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playing with fire
By
Aziz Poonawalla
Newsweek is doing a seven-part story on the 2008 campaign which provides all manner of fascinating behind-the-scenes perspectives. The installment on the period of time spanning the debates is notable for the discussion of how the Otherization of Obama proceeded in the background: At the Clearwater rally, someone in the crowd used a racial epithet…
self-inflicted wound: was Ashley Todd the final nail?
By
Aziz Poonawalla
The story was sensational, and suspiciously stereotypical in invoking racial prejudices and conservative dogma about liberals’ irrationality. Sure enough, it was also a hoax: Ashley Todd, of College Station, Texas, confessed to making up the story about an attacker scratching a letter “B” into her face with a knife and will be charged with filing…
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