“refreshing racism an asset”
There is spin, and then there is spin: a CNBC/NYT reporter claims that Joe Biden’s occasional bursts of old-school dumb-but-not-hateful racism are actually “refreshing” and “an asset.”
Need I remind anyone that for months the left has been DaVinci Codebreaking every John McCain advertisement for so-called “coded racism.” And they were not praising such “coded racism” as “refreshing” or charming in the least.
Rather the opposite.
But when Joe Biden is genuinely, pleasantly surprised that an African-American manages to wash himself on occasion, it’s a good thing! It just shows, I guess, that he’s “relatable” to all those Racist Older White voters. I guess the idea is that Joe Biden can make the case, “Hey, I’m as surprised as you all are to be running with a darkie. But I have to tell you — he’s one of the ‘good ones,’ like Cosby or Byron Allen. He’s like the new, family-friendly Ice Cube, not the old, angry Ice Cube that your daughter would date to get back at you for not buying her that Mini Cooper she wanted.”
Brilliant.
Allah thinks he’s figured out the highly nuanced distinction: clumsy, retrograde soft-racism that sounds like Archie Bunker getting into it with Meathead is good because it’s right out there out in the open, charming and disarming, whereas McCain’s “racist” ads are coded.
McCain’s “stealth racism” appeals to our lizard brains, while Joe Biden’s open racism appeals to our higher selves.
So there’s McCain’s opportunity, I guess. Start dropping jokes he heard from old Friar Club roasts and/or Rat Pack Vegas shows.
“Hey, I’m glad that Obama is here on stage with me at this debate… now I don’t have to worry about my hub-caps… ”
(audience laughs)
“Hey, Obama, what are you doing out here at the podium? My hotel room’s not clean yet.”
(audience laughs, applauds)
“No, but seriously folks, a lot of people have a problem that Obama’s half-black. Let’s be positive about this. He’s half-white, too.”
(great burst of laughter; as applause dies down, one woman can be heard saying “That’s true, it’s funny because it’s true”)
Ahhh… can’t wait.
(Joke credits: 1, from Amazon Women on the Moon, said of “Slappy” White during the roast/funeral service; 2, Don Rickles, speaking of his opening act Patti LaBelle; 3, Sarah Silverman. “It’s funny because it’s true” — The Simpsons.)