Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 9/11/08
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New heights of stupidity (by Glenn Greenwald)
We’re fighting multiple wars; our oldest and most established financial institutions are on the verge of collapse; we’ve fundamentally transformed and then dismantled our constitutional framework over the last eight years, etc. etc. But the Right and their media partners are striving to ensure that our election this year is going to be dominated and determined by whether John Kerry looks stupid in wind-surfing tights Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a “pig” when he invoked a meaningless cliché.
Dear Glenn: The reason why Democrats keep losing is because they have apologists like you who either don’t see or won’t tell what’s really going on here. Obama didn’t “invoke a meaningless cliché”. It was a purposeful insult, as was the comment that quickly followed it about old fish. John McCain is old, see? SEE? He’s last week’s smelly old fish.When “career liberals,” as our friend Bob Somerby likes to call them, ignore the obvious sexism in Obama’s comment, they do their side no favors. Obama meant a sexist slur, and his audience knew it. They reacted accordingly. Just as his audience for the “cheek scratching” episode obviously knew he was giving Hillary the finger. For an astute observer like yourself to cover up this obvious intent is to do a disservice to your demand for truthful reporting by the mainstream media. You have to live it yourself to demand it of others. And you are not doing that when you blind yourself to obvious intent, simply because you do not WANT it to be true.
Obama’s race baiting and sexist slurs against Hillary worked with a certain element of people during the primary because she didn’t fight back against them. McCain, on the other hand will fight, and so will all the members of the vast media network that the right has built over the last 40 years. Democrats can not win the battle of the slurs until they have also built an infrastructure to support it—which would be a waste, though, because the same kind of infrastructure could promote progressive issues and truthful reporting and commentary, as opposed to smears. It will take years of brand building to overcome the years of brand destruction that has been funded by right-wing billionaires.
See below for additional examples of wrongheaded attempts at attacking Palin. This is why we keep losing.—Caro
Where she was saved (by Sarah Posner, Salon)
The church where Sarah Palin grew up and was baptized preaches some of the most extreme religious views in the nation.
Sarah, why do you invite the rehashing of Obama’s 20-year association with a pastor who cursed America and said hateful things about Hillary Clinton?—Caro
Sarah Palin and the victims-pay-for-rape-kits story (by Lynn Harris at Broadsheet, Salon)
How much did then Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin actually have to do with this? Who knows. Chances are we’ll never find that memo.
There’s no evidence, so we insinuate that there is evidence? Is this the kind of truthful reporting that Democrats claim to seek?—Caro
Why is Palin winning over white women? (by Vincent Rossmeier at Broadsheet, Salon)
To clear up my confusion, I asked Broadsheet’s very own Sarah Hepola, an expert on all things women, if [Amity] Shlaes’ assertion [that “[w]omen want to have fun with other women”] was true. Her response: “Yes. I want a vice president I can have a pillow fight with.” Well, everything is clear now. Sarah Palin certainly seems like the right choice for women.
Yes, mock. That’s certainly a good way to bring women to Obama.—Caro
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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
