Newsweek's new cover: "Obama's Bubba Gap."

[VolcanoJen]

Via Mark Halperin:



Good Gawd... is that arugula? And beer?????

They may as well have run with a cover of freakin' Buckwheat from Our Gang. I mean, why be so coy, so subtle? I thought they decided we were all backwater river-rat rednecks years ago, and were far too dumb to ever "get" this kind of imagery. OBAMA IS NOT WHITE AND WHITE PEOPLE THEREFORE DO NOT LIKE HIM. HE NEEDS TO DROP THE ARUGULA (I think he last mentioned it in freaking Iowa, like, seven years ago) AND START ACTING WHITE AND POOR SO WE CAN MAKE FUN OF HIM FOR DOING THAT AND CALL HIM THE BIG PHONY THAT HE IS. Get it?

Weird how they never said any of this about George W. Bush, the only member of his blueblood Connecticut family with a Texas drawl.

Christ, how I hate our stupid, stupid media. I don't even have time to count the ways.

And Hillary supporters? If she's the nominee, it's going to get even uglier than this. The media hates ALL of us.

[ProSense]

1. Newsweek Poll Reveals Hillary's White Voter Deficit

This Mish Mash over Obama's Electability and White Voters completely misses a glaring Truth: Hillary Clinton will LOSE the white Vote versus John McCain Too!


The media caught spinning.

[VolcanoJen]

2. That's the part that so fuckin' maddening.

It's like, they keep talking about these mythical "Reagan Democrats." By their own definition, that last time a "Reagan Democrat" voted for a Democrat was in 1976.

So, there's a more accurate term to describe them, isn't there? I think the word is Republican.

[flpoljunkie]

65. Man, was Elizabeth Edwards right today, writing about the media in the NYTimes!

Bowling 1, Health Care 0

By ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Published: April 27, 2008

Chapel Hill, N.C.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27edwards.html?hp

[Tellurian]

3. This week's Newsweek Headline: "Obama Losing Ground"..

http://www.newsweek.com/id/134389

Gallups headline: Obama and Hillary in a dead heat Nationwide!

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/clinton_debate_obama_no_debate.html

[ProSense]

4. Hillary is still losing to Obama. There isn't enough ground that she can gain to win the primary.

She has lost.

[VolcanoJen]

5. Yes, yes, you've been spamming that all day long.

Thanks for completely missing the point of this post.

So do you think Obama should get his Bubba on?

[Tellurian]

7. I hope the best for Obama..

I hope he can get a decent job after this election...what with the unemployment rate teetering at 5.5% By the time this election is over, I hope he can still afford his new mansion.

[ProSense]

9. What will Hillary do after finally conceding that she has lost the nomination? n/t

[VolcanoJen]

13. Since when is "United States Senator" not a decent job?

It's the same job Hillary will be returning to in, oh, a couple of weeks now.

You should flesh these things out a little more before hitting that "post message" button.

[JackORoses]

26. I hope you can get a decent life when your Hillarite Illusion comes crashing down upon you

[datopbanana]

32. lol. you are questioning the future of a man whos accomplished a 1,000,000 times more than yourself

get a grip. the hate is making you sick.

[tabasco]

62. Maybe he could start a spam website for erection medicine. n/t

[Patchuli]

76. No matter who wins

I will never forget how childish people have been on both sides. I seriously doubt Mr. Obama would have any problems finding a new job if he needed to but your concern is most, um disingenuous.

What are you going to do if your heroine doesn't make it to the WH? Pine for her 'til 2012 when she'll be working on being as old as McCain? You think that maybe by then she will have actually done something good for the people she is paid to represent? Her current record is nothing to brag about. I will support her if she wins the nomination. After all, I am a Democrat but I am convinced that she would not improve life for the average American based on her track record as a Senator. Maybe if she had apologized for her Iraq war vote and admitted it was a mistake, I would have more trust in her. Meanwhile, this silly $hit is ripping our party apart. Are YOU going to support BO if HE is the nominee?

[rodeodance]

69. Obama fan posted Newsweek--it is NOT spaming " BHO is "losing ground" says main Politcal article.

Losing Ground

After losing Pennsylvania and a difficult month of scandals, Barack Obama's double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton has dropped to seven points in the latest NEWSWEEK poll.

[GoesTo11]

66. Newsweek says Obama's winning!!!

The actual article says:

"Obama Losing Ground

After losing Pennsylvania and a difficult month of scandals, Barack Obama's double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton has dropped to seven points in the latest NEWSWEEK poll."

Let's see. If you're up by 150 delegates. And then you only win by 7% the rest of the way, how much do you lose by? I'm not so good at math.

[blogslut]

6. That's not a very "selly" cover

It's more like a whole bunch of "huh"?

[McCamy Taylor]

10. I agree. It makes me think that Obama is for veggies and sobriety.

And what is wrong with veggies and sobriety?

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Most sensible people will vote for green veggies over beer.

Also Obama is too White. He is half White and half Black. I don't know why people keep forgetting this. He is the product of a mixed race marriage. And since when is arugula a stereotypical image associated with African-Americans? I thought it was supposed to be associated with the Whole-Foods-I can afford to pay more to eat earth friendly and organic crowd because I have a higher degree. You know, the upper class left.

The picture that the OP has in mind would be something like watermelon versus some stereotypically White food. Like arugula.

[VolcanoJen]

12. Well, "Bubba" is certainly not a word normally associated with African Americans.

Newsweek doesn't think Obama's got enough "bubba" to appeal to the "bubbas" who wouldn't vote for him, or Hillary, period. However, Obama can't ever be a "bubba," can he? He couldn't even fake it. And if he did, they'd nail him for being phony, something they have yet to call out the current President for.

The media hates Democrats, that's really what the point of this exercise is. In this case, Newsweek is kind of dancing around a class-race issue. If you read the entire piece, I think you'll see why I drew the conclusion I did.

But I wouldn't recommend reading it, because gleeful McCain advisors can be bad for one's outlook. :-)

http://www.newsweek.com/id/134398

[goclark]

23. "Bubba?" we don't even use that word

:crazy:
We say, Hello My Brother" but I've been AA long enough to know that to us -- Bubba is not Black.

They are so desperate and they look so silly.

[charlie]

11. We need to create an office of National Regular Joe

and be done with this silly shit. Let the two offices run concurrent campaigns, then install the glad-handing fucker into the new administration's cabinet. Then we can be sure the President is fully apprised of TV plots, sports scores, the price of tequila in Davenport Iowa, and we'll never, never, never, never, never, never again lie awake with the fear that S/HE'S LOOKING DOWN ON US.

Fuck me, we are such dumbasses.

[VolcanoJen]

14. Well, I'm not sure *we* are dumbasses.

But the media sure treats us all like backwater rednecks that don't care about silly stuff like "wars" or "health care" or "issues" and stuff.

It is indeed fuckin' maddening. It it weren't for DU and blogs, I think I really would be bonkers by now.

[charlie]

15. Some days I waver on it

Unhappily, this isn't one of them. Every "issue" Republicans have successfully exploited for 40 years has been at its core a simple They Think They're Better Than You resentment, from Nixon/Agnew to Reagan to Limbaugh to Gingrich to O'Reilly. And 20 years ago, "our" side began to internalize the idea in a big way and became the coalition of invertebrates. So now it's more fully part of the political zeitgeist than ever before. Common wisdom -- we salt of the earth Americans don't want no President whut's too big for his britches, all other concerns can go suck eggs.

Yeah, the vacuous media have had a big hand in getting us here. But this time, they get to call what they do "reporting" because one of our contenders is throwing Elitist stinkbombs at the other. It's news! If it's important enough to us, it's certainly important enough to cover. We can't rid ourselves of this idiotic trope when half of DU boils over with manufactured indignation over a Democrat's "snobbery."

Dumbasses 'R Us.

[VolcanoJen]

21. Fair enough.

Depressing, too.

Maybe I'm setting myself up, but this election sure feels unlike any other I've experienced. $4.00 fucking gas, for one.

Since Americans aren't the rioting type, they just might end up voting over stuff like that. Maybe. And maybe we'll be able, this time, to get the message out that the media is elite, and they're the ones looking down their nose at you.

[NJSecularist]

16. It's good that Newsweek is asking these questions.

Hopefully it will get some superdelegates' attention.

[Triana]

17. No matter what the facts are,eh?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/26/19333/5377/366/504084

?

[NJSecularist]

19. KOS talking points don't do it for me.

Of course Hillary will lose the white vote to McCain in the general. So will Obama. Hillary will do better among whites than Obama.

[VolcanoJen]

22. Kos talking points?

From your post, it sounds like you read them, and they're sinking in a bit.

[charlie]

24. Why bother?

Just copy/paste his posts from before a month ago and you can enjoy the weird spectacle of a gadfly arguing with himself.

[JackORoses]

28. Hillary won't be doing anything in the General

She'll be too busy struggling to pay back her massive campaign debt.

McCain will go down hard in the Fall.
Obama will bring with him a working Majority.

[rodeodance]

68. Need the questions before any 'facts' can be discerned.

[otohara]

75. The Arugula Crowd Will Support A SD Win

I think not!

[chill_wind]

18. Rec and Kick kick kick. n/t

[FrenchieCat]

20. Don't forget this Bubba!

"they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade.When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. "-- BILL CLINTON
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/bill-clinton-flashback-al_n_96433.html

[2rth2pwr]

25. What the fuck does that cover have to do with race?

Arugula is a niche marketed leaf. Health food nuts and elitist white people.

[VolcanoJen]

29. You could start with "bubba."

Obama can't be white, even if he ate all the arugula in the world and asked for seconds. They're reaching a bit on this new "snob" meme, are they not? And regardless of who you support, our media is stupid, and banal, and they reserve this kind of thing for Democrats only.

(For the record, loose-leaf arugula was cheaper at my local Kroger today than a comparable weighted bag of iceberg lettuce, but that's neither here nor there.)

My point was that the cover was a bit too nuanced considering the article within. Is my post a little too nuanced as well?

[2rth2pwr]

33. How are they reaching? Obama asked a group of farmers about the price of arugula

at Whole Foods. There isn't even a Whole Foods in Iowa, and none of those farmers farm arugula.

Sounds out of touch to me, and nothing to do with the color of his skin.

[VolcanoJen]

35. And yet, the "bubbas" of Iowa chose Obama, and gave Clinton third place.

But, silly Iowans, what do they know?

My local Kroger carries arugula, has for years. It's delicious. Cheaper lately than iceberg lettuce, but that doesn't fit into Newsweek's "let's dig up a phony controversy from January that wasn't controversial to voters at the time in order to perpetuate the meme that Obama is 'out of touch'."

Look, maybe it's just too nuanced for you. But the word "bubba" appears on that cover in between a photo of a leaf, and a photo of a glass of beer. And the article itself is subtitled "how class and race are playing in the 2008 campaign." It's all in the "bubba," my friend.

If you don't see it, you don't see it. But go ahead with your idea that Obama, the black kid with the single white mom who made his name as an inner city community activist, is an out-of-touch elitist while supporting a candidate with over $100 million in the bank who has traveled in a security bubble for sixteen years. If it works for you, great.

But I'm going to fight the perpetuation of stupid memes with every core of my being. And I'd do the same if she were the nominee, because, trust me, the media really really really hates Hillary, even if they're just playing good cop in this moment.

Edit: Oh, and for the record, arugula is widely grown, farmed and sold in Iowa. You're going to have to erase that one from your list of "Obama is an elitist arugula eater" talking points.

[2rth2pwr]

36. Everything that has come up since it's come down to the 2 top candidates

fits the Elitist narrative. He didn't grow up in the South side of Chicago, Indonesia and Hawaii then on to all the best schools.

His disdain for regular folk is palpable.

[VolcanoJen]

37. "His disdain for regular folk is palpable."

Until you offer some kind of metric upon which you're basing that rather outrageous statement, and given all obvious evidence to the contrary, I'm going to have to go ahead and assume that you were smoking arugula when you posted that.

:smoke:

And by the way, you should really stop saying that Iowa farmers don't farm arugula. It makes you appear kinda silly, and like you're getting your information from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Why does your candidate harbor such an elitist disdain American arugula farmers?????

Do you get how silly that sounds?

[2rth2pwr]

40. From his own mouth-

"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

People don't like to be psychoanalyzed behind their backs to a group of fundraisers on Billionaires Row.

[VolcanoJen]

44. But when it's pointed out that Bill Clinton said something remarkably similar....

.... *crickets* from current Hillary Clinton supporters.

Bill, circa 1991:

"You know, he (Bush) wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

Know what, 2rth2pwr? Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are both absolutely 100% correct, even though your quote is quite out-of-context.

It should anger you a little that the media is attempting to put Obama in that "elitist" box for simply saying something that is obvious to anyone with half a clue. The fact that it doesn't says much about you and your candidate of choice. It should anger any Democrat, but, oddly, not Hillary fans.

Can you not see that they're doing the same thing to Obama that they tried to do to Bill in '92?

At the least, do consider dropping your patently false Glenn Beck Arugula Talking Points.

[2rth2pwr]

49. Of course you don't see the problem, you agree with the sentiments

of Obama. If your an elitist how could you see that there is anything wrong with calling small

town people ignorant, backwoods, racist, shotgun shootin, bible thumping, cousin humpin, immigrant hatin rubes.

[VolcanoJen]

52. Wow.

So now, Obama's comments have morphed into Obama calling small town people "ignorant, backwoods, racist, shotgun shootin, bible thumping, cousin humpin, immigrant hatin rubes."

Still no comment from you on your false Glenn Beck Arugula Talking Points. I guess you'll just stick with the nutter argument.

I agree with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on how the wingnuts will try to swing the "Bubba" vote to McCain in the fall, yes. And, for the record, I'm a bartender, and I live in Cincinnati. Elitist? Not so much. Truth-seeker? Absolutely.

[Eric Condon]

30. I don't know, you tell us.

You're the ones who've been pushing this stupid "elitist" meme.

[2rth2pwr]

34. Elitist thinking has nothing to do with wealth or race. You can be a poor grad student

and look down on the common "Bubba's" out there.

[bhikkhu]

41. "I like Bubba. Bubba is my friend. We drink beer and talk about stuff."

What does this have to do with anything at all, much less with who will be our president? I thought it was the SD's, but now Bubba decides?

[2rth2pwr]

46. If fewer and fewer Bubba's vote for him the SD's will make the best decision for the country.

[VolcanoJen]

50. So as long as more and more Bubba's vote for Hillary....

... then the SD's will make the best decision for the country?

Are you sure you meant to say that? Because it sounds like, in one breath, you're being an elitist who is looking down on Bubba's, and in another breath, saying that the Bubba vote is crucial for the superdelegates to decide that Hillary can best win Bubbas in the fall.

:shrug:

[bhikkhu]

51. Too much circular reasoning leads to dizziness.

Is that an elitist thing to say?

[VolcanoJen]

53. Please limit your words to five letters or less.

Only elitists can understand your high-minded "talky-words."

;-)

[2rth2pwr]

54. What's wrong with Bubba?

[bhikkhu]

56. Bubba doesn't like being f*kd over and lied to by politicians.

That's one thing eating at Bubba.

I can be sarcastic and obtuse, but that's the truth. I have worked as a mechanic for 20 years, I turn a wrench, have grease embedded in the skin of my hands right now, and seem to have a different idea of "what the problem is" than you. The guys I know support Obama or McCain (I'm working on the McCain supporters - its not going too bad).

[VolcanoJen]

58. Amen to that.

Funny how they think we're all elitists, eh? I sling drinks for a living, you turn wrenches. But Our Awesome Liberal Media says everyone voting for Obama lives in San Francisco, holds a post-graduate degree from Yale, and we sip expensive coffee drinks by the hour while checking our portfolios from our iPhones while perusing the Starbucks' WiFi.

[charlie]

31. He's running to be President, not Captain of the shrimp boat

[Moochy]

47. elitist white people scream in unison

UP WITH ARUGULA!!! DOWN WITH HILLARY!! GO ELITES!!! NOW LETS GET DRINK OUR LATTES IN THE FUCKING HOT TUB!!!

WOOT FOR ELITES! AND ARUGULA!!!!!111111

[Tatiana]

27. Hey, it could have been worse.

They could have put a picture of a 40-ounce on the cover :(

[Maddy McCall]

38. Bush doesn't have a Texas drawl.

Anyone who lives in Texas knows this.

[VolcanoJen]

39. OK. So Bush has a *phony* Texas accent.

Even though he's a Connecticut elitist cream-of-the-crop blueblood who was educated at Andover-Yale-Harvard, he has this weird kind of drawl. Nobody else in his family talks like that, yet our awesome liberal media never called him out on his patented Rovian phony-baloney accent or elitism.

Our Awesome Liberal Media's Rule #1: All Republicans are authentic and awesome, no matter any evidence to the contrary. All Democrats are phony elitists, no matter any evidence to the contrary.

You're not actually defending Chimpy, are you, Maddy?

[Maddy McCall]

42. No, I'm defending my native state.

Damn, Jen, you've lost your ability to listen to people.

What a stupid assumption to make, simply because I said that the drawl Bush uses is not Texan.

[VolcanoJen]

45. Well.

I'm not stupid, you know that, good and well.

And you wrote a quick one-off post that was nonsensical, and if you would "listen" you would have garnered that from my response.

You know good and well I wasn't insulting Texans, I was insulting Chimpy and our fucked-up media. But, is there really any point in trying to talk to you, when you're in full on finger-wagging "Damn, Jen" mode, Maddy? I think not.

[Maddy McCall]

57. Well...

you read much more into my post than was intended.

I won't speculate why.

[JI7]

43. he WON Iowa

the elitists are the media whores who think everyone in middle america are simple, ignorant, moron, uneducated etc.

[VolcanoJen]

48. Precisely.

The arugula farmers of Iowa, though, don't know what's good for them. Good thing they have us media-types to explain their worldview for them!! They are backwater beer-swilling hicks who need to understand that Obama looks down on them, since they clearly didn't understand that back in January, after having a close look at him for over a year. Maybe we should talk slower?

Why didn't Iowa farmers understand that Obama is an elitist arugula-eating Ivy League snob knucklehead?*

*Lou Dobbs, Harvard '67

[TheDonkey]

55. Embarassing for newsweek.

[my3boyz]

59. Wasn't BUSH the one that Americans wanted to have beer with? I hope they have learned from that. nt

[boston bean]

60. Like my sig line says: GOD DAMN ARUGULA

[rodeodance]

63. You were ahead of the times:-)

[VolcanoJen]

70. Best sig EVER, MassDemm!

Won't be as funny in November, but I do like it.

[tabasco]

61. Time to label Obama a metrosexual.

Kerry never properly responded to the grade school attacks on his masculinity. He had too much faith in the American people to see through the scurrilous smears. The republicans had the temerity to label a Silver Star combat vet with three Purple Hearts a "metrosexual" and got away with it. At the same time, the whore media showed fratboy AWOL cutting brush on his pig farm (conveniently purchased as a prop) like he was some kind of cowboy.

Now, the inevitable grade school "you're a homo!" attacks are directed at Obama. Our disgusting corporate media is complicit.

[dailykoff]

67. "The whole thing is a big fariy tale"

Bubba's on the case.

[VolcanoJen]

73. That's it, exactly.

Even watching "Press the Meat" this morning, they were doing the same thing. "Fair or not, Barack Obama has an arugula problem."

:eyes:

[EFerrari]

64. The media does hate all of us.

This cover basically says, Obama hasn't dumbed down enough to go over with you idiots that pay the cover price. :woohoo:

[high density]

71. Beer??

Didn't Clinton drink enough for both candidates?

[Jawja]

72. Well, who needs BUBBA??

We've HAD 8 years of BUBBA rule and look where it's gotten us.

It's refreshing to have a candidate BUBBA might not want to have a beer with. :eyes:

[peoli]

74. Looks like a cover about Biofeuls