Context is a funny thing…
The mainstream media have been playing Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s 9/11 comments endlessly, but what they are showing you is a misleading excerpt, lacking context. I am convinced that if the video was not improperly edited and shown as it was delivered (below) that there would have been no controversy at all. But then how would they get John McCain elected?
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  There is quite a little brouhaha brewing over Hillary Clinton’s latest “Red Phone” commercial and whether the “N” word is subliminally pasted on one of the children’s pajamas.   Check out the commercial above paying close attention at the 12 second mark. The letters NIG are clearly visible above the crease in the child’s pajamas.  Is this a deliberate attempt at subliminal racism?       I thought the Bush “RATS” controversy in 2000 was absurd - remember the commercial where the word Bureaucrats faded from view leaving behind the word RATS -  but this is just off the map.    As any regular reader of this blog knows I’m a bit in the tank for Obama, even overlooking his little Farrakhan faux paux at the Ohio debate, but suggestions that the NIG is some sort of subliminal fear tactic is just ludicrous.  The NIG is probably just a part of the words Good Night.     I won’t deny that each and every frame of these commercials are carefully constructed, it would be naive to think differently, but what we are looking at at worst is another example of the incompetence that has seeped through the Clinton campaign,  not subliminal racism.         I just hope the Obama campaign doesn’t overplay their hand on this one, lest they risk an overdue backlash right on the eve of the little tuesday primary and that could be the fulcrum on which this race finally turns.Â
Paul Krugman and Nixonland
Paul Krugman must have banged his head before penning this mornings column (Hate Springs Eternal). He begins by deriding the vitriol of the current democratic campaign, using an upcoming book–Nixonland–as a comparative statement on negative politics. After notching strong points on the sleaze of smear and innuendo politics he bathes in those same waters himself, comparing Barack Obama to perhaps the most reviled Democratic foes of all time, Richard Nixon and George Bush.
The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. We’ve already had that from the Bush administration — remember Operation Flight Suit? Â
What exactly is Krugman’s beef with Obama anyway? Is he so hung up on health care mandates that he’s willing to be Hillary’s bitch? Yes she is sober, she is ready (snore), and she is serious–all the things that put her on which side of the Iraqi argument? And I thought Krugman was an Edwards man. Hidden not so subtly in the piece’s subtext is the notion that Obama’s supporters–so drunk on Kool-Aid–are immature and even deluded. Now here he might have something. Not that one is delusional because they can be inspired, but there is this air among some Obama’s supporters - a we know better attitude that you found among Deaniacs in ‘04 - that is a bit grating and has polarized some HRC supporters. They are note sole heir to the internet/web2.0/meme/bloggosphere/anything hip generation. How come nobody ever claimed Bill Clinton was inspirational? And how come Krugman didn’t note the delicious irony that Hillary was a Nixon supporter? Actually if we want irony how about when this whole thing winds up in front of the Supreme Court, because now it’s the Democrats who have disenfranchised voters. The pledged delegates go for Obama, but the unelected Super Delegates throw the nomination to Hillary.
How are they going to juggle that one?
Voter Fraud in New Hampshire?
CNN, which repeats it’s reports on an hourly cycle, first reported possible voter fraud as a reason for Clinton’s stunning New Hampshire victory Tuesday night in early morning report. Curiously, the report never aired again. All the subsequent reports of the New Hampshire results were curiously devoid of any discussion of fraud.
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