CNN: "If Clinton Was 'Black,' Is Obama 'Gay'?"
As I noted Sunday, the media's victory lap for Barack Obama's flipflop on same-sex marriage is really becoming disgraceful.
CNN jumped into the sycophantic cesspool Monday with a headline at its website reading, "If Clinton Was 'Black,' Is Obama 'Gay'?"
As you might imagine, the article was about Monday's cover stories at Newsweek and the New Yorker:
As if becoming the first black president wasn't momentous enough, Barack Obama has just been handed a new title: "First gay president."
A Newsweek magazine cover bestowed that distinction on Obama this week with a picture of the president and a rainbow halo. If you view that as a naked attempt to grab your attention, capitalize on the moment and have you pick up a newsmagazine, you might be right.
But that illustration – along with a New Yorker cover showing the columns of the White House lit up in rainbow colors – certainly shows how the president’s public support of same-sex marriage has pushed the issue back into the spotlight.
The magazines’ choices also speak to the broad cultural impact of Obama's announcement and pose questions about whether this moment may become a lasting part of his legacy.
Maybe what CNN.com and other media outlets should be reporting concerning Obama's legacy is how this could be looked upon as one of the worst campaign gaffes in American history if he loses in November.
Imagine how posterity will view this flipflop if key battleground states - states that Obama easily won in 2008 - go for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and the exit polls say much of the reason was same-sex marriage.
Consider too what happens if Romney as a result of this issue gets a huge coattail allowing the Republicans to expand their majority in the House while recapturing the Senate.
At that point, the textbooks will say this poorly timed flipflop completely changed the power structure in the nation.
Compounding this is the fact that the entire change of heart was precipitated by Vice President Joe Biden.
If Obama actually loses in November, and exit polls show this issue was a big factor, history might judge Biden as one of the biggest nincompoops to ever be a heartbeat from residing in the White House.
Of course, that would completely destroy his chances of running for president in 2016.
Makes you wonder why all these downsides aren't being considered while supposedly impartial reporters are giving each other high fives in plain sight of the public.
I guess that would be too much like journalism for these shills.
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The answer is...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:04pm.
Yes! Obama is GAY!
Prove me wrong?
Well, if Clinton was "black," why did Obama's pastor attack him?
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:08pm.
When Rev. Wright went after Hillary and Bill Clinton - saying the former President was "riding dirty," as in sexually, the black community.
The transcript, please:
Rev. Wright: Hillary is married to Bill and Bill have been good to us? No, he ain't! Bill did us just like he did Monica Lewinsky!
(note: one will note in the video that as Wright rants about this - he's pumping his pelvic area back and forth, as if in the act of performing sex - darn clear as to what he is suggesting)
Congregation: (cheers)
Rev. Wright: He was riding dirty!
The video
If our national media would treat the Democrat candidates the same as they treat the Republican candidates, they would have used this video to tear the Democrats and the country apart. It might have been the demise of the Democrat convention.
The national media would have had to take Rev. Wright down in order to protect both the Clinton's and Obama, and to protect the false facade which suggests that the Democrats are the better party for the black community (whom Clinton f--cked over - according to our Presidents' pastor).
We should be having much more fun with this.
(;~/ gary
The textbooks will merely say that the ignorant electorate
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:14pm.
was racist and homophobic.
"History might judge Biden as one of the biggest nincompoops to ever be a heartbeat away"? I'd venture an opinion that that is already settled science.
Looks like all but a very few
Submitted by goldbar on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:21pm.
Looks like all but a very few posters are left here. Go away for a year and there's more pundits than posters. Looks like NewsBusters is going to way of the republican party. Glad to see people have finally seen the light!
sorry goldbar*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:31pm.
Didn't even notice your absence but it is no surprise that you are back. Just like dozens of other trolls will be showing up now that Obama's poll numbers are diving and his radical policies are starting to stink.
Cajun
Submitted by TempusFugit on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:34pm.
Seems like no one was Looking For Mr Goldbar
He's been busy working on his
Submitted by Dan Diego on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:59pm.
He's been busy working on his Orifice Office Intern application.
It must be killing
Submitted by gailannr on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 11:28pm.
them to know what were talking about!!!LMAO! I am a proud member of the 53% bunch.
Yeah, you wish, gaybar
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:56pm.
I hate to break it to you comrade a-hole, but we are still here.
ALL OF US.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
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Submitted by tcm14 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:02pm.
.
goldbar
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:58pm.
Have no fear, we'll be out in full force come November.
Ya, goldfarts......
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:05pm.
NB is going down the tubes......why dont you just BUZZ OFF! You never have anything of relevance to say, you just spew your stupid talking points, CLOWN!
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Goldenshower is back?? Who
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 3:09am.
Goldenshower is back?? Who knew he was away??? Did he ever write or say anything that was worth the bandwidth it was printed on??? Yeah...................we're a dying breed - us conservatives, us bigots, us homophobes, us racists, us right-wing whackos, us.........................Americans???
Still only,
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:37pm.
1 of you. See your no better at the truth, even after a year, er was that 16weeks?
Plumbumbar
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:07pm.
Looks like plumbumbar has been reduced to being a drive-by poster because he was, and still is, intellectually bankrupt. Keep it up, plumbumbar!
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Looks like you're wrong
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 3:18pm.
Looks like you're wrong, Goldbar. I've noticed that, not only have the vast majority of the "old" posters remained, but several new ones have been added in the last month alone. But, that's what happens when you disappear for a year, only to reappear in a few select threads. You see what you expect to see, no more and no less.
But, hay, welcome back and may I suggest you actually look in the threads, especially those with a high comment count, before making another asinine assertion, like the one you just made?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Hey, not there's anything wrong with that!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:38pm.
Bambi has Clinton beat like a drum.
Not only is he the first half-white president, he is also;
- the first quarter-Arab and quarter black president.
- the first bisexual, gay, LuGButT, whatever president.
- the first bastard president.
- the first non-American president.
- the first Mooooooooslem president.
- the first Fascist president (well, maybe the second).
- the first mystery president, since NOBODY seems to know Shiite about his former life.
This president is truly an enigma. (Can I say that word?)
NB...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:39pm.
...He's only half-enigma....
Whatever he is
Submitted by Franksam on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:51pm.
He certainly has got everything pretty well enigma'd-up.
Well, maybe not "Gay"....
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:49pm.
...but he's the first president "on the down-low".
Somewhere in FLA
Submitted by Dan Diego on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 7:53pm.
Larry Sinclair is yelling "I told you so!!!"
He's not only gay,
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:06pm.
He's a gay SAINT!
The left have twisted this
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:10pm.
The left have twisted this "identity" thing all to hell. Black and Gay are self-descriptions. Special privileges to those who profess and follow the liberal guidelines. No soup for the ones with the wrong politics. Goes for "Native American" too. Actual genetics aren't helpful enough when race baiting.
dunno 'bout Gay
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:20pm.
but I sure peg him for being a sissie.
So THIS is now the civility in public discourse?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:30pm.
Remember, this is the same Newsweek that was sold for the whopping price of $1 dollar. Also, these are the same idiots that demonize and smear Michelle Bachmann's husband or call the Tea Party "teabaggers".
I think it is a possibility that he is Gay. Consider this:
Submitted by jawebster1 on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 8:58pm.
We have seen no record of Obama's girlfriends prior to Michelle. The man is very effeminate in the way he carries himself. Michelle is bigger boned than most women. She could be a man in disguise. What about the children? Well, how do we know they weren't adopted. (Please forgive me for acting like your typical Liberal in writing this comment.)
Are you saying...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:46pm.
...Sasha and Malia's real Daddy could be...a...Turkey Baster?
David...
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 10:12pm.
Crosby comes to mind.
Tina Brown said Obama earned his "gaylo" on their cover.
Submitted by drsamherman on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 9:45pm.
Gaylo sound like a drag queen name. I have had more than five patients with gender dysphoria, and all of them have adopted "stage" names like MSNBC announcers (Krystall Ball).
Nah - it's a lot simpler
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 3:13am.
Nah - it's a lot simpler than that!!! Clinton was white trailer-park trash that made it big.............there's nothing 'black' about him.
Boy Baraka isn't 'black' either - although he's got more claim to it than der Schlickmeister. And ButtBoy Baraka has got to be one of the biggest queers in the anals of US political history, so being designated as the first 'gay President' is probably NOT going to get a whole lot of arguments from a lot of people!!!
Look at Moochelle!
Submitted by Qtaug on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 6:45am.
He's gay!
Or blind!!!!
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 9:02pm.
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