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Daily Show: How can Obama get Clinton to stop ‘talking sh*t to whitey’
By David EdwardsIn her latest outburst to USA Today, Hillary Clinton has made the most explicit use yet of the argument that she and she alone can appeal to white voters.
“Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans is weakening again,” Clinton said, apparently citing an Associated Press article, which also found “how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
The boos that followed that remark from the Daily Show’s audience were just the sound of “the country healing,” Jon Stewart said Thursday. He and correspondent Rob Riggle delved into their “analysis” of Clinton’s statement.
“Obviously, those words from Senator Clinton struck the Obama campaign as deeply, deeply true,” Riggle deadpanned.
“Right now he only has two choices: One he can quickly get lots of white people to finish college,” but there’s probably not enough time for that.
“This leaves him with choice number two: Convince white people to stop working so hard,” he joked, “become the kind of non-hardworking Americans that make up Obama’s base.”
Stewart asked what other options Obama might have to “dig himself out of his apparently hopeless first-place hole.”
“The thought is he can beg her to take his money,” Riggle said, referencing Clinton’s massive debt and personal loans to her campaign. Event that might not work, though. “He’d have to put something else on the table, a cabinet post, maybe the vice presidency.”
Would Clinton accept such a proposal?
“At this point she would be ready to accept Barack Obama as vice president, or secretary of state,” Riggle joked. “And in my opinion he should take the deal.
“Otherwise it’s three more months of her talking shit to whitey.”
This video is from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, broadcast May 8, 2008.
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Hillary must be on drugs if she thinks the nomination is hers. Maybe she could run as an independent ala Joe scumbag Leiberman and REALLY damage the democratic party. She has the potential to screw things up so much more than they already are. As an (I) she could also name McInsane as her VP choice too.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Reading on Huffpo that the superdelegates are getting deluged with threatening emails from Hillary’s supporters. I’m sure that will go over good. “If you don’t vote for Hillary I’m voting for McCain”. The emails are generating the contempt they deserve. Though I guess blackmail by each individual supporter is the only route left.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Hillary is calling for more debates? after 22 debates? have we not heard enough. even A groung hog knows when to quit.The fat lady is singing so loud she lost her voice.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
So everyone wants to beat up Hillary because she acknowledges whites are voting for her but the same liberal weenies ignore the fact that 90% of blacks have voted for Obama. If it wan’t for rascism, black in this case, you won’t even know who Obama was if you didn’t live in Illinois.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
This election, I witnessed the wheat being separated from the shaft, when it came to selection and elections. I am so proud that “United we Stand”, finally has definition.
Those who dissent are part of the 20 percentile who still support Bush/Cheney. But, thak goodness a dieing breed… Now all we have to do is correct the voting apparatus put in place by the Bush Administration…