Video: Mentioning Obama in same sentence as Castro apparently racist now
posted at 12:53 pm on June 4, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via Cuffy Meigs. Can’t really pin this one on the Democrats: The only pol who seems to have objected strongly enough to let himself be quoted is Joe Garcia, who’s challenging incumbent Mario Diaz-Balart and naturally needs all the ink he can get. I can’t find any mention of it on the Florida Democrats’ website either, doubtless because the benefits of ginning up a little perfunctory fake outrage would be outweighed by the cost of calling attention to the fact that His Holiness does, in fact, have himself a Castro problem. Never mind that, though. Granting that it’s always a bad idea for political parties to be doctoring photos, jokey intent or no, Cuffy’s right to read this is an early alert as to how far the media’s planning to go to turn criticism of Obama into “racism.” The logic, near as I can figure, is that it’s now racist for the GOP to appeal to a key Hispanic constituency that they’ve been wooing in precisely these terms for decades because it might turn them against Obama and that’ll be bad for relations between blacks and Hispanics. It’s part of the basic idea, inchoate now but to become much clearer as we get closer to November, that to even contest this election is a form of racism. Let the healing begin. Click the image to watch.
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First salvo of what will be the ugliest election in modern history.
I expect to see a LOT of this kind of stuff.
Romeo13 on June 4, 2008 at 12:58 PM
No. To do anything but fall in lockstep behind The Obamassiah is racist. And any black who questions He Who Must Not Be Questioned is an Uncle Tom.
rbj on June 4, 2008 at 12:59 PM
People who think the photo is real are idiots (aka typical liberal Marxist Democrats).
I like the man who acknowledges that the photo is fake but says, “It’s reality.”
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM
If they are going to start characterizing cartoons like this as “fake photos”, all their little you-tube videos will become fair game for scrutiny and discredit as well. Not very smart, IMO.
RushBaby on June 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM
How is that racist???? It’s early and maybe all my brain cells are not firing but I am not seeing the racism. And someone correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t the Castro boys state a preference for Obama????
HawaiiLwyr on June 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM
My own take on this is that this was a stupid stupid stupid ploy by the Republican Party to try to steer away potential Cuban immigrant votes for B.O. . The group that hashed this brainless idea should have known from the get-go that this was going to be viewed as being a racist attempt to get people down there to not vote for B.O. This is why the Republican Party isn’t in power in Congress anymore! For crying out loud, run this campaign on the issues, and on that fact that as a politician, B.O. lacks the experience to be President. But knock off these idiotic character attacks! All they are going to do is piss off people and throw more votes in B.O’s favor.
pilamaye on June 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM
It’s part of the basic idea, inchoate now but to become much clearer as we get closer to November, that to even contest this election is a form of racism.
I don’t think the word ‘inchoate’ applies in this sentence. It’s already been developed fully by the Obama team and the media. But I had no need to say it twice.
TABoLK on June 4, 2008 at 1:04 PM
As long as you don’t question Sen. Obama’s associations, his experience, his truthfulness, his political ideology, or his future plans, you’re on safe ground. You may worship. That’s fine.
RBMN on June 4, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Oy! That must be why he is a democrat. History began yesterday to the libs.
Mallard T. Drake on June 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Naah, these videos only seem like ‘fair game’ to you and I because we’re just Typical White People…you know, like Obama’s under-the-bus G-Ma!
dmh0667 on June 4, 2008 at 1:07 PM
What’s even worse is that I see all too clearly that anycritisizm of His Holiness after the election will be racist.
Don’t like the job he’s doing? Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!!
Don’t like the through-the-roof taxes he’s proposing? Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!!
Don’t like the wholesale government takeover of our healthcare system? Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!!
Don’t like pulling out of Iraq and leaving it to the jihadists? Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!!
Don’t like allowing Iran to become a nuclear power? Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!!
Don’t like stabbing Israel in the back and leaving them to fend for theselves against said nuclear Iran? Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!!
Don’t appreciate one of our cities going up in a mushroom cloud because His Holiness did nothing to curb the march of jihadism? Raaaaaaaaaaacist!!!
We are going to enter a dark time if this tool is elected President, worse than the Carter years, because even thinking negatively about him will be racist, and millions of publically educated indoctrinated youths will be more than willing to turn their parents over to the race police.
crazy_legs on June 4, 2008 at 1:08 PM
Get used to it, conservatives. All opposition will be called racist.
Exurban Jon on June 4, 2008 at 1:09 PM
To contest this election is to interfere with the absolution for white guilt offered by the Obamessiah. You’ll be treated as if you stand between his followers and their place in heaven. Venom hotter than plasma will be your reward, so wear a helmet, fasten a seatbelt, put your cup on if necessary, but if you can’t stand the sight of political blood, stay far away from this one.
trubble on June 4, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Bingo. You’re going to hear the charge of “racist” much more frequently now than it’s been uttered in decades.
thirteen28 on June 4, 2008 at 1:11 PM
So one’s a Marxist who believes his government should control everything, and the other one’s Castro?
ReubenJCogburn on June 4, 2008 at 1:11 PM
But, why should it be viewed as racist? They are connecting Castro with Barry. It is about ideologies. If the photo had a caption that read “Beware of the black man who would steal your Hispanic heritage” or something along that line, then it would be racist.
The party that has the most problem with racism is the Democrat party. They sowed the seeds of identity politics and now they are entrapped by it’s vines.
Mallard T. Drake on June 4, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Well said.
RushBaby on June 4, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Because any negativity sent his way or any critisizm of him, or anything short of outright worship is going to be branded racism. It’s cult of personality fused to identity politics and white guilt.
crazy_legs on June 4, 2008 at 1:13 PM
It’s not racist. Any and everything that anyone says that is not positive and glowing about Obama is “racist” to the democrats.
And Castro (as well as other anti-American dictators) does endorse Obama.
wise_man on June 4, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Oh. Oh wow. Really?
I feel so terrible. I’m drinking a bottle of Best Choice bottled water right now. I’m just so racist…
Doesn’t make sense, you say? Now you know how I feel.
loganthompson on June 4, 2008 at 1:14 PM
Because any negativity sent his way or any critisizm of him, or anything short of outright worship is going to be branded racism. It’s cult of personality fused to identity politics and white guilt.
crazy_legs on June 4, 2008 at 1:13 PM
It’s not racist. Any and everything that anyone says that is not positive and glowing about Obama is “racist” to the democrats.
And Castro (as well as other anti-American dictators) does endorse Obama.
wise_man on June 4, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Ha!
wise_man on June 4, 2008 at 1:14 PM
The only racists I see right now are those who say those who aren’t with Obamessiah, are racist.
Hmmmmmm…. makes ya wonder doesn’t it.
upinak on June 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM
If Obama’s doesn’t clean up his dog’s poop on your lawn and you voice your dismay, does that make you a racist? I’m afraid with this kind of logic it does.
shick on June 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Obamamort?
Pulchritudinous Patriot on June 4, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Exactly.
Anything against Obama is “racist,” and McCain will be ‘Bush’s third term.’ Both of these are going to be hammered into the ground by the democrats and with the willing help of the media for the next 5 months.
wise_man on June 4, 2008 at 1:19 PM
RAAAACIST!!!
:)
shick on June 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Castro endorses Obama!
There! I used both names in the same sentence….I guess that makes this white southern female a racist?
Pulchritudinous Patriot on June 4, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Don’t forget his Guevara problem…though with that poster you couldn’t possibly forget that.
James on June 4, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Not only if you voice your dismay, but if you do anything short of falling on your knees (in the poop) and begging him to have his dog use your lawn for a toilet every time the dog has to take a crap you’re (you guesed it) RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!
crazy_legs on June 4, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Wow. There are a lot of great comments. Between the Hispanic marches and now this election, I really fear for race relations in this country. Normal, non-bigoted white people are starting to get a little sick and tired of being called evil racists. Can you imagine how enraged the KKK types and borderline supremacist types are? There is going to be a backlash and it ain’t gonna be pretty.
mrsmwp on June 4, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Racist! Racist!
Seriously though, those journalists were pretty good at insulting everyone’s intelligence. “You know it’s fake?” Gimme a break.
But then again, with the endorsements Obama’s been getting, you never know.
forest on June 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Castro’s two favorite US citizens, Cindy and Obama.
Hening on June 4, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Ummm, ‘white southern female’? You’re actually a double racist.
*doo-DO-DOO* “The more you know” :)
loganthompson on June 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Cuban Americans are one of the few minority groups who lean Republican in their voting. If the GOP has any sense (yeah, I wonder if they have any left, but please bear with me), they’ll realize that they won’t need any stupid ploy to keep most of the Cuban American vote.
Bigfoot on June 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Don’t forget old Hugo…
upinak on June 4, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Well, I say let them scream it at the top of their lungs, from every streetcorner, lampost, milk carton, train station, bus stop, village square, town hall, guest segment, print article, and billboard they can manage to find handy at the moment.
Get the Obama crowd screaming it loudly enough and often enough, and the vast majority of the American public, who may hold varying degrees of agreement with whatever criticism is brought up, will tire very, very quickly of the effort to indoctrinate them all against themselves as ersatz thought police.
And as the term is from the original useage, and as an anaolgy that fits the situation and circumstance to a ‘T’, and is guaranteed to incite just the sort of behaviour I’m talking about, here’s the short version:
let the boy cry wolf alllllll he wants.
Wind Rider on June 4, 2008 at 1:28 PM
I’m sorry, but I refuse to listen to you because you must obviously be a RAAACIST!!
shick on June 4, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Funny write-up by Allah. The newscast is just a bunch of local news ninnies who are bright enough to make decent plumbers, blathering about how any political effort “that goes too far” is somehow racist.
These asswipes aren’t worth my outrage. I’ve got butt-Pflugger for that.
Jaibones on June 4, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Hmmm…..
I used to say…
If a Man speaks in a forest, and there is no female there to hear him… is he still wrong???
Gonna have to change it…
If there is a non Black speaking in the forest, and there is no MSM there to hear him, is he still racist?
Romeo13 on June 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM
The fact that you refuse to listen to me proves you yourself are, in fact, RAAAAAAAACIST!!!
crazy_legs on June 4, 2008 at 1:32 PM
I’m waiting for a Che poster of Obama.
Now that would be sweet.
Hening on June 4, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Well then perhaps I’ll have to affect a deep southern accent to complete the stereotype…I’m from New Orleans and don’t have an accent.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on June 4, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I guess nobody bothered to mention that many Cubans have way more visible African DNA than Obama does.
baldilocks on June 4, 2008 at 1:33 PM
The Democrats have left one big element out of their calculations. What happens to the everyday citizen when these sort of accusations seep out of the political arena and start showing up in everyday life? At the bank. At the convenience store. In school. In the workplace. In the hospitals.
Obama, if he cares about race relations in this country, should speak up now to avert the coming wave of suspicion, hostility, and if unchecked, outright aggression between people who had heretofore managed to coexist.
And as Republicans, each of us as an individual can do our part in our personal lives to offset the potential damage. Let’s look at our fellow Americans in the eye, see each as a fellow American first, and communicate cheer and pride in that which unites us above all else.
RushBaby on June 4, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Have you seen this already? It was done by Gilda and techno?? sorry, forgot his s/n. ahhh.
JiangxiDad on June 4, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Don’t I have to discriminate between Obama and McCain in order to place my vote?
Therefore, if I vote for McCain, I will be discriminating against a black man – racist – and my vote will be illegal.
Fucking brilliant.
LimeyGeek on June 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM
RAAAAAACIST! What? I just saw the word “Republican” and stopped reading. Conditioning complete.
Thanks for the link, AP.
Cuffy Meigs on June 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Dude? Check the photoshop of Castro holding Obama’s poster…it’s all ‘worker’s world party’ style with the color shading, but it also totally mimics the Beret Che graphic.
James on June 4, 2008 at 1:36 PM
LOL. But don’t forget if you are a conservative black man (e.g. Michael Steele) and disagree with a liberal black man that must make you an Uncle Tom.
By the way, the history of the term “Uncle Tom” is rather interesting.
shick on June 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
I don’t see how accusing half the US population of racism gets you elected.
ronsfi on June 4, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Yes, sir. If Obama is the uniter that he claims he is, he should take to the podium and say to all of America, “Stop using the color of my skin as a basis for stiffling public debate. Treat me like any other candidate and let me be judged by the content of my positions and my character, and stop treating me as ‘the black candidate.’” He is the one who has to do this, but we may be waiting a long time for this to happen.
Mallard T. Drake on June 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Well, it’s getting close… scroll down for even funnier ones.
NTWR on June 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM
With such pathetic turnouts at elections, will it matter?
LimeyGeek on June 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM
McCain better be ready to have the backs of the first groups of Republicans/conservatives who are tarred as racists for simply making points about Obama’s liberalism. They’re going to come after him sooner or later during the campaign as being nothing but George Wallace with a POW record, and if between now and then he indiscriminately tosses any conservative under the bus if they come in for the least bit of criticism from Democrats or the media, he’s not going to have too many passionate defenders when he needs them this fall.
jon1979 on June 4, 2008 at 1:43 PM
:(
shick on June 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Thanks! I was hoping to earn it early on!
RushBaby on June 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Oooh, yup. Gonna be a problem… I hear you can get them on both Ebay and Amazon, though. And Hillary’s finished with all of hers at this point, so I’m sure she’d let you borrow a good one. She seems nice enough…
loganthompson on June 4, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Thanks for the mention but techno_barbarian did this fine work, all credit to him.
Flopping Aces has a very amusing Che Obama image (scroll down a little bit).
Gilda on June 4, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Obama is a communist, Che Guevara-loving fool. I’m Cuban. What are they going to say, that I am a racist?
jencab on June 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Basic math…
Only 60% of the electorate votes in an election if it has a large turnout…
You need 50.1% of THOSE votes to win.
Therefore, its possible to win any election with only 30.1% of the electorate voting for you.
If 15% of the electorate is Black, and they ALL vote (silly propostition I know), then you only need another 15% of Left wing Liberal guilt ridden white voters to get you elected.
Its all going to be based on how much of a turnout there is in certain select groups… ie, getting yours to vote, theirs to stay home.
Romeo13 on June 4, 2008 at 1:49 PM
As a bitter, clingy (but not racist) cracker, let it be known that all of my criticisms of Obama are directed strictly at the white half of his DNA. Whenever I say anything bad about him, it is only because he is an elitist white Pacific Heights snob.
innominatus on June 4, 2008 at 1:51 PM
I knew a kook about 10 years ago who was always talking about preparing for the upcoming race war with MREs, guns and ammo.
He always said we wouldn’t be mocking him when the race war happened… With the way latinos are fighting blacks in LA and all the race-baiting going on in this election I’m starting to see what he was talking about.
Craaaazy.
NTWR on June 4, 2008 at 1:52 PM
A theory: The emphasis on racism this election season will not help Obama one bit. White folks are rather sick of cries of racism, and I think it will drive many to the polls.
AbaddonsReign on June 4, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Ahhh Miami, the only American City with its own foreign policy.
Squid Shark on June 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Well, it’s getting close… scroll down for even funnier ones.
NTWR on June 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Brilliant! The best cartoon collection I’ve seen yet.
Gilda on June 4, 2008 at 1:54 PM
Yup. This is the ultimate destination of identity politics. It’s all about what you are, not who you are, and if what you are brings out more than what they are, you’ve one.
Sorry, bringing up his white half is racist.
See? It’s an easy game to play.
crazy_legs on June 4, 2008 at 1:56 PM
one = won. Geeze!
crazy_legs on June 4, 2008 at 1:57 PM
He has chosen to run his campaign like Castro why not mention him in the same breath?
TroubledMonkey on June 4, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Thanks, but that was an earlier version. This is the best version.
And it was a group effort. I had lots of help from my fellow Hotties.
techno_barbarian on June 4, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Aside from Berkeley, some Vermont bergs, and anyplace else that has over-reaching leftoid loonbats near a podium with a city seal on it….
Wind Rider on June 4, 2008 at 2:05 PM
“Some Democrats (in the CBS newsroom) are calling this photo racist.”
“If this is done by a Republican, I truly think it’s wrong.” – Annie Acuna – Republican (yeah right)
bigbeas on June 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM
MSM is a joke.
bigbeas on June 4, 2008 at 2:06 PM
The People’s Cube is excellent. Haven’t been there in a while. Good stuff!
techno_barbarian on June 4, 2008 at 2:12 PM
On the bright side, if the word gets overused that much, it will become meaningless and people will no longer turn into bumbling, backpedaling idiots every time someone uses the accusation of racism to avoid debating an issue.
Hey, don’t try to confuse their nice tidy little racial groups by bringing in facts. Cuban = Hispanic and that’s that!
JadeNYU on June 4, 2008 at 2:14 PM
This election is historical. Never before have so many been accused of racism with so little cause. Never before have so many been thrown under the the bus so quickly and with no remorse. Never before have so many positions been changed while he who changes denies anything has changed and his followers don’t have a clue what happened. I have always loved history.
snaggletoothie on June 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Before this is over the Moops skin will seem incredibly thick compared to the Messiah/Mahdi.
BL@KBIRD on June 4, 2008 at 2:31 PM
I’d ‘Rather’ think it’s “Fake but accurate”!
Swinehound on June 4, 2008 at 2:34 PM
So we’re screwed either way, just this way we get a little ketchup on our poop sandwich.
fossten on June 4, 2008 at 2:36 PM
I never thought that simply voting could make you racist.
I welcome our new ballot overlords.
If Feudalism is the system of government for landed people, what is the ism government for the intellectually minded people?
I’m so ready to just hand government over to the intellectuals to see how they operate in real world environment.
gabriel sutherland on June 4, 2008 at 2:37 PM
Many of you are guilty of the unpardonable sin…namely saying the name of the one who cannot be spoken of. To be properly reverant you must write his surname thusly..OB_MA. You may pronounce it OBMA. His full name is written…BA_ACK HUS_EIN OB_MA pronounced phonetically as BA( as in a sheep’s call), ACK (like when you’re working up a giant lugie), HUS (as in the first sylable of the word hussy) EIN (as in the German word for one) OBMA. To do this shows proper respect to the newest god and will prevent you from being branded a racist.
sdd on June 4, 2008 at 2:50 PM
The reporters outrage that it’s a “fake picture” is obnoxious. Where is the evidence of intent to pass it off as a “real photo”? It’s frickin’ satire. Now if you think this is beneath major political parties and should be only done by PACs or blogs, then you can have a discussion about that… but for that reporter to treat it like he’s exposing a hoax? Retarded.
RightWinged on June 4, 2008 at 2:52 PM
This is real, however, courtesy of HA’s techno_barbarian
Entelechy on June 4, 2008 at 3:04 PM
I agree. Its all about race, and criticism of Obama is de facto racist and therefore illegitimate.
Ares on June 4, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Repeating what I’ve commented on HA before, Obama and his misses will do more against race relations in this country, than many combined in a long time. It’s just begun.
Entelechy on June 4, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Racist? Please.
You oughta see what Cubans were Photoshopping on top of that “newspaper” when those photos first came out.
The people running around calling all criticism of Obama racist can’t follow voters into the voting booth. Never underestimate the passive-aggressiveness of voters.
Sekhmet on June 4, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Don’t you see? It is racist of whites not to comply with the perception of how a few people view it as racists, even if the few people are also white (I think). It is really a double-whammy somehow or another.
BTW, that video was LOL funny. The Cuban guy’s saying that’s how people think in Cuba and it’s the REALITY, the white lady driving the car saying if it is from a REPUBLICAN then it’s wrong, and the finale of the black lady that will “do her own homework” (which means find out what Michelle Obama thinks).
nottakingsides on June 4, 2008 at 3:24 PM
What do Hamas and Fidel Castro have in common? Both passionately hate the U.S., dream of its destruction, and want whatever will make the U.S. weaker.
Both also want to see Obama elected President of the U.S.
It has nothing to do with race.
People (of all colors) who care about this country’s future will not be voting for Obama.
AZCoyote on June 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM
An if it was a doctored pic of GW or Mac. . .
Then it would be funny and we need to get over it.
Right Media. . . a$$holes
Texyank on June 4, 2008 at 3:49 PM
I predict uber politicking. Barry dumps Michelle. She’s a liability. He goes gay. Renounces Christianity. Declares himself the lone survivor of Easter Island.
Next stop. Neo-humaniod android chimera. Although, perhaps he tweaks some DNA to carve the path for the return of the centaurs.
gabriel sutherland on June 4, 2008 at 4:07 PM
This site needs fewer doctored photos of Castro and more real photos of Mary-Katharine Ham and Amanda Carpenter.
radjah shelduck on June 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM
radjah, you might be on the wrong blog.
Entelechy on June 4, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Fake, but accurate!
Aristotle on June 4, 2008 at 4:54 PM
a doctored photo, like a doctored “100 years in Iraq” line, thats been lied about for weeks and weeks, but thats ok, since McCain don’t need them USA votes.
Rbastid on June 4, 2008 at 5:01 PM
The only Presidential candidate that I saw take a stand on Cuba on the “Issues” portion of their web site was…
.
.
.
Mike Huckabee
I wish he still had his http://www.mikehuckabee.com site up (it now redirects to HuckPAC). I didn’t understand at first why he had that up there as an issue…but then Fidel stepped down and it all made sense.
Paraphrasing, Huckabee said that he would not normalize relations with Cuba until they implemented:
1) Freedom of Speech
2) Free Elections
3) Free Enterprise
I may not have that exactly right, but it’s the best I can do given that I haven’t looked at that page in over 2 months…
Red Pill on June 4, 2008 at 5:09 PM
I loved the Cubian Republician who said, “I know its fake,but its relaity.” They ought to know a Marxists when they see one.
Irenaeus on June 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM
I hope so. I was hoping the dem primary would get a lot dirtier than it did. If the repubs dont learn to stop bringing a knife to a gun fight, they’ll always be on the outside looking in. The dems are street fighters and the sooner the repubs learn that the better.
abcurtis on June 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM
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