Ridiculous “RAAAACISM” charge of the day
The Left will do anything to smear the US Chamber of Commerce, a leading foe of the Democrats’ government health care takeover and the radical cap-and-tax plan.
You’ll recall that Reuters got punked by an attack parody of the Chamber a few weeks ago. Now, the Huffington Post is stirring up grievance-mongering by the AFL-CIO, which claims that the business group’s ad against Obamacare is RAAAAACIST:
A new Chamber of Commerce ad attacking Democratic-led efforts to pass health care legislation includes a storyline that union critics of the group say is rife with racial undertones.
In the new spot, titled “Millions,” the business lobby goes after health reform by arguing that it could “wipe out even more jobs” than those lost so far. But the group does so in a peculiar and perhaps controversial way.
The scenario of a distraught boss forced to fire an employee is illustrated by a white worker being summoned to the office as a black co-worker looks on.
An official with the AFL-CIO, who saw the ad air on Wednesday morning, argued that it was a perpetuation of the stereotype that minorities have a leg up on their colleagues because of affirmative-action policies. It gets at the heart of concerns raised by labor leaders like the AFL-CIO’s president, Richard Trumka, who fretted during the 2008 presidential campaign that Barack Obama’s candidacy would spur racial unrest within work forces.
“This is the same old right wing dog whistle politics,” said Eddie Vale, spokesman for the AFL-CIO. “They’re trying to use race and class to scare working people about a health care bill.”
The Chamber scoffed at the charge. “Really?” emailed spokesman Eric Wohlschlegel, in a succinct and dismissed response.
Here’s the ad:
If the fired worker had been black, Big Labor would have concocted “racial undertones” for that narrative. If there had been no black workers in the spot, Big Labor would have cried RAAAAACISM over that, too.
You can never win with the cult of the aggrieved. As one of my favorite Tea Party signs put it:
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When they wear race-colored glasses, that’s all they can do.
Paranoid much? AFL CIO and the rest of the race mongers need to move beyond race.
Worth repeating:
Time to shred the race card!
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Oh, wait. I did.
/shameless plug off
I taught my kids that racism is not tolerable.
They now will always choose milk-of-color over white milk. I don’t interfere.
Hangfire–LOL
This cartoon is in a similar vein. It has to do with what the jihadis will go berserk over next.
Same thing with the race mongers. I’m sure they just spin a wheel and their machinery goes to work on the what the wheel says.
When will these scum ever get a coherent argument? Of course, you just have to look at the people that lap this racist vomit up, and you’ll see why they don’t bother with intelligent arguments.
I see small black letters on a large white background in these comments. I think this web page must be racist.
Only liberals are allowed to determine:
1. Who is and isn’t a ‘racist’.
2. Who is and isn’t an ‘extremist’.
3. Who is and isn’t a ‘moderate’.
4. If there is a difference between a conservative and a right-wing wacko.
5. The true meaning of any word in the English language.
6. The true context of the intent behind anything verbalized.
7. The true context of the intent behind anything written.
8. What is patriotic dissent and what is sedition.
9. What ways of making money in a capitalist society are acceptable (doctors and lawyers) and which ways aren’t (broker, banker).
10. Why Muslim ‘extremists’ are only ‘restive’ and ‘angry’ and not crazy psychopaths bent on murdering innocent people.
Should have made the fired worker in the ad a woman. Would have really thrown them into a tizzy trying to decode the “secret messages” so as to feel correctly aggrieved.
Pretty scarey, Craig, when you see that these people are running Washington these days. Any means to total power and control is their goal.
How absurd.
Hopefully, the “boy who cried wolf” effect will kick in beofre too much longer.
I’ll say it, and I don’t care who I offend: Whites and coloreds must be separated! If you don’t, all your t-shirts and socks come out looking dingey!
A black, effete, wheel-chair bound man wearing an Obama t-shirt…..
Craig, you forgot this one.
Only liberals are allowed to determine:
11. what an assailant is THINKING when he commits a crime.
An abdominally-challenged “mannish” Latino woman in a crew-cut wearing facial metal and a LaRaza wife-beater….
I saw that commercial the other night and thought “at least the black guy isn’t “first fired”"
Round them all up and ship them out.
No. They should have had the boss be an Asian women, the fired worker be black man and the co-worker looking on should have been a latino male.
The rending of clothes and gnashing teeth would have been heard on the moon. “Are you saying Asian women are racist against blacks? And the latino worker, is that some type of comment on undocumented workers?”
I think the race mongers need to take some anger management courses.
my wife was called a racist because she put milk in coffee…and you can guess who by…
Wash your coloreds first. And, if you have only enough soap for one load, wash the coloreds.
Otherwise, you’re a CLOOOOOOOTHIST!!!
I am at the point now on this being called a racist thing, it come under the same thing as the global warming people. I am sick and tired of hearing about it!
L
On November 4th, 2009 at 3:05 pm, tiredofit08 said
Your wife knows Al Sharpton?
Truly the party of perpetual outrage. Next ad make em’ all purple.
I’m going to start having people use the term “that Caucasian-American” when referring to me.
don’t think so…she thinks he’s the 2nd most disgusting person on earth…bo is #1…jessie jackson #3…
tiredofit; I hope this was a joke & didn’t really happen to your wife…(!)
I really think my breathing is racist. Somehow.
Apparently current victims will need an alien race to look down upon in order to elevate themselves. (see District 9)
Red State Skeptic?
Only if you’re fighting black lung disease.
You’re from the Caucasus region? From your nic I figured you were from South Dakota…unless the SD stands for South Dagestan.
More evidence that their house of cards is collapsing…….. mmm mmm mmm
Are you implying that the coloreds are somehow dirtier?
Cornel West?
Sheila Jackson-Lee?
Maxine Waters?
Come on, I’m running out of race-baiters here!
This country is so hung up by “racism,” PC labels, and butt-kissing aggrieved victim groups like gays, blacks, Hispanics, etc. that we can’t get past it to anything really substantive. We’re seeing this in the way we treat each other, vote, educate, and work. There are groups of people that enjoy “special privileges” that the rest of us don’t get.
When someone can explain to me how 90% of blacks voted for Obummer, and that not be considered either a product of racism or racial outlook by the black community, please do.
no it was just an ordinary racist..nobody famous…a co-worker when she lived in Denver…
Well that’s anti-climactic.
Racist! I bet the whites get hot water and the coloreds cold…
It’s worse than you think. See the headline.
Just f-ing kill me now.
When I blink my eyes, everything gets black for a micro-second. Then I open them, and everything is whiter / lighter. Is that racist? I mean, I really prefer that my eyes be open, especially when trying to work, but do I need to give the closed-eyes equal time? Do I need to spend at least 51% of my life with my eyes closed, just to be sure I’m not racist?
I don’t think I understand the rules…
The racist white employee KNEW what was coming! See how he physically ASSAULTED the black employee with his fist as he walked past?
Racism, lol. I was just reading a story from the director of the movie “2012″ who refused to demolish the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure located in the center of Mecca. Every other Christian and Jewish site was demolished. “I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie.”
-Dhimmitude
obey your Islamic master overlords
Well, they do. If you are looking for a job, and you see “women and minorities are encouraged to apply”, it effectively says that if you are a qualified white guy, you are going to lose. I have seen it several times.
Look at our president. Now why would anyone be afraid to let his college grades be public, particularly when you are purportedly so intelligent?
That shows we can’t win noway, nohow.
We’re racist because…well….because….because we just are! That’s why!
The average union worker is the most racist person you’ll ever come across.
And have your wife ask to be referred to as a “Gyno-American”.
Be prepared for the Virginia Monologue to follow.
He saw Bush and Kerry’s GPAs?
Its all there in black & white.
I believe the racist tag only works if, you actually are racist OR if you feel the need to defend your position. My rejionder is usually the teen favorite: “Whatever.”
With libs you are guilty in their eyes anyway so why waste your time. Plus they have no where to go with the argument except to say it again. Answer: “Whatever.”
Give a Canine-American an hour of therapy and you can charge them for seven!
I’ll second your shameless plug. Anyone who isn’t reading your columns is missing out on something.
Years ago I saw a bumper sticker that said, “Nuke the Gay Whales!”
I think this is precisely the nonsense the bumper sticker was aimed at.
America is rife with the cult of the persecuted where political correctness rules the day. It makes me wish I were Canadian.
The version I saw once was “Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus”
“When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Fascist Tweedldee Fascist Tweedum doing the work they feel born to do. Racial lines being drawn in the Atlanta Mayor’s race, our Attorney General Eric Holder continuously using the race card. Yes it is long time past to shred the race card but it will be part of the Never Ending Revolution these people dream about.
No I do not think their house of cards is collapsing-somes bump but that does not discourage a true Fascist/Marxist. Obama and team have the full weight of the regulatory agencies and all too much of the courts to crush most anyone.
Watch Judge Napolitano on Beck-(FOX) and see how Obama is trying to control the non-TARP banks. The fascist coup grinds on. I have a great worry over November 2010. Perhaps a race war? One ugly rumor could start it.
Down here it would be Azteca/Reconquesta-mostly bastards who live the good life selling the victimhood message.
—
Barack Hussein Obama:
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,”
Fascism. The phony charge of racism is but a means to an end. Prepare.
THE BOSS SHOULD HAVE GONE OUT TO HIS CO. PARKING LOT AT SHIFT CHANGE, AND ANYONE WITH AN OBAMA STICKER ON THEIR CAR WANTED CHANGE, SO FIRE THEM REGARDLESS OF SEX CREED OR COLOR.
On November 4th, 2009 at 4:13 pm, John Deaux said:
On November 4th, 2009 at 3:21 pm, RogerCfromSD said:
I’m going to start having people use the term “that Caucasian-American” when referring to me.
And have your wife ask to be referred to as a “Gyno-American”.
In that case people can call me “Hetero-American”
GSP
Straight Pride!
Swedish-American is certainly a minority, thus anyone who is not is a Scandinophobe and certainly a racist.
Back off. My president is half-white!
Great response.
The projections of the socialist left are laughable. Not only do they look like fools, they sound like fools.
I don’t see anything. Hold on while I get my infraracism goggles…
Oh yeah, there it is.
How could anyone NOT be a Scandinophobe? Damn Viking bums looting and pillaging-and don’t give us that 1000 years ago line either….
Let the Vikings in and next you’ll have those
Stormin’ Norman bums.
I prefer Persons of Cleft Genitalia.
You sound like a Green Bay packer fan…Go Favre…Go Vikings…
heh
You are evil. I curse you and your Volvo.
I’m a desperate Lions fan looking for a ray of hope…
Lambeau has GREAT brats…
Actually the turbo 740 is a very nice car.
You may need medication for a few seasons. I heard Anita Dunn drives a 740. MaoMobile.
So were all the other workers invisible?
Then she is a racist, sexist bigot for not driving a MotherTaresaOlet-MTO. Anita Dunn and her consort Bob Bauer need to be hired as crash dummies. That is all Typical White People do anyway-wreck things. The ManChild said so.
Or as Hussein Obama and Reverend Wright would song on the Forth of July
‘land of greed and home of slave’
Youtube video of the Relevant Reverend land of greed screed
Damned if you do…and damned if you don’t.
It’s a Barak Hussein Obama world – MMM, MMM, MMM
But you gotta give some love to those Vikings that found Greenland to be “green”…not always covered in ice.
No matter what you do, these criminals in the unions will call it racist.
The Ad could have been all black actors, or a black boss and white workers, or a white boss and two black workers or the black guy could have been the getting fired. Doesn’t matter. Conservatives and republicans are all racists to them.
Well, to me, they are all extortionists, bribers and thugs. Not to mentions pathologically stupid.
Criminals. That’s what unions are.
Period.
To the left – everything’s about race.
(pssst…. its because they don’t have any other argument)
OH MY GOD!
Just saw the video. The white guy patted the black guy on the back!
How CONDENSENDING! How RACISTS!
I actually remember a talk show many years ago that had a black man on saying that whites eat chocolate because they secretly want to be black. Since I am white and don’t like chocolate, am I racist?
You forgot: How Gay!
Gore Got 95 percent of the black vote, Kerry 93 percent. This happens every election because African Americans are the Dems’ most loyal voting bloc.
See how easy it is to cry RAAAAACISM when there is nothing there? You guys are getting so good at this!