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He's An Uppity Negro Who Wants To Fuck Your Sister
Eschaton — He's An Uppity Negro Who Wants To Fuck Your Sister It is the path that the McCain camp has chosen . They're allowed. But if the word "presumptuous" comes out of the mouth of a journalist one more time I'm gonna go Elvis on the teevee.

McCain Links Obama to Paris Hilton, Britney Spears
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Josh Marshall: "I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. Presumably, a la Harold Ford 2006, this will be one of those strategies that will be a matter of deep dispute during the campaign and later treated as transparent and obvious once the campaign is concluded."

Hullabaloo — ... 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! Josh Marshall notes: I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. (See ...

Camp McCain mocks Barack Obama’s celebrity status [Karl]
protein wisdom — ... admires the McCain tactic of using buzz to make up for money gap, Camp McCain clearly sees this one as having more potential.  Josh Marshall , true to form, sees it as a “new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women,” as opposed to celebs behaving badly.  Perhaps the ad should have included ...

Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch, #71
Shakesville — ... Which is not only accurate, but underlines the misogynist superfluity of Josh Marshall's ridiculous description of Spears and Hilton as "oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women." Anyway… ...

McCain, RNC Attack Ads Scrape The Bottom Of The Barrel
Crooks and Liars — ... The McCain campaign is looking increasingly desperate with each attack ad has chosen to take a tried and true approach to their latest ad — veiled racism. Referring to Barack Obama as the “biggest celebrity in the world,” McCain’s ad conveniently and quite overtly slides footage of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton into the mix.  And poor Cindy McCain thought her husband was going to run a clean, positive campaign.  More from Josh Marshall: I note with interest today, John McCain’s new tactic ...

Remainders: Leave Britney alone!
Ben Smith's Blog — ... says McCain's trying to make him seem "risky." He shrugs off McCain's new ad. McCain's haphazard Jewish outreach organization could hurt his chance to make inroads. Calderone reports that Fournier talked with the McCain campaign about a job in October 2006. The Nation sends an open letter to Obama, asking him to "stand firm" on universal healthcare, Iraq withdrawal, and whole host of other issues. Josh Marshall calls racism -- a charge that will now be hotly disputed through November. ...

The Blogger Who Cried "Racism!"
The Corner on National Review Online — ... where he makes fun of Obama's celebrity status, happens to feature a picture of Britney Spears to illustrate its point about the vacuousness of fame for fame's sake. Of course, here's the liberal blogger reaction : I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. That's from TPM's Josh Marshall who's usually above this sort of thing, so I note with interest his new tactic of baselessly crying "racism!" where none can be found. I'll just quote from Ponnuru and Lowry's recent NRODT story on ...

She's Not Heavy, and She Ain't My Sister
Booman Tribune — I understand Josh and Duncan's outrage, but Britney and Paris are not my sisters. Would it be presumptuous of me to point out that John McCain is running the most embarrassingly bad campaign in modern electoral history? Get off my lawn!!

Remainders: No new taxes
Jonathan Martin's Blog — ... Josh Marshall spots resonances of the ’06 Harold Ford race in McCain’s new advertising (but didn't the Ford spot have a much more explict sexual connotation?) ...

Campaigning, Campaigning
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES — ... Following the presidential campaigns leaves me out of breath, mostly because of the sheer boredom of it all and so I forget that breathing part. In any case, McCain has decided to step into the morass in his latest campaign twist: ...

New McCain ad portrays Obama as a celebrity
Sister Toldjah — ... Note the brief images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears at the beginning as the ad tries to portray Obama as a more a celebrity than presidential candidate.   I think the ad’s pretty on point, but apparently I’m just not “getting it” because, according to liberal Josh Marshall, this ad has racist undertones in it because it …  features white promiscuous women: ...

Obama: McCain’s message is that I don’t “look like the other presidents on the currency”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... when he said of Josh Marshall’s latest consultation with his secret racial decoder ring , he’s “usually above this sort of thing”? Hey, Mark? ...

An Old New Meme
Comments from Left Field — ... Of course, that last word hasn’t been used — yet. But I’m getting a growing sense that’s what it all means. So I’ve been mulling it over, wondering if I’m the only one who’s noticed this, thinking I should post about it, when today I saw this piece by Josh Marshall, which I quote in full (bolds are mine): ...

Celeb #1: Obama As Sexual Predator
BAGnewsNotes — ... on the Nazi/Riefenstahl parallel, and I agree with Josh that McCain's video hit man is playing heavily on racist  allusions to sexual promiscuity and rape. ...

Prominent Liberal Blogger Says Britney Ad Implies Obama Has a "Taste for Young White Women"
Political Punch — ... Prominent Liberal Blogger Says Britney Ad Implies Obama Has a "Taste for Young White Women" July 31, 2008 7:02 AM"I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women," writes liberal blogger Josh Marshall. "Presumably, a la Harold Ford 2006, this will be one of those strategies that will be a matter of deep dispute during the campaign and later treated as transparent and obvious once the campaign is concluded." Continues Marshall: "the McCain campaign is now pushing the caricature of Obama as a ...

Oh, Josh.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Tell me that you had to drink half a bottle of whiskey to numb the pain of writing that. Because, really, the stupidity of the article below is crystallizing at the bottom of the glass. I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. (Via Jake Tapper, 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 ...

Ex-McCain Aide Blasts Former Boss
The Hollywood Liberal — ... Said Weaver: “For McCain to win in such troubled times, he needs to begin telling the American people how he intends to lead us. That McCain exists. He can inspire the country to greatness. There is legitimate mockery of a political campaign now, and it isn’t at Obama’s. For McCain’s sake, this tomfoolery needs to stop.” Related on Political Insider : Is being a celebrity good politics? [image] [image] McCain Links Obama to Paris Hilton, Britney Spears Josh Marshall : “I note with interest today, John McCain’s new tactic of associating Barack ...

Dana Milbank, Crypto-Racist?
Ross Douthat — That's the takeaway, so far as I can tell, from this Josh Marshall post, which starts with the dubious claim that this McCain ad - which Ramesh and John Weaver rightly call childish - is actually playing on white America's subliminal fears that Barack Obama wants to sleep with promiscuous white starlets, and proceeds to the claim that any pundit (like Milbank, say) who uses the word "presumptuous" to describe Barack Obama is just playing along with the McCain campaign's vile attempt to caricature Obama as an "uppity young black man whose ...

Last night's links
The Sideshow — ... The new Rove Team tactics McCain is using against Obama now include the tactic they used against Harold Ford (he's after our women!). Josh Marshall wants to track any journalists who inject this into the mainstream. ...

Race and 'Celeb'
Ben Smith's Blog — ... of how Obama's race is playing with voters, and while occasional of GOP groups and commentators have crossed the line, the national GOP and the McCain campaign are under marching orders not to do anything that could get them called racist, and I can only think of one that stirred chatter -- the Republican Party description of Obama as a "street organizer." But there's nothing as explosive as race in America, and yesterday two of the most widely-read liberal bloggers, Josh Marshall and Atrios, took McCain's 'Celeb' ad as an attempt to stir old fears by ...

Hugh Hewitt: He's Making A LIst, Checking It Twice...
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — Joshua Micah Marshall is very serious about paybacks : So please keep an eye out for references to Obama's presumptuousness, arrogance, etc., from John King and other reporters. Let us know when you see them and send us in examples -- in text or video. McCain gets to run the campaign he wants. Remember, he ...

Brainster's Blog — If You Hear a Dog Whistle.... Odds are good it's because you're a dog. Uber-liberals like Josh Marshall think this new McCain ad is racist: Why? Well because it shows images of Obama along with the flower of demure young femininity in the persons of Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears. Toss in some phallic landmarks and it should be obvious what the message is: Don't elect Obama or else he'll have sex with the sluttiest white gals around! One obvious problem occurs to me. Most politicians only target people who are undecided. Does anybody really think that McCain needs to target ...

7/31: McCain Brings The Nasty
Blogometer — TPM 's Josh Marshall : "I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women. (See today's new ad and this from yesterday.) Presumably, a la Harold Ford 2006, this will be one of those strategies that will be a matter of deep dispute during the campaign and later treated as transparent and obvious once the campaign is concluded." Atrios : " He's An Uppity Negro Who Wants To Fuck Your Sister . It is the path that the McCain camp has chosen . They're ...

“Pulling the Race Card”
Comments from Left Field — ... What reasonable explanation could there possibly be for calling the assured Democratic presidential nominee “arrogant” or “presumptuous” because he gives a speech in Berlin about foreign policy and how he sees the role of the United States in the world? Why shouldn’t he be “acting presidential” when there is an excellent chance he will be president in four months? As Josh Marshall wrote yesterday, “Is it arrogant or above Obama’s station for him to meet with the Chairman of the ...

Conservatives Want Somebody to Love
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... that the Obama campaign believes that Americans who plan to vote for McCain instead of Obama are downright racists. So do I love John McCain? Not in the romantic way but perhaps in Elinor Dashwood’s way before her sense gave way to sensibility…. “I do not attempt to deny that I think very highly of him. That I …… greatly esteem him. That I like him.” Elinor said to her sister, Marianne. The Marianne media is choosing sensibility over sense. Obama is their own John Willoughby. ...

Applause please
Newshoggers.com — ... There's no award associated with this project yet, but I bet they could borrow a trophy from John Cole once Josh finishes tracking the media complicity in McCain's smear attacks. I'm betting a clear winner will emerge from the statistics. You can help. ...

Barack Obama is no Mr. Darcy
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... on our rights and privacy. It’s becoming obvious that the Obama campaign believes that Americans who plan to vote for McCain instead of Obama are downright racists. So do I love John McCain? Not in the romantic way but perhaps in Elinor Dashwood’s way before her sense gave way to sensibility…. “I do not attempt to deny that I think very highly of him. That I …… greatly esteem him. That I like him.” Elinor said to her sister, Marianne. The Marianne media is choosing sensibility over sense. Obama is their own John Willoughby. I ...

I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe
SteveAudio — ... That's the takeaway, so far as I can tell, from this Josh Marshall post, which starts with the dubious claim that ...

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 ...

Adam Hanft: Michelle Obama's Speech: A High-Tech Groveling
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... figurine. (In fact, her brother duly noted her affection for the show last night.) Indeed, the Anita Hall controversy called upon the same racial stereotype of the sexually dangerous black male that many, including Josh Marshall, believe was embodied in the McCain Paris Hilton TV spot. ...