Does Obama Think that Conservatives Are Racists?

posted at 11:47 am on September 9, 2009 by Howard Portnoy
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In 2006, Michelle Malkin wrote about the WaPo’s coverage of a study that claimed to show conservatives are more biased against blacks than liberals. Ever since Barack Obama emerged on the political scene, the race card has been played tediously often by liberals. Former Airhead America hateress Janeane Garofalo wrote off the entire Tea Party movement as “racism straight up.” As Allahpundit noted yesterday, Keith Olbermann seems to believe that any criticism directed at Obama or anyone within a 500-yard radius of him is thinly veiled racism.

The Van Jones firing brought a perfect fusillade of cries of “foul” from all across the left-leaning commentariat, from the likes of Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Mary Mitchell, herself a veteran racist, to super-racist Jeremiah Wright, who offered the following gem of a response (in case you missed it):

There is one voice that has been conspicuously silent during this full-on assault, and it’s one that could possibly make a difference. It’s that of Barack Obama. Surely, the man who proclaimed during the campaign that the country needs a dialogue on race has heard — or at least heard of — some of these ugly slurs that have been hurled at conservatives. Does he himself believe that conservatives are racists? I recall during the campaign when Geraldine Ferraro stated that Obama had received preferential treatment because he is black that he spoke up.

So let him speak up now. I think it could help the country immeasurably if he politely asked the Garofalos and Olbermanns to back off. Then again it might not, but it’s worth the try.

Unless . . . Obama himself believes that conservatives are racist. It would also be helpful to know that.

Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions

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