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Call Of Your Pitbull, McCain!..By Kathleen Parker
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702436_pf.html
Excerpt:
The McCain campaign knows that Obama isn't a Muslim or a terrorist,
but they're willing to help a certain kind of voter think he is. Just
the way certain South Carolinians in 2000 were allowed to think that
McCain's adopted daughter from Bangladesh was his illegitimate black
child.
But words can have more serious consequences than lost votes and we've already had a glimpse of the Palin effect.
The Post's Dana Milbank reported
that media representatives in Clearwater were greeted with taunts,
thunder sticks and profanity. One Palin supporter shouted an epithet at
an African-American soundman and said, "Sit down, boy."
Comments (1)
Palin and McCain have chosen the low road with foul and racially tinged condescending language against Obama. And Ms Parker only seems to mind when this extends to the press. When something is inappropriate to a person or a group of people, its inappropriate period. Its sad to see pundits saying "this will be received badly by women, or AA, or rural whites or whatever other splice of Americans are out there.
There are no different versions of truth or decency. And we all loose when we take a pass on some of this stuff.
October 8, 2008 10:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
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