The following post reminded me of this clip from Blazing Saddles:

Great movie.

From the New York Times:

We know that operatives in modern-day presidential campaigns are supposed to say things that everyone knows are ridiculous - and to do it with a straight face.

Still, there was something surreal, and offensive, about today’s soundbite from the campaign of Senator John McCain.

The presumptive Republican nominee has embarked on a bare-knuckled barrage of negative advertising aimed at belittling Mr. Obama. The most recent ad compares the presumptive Democratic nominee for president to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton - suggesting to voters that he’s nothing more than a bubble-headed, publicity-seeking celebrity.

The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives, some of whom work for Mr. McCain now, ran against Harold Ford, a black candidate for Senate in Tennessee in 2006. That assault, too, began with videos juxtaposing Mr. Ford with young, white women.

I’ve dealt with the ridiculous dust up over the Harold Ford ad before.  This preemptive shout of racism is a bit curious, though.  The Times is staking out the claim that including young, white women in an ad with a black man, in this case Barack Obama (a half black man who identifies as black), is racist.  This is despite the claims that Obama has strong support from young, white people (presumably including women).

What I would like to see the McCain campaign do (and they will not do it) is to produce an Obama ad showing nothing but black people with Obama.  Oh, just imagine the shouts of racism then.  The Times would most certainly denounce the ad by stating that the evil Republicans are trying to trick voters into thinking that Obama is going to favor blacks or create an all black government.  It would just be fun to expose each and every tactic that the erudite liberals beliefe is racist.  I bet in the end you would find that any ad beyond a blank screen would be deemed racist.  Of course, aren’t blank TV screens black…

So you can’t put young, white females in ads with Obama - it would be racist.  I’m quite sure that you couldn’t put blacks in an ad with Obama - it would be racist.  Japanese folks can’t put a monkey in a spoof political ad for a cell phone - it would be racist.

Geez, the list of things you can’t do or say when it comes to the Holy One is getting longer by the minute.

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