LightSkinned + NegroDialect > F-Bomb x 11?

by David Safier

When "Game Change" came out, the first excerpt from the book to make it to the airwaves was about Harry Reid saying Obama is light-skinned and speaks without a Negro dialect.

Translation: "I support Barack Obama because, not only is he a terrific candidate who will make an excellent President, but the country has progressed far enough that it will elect an African American candidate so long as his racial and cultural features aren't overly pronounced."

What we didn't hear from the book next or, really, ever, is that John McCain said this to Cindy, with both middle fingers raised:

"F— you! F—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—!!!" [my dashes, not McCain's]

Translation: "F— you! F—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—, f—!!!" (said to his wife with both middle fingers raised)

Who decides what's news and what isn't? Did Republican operatives sit around with a pre-release copy of the book and decide what passage would be most damaging to Democrats, then get it onto the Drudge and Politico websites and send a neatly packaged memo to all the other news outlets? And did Democrats say, "Oh, there's a book coming out about the 2008 campaigns? Whatever."

Then, once the book came out, did nobody in the media read the book and put Reid's comments into their true context, or read McCain's outburst and offer it by way of comparison?

There you have it, the lopsided battle of our political parties. And our "liberal media" at work.