All Apologies
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We’re only halfway through the weekend as I write this, but the RNC has a new bogosity that it and its TradMed friends are shoving down our throats:
As we told you earlier, the Obamas are spending a presumably romantic evening together with dinner and a Broadway show this evening in the Big Apple.
If the RNC are fans of Air Supply as well, perhaps they believe the Obamas are “Lost in Love” because flying off to New York while the economy is tanking is just not right they say.
“As President Obama prepares to wing into Manhattan’s theater district on Air Force One to take in a Broadway show, GM is preparing to file bankruptcy and families across America continue to struggle to pay their bills,” RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho said in an email this afternoon.
That’s not all from Gitcho. She then added a snitty, “Have a great Saturday evening — even if you’re not jetting off somewhere at taxpayer expense.”
All this over an event that had New Yorkers eagerly turning out to greet the First Couple.
Of course, none of the TradMed reporters dutifully passing along Gail Gitcho Gun’s talking points to us bothered to mention the fact that the Republicans have fought tooth and nail against help for GM and the other Detroit automakers. (Nor did they choose to mention something that would be much closer to actual scandal fodder — namely, the simmering controversy over the alleged new torture photos.) But the RNC’s arrogant dictation of these points — and the assiduousness with which the "respectable" press is passing them on — points to something that I feared might happen in the wake of the unnecessary and harmful non-apology apology that the Obama team (or at least Robert Gibbs) made on Sotomayor’s behalf over remarks that were not only perfectly innocent and innocuous, but were similar in tone and content to remarks uttered by former Supreme Court Justice (and rock-ribbed Republican) Sandra Day O’Connor.
Once the RNC figured out that Obama, like almost every other prominent Democrat, could be mau-maued into apologizing over an issue that didn’t rate an apology, they figured that they can get him to apologize over this, too. (By the way: Marcus Epstein, executive director of Tom Tancredo’s Team America PAC and Pat Buchanan’s group The American Cause, was recently busted for physically attacking a black woman, karate-chopping on the head while calling her a "n-gg-r". Now, isn’t it interesting that a) Tancredo and Buchanan have been among the loudest voices projecting GOP racism onto Judge Sotomayor, b) Epstein runs both men’s groups, and c) the TradMed hasn’t mentioned any of this in the context of their transmitting the GOP’s anti-Sotomayor smears?)
Meanwhile, Michael Steele sez that the Republicans are "through apologizing". Except, of course, to Rush Limbaugh.
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