John McCain: the "Great White Hope"

[marmar]

from HuffPost:


Joseph A. Palermo
John McCain: the "Great White Hope"
Posted August 1, 2008 | 10:25 AM (EST)



John McCain and Company are shocked, SHOCKED that their now infamous Britney Spears/Paris Hilton attack ad against Barack Obama has become a topic of speculation for its "racial overtones."

Pop Quiz (Three Questions):

1). What American political party in the mid-1980s ran ads featuring a close up of a pair of alabaster white hands crumpling up a job application because affirmative action gave all the good jobs to undeserving blacks?

2). What American political party in the late-1980s ran an attack ad that featured a scary black convict who was released on a prison work furlough program and raped a woman?

3). What American political party in the last election cycle ran an ad featuring a seductive scantily-clad young white woman beckoning the African-American candidate to "call" her for a sexual rendezvous?

And John McCain says Barack Obama is "playing the race the card?"

As the nation grapples with its first African-American nominee from a major political party to come so close to winning the presidential prize it is perhaps useful to look at a bit of American history from the early 20th century. In 1910, the "Fight of the Century" took place between the defending heavyweight-boxing champion, John "Jack" Johnson, who was African American, and James Jeffries, who was white. Newspaper reporters and sports writers at the time referred to Jeffries as "the Great White Hope." One sports writer from the "Chicago Tribune" opined that Johnson's "innate conceit and vanity will cause him to strive for the theatrical, to pose for the crowd and the pictures, whereas Jeffries will go about his work in a businesslike manner." .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/john-mccain-the-great-whi_b_116292.html

[YOY]

1. More like "Great White Dope."

Reminds me of a Bloodhound Gang song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm_7rMGI_-o

[catbyte]

2. Thanks for the Friday laugh!

Great White Dope... :rofl:

diane

"Tales of the hunt will glorify the hunter until lions have their own historians."--African proverb

[madwivoter]

3. I thought the exact same thing

McCain: The Great White Dope