Since the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States I have noticed a major push by the mainstream media and others in elite governing and corporate circles to elevate the most hateful, and in the case of the post, outright racist elements of the Republican opposition. No longer does the media promote so-called "Mavericks" like John McCain, or populists like Mike Huckabee, who by the way finished second only to John McCain and theoretically can also claim some leadership position within the Republican Party. But, this is not to be, instead a week after the election Rush Limbaugh made his message clear, he wants Obama to fail. During the election Limbaugh incited racial hatred by playing a song he created called "Barack the Magic Negro." In this song Limbaugh mocked white liberals for liking Obama and/or thinking he is an acceptable black man, unlike other black men. Also the tone of the song was racist and anyone listening with any historical perpective would be able to figure that out. Soon after the election Limbaugh proceeded to incite more racism by saying things like "Obama expects "us" to grease our elbows and bend over for him because he's black." Obviously most of Limbaugh's listeners are white so when he says "us" he means white vs. Black.
Before the election Limbaugh was never treated as a serious political force, he was recognized as some sort of political entertainment on the far right. But then the unthinkable happened, after the media reported Limbaugh's comments Obama actually replied to it and told the house republicans that they can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and think everything is fine, this he said regarding the stimulus package which Limbaugh and most conservatives have opposed since it was proposed. For the next few days after Obama mentioned Limbaugh's name, the mainstream media elevated Limbaugh to the leadership position of the Republican Party. Some news programs including Geraldo Rivera's headlined with "Obama vs. Limbaugh." As if Limbaugh was now a mainstream political opponent of Barack Obama. At first I was still taking this lightly, but then I got to thinking about it, the media has been putting forward Republicans like Mike Pence and other extreme conservatives and Limbaugh fans forward to criticize the stimulus package. Then when the media asked these republicans about Rush Limbaugh's comments regarding him wanting Obama to fail, the house Republicans did not distance them selves from Limbaugh but instead embraced his ideas and distanced themselves further from Obama and mainstream public opinion. Basically, at this point in time the media has turned the Republican Party into a fringe fascist organization. Moderate Republicans like McCain or national leaders like Huckabee, once prominent are now cowering in fear and have been relegated to the sidelines. After all of these events took place and the media felt that the public was ready to accept a new version of the mainstream opposition party, the NY Post came out with an overt racist cartoon which openly portrays Obama as a chimpanzee getting shot nonetheless. Not only was the cartoon racist, it was Klan racist, in fact even your average everyday white racist is offended by the cartoon, only a Klansman can claim that this cartoon is acceptable. I happened to tune in to the Russian radio stations the day after the cartoon was published and more recently and even on there the public was shocked. Typically Europeans and other whites can be described as Attorney General Eric Holder did as racial cowards. This would mean that they don't like to hang around blacks much or breed with them sometimes might have some hidden racial humor in the home...etc. This can be described as your everyday status quo racism, which by the way I personally despise and find unacceptable. But apparently for the Republican Party and the Post, status quo racism or what Holder refers to as racial cowardice is no longer enough. The Republicans feel that it is in their interests to incite racism so that by the next election they can create as wide a gap as possible between whites and blacks. A race riot would be ideal for Republicans as they would use such an event to get race based votes. So the strategy appears to be to incite racial rioting in these hard economic times when people are looking for a scapegoat. The media could never have been able to portray this Post cartoon as not being racist or give the racist point of view equal weight to the point of view of African Americans, if they had not been successful at moving the Republican Party leadership from the moderate McCain to the Rush Limbaugh Republicans. Of course the moderate Republicans had to allow for this to take place by being silent and so they are now culpable as well. Since the Republicans are a mainstream political party and the media tested whether the public was ready to accept Rush Limbaugh as the leader of this mainstream political party, they then felt it was safe for the post to publish an overtly racist cartoon, so during this Obama Presidency we went from Obama's opposition being the moderate John McCain, to Rush Limbaugh a racial agitator, and now to an overtly racist opposition embraced by Republicans by them not denouncing the Post and it's portrayal of assassination or killing of an ape which they portray as Obama. If we allow this process to keep going further, the next step will be the open incitement of racial rioting. The police can easily do this by sending in someone to one of the demos held by the national action network and have them stage an attack against a cop which would spark riots against the police, and then the media can make all blacks out to be the culprits. There is a way out of it but the approach will be awkward, pacifist and unorthodox. Firstly, Obama should never have given Limbaugh any recognition, but since that is already done there is no reversing it. So far Obama has been smart not to respond to any of the further escalations of racial tensions, Holder made his comments just before the cartoon came out. What makes our jobs easier is Limbaugh himself. He is a very flawed person and since he is now the symbolic or "fake" leader of the Republican Party it will be easy to attack them but we should do this in a mocking way by also using a fake leader and not President Obama. This is my idea, it may sound silly but it worked during the campaign. McCain's first real attack ad against Obama portrayed Obama as just a celebrity comparable to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears and therefore not qualified to be a real leader. After that commercial Paris Hilton came out with her own ad against McCain. After that ad which was very popular she came out with several others promoting herself as the next fake president...etc. What was interesting was that her reply ad against McCain actually caused McCain to backtrack because the debate became "McCain vs. Paris Hilton." Kind of like how now the debate is "Obama vs. Rush Limbaugh." During the campaign Paris Hilton was able to make McCain into a joke, in fact in her commercial she called him a wrinkly old white hair dude, implying that he is out of touch with technology, modern life...etc. The sad thing is that the Republicans learned from the experience and now the media has used this trick against Obama, by putting the news headline a few weeks ago "Obama vs. Limbaugh" they made Obama into a joke and since these last few weeks his approval ratings dropped 10 percentage points according to most media outlets. The good news is that Paris Hilton made a political commercial with Martin Sheen which can be seen at http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/06ae3d8563/paris-hilton-gets-presidential-with-martin-sheen-from-paris-hilton where she is willing to take the role of the next fake president so as to continue her activism. We can use her to protest Rush Limbaugh, I made a sign and have been going to Madison Sq Garden with it, it has a picture of Limbaugh and under it says "the face of hate speech Rush Limbaugh will Obama take the hate out of the debate? Will Obama give us the "change" we can believe in or will he step aside and allow Limbaugh's message of hate to prevail." On the opposite side I have the fake Paris Hilton as president edition of harpers bazaar magazine blown up into a poster. I was photographed with that at the veteran’s parade http://flickr.com/photos/paolomastrangelo/3024387300/ I am confident that if Paris hears of my idea she would be very willing and glad to help out, she likes to make fun of herself, so it's really a matter of getting it to her attention at this point. The media is smart though they made Limbaugh into a national leader but now they purposefully don't mention him often because they know he is vulnerable and can easily be attacked which is where Paris Hilton can come in and discredit the Republicans for accepting Limbaugh and his ideas as mainstream. Roman Shusterman NoPoliceStateCoalition.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Black Focus Inc." group. 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