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Where's Clinton's Free Air Time? Where is her EQUAL OPPORTUNITY?
Clinton has been hated, blamed for everything under the sun, excoriated, slimed, and torn apart for people's amusement. Her gender is used as tool to further that hate but is laughed off by the nation and by the media.
(Need an example you haven't heard? Rolling Stone takes a video of Clinton supporters and makes fun of the older women on Bill Maher and no one says a damn word. If it had been blacks that RS was making fun of in the same way, people would have been outraged. But no, it was just women.)
Obama has one major problem show up and he gets an hour and a half wide open air time on every news station to everyone in the country to express his divine mea culpa. I doubt seriously that Clinton is EVER offered this in return.
So, where is it? Where is that equal opportunity for a woman? No word there. Not one damn word.
Oh, that's right. How dare she?
Oh, that's right! This is all Clinton's fault. Clinton actually MADE Wright say all of those things! She twisted Obama's church's arm into releasing all of those DVD's of his sermons to sell for money. It was Clinton all along. How sill of all of us!!! It's all her fault. Damn whore. Damn that bitch! Blame Clinton.
Oh, that's right! Anything that might be in any way close to be critical of Obama, that isn't glowing with adoration of Obama (Our Glorious, Sacred and Wonderous Leader) is...of course!...racist.
Gads...it sounds so, so, so Republican!!
The problem isn't so much what Wright's "intent" was when he preached these sermons it's the meaning that lies behind them. I've heard statements exactly like Wright's before in a more obscure, at least to white folks, radical black philosophy called "critical race analysis", which states that ALL WHITES ARE RACISTS because white culture is, by default (BY DEFAULT!!), racist. Most black studies scholars or any black person with a class in black studies knows about this. Wright's sermons are at minimum based in the basics of this philosophy.
Regardless, the point is, it would be the height of ultimate blind naiveté, savvy as he is in his own black culture at least, for Obama to have NOT known what Wright's views were and what exactly what he stood for. To think that Wright never said any of this in front of Obama ever or that Obama in his 20-year relationship with this church DIDN'T ever have a single clue about Wright's strong beliefs are is to say the least ludicrous.
So either Obama is truly clueless (scary thought if it weren't so idiotic) or he knew exactly what Wright preached...but expects us to believe he never heard what was obvious right in front of his face....FOR 20 YEARS.
The real deal breaker here is not Wright's beliefs or what he preached, it's that Obama thinks (or hopes) that most whites are clueless enough (because most blacks know better), blindly in love with him enough, shut up with white liberal guilt enough or just willing to go along enough to get the Presidency back, that this will all fall away and no one will ask too many questions of him. And while he might be right about his most extremist followers or even perhaps about the Democrats in general, when this comes down to the general election, this will never simply just pass under the radar. This isn't even close to done or even half-baked. It's only just the beginning.
Obama apologists are burying their head in the sand on this one...and that will only make it worse.
....except for the 30 seconds of spinning wheel for every 6 seconds of video. Which always seems to happen when I come watch one of these videos and I don't have happen anywhere else on any other site....time to fix this problem, Salon!
....They asked the students to act as unbiased referees, marking down all infractions they could spot. The results were remarkable: The Dartmouth fans mainly noticed Princeton's errors, while the Princeton fans concentrated on Dartmouth's......This was a matter of visual perception: Each side, that is, really did "see" a completely different game. When one Dartmouth alumnus was shown a film of the game, he decided it must have been badly edited. He'd heard that his side had played dirty, but where were those parts on the movie? He simply could not see them."
Sounds just like supporters for each side of our Democratic Presidential campaign. Just substitute Princeton for Clinton and Dartmouth for Obama, mix up a bit and, voila! Instant bias.
Freudian slip, Manjoo?
A journalist who is willing to buck the Obama journalist status quo and actually say something sort of objective.
Of course, you know you will be vilified for this? You broke the rule of Obama absolutism and totalitarianism. And they crucify for that!