Mandingo and the Frivolous Tarts
I don’t know why he thought it up or if he even actually believes it, but Josh Marshall wrote the other day that McCain’s little campaign ad about Obama as a world celebrity deliberately associates the Chosen One with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears because they are
oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women
See how that works? It wasn’t McCain likening Obama’s inexplicable and unwarranted fame to that of a pair of widely-ridiculed celebrity whores, but McCain suggesting that a virile black ram is daring to tup some white ewes. Shouldn’t Marshall have taken more offense at Obama’s delusions of Hitlerian grandeur than in drawing out some non-existent miscegenation meme? Marshall is obviously a ridiculous bastard who’s reaching for any offense he can take. Who on Earth would make such a connection? Well, I’m from the old ”who smelt it dealt it” school, so I would suggest that Marshall examine his own personal views of race instead of imputing them to others.
Bob Schieffer said it best yesterday on Face the Nation:
When it began, this was a campaign of great expectations. Two extraordinary candidates — Obama, the son of a Kenyan exchange student, raised by American grandparents; McCain, a true American hero. What a statement it could have been to the world, what a learning and inspiring experience it could have been to us, two such very different people giving us their vision for America. And yet, it has come to this: Obama’s people trying to denigrate the war hero’s military service, McCain’s people comparing Obama to a couple of frivolous tarts.
I’m not so sanguine on the deeper meanings of this race, but leave it to the Obama cultists to find racism everywhere but in their own hearts. The ones who think enough about what’s happening to Obama’s support right now are probably right to panic and to cast about for a controversy. But it doesn’t make their bullshit imaginings on the question of racism any more legitimate.
