Romney’s racist dog whistle and the GOP Southern Strategy
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
This week's attempt by the "Galt – Gekko 2012" campaign to inject a racial connotation into Vice President Joe Biden's remarks about Romney's friends among the banksters of Wall Street is a case of psychological projection. The 'Foxification' of the 'news' with manufactured outrage of the day. I and others have written about the Romney campaign's "I'm rubber, you're glue" strategy of projecting onto his opponents his own misdeeds. A classic "Rovian" tactic.
Case in point, in recent days Romney is portraying the outwardly calm President Obama as a man seething with animosity and power lust, he "is all about division and attack and hatred" Romney said Wednesday. Obama, Romney added later while campaigning in Charlotte, is an angry man who "will do or say anything to get elected." Romney takes aim at Obama's likability lead.
For the uninitiated and unimformed media villagers, like Charles Babbington of the AP who wrote the above report, let me explain what this is to you. This is not about the tone or nastiness of the campaigns' political ads which you media villagers seem to fixate on.
The "angry black man" is a racist stereotype used to scare "white folks" in American politics dating back to the Civil Rights Movement. Stereotypes of African Americans in the United States. When Romney is using this language, he is blowing the racist dog whistle to the nativist and racist base of the modern-day Tea-Publican Party.
The "angry black man" racist dog whistle is why FAUX News Fraudcasting has spent so much time over the past four years race-baiting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and a couple of dumbasses who call themselves the New Black Panther Party, always tying them to President Obama. It is why President Obama goes out of his way to always appear pleasant and in good humor or at worse, professorial, but never angry. He does not want the race-baiters at FAUX News to have any material to use.
If the uninitiated and uninformed media villagers are unable to recognize this or are unwilling to call out this racist dog whistle for what it is, I strongly urge you to find another line of work; you are not worthy of pretending to be a "journalist."
The long-standing GOP Southern Strategy of race-baiting is an integral party of the Romney campaign. The false attack Romney launched last week against the Obama administration on "welfare reform" is the classic politics of resentment for the poor (read minorities) personified by Ronald Reagan's mythical "Cadillac driving welfare queen" from the Southside of Chicago. This kind of race-based politics works when the media fails to "name it and shame it" with public condemnation.