Sunday, October 05, 2008
Outrageously Asinine [Jonah Goldberg]
Douglass Daniel, an editor of the Associated Press, offers some absurd analysis of the race, trying to make the case that playing the Ayers' card is "racially tinged," journalistic code these days for flat out racist.
The analysis falls apart according to its own logic since Daniel admits that the McCain campaign's strategy is hardly different than Republican tactics of previous campaigns. Daniel more or less concedes this, but argues that because Obama is black, using these tactics against Obama is in effect racist.
The whole argument ultimately depends on the assumption that Americans are too stupid and racist to make any meaningful distinctions about anything.
10/05 11:44 AM
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