So we now find that Obama's been using Spike Lee's words from fictional speeches by Malcolm X in his SC stump speech as he campaigned around the state complaining about how those awful Clintons had dared to make race an issue in this campaign....

Telling "folk" in SC they've been "hoodwinked" and bamboozled"

hmmm.

But there's more.  Seems "Bamboozled" means more to both Spike and Barack too! Theres actually a movie called 'Bamboozled', that was also directed by Spike Lee. I'm not hoodwinking ya folks!

Let's go to the pages of the academic quarterly, the "Literary Review" to consider the deeper meaning behind all of this.

A Rhetoric Of Symbolic Identity: An Analysis Of Spike Lee's X And(1992) and Bamboozled (2000).

http://books.google.com/books?id=19gl1Pj Hqb0C&dq=malcolm+x+hoodwinked+bamboo zled

The film' Bamboozled' starts where Spike Lee's 'X' ends. The term bamboozled was used by Malcolm to illustrate white corporate America management, manipulation of ideology, and discourse within the public sphere. In the opening scene of Bamboozled, Malcom's voice is cleary heard, "you have been hoodwinked, bamboozled..."  The film centers on the "bamboozled effect" of blacks and how that, in turn, shapes and defies black identity.

From Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozled

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's success. The word "Bamboozled" means "purposefully confused, tricked or led astray".

The content is intended as satirical, with its show within a show featuring its characters, all in blackface, performing in a watermelon patch.

 

The script expresses rage and grief at media representations of black people, largely through the eyes of its moral center, Sloan Hopkins (played by Jada Pinkett Smith). Johnnie Cochran, and Al Sharpton (Cochran and Sharpton appear as themselves in the film, protesting the television series).

Synopsis

Pierre Delacroix , played by Damon Wayans, is an uptight Harvard-educated black man working for a television network that routinely rejects his proposals for what he sees as intelligent shows involving black people. He is further tormented by his boss Thomas Dunwitty (played by Michael Rapaport), a tactless, boorish white man who proudly proclaims that he is more black than Delacroix.

 

(Think Obama identifies with this movie a little?)

Facing the necessity of either coming up with a hit black-centric show or being fired, Delacroix decides to aim for the latter. If the network fires him, he rationalizes, it will release him from his employment contract, allowing him to seek work at another network. With help from his personal assistant, Sloan Hopkins (played by Jada Pinkett Smith), Delacroix decides to pitch a minstrel show, complete with black actors in blackface, in the belief that the network will reject such over-the-top racism and fire him on the spot.  To Delacroix's horror, not only does Dunwitty enthusiastically endorse the show, it also becomes hugely successful.

The film concludes with a long montage of racially insensitive and demeaning clips of black characters from Hollywood films of the first half of the 20th century.

Oh those damn Clintons.  Why do THEY have to keep bringing race into this campaign. Why can't they be more like Barack, abide by the pledge (wink, wink!), and just quote from their favorite movies when they speak!  Like 'Birth of the Nation' or something...

Thursday in SC President Clinton responded to a CNN reporter who grabbed him on his way out of a event and asked him to respond to charges from Dick Harpootlian, a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party and a supporter of Barack Obama, who said some of Bill Clinton's recent remarks on the campaign trail were appeals based on race and gender. He said the comments were meant to "suppresses the vote, demoralize voters, and distort the record," and said they were "reminiscent of Lee Atwater."

Bill responded to these charges and the reporter calmly and truthfully, which of course, set the media on another round of false tales that the President had "exploded", distorted and lied.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200 8/01/23/bill-clinton-gets-upset-with-cnn -reporter/

"This rhetoric is getting a little carried away here. And let me remind you, my ultimate answer is this -- there are still two people around who marched with Martin Luther King and risked their lives, John Lewis and Reverend Andrew Young. They both said that Hillary was right and the people who attacked her were wrong, and that she did not play the race card, but they did.

"So I don't have to defend myself from Dick Harpootlian. I will just refer you to John Lewis and Andrew Young. And let him go get in an argument with them about it.

Of course, the entire press corps went crazy and breathless about this - but STILL refused to present the Presidents POV.  They pretended complete confusion about his charge of Obama's "hit job", even though it was clear the President was referring to the companion piece to the "Punjab' memo that attacked Clinton's finances that Obamas campaign had tried to silently push with the press corps. They feigned confusion even though the President had been quite specific about what he meant by this up in NH.

Here's John Lewis on PBS News Hour, which was not reported on anywhere else in the media.  No where.  Just this little blog.  Google it to see.  The only place Rep. Lewis's response has been seen is here and on a few blogs who have picked it up from here. Even after the President said go look to the hero Lewis, they still all have refused to show you his words. These words:

"It is unfortunate that people have tried to distort what Mrs. Clinton had to say about Dr. King."

"I think there has been a deliberate and systematic attempt by some people in the Obama campaign to really fan the flames about race and to really distort what Senator Clinton said.  I understood and I think most right thinking people understood what she said.

"President and Senator Clinton have a record, a history, a very long history of bringing people together. No right thinking American would ever think that Senator or President Clinton would ever do anything that would use the race card"

"I must tell you...I'm trying to set the record straight...the Obama camp is doing something else, theyr'e sending out memos to the media trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card."

-Rep. John Lewis on News Hour 1/14

Is that clear enough? Don't you think in fairness that the American people should get to hear that point of view from a civil rights icon and true national hero?

But the media refuses to report anything that doesnt fit their script that the Clintons are truly bad and loathsome scoundrels.

Through distortion and deception the press corps is once again "hoodwinking" many voters who don't as yet know not to trust these unworthy bastard sons of Cronkite, Lippman and Reston. They're "Bamboozling" a large and gullible segment of the American people who would never consider the idea that our news media has become so corrupted that they are as much of the problem as the Bushies, the Abramhoffs, the Delays all added together.

Remember all the media darlings who now savage Hillary and promote Obama; Russert, Mathewss Dowd, Rich, Arianna, Sullivan. They all worked to destroy Gore in 2000 and elect Dubya to the White House. Remember these are obamas friends. Remember that and wonder why.