Romney Allies Stoke Racial Resentment With Outrageous Claims

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Romney Allies Stoke Racial Resentment With Outrageous Claims

By Peter Montgomery at AlterNet

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/romney-allies-stoke-racial-resentment-outrageous-claims

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Some Romney backers are not even bothering to try to cloak the racial-resentment strategy. Right-wing blogger John Hawkins flat-out declared this week, "Barack Obama is an Anti-White Racist." And he tweeted, "A white woman voting for Barack Obama is like a black woman voting for the KKK." When Glenn Beck accused Obama of hating white people in 2009, the resulting uproar contributed to an exodus of advertisers from his show. But in 2012, with the election on the line, there’s been no sign that the Romney campaign is troubled by Hawkins' claims: his pro-Romney writing is still featured on the official campaign website.

Hawkins isn’t alone. Earlier this year, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer, told his radio listeners: "I believe that President Obama has a fundamental dislike, a fundamental distaste, nay I would even say he’s got what borders on a hatred for white people, and he is out to punish America and the white folks that make up the majority of the American population."

Salon’s Joan Walsh has dissected the outrageous distortions of Obama’s speech by Hannity and Tucker Carlson in a post about "right-wing racial panic." Romney officials said the campaign was not responsible for the recent "release" of the 2007 speech, but as Buzzfeed’s Zeke Miller points out , they did not distance themselves from it either. In fact, a senior Romney advisor said that voters "have to look at that video and have to make up their mind on that individually."

Indeed, the Romney campaign itself has made an appeal to racial resentment a centerpiece of its outreach to working-class white voters, who outside the South have been pretty equally divided between Romney and Obama. Exhibit A is the television ad campaign, pretty much universally acknowledged to be an outright lie, charging that Obama gutted welfare reform by getting rid of its work requirement. One ad shows glum white workers while claiming that thanks to Obama, people no longer have to work or train for a job; "they just send you your welfare check." Later ads have repeated the same false charge.

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[nc4bo]

1. The split in Money Boo Boo's backside has to be painful. He's split between bigots and $pigot$.

Ouch! He's the juggler using live ammo, razor blades and molotov cocktails instead of balls.

Not sure how long he can hold it all together before something goes splat.

[longship]

2. Juggling chain saws with their chains spinning.

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[brush]

3. Ridiculous

It's so ridiculous. Plouffe and Axelrod, both white, have been with the President since way before he was the President, as have others. Where do these people get this stuff? Never mind, I just remembered who we're talking about. They invent the stuff out of whole cloth apparently as much of it has no relationship with the truth, just like their candidates.

[Lefty Thinker]

4. Oh, yeah

And weren't his mother (yes, the one who gave him birth and raised him) and his grandmother white? Just sayin'...

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Projection

They hate blacks so they're saying Obama hates whites.

[wildeyed]

6. Yep.

Plus the insanity of saying that someone who is half white and had a white mother hates whites.