Posted by M. Wright | Filed in: BRCK BM, Media
Is Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) comparing BRCK BM to our Lord and Savior?
There’s an interesting comment over at the Commercial Appeal article on Cohen’s ridiculous statement:
Wow, quickest headline change I’ve seen here. “Cohen compares Obama to Jesus” almost immediately disappeared and became “Cohen: Jesus was a Community Organizer.” Guess Otis must’ve figured the headline would hurt his boy.
There’s no Google cache of the old headline, but the url still reads:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/sep/10/cohen-compares-obama-jesus/
UPDATE: I understood the last line of the comment excerpted above as a benign, colloquial reference to the CA’s endorsement of Steve Cohen, who the editorial staff would not want to “hurt.” Others apparently interpret it as an unambiguous, racially-charged reference to BRCK BM. I had briefly considered leaving that line out simply because it’s speculative and unnecessary to the issue I wanted to call out — the CA’s revisionist headline. But now I’m sorry that I didn’t, because the peanut gallery will claim it as evidence of veiled racism on my part. That’s sad and pathetic, but true. But I won’t remove it now, because I don’t subscribe to revisionism myself. I will only point out that the peanut gallery apparently ignored Steve Cohen’s comparison of BRCK BM to Christ, his comparison of Gov Palin to Pontius Pilate (the man who condemned Christ to death on a cross), and the CA’s revisionism, in order to focus on an ambiguous comment somebody else made, in order to smear me. Such is the current state of the radical Left.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:25 am
Wouldn’t consider that veiled racism, but referring to a U.S. Senator who happens to be African-American as “BRCK BM” qualifies as overt racism.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Um Mick– I’m only shocked by the quote, not not by your unsurprising post. I point that out in comments. Although I am inclined to agree with b.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:45 am
The genesis of BRCK BM is explained here; ironically, given this post, it’s a reference to his messianic attraction (not his race).
September 11th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Just curious… how exactly is the statement “Jesus was a community organizer” more offensive than your comparison of Barack Obama to YHVH? Isn’t that a little… I don’t know… hypocritical?
September 11th, 2008 at 11:41 am
The difference is sarcasm; my term was created more to lampoon the Senator’s religious-like following than the man himself. Cohen’s conceit, meanwhile, is a prime example of the very phenomenon I mock.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
I’m still wondering if he was trying to set a fashion trend with that hairdo.