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hoosier_banana's avatar

Did that backwards B look a little funny to you?

Asked by hoosier_banana (829points) October 24th, 2008

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A mirror would explain it. Of course we can’t blame McCain for who he appeals to, but this and his brother in the same day is compelling.

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Les's avatar

You betcha!

AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

I have to say Palin does seem to appeal to a fringe element. I think McCain is just out of touch with real life. I did read a really nice interview with his first wife, Carol, in the Daily Mail. She seems to still care about him a great deal.

jessturtle23's avatar

the dumbass did it in a mirror. She could have gotten someone killed.

chyna's avatar

Did you notice in the link you provided one of the headlines is “Palin draws large crowd in Beaver”. lol…
Ok, I have a sick sense of humor.

El_Cadejo's avatar

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

jrpowell's avatar

“If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.”

oops

critter1982's avatar

You’ve got to be kidding me right? You really think John McCain had anything to do with this dumbass girl?

gailcalled's avatar

Remember the Tawana Brawley furor?

Al Sharpton never apologized for his part in the above, and he’s still around, somewhere, isn’t he?

McCain had nothing to do with this young woman. She has had a history of mental illness.

gailcalled's avatar

And check out the latest news. She has recanted.

hoosier_banana's avatar

Here’s the right link to McCain’s Brother. Sorry everybody.

dalepetrie's avatar

critter1982 – John McCain had NOTHING to do with this dumbass carving her own face.

However, that quote that johnpowell posted, that was the President of Fox News.

And the reason he’s saying it is because the McCain/Palin ticket has been using language that come off as race baiting to those who think a certain way. In other words, it’s no accident that people have been able to interview literally dozens of people after any given Palin rally who will talk about how they ain’t gonna vote for that dangerous nigger, without giving it a second thought. They are intentionally trying to make Obama seem “otherly”, and now the fact that they have inspired someone to pretend to be attacked and blame it on a black man, well fair or not, that is not going to sit well. So even though McCain didn’t set this up, it looks really bad for his campaign…not to you, and not to me per se. But when you’ve got all these uber-right wing douchebags feigning indignation over this whole thing (yet downplaying actual incidents of incendiary rhetoric at Palin rallies and never once touching the story of the family in Chicago which got a death threat in their mailbox for having Obama signs in their yard, or the female Obama canvaser that was punched in the face by a McCain supporter, or the people who’ve had their Obama signs replaced by confederate flags…stuff that didn’t happen before they embarked on their “we can’t trust him” campaign of smear mail and robocalls).

Bottom line, you reap what you sow.

critter1982's avatar

@Dale: Similar crap happens in the Obama campaign as well. IE. There was a story going around about a woman who was called from an Obama supporter asking if she supported Obama. Long story short she said she wouldn’t support people who allow babies to be killed, this was reported to the police as a death threat against Obama. Officers showed up at her house to question her on the phone call.
Just the other day my McCain signs in my yard were stolen.
I don’t blame Obama for this. Sure you reap what you sow but McCain’s not sowing this crap.

PupnTaco's avatar

I knew it smelled the second I heard the story.

dalepetrie's avatar

Well, respectfully, by using language like “Joe Sixpack”, which even Joe Sixpacks will tell you is code for good ol boys, hard working white men who like to hunt and fish and ride snowmobiles, that whips up a certain portion of the electorate. By mischaracterizing a short lived working relationship with a reformed terrorist who hasn’t done anything wrong since Obama was 8, by saying “Obama pals around with terrorists”, you sure as fuck are sowing the seeds of division and hatred. Yes, things happen on both sides of the fence, but it’s happening far more on the right than on the left this time around, because the left candidate is being respectful, and the right candidate is having calls sent to peoples houses making it sound like Obama is the friggin’ anti-Christ. Even Republicans are appalled by the vile hateful crap coming out of the McCain campaign these days. This does nothing but make people angry with and distrustful of Obama, and in 11 days, McCain will be conceding and Obama will have to figure out how to govern without getting shot by Joe Bob Billy Jim Jack Redneck Peckerwood Piece of Shit who was driven to lunacy by McCain/Palin.

augustlan's avatar

That backwards “B” was a dead give-away, huh?

PupnTaco's avatar

GA dalepetrie. Sad but true.

Eureka's avatar

I, also, knew the second I saw that was a backwards B that she had done it herself. To be fair, I think this poor girl has mental issues to deal with. That being said, IMO, the RNC is way too fast to jump on every story and present it as fact before it is vetted. I voted for Obama, but my feeling is that McCain’s people have let him down countless times.I am still waiting for the Bob the Boatbuilder story to hit. McCain referred to him as a “small business owner”. “Bob” is the CEO of Wellcraft Marine – who’s profit was 67 million dollars last year. Not a lot, in the overall scheme of things, but not a small business. You would think that McCains people might have raised a red flag on that one.

tonedef's avatar

The expediency with which Drudge et al. picked this up without, as @Eureka indicated, even a shred of inquiry into its authenticity is disgusting. I understand that John McCain’s supporters want to distance themselves as far as possible from this… right?

Then why haven’t we heard a peep from any of the right-wing news outlets that tried to spread this like Nutella? Because they’re hoping to keep it under wraps, and preserve the 100% false idea that thuggish black men will usurp America come November 4th.

To say that this is an isolated incident that is completely unrelated to the conservative movement is patently false. The desperate grasping for racist votes by the McCain campaign enables extremist behavior.

tonedef's avatar

This piece says what I was trying to, and is more successful.

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