March 2008

But David Geffen

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Wolfson cannot help himself and tries to paint Ferraro as the same as David Geffen.  Which would work if Wolfson’s lies about Geffen were accurate months ago:

It didn’t take long for Clinton Inc to prove him right. Not long after Dowd’s column hit the streets, “that machine” whirred into high gear with Clinton Communications director Howard Wolfson firing off a press release condemning Geffen and urging Obama to denounce him:

While Senator Obama was denouncing slash and burn politics yesterday, his campaign’s finance chair was viciously and personally attacking Senator Clinton and her husband.If Senator Obama is indeed sincere about his repeated claims to change the tone of our politics, he should immediately denounce these remarks, remove Mr. Geffen from his campaign and return his money.

The thing is, Geffen is not Obama’s “finance chair” nor his “principal fundraiser” as Wolfson also claims. Indeed, as Geffen told me this morning: “I have no official role in the campaign. None whatsoever.” Which makes it kind of hard for Obama to “remove” him.

Geffen was merely one of three co-hosts of a single event — an event that is now over. Obama’s actual campaign finance chair is Penny Pritzker of Chicago. If Wolfson wants to learn more about her he can read Lynn Sweet in the Chicago Sun Times.

In the Dowd interview, Geffen said of the Clintons: “Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.”

And this morning’s dust-up proves him right.

See, Geffen wasn’t a part of the campaign at all other than having held a fundraiser for Obama.  On the other hand, Ferraro was a part of the Clinton active efforts.  Big difference.

According to Ferraro, She Said the Line About Obama 3 Times at Least

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We have the Daily Breeze article

We have the John Gibson show

And we have her saying on Fox News that she said it during a talk–the talk described in the Daily Breeze is scheduled for this upcoming Sunday. She claims she said it at a paid speech after a question. The great part of this is that everyone else thought she was responding to Daily Breeze article–she thinks she’s responding to a statement at a speech not related to the Daily Breeze article.

So she has said that Obama is in his position only because he is black on a fairly regular basis.

Compare and Contrast

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Chris Matthews:

MATTHEWS: Look, I think that may be true. I think the Hillary appeal has always been somewhat about her mix of toughness and sympathy for her. Let’s not forget — and I’ll be brutal — the reason she’s a U.S. senator, the reason she’s a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around. That’s how she got to be senator from New York. We keep forgetting it.

She didn’t win there on her merit. She won because everybody felt, “My God, this woman stood up under humiliation,” right? That’s what happened. That’s how it happened. In 1998 she went to New York and campaigned for Chuck Schumer as almost like the grieving widow of absurdity, and she did it so well and courageously, but it was about the humiliation of Bill Clinton.

Geraldine Ferraro:

… Obama’s campaign [is] a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against…. For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign. If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position…. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.

Compare and Contrast

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Okay:

Compare and contrast.

Rush Limbaugh, 2003:

I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well…. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve.

Geraldine Ferraro, 2008:

… Obama’s campaign [is] a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against…. For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It’s been a very sexist media. Some just don’t like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign. If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position…. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.

In both cases you have someone black getting credit he doesn’t deserve, as the result of a solicitous press corps and a nation exhibiting undue sentiment for him.

Limbaugh, of course, got fired—and deserved to.

Something No One Caught

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The Youtube of the audio from John Gibson’s show below that has Ferraro talking about how Obama wouldn’t be where he is unless he was black.  That’s not the quote everyone is talking about. They are talking about this article in the Daily Breeze

She said it entirely independently on John Gibson’s radio talk show on February 26th.  And John Gibson called her on playing the race card:
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John Gibson calls her on racism.  John Gibson!

So she seems to have been saying it relatively freely around that time.

Ferraro: Don’t Antagonize Me

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaa

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At this point her defense appears to be that she said it at a paid speech and so it was okay.  But she repeated it on John Gibson’s show.

Oh, and she’s a paid political analysist for Fox!  That makes it all better.

I think Obama can do without her fundraising prowess.