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Media: Romney Is a Racist for Using the Word ‘Obamacare’

Here’s an easy question: How do you know that a piece of legislation that was supposed to be a signature, landmark achievement for the President who signed it into law actually has become a public relations disaster?

Generally, at the point where that legislation‘s supporters don’t want it attached to the President’s name. And based on some of the more hysterical liberal reaction to Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP, that has been exactly the response of President Obama‘s most fervent supporters to Mitt Romney’s usage of the word “Obamacare” in the speech. According to these very supporters, tying President Obama’s name to the controversial Affordable Care Act (ACA) by calling it ‘Obamacare” is a smear. Consider these reactions, firstly, from Michael Tomasky at Newsweek (emphasis added):

But he wasn’t a race-baiter until yesterday. That speech wasn’t to the NAACP. It was to Rush Limbaugh. It was to Tea Party Nation. It was to Fox News. Oh, he said some nice things. And sure, let’s give him one point for going there at all. But listen: You don’t go into the NAACP and use the word “Obamacare” and think that you’re not going to hear some boos. It’s a heavily loaded word, and Romney and his people know very well that liberals and the president’s supporters consider it an insult. He and his team had to know those boos were coming, and Romney acknowledged as much a few hours later in an interview with . . . guess which channel (hint: it’s the one whose web site often has to close articles about race to commenters because of the blatant racism). Romney and team obviously concluded that a little shower of boos was perfectly fine because the story “Romney Booed at NAACP” would jazz up their (very white) base.

Now, notice the revealing wording here. Tomasky doesn’t say “blacks consider it an insult.“ He says ”liberals and the president’s supporters consider it an insult.” We’ll get to whether this is actually true later, but for the time being, what does this tell us about race-baiting? Apparently all you have to do is anger liberals and/or President Obama’s supporters and presto, changeo, bingo, you’re a racist.

The incoherence of this attack, however, hasn’t stopped it from spreading. Consider this clip from MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell,” courtesy of RealClearPolitics:

But the rather trivial nature of this complaint notwithstanding, the question has to be asked – is it true? Is Obamacare really a nasty slur that people use to demean the President? In answer to that, we present today’s front page of BarackObama.com, the President‘s reelection campaign’s website:

Howard Fineman, Michael Tomasky Accuse Mitt Romney of Using the Word Obamacare to Gin Up Racial Hatred in NAACP SpeechYou were saying, liberals?

Comments (96)

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  • Wolfgang the Gray
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:12pm

    Can we break out our torches and pitchforks yet? If Obama gets re-elected, then all bets will be off concerning the future of this nation.

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    • liberalisrunamuckus
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:31pm

      I was thinking a tax revolt would be a great pitchfork

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    • The0bserver
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:59pm

      “Obama gets re-elected, then all bets will be off concerning the future of this nation,” then the sound of crickets. Nobodys going to do anything. We’ve entered and passed the Demoralization Phase described by Yuri Bezminov.

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    • anomnomnommm
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 1:20am

      @DETROIT PAPERBOY

      Obamacare is not offensive in any way, especially considering that it was Romneycare not long ago. Your new name for it though, n$(*%care, is quite offensive, and it is people like you who make people hypersensitive about race.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 1:29am

      Whenever a Top Down Power pushes… Evil Results! Hence, for Good, the People must Rise Up to create Government!

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    • rickc34
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 9:05am

      This is funny Obama call it Obama care on more than one occasion and so does most of the media. We are in a time of division the right vs the left. It is more of a moral value conflict than anything else. As a Christian it is nothing new to suffer persecution from this world, but now it seems like it will increase just like the first century church endured. In China and the middle east Christians are still put to death for their belief in Christ. I am not afraid, God is in control and my outcome will be the same. The ones I feel sorry for is the millions that die only to open their eyes for the first time in eternity in Hell.

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    • JRook
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 9:40am

      Well no boos from the group of supporters his campaign paid to attend. Are people really that stupid to not see our political theater for what it is…… All politicians are bought and paid for by the wealthy and the large corporations. You really concerned about America, than follow the money and find out who really is behind most regulations and government spending. Find out who really lobbies for and makes billions off of Food Stamps. Hint, its not the poor mother trying to feed 3 kids.

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    • Pigpen
      Posted on July 14, 2012 at 3:13pm

      ANOMNOMNOMMM posted: “Obamacare is not offensive in any way, especially considering that it was Romneycare not long ago. Your new name for it though, n$(*%care, is quite offensive, and it is people like you who make people hypersensitive about race.”

      Uh, well, no, actually. Romney is NOT my first choice. And speaking as a racist myself, I can honestly testify that Romney is NOT one of us racists. The fact that Romney is being targeted as a “racist” by the media is because Romney has set off a panic in the Left by (unintentionally, by the way) exposing you American ******* Bourgeoisie to the TRUTH that…

      If a politician walks into a room full of white voters and promises them all jobs if he gets elected, then the WHITE voters all cheer and jump for joy and clap and sing him praises. BUT if that same politician walks into a room full of black voters and promises them all jobs, then the BLACK voters all boo and hiss and heckle him.

      That is why Romney is now a target! And speaking as a self-avowed-racist-*******-honkey-straight-white-male-nuke-the-whales-for-Jesus-paleo-conservative, I can testify to you all that Romney sure as h3ll ain’t one of us racists! That is just the commie-pinko-media trying to do damage control on you brainwashed sheeple.

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    • anomnomnommm
      Posted on July 15, 2012 at 11:41pm

      @PIGPEN

      I’m not sure what your rant is all about or what it is a response to.

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  • mountainmover101
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:12pm

    This is rich. The race thing is finally having the effect I always thought it would. People are tired of it. Obama’s support among blue collar working white males is way way way low. Whites are 68% of the population. I want them to keep playing the race card. It is working fabulously for the Republicans.

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    • jzs
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:34pm

      He should have called it “Romneycare.” What kind of advisers does he have? Never mind, I get it now.

      But Pelosi was right. He knew what kind of responses he’d get in front of a black audience. Sure made you guys happy though. QED

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    • mils
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:38pm

      I think democrats are purposefully driving the wedge of racism deeper into our country..
      What else do we call it…America’s lack of leadership plan, or America’s Waterloo??? what??
      I believe Mitt was extremely respectful even thinking about going to the naacp crap gathering..
      !! .
      I could say so much nasty stuff about all those people… they are liars , esp hilary shelton leader of the washington naacp…what a piece of bs. lies just tumble out of his mouth about romney.

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    • mountainmover101
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:42pm

      @JZS
      If she was right it was purely by accident. The only thing that matters is getting there. One can always ask forgiveness later.

      The Dems are angry because they are being beaten by their own tactics. I say keep playing the race card.

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    • TheEDGE
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:09pm

      I usually refer to it as a steaming pile of dung. Is that racist, too?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:22pm

      JZSaulyndra says:
      “But Pelosi was right. He knew what kind of responses he’d get in front of a black audience”
      You mean like the standing ovation he got at the end?
      My guess is he won over just a few black voters. And as Obama likes to say…..it’s a step in the right direction.
      I use the term “OBAMACARE” all the time, and will do my best to make sure it keeps being used.
      And I promise you that I am not racist.
      JZS, remember our long debate about my wanting to see a very basic civics awareness test be administered for the qualification to vote?
      Just a few basic questions like who is the VP, what are the names of your senators, etc. Stuff like that.
      My thoughts were to make sure that only informed citizens were able to vote. Even some of our founding fathers emphasized that in order for our Republic to survive, it would require a moral, and informed citizenry.
      Nothing racist about that, as I prefer uninformed votes or all colors were not cast. I mean, if people with no clue are voting, we might as well just have an official coin flip instead of elections.
      But anyway, JZS said I was being racist, because that would unfairly target minorities.
      Is that not a racist statement in itself?
      I remember quite a few other posters being quite offended by your implication JZS.
      JZS, would you prefer I change my usage to BARRYCARE?
      You see, I only want it associated with the man, just like when I, and others, used the term HILLARYCARE.
      Ya got that?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:25pm

      Hey JZS,

      You like the way I squeezed all that content in to just one post?

      I thought you would.

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    • Maji
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:25pm

      JZS
      I totally agree with you!!…..you are a idiot!!
      I think thats what you’re trying to say.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:33pm

      They just need some… MommaCare… fo tah po chillen!

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 12:46am

      Hey JZS,

      Over in the Mormon story, you blew it again and put your nice little hack job on the back page, instead of the front page.

      Just like every other time you do that………are you going to copy and paste it to the front page later when you realize your mistake?

      We know you hate missing out on all that face time.

      I think you probably get docked a few bucks for that too…….huh?

      You’re welcome.

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    • 22AUTOMATIC
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 1:18am

      Here’s a good article on this very subject and how, when backed in the corner, Progressives inject race into the mix as a last ditch effort to distract. See link below

      https://lewwaters.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/when-the-going-gets-tough-play-the-race-card/

      Also, in 2009 emails were leaked from the democratic party where they were discussing falsely accusing the GOP of being “racist” as a preplanned way to keep them in a box. I searched but could not find those emails again. If anyone could find them and post them on here it would be much appreciated. They were leaked about the same time that “climate gate” emails were leaked.

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    • anomnomnommm
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 1:30am

      @JZS

      He should be calling it Romneycare all of the time. His handling of the entire healthcare issue is disgusting. Since he first came into the running he hasn’t kept a policy straight – there isn‘t much he wouldn’t do to get to be President, including sacrificing his values, whatever they are.

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      @anomnomnommm
      Obama will bring back the holocaust and destroy America. Obama sucks O.M.G. Nazi Socialist Atheists Acorn Muslim Birth certificate Patriots Freedom Founding Fathers Anyone but Obama 2012 you’re an idiot. your* youre?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 1:53am

      Hey nommynom,

      I notice in your list of dirty words, you included……..

      Patriot
      Freedom
      Founding Fathers

      Well isn’t that special……..just like you.

      Have you been able to wash off the ows stink yet?

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  • Cavy from VA
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:12pm

    When the Clinton’s tried to enact something similar … didn’t “They” call it “Hillary Care” … Since Clinton was the real “First Black President” … I guess it was racist to call her/his version “Hillary Care”.
    I’m fully convinced that these “progressives” were the ones on the playground who argued with you by saying “SO There!” … freaking Airheads … all of them.

    TEA!!

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  • Dde13
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:12pm

    What a load of crap!!!!!
    It’s his SIGNATURE LEGISLATION… His name is on it….He owns it….what’s he going to do blame someone else when it FAILS?
    It’s surely not a “AFFORDABLE HEATH CARE act”…….21 new taxes and over 2 trillion and counting!!!

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:06pm

      Exactly, Dde13.

      You are right on the money.

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  • historyguy48
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:10pm

    Comrades, of course Romney is a racist! Anyone who won’t kiss Dear Leaders a– is racist!
    Where’s the white hood and the bedsheet? I really dislike Communists and so do the guys in the bedsheets!
    I have more in common with them than I do with Dear Leader!

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    • marine249
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:32pm

      If O B

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    • marine249
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:52pm

      It’s so hot outside, the phone line is all tied up.

      If O BAMM A went to a meeting with the guys
      in bedsheets, do you thing the boys would have
      boo-ed him?

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:06pm

    Dang, I missed that yesterday. Thanks Blaze!

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  • nattybrooks
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:02pm

    they feel if they stick to the lies eventually people will believe it with that in mind what will they do when they have created so many new racists

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  • gbfreak
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:00pm

    It’s OBAMMIECARE

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    • Maji
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 11:27pm

      I think it’s really “I don’t care”!!

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  • marcus_arealius
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:58pm

    And one more thing – The media has people like me confused with people who give a crap what they say. I find it amusing that morons can actually land a job in the media, run by morons, of morons, for morons.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:55pm

    Romney cant be racist because Obamacare is essentially the same thing as Romneycare.

    Those liberal hacks are clueless

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  • ropati
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:54pm

    I heard Barry himself say he didn’t mind the term, Obamacare.

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    • BaltimoreJoe
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:16pm

      there use to be a graphic at Whitehouse.gov with this name ‘obamacare_chart.pdf that had one very large extremely dense page of graphics showing all the govt. entities and responsibility lines ….. what a mess. It is no longer there btw or if it is it’s under a different name.

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:53pm

    OOOH, I love the circus!

    Thanks, MSM.

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  • marcus_arealius
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:52pm

    Well OK now, lemme see, how about these:

    Sambocare
    Cooncare
    Shoeshineboycare
    Nwordcare
    Dumbarsecare
    Nocarecare
    Idontcare
    Dropdeadcare
    NoMDcare
    Butchercare

    — want more media? I’ve got more —

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  • Dougral Supports Israel
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:48pm

    Obamacare a racist term? How so? Obama wanted it and pushed for it. The NAACP’s people in Congress voted for it. People who opposed it were racist. So how is it that naming it after the man who likes to take credit for everything racist?

    BTW NAACP, when it starts to go bad (and it will) I’m going to float the proposal that we call it Obamadoesntcare.

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  • RLTW
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:47pm

    Obamacare Obamacare Obamacare Obamacare, Now I’m a white guy who married a black woman, my coal black father-in-law is my hero.

    Oh my poor mixed race daughter just doesn’t know who to hate would someone from the Naacp help. (SARCOFF)

    Fine, I’m a racist

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  • Calimann83
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:47pm

    this should surprise no one. EVERYTHING IS RACIEST.

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  • JACKTHETOAD
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:43pm

    Those freaks at msnbc know a lot about ‘boos’ don’t they? Holy wASSerman -schultz’s ghost, Batman.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:41pm

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    Oh ***** Please like ya’ll invite white folks over all the time…..

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  • Individualism
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:40pm

    Romney should call it Romneycare because its his legislation that he and the people he worked with created.

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    • seanscythe
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:44pm

      It’s ObamaTax! Not ObamaCare.

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    • MAX0O1
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:53pm

      NO dear. The difference-Obby care is a power grab with 21 new taxes and IRS police powers!!!!!
      SCARY!!!!

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    • RLTW
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:46pm

      Max, you can’t explain it like that, indi doesn’t care that people that work hard and produce have to pay more to make their lives easier.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:40pm

    WHAAAATTTT!!!!!!!
    Whoa, I should have wrapped my head in duct tape. How can they say using Obamacare is racist, when THEY use it all the time, and Nancy Pelosi has used it.

    I thought the left was PROUD of Obamacare.

    Next if Romeny mentions the word Kite, he is being Anti-Semitic, and I hope he never uses the word, “Concrete”, then he is just denigrating all Hispanics.

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  • godhatesacoward
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:40pm

    Really?????????

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  • OutOnTheTiles
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:39pm

    I‘ve been Booing Obamacare since before it’s inception. It’s a stupid idea. If Obama or Obamacare is the answer then it must have been a stupid question.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:38pm

    So were we racist when we referred to “Hillarycare” too?

    I’m so sick of those crazy bastards!!!

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  • tothepoint
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:38pm

    Americans will no longer permit themselves to be blackmailed into silence for fear of being falsely called “racist.”
    We will tell the truth regardless of where the chips fall.
    Obamacare is just that, nothing more.
    We will use the term despite the attempts by the racist NAACP and the media to pretend it is “racist” to stop truth from being told.

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  • Obamujahadeen
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:37pm

    THAT I can actually understand, he should have used that name of the actual law, Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance Reform or something. It would be tantamount to using “GhettoBama” or any other ‘nickname’ we see and I use all the time for Obarry, but we’re not running against the guy and the Media as Romney is.

    That being said, everything is racist to THAT segment of the African American population and MSM, the ones the NAACP represent and don’t mind being represented by them..

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 9:27pm

      Herman Cain calls it Obamacare so he is definitly racist.

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    • DIR
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:56pm

      If Obama is half white and he calls it Obamacare then he’s a racist too, well at least half of him is. I think Obama is a white black man, just like Zimmeran (the Z man) is a white mexican dude. The Republicans should make this point.

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