David Axelrod Admits Obama Was Referring To Race While Media Reaction To Race Comments Continues To Expose Bias

Sen. Barack Obama’s chief strategist admitted that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to race when he said Republicans would scare voters by saying Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." After being pressed to explain Obama's shameless race baiting comments, Axelrod finally told "Good Morning America" it meant, “He’s not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. He’s new to Washington. Yes, he’s African-American.” In the very same segment, however, he claimed the McCain camp was the one creating a racial issue. There was no way to interpret those comments other than to say that Republicans will attack Obama on the fact that he looks different than other presidents, which is an obvious reference to his different skin color. You can watch Axelrod for yourself:

What is amazing is how biased the media is. Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC says that the reporters who heard Obama make the race oriented comment have "never inferred from that that he is making some kind of racial statement." They are either very stupid, or she is a liar. She is called on it by Joe Scarborough and she looks like a total fool denying the patently obvious:

The McCain camp has responded to the ridiculous New York Times editorial blog post that I discussed in an earlier post. In it they claimed a McCain TV ad was "racially tinged" when it had nothing at all to do with race. They also claimed that McCain's campaign manager was using hidden racially tinged messages in his response to Obama's comments and that Obama was in fact a victim of some sort of undercover racism. The McCain team's response is worth reading: "If the shareholders of the New York Times ever wonder why the paper’s ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper’s editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred candidate. This campaign has never engaged in ‘racially tinged attacks,’ and the Obama campaign conceded as much yesterday in a statement clarifying that 'Barack Obama in no way believes that the McCain campaign is using race as an issue.'That the Times made this allegation in a blog post rather than running it on the editorial page indicates that they either knew the charge was bogus or they didn’t have the nerve to make their case in full view of the public. But in their new role as bloggers, the paper’s editors seem to have all the intelligence and reason of the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of dungeons and dragons. They also have about as much care for the facts–the 'board' has already been forced to append a correction."


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