The new “bombshell” Obama race video which the Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson called, “a dog siren,” has failed to impress even the Romney campaign because the majority of it is actually just old news.
A video “tease” was promoted on the Drudge Report before it aired for the first time on FOX News Tuesday night in a reportedly “breaking news” moment with Carlson and Sean Hannity.
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“It could dramatically impact the race for the White House,” said Hannity in a video preview.
But unfortunately for Carlson and Romney supporters, it is not dramatically impacting anything.
Racism against white people just doesn’t strike a loud enough chord, especially when it comes from a video that has been available (in portions) to the public for five years now.
The video shows then-Senator Obama giving a heated speech in 2007 to a heavily black audience at Hampton University in Virginia where he claims the federal government purposely withheld money from Hurricane Katrina relief victims because the recipients were predominantly black. He also praises his controversial black supremacist pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright and sports a new accent emphasizing his black roots.
It all sounds terribly controversial, but the problem is that it surfaced multiple times during the 2008 campaign and portions of the same video have already been aired on CNN and and FOX News. Carlson even aired a portion of it himself during his 2007 MSNBC show.
“I’m Democrat and am forced to vote Republican because of your racist candidate, Obama. He will never be president,” reads one YouTube comment from the video posted four years ago.
If it didn’t help Hillary Clinton or John McCain beat Obama then, it is not going to help Mitt Romney now.
The Rev. Wright support has already been brought to light and Obama survived it, and claims about him appearing more black to try to get more votes have already been brought forward and he has survived those too. These tactics have been tried and they have failed and there is nothing in this video that brings anything new to the table.
Even the Romney campaign has refused to comment on the video content and has denied any involvement in its release.
Frankly, Hannity and Carlson are throwing out a red herring, desperate cries for the public to get as enraged over this video as they did over Romney’s 47 percent video in hopes of reviving a faltering Romney voter base.
If this is the one and only big game-changing October Surprise the conservatives have been waiting for, they should say goodbye to a Republican White House for the next four years. Perhaps it is a better use of our time to focus upon the plethora of more recent and more substantial failures of Obama- foreign policy failures in Libya, the dismal economy, student loan debt increases, etc.
