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Has it really come to this?
Since the 2008 election, we have heard the issue of race discussed ad nauseum. The press used to ply the question "Is America ready for a black president?" Then during the election we learned that Geraldine Ferraro was a racist. Not really, but that's how the Obama camp played it to take her out. Ferraro stated that Obama got an easier ride because he was black.
The President, then candidate, said "her comments were ridiculous" while his supporters bombarded Ferraro with hate mail. She resigned from Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign. Later she had to defend herself from Air America host Randi Rhodes after Rhodes called her and Hillary a series of unflattering names to say the least.
Bill Clinton was targeted for statements during the campaign, the greatest ire of the press drawn from the seemingly most innocent one when he called Senator Obama's campaign a "fairy tale."
During this round of race card playing by Obama supporters, Reverend Jeremiah Wright came into the picture, God D*mning America, calling our nation the "U.S. of KKK-A", insisting that the government sold drugs to black people, committed war crimes against Japan and that AIDS was created as "a means of genocide against people of color." After twenty years of that, it's hard to see why this was the main play of the Obama campaign.
After several press conferences and interviews in which he defended Wright, Sen. Barack Obama finally removed him from his campaign staff. Then Reverend Wright made a disastrous appearance before the National Press Club and Sen. Obama had to finally get rid of his mentor of twenty years. He gave a Hail Mary speech on race to both save his candidacy and distance himself from Reverend Wright, the race card seemed to have backfired after so much effective deployment.
Sen. Obama's camp was not finished deploying it however, as an Obama supporting member of the press gave them a gift. David Singleton claimed that at a Sarah Palin rally, people were shouting "kill him," an obvious reference to the evil days of lynchings and mob justice. The future President used this "kill him" urban legend as a talking point in a debate against Sen. John McCain, bringing pressure on McCain to condemn Palin's apparent rabble rousing. The Secret Service later debunked the story.
After the election, which President-elect Barack Obama won handily, there was the continuation of the anti-bailout protests. The leftists of Code Pink and some libertarian protesters were joined by fiscal conservatives and independents in what became known as the Tea Parties. These protests railed against heavy spending and increased government control. The left was quick to deride the effort and when that failed they played the race card, leading with a "comedian" analyst of course.
"That is nothing but a bunch of tea bagging rednecks." - Janeane Garofalo
Her Stockholm Syndrome act was used earlier in the year against Michael Steele. Garafolo on Steele: "...that black guy in the Republican Party who suffers from Stockholm Syndrome."
CNN edited a video, concealing the race of a rifle slinging black protester so they could then run a segment about racism in the Tea Parties. Fortunately, other networks had footage of the gentleman and CNN's dishonest water carrying was exposed.
It is unfortunate such yellow journalism has become mainstream, as there are a few extremists who do actually show up with some offensive material. Lyndon LaRouche supporters perfected the revolting President-as-Hitler theme. Others have brought offensive signs and images, but in tiny numbers compared with the protests themselves. This is why major networks like CNN must manufacture stories, so the racism charges will have some teeth.
One would think that this oversaturation of race baiting would get tired, but the President seemed eager to keep things rolling as he later excoriated Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley and the Cambridge Police Dept, for "acting stupidly" in the arrest of Professor Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. The President's comments ignited a firestorm in the press and the police responded by digging their heels in and defending Sgt. Crowley.
President Obama then held the much lampooned "Beer Summit" as a damage control measure.
When the IOC rejected Chicago as a host city for the 2016 Olympics, the 'net was abuzz with jokes and predictions about how soon the IOC would be labeled racist for putting Chicago in last place. David Axlerod claimed it was "politics" but he did not elaborate. Seeing that Rio got the Olympics, it's hard to believe race played any role at all in the rejection of the United States. Unfortunately, identity politics is poisoning our political discourse and many Americans were searching for early critics who would be playing the race card.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tried to tie Sarah Palin's new book to white supremacists after a round-table conversation about hyperbole and over-the-top rhetoric hurting the political discourse. Maddow, who is fast becoming known as a "journalist" who skims blogs and regurgitates their contents on television, tried to tie Palin through a ghost writer named Lynn Vincent, to journalist and author Robert Stacy McCain. Vincent and McCain wrote a book together called Donkey Cons. Maddow didn't offer at the time where she came up with the charge, it was just her "belief" based on guilt by association. Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue: An American Life, has spent 8 days as of this writing in the top 100. Right now it is #1, followed by Dan Brown's eagerly anticipated Lost Symbol. Pretty impressive for a lady who Maddow says pals around with "white supremacists."
President Obama has publicly repudiated the charges that racism is the force behind his critics to little avail. The media and the left continue to push the narrative that millions of Americans are angry that out President is black. Not only that, but they continue to predict an assassin or maniac will do our President harm.
Hopefully, they are as wrong about that as they have been on the subject of racism these past months.
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