his car broken down, the street thugs (who happened to be black) threatening him. The tow truck driver, played by Danny Glover, speaking calmly to the lead thug, telling him that Glover just needs to get this guy's car so he can get paid. Lead thug is displaying a gun (CODE!) in his pants, saying, "No gun, no respect. What if I didn't have this gun?" Glover replies levelly, "We wouldn't be having this conversation."

With Obama's exceeding slight resume, he wouldn't even be a candidate except for his brilliant otherness. He's not like those darn old white men...and if he was one of those darn white men, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

comment #11

Walter Sobchak says ...

I don't understand all of the hubbub..... and by "hubbub" I mean that black people better watch themselves, or else...

comment #12

corey3rd says ...

has there been a presidential candidate with a slighter resume that George W Bush? But does McCain want to run ads remind America "Look what happened the last time you elected a putz who barely had a few years in public office!!!"

comment #13

NotImpressedYet says ...

Wells, what in the world are you talking about here? "The One" is code?!? There's been all sorts of subtle racist jabs throughout the primary and now in the general, but I this ad is pretty clearly and solely the "empty celebrity" meme McCain's been driving down our throats. Obnoxious and wrong, to be sure, but to call this ad racist is fucking retarded. Come to your senses, you're hurting Obama's cause with silly posts like this.

comment #14

roanokemaroon says ...

I wish Obama wouldn't lower himself to racial attacks on himself.

First he warns us of impending attacks:
"So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, `he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, `he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.'"

and then he goes for the throat in Berlin:
“I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city.”

When will the smearing stop?

comment #15

EOTW says ...

Mgmax, FTW!

comment #16

MathewM says ...

Jeff's basically acting like the typical liberal that I despise. He's playing his cards trying to paint everyone that disagrees with him as a Nazi, racist, pig or whatever ugly term he can. This ad is nothing more than a series light jabs at Obama's celebrity hood. Whoops I said "hood" which is a black term and I'm white and since I'm not a famous actor with street cred who votes a straight democratic ticket I will forever be banished into the depths of conservative hell with the likes of Hitler and Lenin...actually Lenin is in Liberal heaven because he was like a lefty and governed from his heart which of course is good because left is better than right, always. Red is bad like the color of Hell. Blue is good like the color of the skies in heaven. Wait, heaven doesn't exist because most people who go to church weekly are conservatives... oh when does it end?

comment #17

buster says ...

Let me start by saying I'm voting for Obama and have been a silent but dedicated reader here for years.

This will likely be my first and last post. I can't come here anymore and witness this sycophantism. Pardon my tone, by people like you, Jeff, are making it impossible to have a conversation, something that is essential to democracy. I wish you would stop making us all seem like such thin-skinned, petty wimps. I've worked hard to convince my friends and coworkers that Obama is the right man, but they're so tired of being badgered by fanatics interested more in partisan bickering than issue resolution. They're tired of being cornered and accused of being racist, prejudiced, or regressive because they believe that fundamentally McCain is a better choice. (the fact that you gloss over the attack on Obama's economic plans is typical...it means you either don't understand the implications or don't care--you'd rather shame than convince).

So the McCain camp comes up with a tired but amusing way to ostracize Obama, and it's racist? By showing what fools some Obama supporters are making of THEMSELVES, McCain is racist? Funny, we seem to love it when Michael Moore does it.

Let me see if I understand the rules of the game: prequlify a term as off base, then cry foul whenever the other camp uses it.

This is kind of like getting into a fight and telling your opponent he can't use his right hand. Or betting someone 100 bucks, but adding the caveat that if the other person loses they must procalim you god and eat the corn out of your shit. It's a BITCH MOVE.

Anything else we can add to the list of code words to prove McCain is a racist? How about when he uses the word "economy". Definitely a racial code term. Let's establish that now so that McCain can't use that word either.

So if I'm the McCain camp I issue a memo tomorrow officially outing the following phrases as code for "i've never had a real job and I'm not ready to lead the country," (the republican mantra): "hope" "change" "black, white, brown" "fathers, mothers, sons, daughters" "from wall street to main street" "yes we can" "this is the moment,"

Those who do try to marginalize Obama based on this issues of youth and race are contemptible, but just as bad are the Obama supporters who won't let us move beyond those issues. They're so busy accusing people of being racist they never stop to question their own obsession with race.

It's a shame, I'm going to miss this site and esoteric movie insight of Jeff Wells.

comment #18

BurmaShave says ...

Who the fuck leaves a site in anger and dismay? Aren't you all reading everything because you're bored? I've been home three hours and I've checked ESPN.com 7 times.

comment #19

bmcintire says ...

Yeah, the racist stuff is a GIANT stretch. I'm more offended that the McCain camp is pulling quotes/footage from actual citizens in hopes of making them look stupid (or just plain naive). If the Obama camp were to do the same, using the hours of available footage showing utter morons calling Obama a Muslim, terrorist, pledge of allegiance refusnik, lapel-mounted flag-pin refusnik, Quran oath-swearing Anti-American, the unwashed masses would be up in arms and John McCain himself would be asking us "Why does Barack Hussein Obama hate America?"

Oh, and MGMAX - not that it actually carries any weight, but I believe the racial undertones of "Skinny" come from the Somalian excursion the US took back in the 90's (see: BLACK HAWK DOWN).

comment #20

Chris Willman says ...

It's not racial code, it's tongue-in-cheek Antichrist code. Only a lot of the GOP base takes it seriously and doesn't get McCain's self-proclaimed "sense of humor."

comment #21

MovieBob says ...

Gawd, have you no PATIENCE?

Seriously... sooner or later, SOMEONE tangentially related to the McCain campaign is going to say something GENUINELY racist about Obama. It's going to happen. So why be so eager to get into it NOW that your looking for it in every little thing?

comment #22

corey3rd says ...

W was the One. Jesus told him that he must bring freedom to Iraq with his armies. God talks directly to W in order to restore America.

comment #23

DarthCorleone says ...

Chris Willman>> Thanks. You beat me to it.

When I first saw "The One" ad, I thought it was silly and questioned whether half-interested voters might even misinterpret it as an endorsement of Obama as opposed to being sarcastic. After all, it never explicitly questions Obama until the last five seconds. I also thought the thing was so stupid that it would be pulled from McCain's site out of embarrassment for the immediate outright mockery inside of a few hours.

Then, I showed the ad to a co-worker of mine, who - while not an extreme fundamentalist Christian - is still extremely evangelical and is certainly well-versed in that culture, of which I am mostly ignorant. I was surprised when she immediately jumped on the verbiage as blatantly implying "Antichrist," and I realized not only is that ad not intended for me, but it works on a couple different levels. Many of those potential voters I thought might misinterpret the message are probably receiving the message loud and clear.

comment #24

DarthCorleone says ...

And as for this new ad, good lord, this tack McCain's campaign is taking is inane. Please bring on the debates and save us from this empty claptrap. It's wonderful to know that the makers of this "endorsement" give the American voters so much credit by perpetuating this level of discourse.

"Obama is a celebrity with no substance!" Really? You're just going to repeat that refrain ad nauseam? We're dismissing politicians now because they're too likable? That's the best you've got?

comment #25

Nate West says ...

It's funny that McCain's initial "celebrity" spot featured Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Now, his second spot proclaims (in reference to Obama), "You've seen him IN Paris."

My, my.

Of course, this is entirely a coincidence. The advertising men who have been behind the modern Republican Party since "the selling" of Nixon in '68 would never rat-fuck anyone.

comment #26

BurmaShave says ...

All of this could have been avoided if they'd done the Town Halls.

comment #27

Marty Melville says ...

Glad to see Gergen acknowledge the obvious.

An interesting question posed on Talking Points Memo:

"Imagine if a respected, non-partisan, friend-of-McCain went public with concerns about the images in McCain's advertising. One wonders what Colin and Alma Powell think of the images in the McCain ad and the racial subtext to them."

comment #28

transmogrifier says ...

I love you Americans. So useless at political discussions, but boy, do you give it your all.

comment #29

King's Thursday says ...

Mgmax: "Since, I guess, only black people are skinny. Fred Astaire and Fat Albert were not available for comment."

Very funny--and I've been reading mgmax's stuff for 24 years.

comment #30

JHRussell says ...

Obama surrogate Gergen has introduced the never uttered or even remotely implied "uppity" into the debate, saying it is code for the "obvious racist subtext" of McCain's campaign with the twisted and specious interpretation of the meaning of "one." This fresh insight that has Wells wetting his pants is not just a stretch, it is an absurd intepretation of McCain's retort to the Obama campaign's "messianic" theme of the "this is our time...I am the one" blather.

Just wait - next step is for another Obama surrogate to put "uppity" into the mouth of John McCain. To Wells and his ilk, McCain and his supporters are de facto virulent racists - if you would just listen to the words the libs are putting into their mouths, you would hear it, too...

comment #31

Ogami Itto says ...

John McCain's latest campaign as:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-R5Vh5tOWk

comment #32

vansmith says ...

whats happened is that obama cast a spell on the masses and the media. mccain's camp is just thowing shit at him to see if it sticks and to free up people so that they can weigh in with their own arrows, its about winning and dirtying up the pretty boy. and it wont be hard, by the time nov comes around people will have relegated obama to the celebrity shelf and he wont be seen as a serious candidate..but he has one bullet left, the convention speech..

comment #33

Mgmax says ...

"An interesting question posed on Talking Points Memo: "Imagine if a respected, non-partisan, friend-of-McCain went public with concerns about the images in McCain's advertising. One wonders what Colin and Alma Powell think of the images in the McCain ad and the racial subtext to them.""

Okay, if you're going to ask that, then, isn't it meaningful that a Colin Powell DOESN'T see the Antichrist and phallic monuments in every ad that's produced?

It's a curious thing, taking the non-reaction of someone respected as further support for your overreaction.

comment #34

VictorLazlo says ...

Are you people willfully ignorant. Wells is 100% right. One of the key anti-Obama arguments coming from the right is that he is "arrogant', 'thinks he's president" or as they used to call us down south UPPITY. This ad plays directly into that theme. Remember McCain's good buddy Rush Limbaugh's racist BARACK THE MAGIC NEGRO parody song? THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS AD IS.

To use a movie reference, McCain is like those white cops in SHAFT, frustrated by his coolness. (come to think of it, this whole campaign is SHAFT vs. Mr, Magoo) He's drinking a big 32 oz bottle of HATERADE. I think it is a disastrous route for McCain to take. Deriding someone for being loved among the masses?

The other argument the right and McCain's surrogates have against Obama is that he is somehow a Muslim Manchurian Candidate. When Obama says "they're going to try and scare you by saying I'm different" he was 100% right! One trip to the Freerepublic or Little Green Footballs or Redstate or Michelle Malkin will tell you that. How could some of you (I'm looking at you ROANOKEMAROON) have the gall to say Obama played the race card first?!

comment #35

Mgmax says ...

"The other argument the right and McCain's surrogates have against Obama is that he is somehow a Muslim Manchurian Candidate."

Well, it's not like they have any arguments to use like "inexperienced, extremely liberal one-term senator."

But then that's probably code for "mack daddy," anyway.

comment #36

JHRussell says ...

"Remember McCain's good buddy Rush Limbaugh's racist BARACK THE MAGIC NEGRO parody song?"

Sure we do, but do you remember who first applied the label to Obama? Why it was a writer for your beloved lib rag, the LA Times...Rush's song parody highlights the double standard in the lib media when it comes to "racist" messages...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story

comment #37

JHRussell says ...

Furthermore, if you think McCain and Rush are "good buddies" you clearly have not been listening to the withering criticism by Rush of McCain's campaign and his policies.

For Rush (and many of the people who will vote for McCain), McCain is the "lesser of evils" in the upcoming election, and that thinking is exactly what is going to push more undecideds into the McCain camp in the closing weeks of the campaign...

comment #38

VictorLazlo says ...

MGMX:

Are you saing The Muslim Manchurian Candidate thing is a figment of my imagination?

comment #39

VictorLazlo says ...

JHRussel:

So let me get this straight, Because some idiot at the LA Times used the term, it is ok for Rush to use it to?

And furthermore, are you saying that the substance of Rush's OBAMA THE MAGIC NEGRO song is not the same as McCain's THE ONE ad?

comment #40

VictorLazlo says ...

MGMAX says "Well, it's not like they have any arguments to use like "inexperienced, extremely liberal one-term senator."

But then that's probably code for "mack daddy," anyway."

That is a lot better than the "He thinks he's so hot" argument, too bad it doesn't move those poll numbers.

comment #41

JHRussell says ...

Vic:

RE your insightful questions: Yes and yes...

Seeing desperate fools like you get all twisted in knots over this election is just too delicious...

I love McCain's prescience for having a Rielle Hunter lookalike in the ad - the airhead comparing Obama to Bono (the one frozen at the top of the thread)...my guess is that as we speak the GOP operatives are digging for Rielle Hunter video praising Obama to "link" the magic negro to Edward's mistress...

comment #42

Mgmax says ...

Vic,

It's a figment of your imagination that it's emanating from the McCain campaign, instead of burbling up from the fever swamps like so many things in politics.

Yes, because some idiot at the LA Times used the term, it is ok for Rush to make fun of the idiot and his idiotic notion.

The substance of both is fine. People have absurdly puffed up the magic ocean-healing powers of a charismatic young liberal senator. Mocking that is fair game. Trying to call such mockery racist is fair game too, and so is calling out such race-baiting as cheap and braindead.

As Ross Douthat said at The Atlantic, "Did Bob Herbert really go on MSNBC to insist that the "celebrity" ad deliberately juxtaposed its shots of Britney and Paris Hilton with gratuitous phallic symbols - per Herbert, the Washington Monument and the Leaning Tower of Pisa; per reality, the Victory Column in Berlin, where Obama was giving his speech - in order to hammer home its miscegenation theme? Why yes, apparently he did. Did Timothy Noah really pen a column for Slate arguing that a fluff piece for the Journal about Obama's skinniness "can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race," and calling for a journalistic moratorium on discussions of Obama's personal appearance? Why yes, apparently he did. Do Herbert, Noah et. al. really think that they're helping Obama by putting this sort of hysterical nonsense into circulation? Apparently so."

comment #43

VictorLazlo says ...

"MGMAX says: It's a figment of your imagination that it's emanating from the McCain campaign, instead of burbling up from the fever swamps like so many things in politics."

Not the McCain campaign but the Republican Party in general. Which is the McCain campaign technically.

"Yes, because some idiot at the LA Times used the term, it is ok for Rush to make fun of the idiot and his idiotic notion."

That is not what Rush was doing and you know it. Rush has a long history of racial intolerance, he does not get the benefit of the doubt.

Rush:

"I'm going to keep referring to him as that because I want to make a bet that by the end of this week I will own that term," adding, "If I refer to Obama the rest of the day as the 'Magic Negro,' there will be a number of people in the drive-by media and on left-wing blogs who will credit me for coming up with it and ignore the L.A. Times did it, simply because they can't be critical of the L.A. Times, but they can, obviously, be critical of talk radio." Limbaugh continued to refer to Obama as the "Magic Negro"

That is the very definition of race BAITING. He's intentionally stoking a sensitive subject just to prove an idiotic point? A better word is Racial Arson. Throwing fuel on a fire just for the hell of it. Let's not forget he played the song out of context for WEEKS on his show after making this initial "point". This shows you how many black friends Rush has. Of course the only way someone can be accused of racism is if they ride down the street in a KKK uniform. (or if they're Jeremiah Wright)

From the comments about Dominic McNabb, to Katrina, Rush has made himself the poster boy for white resentment. He couldn't even stand to see a good black quaterback.

And amusingly enough, his point is meaningless and wrong because there was a big uproar over the LA Times article.

"The substance of both is fine. People have absurdly puffed up the magic ocean-healing powers of a charismatic young liberal senator. Mocking that is fair game. Trying to call such mockery racist is fair game too, and so is calling out such race-baiting as cheap and braindead."

A white man calls a black man a MAGIC NEGRO, and you have the audacity to say the black man is race baiting by responding?

And as for the substance, I hope McCain runs with it. Running on "he thinks he's so hot" will ensure Obama's victory.

comment #44

VictorLazlo says ...

And MGMAX:

You're right about the Bob Herbert article. It was silly.

comment #45

VictorLazlo says ...

And JHRussel, the fact that you are casually referring to an actual human being as a magic negro gives me good reason to ignore you. Peace!

comment #46

VictorLazlo says ...

Message to white people: Even though it is a valid term for a movie cliche, it is NOT OK to refer to actual flesh and blood black people as MAGIC NEGROES.

comment #47

Walter Sobchak says ...

Victor Lazlo... Four posts in row? Is that some covert way of asking "where the white women at"?

comment #48

VictorLazlo says ...

If only you were as funny as you think you are Walkter Sobchak.

comment #49

bb says ...

VictorLazlo: I would appreciate it if you would stop repeating the term "Magic Negro'. I don't know where you come from but it is offensive to my people.

comment #50

Marty Melville says ...

"Are you people willfully ignorant?"

I think the term is 'George-willfully ignorant', but, yeah.

comment #51

Ghost072 says ...

I have to say that that was some funny stuff, Mgmax. And that is coming from a self-proclaimed bleeding heart.

While I do think "The One" is a stretch as a racist code, I do think the right is playing the race card and I think Rove's comment about Obama being an elitist in the country club was a clear racially coded message (Wait a minute. There's a black guy in the country club? And he thinks he's better than us?!).

And I have to laugh at this bit of naivety:

"There are no hidden messages. This ain't "They Live.""

Uhh sure. Publicists and marketing firms never use hidden messages...nope, never.

comment #52

MovieBob says ...

One question, though, in all seriousness:

In a race between a fresh-faced Junior Senator from urban Chicago and an elderly man in his mid-70s with limited mobility... who honestly would've predicted that McCain was going to be "the FUNNY one?"

comment #53

Mgmax says ...

"That is not what Rush was doing and you know it."

I do not know it, I think when someone uses the exact words used in a silly column they are, in fact, making fun of them, and most of all, I do not grant you the racial high ground automatically so you can use it to bash every word said by the other side about Obama. Sorry, it is not going to be THAT easy for you, just because universities and big corporations tremble every time someone on the left uses magic racism words doesn't mean I have to.

comment #54

Mgmax says ...

" A better word is Racial Arson. Throwing fuel on a fire just for the hell of it."

"And amusingly enough, his point is meaningless and wrong because there was a big uproar over the LA Times article."

So it's okay that there's an uproar about a stupid article... as long as it's by the right people, not Rush Limbaugh.

I think you just showed the true colors of your tolerance, Vic. How ironic that you're named for a dissident, when your first impulse is to decide who's allowed to speak, and who isn't.

comment #55

BurmaShave says ...

I think DZ went in for a Kirk Lazarus race-operation and came back as VictorLazlo.

comment #56

JHRussell says ...

"And JHRussel, the fact that you are casually referring to an actual human being as a magic negro gives me good reason to ignore you. Peace!"

You introduced the phrase "magic negro" into this thread and it was obvious you had zero knowledge of the origins based on your liberal knee jerk reflexive attribution to McCain's "good buddy" Rush Limbaugh (which without a hint of irony is EXACTLY what Rush predicted libs like you would do in the quote YOU provided).

Get your facts straight before flying off the handle next time...

Peace out, my negro amigo.

comment #57

Devin Faraci says ...

This is blatant AntiChrist imagery. Weird to see this shit in a mainstream campaign.

comment #58

Bocephus says ...

WHERE'S MAH MF'n ICED TEA!?

comment #59

Indeed says ...

I would try to calculate how many IQ points I lost by reading VictorLazlo's posts but I'm now too stupid to do basic math.

Then again I had no intention of voting for Obama so apparently I wasn't too bright in the first place.

comment #60

Indeed says ...

Oh and I'm also kind of a racist.

comment #61

LYT says ...

For what it's worth - the writer of that original LA Times column was David Ehrenstein, a black film critic who is politically a self-described "anarchist." He was using the term in the context of the kind of stereotypical movie characters Obama reminded him of.

He wasn't particularly happy with the way Rush ended up using it.

comment #62

Mgmax says ...

"He wasn't particularly happy with the way Rush ended up using it."

Waaaaah.

Ehrenstein's complaint boiled down to "Hey, I was insulting the way white people will think about Obama, you're not allowed to insult me back!"

I spent enough time at Cathy Seipp's site to get the measure of Ehrenstein's anarchist/thug persona.

comment #63

BurmaShave says ...

Wait David Ehrenstein is African American with a Jewish name? Are we sure he doesn't want to be McCain's running mate?

comment #64

SpinDozer says ...

'I would have thought the McCain team would refrain from using "the One" now that it's been officially outed as a racial...uhm, actually, I mean evangelical code term by David Gergen. Obviously they don't care.'

Oh, they care. They want to win this race badly. Since their political appeal is both weak (move to the right, John) and less than a majority, they will need to play every available card. This ad and other racebaiting was predictable after Iowa. Miscegeny themed attacks were assured whether it was Johnie Mac, Giuliani, FD Thompson, Romney, or Huckabee on top if the opponent was Obama. You can see some of this in a couple of recent Glenn McCoy cartoons here and (echoes of Harold Ford) here. They are disgusting (not unlike calling Limbaugh a satirist - wanna explain the satire behind "Hafrican-American"?), but we knew this was coming. The question isn't whether McCain is going to do something about it, but how do we (Democrats) respond.

comment #65

VictorLazlo says ...

MGMAX: "I think you just showed the true colors of your tolerance, Vic. How ironic that you're named for a dissident, when your first impulse is to decide who's allowed to speak, and who isn't."

Please re-read my post. I did not say I was offended by the mere mentioning of the article. ANd please explain Limbaugh playing the song over and over again in the following days out of context? Inconvenient fact?

comment #66

Mgmax says ...

"ANd please explain Limbaugh playing the song over and over again in the following days out of context?"

I believe he found it amusing. And has three hours a day to fill.

Why don't you write him and tell him the maximum allowable time to be amused by it?

comment #67

VictorLazlo says ...

JHRussel: "You introduced the phrase "magic negro" into this thread and it was obvious you had zero knowledge of the origins"

"I introduced it because it is one of the many example of thinly veiled racial attacks leveled at Obama. Rush knows he can stir the pot just at the mere mention of race."

Just because I introduced the term doesn't mean its ok to call someone that. (For you information, I am African American)

"based on your liberal knee jerk reflexive attribution to McCain's "good buddy" Rush Limbaugh (which without a hint of irony is EXACTLY what Rush predicted libs like you would do in the quote YOU provided)."

Calling me Liberal is not an insult, btw. And please re-read my posts. I didn't buy Limbaugh's excuse for bringing it up in light of him replaying the song out of context for weeks.

"Peace out, my negro amigo."

Really FUCK YOU. Do you have any black friends and if so when was the last time you called one of them "NEGRO"? BUt please stop responding to me.

comment #68

VictorLazlo says ...

MGMAX"I believe he found it amusing. And has three hours a day to fill.

Why don't you write him and tell him the maximum allowable time to be amused by it?"

That says it all. His GRAND EXPERIMENT was an excuse to drag race into the debate and rile up his viewers. And Republicans wonder why blacks go 90% Democrat.

comment #69

Mgmax says ...

"Just because I introduced the term doesn't mean its ok to call someone that."

Really FUCK YOU.

That says it all.

You are exactly what we need people like Limbaugh satirizing in as politically incorrect a way as possible.

comment #70

JHRussell says ...

"Really FUCK YOU. Do you have any black friends and if so when was the last time you called one of them "NEGRO"? BUt please stop responding to me."

Hey Vic:

I would offer to give you some help, but it seems you are doing a great job digging that hole...but in case you need an extra spade, why don't you give Barry a call...

comment #71

VictorLazlo says ...

MGMAX:"You are exactly what we need people like Limbaugh satirizing in as politically incorrect a way as possible."

I'm glad I didn't bring up Michael Richards or I would've cleared the way for anyone to call me the N word, right?

comment #72

Mgmax says ...

Why don't you bring up Blazing Saddles, and threaten to blow your own head off unless we let you go?

comment #73

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