Matt Drudge is an amazing journalist, with faultless tabloid news judgment. This morning he circulated the "Dressed" photo of Obama, in which he looks like a Muslim, the picture taken in Kenya when he dressed in local costume, as a Somali elder. Drudge said that the Clinton people were circulating the photo, to undermine Obama.
Well now on Drudge, attached to the same report, are three photos of other leaders in local costume: Clinton, Bush, and Hillary (wearing a headscarf in a Muslim country). This motion of fairness on Drudge’s part was transparently fed by Obama’s people. They know how important Drudge is, and wanted to make sure the political conversation included the important fact that Obama was hardly alone in going native. Watch for it on the national news and Chris Matthews tonight. What an amazing world we live in.
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I continue to be astonished at the transparent race-baiting of Hillary Clinton. She may be married to Bill Clinton, but her mentor seems to have been the late George Wallace.
As a last ditch gamble, perhaps she should hire David Duke as her campaign advisor, and openly appeal for the 'European-American' vote. LOL!
Nadar has finally showed up to talk about the issues
In his modern incarnation, David Duke usually avoids transparent race-baiting.
Anyway, what is Muslim dress?
Polish Muslims for the most part dressed like Polish Jews.
I was once show pictures of the great-grandmother of a member of the Polish Tatar Mosque in Brooklyn. She could have walked out of the movie Fiddler on the Roof.
Watch this video on the condition of Slavic Muslims in the former Yugoslavia: http://tinyurl.com/skpkn !
Is it not disgusting that the organized Jewish community and the Israel Lobby is inciting Islamophobia on the model of classic anti-Semitism?
The complete article "Is Islamophobia the New Anti-Semitism?" can be found at http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/04/boston-globes-problem-with-muslims.html .
Nadar has finally showed up to talk about the issues
Joachim Martillo, what do you wear when you plug that nasty so-called-human, whore-animal that to keep in your barn?
"In his modern incarnation, David Duke usually avoids transparent race-baiting." – J. Martillo
Hmmm, that's news to me. In fact, he carries racial consciousness to a rather hysterical extreme, projecting 'White genocide.' A quote from his essay dated 10/23/2004: "Russia is a White nation! Of the many capital cities of Europe, it is accurate to say that Moscow is the Whitest of them all." If Duke bothered to visit the southern or eastern provinces of Russia, he'd be displeased to find a majority oriental (Mongoloid) population. But let him dream on, with his diploma-mill doctorate and his articulate but half-educated mind.
What did surprise me is that Philip's Feb. 17th essay "Do Jews Dominate American Media? And So What If We Do?" is featured on the front page of Duke's website. Somehow I doubt that Phil will be exchanging links with him anytime soon!
Propagandizing a racial consciousness is not race-baiting per se.
From reference.com.
Race baiting is the act of using racially derisive language, actions or other forms of communication, to anger, intimidate or incite a person or groups of people, or to make those persons behave in ways that are inimical to their personal or group interests. This can also be accomplished by implying that there is an underlying race based motive in the actions of others towards the group baited, where none in fact exists. The term race in this context can be construed very broadly to include the social constructs which define race or racial difference, as well as ethnic, religious, gender and economic differences. Thus the use of any language or actions for the purpose of exploiting actual or perceived weaknesses in persons who can be identified as members of certain groups, or to reinforce a group's perceived victimhood, in order to do them some sort of harm, or to manipulate their behavior, can be contained within the concept of "race baiting." Many people who practice race baiting often believe in racism, or have an interest in making the group believe that racism is what motivates the actions of others.
To be fair to the late Governor Wallace, he did recant his racist politics after he was shot, and served his last term as Governor thanks to Black voters. He pointedly refused to meet with David Duke because he despised "Ku Kluxers."
On the costume issue, President Calvin Coolidge said it all when induced to don a Native American headress and quipping: "Politics makes strange Redfellows."
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