Drudge criticized for Obama playing ‘race card’ banner

[RamboLiberal]

President Barack Obama Monday launched the Democratic 2010 mid-term election campaign, calling on his young, multi-racial coalition of first-time voters to throng the polls in November.

The conservative Drudge Report announced the news by posting a huge banner in capital letters atop the site: "OBAMA PLAYS RACE CARD: RALLIES BLACKS, LATINOS FOR ‘10 UPSET."

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Regarding the Drudge Report banner, Plumline's Greg Sargent writes, "Matt Drudge has just done us all the favor of confirming what many on the left have long argued: That some the on right see any effort by Dems at all to win minority votes as unacceptable race-mongering."

Sargent blogs that, "in Drudge’s lexicon, urging supporters to get multiple demographic groups, including two racial constituencies, to exercise their right to vote constitutes playing the 'race card.'"

Even Hot Air's Ed Morrissey agrees, "It’s not exactly playing a 'race card,' which usually means some claim of either victimization or super-credibility for a particular argument, but it’s a little more frank than usual about the motives of political organizations. No one doubts that both parties approach electoral politics on the basis of demographics; both Democrats and Republicans make quite a show of it, especially when talking to groups that find their basis on ethnicity or religion. What they normally don’t do is frame it in such an exclusionary way as Obama does in this video. Is this election really dependent on overwhelming the demographics that he leaves out of his appeal?"

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0426/obama-calls-power-base-action-2010-vote/

[tallahasseedem]

1. If Drudge is writing this headline...

then they clearly know they have screwed things up with minority voters big time.

Of course we're going to use this, lord knows they would.

[Lost-in-FL]

2. Drudge is still around? nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. They want us black and brown folk divided and fighting amongst one another,

while they stoke the latent racial prejudices and fears of whites. So while we're at each other's throats and are scapegoated for all that is wrong with the economy, the fat cats on Wall Street that Drudge and his ilk protects are steady robbing the country blind.

I hate these people.

[Phx_Dem]

4. Drudge can't even come up with his own slurs anymore. This is Rush's

work. Tweety just played the tape on Hardball.

Young adults and women are now considered "racial." Apparently.

:rofl:

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Drudge himself is Rush's work

a sort of farm team.

[ClassWarrior]

5. Wow, someone is unreccing for Drudge??

NGU.

[Cha]

7. drudge is always whining about something..

where the president is concerned.. I tune that noise out.

[art of compromise]

8. No one reads him anymore.