If somehow you missed the hype, there was a big Internet tease yesterday by Drudge and The Daily Caller that there would be a big bombshell video released at 9 pm ET on a certain television program that would change the dynamics of the race using race. So one day later, what is the reaction? Here are some headlines:
- Washington Post, Post Partisan: Daily Caller Plays the Race Card Badly
- The Atlantic: President Obama and the Race Obsessed Right
- Huffington Post, David Linkins: Drudge, Daily Caller Hype Old Obama Speech, Trolling Entire Political World
- Huffington Post Politics: Conservatives' Hyped Up Obama Attack Falls Flat
- Gawker: The Art of the Code-Switch: Obama Morphs for His Audience Just Like You Do
- Daily Beast, Howard Kurtz: Conservative Outlets Push Old Video of Barack Obama Talking About the Poor
- Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan: The Decline and Fall of Tucker Carlson
- Politico, Glenn Thrush et al: Video potential worry for Obama campaign
- Politico, Dylan Byers: Media gives little play to Obama 2007 tape
- Rush Limbaugh: Why Mr. Roads and Bridges Hates Suburbia
- New York Times, Michael Shear: Obama’s Wright Ties Highlighted Again
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I suggest that it is pretty obvious which candidate was playing the race card in the 2007 speech to an all black audience, and it certainly wasn't Mitt Romney. The Obama campaign has been playing the race card for quite some time now it appears, from the Joe Biden remark about the policies of "Romney putting blacks back in chains" made on the campaign trail in Virginia this summer, to his remarks in news conferences as President on such topics as the Travon Martin shooting in self defense by a Neighborhood Watch commander in Sanford, Florida, and the incident of damaging remarks about the Cambridge Police Department as an Afro-American professor of his at Harvard was arrested for being uncooperative and refusing to show identification (that little boo boo that he tried to clean up by offering the parties a beer), to his campaign for the Nomination of his Party in 2008 in South Carolina when his campaign played the race card on Bill Clinton (previously known as the "First Black President", and when he threw his Caucasian Grandmother under the bus with a slanderous citing of her racism, the woman who raised him and dealt with all his beer drinking, pot smoking, cocaine using, and skipping his classes in High School in Hawaii that he bragged about in his"memoirs" after his mother had previously washed her hands of him. And as was evident in that 2007 video, the racism and racebaiting in Obama comes in part from his years of communing with the Black Theology racist views of his honored pastor Jerimiah Wright who this scheming politician Obama also threw under the bus when it was not longer of benefit to him in 2008 to cite him as a mentor.
I was thinking after the debate, maybe all the talk about zingers before the debate was just a plant from the Romney camp. Also the 2007 video of Obama put out by the Drugg Report and Fox News was a set up also.
Fox's take on the video was one of an "agressive black man" perhaps causing the Obama camp to advise Obama to act somewhat docile.
The regular media played right into it by making fun of Romney's advisors for giving up their game plan of zingers. That video was shown everywhere and roundly critized by the main stream media.
I think we just got played!
Best Romney Zinger of the night, regarding the loss of billions of dollars in foolish grants of borrowed money to "green" energy corporations, when Romney said: A friend of mine said that "You try to pick winners and losers, but only wind up picking losers!" Which was in stark contrast of course to Romney's 85% success rate turning around failing companies and in new start up companies invested in while the founder and CEO of Bain Capital, one of the most successful private investment firms in the nation in the 1980s and 1990s.
And the President looked very much the "angry black man" last night as he bristled under confrontation on his record and his blatant attempts to distort the plans and policies of Romney, scowling at his Challenger and the moderator from just after the half way point to the end of the debate! Glad you brought it up, AnnP.