OMG, I haven't been this scared since Larry "No Quarter" Johnson claimed Republican operatives planned to release the infamous "Whitey" tape of Michelle spouting all sorts of anti-white rhetoric as an October surprise. In some tellings of this fable, Michelle was speaking in front of Jeremiah Wright's "God damn America!" congregation...all in the service of making Obama seem scary and "other" and not just plain un-American, but crazily, vehemently, militantly anti-American.
Of course, the tape never materialized (mostly, because it never existed) and Obama went on to a landslide victory.
But it's four years later, and somehow Brietbart and the right think Obama as radical is a winning message. Nevermind that it didn't work the first time around and Americans have had four years to appreciate (or not) Obama's straining for bipartisanship and cautious--too cautious, some say--measured approach to governing.
Oh no. They're going to run the very same playbook...Ayers, Dohrn, pot-smoking, coke-sniffing, Larry Sinclair-limo-driving, "pallin' around with terrorists" bullshit.
Insert the "OMG, ONoez" guys here (I don't know how to post anything but videos) and follow below the curlicue for Brietbart's latest CPAC rantings.
The top story right now over at right wing blogs like Hot Air is that Brietbart is prepared to drop damaging videos of Obama as a college student.
According to mediaite (so you don't need to sully your screens):
“I have videos, this election we’re going to vet him,” Breitbart disclosed to raucous applause. “We are going to vet him from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008.
“The videos are going to come out, the narrative is going to come out, that Barack Obama met a bunch of silver ponytails in the 1980s, like Bill (Ayers) and Bernadine (Dohrn), who said one day we would have the presidency, and the rest of us slept as they plotted, and they plotted, and they plotted and they oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in the Annenberg Challenge and they had real money, from real capitalists. Then they became communists. We got to work on that. That is a parenthesis. Barack Obama is a radical, we should not be afraid to say that! Okay? And Barack Obama was launched from Bill and Bernadine’s salon. I’ve been there.”
So, what do you think is in these alleged videos? (I'm guessing...SMOKING CIGARETTES!) And how winning of a strategy is trying to paint Obama as a crazed radical going to be this election cycle? I'm thinking it's about as #Winning as Charlie Sheen.
The GOP has nothing and the fact that ALL of the RW blogs I've checked tonight are salivating about these purported videos prove it.