Herbert and the Paranoid Left Approaching Racial Critical Mass
By Rizzuto

Mon Aug 04, 2008 - I believe that Bob Herbert has proven that a symptom of Obama-Mania is hallucination, in addition to the normal excessive and unreasonable enthusiasm it causes. What Herbert has perfectly illustrated for us, barring that he's completely full of it and doesn't really even believe himself, is the emergence of a really deep seeded left-wing racial paranoia. This from News Busters:
A new, virulent strain of the affliction has now emerged, claiming its first victim in the person of Bob Herbert, who on live national TV saw visions of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Washington Monument where none existed.

The NYT columnist, a guest on today's Morning Joe, expanded on the theory set forth in his column of this past Saturday, Running While Black, that the McCain campaign ad mocking Obama as a Paris Hilton/Britney Spears-type celebrity was actually "designed to exploit" racist anxiety about black men and white women. Herbert lumped the McCain ad with the "call me" ad the RNC ran against Harold Ford, Jr. in his Tennessee senate race.

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HERBERT: Alright. There is an image right there in that very beginning of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and there is an image of the Washington Monument. Look at the beginning of that ad again. And you tell me why those two phallic symbols are placed there [snaps fingers]—pow!—right at the very beginning of that ad.
Now let's take a step back from the edge here and think about this for a second; Herbert and people like him expect us to believe that the comparison of Obama with two blond white celebrity women known for their vacuousness, is actually a subliminal signal to bigots to remind them of a largely dead stereotype of the "black man's appetite for white women". On top of this, Herbert ads that the visual of two "phallic structures" (which coincidently don't actually appear in the ad) alludes to Obama's penis, thus further connecting Obama's schwantz to Paris and Brittany.

Excuse me, but am I the only one who sees these people approaching the level of "the TV is talking to me" psychosis?

The irony in all of this hubub over the McCain "celeb" ad is that I have not seen a single Democrat defend Obama against the initial charge being leveled by the ad; that Obama is a vacuous and empty individual whose campaign is driven in large part due to an unearned celebrity status. You would think that this charge would be far more insulting than any subliminal accusation of "a taste for young white women". Are we to take this as a silent admission that Obama is guilty as charged?

P.S. I am well aware that I used the term "these people" in the above post. Just to clear up any misconceptions one might have about my choice of words, "these people" refers to Obama's water carriers and had no racial connotation.





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