McCain, The Race Card, And What Happened First

[rjx]

Run time: 02:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903SwP1S0go   Posted on YouTube: August 04, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 04, 2008 By DU Member: rjx Views on DU: 416

 
McCain has done it again! First, he attacks Obama because of his dollar bill comments on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. BUT McCain released a video on June 27, 2008, here at youtube, putting Obama's face on a hundred dollar bill. And McCain tried to use Obama's dollar bill comments against him? This is turning into a comedy show.

[JackORoses]

1. yes, indeedy. keep this at the top.

[GoesTo11]

2. Problem is, the press is a willing tool of McCain

His false outrage was deceiving people and using the press to convey this untruth. The press then repeated it. OK, mistakes happen. But then when it became clear that McCain had done this ad first, the press should have not only wanted to correct the record. They should have been furious with McCain for using them and making fools of them.

The fact that they did neither, as Sherlock Holmes says, the dog that didn't bark.

There is something seriously wrong with the picture. The press is knowingly holding back on correcting a large false story. And they aren't mad about being duped. The fix is in, and this is a clear lesson of it. We're not going to change the press by calling them on it. They have been called on it. They don't care, because the fix is in. I think Obama had figured this out a while ago and is running a smart campaign that takes it into account.

If he wins, and Dems control house and senate, we've got to undo the destruction of the free press that the Republicans have consciously done over the last 2 decades. Overturn laws and rulings that pretend monopolies aren't monopolies, and put teeth back into the FCC. When the government grants a broadcaster exclusive right to broadcast in part of the spectrum, and will close up any pirates who try to broadcast without a granted band, this entrusts our nation's freedom to the non-partisan behavior of the broadcasters. When the Michael Powells of the world politicize broadcasting, it is one more step to dictatorship. Just one more piece of our decimated societal infrastructure that needs to be fixed.

[CitizenPatriot]

3. race card definition

wiki snip

is an idiomatic phrase referring to an allegation raised against a person who has brought the issue of race or racism into a debate, perhaps to obfuscate the matter. It is a metaphorical reference to card games in which a trump card may be used to gain an advantage.

In the less critical sense, the phrase is commonly used in two contexts. In the first, and more common context, it alleges that someone has deliberately and falsely accused another person of being a racist in order to gain some sort of advantage. <1> An example of this use of the term occurred during the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, when critics accused the defense of "playing the race card"<2> in presenting Mark Fuhrman's racist past (e.g. his recorded use of the word "nigger" in addition to his being accused of tampering with murder evidence in prior cases, as well as his use of the Fifth Amendment to avoid potential self-incrimination upon questioning) as a reason to draw his credibility as a witness into question. Another example would be a criticism of Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney's assertion that she was the victim of "racial profiling"<3> after she allegedly struck a United States Capitol police officer who had grabbed her at a security checkpoint. A more recent example would be criticism of Yale University student Jian Li's formal complaint against Princeton University, which asserted that Princeton and other elite universities discriminate against Asian Americans while setting the admissions bar lower for other minorities, including African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

In the second context, it refers to someone exploiting prejudice against another race for political or some other advantage. The use of the southern strategy by a political candidate is said by some to be a version of "playing the race card", such as when former Senator Jesse Helms, during his 1990 North Carolina Senate campaign ran an ad showing a black man taking a white man's job, intended as a criticism of the idea of racial quotas. The ad was interpreted by many people as trying to play to racist fears among white voters.

On the other hand, George Dei, Karumanchery, et alia in their book Playing the Race Card <4> argue that the term itself is a rhetorical device used in an effort to devalue and minimize claims of racism.

SNIP

according to this definition, the only person playing the race card is McRove. Why doesn't anyone talk about this?

[AlbertCat]

4. Who's being dishonest about race?

Hello!

No one mentions Fox News calling Obama "exotic". We all know what that meant.

Anyone who thinks race is not an issue in this campaign is simply disingenuous. The only one talking like an adult on this issue is Obama. I mean, that photo shop ad was juvenile as hell! And such a thing from the party who wants Ronnie Raygun on Mt Rushmore!

[democracy1st]

5. K & R must see pass it on