Propaganda 101: You’re a racist and you didn’t even know it!

[metta 0]

Of late, liberal commentators, surrogates and media stenographers of Axlerod have been racheting up the cry of racism to explain Obama's failure to gain substantial lead in recent polls. It may well be that they are drumming up the chant of racism to make those who don't support Obama/Biden feel guilty of er....racism?

What one can easily surmise from this is that there is orchestration in this sudden surge or uptick of articles and a chorus of comments from surrogates crying racism..

You judge for yourself folks.

All I have to say is that for those who might be using racism to serve their ends, they are indeed playing with fire.

The Democrats should take heed.

If the party lets the bigots determine the outcome of the election, it will likely lose black support for decades to come.

Obama Can't Escape Race Questions - Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times

Earlier in Dennis Prager's article that Dev posted he quoted several :

That is why the growing chorus -- already nearing unanimity -- of liberal commentators and politicians ascribing an Obama loss to American racism is so dangerous.

Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic: "White racism means that Obama needs more than a small but clear lead to win."

Jack Cafferty of CNN: "The polls remain close. Doesn't make sense ... unless it's race."

Jacob Weisberg of Newsweek and Slate: "The reason Obama isn't ahead right now is ... the color of his skin. ... If Obama loses, our children will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth."

Nicholas D. Kristof of New York Times: "Religious prejudice (against Obama) is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice."

Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, in a speech to union workers: "Are you going to give up your house and your job and your children's futures because he's black?"

Similar comments have been made by Kansas's Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, and by writers in Time magazine. And according to The Associated Press: "A poll conducted by The Associated Press and Yahoo News, in conjunction with Stanford University, revealed that a fairly significant percentage of Democrats and independents may not vote for Sen. Barack Obama because of his race." If you read the poll, it does not in fact suggest this conclusion. The pollsters assert that any person with any negative view of black life means that the person is racist and means that he would not vote for Obama. Both conclusions are unwarranted. But "Obama will lose because of racism" is how the poll takers and the media spin it.

Then again, look today's aggregate of political articles in RealPolitics..

Real Clear Politics Tuesday

Wall Street Compensation Will Have to Change - Andy Zelleke, CS Monitor

False Debate Over Government vs. Markets - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek

Of Interventions & Conservative Principles - Don Luskin, National Review

Washington Can Put Profit on Hold - William Greider, The Nation

A Free-Market Fix - Edwin Feulner, Townhall

Debates Will Create Lingering Impressions - ####### Polman, Philly Inquirer

Is the 'Wilder Effect' the Result of Pro-Black Bias? - James Taranto, WSJ

Obama Can't Escape Race Questions - Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times

Salon's David Talbot is Clueless About Palin - William Dyer, Beldar

What's Wrong with U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan - Dan Ephron, Newsweek

RCP Blog: A Big Deal | FactCheck Blasts NRA / Poli Nation: Coleman +7

State Polls: OH, CA, CO, FL, MI, MN, WI / Senate Polls: MN, CO, KY, NH

RCP Morning Edition

The $700 Billion Question - Anil Kashyap & Jeremy Stein, New York Times

'Crony' Capitalism is Root Cause - Terry Jones, Investor's Business Daily

Improving Paulson's Cure - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post

The Return of the Establishment - David Brooks, New York Times

'Wall Street' No Longer Exists - Alan Reynolds, Wall Street Journal

Welcome to Economic Shock and Awe - Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post

Avoiding National Suicide Out of Schadenfreude - Jim DeLong, TCS Daily

The Wrong Emergency - Roger Lowenstein, The New Republic

Obama's Foreign Policy Opening - John Heilemann, New York Magazine

Obama's 'Tax Cut' is Income Redistribution - Ken Blackwell, Wash Times

The Race Boils Down to Racism - Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

Liberals Warn About Obama Loss - Dennis Prager, Human Events

McCain's Queen of Hearts Intervention - George Will, Indianapolis Star

Obama Scales Back His 50 State Strategy - Jay Newton-Small, Time

Sarah Palin: Mean Girl - David Talbot, Salon

Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools - Stanley Kurtz, WSJ

Will Schumer Get Dems to 60 Senate Seats? - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call

The RCP Blog: Kind of a Big Deal / Politics Nation: Strategy Memo

HorseRaceBlog: Is Biden Trying to Lose Pennsylvania?

And finally, here is a blog addressing that issue.

Yes, Steven it's a PUMA blog

How to use propaganda 101: take poll data, manipulate the facts while leaving others out. Allude to memes of racism already out in the collective consciousness. Throw in other unrelated polls and comparisons, and… voila! Obama will lose because white women are racist. For example, take this Politico analysis of the poll numbers of a recent Lifetime poll of women (with some totally unrelated Gallup numbers in the mix, just to confuse readers even more):

Edited September 24, 2008 by metta

[luckytxn 2,264]

Very old news. It was said long ago he would lose many Democratic votes because of his race and nowhere to go to replace them. The Reps will not jump to the Socialists because they only vote for conservatives. Also said from the outset that when he loses he and all blacks would say it was because he is black.

[IAMX 3,055]

There are very few people who would cry racism if Obama was not elected. Probably the same that would suggest people who don't vote for the McCain/Palin ticket is because Palin is a woman.

These sources you gave are pundits on the extreme end, much akin to the Bill O'Reilly's, and need to be ignored like O'Reilly. Instead, because of their sensationalism, they are given credence and of course used as some retarded method of leverage in political debates as they provide an easy target to discredit. In reality, it's called "straw man".

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Liberals love their guilt and try to spread it around.

[jundp 191]

So true. It goes well with Nutella, I find, LS.

[SpiritAlight 1]

Corporate media needs to sell ads.

They will say anything!

What do you want to believe?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

metta is a member of....

Edited September 24, 2008 by Jabberwocky

[pedroh 21]

the pink pumas??

[*JG* 2]

There are very few people who would cry racism if Obama was not elected. Probably the same that would suggest people who don't vote for the McCain/Palin ticket is because Palin is a woman.

These sources you gave are pundits on the extreme end, much akin to the Bill O'Reilly's, and need to be ignored like O'Reilly. Instead, because of their sensationalism, they are given credence and of course used as some retarded method of leverage in political debates as they provide an easy target to discredit. In reality, it's called "straw man".

I think you are wrong here. There are already many talking about how if Obama doesn't win, it will be because of racism. I think it's all we are going to hear.

[Sister Fracas 5]

yawn-o-fest.... didn't we already have this thread yesterday courtesy of Dev?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

yawn-o-fest.... didn't we already have this thread yesterday courtesy of Dev?

We have to active PUMA members here on VJ, working vigilantly to prepare Hillary for 2012. That's their plan anyway.

[Peikko 1,575]

Yes, we did and the same nutjobs will spout the same nonsense led by the same stupid pundits that should know better but need to make a buck selling their journalistic drivel. There really is more to this election than the fact that one of the candidates had a black, Kenyan father.

And Jabber doesn't help with his 'Clinton' consperacy theories either.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Slap together a few disparate headlines and suddenly you have a sensationalist scare story.

Seriously - we all know the quality of the news media is generally mediocre. Doesn't anyone get tired of this rubbish?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

And Jabber doesn't help with his 'Clinton' consperacy theories either.

When two self professed Democrats post hit pieces on Obama from Right Wing blog sites, that's not a theory, that's reality. PUMA exists...just visit their website and read the blog entries. Members brag about doing just what these two have been doing here. That's fine...to each their own. We've had NumbersUSA members post anti-immigration propaganda here as well. I'm just calling a duck a duck.

[no name 1]

yawn-o-fest.... didn't we already have this thread yesterday courtesy of Dev?

We have to active PUMA members here on VJ, working vigilantly to prepare Hillary for 2012. That's their plan anyway.

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Edited September 24, 2008 by illumine