Thank You, Tucker Carlson!
By pm317 on September 23, 2009 at 3:00 PM in Current Affairs
Normally, Tucker would not receive any thanks from me. But what he said on Greta’s show on Fox Monday night (see video below the fold), is quite significant. Finally, someone in the media has the courage to say it and say it well.
[Tucker:] But let me just say, very clearly, it was the Obama campaign that first bought up the race question. It was the Obama people who smeared the Clintons as racists, Bill and Hillary Clinton. They made the case to reporters off-the-record, including me, that the Clintons were racists. They started this.
So for him to get up with a straight face and say the media is bringing this race issue up… No, it was your campaign that started this.
Greta Van Susteren: How did they bring it up?
Tucker Carlson: By this whisper campaign. That Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were somehow opposing Barack Obama because they did not like the fact he was black. And that various statements they made, remember Hillary Clinton famously said that of course it was Lyndon Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act, you know. Martin Luther King might have advocated for it but it was the president who signed it.
Somehow that became a racist statement according to allies of Barack Obama. He didn’t tell them to be quiet then. He allowed that to happen. Allowed, I think, the slur against the Clintons to fester. That they were somehow animated by bigotry was outrageous. And he did nothing to clear the air.
Did you hear that, Obots? Obama and his minions smeared the Clintons and you were gullible enough to believe it. Shame on you.
{HT to hillaryis44 for the video and the transcript.}
From another post I wrote last week, I present to you this curious passage in a NY Times article which unwittingly refutes the myth about Obama’s non-involvement in the race-baiting strategy of his minions. The evidence is too good to pass up. The chronology is off because the writer of that article seems to be talking about the general election. But as you and I remember, the race card was successfully played against their own during the Democratic primary even to the extent of shamefully dubbing the Clintons racists. Now you hear from Tucker Carlson (in the video above the fold) how that happened.
[snip] As Obama told me, the opportunities afforded him and Jarrett by their predecessors in the civil rights movement gave them both “a shared sense of obligation.” To her and the Obamas, failing to acknowledge the racial dimension of the 2008 campaign constituted dereliction of duty, even if silence on the subject was considered politically expedient by other senior campaign staff members. A moment of truth occurred last July, when the candidate predicted to a Missouri crowd that his opponents would be focusing on how Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.” Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager fired back that Obama had “played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck.” Momentarily flummoxed, the Obama campaign responded with a tepid insistence by Gibbs that the senator was merely “describing that he was new to the political scene.”
“But within the campaign, Valerie had been saying, ‘You guys, you’re not getting this issue right,’ ” recalls a top official. “And Obama communicated to his senior advisers that he thought we were a little gun-shy on race issues; that the reality was, he did look different. There were also African-Americans on our staff, some in relatively senior positions, who were clearly upset that we had not consulted them in the response. And she actually organized a meeting to discuss it.
“And that’s not just a process thing,” the adviser said. “Because moving forward, the candidate made it very clear to us that we were just a bunch of white people who didn’t get it — which, by the way, was true.”
That Obama required the presence of someone who did “get it” inevitably meant that he would want Jarrett in the White House.
HT to NQ reader, Portia Elizabeth for reminding me of Tucker Carlson’s remarks.
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