Bigot-Bait Twofer

[kpete]

Josh Marshall asks:

Is the ad designed to say Obama is a frivolous part of the celebrity culture? Or is it meant to associate him with white women half his age, most of whose public notoriety is tied to their sexuality? If it's one ... well, it obviously can't be the other.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/206330.php

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Somewhere in the Eighth Circle of Hell -- down among the malebolgias reserved for for seducers, panderers, barrators (sellers of public office) and false councilors -- Lee Atwater is roasting on a spit...and smiling.


d r i f t g l a s s Answers with:
Bigot-Bait Twofer

Far from being merely tawdry, weird and one-dimensionally racist, I find this ad by Senator McSame to be a small gem of malevolent efficiency.

Because it plugs Barack Hussein Obama into not one but two of those ancient, bone-deep, contemptible cultural stereotypes that always comes to hand so easily and naturally in what once might have been thought of as the Floyd Brown/ Lee Atwater /Karl Rove wing of the Republican Party, but is now known simply as…The Republican Party.

Much consciousness has been righteously raised about Senator McSame’s weirdly tasteless ad wherein the Scary Big-Cocked Black Man is digitally slathered over the flower of Blonde White American Sluttyhood in a way that would make Madonna sucking Gamera off through a picket fence look like a masterpiece of subliminality.

However -- and maybe this is just because of the specific way I am wired -- when I heard about this ad this morning via my Dirty Hippy Radio, my first thought was not of its miscegenistic overtones, probably because I have never thought of la Britney and chez Paris, as, um, sexual creatures.

Generic American-made injection-molded penis tchotchke?

Yes.

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not pretty, but more at:
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2008/07/big-bigot-bait-twofer.html

[phantom power]

1. He's right. It's very very efficient.

The GOP knows how to campaign on the American id like nobody's business.