AP Says Palin is a Racist
-By Warner Todd Huston
Talk about an idiotic assertion, but the Associated Press just claimed that Governor Sarah Palin is a racist for saying that Obama used to “pal around with terrorists.” According to the AP’s Douglass K. Daniel, Palin is a racist because the word “terrorist” is construed now-a-days to mean a “dark-skinned radical Muslim” so that makes her a “racist” in his blinkered view.
See, it isn’t overt, according to Daniel, but there is a “subtext,” don’t you know? And, yes, he’s serious with this absurd claim, sadly. This Olympics award winning back stretch has to be seen to be believed.
Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America?
In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.
Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
The FACT that Obama has close ties to an AVOWED American domestic terrorist has absolutely nothing whatever to do with race. It has everything to do with Obama’s terrible judgment. Obama isn’t being at all attacked for being “black” with this exposure of his ties to Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers.
There is also nestled in this story another bit of spin that has become the media’s excuse making for Obama’s ties to Ayers. (My bold for emphasis)
Obama, who was a child when the Weathermen were planting bombs, has denounced Ayers’ radical views and actions.
What does Obama’s age during the 1960s have to do with anything at all? Is it impossible for a person to accept and adopt the views of anyone that perpetrated crimes when that person was a child? Can 30-somethings of today not like music of the 1960’s because they were but children when that music was fresh, for instance? And what does that say about adopting the views of people from before one’s birth? Does that mean that anyone that claims to be a Nazi can’t be one because they weren’t alive during Hitler’s reign? For that matter, it might make being a follower of Jesus or Muhammad quite impossible. After all, who is still alive when those men were around?
Obama’s age during the time that Ayers was trying to murder people is immaterial when discussing Obama’s bad judgment in choosing that person, even though much more aged, as a close associate. Or are these Old Media types trying to say that Ayres’ murderous intent is OK after all this time? Does time excuse murder?
No, this is but a bit of Obama spin that the media is regurgitating to give Obama cover for his terrorist ties and it is quite disgusting.
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on October 5, 2008 12:46 pm
» Filed Under Elections, Liberal Media/Bias, Multiculturalism/PC, News, Obama/Biden, Propaganda, Racism, Sarah Palin, terrorism
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Calling Sarah a Racist for pointing out that Obama had a close relationship with Aeres who happens to be white is ridiculous. They use the word Racist to intimidate anyone who criticizes Obama. That needs to be defeated. We need to neutralize that word. Ideas anyone?
Perhaps: (1) Only a Racist would support a ban candidate just because he is black. (2) According to the libs “We are all racists now”
(3) “Racism” is the new version of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Way overdone!
Racism is when Rush “Oxycontin” Limbaugh calls
Senator Obama a “Man-boy” on an almost daily
basis.
Wildofski,
Nice try, but no cheroot for you. It’s obvious you don’t listen to Rush; otherwise, you’d know that he calls Obama a MAN-CHILD.
Furthermore, you’d also know that Rush’s call screener “Bo Snerdley” is black.
Were you born stupid or did you need special training to get that way? Ooops, I forgot: “stupid” is now a racist term as well on Planet Moonbat, isn’t it?
I am under the impression that this foolishness was part of a wire service “news” story. No more editors at AP?
This whole election season I’ve gotten my news from the internet. The only times I can recall following an AP link was to take a look at another inaccurate, out of context or partisan story.
@markj
Limbaugh called Obama “LITTLE BLACK man-child”
NEVER HAPPENED Nadir, Now wipe the Moonbat Koolaid mustache off your mouth and let the adults talk.
The McCain camp can see the end and they’re not afraid of getting dirty. McCain has no answer for the actual issues in this election, so they’re going to start slinging mud.
We have an economy on the decline, we’re fighting two wars, we’ve got an ungodly amount of debt…this alleged “terrorist connection” doesn’t matter.
This is exactly the type of racist-tinged, fear-monering comment you’d expect to see form someone who belongs to a church which claims the ability to “convert” homosexuals. If Mr. Obama’s community and religious affiliations can be put under a microscope, why isn’t anyone looking into Palin’s????
That little lady sure has got the moonbats in a tizzy, doesn’t she?
Good thing.
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I can believe the Barracuda can make that kind of comment due to the fact that she is kept in the dark by her own campaign. If they’re having her to find information by reading “the newspaper”? How can they tell America about their issues and views especially when she question decisions made by her candidate. Wake up America! You’re being HOOD WINKED by these fools.
“palling around with terrorists”.
Good god.
MEDIA BIAS ROBS AMERICANS OF THE TRUTH
The media’s continual bias in favor of Obama is not only disgusing, it’s against everything that America, a Free Press, and Freedom of Speech stands for. To suggest that there is no media bias in favor of Obama not only robs Americans of the truth, it insults the intelligence of the American people.
TALK IS CHEAP … CHECK OBAMA’S RECORD !!!
A candidate’s track record, and associations are always a legitimate issue when running for President. Let’s take a look at the qualifications, judgement, and experience of Obama, who is running for President. Obama had 25 years to fulfill the potential he displayed as a rising start at Harvard Law School … and, how did he live up to that potential? … He chose to align himself with anti-American racist, Jeremiah Wright for TWENTY YEARS … along with Ferrahkan, Rezko, Ayers, and others. As a community organizer, he registered thousands of voters in Chicago … then, when he ran for the state legislature, he took away their votes, by disqualifying his opponent (a black woman) on a technicality. As a U.S. Senator, he voted present 160 times … he never called a meeting on the Afghanistan committee he chaired (although he NOW says we must shift all our military from Iraq to Afghanistan). He claimed Foreign Policy experience from a 9 day whirlwind photo op to 6 countries. And, he spent almost half of his tenure neglecting his responsibilities as a U.S. Senator, so he could run for President. Senator McCain served America honorably for 22 years in the military. He proved his love for America, as well as his honor, integrity and character, by refusing early release as a P.O.W., even while being tortured. He served America as a ‘contributing’ U.S. Senator, working across the aisle, for 20 years. If Obama’s Twentyfive year track record shows he lacks judgement, and can’t be trusted, who cares what he says about Health Care and the Economy! What Obama never learned is Character. He simply can’t be trusted … ask Jeremiah Wright, a friend of 20 years, who Obama betrayed for personal ambition … and, you Obama supporters really think he won’t betray you If he gets elected??? If he gets elected, you Obama supporters will be facing a HUGE disillusionment !!!
http://billayers.wordpress.com/biography-history/
I have posted a link above which leads to the biography of Bill Ayers, in which you can also read his curriculum vitae.
It is a wretched, pathetic campaign to use fear mongering and outright lies to link Barack Obama with terrorist activity. Sarah Palin does NOT “represent the very best America has to offer”. She represents what America should be very ashamed of: trying to irrationally exacerbate our fears to capitalize on them in getting elected.
I will state that the radical activism of the Weathermen was abhorrent, and they went far past the line of acceptability in rightly fighting the Vietnam War. Ayers was not convicted of a single crime connected to terrorist activities. This doesn’t mean he is free from criticism. He did some very dastardly things of which any person should be supremely ashamed of. In all fairness, he might not show enough remorse for these actions. However, these actions have NOTHING to do with Barack Obama, and they happened when Obama was 8 years old.
What Palin fails to tell you is that Ayers, in his adult life since his early transgressions, has built his life around servitude of the public good and in helping to make real educational progress. His resume is long and impressive in the POSITIVE things he has done for his community, state and nation.
I would hope that we are mature enough to realize the measure of a man is the sum of his deeds. For the few truly awful actions this man did in his youth, he has done far more in his maturity to make the world better. The Bible gives us the story of the Prodigal Son. Whether or not Ayers is a prime example, I am not here to argue. However, Palin would have you rush to judge Barack Obama in negative light and fear based on his very brief work with Ayers on an educational reforms committee. This is work for which both men should be applauded, not condemned. It is quite sad that Palin thinks people are stupid enough not to realize the difference. Even more depressing is that she might be right.
I encourage you to visit the site hosting Ayers’ biography and resume. Do not allow yourself to be made fearful by this zealot who wants nothing more than to turn your fears into her own power.
Ayers is a scumbag that should be in prison NOT in a University dirtying the minds of students. He has NEVER disowned his criminal past and still fully believes he was right.