[lbo-talk] Ralph: Obama an Uncle Tom?

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Nov 5 16:28:24 PST 2008


On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Lenin's Tomb wrote:


> Well, if he is irrelevant, then why are liberals so anxious to help
> Fox News slime him over a petty solecism?

With all due deference, I'm afraid you and James Heartfield are two Brits, separated from America by a common language, and you both have completely no idea how amazingly off-key the insult "Uncle Tom" sounds to us in that context. It's like you dropped an orchestra on a whoopee pillow.

Michael



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