When the left is desperate to smear someone, it inevitably resorts to accusations of racism.
In a recent editorial, “Politics of Attack,” The New York Times charged: “But Senator McCain and Governor Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.” Every Republican presidential campaign is the “most appalling” The Times can remember.
Still, the paper insists that McCain and his running mate have moved beyond mere “distortions” of Obama’s record “into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia.”
Here’s how The Times arrived at this conclusion: 1. Sarah Palin talks about Obama’s ties to unrepentant terrorist William Ayers 2. A candid discussion of Obama and Ayers constitutes “demagoguery” 3. Palin’s “demagoguery” has elicited “some frightening, intolerable responses” (A few irresponsible individuals have said some stupid things at rallies) 4. By bringing up Obama’s friendship with Ayers, the Republican campaign is responsible for anything anyone says at one of its events.
This tortured reasoning aside, where does the racism come from? Ayers is white. The terrorist group Ayers headed (the Weathermen) was almost entirely white.
McCain could have legitimately made an issue of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright — Obama’s pastor for 19 years and a certified racist and anti-American demagogue — but has thus far refrained from doing so, for fear of inciting racial passions.
The New York Times is so eager to elect Obama that it indulges in one of the most appalling smears in the annals of media manipulation. It may be a new low, even for The Times, but is very much in character for America’s most partisan newspaper.
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