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Just 'aving a laugh
The Reaction — ... at the same time. Using troops as props? Who, us? We're just taking a piss. Subtly using race to brand a Senator as scary? Come on, playing on people's racism is so Jon Stewart. Lying to make these points? Please, don't focus on the negative. It's all about the fun. ...

David Gergen: McCain’s “Moses” ad is code for calling Obama “uppity”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... . Not only did a vast majority see nothing racist about it (Democrats themselves are evenly divided) but fully 53% found St. Barack’s “dollar bill” comment over the line, including 44% of blacks. Keep talking, Gergen. Click the image to watch. [image]

I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe
SteveAudio — ... quotes edited out of any semblance of context: "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." Yeah. It's about America, not Obama. And it's Republican racism being used to disparage Obama. In support of that argument is a commenter on the Huffpost piece about Gergen claiming race: Gergen is from the south. Those of us ...

Uppity Obama
The Moderate Voice — ... UPDATE: Apparently Washington political big gun David Gergen, who has served Presidents of both parties agrees. Via The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein: ...

Why is Obama not holding a commanding lead right now?
QandO — ... . Race has been injected into this election as much by Obama and his supporters as anyone. I think you have to assume that some level of the "Bradley effect" is in play in this election as well. But I’ll again point out that it isn’t Republicans that will be responsible for such an effect - they’re not going to vote for him to begin with. If there is a Bradley effect in this election it will be because Democratic voters (or those professing to be Dem voters supporting Obama) will not pull the lever for him in the voting booth because he is ...

The Uppity Black Guy
The Mahablog — Over the weekend David Gergen said, “There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, ‘he’s not one of us,’” said Gergen, who has worked with White Houses, both Republican and Democrat, from Nixon to Clinton. “I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it’s the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ...

Gergen identifies code for ‘He’s uppity’
Political Animal — ... As Sam Stein reported, Gergen told his roundtable colleagues, “There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, ‘he’s not one of us.’ I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it’s the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ‘The One,’ that’s code for, ‘he’s uppity, he ought to stay in his place.’ ...

Gergen talks about code for ‘uppity’
Crooks and Liars — ... Sam Stein has more.

David Gergen Plays Race Card in Defense of Obama
Moonbattery — ... Via HuffPo: On Sunday, longtime Washington hand David Gergen took umbrage with John McCain's recent attack ads, charging that the Senator was using coded messaging to paint Barack Obama as "outside the mainstream" and "uppity." "There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, 'he's not one of us,'" said Gergen, who has worked with White Houses, both Republican and Democrat, from Nixon to Clinton. "I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly ...

Letter to Democrats Abroad: The Weird Presidential Race at Midsummer
American Politics Journal RSS Feed — ... nothing to back it up, a false "messiah" ("the one") who's full of himself and can't really lead, a smooth-talking elitist who's "not one of us," etc. Get it? You don't have to say anything that's specifically racial -- the message will get through. "He's not one of us," "he's presumptuous" -- see, no need to use the term "uppity" or "a Negro who doesn't know his place." As David Gergen and others have pointed out, many voters are quite familiar with the old White Citizens Council's coded language, and others will gravitate to it. McCain has received much criticism from many ...

David Gergen's Code for 'Uppity' Bitches, Ballbreakers, & Bimbos (Video)
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Huff Post: On Sunday, longtime Washington hand David Gergen took umbrage with John McCain's recent attack ads, charging that the Senator was using coded messaging to paint Barack Obama as "outside the mainstream" and "uppity." ...

Is David Gergen Right?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — I watched This Week this weekend and saw these comments from David Gergen (via Sam Stein @ Huffington Post): "There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, 'he's not one of us,'" said Gergen, who has worked with White Houses, both Republican and Democrat, from Nixon to Clinton. "I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it's the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see ...

Hanoi Hilton to Paris Hilton
The Moderate Voice — ... The Obama attacks may be damaging the John McCain “brand” in the long run, according to a growing chorus of Republican supporters and admirers, including McCain’s mother who calls one of the ads “stupid.” ...

Is Obama “Uppity”?
Discriminations — ... “seeking to portray what it says is Obama’s smugness and false regal perception with a new comparison: to Moses” and discovered, hidden in code that only Southerners can really understand, racism: ...

Time reporter: McCain’s Franklin Raines ad is racist because, um, he released it before the Jim Johnson one
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... in the South where people have used the slogan “one of us.” I know what this stuff looks like. In this case, the McCain campaign chose NOT to draw attention to the very real connections between Fannie Mae and the campaign (Jim Johnson and campaign contributions), and instead, focused on this one. If Raines had been included in an ad that mentioned the others, that would have been well within the bounds of fairness as well. QED. Karen Tumulty knows, and that’s that. Gergen gave a similar excuse , about having special decoding knowledge by virtue of being from the south, back ...

McCain’s Politics Of Desperation
Firedoglake — ... McCain is set to "debate" Obama this evening in a town hall-style forum.  Perhaps someone could ask McCain about the dog-whistle surrogates of the GOP?   -- Well, this is nauseatingly crass.  Including pretending that FOX and Hannity have clean hands.  Way to buck up the anti-semetic pimping filthmongers among us! --  Speaking of filthmongers, these ads are disgusting.  -- What does all of this have in common?  McCain's politics of desperation.  It's spreading. ...

Frenzied Raceocrats
Discriminations — ... Thus David Gergen, former confidential advisor to just about everybody and the very icon of establishment rectitude who often sounds like a schoolmarm correcting the rubes for their uncouth attitudes, actually argued with a straight face (but then his face is always straight) that criticizing Obama for his lack of experience, his lack of achievement, and his far left notions was in effect calling him “uppity,” which is not-so-coded racism. This “uppity” claim became a ubiquitous trope on the left, i.e., in the mainstream media (such as this ...

CNN Paints Barack Obama as Moses
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... CNN's David Gergen even suggested the Moses mockery was racist: "I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it's the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, 'The One,' that's code for, 'he's uppity, he ought to stay in his place.' Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that." ...

Racist vs. Racial: Which One Was Joe Wilson?
Mojo Feed | Mother Jones — ... while delivering a speech on health care reform to congress. And during the campaign, many red state voters couldn't quite put their finger on why they didn't like Obama. There was just something about him. Last August, former Reagan and Clinton staffer David Gergen said that the McCain campaign deliberately pushed the message that "he's uppity, he ought to stay in his place." ...