(MURDOCH'S) WSJ CONTINUES ITS CAUSTIC 'QUESTIONS' HOUR
Ouch! Boy, this rhetoric is a lot stronger than his PBS interview. Shelby appears genuinely threatened, not just "analytical"...and more-or-less gleeful about recent events.
How is one the carrier of "innocence" if there is no "guilt" for Shelby to recognize, no tarantella that we dance on race all the time in America? Is he serious that the most significant 'threat' to race relations today is the threat to whites of being stigmatized as racist, which he calls their desire to remain "innocent"? Does he even read the insensitive stuff that has already been written about Jeremiah? Is he aware that the core danger to Obama physically is that his core message is threatening to some people, not calming or bargaining, but disquieting?
He throws the kitchen sink at Obama: bi-racial, bad-father for having "exposed" his children to the black church, repeating the "God Damn America" smear; manipulation of whites; rhetorical hatred is real hatred; ungrounded in himself ...
Something tells me that Mr. Steele, jive turkey for Hoover, is going to have his head handed to him, by the end of today, with the upcoming Obama speech. And that's a "challenge" (to both, I guess).
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Shelby Steele, Hoover's Jive Turkey, Goes in for the Obama Kill
