October 14th 2008
Media Bias #87
The Disappearing Race Card Trick
In today’s Boston Globe, Derrick Z. Jackson takes Rep. John Lewis’ race-baiting bait hook, line and sinker.
Ignoring reality, Jackson’s piece appears under the headline McCain plays the race card. Nowhere in the article does Jackson relay anything McCain has done to bring race into the campaign. Here are the examples he cites to justify his position that “Republican presidential candidate John McCain and vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin are careening into George Wallace territory to destroy the nation’s first African-American nominee, Democrat Barack Obama:”
- Palin attacked Obama’s patriotism at a rally.
- McCain campaign co-chairman Frank Keating said of Obama, “He ought to admit, ‘You know, I’ve got to be honest with you. I was a guy of the street. I was way to the left. I used cocaine.’ ”
That’s it. The other references are to what John McCain’s brother said (the suburbs of DC are Communist) and what one or two people said in the crowd at rallies. Jackson can find nothing – nothing – linking McCain to racism. Keating will ruffle PC feathers by saying “a guy of the street,” but he is addressing Obama’s street politics, not his race. Communism is not a racial epithet, nor is being unpatriotic.
Nor, for that matter, is it racist to say “Sarah Palin is a c***.” It’s misogynistic, but Jackson didn’t feel the need to mention the folks at the Obama rally that had on those t-shirts. Nor did he mention Sandra Bernhard, or the mob hate reaction to her:
Now you got Uncle Women like Sarah Palin who jumps on this s*** and points her finger at other women … turncoat b****! [laughter]
Don’t you f***** reference the Old Testament, b****. Stay with your new Goyish, crappy, shiksa, funky, bulls***! [loud laughter] Don’t you touch my Old Testament, you b****! [laughter, cheering, applause]
It’s ageism, not racism, to accuse a disabled war veteran of not being able to use a computer. Obama never apologized for that, nor did he criticize stuff like this, which appeared in his house organ, The Nation:
Liberal smarties and sophisticates are having fun mocking John McCain , but assuming he gets the nomination, he will a formidable candidate. He may look like a grumpy old man — specifically, as my friend Kathleen Geier joked, the grumpy old man who yells at kids to get off his lawn — or the nutty old uncle who rags on everyone at Thanksgiving before passing out in front of the football game. But that’s another way of saying McCain is a familiar, indeed family, character.
I could go on. And on and on. There are so many examples of hatred coming from the Obama-Americans and only imagined examples of racism from the McCain side, yet Jackson will let none of that dirty his one-sided diatribe. He’s set in his opinion about white people the GOP, and he’s not going to change it no matter what the evidence brings. Sort of like one of those old, set in their ways racists.
Media Bias 2008 covers pro-Obama media bias. Items are listed from most recent to oldest; the numbering reflects this and is not a ranking. Send Media Bias 2008 examples via “comments”‘ below, or to email2laer [@] yahoo [dot] com.
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