When Republicans Attack

Remember those phony emails “proving” that Barack Obama was a Muslim? Apparently the McCain Campaign wants you to think he’s Japanese, in their latest web ad, “McCain Is Right.”

Not only does the ad embed a rising  sun image in the background:

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It also scrolls the text across so that for a few frames the alphabet doesn’t seem western:

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And the final frames present a foreign-looking Obama (notice goatee-like shadow on Obama’s chin and the square cropping of his jaw).

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Such a portrayal fits in with the Republican tactic of implying that Obama “is not one of us” (a favorite rhetorical trick of Sarah Palin).

At least the emails were more open in their lies.