On March 20, 2008, Real Clear Politics posted an article by Anne Coulter that echoed across the internet, Fox News um, television, and newspaper reports, becoming the quintessential cliché heard round the world: Throw Grandma Under the Bus. In it, Coulter wrote,
"Discrimination has become so openly accepted that -- in a speech meant to tamp down his association with a black racist -- Obama felt perfectly comfortable throwing his white grandmother under the bus. He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist ‘old uncle,’ Rev. Wright."
I just saw the ad currently running in Pennsylvania that features, among others, Madelyn Dunham – Obama’s rather frail, but otherwise healthy-looking, grandmother. And judging by the looks of things, she doesn’t seem at all a woman who’s been tragically run over by a bus recently.
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