Media It’s the Question That’s Been Haunting Me…
posted by on August 18 at 12:34 PM
Does one report on the fascinating wealth of craptastic anti-Obama propaganda floating around the web, or does one ignore it, to avoid helping disseminate the garbage?
The question presented itself most recently when I was alerted to the existence of USWeekly.com, which not to be confused with USmagazine.com. (The latter is the celebrity-obsessed supermarket tabloid, the former is a clearinghouse for theories that Barack Obama is the new 9/11.)
This week my beloved Radar jumped into the fray, publishing “What the Well-Dressed Racist is Wearing,” a survey of Obama-bashing product found for sale on the web.
This anti-Obama tote bag features both side and bottom gussets!
See the whole Radar survey here.
I rather like that shirt.
What did you think this was going to be? A tea party? I think it's funny and tame compared to what your going to see.
Me too on the t-shirt.
The apron is a pretty clever take on the Obama-is-a-secret-Muslim theme.
If they spent their money on useful items rather than on racist t-shirts, they might not be trailer trash for the rest of the their lives.
It took me a moment to notice that they changed his logo into a muslim-like star and crescent.
Racists always need an excuse to be published by the MSM on the Net - and yet, the MSM goes out of it's way to give them free publicity.
Yes, that's you in the mirror.
People who buy this stuff deserve everything a GOP administration will give them and take from them. Everything. I hope they need health care and find they can't get it. I hope they find they can't declare bankruptcy and have their home forclosed on after hearing earlier that day their job was sent to India.
David,
Yeah, these are in poor taste but some of them are funny. My favorite is the tote bag with the inscription: "Change We Can Fear" Barack Hussein Obama" As Vince @2 mentioned, it's not going to be a tea party. Expect more of this stuff from all sides.
Is Lindsay Lohan preggers??????
@10 for the win.
I would think that this only discredits the anti-Obama crowd. Karl Rove even said earlier on to avoid any racially driven attack ads as it could back fire.
@8:
The only problem with your hopes is that many lower-middle-class/lower-class, blue-collar, rural whites in American already live in circumstances very close to what you describe. They're not worried about losing things they don't have, and frankly few have any expectation of things getting better, when they've been so bad for so long; they just want a smiling, paternalistic, white-haired, white-skinned, trustworthy-looking elder to tell them things won't get any WORSE.
Unfortunately, when they hear a young, intelligent, charismatic black man saying things can get BETTER, they can only see one thing - ODL&JCIH ("Oh Dear Lord And Jesus Christ In Heaven!"), that's a BLACK MAN runnin' fer preznit!
All the jackasses who say racism isn't a problem anymore can suck it.
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