Michael Goldfarb tears into the New York Times editorial board for writing that the McCain campaign’s “Celeb” ad was racist. He leaves nothing but a trail of Cheeto dust in his wake:
In case you missed it, the Times editors argued that the ad was a “racially tinged attack” on Obama because it juxtaposed the senator with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Oh, and the editors also wrote that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis peddled a subliminal racist message when he said that Obama had played the race card “from the bottom of the deck” — because that phrase “entered the national lexicon during the O.J. Simpson saga.” For what it’s worth, though the phrase was popularized following the Simpson trial, a quick Nexis search shows that it was first employed by a Tulane law professor criticizing David Duke in a 1991 Chicago Tribune article. And following Barack Obama’s comments just last month that Republicans would employ racist attacks, Donna Brazile said on ABC’s This Week that the race card is “always played … from the bottom of the deck and sometimes in the middle of the deck.” However you cut the deck, sounds like they need to do some reshuffling at the Times.
