New Ad Calls President Obama Racist, Accuses Him Of Tacitly Defending Black Racism Against Whites

A new Super PAC ad called Fight Bigotry is accusing President Obama of racism. The PAC has charged that by allowing his attorney general to insinuate that the administration’s critics, particularly the whites, hate the President and the Attorney General, motivated by race and the community to which they belong.

This, the narrator says in the commercial, implies that “whites are too stupid to have honest disagreements with the president without being racist is, in and of itself, racist against whites.”

The ad goes on to say that by not censoring or stopping Attorney General Eric Holder to make such a statement, it was further proof, “reinforcing Mr. Obama’s disturbing pattern of tacitly defending black racism before and since being elected President” This they say, is granting acquiescence and an endorsement of racism against white people.

The ad then, to add emphasis on their bizarre claim, goes on to show a collage of pertinent Obama speeches carefully edited to suggest that he called his grandmother racist and said she was a “typical white person,” making it sound like saying that a typical white person is a racist.

The ad relates the incident in which Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates’ confrontation and arrest by the Cambridge police and the President saying that the officer behaved “stupidly” was virtually condoning the racist professor who had the gall to challenge a white officer. This, the ad says, is yet another proof of the President’s racist behavior.

The ad points out to what Holder had told a reporter that critics were taking things out of context, to make them appear what they were not. On December 2011 in a New York Times Article he had said, that a few critics were “conflating things, conveniently leaving stuff out, construing things to make it seem not quite what it was.”

Some of these critics, those of extreme bent, were alleging and attributing things against him when the actual target was Obama. “This is a way to get at the President because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American,” Holder had said.

The ad also revives the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, that had gained national attention four years ago, when a news channel reviewed dozens of the Pastor’s sermons and the selected parts were subjected to intense media scrutiny. Wright was Obama’s pastor. The ad claimed that the President was not bothered by the racist sermons of his former Chicago pastor.

The ad very conveniently forgets to add that Obama had denounced the statements in question and at one time during the controversy had said that he was “outraged and saddened” by his conduct.

To take the ad to ludicrous limits, the ad shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., saying that Obama has failed to live up to King’s dream. The narrator in the ad says, “Dr. King would have been sickened by the likes of the New Black Panthers, Henry Louis Gates, Jeremiah Wright and Eric Holder.

“Mr. President, you ran as the candidate of change,” the ad’s narrator says in conclusion. “But one thing has not changed—your tacit defense of racism against white folks, despite receiving nearly half the white vote to win the presidency,” reminding the President that he had won the White House in 2007 because of the 43 percent whites who voted in his favor.

In 2008 Obama had got about 80 percent of the non-white votes, but was propelled into presidency by the percentage of white votes he had managed. It is reported that this time he may not get the same share of the white votes.

Even though it is quite clear on whose side the Super PAC that brought out the ad is on, even though the law forbids them to affiliate themselves with any candidate. This also allows the Super PAC’s to send controversial and contentious messages and make allegations that could benefit the candidate they support without sullying his image.

FightBigotry was founded by a Republican Media consultant Stephen Marks who also authored a book called Confessions of a Political Hitman in 2008. Stephen Marks is an old hand at election ads and has been the field for more than a decade and half. In his book he wrote “I assassinate them [politicians] with their own words and deeds, digging dirt wherever I can find it.”