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.
If it’s not all about color, how come your name is ‘Green’?.
I’m a part of The Conspiracy.™
Shhhhhh.
Oh come on, Chait. Melissa Harris-Perry could sneeze that out in her sleep. Obama+anger+Black-Kansas=White racist bait? That’s only six things. You want to be profound and subtle, you need at least eight or nine things.
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Whence the need to pander to blacks? He got 95% of their votes in 2008.
Perhaps he’s aiming at 100%.
In other words, he’s saying, “Vote your own race. Oh, unless you are white.”
Yeah, “You didn’t build that” was pretty hard to understand. When I heard it the first time, I spontaneously blurted out “Whatchoo talkin’ bout, Willis?” Where’s the Jive Lady when we need her? Jive ass dude don’t got no brains anyhow! Shiiiiit.
OK, kinda confused. Where did BO pick up a Kansas accent? Yeah, Mom was from Kansas, but I keep hearing he grew up in Indonesia, Hawaii, Washington state, Los Angeles, and New York. If he’s speaking Kansasian, I’m supposing that it must be another affectation, like his Southern ethnic boom.
Chait is using “Kansas accent” in place of what you (and most of us hear) as Obama’s booming “Southern Preacher” voice. But if Chait calls it that, then that might make him sound racist; or it might make his readers wonder how Obama came by his Southern Preacher accent, since he never lived in the American South. Could it be affectation, in order to make him seem more authentically black?
Ding, ding, ding!
As for Chait’s argument, the trouble with it is that Elizabeth Warren made the same statements a few months back, which caused an outrage among pretty much all of us non-Marxists. Was she also turning off all us “racists” with her “Oklahoma accent”? Or was she turning us off because her arguments were repugnant? I’m thinking it was the latter.
And in Obama’s case, as well.
Chait and his leftist friends don’t like to think how out-of-step their core beliefs are with the rest of America. This “you didn’t build that” speech gave them one mighty b!tchslap back to reality.
Every time Obama supporters like Chait open their mouths and say stupid things about fake racism, Obama loses more 2008 voters.
Keep on giving, Chait. We appreciate it.
In Ohio, if you are accused of racism for opposing Barack Obama, the best response is to ask the accuser “Oh, so you voted for Ken Blackwell too?”
It doesn’t advance a reasoned discussion, but the response is often hilarious.