Christ, What an Asshole - Spinning Nuance Into Rhetoric Edition
Published by BG on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 at 7:54 AM.Associated Press' Crappy Reporting Makes Obama's Rhetoric Sound Racially Threatening | TPMCafe
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a "quiet riot" among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.
The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots.
Greg Sargent dismantles this case of (piss)poor journalism at the link above. For now, I'm confused... Who exactly am I supposed to be afraid of this week? Islamofascists? Mexicans? Black people? Socialists? Ron Paul? I swear, if the right-wing noise machine can't focus on the most important fearmongering of our day, how am I supposed to know how to vote next November?
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