Think Progress: Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’ | Stop Dog Whistle Racism!

Dog-Whistle Racism

Dog-Whistle Racism is political campaigning or policy-making that uses coded words and themes to appeal to conscious or subconscious racist concepts and frames. For example, the concepts ‘welfare queen,’ ’states’ rights,’ ‘Islamic terrorist,’ ‘uppity,’ 'thug,' 'tough on crime,' and ‘illegal alien’ all activate racist concepts that that have already been planted in the public consciousness and now are being activated by purposeful or accidental campaign activities, media coverage, public policy and cultural traditions. So, what’s dog whistle racism? It’s pure political theater to push buttons to win elections and policies. StopDogWhistleRacism.com, a project of the Center for Social Inclusion, is here to identify, expose and help you to track it. Join us.
A Stopdog in the News
Center sites
Fact Checkers
Left sites
Right sites
Fair Use

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go here. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Meta

Think Progress: Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’

Posted on October 30, 2008 by ludovic blain

Think Progress

Goldfarb: Obama has a ‘long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.’

This afternoon, CNN’s Rick Sanchez confronted the McCain campaign blogger Michael Goldfarb about its hypocritical criticism of Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) links to Rashid Khalidi. After Sanchez noted that McCain, as chairman of the board at the International Republican Institute, had also given Khalidi nearly $500,000, Goldfarb brushed him off, saying that Obama had a “long track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric”:

GOLDFARB: Look you’re missing the point again Rick. The point is that Barack Obama has along track record of being around anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, and anti-American rhetoric.

SANCHEZ: Can you name one other person that he hangs around with who’s anti-Semitic? … We got Khalidi on the table, give me number two. Who’s the other anti-Semitic person that he hangs around with?

GOLDFARB: Rick, we both know who number two is.

Goldfarb could not or refused to name the individual who he was referring to, despite Sanchez’s repeated inquiries. Watch it:

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: 2008 election cycle, anti-semitism, jewish-black, presidential race |

« Talking Points Memo: Race-Tinged Attack Ads Start Flowing From Right In Campaign’s Home Stretch AmericaBlog: Anyone else see the word “Blacks” in this McCain ad? »

Leave a comment

Top Posts
Fav us!
'illegals' caused banking crisis 1960s 1970s 1980s 2000-2007 2008 2008 election cycle ads affirmative action America=center-right American=White angry blacks angry whites anti-semitism antichrist Arizona banking crisis black-brown Bradley Effect California candidate expenditure class Colorado colorblind racism congress CRA caused banking crisis cracker/redneck vote criminal justice debates economics explicit racism Florida Georgia Governor humor immigration implicit bias/Bradley effect independent expenditure initiative/referenda islamophobia islamophobic jewish-black local Louisiana media coverage Michigan Minnesota Nebraska New Mexico North Carolina Ohio Oregon otherize Pennsylvania policy presidential race race card racial nepotism religious groups research/polls senate socialist speech state-level symbolic racism Tennessee Texas That one unconscious biases uppity violence Virginia voter suppression welfare What's.Symbolic.Racism

Recent Posts
Blog Stats
- 91,096 hits
October 2008

M T W T F S S

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31

« Sep Nov »
Archives
Archives
Comment Policy

StopDogWhistleRacism.com's purpose is to inform and inspire intelligent discussion and debate from individuals from a full spectrum of experiences, ideologies, parties and perspectives. In order to reduce spam, the first time you leave a comment you will have to sign up for a username. After that you will be able to join the discussion just using your username and password. Also, please note that all comments should be expressed in a mature and civil tone of voice. Strong debate is fine, vulgarity and personal attacks are not. Individuals posting rude or otherwise inappropriate material will have their comment privileges rescinded.