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Thread #110707   Message #2325215
Posted By: GUEST,Fantasma
25-Apr-08 - 08:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Race & Religion Cards & Censorship in US
Subject: BS: Race & Religion Cards & Censorship in US
Now that Clinton won another big one & the primaries are moving to the south again, the race and religion cards are flying all over the place.

NC TV stations are now censoring the Republican attack ad against Obama, just as many US TV stations censored MoveOn.org ads in 2004, and many MSM outlets censored the Dixie Chicks for remarks about Bush.

From the "undeclared" Obama leaning superdelegate camp, Representative James E. Clyburn, Democratic House Whip, has dredged up the Bill Clinton Jesse Jackson remarks made last January about the Obama win in SC (his state). Timing is everything in politics, as they say.

Rev. Wright is hot on the redemption interview trail, with appearances before at least two highly sympathetic audiences, Bill Moyers tonight & the NAACP this weekend.

So, while the ad about Rev. Wright has now handily been censored by the MSM, and no one but the MSM, Rev Wright will get free air time for Obama nationwide.

Quite the savvy race & religion card playing by the Obama camp. They just keep getting better and better at it.

The Clintons, OTOH, keep stumbling whenever and wherever the race and religion gotchas get 'em. This week, Bill was wagging his finger at a journalist in PA who tried to get him w/his remarks back in January that the Honorable Rep above was referring to, and the timing couldn't have been better (NYT front page, and all).

So now, non-surrogate surrogates are doing the deeds.

It's looking like a long, hot summer in the USA.