Reply #18: Mind Boggling Malicious 1984 Orwellian Media Double Speak [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

All the media wants to talk about when it comes to the South Carolina Primary is the role that race will play in the vote there. Seriously, they can not make a report about the South Carolina race without talking about a generational split between younger blacks and older blacks regarding backing Clinton or the African American candidate instead. They focus on what will Black Women do now when there is a gender sister and a racial brother asking for their support. They cover the Mayor of Atlanta making a speech in which he twisted Bill Clinton's words calling Obama's record of steady opposition to the Iraq War a "Fairy Tale" into Bill Clinton calling Obama's hope based appeal a "Fairy Tale".

And for crying out loud. Bill Clinton can't even take questions from Black people in the audiance without that being twisted into "Clinton Supporters openly playing the race card"?

The media can speculate about whether or not America is ready for a Black President. The media can write long pieces about how it changed Obama's prospects in South Carolina to win the caucus in overwhelmingly white Iowa because that reassured Black voters in South Carolina that maybe America was ready to elect a Black man president. But when Clinton calls on an audiance member to speak (seemingly a black man from the context of the artical but other Blacks are mentioned agreeing) and Black's volunteer uncertainty about the prospects of a Black being elected President, THAT becomes fodder for a hit piece on Bill Clinton making race an issue in this election!!!

Seems to me from the OP that Bill Clinton was having a real rather than pretend conversation with that at least largely Black audiance. Had he avoided any mention of the obvious reality maybe he could have artificially talked his way around the racial implications of the choices being made in South Carolina and seemed like an out of touch fool while trying to do so. But then the reporter would simply have nailed him anyway for comments from the "Clinton supporters".