A snapshot into the mind of a man who solicited the support of Chicago’s African-American community by making some comments that could be construed as disparaging by whites, the Christian right and of course republicans.
As reported by NewsBusters earlier, Michelle Obama debased America by characterizing it as a mean nation of “cynics, sloths, and complacents”. Although this sort of talk is becoming a theme for Michelle-O she wasn’t the first Obama to call America mean. A similar sentiment was echoed by Barack Obama in 1995 as he tried to rally the African-American vote for his Senate run after the Million Man March.
“This doesn’t suggest that the need to look inward emphasized by the march isn’t important, and that these African-American tribal affinities aren’t legitimate. These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress. Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn’t care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing.”
Who would have figured that the mainstream media, outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, could dig up all sort of writings, rumor and innuendo critical of John McCain yet these same reporters don’t have the skills to look up the statements from the old days of Barack Obama? Especially considering that the Zutter article is referenced in Wikipedia, the Washington Post and even Barack Obama’s own web site.
In today’s world this sort of lazy bumper sticker style reporting is passed off as professional journalism. But I have a different phrase for it, I call it the audacity of propaganda.