Wiener of the Week

Some weeks it's tough to choose the WotW. This week it was an MFing slam dunk. The only question is whether the wiener is the AP for publishing the article or writer Douglass K. Daniel for publishing this steaming pile of propaganda.

By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is "palling around with terrorists" and doesn't see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign.

And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.

Huh? Where do you get racism from associating Obama with white ultra-left wing domestic terrorist William Ayers? The propagandist explains.

Palin's words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee "palling around" with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn't see their America?

In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers' day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.

Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as "not like us" is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.

Can you imagine the size of the shovel it took to move that load of excrement?

I find playing the race card abhorrent, the last refuge of a person without ideas. When the race card is played by an alleged journalist, supposedly writing a straight news story, it's beyond intolerable. It's borderline criminal.

Report the news, asshat! Leave the propaganda to the campaigns.

So who gets the award, the AP, or the asshat? What the hell! I'll give it to them both. For playing the race card in what is supposed to be a straight news story, the AP and alleged writer Douglass K. Daniel are the Wiener of the Week.