Post by midcan5 on Sept 22, 2008 19:03:13 GMT -5
Dedicated to Mo.
Well not exactly parallel, in this universe Palin is now Obama.
Scene one: Democratic National Convention, at the podium Barack completing acceptance speech, behind him his family, daughter pregnant next to boyfriend of 17, wife holding latest child, a Downs syndrome baby, other members of entourage.
Scene two: Conservative Republican bloggers, radio, and TV commentators watching from the privacy of homes and limited access areas. The right wing echo chamber.
Voices heard from scene two.
"Seventeen!"
"Typical muggars, ain't got the sense god gave em."
"Yea, pregnant at seventeen ain't anyone ever told them how that happens?"
"Passing the baby around like it was a trophy."
"We're gonna be paying for that baby's care, you betcha."
"Another lazy liberal muggar on welfare!"
"Yea, shoulda stopped at four kids - they ain't got no damn sense."
...
Background voices: curses, vulgarity, stereotypes.
...
"Ok but how do we relay this to the masses what are the key words?
"We can't say typical black dysfunctional family."
"But we need to repeat, cast doubt, make him a real muggar."
"Yea, we do it like we do with his name!"
"Yes, we stress daughter-unmarried-pregnant...."
"Yea, and family, mix it in."
"Yea, wherever he goes, we mention her, mix in family values."
"yea, ask is the whole family there."
"Draw parallels, juxtapose inner city."
"If she is around we mention boyfriend, age, and pregnant."
"Yea, that's it."
"Anyone know someone from her school who will comment negatively?"
"We'll get on that."
"Have some peripheral group feed it to the media."
"Yea and stress Palin's children. They're in school, right?"
"Yea, good students, good kids, note that, repeat it."
"yea, use 'the quintessential American family.'"
"Yea."
"Yea."
"White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded--about themselves and the world they live in. White people have managed to get through their entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac." James Baldwin
Well not exactly parallel, in this universe Palin is now Obama.
Scene one: Democratic National Convention, at the podium Barack completing acceptance speech, behind him his family, daughter pregnant next to boyfriend of 17, wife holding latest child, a Downs syndrome baby, other members of entourage.
Scene two: Conservative Republican bloggers, radio, and TV commentators watching from the privacy of homes and limited access areas. The right wing echo chamber.
Voices heard from scene two.
"Seventeen!"
"Typical muggars, ain't got the sense god gave em."
"Yea, pregnant at seventeen ain't anyone ever told them how that happens?"
"Passing the baby around like it was a trophy."
"We're gonna be paying for that baby's care, you betcha."
"Another lazy liberal muggar on welfare!"
"Yea, shoulda stopped at four kids - they ain't got no damn sense."
...
Background voices: curses, vulgarity, stereotypes.
...
"Ok but how do we relay this to the masses what are the key words?
"We can't say typical black dysfunctional family."
"But we need to repeat, cast doubt, make him a real muggar."
"Yea, we do it like we do with his name!"
"Yes, we stress daughter-unmarried-pregnant...."
"Yea, and family, mix it in."
"Yea, wherever he goes, we mention her, mix in family values."
"yea, ask is the whole family there."
"Draw parallels, juxtapose inner city."
"If she is around we mention boyfriend, age, and pregnant."
"Yea, that's it."
"Anyone know someone from her school who will comment negatively?"
"We'll get on that."
"Have some peripheral group feed it to the media."
"Yea and stress Palin's children. They're in school, right?"
"Yea, good students, good kids, note that, repeat it."
"yea, use 'the quintessential American family.'"
"Yea."
"Yea."
"White children, in the main, and whether they are rich or poor, grow up with a grasp of reality so feeble that they can very accurately be described as deluded--about themselves and the world they live in. White people have managed to get through their entire lifetimes in this euphoric state, but black people have not been so lucky: a black man who sees the world the way John Wayne, for example, sees it would not be an eccentric patriot, but a raving maniac." James Baldwin
