Bob is a Racist - http://youtu.be/AbULBAjstBA

I could see that video turned into an incredible ad. No voice over needed. Just let it play and at the end, "I'm Mitt Romney and I approved this message." Landslide.

I think that the writer concluded that simply recording the words of this person on a video is a racist action. I wonder if that means it is a hate crime?

The good news is that is a term is over-used, people begin ignoring it. When I watch such a video, I think of Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams and it keeps it all in perspective. Mia Love is proof the Black gene pool is not totally depleted.

That woman sounds like Gearldine( The Devil Made me do it) from the Flip Wilson show.

It may be sterotypical, bbut not racist. The ad spekas for itself, there is no editing, no doctoring of the video. Maybe some racists will enjoy the video too much, some black people will cringe. but the video is not racist, but indicative of some failures in society.

OMG #5! I said the same thing to my dad last night when I heard it. I asked him if Flip Wilson had been resurrected (may Flip RIP). "Tha's righ' hunny."
Seriously, was Flip being racist when he did it? I thought it was hilarious.

FTA: Strictly speaking, it's not a government-funded program: the telephone companies make payments to a fund administered by a non-profit called the Universal Service Administrative Company, but anyone with a phone bill chips in through a surcharge on their service.

What a crock. It's paid for by consumers via Congressional legislation.

FTA: Is this video racist? Let's start by saying it's racial.

Right. It's "racial" because: a) she happens to be black, apparently "poor" (though how is that proven?).
She's also pretty stupid, IMO - since SHE obviously thinks the phones are "Obama phones".

But that's the whole issue - Obama DEPENDS on people like this woman.
But to call this racist - or "racial" as the too-clever-by-half author calls it - is pathetic at best, and a blatant lie at the worst.

First it was the dog eating Obama.
Then it becomes the Obama give-away phone.
To notice the absurdity of Obama is just racist.

She's a perfect representation of failed liberal policies. Period.

These are W Phones, not Obama Phones. Common misperception; the program rolled out in 2008, but as usual, the Republicans get no credit for their progressive programs.

She's a typical Obama-supporter, exposed.

Showing liberalism's true face (that is, being leeches on the productive) is apparently racism.

If the same video had shown a white Obama supporter then it would have been deemed racist for claiming that the only whites who support Obama are complete idiots.

Again, it is not possible to criticize Obama or any of his supporters for any reason whatsoever without some liberal calling you a racist.

Of course, this is all Bush's fault.

I am so tired of this tactic ...

... it may be racist, but above all else, it is a true representation of the situation.

If the woman wasn't a crackhead wino ...

... she would be a productive citizen and not a problem.

The meme on rightwing blogs became that it was an angry mob in search of "Obama money."

The meme of left wingers everywhere is that conservatives are racist. Nothing can happen in American politics unless there is a racial component. Ms. Reeves is a disgusting example of this racism.

And I suppose it isn't racist for Samuel L. Jackson to tell his fellow black people to "Wake the F*** UP!" and get out and vote for the black guy?

The "Its from Obama" message might be delivered along with the phone, either in writing or verbally during the application process.

And the category of "racial" as opposed to "racist" is a good one, in the same way that "sexual" is usually more apt than, "sexist".

Talk about twisted logic to get a conclusion this idiot writer wanted

To sign up for the ObamaPhone - go to www.Obamaphone.net
The 47% is a government statistic.
Where are the videos of the Romney supporters that are less than MENSA material?

I know a bunch of people who get the phones along with their food stamps, by & large mostly low class trash, the result of years on welfare. Lots of white ones in the bunch. No, its not a racist thing.

I was wondering about the provenance of the cellular phone services so elegantly articulated by that fetching young lady on YouTube yesterday. Elspeth covered that, but seems to have embellished the story somewhat.

Obama has set back the inner city blacks back 30 years. The fact that they still want to vote for him on the basis of his skin color shows how irrelevant and hopelessly lost they really are becoming. People like this will always be a blight on society.

That woman would vote for Obama whether she received a `free` phone or not.

It that sounds racist too bad...

Well, she IS black. Not too many women of other races make complete fools of themselves in public over a phone.

Everything that reveals the truth is racist.

#21, superb!!

#25,hear, hear!!

My first thought when I saw the article, [not the video] ..... was..... How Sad! ........ Selling your self to the D Party for a lousy Cell Phone.!!!!!

Is that racist? and if so ....how?

What is sad ...... is that so many people are for sell to the Ds for so little .......

Do they think so poorly of themselves that they put S-O-O-O low a value on Themselves and their Freedom!!!!!!!

And if so ...... WHO put them in that position?

Not the 300,000 Union troops who died to free them ........ nor the R. Congressmen who passed the 1950s Civil Rights........ legislation....

Maybe it was ..... and continues to be the D. politicians who after the C W disenfranchised them in the South ......... and who have for over a hundred years in the North ...... buought them and their votes for crumbs and small gifts .... phones and $10 bills each election.....

How tragic and How Pitiful..... NOT HOW RACIST.

That woman is the face of the 'rat party. Use her for your logo, not the donkey.

What that video shows is the black CULTURE as planned by Lyndon Baines Johnson.

It appears that this darling sweet talker is one of the protesters paid by the S.E.I.U ($11 an hr.) to attend this Mitt Romney event in Cleveland.

What's the big deal? She doesn't look much more ridiculous than most of what went on at the DNC. 0bama gives his supporters 'free stuff' and the recipients of 'free stuff' support 0bama. Look at all of the cronyism that has been exposed, so far. 0's buddies at solindra got millions, this woman got a free phone. Same principle. She just happens to be on video, excited about her handouts. Meanwhile, the fat demoRats hide with the big handouts.

Actually, the free-phone program began in 1984 under President Reagan. It was NOT caused by "progressive Republicans" but by a 40 year demonrat controlled Congress. President Reagan didn't supply the LANDLINES, anymore than obama does. TAXPAYERS pay for them...obama just greatly expanded the program and added Cell Phones, which weren't a necessity (sarcasm) in the 1980's..If the Ms.Reeve really wants to investigate "racism" she need look no further than at the face of the woman screaming about Mitt Romney and how much he "sucks". Good Grief!

Elspeth is the wife or shackup of Scott Beauchamp, the maggot who made up stories about war atrocities for the New Republic to smear the U.S. military. Why anything that Elspeth says now has any credibility whatsoever makes zero sense to me.

#21, Of course she embellished the story. This is the same Elspeth Reeve who fact checked her husband Scott Beauchamp's work for her then employer, the New Republic.

How far the level of talent at the Atlantic has fallen.

I'll bet it takes the total taxes of more than a few wage earners to support this woman and her brood. The shame of it all is that her vote (If she votes only once) cancels out mine. Uh, does that make me racist?

A "black woman with messed-up teeth" who supports Obama so the writer assumes she's "poor"?

Who's a racist?

Um, Rush has a radio show. How would anyone know that the woman was African-American? He didn't say she was. Gee, I am confused. I think someone is embarrased by what this woman said and rather than attempting to defend it they accuse the people who play or post it of being evil racists.