Posted by
Jason Ivey on Friday, June 06, 2008 3:30:37 PM
The sycophantic way the press has treated Obama -- the drooling, the panting, the screams of delight -- may come back to haunt them very soon. Having succeeded (so they think) at derailing the Clinton Machine, they're now faced with the prospect of having their enemies, in the form of Republicans and the New Media, stepping in the fill the investigative void left by the verklempt mainstreams. Ironically, it was the similarly sycophantic way they treated Bill Clinton that allowed the corrupt southern governor to move his wares to Washington, and the Clinton myth was created, giving us eight years of scandal and egocentric policy, not to mention his greatest legacy: Hillary. Of course Hillary was next in line for coronation, that is, until Obama came onto the scene, and the Old Media took on a new, torrid love affair. But as is often the case with naive smitten-ness, the flaws have been seriously overlooked or disregarded.
Amid the accusations of keeping shady (to say the least) company, from Bill Ayers to Rev. Wright to Tony Rezko, Obama has casually shoved aside such meddlesome inquiries with the old Clintonian tactic of blaming the tone of politics and his political enemies, rather than offering up any substantive explanation as to why he seems to travel in such anti-American circles. Now that it has been proclaimed "over" by the mainstreams and the Democrat party (who continue to demonstrate that they still don't fully understand the Clintons), they're now faced with rumors about a supposed Michelle Obama "whitey" tape. Is this just a rumor started by Republican operatives to have circulated on the internet? Perhaps. But when Barack Obama was asked about the comments' validity (where Michelle apparently refers to "whitey" in a diatribe about Hurricane Katrina and Iraq), he didn't actually deny the comments; he instead, in true Clinton fashion, mocked the seedy tactics of politics.
If the whitey tape does indeed exist, it could very well be the undoing of Barack Obama's candidacy. Because if the rumors are true, there is apparently footage of Michelle Obama seated with Louis Farrakhan during the same conference. Obama's ties to Farrakhan are already known, yet unreported by the mainstreams. If there's actually footage of either Michelle or Barack with Farrakhan, then that presents a dream come true for political ad makers. It will set in stone an image that many Americans already have of Obama, that far from being some kind of messianic uniter who transcends race, as the press would have us believe, he's an anti-American interested only in his own power, and who believes that blacks do indeed have to fight back at The Man. Many Democrats voted for Obama because they bought into the image of him being above race. However, most Americans will not vote for someone with militant black ties. The press and the Democrats may be left a serious hangover, and may regret throwing their first love off the boat. But not to fear, she'll still be waiting there in the wings if they decide they want her back.