New SuperPAC, FightBigotry.com, Smears President Obama For ‘Racism Against White Folks’

[cali]

By Josh Israel on Aug 3, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Stephen Marks

Stephen Marks
FightBigotry.com, a new Super PAC registered with the Federal Election Commission this week, makes no bones about its aim. It intends to run an attack ad that it says will hit President Barack Obama for “his disturbing, yet crystal-clear pattern of tacitly defending black racism against white folks before and since being elected president.”

FightBigotry.com’s founder and treasurer is Stephen Marks, a well-known Republican opposition researcher whose 2008 book Confessions of a Political Hitman detailed his work in what he called “the dark side of politics.” In 2000, he launched an attack ad under the misleading name “Americans Against Hate,” attempting to tie Al Gore to controversial comments by Rev. Al Sharpton. Another Marks spot in 2004 attempted to link John Kerry to convicted murderer Willie Horton. He was forced to retract a claim in the book about then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), acknowledging that “the information was not accurate.”

A two-minute version of the new spot is already available on the group’s website, though the group promises a one-minute version is forthcoming. In it, he says:

The Obama administration has injected race into the presidential campaign. Obama Attorney General Eric Holder recently said – with no argument from the president – that their white critics are motivated by race. Implying whites are too stupid to have honest disagreements with the president without being racist is in-and-of-itself racist against whites, reinforcing Mr. Obama’s disturbing pattern of tacitly defending black racism. …

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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/03/636391/fightbigotrycom-super-pac-smears-obama/

Is this a new low? I don't know. the repups are now so slimy and bigoted on a daily basis, that it's hard to say, but surely you can't get much lower than this.

[Curtland1015]

1. It's the Right's new "thing". To cry bigotry against them for being bigots.

Same thing happened over the Chick-Fil-A mess.

The RW loons were saying THEY were the ones being discriminated against. "Those gays aren't letting me hate them! Waaaa!"

It's one of the craziest, most pathetic thing I've ever seen.

[nanabugg]

2. How ignorant can you be? Would rather spend money on this BS than help the nation.

FGS!!! Obama's mom was white. He was raised by white grandparents who adored him. These people are whacked!!

[Hoyt]

3. What's their logo -- Romney on a background of the confederate flag?

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[Bluenorthwest]

4. Just like the Chick Fil A defenders, the bigots say it is bigotry to not allow them to be bigots

with total impunity and immunity from criticism.