THE MEDIA ISSUE: VOLUME 23, ISSUE 41
REALITY IS MY WITNESS
by Malik Isasis
Presidential candidate John McCain is NOT a racist. He’s a White Supremacist. McCain pretended to throw a hissy-fit when Obama said that McCain and his flying monkey-shit throwers will try and scare the electorate by saying that he had "a funny name and he doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five-dollar bills." What in Obama’s observation is not true?
It seems Barack Obama has not recognized his place. His audacity has given the white establishment a terrible time of boxing him in. The corporate media has a long history of diagnosing black folks with the Uppity Negro syndrome, that is, when black folk forget their social caste in the American white power structure, the media will do everything in its power to destroy them.
The reality is that Obama is about as threatening as a Cabbage Patch Kid. He has bent over backwards to avoid race—or anything that will wake the sleepy consciousness of racism lurking deep within a large part of the electorate. Throughout the 15-month long presidential campaign it has always been Obama’s opponents who brought up race, but somehow, Obama was always straddled with the job of soothing the irrational fears of racism the corporate media fanned. He surrounds himself with American flags. A flag lapel pin is a fixed part of his uniform, and every chance he gets, he states how much he loves his country and yet, when race is brought up this is how the media responds:
A dispute over whether black U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has played the "race card" won't swing the election but could make it harder for voters to trust him, analysts said on Friday.
No African American has ever been elected to the White House and in a country where memories of racial strife and discrimination against the minority are still fresh, Obama must work harder to overcome his doubters, they said on Friday.
References to the Democratic senator's race, if they are seen as clumsy, do not help Obama make the case that he is the most reliable choice to lead the country as it struggles with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an ailing economy.
WTF? It was a Republican and a Republican Congress who has destroyed the US economy and two countries. Does this Reuter writer make any sense? It only makes sense when you realize that corporate media are always whoring for Republicans, no offense to sex workers. Obama has walked through the eye of the needle, tap danced on the head of a pin in a 15-month presidential campaign to become the Democratic Nominee, yet whenever the subject of race comes up, the corporate media, creates a parallel universe in which Obama is clumsy. This is how white supremacy works, charge the victims of oppression with the crime of racism, and then have them be totally responsible for making white folks feel better over their acts of racism.
It is incredibly fascinating and equally frustrating watching rich white men with all the keys to power pretend to be indignant when there are accusations of racism. It’s bad theatre.
Obama and the Democrats
My criticism of Obama has been the criticism I have charged all of Democrats with, and that is accepting Republican talking points as a baseline for debating policy; accepting that Republicans are better with the economy; accepting that Republicans are better on national defense. Just because they say so doesn’t make it true. Reality is my witness. Democrats have internalized Republican hatred of them and over compromised, but when they compromise, the corporate media and Republicans call them “flip-floppers” or weak with no core values. When the Democrats understand that Republicans are out to destroy them, maybe—whom the hell am I kidding? Democrats will eventually wither away because of their inability to stand up to the corporate pirates who pay their election bills, and the Republicans who approval they constantly seek.
Onward.
McCain and the Republicans
Continuing his raid on the top talent from President Bush's 2004 reelection bid, Sen. John McCain has signed Steve Schmidt as a senior adviser to his presidential campaign-in-waiting.
Bitter McCain who pisses the most sour of vinegar has hired Flying Monkey-shit throwers from the George Bush’s 2004 election campaign to make the presidential campaign extra shitty. McCain’s strategy is the whack-a-mole strategy, that is, drop shit bombs and hide, drop shit bombs and hide and pretend to have nothing to do with them.
McCain will succeed because the corporate media wants to see him succeed. The media will continue to call McCain a Maverick regardless of his siphoning off Bush's 2004 election team. He'll still be considered fresh, and independent.
Only in Bush world, where failure is success would all of this make sense.
REALITY IS MY WITNESS
by Malik Isasis
Presidential candidate John McCain is NOT a racist. He’s a White Supremacist. McCain pretended to throw a hissy-fit when Obama said that McCain and his flying monkey-shit throwers will try and scare the electorate by saying that he had "a funny name and he doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five-dollar bills." What in Obama’s observation is not true?
It seems Barack Obama has not recognized his place. His audacity has given the white establishment a terrible time of boxing him in. The corporate media has a long history of diagnosing black folks with the Uppity Negro syndrome, that is, when black folk forget their social caste in the American white power structure, the media will do everything in its power to destroy them.
The reality is that Obama is about as threatening as a Cabbage Patch Kid. He has bent over backwards to avoid race—or anything that will wake the sleepy consciousness of racism lurking deep within a large part of the electorate. Throughout the 15-month long presidential campaign it has always been Obama’s opponents who brought up race, but somehow, Obama was always straddled with the job of soothing the irrational fears of racism the corporate media fanned. He surrounds himself with American flags. A flag lapel pin is a fixed part of his uniform, and every chance he gets, he states how much he loves his country and yet, when race is brought up this is how the media responds:
A dispute over whether black U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has played the "race card" won't swing the election but could make it harder for voters to trust him, analysts said on Friday.
No African American has ever been elected to the White House and in a country where memories of racial strife and discrimination against the minority are still fresh, Obama must work harder to overcome his doubters, they said on Friday.
References to the Democratic senator's race, if they are seen as clumsy, do not help Obama make the case that he is the most reliable choice to lead the country as it struggles with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and an ailing economy.
WTF? It was a Republican and a Republican Congress who has destroyed the US economy and two countries. Does this Reuter writer make any sense? It only makes sense when you realize that corporate media are always whoring for Republicans, no offense to sex workers. Obama has walked through the eye of the needle, tap danced on the head of a pin in a 15-month presidential campaign to become the Democratic Nominee, yet whenever the subject of race comes up, the corporate media, creates a parallel universe in which Obama is clumsy. This is how white supremacy works, charge the victims of oppression with the crime of racism, and then have them be totally responsible for making white folks feel better over their acts of racism.
It is incredibly fascinating and equally frustrating watching rich white men with all the keys to power pretend to be indignant when there are accusations of racism. It’s bad theatre.
Obama and the Democrats
My criticism of Obama has been the criticism I have charged all of Democrats with, and that is accepting Republican talking points as a baseline for debating policy; accepting that Republicans are better with the economy; accepting that Republicans are better on national defense. Just because they say so doesn’t make it true. Reality is my witness. Democrats have internalized Republican hatred of them and over compromised, but when they compromise, the corporate media and Republicans call them “flip-floppers” or weak with no core values. When the Democrats understand that Republicans are out to destroy them, maybe—whom the hell am I kidding? Democrats will eventually wither away because of their inability to stand up to the corporate pirates who pay their election bills, and the Republicans who approval they constantly seek.
Onward.
McCain and the Republicans
Continuing his raid on the top talent from President Bush's 2004 reelection bid, Sen. John McCain has signed Steve Schmidt as a senior adviser to his presidential campaign-in-waiting.
Bitter McCain who pisses the most sour of vinegar has hired Flying Monkey-shit throwers from the George Bush’s 2004 election campaign to make the presidential campaign extra shitty. McCain’s strategy is the whack-a-mole strategy, that is, drop shit bombs and hide, drop shit bombs and hide and pretend to have nothing to do with them.
McCain will succeed because the corporate media wants to see him succeed. The media will continue to call McCain a Maverick regardless of his siphoning off Bush's 2004 election team. He'll still be considered fresh, and independent.
Only in Bush world, where failure is success would all of this make sense.
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