what playing the race card actually looks like
what playing the race card actually looks like
#1what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 3:16pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVIhA7-csao&eurl=http://www.redstate.com/
oh, and steve cohen is a democrat and an obama super delegate.
i wonder how he feels?
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#2re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 3:29pm
Here's something to compare it to.
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#2re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 3:32pmI think all those youtube comments on the different political ads saying different variations of "F**K THAT MUSLIM n*" could be construed as "playing the race card".
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#3re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 3:39pmBut seriously- I think I understand why african-Americans aren't too excited about parks named for confederate civil war generals just like I understood when Carol Mosely Braun wanted to ban the flying of the confederate flag. I think there might be a "Racist" reason for their resentment- what do you think?
#4re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 3:49pm
would juxtaposing images of stepin fetchit and amos & andy with bammy - as this ad does with the klan and steve cohen - be considered racist?
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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Updated On: 8/4/08 at 03:49 PM
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
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#5re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 4:28pmWell but he was a founder of the KKK. If Barry had worked his way through college writing scripts for Kingfisher and Sapphire I guess that would be fair game in an ad about him.
#6re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 4:32pm
it's a silly ad. The dude's name is COHEN for god's sake.
To even imply that he's somehow pro-KKK is absurd.
I'm not saying Trinki (or whatever her name is) isn't more qualified. I don't have any idea.
It's just a stupid ad.
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Updated On: 8/4/08 at 04:32 PM
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#7re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 4:34pmI'd vote for Cohen. I do wonder why he didn't go along with everyone and vote to rename the park for Rosa Parks or MLK or Barack Obama.
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#8re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 4:39pmOK, I just saw- Cohen was good buds with Warren Zevon. He's OK in my book.
#9re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 4:40pmWould it be Rosa Parks Park or just Rosa's Park?
#10re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/4/08 at 4:44pm
eh, imagery is overrated. i mean juxtaposing bammy with some mau maus would just be a way of showing his dedication tom african causes. it wouldn't be a way of inferring that he might like to chop up white folks with a machete. not at all.
just like this one doesn't try to link cohen - cohen, come on! - to the kkk.
i like this new open standard in which ads are judged on what they are intended to do not by what they actually do.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#11re: what playing the race card actually looks like
Posted: 8/8/08 at 8:40am
nikki tinker lost her race (baiting) to steve cohen.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_21CQEmVXaRLlqpw6n7eqnKIyNwD92DSS3O0
i find the responses - and lack thereof - here instructive as i do these others:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktd9LLUuftg
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/8/7/61355/31490
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_condemns_ad_against_Jewish_candidate.html?showall
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16471.html
the comments on the last one are quite instructive as well. particularly the one about the vote against re-naming the park: seems like it was also opposed by the black mayor and the black majority city council and involved not just re-naming the park but digging up general and mrs. forrest and moving their bodies.
seems most prominent dems had the stones to stand up and call it what it was without any equivocations and "but the gop" crap.
says a lot.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
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