# "Conservative media co-ordinates on the release of 5 yr old Obama video **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583 "2012-10-03T14:18:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/41 "2012-10-03T22:31:47Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > It doesn’t bother you that conservative journalists treat the drudge report like its the AP wire? Of course it does. That’s why I called it shitty. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/42 "2012-10-03T23:16:34Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Of course it does. That’s why I called it shitty. Well, shitty sounds like an understatement. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/43 "2012-10-04T00:58:16Z")
I guess we now see Romney’s strategy. No wonder he’s been so relaxed. He knew all along that he had an ace up his sleeve. Just wait until October and then reveal his big surprise: Barack Obama is black. There’s no way people would vote for him after they found that out. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/44 "2012-10-04T02:45:54Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Count me int he camp that says this only hurts Obama against the racists who already weren’t voting for that colored guy anyway. Yes. Or, as my FIL refers to Pres. Obama, “That nigger in the White House.” _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/45 "2012-10-04T03:33:28Z")
This could cut Romney’s support amongst blacks in half. The other guy is pretty solid for him. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/46 "2012-10-04T14:42:47Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > This just in: 2008 wants its controversial Obama issue back. Yet, the fucking retards on the left decided an incident from when Romney was in fucking high school was so fucking important that it warranted many discussions on the main stream media. You fucking hypocrites. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/47 "2012-10-04T14:46:41Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Yet, the fucking retards on the left decided an incident from when Romney was in fucking high school was so fucking important that it warranted many discussions on the main stream media. You fucking hypocrites. I remember the media covering that extensively in 2008. Or maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/48 "2012-10-04T15:40:54Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Yet, the fucking retards on the left decided an incident from when Romney was in fucking high school was so fucking important that it warranted many discussions on the main stream media. You fucking hypocrites. Wow. This charming riposte has entirely caused me to change my mind about Republicans. You’re not living in the past after all! “Tu quoque” isn’t your favorite [del]logical fallacy[/del] debating tactic! And you don’t at all exaggerate! What a swell group of … uh … people. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/49 "2012-10-04T16:08:06Z")
Great clip from the Daily Show last night, in which Jon Stewart points out that in 2005 George W. Bush said basically the same thing as Obama about the problems in New Orleans: > **[The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Comedy Central](https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah)** > > The Daily Show is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning program that looks at the day’s top headlines through a sharp, reality-based lens. Anyway, it’s quite telling that even the Romney campaign doesn’t seem to give a shit about this. All this boils down to is “Obama is a Nigger.” And yes, I use the N-word, because that’s exactly how the pearl-clutchers most worked up about this faux-controversy see him. These assholes would run a headline that read “Obama sleeping with black chick,” if they thought they could get some mileage out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/50 "2012-10-04T16:13:57Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > These assholes would run a headline that read “Obama sleeping with black chick,” if they thought they could get some mileage out of it. No need for the [conditional](http://www.salon.com/2008/06/12/fox_obama/). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/51 "2012-10-04T16:21:38Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Great clip from the Daily Show last night, in which Jon Stewart points out that in 2005 George W. Bush said basically the same thing as Obama about the problems in New Orleans: > > [Comedy Central The Daily Show Fan Page](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-3-2012/oh-the-spew-hannity?xrs=share_copy) The best part was the clip of Tucker Carlson explaining that the media did not properly report on the Obama speech at the time – a fact he knows because he himself was there reporting on it at the time. :dubious: 😕 :p: :smack: :p: Apparently Tucker Carlson is channeling the host of [_Overlords of the UFO_](http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Overlords_of_the_UFO_1976.aspx): > [@](#): > > He says he’s actually seen UFOs himself and reported on them, but in all those stories there’s been “one incredible glaring omission”. Okay, didn’t he just say _he_ was the one who reported all those stories? So, is he basically confessing to being a crappy reporter right here and now? (Actually, I suspect this entire _movie_ could be taken as an confession of his ineptitude, at least unconsciously.) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/52 "2012-10-04T17:22:03Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Great clip from the Daily Show last night, in which Jon Stewart points out that in 2005 George W. Bush said basically the same thing as Obama about the problems in New Orleans: That’s their point. You just can’t trust those liberal Democrats, like Bush, to do anything right. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/53 "2012-10-04T17:26:28Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Wow. This charming riposte has entirely caused me to change my mind about Republicans. You’re not living in the past after all! “Tu quoque” isn’t your favorite [del]logical fallacy[/del] debating tactic! And you don’t at all exaggerate! What a swell group of … uh … people. I dunno, maybe he’s got a point. I don’t think the two scenarios are at all equivalent, but what’s good for the goose, etc. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/54 "2012-10-05T13:52:21Z")
Don’t think there are any states which make “talking black” a crime though. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/55 "2012-10-05T15:46:04Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Don’t think there are any states which make “talking black” a crime though. _Yet_… ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/56 "2012-10-05T15:55:23Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I dunno, maybe he’s got a point. I don’t think the two scenarios are at all equivalent, but what’s good for the goose, etc. I’ll agree “what’s the good for the goose is good for the gander” if the stuff about Romney’s bullying or the 47% video is brought up again four years from now as he is running a re-election campaign. The likeliest outcome is that Romney will be enjoying his very cushy retirement in 4 years, not running a campaign for anything, but the point stands. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/57 "2012-10-05T17:02:27Z")
Fair enough. Again, though, I don’t see any evidence that the right wing talking asses are “collaborating”. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583/58 "2012-10-05T17:28:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Fair enough. Again, though, I don’t see any evidence that the right wing talking asses are “collaborating”. The alternative is that they all reached the same level of stupidity independently. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservative-media-co-ordinates-on-the-release-of-5-yr-old-obama-video/636583.md?page=2)