June 3, 2008
Republican Governor Mike Huckabee at the American Rifle Association heard a backstage noise and joked that it was Senator Obama diving to the floor to avoid gunfire.
A week later came some imitators: Senator Clinton underscored her point that one never knows whether one's luck might take a fortuitous turn, by citing Robert Kennedy's assassination in June 1968, just two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
3 comments:
This is a very powerful message about many of the nastier elements of our nation. Cruel jokes and blatant attacks that reference assassination do ignore our dark side and show the continuous strength of racism in the media. our political candidates and beyond.
Actually, in your post, "that somebody knock off Osama, um, Obama -- well both, if we could." is not correct. The original Trotta comment was a Freudian slip: "that somebody knock off Obama, um, Osama -- well both, if we could."
Worse than you remember.
...and in the meanwhile, you and others continue to write about the possibility of the A-word, frothing at the mouth with your hyperbolic rhetoric which, if you continue, will help flush out some crazed lunatic.
Why don't you just stop talking about it?
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