A New Romney Super PAC Calls President Obama ‘Racist’
A new Super Pac working to get Mitt Romney elected goes by the name fightbigotry.com, and if you know how Republicans operate you can probably already guess that they’re not “fighting bigotry” at all. In actuality, this is a horribly bigoted group promoting an agenda of “reverse racism,” telling white conservatives that they’ve been victimized by the election of a black President: FightBigotry.com Super PAC Smears Obama for Racism.
FightBigotry.com, a new Super PAC registered with the Federal Election Commission this week, makes no bones about its aim. It intends to run an attack ad that it says will hit President Barack Obama for “his disturbing, yet crystal-clear pattern of tacitly defending black racism against white folks before and since being elected president.”
FightBigotry.com’s founder and treasurer is Stephen Marks, a well-known Republican opposition researcher whose 2008 book Confessions of a Political Hitman detailed his work in what he called “the dark side of politics.” In 2000, he launched an attack ad under the misleading name “Americans Against Hate,” attempting to tie Al Gore to controversial comments by Rev. Al Sharpton. Another Marks spot in 2004 attempted to link John Kerry to convicted murderer Willie Horton. He was forced to retract a claim in the book about then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), acknowledging that “the information was not accurate.”
Here’s their ugly race-baiting advertisement. This is where the right wing has gone since the election of Obama — flat out racist insanity.