Time Magazine's Karen Tumulty accuses this campaign of racism for launching this ad targeting Senator Obama's ties to Fannie Mae Chairman Franklin Raines. Why? Tumulty writes:Obama's Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn't even mention a far more significant tie--that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama's vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama's principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.
The only problem with Ms. Tumulty's story is that we also released an ad today targeting Senator Obama's extensive ties to Jim Johnson. The ad is called...Jim Johnson. And Ms. Tumulty might have been aware of its existence if she'd bothered to call this campaign to find out the facts (reporting) before indicting us for racism in a half-baked, late night rant. Tumulty also takes Obama's response, signed by Mr. Raines, at face value. The Obama campaign says Raines didn't advise the campaign, and Tumulty apparently wasn't interested in getting to the bottom of that either. So we contacted Ms. Tumulty and told her of the multiple sources that tie Raines to Obama, including three separate instances in the Washington Post, none of which was ever challenged by Raines or the Obama campaign until yesterday.
Tumulty did not correct her post, she simply responded "I grew up in Texas. I know what this stuff looks like." Well, now we all know what hysterical liberal bias looks like as well.
True. And it always appears that it's the left that keeps up bringing up race. This is nothing new. Jim Johnson was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale's 1984 sad presidential run. Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who was Jimmy Carter's Ambassador to the United Nations, once dismissed Mondale's campaign staff as "smart-ass white boys who think they know it all."
UPDATE 10:05pm CDT: Probably kicking and screaming, Tumulty updated her post and acknowledged today's release of the Johnson ad.
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NPR's Dick Meyer is on the same tac! Obama is going down like an Italian battleship.
ReplyDeleteThe pre-emptive Racism Tar-baby and the ACLU starining in the slips with Election Fraud 46 days before a vote is cast, tells me that Obama is about to lose by one of the largest margins in U.S. History.
Are you delusional or have you been asleep all week?
ReplyDeleteIf so, just to let you know, it began with McCain stating that "The fundamentals of our economy are strong" in the face of a trillion dollar bailout by the fed. govt. and it ended with a weird exchange between McCain and a Spanish radio station that indicated either that he has no idea who the prime minister of Spain is or no idea that Spain is in Europe. Either way, it's not good. And there weren't too many positive days for the McCain/Palin ticket in between (although I guess according to her, it's now the Palin/McCain ticket). For instance, here was the headline by Tuesday: "Palin's Favorability Ratings Begin to Falter." Considering she's the only thing accounting for McCain's recent rise in the polls, that's not good news for him. The only historical things in this election are going to be the depths to which the Republican party sinks to in trying to win and the subsequent election of the first African American to the Presidency.