RNC Chair: Rev. Wright Story is Obama's Fault

Posted on May 21, 2012 at 1:43 pm by Bob Cesca

Cantina alien Reince Priebus thinks the Obama campaign “put out” the Rev. Wright story this time around because its trying to distract voters. Seriously, he said that.

“I know how it works,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus insisted to CNN’s Candy Crowley. “It’s the Democrats and Barack Obama that want the story out there. He wants this story to play out in the media because for every day that [Obama strategist] David Axelrod and this President don’t have to talk about their broken promises when it comes to jobs, the debt, and the deficit — and the more time they can talk about hypotheticals that may or may not come true — is a day they want to win on.”

Oh yes, because every minute spent on Rev. Wright is a total win for the president and not any sort of ugly race-driven disaster. Next thing he’ll say the president is responsible for all of Romney’s various lies and gaffes, too. Distractions!

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  • GrafZeppelin127

    These people are absolutely brilliant at this.

    I’m convinced that Republican politics has become an elaborate and absolutely fascinating form of improvisational theatre. Sure, all politics is performance art to some degree, but this is something different, something new. They’ve created this whole alternate universe (like the Star Wars or Star Trek universe) and they’re actually performing in-character, in-universe, as if improvising dialogue for a scene. And they’re really, really good at it.

    Republican politicians and media enablers are actors in a play; a play in which supply-side economics has always worked; a play in which most Americans want to live under Biblical law; a play in which white Christians are an historically oppressed, victimized minority; a play in which Ronald Reagan cut spending, balanced the budget, and defeated Communism™ singlehandedly; a play in which Hitler was a liberal and Jesus was a conservative; a play in which a Republican president’s policies, programs, initiatives, commitments and obligations disappear when he leaves office; a play in which the United States had a booming economy, a balanced budget, full employment, and zero national debt at 11:59 a.m. on 20 January 2009.

    It’s incredible, if you think about it, how they can maintain the focus and the energy to be actors in a play, to keep up this improv act 24/7, for years and years and years.

    • chris castle

      Excellent description. I also like Maher’s dispatches from the bubble. I am friends with many conservatives who simply do not want to speak in facts, data, reality, etc. Maybe it’s some form of mass delusion…

      • Victor_the_Crab

        See Calvus’ comments to prove your point.

      • GrafZeppelin127

        It’s not that they “do not want to speak in facts, data, reality, etc.” It’s that the facts, data, reality, etc. that they perceive, that they “know,” that they are conscious of, are not the same facts, data, reality, etc. that the rest of us perceive, know, and are conscious of.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EZEJWEH3KKLXVL5LLAA3E7UTRQ Calvus

    All things considered isn’t it true that all the Rev. Wright stuff all over in the media does distract from all of Obama’s broken promises and unattained voluntarily touted goals when ultimately the economy should and will decide the November election?

    I agree with the idea that Obama team or Democrats putting it out there is odd, but it wouldn’t shock me either if it were proven true.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_S7NUGMJ2FDHYATRLWFEFCC5CQI schemata

      Awww, no pony?

  • i_a_c

    This is the same line they used when the GOP embarrassed itself over contraception. It’s Obama’s fault the GOP is against birth control! He used Jedi mind tricks on us!

  • Victor_the_Crab

    This is an improvement from Michael Steele?

  • bphoon

    “I know how it works,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus insisted to CNN’s Candy Crowley.

    He “know(s) how this works” because this is something he’d try to do.

    It’s quite a stretch. That GOP honchos would think that anyone can follow, much less believe, a convoluted string of “logic” like this is beyond me.

    In my experience, “logical” stretches like this involving Machiavellian machinations, conspiracy theories and the like are a sign of desperation. They don’t have a record worth running on, the opposition is seizing the initiative, their candidate is a suit full of nothing that even they don’t like and they gotta put something out so someone opens his mouth and out tumbles all this shit. And with a straight face. Amazing how these people can sleep at night and look at themselves in the mirror in the morning, assuming they do.

    If they’re desperate enough to put something like this out now just imagine what they’ll be coming up with this fall!