The New York Times has a wacky editorial:
Manipulative. Shameful. Race-baiting. Those are the only words to describe a new television ad from the Republican Party running in North Carolina that attacks Senator Barack Obama as “too extreme” for the state.
Senator John McCain was right to condemn the ad and demand that state Republican Party leaders pull it — a demand they refused. As of Friday, the state party’s Web site was soliciting contributions to “keep this ad on the air.” The country cannot afford such divisiveness.
Unless Mr. McCain quickly gets control of his party, we fear there will be worse to come. (Just note the it’s- not-my-problem reaction of Senator Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, who set a new low for implausible deniability by claiming that the ad by the G.O.P. in her home state has nothing to do with her own re-election bid.)
The ad is built around the well-known video clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. — Mr. Obama’s former pastor — declaring “God damn America.” We have said before that we find Rev. Wright’s oratory racist. And we have criticized Senator Obama for waiting too long to denounce it. His relationship with the Rev. Wright is undeniably a liability for his campaign.
But that’s not what this ad is about. The assertion that Mr. Obama is “just too extreme for North Carolina” is a clear bid to stir bigotry in a Southern state. The ad’s claim that its target is actually two Democratic gubernatorial candidates who endorsed Mr. Obama is ludicrous.
The New York Times doesn't seem to understand that when your voting record is similar to self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders some people might think that's extreme.Here's Comrade
Sanders being endorsed by his friend Barack Obama:
I was asking the guy who was driving me here Bernie,I said,how do you campaign where everybody knows you? I mean what's the point? Bernie has 100% name recognition the who people who like him you aren't going to change their minds about liking him and the handful of wrongheaded people who don't like him you know you're not going to change their minds either.
The New York Times has a strange sense of what's "extreme".
