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August 01, 2008

Admission; Captain Bullshit's Sidekick David Axelrod Admits "Doesn't Look Like Other Presidents on Dollar Bills" Referred to Race, Among Other Things
— Ace

And yet he, and the media, continue to insist that it was McCain who injected race into the campaign.

Despite the fact that Obama specifically said McCain (and Bush, and "they") would attack Obama for "not looking" like other presidents, i.e. being half-black.

See, in Obamaworld, this makes sense. And our media lives in downtown Obamaworld.

Sen. Barack Obamas chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama doesnt look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.
When pressed to explain the comment, Axelrod told GMA it meant, Hes not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. Hes new to Washington. Yes, hes African-American.

This after yesterday's strident insistence that the remark had nothing to do with race whatsoever.

Captain Bullshit rides again.

If you watch the video at Hot Air, note that Matt Lauer elicits -- possibly accidentally -- this crucial admission from Axelrod, and then changes the subject as quickly as he can rather than ask follow-up questions.

Either he's stone cold stupid, or he realized quickly Axelrod had made a damaging admission, and tried to help his buddy out of a jam as quickly as possible.

To steal more from Hot Air: Oddly, the Times "editorial" I posted last night was in fact written by the NYT editorial board, but oddly enough ran as a blog post, not as an actual editorial on the Op-Ed pages.

Why?

McCain's campaign guesses:

That the Times made this allegation in a blog post rather than running it on the editorial page indicates that they either knew the charge was bogus or they didnt have the nerve to make their case in full view of the public. But in their new role as bloggers, the papers editors seem to have all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mothers basement and ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons.

Hey, buddy, are you trying to lose my vote now?

That's capitalized by the way, douchebags.

Andrea Mitchell is a Fucking Lying Whore; She insists that she doesn't think Obama injected race into the argument, and neither did anyone else in the media.

The problem? Mitchell and everyone in the media knows that Obama's people were pushing the race attack on the celebrity ad for a full night and a day. They got the calls. They know damn well Obama wanted the MSM to brand the ad as racist (as the New York Times editorial board did, in a blog post; as Obama's favorite race-based bloggers at TPM did, etc.).

Andrea Mitchell is now swearing to facts she knows to be 100% false.

Posted by: Ace at 09:44 AM | Comments (37)
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Latest Gallup tracking daily is a one-point difference.

Captain B. has troubles, folks.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 01, 2008 09:48 AM (B+qrE)

2 In geek terms, Obama is a first level illusionist with pretensions of competence far beyond his experience point level.

Posted by: The Obvious at August 01, 2008 09:51 AM (1g+FW)

"Hey, buddy, are you trying to lose my vote now?"

I thought you moved out of your mother's basement.

Posted by: notropis at August 01, 2008 09:51 AM (l7IiS)

4 Sort of makes you wonder who was calling Andrea and the rest at MSNBC during the Libby trial, what they did in resonse to the calls and why other journalists (FOX, The NRO, The Weekly Standard) let her by with it?

Posted by: The obvious at August 01, 2008 09:54 AM (1g+FW)

Cocksucker. Yeah, instead I'll take my 90+ year old Ma out on the campaign trail and make her ride in the back of the bus.

... now what am I gonna do with all of this Bud lite?

Posted by: Keif Obertwat at August 01, 2008 10:00 AM (zAvxs)

Nobody portrayed on our paper currency looks like any modern presidential candidate.

Powdered wigs were out of fashion by the turn of the 19th Century.

Long hair on men haven't been sported in the Oval Office since the late 19th Century.

Any facial hair on a 19th Century POTUS is not popularly sported today.

Male ruffled collars and shirts are for staged affekt today, as are pantaloons.

So is the DNC now going to require that all US currency be reassigned modern personalities, namely Nancy Pelosi being the first Speaker of the House? Get in line, BHO. You are not the first elected novelty of anything. As yet, BHO and Hillary tie for hopeful candidates; neither having been formally nominated as yet.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 01, 2008 10:11 AM (F1b/5)

7
I would bet money that if Hillary! had won the primary she would easily be up 10+ points over McCain right about now.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: electricferret at August 01, 2008 10:29 AM (kKO7A)

8 The Obama campaign's theory is "It all started when he hit me back."

Posted by: Attila (Pillage Idiot) at August 01, 2008 10:35 AM (rfaI6)

The MSM is just dying for a conservative to say something racist. They would even settle for something said by McCain's-mother's-optomitrist's- gardener's-son's-freind.

When they don't get what they want, they accuse us of speaking in code.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 01, 2008 10:37 AM (CiVat)

That's it Spades you're off the Christmas Card list for good this time. And stop picking on Barack you racist bastard. Don't you understand that he is going to heal my sin of being a rich white liberal? Also I'm hoping that he might consent to banging me while Alan watches.

Posted by: Andrea Mitchell at August 01, 2008 10:48 AM (uw1/g)

Obama: I'm black, and McCain is going to use it against me because he's racist. Did I mention that I'm black? Expect McCain to start burning crosses any day now.

McCain: No I'm not. Stop being a race-baiting douche.

Obama: SEE! I told you! Raaaaacist!

MSM: Obama didn't inject race into the race at all; but that McCain ad that compared him to Paris Hilton? RACIST. Also, Obama's cock tastes like strawberry ice cream.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 01, 2008 10:49 AM (rf03a)

12 We could put him on the three-dollar bill. Would that make him happy?

Posted by: Bob at August 01, 2008 10:49 AM (fBJEi)

13 Oh please!
Obama is NOT playing the race card.
He really does NOT look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.

He's not flat, wrinkled, green & hanging from the g-string of an exotic dancer.

Posted by: Andrea Mitchell at August 01, 2008 10:50 AM (SPSOE)

14 Well if you gotta pick on a group, gamers and gypsies are about all that's left that is safe to use.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 01, 2008 11:21 AM (0+Ggj)

15 It ain't SluShop, but you get the idea.

Posted by: notropis at August 01, 2008 11:42 AM (l7IiS)

"Yes, hes African-American"

We say Italian-American, not European-American.

It seems sort of racist to act like all people living in Africa are just the same, and there's no need to identify them by country.

So why African-American? Why not Kenyan-American?

Posted by: maxxman at August 01, 2008 12:07 PM (OYeDg)

It ain't SluShop, but you get the idea

BIKE HELMET ! I need him to look less like me.

Posted by: George Washington Carver at August 01, 2008 12:11 PM (7FA9S)

18 Poor Axelrod (neat last name). Still hasn't learned that the continued denials have overtaken the original statement. As for the MSM, I'd call 'em all whores, but I don't want to disrespect the 'ladies of the night'. After all, they at least live by a code of ethics. They know whose being screwed.

Posted by: GarandFan at August 01, 2008 12:17 PM (eJ32B)

"BIKE HELMET ! I need him to look less like me."

I'll leave that for Slu, if he ever gets the urge, along with changing the mottos, etc. I couldn't think of anything clever.

Posted by: notropis at August 01, 2008 12:20 PM (l7IiS)

20 I thought he was playing the cravat card!!!! would you believe the four-in-hand card?

Posted by: Potosi Joel at August 01, 2008 01:06 PM (TPRbZ)

21 There, there, Ace, we don't think you to have all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mother's basement and ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons.

Uh, did that come out right...?

Posted by: richard mcenroe at August 01, 2008 01:51 PM (jCJ5W)

Hey, buddy, are you trying to lose my vote now?

now?

Latest Gallup tracking daily is a one-point difference.

Actually, it's tied. Oh joy!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2008 02:02 PM (VBon8)

23 "Andrea Mitchell is now swearing to facts she knows to be 100% false."

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Scooter Libby at August 01, 2008 02:28 PM (jCJ5W)

24 Seen The One video that Rush mentioned? It is damn hilarious. Takes teh messiah's words and shoves them up his ass. Nicely played by the cranky old guy.

Posted by: billypaintbrush at August 01, 2008 02:38 PM (phjgR)

25 I'm not sure if McCain pulling too far ahead now would be good for him. Sure, Barry might just deflate early, but if the contest becomes a referendum on *Maverick*, he's just as vulnerable.

Posted by: someone at August 01, 2008 02:47 PM (2z2WN)

26

The fact that Johnny Mac's people slammed those cunts at the NYT is good enough that you don't have to whine about frickin D+D.

They are more pissed that McCain isn't letting them put the scarlet R on him, than at Barry for pulling this Sharpton-esque shit.

The activism of these fucksticks is really going full bore now. What a marvelous group of people, just tremendous.

The same pieces of crap that obsessed over Mark Foley and Widestance Craig now have a fit over that stupid ad and warp it into a racist attack and call it over-the-line.

I hate those assholes...

Posted by: Rev Dr The Man E Buzz BigNuts at August 01, 2008 02:51 PM (szV9u)

The new McCain ad is kind of funny, but that "light shine down on you" thing was him joking about something Hillary said. There is an obamamessiah video on youtube with a great track for ads like that. The whole crowd is singing the words barack obama with Stevie Wonder. I don't know if it was Andrew Sullivan on the Colbert Report or that audio sample, but one of those two really turned the little messiah act into something far more annoying than it was.

People in the press may be distorting the truth, but they ignore things also. On the Obama website it says that he wants to invade the Sudan to resolve the genocide in Darfur. It is probably the first time a candidate has said that he was going to invade another country and everybody was like "oh, yeah, hmmmm, okay, whatever". I do not know if we should get involved in Darfur or not, but you would think people would notice that one of the candidates is planning to invade another country.

Posted by: bleh at August 01, 2008 03:04 PM (GNCy6)

28 Bob: "We could put him on the three-dollar bill. Would that make him happy?"

So excellent. Now that would make for a good T-shirt logo.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at August 01, 2008 04:47 PM (sI5Ho)

29 We could put him on the three-dollar bill. Would that make him happy?

Sen. Craig called dibs on that spot.

Posted by: dick cheney at August 01, 2008 05:21 PM (Y4/VY)

30 Race is all he's about. The tingles up his worshipers' legs come from the self-satisfied thrilling thought that they are "beyond race" enough to elect The First Black President.

Posted by: Erwin Hussein O'Barry at August 01, 2008 06:39 PM (HU4xc)

31 Hes not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States.

Hasn't Morgan Freeman been Hollywood's idea of central casting when they want someone to play the president for the last 10 years or so?

Unless the president is supposed to be evil, then it's flag pin wearing southern cracker casting time.

Posted by: nightwitch at August 01, 2008 11:14 PM (dfTf5)

32 Andrea's just sucking c*ck to make-up for her Iraqi exposition of fake interviews.

Posted by: maverick muse at August 02, 2008 06:56 AM (F1b/5)

33 but you would think people would notice that one of the candidates is planning to invade another country.

Where have you been, bleh? Obama already promised he'd invade Pakistan. So all he's done is add another nation to his list. My bet is that he'd be happy to invade any nation we're not actually at war with at any given time. Just so long as our national interest is involved, your typical leftist has no qualms about using the US military. So long as it isn't in an actual, you know, military capacity.

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at August 02, 2008 11:28 PM (GIXnP)

34 Sorry, I meant "so long as our national interest is not involved..."

I blame Bush.

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