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

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Think Progress

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. …

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

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More race-baiting conservative garbage from the party of Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and the southern strategy.

You'd think there would be a few folks in the GOP who would denounce this crap, but, apparently, they want history to show this is how they reacted to the election of America's first black president.

[Nancy Waterman]

1. Talk about projection!

The idiot brigade.

[Nambe]

2. He grew up in Hawaii with white parents!

I love the song "Colorblind" by Counting Crows

[lunasun]

3. They hope to piss off more white Joe the Plumber types who are now on the voting fence

plus scare the white suburban soccer moms all into voting for Rmoney

[heaven05]

4. rethugs

these people are snakes!

[annm4peace]

5. i hope someone can expose this guy

I don't 'know if he has done anything immoral or illegal but if he has I hope it is exposed.

what an a-hole.

[demosincebirth]

6. They should know bigotry very well.

[freshwest]

7. Is this a joke? Check this guy's book out, it's what he's doing now:

Confessions of a Political Hitman: My Secret Life of Scandal, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Dirty Attacks That Decide Who Gets Elected (and Who Doesn't) by Stephen Marks

The most influential people in a political race aren't the campaign managers, the strategists or even the candidates themselves. In fact, you won't even find them on a campaign's list of official members or volunteers.

Enter the world of the political hitman. Few know that these operatives exist, and campaigns go to great effort to distance themselves from the people who dig up their dirt. But political hitmen wield a secretly powerful position in today's American politics, where scandals derail campaigns and negative campaigning decides who gets elected and who doesn't.

For the past twelve years, Stephen Marks has worked silently behind the scenes as one of the country's top opposition researchers: a political hitman and an assassin of reputations. Confessions of a Political Hitman is Marks's intensely personal and explosive story through more than a decade in the underbelly of American political campaigns.

From his early days in politics through his rapid movement into the secret world of opposition research, Marks discovers a talent for digging up dirt and uncovering political liabilities. His work involves a wide scope of American politics, from state governments to presidential elections to the Republican Revolution. But the exciting work soon leads to disillusionment as candidates he believed in turn out to be worse than expected, and hypocrisy abounds on both sides of the political fence. Eventually Marks finds himself living in the shadows, both politically and personally, and searching for escape.

In Confessions of a Political Hitman, Marks reveals the fascinating and incredible details of what really goes on behind the scenes in American campaigning-including the political realities behind the campaigns, careers and attack ads of some of Washington's heavy hitters, including George W. Bush, John Kerry, Jack Abramoff and countless others.

Confessions of a Political Hitman is one man's story about secrets, lies, hypocrisy and influence-painting a troubling picture of whom we elect and how they get elected.

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Political-Hitman-Corruption-Hypocrisy/dp/1402208545/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344054719&sr=1-1&keywords=Confessions+of+a+Political+Hitman

Is this some kind of in your face, I'm lying but you can't stop me gig this guy is doing? The Kochroaches are making a mockery of everything in this country. They really hate the USA. Soon we'll be looking past this summer and miss the little sanity we have left, when they really pump all of Romney's foreign donations and hate radio and Koch money floods the TV.

[dogknob]

8. Kochroaches are people, my friend...

[NEOBuckeye]

9. The last stand of a hack

Playing the race card in reverse may have had a bigger impact a decade ago. The country's shifting demographics are rapidly softening the impact of such a play.

Rather than accepting this fact and embracing diversity, the Republicans and their operatives like Stephen Marks continue to double-down on strategies that, whatever their short term effect, are going to set them up for a much harder crash and political marginalization over the next few cycles.

Maybe smacking head first into the wall of history will finally knock some sense into guys like Marks and Karl Rove, but I seriously doubt it. They are dead dinosaurs and they don't realize it.

[part man all 86]

10. It is time to stand against the hatred of republican party or conservatives period.

I am so pump for the Godless Repressive Party to start their hate. Now that it has begun I pity their puny immoral behavior. Bigotry is the sign of diseased mindset.
My church is backing this hate, I have just been told that I am no longer welcomed. I am pissed and as vet that is a dangerous thing to say. Go ahead you godless republicans start your second amendment rememdies and I will protect the poor, the downtrodden and anyone that is oppressed. Please you satan loving conjobs make my millenium!

[Major Hogwash]

11. Marks is a scumbag. He makes scumbags look good by comparison.

Him and that other racist that went after Hillary Clinton in 2008 who wanted to release his film that went to the John Roberts Supreme Court, and led to corporate financing of campaigns in the Citizens United decision, are the 2 worst humanoids to be associated with political campaigns in modern times.

[SoapBox]

12. Super slimey!

...wow...

In 2012 no less. I think it shows how these racists want to return to something like 1812 or 1712.

p.s...FYI and off topic! BUT, John Fugelsang was on Young Turks and Eliot Spitzer yesterday (Friday, 3rd) and was FANTASTIC.
He gives some bible skhool'n to the ConservaTurds:

http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/blog/from-the-show-john-fugelsang-tampa-prepares-for-the-gop-and-turk-row-goes-to-the-olympics