You can really see a type of Obama-hatred out there that really does
cross over into a purely racial territory.
This has gotten especially worse in the aftermath of Obama's comments
and subsequent mea culpa on the Henry Louis Gates arrest, but the
pattern has been there all the same.
You can look back to the 2008 campaign, with the Jeremiah Wright
controversies, the phony rumors of a tape of Michelle Obama defaming
whites, and the slow but steady emergence of the Birthers.
And these days, the Birthers seem to be getting more and more
bellicose.
So let's take a look at some of those recent racially-charged attacks
that have circulated against Obama, both right before and after the
Gates incident.
? Above all others, the real celebrity here has been Rush Limbaugh.
He's done this kind of thing before -- remember the "Barack, The Magic
Negro" song?
But in the wake of the Gates incident, he's managed to become even
more hard-edged about it.
"Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman,"
Limbaugh declared this past Friday.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907240015
Yesterday, he shared a dream he's had about the dangers to capitalism:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270030
"I had a dream that I was a slave building a sphinx in a desert that
looked like Obama."
And he joked that food-safety advocates will go after all the
unhealthy foods people like to eat, one by one -- but they'll have to
wait until Obama is out of office to ban Oreos.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270033
? Glenn Beck said this today on Fox News:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907280008
"This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over
and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the
white culture. I don't what it is. You can't sit in a pew with
Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and not hear some of that stuff, and not
have it wash over."
? During his new crusade of Birtherism, Lou Dobbs suggested on his
radio show this past Wednesday, right before the Gates flare-up, that
Obama could be an illegal immigrant, tying this into his usual
preoccupation.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/21/dobbs-obama-birth-certificate/
"I'm starting to think we have a document issue," Dobbs said.
"You suppose he's un-- no, I won't even use the word 'undocumented,'
it wouldn't be right."
? As we reported last week, a high-profile conservative activist
against Obama on health care was circulating an e-mail that
photoshopped Obama's face onto a witch-doctor's body.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/conservative_activi...
This e-mail had been circulating before the Gates incident, but still
fits into the overall environment of Obama's ratings having started to
flag.
If that's the best you've got you've got nothing.
The birthers are finished.
Obama, Gates and Crowley will be sitting down for a beer
Thursday at 6PM.....they'll kiss and make up...shake
hands....and maybe get to understand how they were both
wrong.
Obama comes out smelling like a rose.
It's only the beginning...your frustration will grow with
every passing day!
>? Above all others, the real celebrity here has been Rush Limbaugh.
>
>He's done this kind of thing before -- remember the "Barack, The Magic
>Negro" song?
Rush isn't the one who first called Obama the "magic negro". The term
came from an article in the LA Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center
Obama the 'Magic Negro'
By David Ehrenstein
March 19, 2007
But it's clear that Obama also is running for an equally important
unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination "the
Magic Negro."
>"Here you have a black president trying to destroy a white policeman,"
>Limbaugh declared this past Friday.
>http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907240015
What's wrong with it?
>And he joked that food-safety advocates will go after all the
>unhealthy foods people like to eat, one by one -- but they'll have to
>wait until Obama is out of office to ban Oreos.
>http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907270033
So what.
The fact remains that Obama is a subhuman racist nigger porch monkey ape
jigaboo who does nothing all day but racost e[ota[js agaist the white master
race. We should have shipped the niggers back to Africa after we made the
mistake of aboloishing slavery. At least it looks like we'll have purged
them from the GOP by the next election.
I may not have one of those fancy high school diplomas or have gone to one of
them fancy liberal book learnin colleges, but my white skin makes me superior
to even you, unless you can prove that you are really a white man and not some
nigger or spick pretender to the throne of the superior race. It's my race
that built this country, sure we used you niggers as slaves but your payback
was getting to stay here and not be shipped back to Africa where you belong.
I claim credit for the accomplishments of the white race, so I don't need to
waste no time goin to school and becoming no rocket scientist or engineers.
I still say that the only ones who should be allowed gun ownership are the
whites who founded this country, coloreds like you and chinks can't be
trusted.. Our jails are full of em.
The Liberals days are numbered. I can tell you right now that Obama won't do
anyting about the Jew and the Nigger problem because he's gutless and refuses
to stand up to them. The white race is the superior, master race and a black
man cannot be elegible or qualified to be President. What do they think this
is? Some 3rd world nigger country in Africa?
Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf that the Jews tell big lies. The Jewish
media took his words out of context and claimed that Hitler was in favor of
big lies. This was in itself a big lie and proof that Hitler was right. Here
is what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf and in context:
"But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for
falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute
responsiblity for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a
superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he
had forseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and
shame. By placing responsiblity for the loss of the world war on the
shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the
only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the
betrayers of the Fatherland to justice. All this was inspired by the
principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is
always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation
are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional
nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity
of their minds they are more readily fall victims to the big lie than the
small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but
would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come
into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe
that others could have the impudence to distort truth so infamously. Even
though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their
minds, they still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may
be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces
behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all
expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in tha art of
lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest
purposes.
"From time immemorial, however, the Jews have known better than any
others how falsehood and calumny can be exploited. Is not their very
existance founded on one great lie, namely, that they are a religious
community, whereas in reality they are a race? And what a race! One of the
greatest thinkers that mankind has produced has branded the Jews for all
time with a statement which is profoundly and exactly true. He
(Schopenhauer) called the Jew 'The Great Master of Lies'. Those who do not
realize the truth of that statement, or do not wish to believe it, will
never be able to lend a hand in helping Truth to prevail."