McCain’s Base In Action?

2:41 pm EST October 19th, 2008 | News | 16 Comments

Just got emailed this picture. Don’t know how real it is, but it’s plenty plausible in the current atmosphere.

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16 Responses to “McCain’s Base In Action?”

  1. Sean D. Martin says:
    October 19, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    He’s not wearing a helmet. That alone should give an indication of the level on intelligence behind his fashion sense.

  2. AAbshier says:
    October 19, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    But what’s odd is that the motorcyclist looks like a person of color. Maybe it’s the lighting.

    Andy

  3. Amused Observer says:
    October 19, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    LOL,
    I believe that is a member of a protected class of American who is allowed to use that word. Of course some will say if it is OK for one it is OK for all. It is pretty hard to get all shook up over it when Oliver runs this picture as a partisan dig.

  4. jr says:
    October 19, 2008 at 3:10 pm

    “that t shirt was never printed”-secret service

  5. Sean D. Martin says:
    October 19, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    AAbishier makes an observation but allows that it’s hard to draw a clear conclusion.

    Amused Observer just states as fact something that can’t be certain.

    In my experience, this is a typical distinction between those on the left and those on the right.

    -

    AO: It is pretty hard to get all shook up over it when Oliver runs this picture as a partisan dig.

    But the picture is a partisan dig. Someone with a McCain/Palin sign is objecting to Obama’s race. It’s like your objection is “Oliver runs this picture as a picture of guy on a motorcycle.” Well.. yeah. That’s what it is. If you object to OW responding to a dig in kind, let’s here you objecting to the original dig by the motorcyclist.

  6. ed says:
    October 19, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    Tho’ that’s the sentiment of the people Jay Tea (et al) fall over themselves to defend, prob’ly not a good idea to run that pic with out confirmation that it’s legit. It is, after, a Photoshop World.

  7. Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle says:
    October 19, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    AAbshier:
    You nitwit. The guy has a tan.

  8. Grumpymann says:
    October 19, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    This is who they are.

  9. PG says:
    October 19, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    What, no one is going to claim that this guy actually is a Democratic plant trying to make McCain/ Palin supporters look bad? I thought that was the new unified theory of anything unpleasant that seemed to be coming from those supporters: if someone hollers “Terrorist” when McCain or Palin asks, “Who is Barack Obama?”* it must be a Democrat trying to make Republicans look bad.

    This puts me in mind of a historical precedent:

    In September 1963, Wallace had sent his state troopers to schools around Alabama to block court-ordered desegregation. On Saturday Sept. 7, Wallace delivered the keynote at a fundraising banquet in Birmingham for the United Americans for Conservative Government, the political arm of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. In his speech, Wallace referred to the recent bombings in Birmingham against prominent black citizens, citing the lack of fatalities as proof that the “nigras” were throwing the dynamite themselves in order to attract publicity and money.

    Among the 489 attendees that night were two of the seasoned bomb makers who had given the city its nickname: “Bombingham.” One week later, their handiwork blasted a hole in the wall of the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing the four girls attending Sunday school. John Lewis attended their funeral.

    The governor might not have known he was addressing potential church bombers at the banquet. Surely he did not intend to embolden murderers with a fraudulent moral alibi. But even if Wallace himself “never threw a bomb,” as Lewis made clear in his statement, the blame hurled at him was immediate and devastating—from the Kennedy White House to the Senate to the press to Martin Luther King, who sent Wallace a telegram that said, “The blood of our little children is on your hands.” Judging from his subsequent gestures of contrition, the thought may have entered Wallace’s mind as well. In 1979 he arranged a private meeting with John Lewis to “ask your forgiveness for anything I’ve done to wrong you.”

    * I feel like there should be an Atlas Shrugged joke in here somewhere.

  10. bogo says:
    October 19, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    RE: “that t shirt was never printed”-secret service

    I’m under the impression the Bush ideological purge of the justice department extends to the secret service. It’s doubtful they are interesting in actually protecting Obama when they perceive him as an anti-american enemy of jesus (as in Republican Jesus).

  11. Dkelsmith says:
    October 19, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    I don’t think that it is fair to say that this is “McCain’s base in action.” While I am supporting Senator Obama in this election, I don’t think of Senator McCain as a racist. Nor do I think that the majority of white Americans are so compelled by race that they would think that this was unacceptable. Additionally, this could very well be a photoshop as you indicated. I would suggest that the person that would put something together like this in a photoshop frame probably isn’t someone that McCain would want to associate with at all. I don’t agree with McCain on a lot of things but I do respect him.

  12. Elvis Pretzel says:
    October 20, 2008 at 2:56 am

    I’d love to throw a rotten tomato at that shirt…. or a red ink bomb…. maybe even a dirty diaper …..

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  14. sjohnson says:
    October 20, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Sorry to be the bucket of cold water, but that photo was Photoshopped. It isn’t real.

    Although, somewhere, a Palin is thinking, “I wish I thought of that.”

  15. SpiderJ says:
    October 20, 2008 at 10:16 am

    Dkel – I agree that McCain doesn’t seem to harbor these feelings. But his campaign has been drumming up these sorts of sentiments for the past month at least. I feel a twinge of sympathy for him, in perhaps selling out his principles to the ugliest elements of conservative politicking…but only a twinge. A man of courage, and honor, as McCain has been proclaimed often, would rather lose honorably than win like this.

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