Playing the Race Card is So Easy, Even a Vile Prog Can Do It

So. First, the vile progs claimed that quoting the President at length amounted to taking him out of context. When that — quelle horreur! — didn’t produce the desired effect on public perception of “you didn’t build that,” can you guess where the vile progs are going next? Let’s play this Jeopardy style, where you answer in the form of a question.

I’ll wait here while you think about it.

(((JEOPARDY THEME MUSIC)))

Did you answer, “What is racism?”

You did? That’s absolutely correct. Here’s Jonathan Chait performing what my friend Jimmie Bise calls an Olympic-level shark hurdle:

The key thing is that Obama is angry, and he’s talking not in his normal voice but in a “black dialect.” This strikes at the core of Obama’s entire political identity: a soft-spoken, reasonable African-American with a Kansas accent. From the moment he stepped onto the national stage, Obama’s deepest political fear was being seen as a “traditional” black politician, one who was demanding redistribution from white America on behalf of his fellow African-Americans.

See how that works? It’s raaaaaaaacist to notice that the President is pandering to a black audience.

Hat Tip: Daniel Foster, who asks, “For #$&% sake, man. Really?”

Really.