Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, September 19, 2008 3:19:51 PM
Barack Obama miscalculated when he took Rush Limbaugh out of context for a Spanish-language ad
that attempted to paint John McCain as a racist, for about the sixth
time in this campaign. Not only was the ad completely and
transparently dishonest — McCain and Limbaugh are far apart on
immigration policy — but it used lines from a parody about immigration
policy so far out of context as to make Obama a liar. Rush, never one
to suffer fools or idiotic attacks lightly, has taken his argument to
the Wall Street Journal to accuse Obama of exploiting racial tensions as a campaign tactic to get himself elected
Obama may have run as a post-racial candidate in the Democratic
primaries, but he has shown a completely different side in the general
election. Ever since winning the nomination, Obama and his campaign surrogates (and the media) have accusedRepublicans of racism for their opposition to The One. It has been a constant theme for Team Obama, even though they cannot produce a single shred of evidence in support of this smear campaign.
Rush finally states what the national media has been too cowardly to
report: that Obama has a strategy to inject race into this campaign in
order to silence criticism, and that he’s willing to lie to do it. It
hasn’t been exactly a secret, as the long list of links above will
show. He uses language in the general election that he never dared
used in the primaries, about not looking like other presidents on the
currency, having a “funny name”, or in some cases explicitly referring
to the color of his skin — and accusing Republicans and the McCain
campaign of a “campaign of fear” based on it. (The irony, of course,
is that the Hillary Clinton campaign actually did do
something along these lines by releasing the picture of Obama wearing
traditional tribal dress on a visit to Africa, a point that no one
bothers to mention now.)
The national media just got done clucking their tongues and wagging
their fingers at McCain over an ad they claimed was a lie, when in fact
it turned out to be true.