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QandO: How To Tell If You Are A Racist
The Corner on National Review Online: A Brilliant Parody of Liberal Smugness
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..: This just in! Democratic Party full of anti-feminist misogynist troglodytes!
Ace of Spades HQ: Slate: Racism the Only Possible Reason for Obama Loss
Hot Air » Top Picks: MSNBC guest: Biden’s racial gaffes are rather refreshingly politically incorrect, aren’t they?
How To Tell If You Are A Racist
QandO —
According to Jacob Weisberg of Slate.com, if you are white and don’t vote for Barack Obama, the only reason must be racism. In fact, Weisberg’s assessment concludes that the only reason Obama is not ahead by ten points right now because of old, white, racist people. Indeed, the title of his rant is "If Obama Loses; Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him." ...
A Brilliant Parody of Liberal Smugness
The Corner on National Review Online —
Saturday, August 23, 2008 [image] A Brilliant Parody of Liberal Smugness [Ramesh Ponnuru] At least I hope that's what Jacob Weisberg was trying to write. Many have discoursed on what an Obama victory could mean for America. We would finally be able to see our legacy of slavery, segregation, and racism in the rearview mirror. Our kids would grow up thinking of prejudice as a nonfactor in their lives. The rest of the world would embrace a less fearful and more open post-post-9/11 America. But does it not follow that an Obama defeat would signify the opposite? If Obama loses, our ...
This just in! Democratic Party full of anti-feminist misogynist troglodytes!
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. —
At least according to the ludicrously simplistic freshman-level analytical rubric Jacob Weisberg applies in an article over at Slate. Sometimes, you wonder if it isn't just self-parody? Weisberg opines that Racism Is The Only Reason Obama Might Lose : Heh. I'm guessing this article wouldn't have been written if it were Alan Keyes, or Ward Connerly, or Clarence Thomas, or Thomas Sowell, or Condoleeza Rice, or J.C. Watts, or Deroy Murdock, or Colin Powell as the candidate. Well, maybe Powell. If he was running as a Democrat. And of course, if it was Murdock, it would have to ...
Slate: Racism the Only Possible Reason for Obama Loss
Ace of Spades HQ —
Slate: Racism the Only Possible Reason for Obama Loss To say something positive: Jacob Weisberg is admirably forthright and direct about what most liberals are dishonestly passive-aggressive about. But, that aside, it's all downhill from there. If Obama Loses: Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him. ... If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If ...
MSNBC guest: Biden’s racial gaffes are rather refreshingly politically incorrect, aren’t they?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... I wonder if he’s changed his mind. On any other day, this would take the prize for the most embarrassing race-related spin among the commentariat. But not today. Click the image to watch. ...
Let the Spinning Begin!
The Sundries Shack —
... Today, also, the left is pre-blaming America if the Obamessiah does not Ascend to the White House, just to make sure the giant safety net of excuses is solidly in place no matter the outcome of the election. According to Slate, the only thing that’s will hold The Anointed One from his rightful position as President of the World is our filthy racism. You’d think that maybe his rank incompetence might have something to do with it, or his support for infanticide, or his dirty dealings with crooks and corrupt powerbrokers, or his keen dislike for America, or his ...
The Problem With Journalists
Winds of Change.NET —
... ...is neatly summed up with Slate Editor in Chief's personal opinion piece - "If Obama Loses : Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him." ...
Decisions, Decisions
Right Wing Nation —
... is that Joe Biden can make the case, “Hey, I’m as surprised as you all are to be running with a darkie. But I have to tell you — he’s one of the ‘good ones,’ like Cosby or Byron Allen. He’s like the new, family-friendly Ice Cube, not the old, angry Ice Cube that your daughter would date to get back at you for not buying her that Mini Cooper she wanted.”
Brilliant.
It is. Read the whole thing.
Oh, and of course:
If Obama Loses: Racism is the only reason McCain ...
Slate Writer Claims Racism Is Only Reason Obama Will Lose
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... The liberals have already come up with their excuse for why Barack Obama might lose the election in November. It wouldn't be because of his inexperience, poor judgement, or far left political views. No, the real reason according to Slate's Jacob Weisberg is racism. The proposition is put in the title of his article, "If Obama Loses," with his answer given in the subtitle, "Racism is the Only Reason McCain Might Beat Him." And, of course, Obama's recent poll plunge can only be attributed to you-know-what: ...
Jacob Weisberg: The Only Reason Obama Will Lose is Racism
Wizbang —
Jacob Weisberg has a post at Slate in which he publishes a preemptive strike should Barack Obama lose : If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin. So older white voters' racism is ...
Brainster's Blog — Poisoning the Well Jacob Weisberg claims that only racism can explain any John McCain victory. What with the Bush legacy of reckless war and economic mismanagement, 2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record ...
Excuses, Excuses
Discriminations —
... Here’s another chorus of the liberals’ racism refrain, this time bleated by Jacob Weisberg of SLATE. “If Obama loses,” he wails, “racism is the only reason....” If Obama loses, he repeats, he will do so “for a simple reason: the color of his skin.” ...
The Audacity of Despair
Vodkapundit —
... on 24 Aug 2008 at 09:04 am The convention hasn’t even started yet, and already you can smell the hippies desperation — Slate’s Jacob Weisberg argues that racism is the ...
How Racist Are The Yentas and Fressers? Enough To Cut Their Own Throats In Spite?
DownWithTyranny! —
My friend's mother is in a KKK ladies' auxilliary floating mah jongg game in West Palm Beach. All the ladies are well-off "Democratic" yentas and fressers who moved down to Florida to escape either cold weather or bad family finances. Every one of them believes in women's right to choice-- fervently. When Constitutional scholar Dahlia Lithwick wrote at Slate a few days ago that McCain is betting the farm that women aren't paying attention, she was talking about the South Florida yentas. She may have joined the floating West Palm Beach mah jongg game ...
Why It's Close
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Jake Weisberg argues that only race can explain why Obama's still neck and neck with McCain. I don't want to deny that race may play a role in this election - particularly among older, white voters. But the reason for the close race is surely over-determined. Yes, this is a change election - 80 percent believe the country is on the wrong track. But McCain is not an incumbent vice-president, and rightly boasts a record that isn't - at least until the past few years - a Bush-Cheney Republican wet dream. He's in favor of tackling climate change, for example, something the Bushies ...
Your Post-Election Analysis Today
Weekly Standard Blog —
Kudos to author Matt Bai for writing this piece in today's Times. Some liberals are already beginning to assert that racism, not rational policy disagreement or unease with the candidate's youth and inexperience, will lead to Barack Obama's defeat in November. Bai calls this line of argument what it is: hogwash. Here's Bai:
While it’s entirely possible that Mr. Obama’s race is costing him some support, it’s also true that the electorate that voted in the last two presidential elections was almost symmetrically divided ...
Remainders: Denver, Day 1
Ben Smith's Blog —
PUMA count: Three dozen.
McCain used to be against Swift Boat-style ads.
Andrew Breitbart mines the plight of Obama's half-brother as a counterpoint to McCain's houses.
Zorn thinks the Obama campaign took a cheap shot at McCain's age.
Ben beats out Karl Rove for "rookie of the year."
Jacob Weisberg decides that the only way Obama could lose is because of racism.
A black Hillary delegate for Chicago accuses Emil Jones -- Obama's Illinois State Senate mentor -- of calling her ...
Bob Herbert In The Times: It's Race, Stupid
TPMCafe —
... Clinton in 1992 or Mike Dukakis in 1988. I kind of wish they would just say that they won't vote for a black guy. It would clarify things.
Actually, Jewish Democrats who oppose Obama (a tiny tiny minority) have no choice but to go the honesty route. After Obama picked pro-Israel stalwart, Joe Biden, they can't very well say that he's anti-Israel so all this will be left is to tell the truth about why they are "uncomfortable" with Obama.
I any case, read Herbert. and this great piece by Jacob Weisberg.
Weisberg is Right
The Monkey Cage —
... Jacob Weisberg at Slate finally wrote the story that most of the press has been unwilling or unable to address: Obama’s race is a significant handicap for his campaign: ...
Civil Rights Roundup: 08/26/08
The Moderate Voice —
... coverage in its bias crimes law.
Two NYPD cops are being charged with civil rights violation after assaulting a motorist in an apparent road rage incident while off duty.
Shocking news: Immigration judges subjected to political vetting by the Bush administration are disproportionately likely to reject asylum claims.
Jesse Jackson in the Chicago Sun-Times: “Obama can inspire but we must lead.”
Jacob Weisberg says that only racism can explain an Obama loss. A Wall St. Journal column ridicules that ...
Ladies and gentlemen, we have gotten inside the Democrats' decision loop.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... and move on to Congress. Many of them
(again, like Dowd) are probably not even really allowing themselves
to think consciously of their problem. Hence the talk of "vibes"
and "weird moods."
And that's why they've been peculiarly reactionary in this election
campaign lately: they may not like where we're going, but at
least we know where we're going.
And if we're going somewhere that leads to a Democratic
Presidential defeat, well, they have a narrative for that
already.
Moe Lane
PS: Oh, yes, this isn't a disease exclusively reserved for ...
Dwelling on Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation
GayPatriot —
... So focused are they on these distinctions that they see us judging candidates not based on their political philosophy, policy positions or their accomplishments but by that supposedly defining aspect of their being, their race, gender, class or sexual orientation. Indeed, some pundits contend that racism is the only reason McCain might beat Obama (Via ...
The American Thinker's Richard Baehr: Live and In Concert
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... camera and Joe Biden. The Democratic convention's flames won't work: painting McCain as Bush is a non-starter. Everyone knows McCain has disagreed with Bush on substantive issues... "maverick" is a legitimate label. A lot of GOP folks didn't like McCain, but that's a good thing for this election. McCain has a lot of strength among independents. There is a racial undercurrent to this election that's important to talk about. Obama's campaign has been behind this. You may have seen the Jacob Weisberg column in Slate ... it's an outrageous column entitled "If Obama Loses... ...
The Racism Card
City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture —
IF OBAMA LOSES was the headline of Jacob Weisbergs recent piece in Slate , and the subhead completed the thought: RACISM IS THE ONLY REASON MCCAIN MIGHT BEAT HIM . More than just uglyand worse, potentially inflammatorysuch a claim is contradicted by the evidence. Yet in the weeks prior to the party nominating conventions, as Obamas poll numbers sank, it became something like common wisdom in left-liberal circles: an all-purpose explanation for the otherwise inexplicable failure of this most transcendent of candidates to ignite the universal approbation his fans regard ...
Talking Turkey About Race
If I Ran the Zoo —
... In Slate last week, Jacob Weisberg suggested that, with everything else perfectly set up for a Democratic victory -- eight disastrous years of Bush and GOP control of Congress; a weak candidate running a barely-competent campaign, etc. -- the only reason Obama could lose is racism. You may not completely buy in to the premise, but it's an interesting and compelling case he makes, and food for thought. ...
McCain: Mac Moron or Microprocessor Maven?
Deceiver.com —
... Hey, you know how John McCain is a clueless old fart who doesn’t know Steve Jobs from Steve Austin? Jacob Weisberg at Slate.com sure does. On Aug. 23, he said: ...
Blame Enough to Go Around
Neptunus Lex —
... . Or if not, at least thrust his advocates to a position of presumed moral advantage over whatever portion of the electorate had the temerity to choose otherwise, for whatever reasons of their own. The racist bastards. ...
Five out of Five Lefties Agree: Republicans Are Racist
Weekly Standard Blog —
Jack Cafferty adds his voice to the growing chorus that proclaims Obama will only lose because of racism. That's what a sitting Democratic governor has said. It's what Democratic activists say. And a state Democratic official in Ohio agrees:
“Race — that’s the only reason people in the Valley won’t vote for him,” said state Rep. Thomas Letson of Warren, D-64th, about Barack Obama, his party’s presidential nominee. “There are 1,000 reasons to vote for Obama and one reason why you won’t — race.”
“Staunch ...
Poll: Could Race Play a Factor?
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
I think there's no doubt that, on some level, race will play a factor in the election. On the one extreme you have Jacob Weisberg's Slate article , declaring that "Racism is the only reason McCain might beat [Obama]"; on the other end you have this new Associated Press-Yahoo News ...
The Race Card Game
The Moderate Voice —
... people have asserted that something that has been said or shown by a Republican has been racist. On other occasions, it has been said that if Obama loses the election, the only reason will be because of racism. ...
Liberals Now Suddenly Believe that there is no such thing as too much Money in Politics
¡No Pasarán! —
... true - that anyone who opposes them either buys elections by outspending them or steals them with magical voting machines and pinkertons. Hardly. What are those people who railed on and on about it doing now? Buying the US Presidential election by outspending by a factor of 300% on TV ads, laundering government grant money (for studies and education programs) into their campaign, engaging in credit card fraud, race-baiting, and engaging in voter fraud. ...
Journalistic Swoon
Taylor Marsh —
... The windows of this mind-set are provided by Slate’s Jacob
Weisberg, for whom the Obama election is a national referendum on racism;
the New York Times’ ...
I’m Glad Joe Klein Could Do Research On Rashid Khalidi
Pirate's Cove —
... Oooh, we have the fun “neoconservative” word crop up, something I doubt the majority of Lefties can even define, and don’t you love the “accusations of anti-semitism?” We have been treated to a constant call of racism charges ever since Obama broke his promise about running for president to run for president. First they were against Camp Hillary and her supporters, now they are against Camp McCain and his supporters. Remember
If Obama Loses: Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him.
Veiled racism ...
Modern American 'Racism'
American Thinker —
... the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan in an employee break room (the book is available in the school's library). He's a racist . A man tells a co-worker he wrecked his car after loosing control of it on a patch of "black ice." He's a racist. Anyone who suggests a link between Islam and violence is a racist . Anyone who suggests stricter border security is a racist . And obviously, anyone who didn't vote for Barack Obama is by default a racist .
JACOB WEISBERG: GETTING TO KNOW OBAMA
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... doesn't use the word "narcissist," but clearly he is decribing BHO as one. Weisberg also mentions the specter of Jimmy Carter: Can any one person simultaneously manage so many issues in a hands-on way? Our last presidential micromanager, Jimmy Carter, did not have a pleasant time in Washington.Read Weisberg's entire essay and readers' comments HERE. Less than a year ago, Weisberg wrote this: Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him.Is Weisberg having second ...
Left-wing Pundits Continue to Slur Opposition to Obama’s Policies
GayPatriot —
... But, we were already seeing signs of such animosity during the presidential campaign when some, including at least one prominent liberal columnist, suggest racism was the only reason people might oppose Barack Obama, as if his far-left voting record had nothing to do with our concerns about the way the Democrat might govern. ...
