Intellectual Idiocy

The American Prospect is a journal of high brow liberal political thought. That is a nice way of saying that the American Prospect pumps out the same nonsense as all the other left wing sites, but the dress it as having some sort of academic insight. Even with the extra decoration, the basic thoughts are still idiotic.

A good example comes in an article in that journal by Patrick Caldwell called "Romney's Race Based Initiative". Caldwell claims to have discerned the clearly racist undertone to the Romney campaign commercials and related positions. Here is a good example of what this article has found: The Romney campaign is running a commercial that shows and older American with a sad look on his face while the announcer says "You paid into Medicare for years. Every paycheck. Now when you need it Obama has cut $716 billion from Medicare. Why? To pay for Obamacare. So now the money you paid for guaranteed health care is going to a massive new government program that's not for you." Here comes the clincher as far as Caldwell is concerned; the guy on the screen is (gasp) white. That's right, with an electorate that will be about 81 or 82% white, Romney used a white man on the commercial. What could be more racist! But it gets better. Caldwell also points out that the commercial used the word "you". That word is, according to Caldwell, code for white America. After all, all those racists in white America understand "them" to mean blacks and "you" to mean whites.

I am not kidding. This is actually the reasoning that The American Prospect is publishing. They actually believe this stuff. Pictures of white folks in an ad and the use of the word "you" are both racist in the view of a progressive egghead.

It is an incredibly insulting aspect of the liberal intelligensia that they can push such a large percentage of whites into the racist camp. These are the same whites who four years ago voted for Obama. Now, when issues like the Obama raid on the Medicare Trust Fund are raised, the basis for the attack is supposedly race rather than the incompetent and harmful policies put in place by Obama and the left.

The real truth is that it is critical for Romney to win so that folks like Caldwell can be removed from the government. Obviously, civil service employees will still be there, but the political appointees of Obama who believe all this racist claptrap have got to go. We need the government to focus on reality, not on some imaginary land where all are victims.