That was fast! This morning in the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web column, James Taranto wrote:
One other thing we expect is to start hearing about race again–not from the president himself so much as from his supporters, especially in the media. Here again, the message will be a negative one: not “Wouldn’t it be cool to have a black president?” but, “If you vote to fire the first black president, you’re racist.”
And…here’s Tavis Smiley of PBS first out of the gate with exactly that rhetoric:
“I said over a year ago that this was going to be, this presidential race, Lawrence, was going to be the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic,” PBS host Tavis Smiley said on MSNBC.
The president is of course, a former acolyte of Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright, and liberally sprinkled such epithets as “typical white person,” and bitter clingers displaying “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them,” during the 2008 primaries. So to be fair, one could say that of course the president will once again interject divisiveness and racial epithets into the election, no matter how bad the optics, and Smiley is simply concurring with Taranto. But considering that Smiley began 2009 by saying, “We’re all working for Barack Obama,” and is primarily employed by state-run PBS, it seems safe to say that he’s referring not to the president, but to the other side of the aisle.
But considering that the 2012 president race will likely be fought by two moderate Republicans, I’m not sure what the cause of all of the expected sturm und drang will be.
The Republicans could run a ticket of Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins and they would be portrayed by the Democrats and much of the big media as George Wallace and Lester Maddox. Whatever positive achievements Obama can claim right now poll horribly with swing voters, so the goal is going to be to run the first billion-dollar race-based negative campaign (which based on the incumbent’s record will probably look like a merger of the 1993 David Dinkins mayoral re-election bid in New York against Rudy Giuliani with the NAACP’s James Byrd dragging death ad trotted out against George W. Bush in the 2000 election).
Well, since NPR is run basically by a bunch of hippies from the 60′s, they see everything through a prism permanently affixed to an angle set in 1968. PBS produces one show I like, NOVA.
Otherwise, they feed this country with a steady stream of distortion dances, promoting leftism through dulcet tones, soft pastels of propaganda and a complete charade set to classical music.
In the land of a thousand leftist dances, they still are perpetually giving us the Twist, the Hustle, and the Shake (down)
I blame it on the Boss of Nova.