Posted by
T. Thomas on Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:41:39 AM
This ridiculous and overblown hissy fit roiling the American press this Memorial Day weekend over Mrs. Clinton's ham-handed inclusion of RFK to a list of late term Democratic nominees (in a live interview) is at last proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the media has abandoned all pretense of neutrality and fairness and is totally in the tank for their bouncing baby candidate, Barack Obama.
There were strong hints of a trend toward self-delusion in the way the media sloughed off Obama's humiliating defeats in West Virginia and Kentucky. There are almost no examples in all of American history of a candidate once perceived as presumptive still losing primary elections. As much as John McCain is hated by the über-right, he continues to garner 75% of the vote in primary after primary. That is about the usual percentage enjoyed by any party’s anointed candidate prior to the convention. It is shockingly not the case with Obama. At this point his inevitability is a fantasy of the media’s invention, one not shared at all by the Democratic street.
Still, the press has lined up behind this young orater and allowed his shallow charisma to blind them to the fact that vast numbers within their own party reject his candidacy outright. The irrational and hysterical piling on of Mrs. Clinton is a demonstration of the mass insanity of true believers. They are not simply rejecting her, they are coming for her with pitchforks and firebrands. She is clearly standing in the way of something more than just the advancement of a young, thin-skinned and fairly unqualified African American candidate for president. What?
Politically incorrect Latino comedian Carlos Mencia has noted what he thinks is the real reason behind liberalism's adoration of this deeply flawed candidate: Mencia believes the election of Obama finally lifts the terrible burden of white guilt that liberals carry around like giant monkeys on their backs. It is atonement; reparations without having to actually write a check.
Mencia sees liberal white America as going forward after Obama’s coronation with a wallet sized picture of him in their trousers that they can pull out and wave every time a black gets in their face demanding special favors or making excuses for unacceptable behavior. It's the Democrats’ way to close the account on their shameful history of racism and mark it "Paid in Full" at the same time keeping Black America as their most reliable captive constituency.
There is little else that explains why thousands of grizzled,cynical party elders and journalists are mindlessly supporting a wet behind the ears candidate as woefully liberal as both George McGovern and Jimmy Carter and who lacks even their histories of prior accomplishment. For the leaders, the movers and shakers of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama is their long dreamed of Get Out of Guilt Free card – truly the Magic Negro – and Mrs. Clinton stands in the way of this cherished dream.
As a result, poor Hillary, wife of the First Black President, has gone all the way from Homecoming Queen to that homely little thing who gets picked last for girls’ intramural volleyball.