Don't Think Of A Black Man

Geraldine Ferraro—until recently a class act—made some statements that seem to establish a pattern: the Clinton campaign using surrogates to invoke and inject race in this campaign. The Ferraro event...the leaks to Drudge...BET founder Robert L. Johnson...Bill's South Carolina non-sequitur:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqd2dfjl2pw

But for a classic moment of a Clinton rep (in this case Mark Penn) quietly inserting loaded language, check this out (about 3:50 in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQxyaweiYQ

They play dirty.

While groups such as factcheck.org have made compelling arguments against the likelihood the Clinton camp intentionally altered Obama's image...it's an odd argument that assumes anything in campaign commercials happens by accident. Check out the debate, judge for yourself.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/4/21311/85811/447/468408
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/did_clinton_darken_obamas_skin.html

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The title of the video refers to George Lakoff's "Don't Think Of An Elephant," a remarkable book that describes how linguistic trickery works in politics. Check it out if you like things that are good. Otherwise, pass.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• geraldine
• ferraro
• barack
• obama
• hillary
• clinton
• dirty
• campaign
• satire
• race
• racism
• invoke
• mark
• penn
• democrat
• primary

[looser5157]

Why the fuck is there no top comment on a vid that is from 2008?

[carlopwn]

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

[downwithdinosaurs]

Shitty delivery of a bad idea.

[yomama111336]

aww =( i see the comments and all the black people are laughing i feel left out because im offended.

[vegitoxtreme]

thumbs up if you didn't

yay, I am now considered a thumbs up whore

[grumpybritishguy]

im black and im very sad now. i didnt know people could tell..

[thelostandforgotten]

Hilarious.

[knowsgoodmusic1]

@2TaylorTaylor wow you really are fucking stupid if you can't tell this is a joke.

[2TaylorTaylor]

This is a joke right? Cause i laughed the whole time and im black.

[LikeFuriousFire]

Klingon Campaign HQ, interesting.