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Jake Tapper: “Did Obama Accuse McCain of Running a Racist, Xenophobic Campaign?”
Patterico's Pontifications — [Guest post by DRJ] Jake Tapper of ABC’s Political Punch blog: “I’ve seen racism in campaigns before — I’ve seen it against Obama in this campaign (more from Democrats than Republicans, at this point, I might add) and I’ve seen it against McCain in South Carolina in 2000, when his adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget was alleged, by the charming friends and allies of then-Gov. George W. Bush, to have been a McCain love-child with an African-American woman. What I have not seen is it come from McCain or his ...

Jake, Jake, Jake
Talking Points Memo — Jake Tapper says Obama's is being 'inflammatory' for hinting that McCain is doing what he's doing.

Jake Crapper
Rising Hegemon — God forbid the target of the attacks call out the McCain for dogwhistles. After all, using the thesaurus to get around the word "uppity" is in no fashion a race-based attack. And it takes a white guy like Jake Tapper to know this.

Obama's smear on xenophic racism
Betsy's Page — Thursday, July 31, 2008 Obama's smear on xenophic racism Jake Tapper calls Obama out for his regular refrain that his opponents are xenophobic racists. A standard refrain in Obama's speeches is that those trying to defeat him are playing to racism. Obama continued: "And so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they’re saying is, ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he’s... doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s ...

Obama Pre-emptively Pulls Race Card Then Goes Back to Staring at His Reflection in the Stream
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... has finally, tacitly admitted he is just a typical politician by accusing those who don't like him of being racist. “Nobody thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama warned, “You know he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on the dollar bills.” Jake Tapper has an absolute must read on this. And just to clarify, those of us who ...

Oh, Josh.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... , who submitted this without comment, except to casually deflate Marshall's clumsy attempt to link this to the Ford ad*; then again, given that Jake had previously eviscerated the usual Democratic attempts to paint the GOP as racists, perhaps he felt it unnecessary to write the post all over again.) ...

The Voices In Jake Tapper’s Head
Balloon Juice — ... Sunlen Miller. “But think about it, what’s the bigger risk? Us deciding that we’re going to come together to bring about real change in America or continuing to do same things with the same folks in the same ways that we know have not worked? I mean, are we really going to do the same stuff that we’ve been doing over the last eight years? ... That’s a risk we cannot afford. The stakes are too high.” Jake Tapper heard: Correct me if I’m wrong, but does it not seem as if Obama just said McCain ...

Jake Tapper: Obama smeared McCain
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Obama says, it’s all about his name and his skin color: “They know that you’re not real happy with them and so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me,” Obama continued, repeating an attack from earlier in the day. “What they’re saying is ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, he’s a got a funny name .’” ABC’s Jake Tapper slammed Obama for smearing McCain in a lengthy post at the Political Punch: Correct me if I’m ...

From the team that brought you two wars, a recession, the housing crisis and so much more, a vicious campaign for a third term
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... This is "strikingly reminiscent" of the attacks on Kerry because the same people are doing it. In fairness, this line of attacks just seems more ugly and egregious -- and not too subtly racist (despite Jake Tapper thinking otherwise). ...

Race and 'Celeb'
Ben Smith's Blog — ... And Obama himself seemed yesterday to link McCain's recent attacks to his race and his name, though his campaign quickly backed off that implication when pressed. ...

Barack Obama Playing the Race Card Against John McCain?
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Barack Obama, stalled in the polls after his foreign “coronation” tour, now is “playing the race card” against John McCain. ...

Oops, he’s doing it again
Sister Toldjah — ... ) against the Clintons during the primary season and succeeded in painting them as closet racists, and now he’s unjustly doing it against McCain: ...

Obama On The Britney Ad: They're Painting Me As "Risky"
TPM Election Central — ... Did Barack Obama cry racism and xenophobia in responding to the Britney ad? Last night, Obama turned up the volume a notch in response to the spot: ...

The Tactic of Smear
baldilocks — Obama may have left Black Liberation Theology’s Trinity United Church of “Christ,” but it certainly hasn’t left him . Obama continued: "And so the only way they [sic] figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they’re saying is, ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he’s... doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s got a, he’s got a funny name.' The candidate belonged to a church that subscribed to an ideology of racial vengeance and victory. He may have ...

I Can’t Look
The Mahablog — ... Jake Tapper, who needs to retire, reads between the lines of Obama’s response and projects onto it a whole lot of subtext that I don’t see, and comes up with this conclusion: ...

McCain campaign aims even lower, accuses Obama of playing ‘race card’
Political Animal — ... Specifically, in talking about the concept of “risk” taking, Obama referred to attacks from “them” and “those guys.” Asked who Obama was referring to, campaign aides told ABC News he was “talking about his ‘opponents’ in general, writ large, the talk radio hosts and smear artists and such.” ...

Bluffing 'Bout Bias?
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... Stipulating that McCain isn't race-baiting doesn't mean that Obama ought to refrain from  recognizing that some people who might be inspired by his message might also be a little wary, a little prejudiced in the way that most of us are, a little confused about what this unusual guy is all about. ...

Quick Links, once around
The Anchoress — ... after the Second Vatican Council. Interestingly, I started using the old/now new “Lord I am not worthy” a few years ago - quite spontaneously - as it leaked out of the recesses of my memory, and just went with it. These changes will not be difficult to get used to and will be more precise and focused responses. Glenn Reynolds watches Barack Obama play his cards . Is Obama a megalomaniac? Does he play his Ace from the bottom of the deck? As Jake Tapper notes - there is name-calling going on , but it ain’t via the McCain camp. How Green is my politics? ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — Ha ha ha. Jake Tapper is so naive. This, on the other hand, is better. Paul Hogarth over at Beyond Chron reviews Taking on the System: Markos Moulitsas’ new book, Taking On the System, is not really about political blogs. One would expect the founder of Daily Kos to write about the netroots (and his book offers plenty of anecdotes about how they’ve changed politics), but it’s really a guide for how ordinary people can make an impact in the 21st Century. Moulitsas writes about how the Internet has ...

John McCain Does Not Think That Campaigning Against Barack Obama Makes Him A Racist
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... and Jake Tapper illustrate the totally baseless nature of that charge. If anything, the absence of Rev. Wright from the airwaves is a symptom of how far McCain has bent over backwards to avoid racially charged campaigning. But he may be coming around to the realization that Obama has taken the gloves off for good at this point. McCain's a tough guy and a fighter, and being called a racist simply for having the temerity to be in Obama's way appears to have reminded him once again of a timeless lesson of politics: ...

Jake Tapper: One Man Truth Squad
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Right on target . The McCain campaign has done nothing to suggest that people should vote against Barack Obama because of his name or background. And it is utterly wrong of Obama to suggest otherwise. Obama is perfectly free to take issue with and take on McCain's critiques of his candidacy. But he should actually argue against McCain instead of some straw man that Obama says is McCain. You know, this Internet thing is really useful for calling shenanigans on the characterizations of opposing political arguments. Maybe Barack Obama would like to keep that sort of thing in ...

Jake Tapper: One Man Truth Squad
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Right on target. The McCain campaign has done nothing to suggest that people should vote against Barack Obama because of his name or background. And it is utterly wrong of Obama to suggest otherwise. Obama is perfectly free to take issue with and take on McCain's critiques of his candidacy. But he should actually argue against McCain instead of some straw man that Obama says is McCain. ...

Did Obama Accuse McCain of Running a Racist, Xenophobic Campaign?
The New Editor — Of course he did. ABC's Jake Tapper agrees.

Obama’s Race Card Follies!
Nice Deb — ... only one person in this race who is pre-occupied by race, and that’s Obama, himself. So this is a list that I fully expect will continue to grow from now until the election, because Obama shows no signs of stopping and his willing accomplices in the media are happy to help him. Much like his preening narcissism, (which has finally entered public consciousness), his clumsy attempts to use the race card against the hapless McCain, are finally rubbing people (and not just conservatives) the wrong way. July 30, Union, MO: ...

Andrea Mitchell: Funny, the reporters covering the campaign didn’t think Obama played the race card
Hot Air » Top Picks — Andrea Mitchell: Funny, the reporters covering the campaign didn’t think Obama played the race card posted at 11:53 am on August 1, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Not entirely true. Jake Tapper clearly thinks he did, as does Jonathan Martin at Politico. Even the reliably leftish Mika Brzezinski won’t deny it, as you’ll see. But Mitchell’s surely right in the aggregate: Doubtless the vast majority of the press pool that follows the Lamb can’t quite make the connection between what he said two days ago and the similar but ...

Obama: That Dollar Bill Thing? Yeah, I Was Talking About My Being Black. Credulous And Fawning Media Hit Hardest.
Ace of Spades HQ — Obama: That Dollar Bill Thing? Yeah, I Was Talking About My Being Black. Credulous And Fawning Media Hit Hardest. After spending a couple days denying that obvious, Obama admits that his "You know, he’s new, he’s... doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s got a, he’s got a funny name" remark did refer to his being black. "I don’t think it’s accurate to say that my comments have nothing to do with race," Obama said. "Here's what I was saying and I think this should be undisputed: That I don’t come out of central casting, when it comes to ...

ABC's Jake Tapper implies that McCain's newest attack ad is racist
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ABC's Jake Tapper defended John McCain a few weeks ago against possible charges of having lanched racist attacks against Obama. It seems that ...

Obama the Divider
Pajamas Media — ... . Specifically he said , “And so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they’re saying is, ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he’s … doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s got a, he’s got a funny name.’” Of course, John McCain never made any statements remotely like that — ever. To what did the phrase not looking like “other presidents” refer? Well, as with everything, it was an allusion to race. One need not be a physicist — or ...

It’s a Mystery Wrapped Inside a Riddle!
Balloon Juice — ... , or the time that Jake Tapper mysteriously decided to work late and tell us that an innocuous statement from Obama was an allegation of racism directed at the McCain campaign (Rick Davis loved this title, Jake: “Did Obama Accuse McCain of Running a Racist, Xenophobic Campaign?”. He liked it so much we got treated to a week of Republicans running around to every media outlet accusing Obama of playing the “race card.” ), or the time when he decided to plant the meme that Obama is a liar because Jake ...