ABCs Jake Tapper says Obama called McCain a racist. Goes on to lick McCains boots. Disgusting.

[Hamlette]

You heard:

“John McCain right now, he’s spending an awful lot of time talking about me,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said today in Rolla, Mo. “You notice that? I haven’t seen an ad yet where he talks about what he’s gonna do. And the reason is because those folks know they don’t have any good answers, they know they’ve had their turn over the last eight years and made a mess of things. They know that you’re not real happy with them.”

Obama continued: “And so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they’re saying is, ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he’s… doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he’s got a, he’s got a funny name.’

“I mean, that’s basically the argument—he’s too risky,” Obama said, per ABC News’ Sunlen Miller. “But think about it, what’s the bigger risk? Us deciding that we’re going to come together to bring about real change in America or continuing to do same things with the same folks in the same ways that we know have not worked? I mean, are we really going to do the same stuff that we’ve been doing over the last eight years? ... That’s a risk we cannot afford. The stakes are too high.”

Jake Tapper heard:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but does it not seem as if Obama just said McCain and his campaign—presumably the “they” in this construct—are saying that Obama shouldn’t be elected because he’s a risk because he’s black and has a foreign-sounding name?

The title of his post is “Did Obama Accuse McCain of Running a Racist, Xenophobic Campaign?” He then goes on at length to extol the virtues of John McCain, who does not have a racist bone in his body, we learn. The piece would have been embarrassing for the stupidity alone, but the shameless boot-licking really put it over the top.

For his excellent work, Jake Tapper is the first ever winner of the new Balloon Juice award for shameless media fluffing of John McCain, The Golden McPenis. Congratulations, Jake.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=10949

[babylonsister]

1. If the shoe fits... nt

[Alter Ego]

2. Oh, great. This will be the topic du jour for the next month.

Expect surrogates to fall all over themselves breathlessly demanding apologies from Obama and his campaign, the media to go into overdrive on "Why Would Obama Call Maximum Leader--Er, Senator McCain A Racist? Honest, He Refers To The Vietnamese As 'Gooks' Because It's Easier To Pronounce", and talking heads to wet themselves on air.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Nah, Obama just made a pre-emptive strike against what's to come.

He did it in SC, too, during the primaries. He knew there'd be trouble once the race left IA and NH and headed south, and he put the Hillary campaign on notice--and they failed to heed that notice.

[Chloroplast]

3. McCain not racist? Since when?

He referred to Asians as 'gooks' and said he would always refer to them in that way. He was on O'Reilly's show and agreed that due to immigration that the White, Christian male construct is being threatened. Where are these pundits getting their information?

Video Where O'Reilly and McCain speak of their fears:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysoOB9w0tF4&NR=1


Article Where He Uses Slur Unapologetically:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/18/MN32194.DTL


Edit: corrected information

[TwilightGardener]

4. Yeah, because all those Muslim emails and "Whitey" tape rumors

came from the Green Party.

[blondeatlast]

6. If you consider "gooks" a respectful term, then McCain isn't racist.

I think most reasonable people don't consider "gook" respectful, though. But racists probably do.

So if reasonable people would conclude that McCain is racist, I can't argue.

[Clear Blue Sky]

7. Another RW media suck up...