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Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch, #71
Shakesville —
Via dday at Hullabaloo, who files this under "Miscegenation Dogwhistle Watch," comes this new John McCain advert: Says dday, quite rightly: There's no reason to include Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in this ad. None. It hangs on the word "celebrity" being included, which means it could have just as well been Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Anyway, all the footage is from Obama's Berlin speech, not the red carpet. This is absolutely meant to juxtapose images of white women with images ...
Bigot-Bait Twofer
d r i f t g l a s s —
... sexual creatures. Generic American-made injection-molded penis tchotchke? Yes. Distressed, off-brand Round Heel Barbies, a-crawlin’ with booty cooties, random wealth and douchebag entourage? Yes. But not anywhere within a parsec of any sane grownup's definition of sexy. So instead of their “soiled and seedy and fragrant with gin"(h/t Mark Twain) sexuality, I flashed on what cultural niche they occupy in our depraved media ecosystem. dday comes close here. His-or-her analysis is dead-on as far as it goes: ...
7/31: McCain Brings The Nasty
Blogometer —
... about Obama without any fear of reprisal." dday : "Wow, this is just transparent. There's no reason to include Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in this ad. None. It hangs on the word 'celebrity' being included, which means it could have just as well been Brad Pitt and George Clooney . Anyway, all the footage is from Obama's Berlin speech, not the red carpet. This is absolutely meant to juxtapose images of white women with images of a black man. They even dissolve into one another! [...] Right now we have a press narrative entirely focused on Obama, whether or not he's ...
More on Obama, Celebrity and Miscengenation
Comments from Left Field —
Re: the recent McCain campaign ad labelling Barack Obama a celebrity (and not-so-subtly juxtaposing the junior senator from Illinois with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears), Adam Serwer (aka dnA of Too Sense and Jack and Jill Politics) believes that, contra yours truly and other commentators, the racial subtext of the advertisement isn’t actually miscegenation. Rather, he contends that the McCain campaign has constructed a Nixonian paean to white resentment provoked by the undeserved success of an uppity ...
