The new Obama video is ‘devastating’, but not to Obama
In case you missed it, last night we observed a test of the right-wing emergency bombshell system. It was only a test. If this had been an actual right-wing emergency bombshell ….
But it wasn’t.
In the early evening hours yesterday, Sean Hannity, Matt Drudge and Tucker Carlson started promoting what they claimed to be a “devastating” and previously unknown video of Barack Obama that would completely remake the 2012 presidential race. It would be a bombshell, a game-changer, an “October surprise” that would prove Obama to be an anti-white racist, just as they knew all along. It would do to the incumbent what the “47 percent” tape had done to Mitt Romney, if not worse.
And just to build the suspense, the world was told that for maximum impact, the bombshell tape would be released by Hannity and Carlson simultaneously at 9 p.m., Hannity on his Fox News program and Carlson at his Daily Caller site. Over the next few hours, giddy conservatives practiced their victory dance and whipped each other into an anticipatory frenzy over the video that would finally bring down their hated bête noire.
Nine o’clock came, the tape was released and … ppfffffffffft. Nothing. As in, literally nothing.
I don’t know Hannity personally. Never met the man. So I would have a hard time saying with certainty that he’s a racist fool. But after the way he behaved last night, I have no problem saying that he plays a racist fool on television. The same is true of Drudge and Carlson. In their “big reveal” on Fox, Hannity and Carlson tried vainly to pretend the tape was something it clearly is not, and they made themselves and their followers appear ridiculous in the process.
Here’s the reality:
The tape in question came from a 2007 speech by Obama at Hampton University, a historically black college in Virginia. The five-year-old speech had been reported on extensively at the time it was delivered by, among many others, Brit Hume of Fox News and by Carlson himself, on his ill-fated MSNBC show. As Dylan Byers reports at Politico, “The speech was also covered by CNN, NBC News, ABC News, The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others.”
In fact, the speech was so well known that Politico had cited a portion of it as No. 3 on its list of the top 10 gaffes of the 2008 political campaign.
In the speech, Obama dared to suggest that race — along with the Bush administration’s “colorblind incompetence” — had played a role in the excruciatingly slow response to New Orleans’ plight in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was right; it did. Even if you disagree with that assessment, making such a suggestion is certainly not evidence that Obama hates white people, as Hannity and others now try to claim.
Obama also spoke kindly of his minister at the time, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, thanking him for bringing him to Christ. (The speech occurred before the falling-out between the two men.) He talked about the necessity of addressing poverty in the black community, including the need to “help with basic skills — how to show up to work on time, wear the right clothes, and act appropriately in an office. We have to help them get there.”
None of that is new. None of that is scandalous. Yet last night, Hannity and Carlson did their best to pretend otherwise. They even tried to gin up outrage that in a speech to a black audience, Obama adopted a more “black” way of speaking, which they claim to find deeply disturbing.
Seriously? I no doubt speak slightly differently with my Yankee cousins in Massachusetts than I do with my southern cousins in North Carolina. I speak differently in my professional capacity than when I’m having a beer at the bar or playing golf. We all do it to a degree, subconsciously, as a way of establishing common ground with our audience. At this point, if it is truly a scandal to you that black Americans speak differently when talking “among themselves,” I urge you to get out more often and participate in the 21st century.
In other words, this was not a bombshell, and it is devastating only in the sense that it exposes just how cynically and effectively the right-wing media manipulates its core audience, particularly on matters involving race. As U.S. Rep. Allen West of all people put it afterward, “What’s the ‘So what’ of this video? I don’t think it’s going to really go anywhere.”
Elsewhere, other segments of the right-wing media strained to find ways not to dismiss the video as the nonsense it truly is. On Fox News, transcript available here Greta Van Susteren and Newt Gingrich basically acknowledged that the tape is much ado about nothing, yet somehow pretended to be offended at how the media have covered it. Erick Erickson at Redstate took much the same tack, arguing that the video “is damning not of Barack Obama….The video is damning of the media.”
It is an odd argument. You concede that the video is of little consequence, then blame the media for not hyping it to the skies in the name of balance? Even the folks at Fox News understand the lunacy of that claim. If you read its muted account of the video, it is clearly attempting to put as much distance as possible between itself and this “controversy.”
The biggest tell of all, however, comes from the Romney campaign. It is sorely in need of a bombshell and a game-changer, and as it showed in its overly eager response to the tragedy in Libya, it is ready to pounce on any perceived opportunity. But in this case, it has refused to comment on the tape except to note — no doubt accurately — that it had nothing to do with its over-hyped release.
“What is the news?” Romney communications director Gail Gitcho asked in an email to Buzzfeed. “I don’t know.”
Something tells me that Romney will not be using footage of the Obama speech in his campaign ads. In fact, Romney adviser Kevin Madden made it pretty clear this morning that they want nothing to do with it. When asked whether the video was relevant, he said that “Voters … need to look at that video and make up their minds on that individually. I think what’s more important to this debate right now are the president’s policies are the president’s record over these four years. That is going to be the most important topic on stage tonight.”
The Republican National Committee also declined to comment.
On the other hand, the response among many on the left has been to mock conservatives for being suckered in by the hype from Hannity, Drudge and Carlson, and at one level I get that. But I find this whole thing troubling. It bothers me that a significant number of Americans have allowed their hopes and fears to be manipulated by people such as Hannity, who see them as nothing more than marks to be fleeced. They are being played, and it is not a fun thing to watch.
Trapped within the right-wing echo chamber, they have not only lost touch with their fellow Americans, they have lost a sense of perspective as well. When something like this comes along, they respond to it as instructed and then are dumbfounded to find that the American mainstream sees it entirely differently. They cannot understand how something that makes such a big noise within the echo chamber has almost no resonance outside it, so they explain it away as media bias.
It is not media bias. Why do you think the Romney camp is keeping this whole mess at arm’s length? It’s because they understand that “scandals” ginned up for consumption within the right-wing mediasphere simply do not play well among Americans in general. They are professionals, and they recognize the disconnect that exists between reality as depicted within that echo chamber and the reality as experienced by the rest of the country. If they allow those two worlds to collide, they will lose and they know it.
That disconnect is dangerous. It is dangerous for those on the right who find themselves increasingly alienated and estranged from their fellow Americans, and it is dangerous for the rest of the country as well. It is particularly dangerous for the conservative movement, which has an essential role to play in our nation’s future. But it cannot fulfill that function trapped in a separate world of its own creation.
– Jay Bookman
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Mama Says
October 3rd, 2012
10:17 am
Jay I largely agree with the general point you are making however, as always you seem to excuse the exact same tactic your side takes when smearing your opposition.
To watch the video and think anything other than it’s Obama speaking as if he is comfortable is a mistake, for the republicans to gin it up is anoher thing all together.
The problem I have with the video is the content of the speech not the manner of speech. It’s more left wing propaganda being repeated for the left wing consumers. The thread in the speech, or one segment of it, is the tried and true method of you need to stay with us becasue you know they are racist.
You should condemn that tatic also. He obviously supports his conclusion, and promotes it, by the fact he conpares the “suburbs” to the “city”. you and I both know thats code talk. The same kind of code talk that you condemn the republicans for engaging in.
with that said, can you tell me where the next all white male meeting is ? you know the ones where we are given the passwords and directed what to think.
What ? you dont know of one ? but you are white arent you ? dont we all get together and plan the demise of the world.
surely there was a meeting that spoke on the subject of hurricanes and our response to hard hit minority areas, as oppose to hard hit white areas–come on Jay you know you have the “white code”, where is it ? in your desk ?
USMC
October 3rd, 2012
10:17 am
“If you only had a brain, USMC, you would quit following the likes of Paul Ryan and co. down those yellowbrick roads in search of a wizard to help you out. There’s no helping you.
Or was that supposed to be a 
”–Taxpayer
Sorry Taxpayer, ROMPER ROOM went off the air years ago. Keep your Day Job Kiddo.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
10:17 am
This is the most ridiculous post ever. Obama is a RACIST. He wants to give the 47 percent that DONT WORK OR PAY TAXES even more. If he had his way everyone would have a EBT crd they could use at the liquor store or strip club…as long as your BLACK.
And “brad” outs himeself in front of everyone. Care to put your last name on it “brad”?
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
10:18 am
JAY,
Did Romney have anything to do with this release or are you simply using the occasion to submit punches at a news source that outperforms any other on the planet? If Romney is involved, thats another idiotic move..otherwise, it’s just press crap…
Alledging that racism was involved in the tardy and arguable lethal reaction to Katrina is nothing that can be validated…just suggested by those on the left….an inept government is the reason..
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
10:19 am
Hannity among numerous others makes it clear why the rabid Christians and the rabid right wingers are in bed with each other politically.
They have similar charlatans on the boob tube to “guide” them to their respective Holy Lands.
Like frog said, silly but amusing…
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 3rd, 2012
10:19 am
Stevie Ray – “The southern dialect is a symptom of doing anything he must do to get votes…”
Agreed. My problem isn’t that the Right is trying to paint a negative portrait of Obama. My problem is the way in which they do it. You don’t release (and I use the term “release” loosely) a video from 5 years ago BEFORE Obama won the election in an attempt to paint a negative picture now. Romneys 47% remarks were CURRENT, it paints a picture of the candidate in real time. The opposition needs to do the same to Obama in order for it to have any effect. Old video, old recordings that pre-date his election are useless. Romney is the wrong candidate for this election. Period. Bringing up ancient talking points in an attempt to sway voters is a usless gesture at this point.
USMC
October 3rd, 2012
10:19 am
“Jay I largely agree with the general point you are making however, as always you seem to excuse the exact same tactic your side takes when smearing your opposition.”–Mama
BINGO! But Jay does what the Party Propaganda Operatives TELL him to do, so he really doesn’t have a choice in the matter.
mm
October 3rd, 2012
10:20 am
USMC,
“Original Obamaphone Lady: Obama Voter Says Vote for Obama because he gives a free Phone”
You cons really are too ingnorant to research or you’re just afraid your fairy tale bubble will burst.
The Obamaphone is another made up fairy tale. These phones have been in existence for over a decase. And they are paid for by phone companies, not the government.
The brain is a terrible thing to waste.
Regnad Kcin
October 3rd, 2012
10:21 am
“Bro, as Eddie Murphy showed us… the experience is different between the races. http://www.snotr.com/video/422/Eddie_Murphy_goes_undercover”
The classics are the best…
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
10:22 am
JOE,
Help me understand the suggestion of my note as your responded..I don’t understand the inference unless it’s to label me a racist for asking the question that no one can seem to answer..
Scuba Steve
October 3rd, 2012
10:22 am
There is a deeper understanding to the “accent” to be had here.
As a black man, I can’t believe I’m even about to comment on this, but there may or may not be some of my white brothers (or brothers of other race) who don’t understand it at all. I say may or may not, because I honestly don’t know.
But consider Barack Obama’s upbringing, his professional status, class status, etc. He (and many other black people) often have difficulty “identifying” with other black people because of how they talk, how they dress, education level, income level, etc. It isn’t one of our prouder traits, but sometimes in the black community if you don’t speak a certain slang, or if you’re not poor/struggling, then you’re not “really black” and therefore don’t identify. I’ll say with a degree of certainty, that for much of President Obama’s life, he suffered from this identity problem.
So, as a presidential candidate, speaking in a room full of black leaders — black PREACHERS no less — he saw an opportunity to connect with his audience, stepped [way] out of his lane, and went for it. So, to those who don’t understand it, it seems disingenuous. But understand what’s happening here, and you’ll be better prepared to comment on it.
Jay
October 3rd, 2012
10:22 am
Stevie Ray, I would be very surprised if the Romney people had anything to do with this mess.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
10:22 am
brad — “So your saying that RACE had something to do with katrina response? MORE WHITE PEOPLE were affected by the storm, than blacks. The problem was being able to get there after the storm. I was there with my job and it took us a week to drive down.”
Bullspit getting there was a problem.
CNN had no problem getting in. Neither did Harry Connick, Jr., who loaded up a rental truck with supplies and drove it to NOLA himself.
If getting there wasn’t a problem, then Brownie wouldn’t have been canned less than two weeks after Katrina made landfall.
Peddle your revisionist & racist history somewhere else.
larry
October 3rd, 2012
10:22 am
In other words, Drudge, Tucker Carlson, and Sean Hannity formed a strange sort of triumvirate to hype a five-year-old video that everyone already knew about, and which doesn’t include anything interesting anyway. Carlson proudly boasted to Hannity on the air last night, “People will say this has already been reported. Well, actually, it hasn’t been reported. And I know because I reported on it the first time.”
Huh? LOL!!!!!!
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
October 3rd, 2012
10:23 am
USMC:
This is quite halarious this morning.
The libs. have their panties all in a wad and Jay had to get up early and post this verbose thread !
If nothing else …………. that was worth it ………………
Towncrier
October 3rd, 2012
10:24 am
LOL!!! Did I not predict last night that even Jay would rush to effect some kind of damage control over this story. How patently predictable. That is funny.
“I don’t know Hannity personally. Never met the man. So I would have a hard time saying with certainty that he’s a racist fool. But after the way he behaved last night, I have no problem saying that he plays a racist fool on television. The same is true of Drudge and Carlson. In their “big reveal” on Fox, Hannity and Carlson tried vainly to pretend the tape was something it clearly is not, and they made themselves and their followers appear ridiculous in the process.”
Funny, I was thinking white liberals like you, Jay, are “racist fools” (because you almost unwittingly buy into a racist mindset like zombies, for the reason outlined below).
“In the speech, Obama dared to suggest that race — along with the Bush administration’s “colorblind incompetence” — had played a role in the excruciatingly slow response to New Orleans’ plight in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was right; it did. Even if you disagree with that assessment, making such a suggestion is certainly not evidence that Obama hates white people, as Hannity and others now try to claim.”
Yet another white liberal who is oblivious to the fact that there is a racist mentality among many blacks in America, and to which Obama was speaking (because he knows it). Doubt it? Let me give you one clear piece of evidence. Tavis Smiley a few years back was interviewing a young black girl who was training to be (as I recall) a boxer in the Olympics. But she was also a straight A student. Tavis asked her did she catch a lot of flack for “being white” (referring to her academic success). She replied yes, she did. So I asked a few of my closer black friends about this – did blacks really see academic success as a racial thing, as “being white”. One of them – a single mom – said “Oh, yeah…I gave up a scholarship to NYU because they were picking on me so bad”. Imagine that…forfeiting a college education at a really good school due to peer pressure. Here’s another example: if you are a white man who has played basketball in the inner cities, you will know that black men think that this is exclusively their game. Indeed, they take a clear racial pride in it. But neither education or sports are a “black” or “white” thing. There is, in the mind of many black Americans, an “us versus them” mentality – a If you don’t know that, you are an ignoramus. Consider the meaning that has been ascribed to FUBU clothing (”For us by us”) – even though it didn’t originally mean that.
Now, what is bothersome about Obama’s speech (and other incidents revealing his ostensible racism) is that he, as a mulatto, and as someone who campaigned as a “unifier”, was probably the best person to close the racial divide in America as president. He is half white and half black. But, instead, we see him pandering to the racist mentality of his black audience. I might be tempted to say, like Jay, that because I don’t personally know the man he might only be playing the “racist fool”. But when I consider the fact that he attended Wright’s church for 20 years and that his wife said in 2008 said “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country”, then I think it can be concluded he has somewhat bought into the racist mentality of which I spoke.
White liberals like Jay are almost self-flagellating and ever so ready to assume guilt and blame for despicable acts of racism probably for which he (like me) was NEVER responsible. In their minds, it seems that ONLY whites can be racist. Bush and his administration was was racist (though GWB was the one who appointed the first black to SoS and considered her one of his top advisers). Right, Jay? (”He was right; it did.“). You are showing yourself to be an ignoramus on this issue, my friend. And, like most good liberals, you deflect and dismiss.
Mama Says
October 3rd, 2012
10:24 am
Scuba,
I agree completely–he was talking to his crowd, nothing more. its the subject that is political propaganda
St Simons
October 3rd, 2012
10:24 am
TBS, i guess i did
southpaw
October 3rd, 2012
10:25 am
Hailmarrys look cool at the end of the game but they usually fall short. BO is in prevent rushing 3. Mitt is at his 20 w/ a third string QB launching it up. Good luck with that
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In honor of the brutal campaign, the third string quarterback has called an audible for a running play with a long-forgotten formation–the flying wedge.
DawgDad
October 3rd, 2012
10:25 am
“Hannity among numerous others makes it clear why the rabid Christians and the rabid right wingers are in bed with each other politically.”
OK, but aren’t many of the left-leaning leaders in the black community CHRISTIANS (and “rabid” at that, in the context you speak)? Wright? Sharpton? Jackson? The King family? The “black Church leaders” all over the country? Not sure you have much of a point here. Christians fall all over the map politically.
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
10:25 am
“The libs. have their panties all in a wad and Jay had to get up early and post this verbose thread !”
This from the guy pulling his panties out of his butt crack as he types Barrack “David Duke” Obama.
hahahahaha
Thanks for the laughs
DannyX
October 3rd, 2012
10:27 am
BREAKING…..
Sean Hannity, Drudge Report and Daily Caller will release video evidence that Obama has fathered 2 black kids. October Surprise II. Could be game changer.
Tonight at 9pm.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
10:27 am
Butch.
Couldn’t agree more…Hannity is the most right wing dope who is graced with airtime…of course not unmatched by several on the other side…
As suggested, when the media became news, the news lost all credibiliy…I have to listen to BBC and/or read the Economist to get anything remotely resembling unbiased commentary..I think POTUS is relatively balanced..
All the talking points (you didn’t build that…47%’ers) are simply fodder to provide to an unchanging base as water cooler talking points..
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
10:27 am
The news for the GOP from battleground states is even worse, especially in the Midwest.
Sop does Barry “Mohammed” Obama go for the rope-a-dope against Mitt “Smokin’ Joe” Romney?
Let Mitt flail and wear himself out tripping over his tongue?
Or does the champion just say screw it and go for the early knockout punch?
Howard Cosell should be moderating…
Steve-USA "None of the Above"
October 3rd, 2012
10:27 am
Jay – You sure can pump out the material. I thought I remembered you saying Tuesday and Thursday were your slow days and yet you were filling the pipeline yesterday.
Take a little rest today and wait for the debates tonight.
.
Joseph
October 3rd, 2012
10:28 am
I guess this will be just a ‘bump in the road’ for the Oblama campaign or so Jay hopes. It really just proves the point that Obama is a radical and has deep seeded beliefs that white people in general are raciest. It also reinforces the narrative that Republicans have stated all along that Obama wants your money to give away to those who don’t deserve it.
Mike
October 3rd, 2012
10:28 am
Hannity and Drudge make their $$$$ at this muckraking, and Tucker head Mommy issues.
No offense….
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
10:28 am
Brosephus™
October 3rd, 2012
9:58 am
This is not meant to be racist in the least, but some of y’all White people should hear what’s said in the barber shops, pool halls, and other places where y’all don’t dare to venture. There are people here who have friends, or even family, who talk one way around them and differently when in public. We all do that at some point. If you don’t tailor your message to the audience you’re trying to communicate with, you end up looking like Romney or Gingrich speaking to the NAACP.
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I have and it drives my brother Owen crazy when I call him on it lol. He tries to deny it but I’m like, “Brother O, I’ve BEEN there. I KNOW what’s said. I’ve BEEN to *Rev. Wright* type churches, and more than once. I’ve experienced *the looks* that said this might be God’s house but the paring lot is OURS white boy.”
I’ve also been in the all white gatherings where the opposite occurs.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
10:28 am
S. Ray — “Help me understand the suggestion of my note as your responded..I don’t understand the inference unless it’s to label me a racist for asking the question that no one can seem to answer.”
You appear to be suggesting that racism is a problem only because minorities *perceive* that they are sometimes being treated in a racist manner. That position argues that racism doesn’t actually exist, and that the only reason it’s discussed is because some people *think* it exists.
Distilled down to its essence, your argument says that racism doesn’t *actually* exist at all.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
10:29 am
JAY,
Did you see that idiot Trump suggests that if BO brings up tax returns that Romney should offer a trade..tax returns for college transcripts, college applications and his passport?
Joseph
October 3rd, 2012
10:29 am
Its gonna be real interesting when Obama’s ‘down low’ club pics come out….
Mike
October 3rd, 2012
10:29 am
Hannity and Drudge make their $$$$ at this muckraking, and Tucker has Mommy issues.
ThinkBachs™
October 3rd, 2012
10:30 am
At least FoxNews little game play hasn’t killed anyone- hardly anything you could say about obama. Enjoy your little Kool-aid induced ecstasy fest, it won’t last much longer.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
10:30 am
Towncrier — “White liberals like Jay are almost self-flagellating and ever so ready to assume guilt and blame for despicable acts of racism probably for which he (like me) was NEVER responsible. In their minds, it seems that ONLY whites can be racist.”
This is one of the most nitwitted and presumptuous statements I have ever seen you make.
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
10:31 am
“Its gonna be real interesting when Obama’s ‘down low’ club pics come out….”
Joseph: And you being the one “taking it”, yes it will be a hoot…….
Mr. Rusty
October 3rd, 2012
10:31 am
Intelligent Design: In the creation of the universe, on a garden planet called earth, humankind has risen to the top of the food chain, but is just one of many life forms that were seeded by the Creator. It is just one of the species that is defined as Living Matter. Also it is one of the species of living matter whose immortality, as with all living matter on earth, is derived through the process of its reproduction cycle. The mortal element of humankind’s ability to assimilate knowledge and pass this knowledge on to future generations makes the human species unique above all other species on the planet earth.
In the scheme of the universe, the mortal elements of humankind, who have a short life cycle (as with all living matter on earth); strive for perfection by the process of mutation and evolution through its reproduction cycle. At the end of each elements mortal life cycle (as with all living matter) its life force energy will separates from its physical matter and (is hoped) return to the Creator to be used again in seeding other new gardens on earth and/or in the universe of the Creator.
The cosmetic characteristics of each element of humankind, such as the color of their skin, color or characteristics of their hair or the general physical outward appearance is a product of their geographical location on the planet earth (as with all species hear on earth). It is a product of thousands of generations of that elements family tree evolving (at different physical locations on the planet) and that of their mutation and evolution through their reproduction cycles.
NOTE: These characteristics have nothing to do with the species of humankind’s development or ability or intellect to strive for perfection by the process of mutation and evolution through its reproduction cycle. The characteristics of humankind’s Element of Living Mater fall into two distinct categories:
The Producers (also known as conservatives or entrepreneurs): Those elements of humankind that contribute to it striving for perfection by producing, philosophy, products and technologies that improves humankind’s life cycle (the working class).
The Free Loaders (also known as progressive liberals, socialist or politicians, those that want something and give nothing in return); those elements of humankind that contributes nothing to its improvement and lives off the contributions of the producers
In the year 2012 AD, the politics in a country on the planet earth, called the United States of America is at a crossroads. The election of its president and its congress will determine whether the producers or the free loaders will become the dominant force in its government for the next fifty years.
It should be noted that the spices of humankind greatest weakness are its inability to learn or remember its past’s mistakes from its own history. Depending on which side becomes the dominant force may also determine if the United States of America will still be in existence as a unified country for the next fifty years.
David Shivers
October 3rd, 2012
10:32 am
This video is kind like of a bomb that went off in the bomb-maker’s hands.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
10:32 am
Dad, true dat.
And to me, they are almost as bizarre as the Life University gang “agents of intolerance”. (Hat tip John McCain)
The October surprise?
If these numbers in the swing states hold up, Mitt is gonna end up with about the same number of EC votes that the aforementioned senior Senator from Arizona did…
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
10:32 am
SCUBA STEVE: So, as a presidential candidate, speaking in a room full of black leaders — black PREACHERS no less — he saw an opportunity to connect with his audience, stepped [way] out of his lane, and went for it. So, to those who don’t understand it, it seems disingenuous. But understand what’s happening here, and you’ll be better prepared to comment on it.
LOL dude, just like I said in the post above, when I DO comment on it, the folks I comment on it to deny it. Thanks for the confirmation. Not that I need it confirmed for ME as I have witnessed it, but for others. Man I wish Brother O read this blog lol.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 3rd, 2012
10:32 am
I don’t know Hannity personally. Never met the man
I have. He’s every bit the self-important, blowhard pr$ck that he projects on tv.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
October 3rd, 2012
10:33 am
“He wants to give the 47 percent that DONT WORK OR PAY TAXES”
holy crap … I go out to get a late sammich and THIS happens??? fercryingoutloud, people … have some pride!
gadem
October 3rd, 2012
10:33 am
OMG, he said GOD and not Allah. It is a trick don’t believe it! He meant Allah because he is a Kenyan Muslim Socialists. At least that is what I hear…
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
10:33 am
I don’t recall all of this self righteous indignation or poutrage when Mitten’s proclaimed he like “Cheesy Grits”. It’s the same thing as Obama “changing his accent”, isn’t it?
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
10:33 am
ThinkBachs™
October 3rd, 2012
10:30 am
At least FoxNews little game play hasn’t killed anyone- hardly anything you could say about obama. Enjoy your little Kool-aid induced ecstasy fest, it won’t last much longer.
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Does anyone understand which lie our latest alt here is trying to perpetuate?
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 3rd, 2012
10:33 am
Towncrier, well thank you for that post. I have forwarded the information you posted to Whole Foods and they will be immediately adding a FUBU clothing line to their aisle, right next to the MARTA line. You’ll enjoy your wait much more now if you shop at the 6 PM hour…. its story time and we invite you to share your stories about your “experiences” in the checkout line.
They BOTH suck
October 3rd, 2012
10:33 am
Mr Rusty
When you cut and past something that long, might be best to also add the link or mention the website
jconservative
October 3rd, 2012
10:34 am
So some think Obama is a racist?
As one observer noted in 2008; he was raised by white people, what else would you expect?
As we are headed for a non-majority racial country we need to start easing off on the racist comments. Soon we will all be minorities.
gadem
October 3rd, 2012
10:34 am
Rightwing…who doesn’t like Cheesy Grits?! Now if he would’ve said he puts Sugar on his grits…well then I would’ve protested and rioted! Sugar on grits is not natural!!!!
Somebody
October 3rd, 2012
10:34 am
Why don’t you just publish the video and let people make their own jusdgements of wheter it’s important or not. Stop reading rants from people like Jay Bookman.
Brosephus™
October 3rd, 2012
10:35 am
brad: Obama is a RACIST. He wants to give the 47 percent that DONT WORK OR PAY TAXES even more. If he had his way everyone would have a EBT crd they could use at the liquor store or strip club…as long as your BLACK.
Are you really that damned stupid, or do you just pretend to be that way to attract friends? You do realize that more Whites are on welfare than Black, right? You also understand that the 47% is made up of more than just Blacks as Blacks only make up about 15% of the total population.
Welcome to the Occupation
October 3rd, 2012
10:36 am
Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Braaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.
Braaaaaaa’d.
Brad!!!!!!
[The sound of Brad's mom calling him to tell him it's time to come inside.]
Rafe Hollister
October 3rd, 2012
10:36 am
The video was pretty much a dud, who is surprised? Just another politician saying one thing at home and another in Washington. We have seen it many times here, Chambliss, Isakson, Cleland, Nunn, Carter, on and on, say what they think you want to hear and then just totally ignore what they said, when push comes to shove. Obama probably leads the field in talking out of both sides of his mouth, but he is not the first or the last.
We keep reelecting these folks, so I guess it is learned behavior. Never underestimate the intelligence of the American voter.
JamVet
October 3rd, 2012
10:36 am
The new, new October surprise?
The GOP is reviving Baghdad Bob to set the country straight on liberal media bias….
AmericaShrugged
October 3rd, 2012
10:36 am
We’ve come to the sorry state where a C- President will win re-election because he’s running against a D candidate.
Meanwhile there are less people working today than when Obama took office and the bombings continue in the Middle East.
Oh woe is us.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
10:36 am
Republicans amuse me:
In a 2008 speech from the House floor, Missouri Senate candidate seemed to suggest that doctors frequently perform abortions on women who aren’t pregnant.
“You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things, misuse of anesthetics so that people die or almost die,” Akin said, according to a CSPAN video highlighted by Slate. “All of these things are common practice, and all of that information is available for America.”
An Proud AMERICAN
October 3rd, 2012
10:36 am
Jay Bookman Get real….Obama implied in the clip that the Katrina disaster was slow to get a national response due to the Black population of the city…PERIOD. OBAMA is a racist and the sooner we replace him with a man of HONOR that can bring this county together the better. OBAMA has done nothing but divide this nation since he took office. White People in the U.S. today had nothing to do with Slavery in the U.S 150 years ago, just as modern Italians had nothing to do with the slavery of my people “Northern European” 2000 years ago. GET OVER IT!
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
October 3rd, 2012
10:36 am
“You also understand that the 47% is made up of more than just Blacks as Blacks only make up about 15% of the total population”
and let’s not forget that, of that 47%, 30% of them are working poor, 10% are seniors …
Towncrier
October 3rd, 2012
10:37 am
“Towncrier, well thank you for that post. I have forwarded the information you posted to Whole Foods and they will be immediately adding a FUBU clothing line to their aisle, right next to the MARTA line.”
Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss.
Did I get that right?
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
10:37 am
where a C- President will win re-election because he’s running against a D candidate.
We’re grading on a curve. Romney’s an F candidate.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
10:37 am
JOE,
That’s not remotely what I’m suggesting. My point is that I can’t conceive what we would look like if racism didn’t exist. It certainly exists (and on more levels than I can possibly understand) but too often suggested without merit. Seems to me the only way it can be eliminated as a discussion point is if the demographics were more balanced relative to current…
It certainly doesn’t help when you get pundits suggesting that the term racism should be replaced with slavery as I’ve heard in many circles…the political objective is to paint all conservatives as rich, self serving, racists who want to screw the middle class and below.
Do you realize the GOP proposed to BO prior to inauguration I think, that the lower two tax brackets should be reduced and tax on unemployment be eliminated? BO played political and said the now famous, we won….get over it comment. If anyone was going to get credit for these ideas, it wasnt’ going to be the enemy..
TaxPayer
October 3rd, 2012
10:38 am
Why am I not surprised to learn that USMC keeps up with Romper Room.
indigo
October 3rd, 2012
10:38 am
Are Hannity, Drudge and Carlson racist fools?
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck………
JP
October 3rd, 2012
10:38 am
You’re right, Jay, this will hardly impact Obama. If Democrats give Obama a free pass on all of his administrations’ numerous scandals and failings…Fast & Furious, Libya fiasco, failed economic policies, Israel-Iran disinterest, flowery and lie-filled speeches, broken promises, absence from office for favoring Las Vegas fund-raising, The View, David Letterman, Jay-Z, etc and so forth…then Obama supporters aren’t going to care about this either. His supporters have long abandoned values, morals, reason, common sense, natural law, the authority of God in order to keep their tarnished “hero” shining in their own eyes. They’re not interested in the truth, just the false Liberal narrative.
Mick
October 3rd, 2012
10:38 am
rusty
You had me until the final four paragraphs, then everything collapses under its own weight. If we are ever lucky enough to experience another period of an economic boom time, there will be more than enough “producers”…
Rafe Hollister
October 3rd, 2012
10:38 am
Somebody, the 40 minute video is available uncut on daileycaller.com. Can’t believe anyone can watch all 40 minutes of that.
Regnad Kcin
October 3rd, 2012
10:38 am
My wife laughs when she hears me speaking to my more “southern” relatives – I mysteriously acquire a “deep south” accent, left over from my youth – quite different from my normal mode of speech. I do this unconciously – I don’t want their votes.
I think this is not a real issue.
ahnald
October 3rd, 2012
10:39 am
The message is Obozo is a fake, what is the big surprise…His pal the Rev Wright, his mentor, come on …listen to that guy, he was Obozo’s minister for 20 fricking years…listen to what comes out of his mouth…Obozo should be fired in 33 days, or better yet tried for treason
Jim Pierce
October 3rd, 2012
10:39 am
Bookman: Once again you show your liberal bias, and blindness for who Obama is, and what he is doing/has done to this country. Your defense of this marxist/communist is inexcusable.
You were obviously intelligent enough to get a degree. What blows my mind is that you aren’t smart enough to SEE what is happening with America since this Bozo took charge. And you won’t. Your blindness is incurable unfortunately.
Rafe Hollister
October 3rd, 2012
10:39 am
that would be dailycaller.com, can’t spell for …
Peter Principle
October 3rd, 2012
10:40 am
“Republicans want us to vote for Romney so that we don’t have to listen to four more years of Republican whining.”
If I thought it would work I might even go for it. But then they’d just whine about how unfair reality is being to President Romney.
Let’s face it: Whining is their natural state.
Donovan
October 3rd, 2012
10:41 am
Based on the passion of Bookman’s post this morning, he is spinning his little heart out to cover for the obvious bias of the liberal news media.
The 8 day cover-up by the Obama team over the Benghazi murders is still not going away even though the news media is trying its best to deflect with this attack on the GOP.
Nice try, libs, but we don’t have blood on our hands.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
10:41 am
My wife laughs when she hears me speaking to my more “southern” relatives – I mysteriously acquire a “deep south” accent, left over from my youth – quite different from my normal mode of speech. I do this unconciously – I don’t want their votes.
I normally have a flat midwestern accent, but when I used to hang around this one girl from Alabama, I would suddenly acquire a very strong southern accent. She had no idea I had no real accent.
Thankfully I got over her in time.
Brosephus™
October 3rd, 2012
10:41 am
Consider the meaning that has been ascribed to FUBU clothing (”For us by us”) – even though it didn’t originally mean that.
So, why are you hating on the free market?
ahnald
October 3rd, 2012
10:41 am
and Obozo called the Libyan fiasco a “speed bump”, tell that to the families of the four Americans that were killed…..wake up America, throw this guy out…..Nobel Prize winner, for what !! ?
H. E. Pennypacker
October 3rd, 2012
10:41 am
Towncrier,
You seem to think that if we do not share your outrage at this 5 year old video, we are deflecting and dismissing.
Let me ask you this, the man has been President for almost 4 years, what vaguely racist things has he legislated or promoted? Should not the burden of racism be on the accuser? If vocal intonation and outrage over Katrina are your best evidence, I suspect the majority of the jury will vote not guilty.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
10:41 am
Towncrier — “Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss. Deflect and dismiss.”
“Did I get that right?”
No. Your uninformed, arrogant and presumptuous ragepost was simply dismissed. No deflection was necessary.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
10:42 am
BYTEME,
AIKEN…res ipsa loquitor…and he has a chance to win to boot…I guess every family has a crazy aunt in the attic…but this guy takes the concept to all new heights..
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 3rd, 2012
10:43 am
JP – “They’re not interested in the truth, just the false Liberal narrative.
And according to this, you are absolutely right. http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Keep Up the Good Fight! (and only seeing conned poutrage)
October 3rd, 2012
10:43 am
Towncrier: Deflect and dismiss. Did I get that right?
Nope. Your post was dismissed as a post of stupidity and idiotic claims of “evidentiary value”. Deal with it, okay.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
10:44 am
I guess every family has a crazy aunt in the attic…but this guy takes the concept to all new heights..
How did all this escape Missouri voters who put him in office?
Regnad Kcin
October 3rd, 2012
10:45 am
” or better yet tried for treason”
Ahnald – interesting comment. On what charge?
Thulsa Doom
October 3rd, 2012
10:45 am
“Obama dared to suggest that race — along with the Bush administration’s “colorblind incompetence” — had played a role in the excruciatingly slow response to New Orleans’ plight in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was right; it did.”
Really? You can prove the government’s ineptitude and response to Katrina was due to race and “colorblind incompetence”? That is your opinion and not a fact. If it were a fact you would back it up with tangible proof. You cannot. The irony of this entire column is that you yourself are fanning the flames of racial animosity with statements like that while accusing Hannity, Carlson of doing the same. You should take a look in the mirror on this one.
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
10:45 am
S. Ray — “That’s not remotely what I’m suggesting. My point is that I can’t conceive what we would look like if racism didn’t exist. It certainly exists (and on more levels than I can possibly understand) but too often suggested without merit.”
Who gets to determine when accusations of racism are meritorious or not?
“Seems to me the only way it can be eliminated as a discussion point is if the demographics were more balanced relative to current”
I lived in Hawaii for four years, and that’s the MOST racially diverse state in the Union. IIRC, it’s the only one where Caucasians represent less than 50% of the population. And you know what? There’s racism out there, too. I don’t believe for a moment that racist feelings, impulses and actions would disappear if the racial demographic distribution were more equal — prejudice is, IMO, independent of demographics.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 3rd, 2012
10:46 am
ahnald – “His pal the Rev Wright, his mentor, come on …listen to that guy, he was Obozo’s minister for 20 fricking years”
Minister? I thought Obama was a Muslim obsessed with ruling this country under Sharia Law. Could someone please get me the decoder ring for the Right Wing talking points?
The ilks have it
October 3rd, 2012
10:46 am
C’mon, Jim Pierce, seriously?
Do you even know what a Marxist is? Did you go to school?
That Black Guy
October 3rd, 2012
10:46 am
Doggone/GA
October 3rd, 2012
10:03 am
“The truth is, racism ”
The truth is, racism is one of the MOST misused words in our language today
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I agree COMPLETELY.
Also Doggone, the other night you were talking about an “ignore list”, I have one as well.
But I also have a “always read” list and you are firmly planted on it along with a few others (ya’ll know who you are).
Rafe Hollister
October 3rd, 2012
10:46 am
The only thing I say damaging was when Hannity split the screen and showed Obama being racially divisive on one screen and denouncing Rev Wright for being racially divisive on the other. But, hypocrisy runs strong in Dim circles.
Mick
October 3rd, 2012
10:46 am
donovan
Eight day coverup? Do you actually think about what you write? That whole affair is under review and being investigated, how can there be a coverup when all the facts are not in? What exactly is being covered up? It’s a joke that partisan politicians have to create a non existent coverup of an incident that occurred barely three weeks ago. Absolutely retarded, my apologies to any special needs people…
Joe Hussein Mama
October 3rd, 2012
10:47 am
H. E. Pennypacker — “Let me ask you this, the man has been President for almost 4 years, what vaguely racist things has he legislated or promoted? Should not the burden of racism be on the accuser?”
You, sir, have cut right to the heart of the argument. Well done.
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
October 3rd, 2012
10:47 am
BYTEME,
I was raised here and spent about 6 years in NYC…the ribbing I got for my very subtle accent knew no boundaries..even when I go there a couple times a month currently, I stilled get ribbed…
I am uncapable of adjusting my accent to others…I don’t find it of value and I think its borderline disingenous..
ahnald
October 3rd, 2012
10:49 am
Regnad….Simply on the worst performance EVER by a sitting US president…the debacle in the Middle East was unacceptable….his words have NOTHING behind them …his job is to protect American interests and our citizens abroad he failed to do that, and he was in Las Vegas at the time…throw him out
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 3rd, 2012
10:49 am
As I understand it, Hannity will be releasing information regarding Obamas relationship with Jim Ayers. My goodness, I hope that Obama doesn’t get elected President. Oh, wait…..
southpaw
October 3rd, 2012
10:49 am
Regnad Kcin
October 3rd, 2012
10:45 am
” or better yet tried for treason”
Ahnald – interesting comment. On what charge?
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The charge Ahnald suggested was “treason.”
Fred ™
October 3rd, 2012
10:49 am
Somebody
October 3rd, 2012
10:34 am
Why don’t you just publish the video and let people make their own jusdgements of wheter it’s important or not. Stop reading rants from people like Jay Bookman.
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Are you SERIOUSLY this stupid? Publish the video? Really? Did you clicky on the little picture thingie at the top of the page? the one that said “Daily Caller” on it? That is called a VIDEO. The little arrow thingie PLAYS the video thingie when you put your little mouse thingie on it and click it.
Just damn, I didn’t think we could have any more stupid Repubs here than the crop we have, but this guy makes our regulars look like Alfonzo Einstein…….
Rightwing Troll
October 3rd, 2012
10:50 am
“You were obviously intelligent enough to get a degree. What blows my mind is that you aren’t smart enough to SEE what is happening with America since this Bozo took charge. And you won’t. Your blindness is incurable unfortunately.”
Maybe you should invite Jay to come along to your next Klan meeting, maybe that’ll open his eyes…
joe
October 3rd, 2012
10:50 am
So how many more attack Mitt posts will Bookman make today? Better get them in today as tomorrow Barry the magnificent will be wondering what happened to his lead…
HINT: went down the toilet…
Mark in mid-town
October 3rd, 2012
10:50 am
“Jay I largely agree with the general point you are making however, as always you seem to excuse the exact same tactic your side takes when smearing your opposition.”–Mama
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A few months back, Jay Bookman described the Obama Campaign’s character assassination strategy of Romney over Bain as being “pretty shrewd”, regardless of whether there was any accuracy to it. Rest assured that if an exact equivalent video of Romney was discovered, that Mr. Bookman would have spun things 180 degrees differently. That’s what a shameless hack does, but Jay’s in wide company among the corrupt msm. That said, I didn’t think the video was that big a deal, unless there were efforts back during the last campaign by the msm to block out some of its content from being widely dispersed out of concern that it would hurt Obama.
Butch Cassidy (I)
October 3rd, 2012
10:50 am
ahnald – “throw him out”
Hey, all you have to do is change these numbers:http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Child, please
October 3rd, 2012
10:50 am
“In the speech, Obama dared to suggest that race — along with the Bush administration’s “colorblind incompetence” — had played a role in the excruciatingly slow response to New Orleans’ plight in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was right; it did”
Proof? None. This is a completely asinine statement of “fact”, refuted by statistics of the 1800+ people who perished in Katrina.
Whites represented a greater percentage of fatalities from Katrina than they did of the general population of the areas hit, including New Orleans. Slightly ‘underreported’ fact due to the fact that you get no news play out of saying whites died at a higher rate. Nothing cynical/conspiratorial can be found in that, right? (perhaps incompetence, but some of them died simply because they did not heed a warning to leave, while others died because they had no means by which to leave-$$$)
Please stick to facts, I realize they are inconvenient, but they make for a more truthful debate on a subject.
ByteMe - Thugs vs. Ilk... in 3D!
October 3rd, 2012
10:51 am
I am uncapable of adjusting my accent to others…I don’t find it of value and I think its borderline disingenous..
And when I’m in Boston, I sound a bit more like them. You can think of it what you like, but it happens and I’m not doing it consciously. If you don’t start with a strong accent, it’s probably easier to pick up the inflections of another without noticing it.