AMERICAblog: Former Huckabee campaign manager, and RNC chair wannabe, distributes racist anti-Obama song for Christmas
Panasit Ch
· 1 year ago
They make fun of us using bigotry. We make fun of them using common sense.
coolcatdaddy
· 1 year ago
Advertising and marketing proves that some people aren't moved or motivated by common sense, just by fear or bigotry.
Isn't it funny how Republicans go on about community, family and crap and can have some of the biggest disregard for other people? I'm sorry - I still think that many hardcore conservatives are functional in society, but still very mentally ill.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Well since the GOP made a pact with the devil of the white trash bigot in Nixon's 1968 "Southern Strategy", forty years of failed GOP economics, etc, has left the party in a total shambles. Racist jokes about the President-Elect are all they have now. This is ALL they have. Negro jokes. Oh and Caribou Barbie. Good luck with that shit, GOP. Wishing you the happiest of New Years', Republicans. If this is who you are, and all you got, well then all I can say is that you'd have been better off with euthanasia in 2000 when Al Gore was the REAL president. Racist jokes and Caribou Barbie??? Jesus, fuck me sideways in traffic.
cowboyneok
· 1 year ago
OH.MY.GOD! I wonder if they would try that with Condi Rice? "Condi the magic negro" or "Colin (Powell) the magic negro" They are such hateful racists! I can't believe Condi Rice constantly tries to defend that racist bunch, and claim Democrats are the ones who are somehow racists... please explain, Condi...
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Powell, Rice, Blackwell, Steele, et al. don't fathom how much they are treated like the Help by the GOP. It's tragic.
Bush Bites
· 1 year ago
They need a name for themselves.
Maybe the "Uncle Tom's Cabin Republicans."
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
You don't understand. It is far, far, far better to live in the big house than to work in the fields. Ethics, principles, courage are all noble sounding words, but don't put food in the belly. And there are some like Clarence Thomas who absolutely hate the Niggers, is sure he is really white, can wash it all off at any time if he just takes a shower. Explains the smell though.
SusanS
· 1 year ago
This is getting to be so common that it would be nice if the media made a bigger deal of it by connecting all the dots. Here are two recent examples from Republican leaders in Tampa.
This demonstrates the continued KKK tactics of the Republican Party. The drug addict Limbaugh and his FOX news cronies continue to wallow in the mud. That is where they are comfortable, they is where they belong. I believe most Americans are tired of this type of divisive behavior as demonstrated by the election of Barack Obama receiving the most votes in history for an American President. Bush claims there has not been another terrorist attack since 9/11. I disagree! Terrorists tactics are alive and well in the Republican Party lead by the likes of Palin, McCain, Limbaugh, Hannity and many other hate mongers. If Guantanamo is good enough to house terrorists, it should be good enough to house the likes of these bottom feeders.
Hardy Haberman
· 1 year ago
You can take the man out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the man!
triple7s
· 1 year ago
Haven't we figured out YET, that EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS/FUNDIES are the MOST hate filled, racist, bigoted people on earth. Just ahead of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Time after time they prove that to be the case.
JustAnOldLady
· 1 year ago
Amen to that one........
tofubo
· 1 year ago
OT (by the way, the republicans aren't racist, look at all the minorities they have in congress)
i'm confused, am i to deny that it was -10 degrees three days ago or 48 now ??
nicho
· 1 year ago
WHat makes you think this will hurt him with the party? This is the party of Sarah Palin, for crying out loud. 58,000,000 Republicans voted for that sorry piece of trash.
teresaInPa
· 1 year ago
Do you know Palin's record in Alaska on gay rights? You may not like her religious views and neither do I, but she did the right thing legislatively. She is not a sorry piece of trash. She is just a person your disagree with.
Bush Bites
· 1 year ago
Well, she's kinda dumb too.
6 years and 5 schools to get a shitty communications degree.
RitornaVincitor
· 1 year ago
A communications degree, yet she can't communicate an answer to a simple question, or even use grammatical English.
Katie Couric asked her to name any decisions by the United States Supreme Court that she disagreed with, beyond Roe v. Wade.
Sara Palin: “Hmmm,” (brief silence) “Well, let’s see. There’s — of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but — — .”
Given a second chance to name any Supreme Court decision she disagreed with she said, "Well, I would think of any, again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level, maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as a mayor, and then as a governor and even as a vice president, if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.”
When asked if she believes in the constitutional right to privacy which is opposed by conservatives she said, “I do. And I believe that individual states can best handle what the people within the different constituencies in the 50 states would like to see their will ushered in in an issue like that.”
Couric said, "When it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?”
Sara Palin: “I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.”
Couric: “What specifically?”
Palin: “Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.”
When Couric tried one last time, Palin responded: “I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, ‘Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?’ Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.”
That is a far cry from abominable. She has no statement on many of the issues, and her marriage stance is no different from Obama's. I am sick of hate crimes legislation being a marker for gay rights. I am gay and I am very much against hate crimes legislation, so one can be against such legislation and still support gay rights. Do I wish Palin supported gay marriage? Sure, I wish everyone would, including our president-elect. The fact is, Palin is not great on gay rights, but she's not an abomination by any means. She signed pro-gay legislation into law, and that counts for something.
RitornaVincitor
· 1 year ago
I agree. Sara Palin's record on gay rights is far from abominable. Abominable would voting to deport gays to concentration camps. Sara's record on gay rights is simply awful.
Tony D
· 1 year ago
He claims it was "satire."
Im a big fan of satire.. AAAAAAAAAAAND I dont get this one.
limbaugh used to play this 'song' on the air. his excuse was he was just making fun of a piece from the la times. his listeners will largely believe anything
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
You mean Rush Limp balls?
Apphouse50
· 1 year ago
I'm toying with the idea that these people are so filled with self-loathing just under the surface of their consciousness that they have put themselves on self-destruct now. Taken out to its logical conclusion, the self-hatred just keeps building as they do more and more to hurt and marginalize themselves. In my darker moments I take pleasure in it, but then I recall all the people who they harm in the process.
It's almost like they can't help themselves. But then, I'd have to feel sorry for them, and I don't. Scroom.
Mark in Florida
· 1 year ago
It's only satire if you know the people actually think the opposite of the satire. Clearly the republican party 'big tent' also is a haven for knuckle dragging, gun totin', sixth grade ecucated racist bigots. Thus, making this NOT satire.
Keep talking....these people are so ten minutes ago...
Rick Cain
· 1 year ago
No this is great stuff. The GOP finally exposed for what it is. The rich white peoples party. That should get them lots of votes in 2010.
Bush Bites
· 1 year ago
There hasn't been a decent Republican since Gerald Ford.
They've turned from a party of square but honorable establishment candidates to a party of crooked, racist, incompetent and hateful redneck candidates.
Bush Bites
· 1 year ago
Oddly, Broder sniffs close to the truth:
All the signs are that the stimulus spending will be opposed by congressional Republicans, whose shrunken ranks are increasingly dominated by right-wing Southerners who care not what their stance does to harm the party's national image.
I think, frankly, the Southern Wingnuts don't care what they do to the national party. They WANT to keep it a regional redneck party, because that's how they're winning elections in their own states. If they have to lose another couple of Northern Colleagues to keep it going, well, that's a risk they're willing to take.
scytherius
· 1 year ago
Oh PLEASE let them keep at it. They continue to marginalize themselves. Could care less about the 25% but the 75% see them for what they are. 65 senate seats for Dems after 2010
ComradeRutherford
· 1 year ago
I don't see how this song could possibly hurt the Republican Party at all. This is their base, the hard-core hate-filled racist. This song will only help to bolster the GOP for revealing that bigotry is at the core of being a Republican. The GOP has had to pretend that racism was bad for the last 60 years. But now that the MSM and Talk Radio have convinced 30% of Americans that racism is alright, they don't have to hid it any more.
And don't forget the double-standard. "Hypocrisy is the key to self-fulfilling prophesy". Double-Think is mandatory to be a Republican.
wearing out my F key
· 1 year ago
in the south, white people don't like blacks as a group, but like them just fine as individuals. in the north, they like blacks as a group, but don't like them one on one.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
More often than many folks suspect, Southerners both white and black are keenly aware of blood lines that entangle city and country cousins in ways that Northerners seem not to realize are there. When your third cousin's children stop at the door to offer fresh citrus, you don't say no but you also don't say come in. Maybe Northerners aren't sure who their third cousins are.
Atlanta Sane
· 1 year ago
in the GA. metro county I live in, the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce used the expression Nasty N...ggers with a group of Chamber folks, including the daughter-in-law of the District Congressman. You guessed it, laughs all around and nothing done. In a sane world, it would have been a firing offense.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Seriously, could these people set the GOP, and the southern Republicans, back any further?
Wrong! Not a setback because this is who the Republicans are, they are not something separate from racism, it is the key to what the party is. Below in this thread, someone regrets the lassing of Gerald Ford, the last decent Republicans. Yes, since that time, racism, hatred, bigotry have become core to the Republican identity. They see themselves as Southern Republicans first and apart from being part of this nation and that is why they don't mind destroying the nation.
The irony is they accuse the Democrats of hating this nation, of being traitors and wanting to destroy America. Yeah! Right! As usual, they are speaking about themselves.
Chit
· 1 year ago
I don't think it is racist. The title is taken from an Ehrenstein column.
Joe Bacon
· 1 year ago
Democrats sleep in bedsheets but Republicans wear them.
Webster
· 1 year ago
Maybe Obama might want to invite Saltsman to sing this song alongside Aretha Franklin at the inauguration--all in the interest of having that dialogue-thingy going on?
You know, in line with the Warren agree-to-disagree rhetoric? It's just a joke after all. Kinda like the LGBT vote.
scytherius
· 1 year ago
Oh god please let him win RNC chair
Indigo
· 1 year ago
That's mighty Caucasian of them! :-)
Jules
· 1 year ago
I guess he'll be added to the Inaugural lineup any second now! And really, that's what Obama should do - you know, prove how open he is to "working with those who disagree with us". And the moment he invites this racist to join the inaugural festivities, is exactly the moment I'll forgive him for Rick Warren.
Atlanta Sane
· 1 year ago
I agree. What a chance to walk the walk....of course before this, Rush and Sean were always available for an invitation.
Lolis
· 1 year ago
Well if you listen to the song it actually quotes Joe Biden with his clean and articulate comment. Biden and his wife be honored at the inauguration.
doggril
· 1 year ago
I'm not sure it would. The business wing of the Republican party has tolerated racists for decades. My guess is that they feel they need to pander to them more than ever now.
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
I'm wondering if any of those racist assholes have any mixed race grandchildren? There is more of that in the south than they would let on since younger people these days think very little like their parents (except where they're virtually imprisoned and brainwashed).
Really, they're a dying breed, and scattered all over the country, not exclusive to the south at all--some just cover themselves better in suits and ties.
Glenn I
· 1 year ago
grandchildren? I bet they have mixed race grandparents!
tacoeatingzebra
· 1 year ago
having lived my entire life in birmingham, alabama and having relatives throughout the south, i can tell you that nothing drives these people's worldview like racism. sure, they're often times homophobic or nutso fundamentalists or anti-latino or anti muslim, but nothing and i mean NOTHING drives white southern conservatives like racism. the average southern conservative, as homophobic as they often are, would be more comfortable with a daughter who brought home a white female partner than a black male partner.
Joel
· 1 year ago
would be more comfortable with a daughter who brought home a white female partner than a black male partner
Well hell, that would provide a lifetime of fantasies for Pa. Let's see how comfortable Pa would be if his son were to bring home a white male partner.
roger rabbit
· 1 year ago
The Republican bankruptcy is on full display.
ChrisS
· 1 year ago
You know, I'm a liberal Democrat but I have a lot of Rockefeller Republican friends. It reminds me of that song from Mary Poppins -- "though we adore them individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stuuuuupid."
This is why the Republicans are going to fail in their outreach to African Americans, Latinos, and younger Asian Americans. Although they may attempt to build an outreach strategy on a foundation of hating gay people, it's not going to work because so many rank and file Republicans ARE Republicans precisely because they don't like black people or immigrants. It's the very reason they're in the party.
I'm from Louisiana, and when I was a kid everyone was a Democrat. Almost everyone I know who switched parties from D to R did so specifically because they don't like black people. (The few who give another reason say they did it because they didn't like welfare. I guess they're trying to take refuge in code words.)
The party intelligentsia can talk about how they need to reach out to ethnic minorities, but their rank and file members simply won't do it. It's antithetical to the reason they became Republicans in the first place.
Rob
· 1 year ago
Clueless Racist for RNC Chair 09! Where can I vote for this Bubba? It's douchebags like him that will dig the GOP even further into the minority. In case anyone missed it, one of the other songs on this "comedy" cd is the anti-Latino ditty "Star Spanglish Banner." Way to reach out to the Latino voters, who you need desperately to keep from losing more elections!
JakeB
· 1 year ago
Yes, it's terrible. But how does this guy compare to Hillary Clinton and her grotesque, racist campaign? Let's think back to why Keith Olberman on several occasions named Hillary as "Worst Person of the Week": one week it was Clinton's questioning Obama's patriotism, the next it was mentioning RFK's assasination, and then there was siccing uber-racist Geraldine Ferraro on Obama.
John,
A few weeks ago, you told people who objected to Clinton's selection that they should get over their concerns. But, really, why should people found her use of racism be any more forgiving of her racism than you are of Rick Warren's homophobia?
Warren and Clinton are willing to say and do bigoted things in pursuit of their agendas. Now, this Republican guy is willing to do the same thing. You have problems with Warren and this Republican operative. Why not with Clinton?
Over the last couple of weeks, I've read your words, John. You were hurt deeply by Obama's selection of Warren. Do you understand that for many people, especially some African-Americans, Obama's selection of Hillary Clinton was equally shocking?
Now we have a Republican acting with little regard to racial sensitivity. This upsets you. But is this guy really any worse than Hillary Clinton? Didn't she try to win votes by generating a racist divide against Obama?
Tyke
· 1 year ago
Only one of the two problematic people you mention has a seat at the policy making table. The other gets a symbolic speaking part for a few minutes only.
So the problem is actually many times worse than you have indicated.
It is a bit hard to buy into the new "reality":
Person with recent racist history helping make policy and become our public face to the world is OK.
Person with recent homophobic history getting a few moments to speak only is not OK.
MNUSA
· 1 year ago
How can he even think this is acceptable? Unless everyone surrounding him shares his view. It'll be interesting to see who's campaign he runs next.
percol8r
· 1 year ago
Normally, I'd be the first person to address bigotry or racist speech. But Mr. Obama -- and scores of other black people who have been falling over themselves to scapegoat gay people in regard to the Warren flap -- has/have officially lost my support.
I don't stand up for people who don't stand up for me.
For the next 4 years, let racist jokes and stereotypes reign! You won't see me renouncing them. The President-Elect has told me it's important to respect people who have views different from mine.
lodestar
· 1 year ago
Yes, the proper way to combat homophobia to tolerate, uh, racism? Something tells me your commitment to anti-racism was a mile wide and an inch deep if this is all that it took to abandon combating racism.
Share with us some racist jokes about the PE that are percolating in your mind right now. I need a chuckle.
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
Last summer, John was happy to throw under the bus transgenderists when he thought they could pass ENDA for gays. As for Obama, I think his commitment to gays isn't even an inch deep, maybe a miliimeter, 10 millimeters at the most. But don't blame Blacks as I think they are in for a bad surprise from Obama when it comes to Black Civil Rights issues. Obama is very charismatic and articulate, but I have dropped the words, honorable, ethical, and honest from my characterization of him. He's very appealing as he clearly loves his family but I doubt he extends that sincerity and caring beyond his immediate family. Have yet to see him even embrace his half-sister, seems to keep her at arms length. I wonder if she has visited his vacation compound or if the Secret Service even has her name, description and permission to allow her to visit.
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Isn't it funny how Republicans go on about community, family and crap and can have some of the biggest disregard for other people? I'm sorry - I still think that many hardcore conservatives are functional in society, but still very mentally ill.
Maybe the "Uncle Tom's Cabin Republicans."
http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/news/story/to...
http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/10/gop-e-ma...
Bush claims there has not been another terrorist attack since 9/11. I disagree! Terrorists tactics are alive and well in the Republican Party lead by the likes of Palin, McCain, Limbaugh, Hannity and many other hate mongers. If Guantanamo is good enough to house terrorists, it should be good enough to house the likes of these bottom feeders.
i'm confused, am i to deny that it was -10 degrees three days ago or 48 now ??
6 years and 5 schools to get a shitty communications degree.
Katie Couric asked her to name any decisions by the United States Supreme Court that she disagreed with, beyond Roe v. Wade.
Sara Palin: “Hmmm,” (brief silence) “Well, let’s see. There’s — of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but — — .”
Given a second chance to name any Supreme Court decision she disagreed with she said, "Well, I would think of any, again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level, maybe I would take issue with. But, you know, as a mayor, and then as a governor and even as a vice president, if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.”
When asked if she believes in the constitutional right to privacy which is opposed by conservatives she said, “I do. And I believe that individual states can best handle what the people within the different constituencies in the 50 states would like to see their will ushered in in an issue like that.”
Couric said, "When it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?”
Sara Palin: “I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.”
Couric: “What specifically?”
Palin: “Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.”
When Couric tried one last time, Palin responded: “I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, ‘Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?’ Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.”
Im a big fan of satire.. AAAAAAAAAAAND I dont get this one.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/26/rnc.obam...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/27/obama.so...
It's almost like they can't help themselves. But then, I'd have to feel sorry for them, and I don't. Scroom.
Keep talking....these people are so ten minutes ago...
They've turned from a party of square but honorable establishment candidates to a party of crooked, racist, incompetent and hateful redneck candidates.
All the signs are that the stimulus spending will be opposed by congressional Republicans, whose shrunken ranks are increasingly dominated by right-wing Southerners who care not what their stance does to harm the party's national image.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
I think, frankly, the Southern Wingnuts don't care what they do to the national party. They WANT to keep it a regional redneck party, because that's how they're winning elections in their own states. If they have to lose another couple of Northern Colleagues to keep it going, well, that's a risk they're willing to take.
And don't forget the double-standard. "Hypocrisy is the key to self-fulfilling prophesy". Double-Think is mandatory to be a Republican.
Wrong! Not a setback because this is who the Republicans are, they are not something separate from racism, it is the key to what the party is. Below in this thread, someone regrets the lassing of Gerald Ford, the last decent Republicans. Yes, since that time, racism, hatred, bigotry have become core to the Republican identity. They see themselves as Southern Republicans first and apart from being part of this nation and that is why they don't mind destroying the nation.
The irony is they accuse the Democrats of hating this nation, of being traitors and wanting to destroy America. Yeah! Right! As usual, they are speaking about themselves.
You know, in line with the Warren agree-to-disagree rhetoric? It's just a joke after all. Kinda like the LGBT vote.
:-)
Really, they're a dying breed, and scattered all over the country, not exclusive to the south at all--some just cover themselves better in suits and ties.
Well hell, that would provide a lifetime of fantasies for Pa. Let's see how comfortable Pa would be if his son were to bring home a white male partner.
This is why the Republicans are going to fail in their outreach to African Americans, Latinos, and younger Asian Americans. Although they may attempt to build an outreach strategy on a foundation of hating gay people, it's not going to work because so many rank and file Republicans ARE Republicans precisely because they don't like black people or immigrants. It's the very reason they're in the party.
I'm from Louisiana, and when I was a kid everyone was a Democrat. Almost everyone I know who switched parties from D to R did so specifically because they don't like black people. (The few who give another reason say they did it because they didn't like welfare. I guess they're trying to take refuge in code words.)
The party intelligentsia can talk about how they need to reach out to ethnic minorities, but their rank and file members simply won't do it. It's antithetical to the reason they became Republicans in the first place.
Where can I vote for this Bubba? It's douchebags like him that will dig the GOP even further into the minority. In case anyone missed it, one of the other songs on this "comedy" cd is the anti-Latino ditty "Star Spanglish Banner." Way to reach out to the Latino voters, who you need desperately to keep from losing more elections!
John,
A few weeks ago, you told people who objected to Clinton's selection that they should get over their concerns. But, really, why should people found her use of racism be any more forgiving of her racism than you are of Rick Warren's homophobia?
Warren and Clinton are willing to say and do bigoted things in pursuit of their agendas. Now, this Republican guy is willing to do the same thing. You have problems with Warren and this Republican operative. Why not with Clinton?
Over the last couple of weeks, I've read your words, John. You were hurt deeply by Obama's selection of Warren. Do you understand that for many people, especially some African-Americans, Obama's selection of Hillary Clinton was equally shocking?
Now we have a Republican acting with little regard to racial sensitivity. This upsets you. But is this guy really any worse than Hillary Clinton? Didn't she try to win votes by generating a racist divide against Obama?
So the problem is actually many times worse than you have indicated.
It is a bit hard to buy into the new "reality":
Person with recent racist history helping make policy and become our public face to the world is OK.
Person with recent homophobic history getting a few moments to speak only is not OK.
I don't stand up for people who don't stand up for me.
For the next 4 years, let racist jokes and stereotypes reign! You won't see me renouncing them. The President-Elect has told me it's important to respect people who have views different from mine.
Share with us some racist jokes about the PE that are percolating in your mind right now. I need a chuckle.