They couldn't even wait for tomorrow's paper. Key Graph from the website:
It also — and we wish this were coincidence, but we doubt it — conjurs up another loaded racial image.
The phrase dealing the race card "from the bottom of the deck" entered the national lexicon during the O.J. Simpson saga. Robert Shapiro, one of Mr. Simpson’s lawyers, famously declared of himself, Johnny Cochran and the rest of the Simpson defense team, "Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck."
You knew it was coming...race in this campaign was inevitable. I am surprised, however, that the "bottom of the deck" quote was so clearly linked to the O.J. case. Maybe I shouldn't be, but it does seem sloppy.
They also don't mince words about Obama's response, although I don't think it's quite this overt.
Mr. Obama called Mr. McCain on the ploy, saying, quite rightly, that the Republicans are trying to scare voters by pointing out that he "doesn’t look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills.’’
Maybe the NYTimes will go ahead and actually retract their endorsement from the primaries. Of course, this is exactly the foil the McCain camp is looking for.
Link to full Editorial:
http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/...