Re: Obama Exposed As Black
snood wrote:After months of exhaustive research, a team of over a dozen journalists from NewsMax, Fox News and the Wall Street Journal uncovered a story which promises to cause blockbusting shockwaves once it starts making the newscycle rounds...
Operating undercover from inside Obama's campaign, and conducting countless interviews with supporters and individuals "in the know" in the Obama camp, they have determined conclusively that Barack Obama is a black man.
This shocking revelation promises to cause a new rising of resistance to the Obama phenomenon. Until now, no one has dared to utter aloud the ugly rumors of his being secretly black.
How the Obama damage control machine will handle this, no one knows...
Snood gets something here which I think not everyone perceives. I'd just written a post on the obama thread, but if folks don't mind, I'll add it here.
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Presently, there is a two-pronged propaganda campaign being waged against Obama from the right's noise machine.
The most obvious is the Reverend Wright 'issue' which is nearly filling the talk radio menu along with Fox and print/web. It's a Swift Boat strategy to designed to smear the character, loyalty, judgement, honesty etc of Obama. As Limbaugh, last week, bemoaned the situation as he saw it, "Everyone hates Hillary but no one hates Obama yet" - a situation in need of correction.
And this attack is, predictably, designed to push white peoples' buttons and fears a la Harold Ford Jr and "Call me, Harold (giggle giggle)". Note Miller's earlier post here about the Reverend "waving his palms". Real american preachers don't sway while holding their hands in the air and waving their palms. Look how alien he is. Look how weird african americans' christianity is. And look how into black power they are. A black candidate who is actually black is dangerous, is alien, is not american, IS NOT LIKE YOU, white voters! To be tempted by this man is to just maybe walk right into a mugging.
The second prong of the present effort has been evident for a week or two now (it precedes the Wright matter). The theme pops up throughout the conservative propaganda unverse and we see an instance of it in today's NY Times column by Kristol...
Quote:But one has the sense that elsewhere in this great land the bloom is coming off the Obama rose.
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This, along with all the other co-ordinated instances of the same idea being forwarded, is a marketing strategy that relies upon nothing more than repetition. Say it often and promote it broadly and facilitate the notion out in the market that there is a consensus that this is so. As Rove described it to Suskind (member of "the reality-based community) a few years ago, "We create our own reality".
As always, it has the added advantage of being an attack. When a candidate or target is defending himself/herself/itself, then that campaign's message is diminished and the campaign doing the attack moves out of the spotlight (and it's safer outside).
My advice to Obama supporters (and other rational people) is to avoid falling into this trap. McCain is easily as susceptible to this sort of attack regarding his religious affiliates. When some twit here tries to forward this smear, slam them back with twice as much of the same stuff but against McCain instead.
