The wicked stereotypes evoked in this image are so obvious, so plain on the nose of one's face, that everyone involved in its creation knew 100 percent exactly what they were doing. There can be no doubt. For me, the image brought to mind a scene from the still-hilarious, virulently anti-racist classic script:
[to two members of the KKK, while pretending to capture Bart] Jim: Oh, boys! Look what I got heyuh. Bart: Hey, where the white women at?
Jim: Oh, boys! Look what I got heyuh.
Bart: Hey, where the white women at?
The front page of today's New York Post sought to tap into exactly those sentiments, and to direct them at the President of the United States of America. Let that sink in for a minute.
Read below the fold for more on today's Post front page.
Oh, and let's not forget the sexism of that front page, which essentially called Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Prime Minister of Denmark, a sex kitten, not to mention "red hot." Sexualizing (or, as Rush Limbaugh did to Sandra Fluke, slut-shaming) any strong and/or threatening woman is typical for the kind of right-wing thinking represented by the Post. And, of course, notice that the Post says that she is "O[bama]'s," itself another way of reducing her to being just someone else's sex object.
And then, inside the fold, there's the column from Andrea Peyser, a column that even Glenn Beck's The Blaze characterized as "insane."
Whatever Peyser thinks of President Obama's interaction with Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt, to say that her words were beyond the pale is a gross understatement. She said he acted like "a hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar."
[T]he president flirted, giggled, whispered like a recalcitrant child and made a damn fool of himself. [T]he president leaned into the air space of the cross-legged Danish cupcake. The president’s cackling head moved inches from the Danish tart’s and yards away from his wife’s. Obama then proceeded to absorb body heat from the Dane, which he won’t be feeling at home for a long time. Only after the damaging photo eruption did Obama get hold of himself and regain a dim memory of his marriage vows. He finally straightened his face and moved away from the gentle gams of the Danish object of his desire. President Obama has some ’splaining to do.
[T]he president leaned into the air space of the cross-legged Danish cupcake.
The president’s cackling head moved inches from the Danish tart’s and yards away from his wife’s. Obama then proceeded to absorb body heat from the Dane, which he won’t be feeling at home for a long time.
Only after the damaging photo eruption did Obama get hold of himself and regain a dim memory of his marriage vows. He finally straightened his face and moved away from the gentle gams of the Danish object of his desire.
President Obama has some ’splaining to do.
The Kenyan's mother owes the United States an apology for laying down & spreading her legs for the gorilla known as Barry's daddy. Let't (sp!) choose, hot Prime Minister or Planet of the Ape leading Actress. Hmmm Tough Choice!
Let't (sp!) choose, hot Prime Minister or Planet of the Ape leading Actress. Hmmm Tough Choice!
You angry? Good. So am I. Now let's take that anger and channel it into something positive. Let's work together and defeat these right-wing race-baiters, and send them to the dustbin of history where they belong.
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