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Friday, September 19, 2008
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Karen Tumulty thinks that the McCain campaign is practicing racism by targeting Frank Raines in an ad as one of Obama's advisers and the former head of Fannie Mae.Let me stipulate: Obama's Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn't even mention a far more significant tie--that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama's vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama's principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.So if the ad had also included Jim Johnson, it wouldn't have been racist? Are questionable Obama connections off limits if the guy is black?
And the image of the victim doesn't seem accidental either, given the fact that older white women are a key swing constituency in this election.
Read Ed Morrissey for links to stories linking Raines to Obama and detailing the fraud practice at Fannie Mae when he was chairman.
How helpful of Tumulty to further the Democratic image of evil Republican racists by suggesting that there is something racist about this ad. How about the totally dishonest ad that Obama has been running in Spanish trying to tie McCain to decade-old Rush Limbaugh quotes that have been totally taken out of context to make it seem that McCain is racist against Hispanics? A trick that is especially slimy when it exactly mischarachterizes McCain's history on immigration, positions that almost lost him the nomination last summer. And Rush Limbaugh has been quite vocal at criticizing John McCain on immigration so it makes no sense at all to try to tie the two together. As Jake Tapper wrote of the ad,The greater implication the ad makes, however, is that McCain is no friend to Latinos at all, beyond issues of funding the DREAM act or how NCLB money is distributed. By linking McCain to Limbaugh’s quotes, twisting Limbaugh’s quotes, and tying McCain to more extremist anti-immigration voices, the Obama campaign has crossed a line into misleading the viewers of its new TV ad. In Spanish, the word is erróneo.Mickey Kaus continues the pile on.No! The big problem with the ad is that it brutally misconstrues Limbaugh while attempting to implant an ethnic grievance in the Latino community--not just sleazy but profoundly irresponsible ("divisive," as someone like Barack Obama would say). The ad doesn't directly talk about immigration reform--rather it claims McCain is allied with anti-Latino bigots.Was Tumulty as upset about this blatant and dishonest ad to portray McCain as a racist as she is by the imagined racism she sees in the Raines ad?
And even the New Republic acknowledges that the attack on the Obama campaign's connection to Franklin Raines is legitimate.
UPDATE II: Patterico, in his response, details how in the tank the Time Online writers have been for Obama and against McCain this election. And in response to Tumulty, he writes,Maybe the McCain campaign should have used a blank screen as a backdrop for its ad.And Ed Morrissey points out how Howard Kurtz, in his article about this controversy, doesn't even mention that Kurtz's own paper, the Washington Post, twice described Raines as an Obama adviser on financial matters. Since Morrissey's post, Kurtz seems to have added on to his Ad Watch entry to note his own paper's reporting.
Maybe Time could have let the McCain campaign use one of its cover shots of Obama with a halo enveloping him.
Or maybe McCain could have used the picture of the Obamas with their two daughters that ran on the cover of People.Labels: Media
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Karen Tumulty thinks that the McCain campaign is practicing racism by targeting Frank Raines in an ad as one of Obama's advisers and the former head of Fannie Mae.
Read Ed Morrissey for links to stories linking Raines to Obama and detailing the fraud practice at Fannie Mae when he was chairman.
How helpful of Tumulty to further the Democratic image of evil Republican racists by suggesting that there is something racist about this ad. How about the totally dishonest ad that Obama has been running in Spanish trying to tie McCain to decade-old Rush Limbaugh quotes that have been totally taken out of context to make it seem that McCain is racist against Hispanics? A trick that is especially slimy when it exactly mischarachterizes McCain's history on immigration, positions that almost lost him the nomination last summer. And Rush Limbaugh has been quite vocal at criticizing John McCain on immigration so it makes no sense at all to try to tie the two together. As Jake Tapper wrote of the ad,
And even the New Republic acknowledges that the attack on the Obama campaign's connection to Franklin Raines is legitimate.
UPDATE II: Patterico, in his response, details how in the tank the Time Online writers have been for Obama and against McCain this election. And in response to Tumulty, he writes,
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Karen Tumulty thinks that the McCain campaign is practicing racism by targeting Frank Raines in an ad as one of Obama's advisers and the former head of Fannie Mae.
Let me stipulate: Obama's Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn't even mention a far more significant tie--that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama's vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama's principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.So if the ad had also included Jim Johnson, it wouldn't have been racist? Are questionable Obama connections off limits if the guy is black?
And the image of the victim doesn't seem accidental either, given the fact that older white women are a key swing constituency in this election.
Read Ed Morrissey for links to stories linking Raines to Obama and detailing the fraud practice at Fannie Mae when he was chairman.
How helpful of Tumulty to further the Democratic image of evil Republican racists by suggesting that there is something racist about this ad. How about the totally dishonest ad that Obama has been running in Spanish trying to tie McCain to decade-old Rush Limbaugh quotes that have been totally taken out of context to make it seem that McCain is racist against Hispanics? A trick that is especially slimy when it exactly mischarachterizes McCain's history on immigration, positions that almost lost him the nomination last summer. And Rush Limbaugh has been quite vocal at criticizing John McCain on immigration so it makes no sense at all to try to tie the two together. As Jake Tapper wrote of the ad,
The greater implication the ad makes, however, is that McCain is no friend to Latinos at all, beyond issues of funding the DREAM act or how NCLB money is distributed. By linking McCain to Limbaugh’s quotes, twisting Limbaugh’s quotes, and tying McCain to more extremist anti-immigration voices, the Obama campaign has crossed a line into misleading the viewers of its new TV ad. In Spanish, the word is erróneo.Mickey Kaus continues the pile on.
No! The big problem with the ad is that it brutally misconstrues Limbaugh while attempting to implant an ethnic grievance in the Latino community--not just sleazy but profoundly irresponsible ("divisive," as someone like Barack Obama would say). The ad doesn't directly talk about immigration reform--rather it claims McCain is allied with anti-Latino bigots.Was Tumulty as upset about this blatant and dishonest ad to portray McCain as a racist as she is by the imagined racism she sees in the Raines ad?
And even the New Republic acknowledges that the attack on the Obama campaign's connection to Franklin Raines is legitimate.
UPDATE II: Patterico, in his response, details how in the tank the Time Online writers have been for Obama and against McCain this election. And in response to Tumulty, he writes,
Maybe the McCain campaign should have used a blank screen as a backdrop for its ad.And Ed Morrissey points out how Howard Kurtz, in his article about this controversy, doesn't even mention that Kurtz's own paper, the Washington Post, twice described Raines as an Obama adviser on financial matters. Since Morrissey's post, Kurtz seems to have added on to his Ad Watch entry to note his own paper's reporting.
Maybe Time could have let the McCain campaign use one of its cover shots of Obama with a halo enveloping him.
Or maybe McCain could have used the picture of the Obamas with their two daughters that ran on the cover of People.
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