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The reality begins to leak out, this time from a GOP club in California.
The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women’s group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles.
The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is elected his image will appear on food stamps — instead of dollar bills like other presidents. The statement is followed by an illustration of “Obama Bucks” — a phony $10 bill featuring Obama’s face on a donkey’s body, labeled “United States Food Stamps.”
I can’t figure out why minorities don’t vote for Republicans. No idea.
And yet again, this is the modern Republican party since Nixon.
This is a “Mission Accomplished” moment for Nixon, Atwater, Rove, and now Schmidt.
This is what Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the National Review, and Glenn Reynolds and their considerable ilk have carefully crafted.
This is what Jay, Jay Tea, william, jmccann, and myriad other bloggers, blog commenters, and trolls support whole heartedly. Brav-o people, I’m sure you’re quite proud of yourselves.
I can’t figure out why minorities don’t vote for Republicans. No idea.
Maybe because God help the minority person who does vote Republican.
Well, when the party calls us a bunch of shiftless, chicken-eating, kool-aid drinkers, you have to question the sanity of any black person who would vote GOP.
My favorite quote:
[The group's president, Diane Fedele] said she doesn’t think in racist terms, pointing out she once supported Republican Alan Keyes, an African-American who previously ran for president.
“I didn’t see it the way that it’s being taken. I never connected,” she said. “It was just food to me. It didn’t mean anything else.”
What can I say, really? Not only is the base racist and offensive, they don’t even have the balls to admit it and expect people to swallow this tripe about “ooh, sorry. I didn’t realize that Kool-Aid and watermelon and fried chicken have been used for years as racist stereotypes.” For an added bonus, she threw in an “I like black people! See, I was supportive of a member of my own party even though he was black!” I swear to god, these people just stepped out of the time machine from 1960 and haven’t quite adjusted yet.
I’m still boggling at how the woman thought putting his face on a fake food stamp surrounded by racist/stereotypical associations with African Americans was somehow a good response to a factual statement; that Obama would not look like those other presidents on our money…because he DOESN’T.
She’s a bigot and a moron and she was bused for it. Serves her and her organization right.
This is what Jay, Jay Tea, william, jmccann, and myriad other bloggers, blog commenters, and trolls support whole heartedly.
And Dennis. Sorry to have left you out, old sport. Dennis supports these Republicans too. Nicely done, matey.
If that had been a picture of Lieberman, Duros would have found it hysterical.
Wow- fear is something! Shades of Fuzzy Zoeller’s Masters Tournament comments re- Tiger Woods. Not that either Tiger or Obama has a Black mother, but I guess to the Cali GOP, we’re all ——’s.
Well, when the party calls us a bunch of shiftless, chicken-eating, kool-aid drinkers, you have to question the sanity of any black person who would vote GOP.
OW,
The Republican party doesn’t call black people that. I’m not a representative of the party nor am I representative of conservatives, but I can honestly say I don’t know anyone who talks like that or who wouldn’t be offended by receiving something like the picture above.
That newsletter is wrong. Very wrong. But so is the title of this blog post.
The Republican party doesn’t call black people that
Where did the image above come from? Magical fairies?
The Republican party doesn’t call black people that. I’m not a representative of the party nor am I representative of conservatives, but I can honestly say I don’t know anyone who talks like that or who wouldn’t be offended by receiving something like the picture above.
Nice try, Sparky, but the toothpaste is out of the tube. This is your modern Republican party. You bought it. You own it. Swell effort attempting to walk it back, but that just won’t fly.
Wow. That is totally offensive and Im not even black. What in the hell is wrong with some people? I have said it before and Ill say it again, it is SCARY how fucking uneducated some people are. And hateful, too.
Good on you, Dennis, for not knowing anybody who would find the above image hilarious. Congratulations on not interacting with the elements of your party…your party…that have been doing this shit for the past year.
Ed’s right, though. Even when they embarrass you, they’re your people.
Of course, God forbid you call them out on it. Kathleen Parker and Christopher Buckley tried, and now the attack dogs are growling in their direction.
dennis,
Stevie Wonder could see the intent and bias in this coupon created by one of the GOP’s Mean Girls.
And why did this brain donor think that such imagery would be accepted …because she knows her Party provides succor and reinforcement of her condescending opinions of this black person and by extension all black people.
So I need to ask you…
do you want to embrace this kind of crap or do you want to fight it?
If that had been a picture of Lieberman, Duros would have found it hysterical.
You been saving that one for a while, Farris?
Never said it was hysterical.
When John McCain runs an ad with a white woman, Paris Hilton in it, he is accused of racism. He runs an ad with Franklin Raines, the former head of Fannie Mae in it, who is African-American, and that’s racist. And then he runs an ad with William Ayers, who is a white male in it, and that’s racist.
If it weren’t so comical, these promiscuous accusations of racism, it would be tragic. …
And to accuse preemptively McCain of racism even before there is any evidence of it, and there has not been any evidence of it before or since, is scurrilous.
They say patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Accusations of racism is the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel, and it has been used again and again on the part of the Obama campaign.
–Charles Krauthammer
For some it’s the last refuge. For ed here, it’s the first.
Nice try, Sparky, but the toothpaste is out of the tube. This is your modern Republican party. You bought it. You own it. Swell effort attempting to walk it back, but that just won’t fly.
You got your nut cases on the fringes too, ed, who are just as bigoted and intolerant.
It sounds a bit like you may even be one of them.
Dennis: Maybe because God help the minority person who does vote Republican.
Translation: Look! Over there!
(I’m going to have to set up a macro for that translation.)
Dennis: The Republican party doesn’t call black people that.
Did you miss that part that said: “The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women’s group…”?
Or do we now have to split hairs between the actual party and the people that belong to it?
Dennis: You got your nut cases on the fringes too, ed, who are just as bigoted and intolerant.
Translation: Look! Over there!
(Wow. Needed that macro sooner than I expected.)
The above is who the rethugs are.
Sean D. Martin-
That one girl that wore the Sarah Palin is a C*NT t-shirt and then posted it on her space on Obama’s website- I wouldn’t say that the Obama campaign hates all women other than the ones he campaigns against.
Yup classy
Sigh…. effing morons. Not you this time Oliver.
“That one girl that wore the Sarah Palin is a C*NT t-shirt”
Wait, so you’re saying the girl who wrote that is a self-hating girl? While referring to someone by their genitalia is extremely gross and offensive, I assure you that Oliver would not have been as troubled by this Republican newsletter if it had featured “Obama Is a Dick” t-shirts. (Actually, I can imagine Oliver buying one and writing “Big Swinging” over it.) It’s the ugly racial stereotypes that’s so awful here: the idea that even a guy who gets himself through Columbia undergrad, graduates magna cum laude from Harvard Law School as president of Law Review, writes a best-selling memoir and a policy book — no matter how much he does with his life to demonstrate ambition and intelligence, he will be reduced in the eyes of some Republicans back to the fried chicken eating, Kool Aid drinking, welfare-scrounging stereotype of the shiftless Negro.
But so far as playing on negative steroetypes of women goes, Palin does them all herself. She repeatedly winks and even shimmies a little during a vice-presidential debate. She says in reference to a discussion of the financial crisis that she didn’t understand more than one sentence in three. (Barbie says, Math is hard!) She has her unelected husband pressuring state employees to get rid of someone she considers a threat to her family.
What have you seen from the Democratic Party that is anywhere close in negative sterotyping of Palin’s gender to what we have seen from two different California Republican organizations with reference to Obama? God knows, there are plenty of misogynist, anti-feminist Democrats out there, but pretty much everyone’s beef with Palin is that *she* is lacking in knowledge and intellectual curiosity, not that she is just like all those other women who are so lacking.
You got your nut cases on the fringes too, ed, who are just as bigoted and intolerant.
Which are the three worst examples? Any from Democratic party people? If so, which are as bad as the examples Oliver has cited here?
I eagerly await your response.
Tick tock. Tick tock.
He’s probably going to cite Harry Reid, Strom Thurmond (cos he was a Democrat at one point and anyway “Dixiecrat” is like the same really) and probably Clement Vallandigham or something.
NG may be onto something. I’m talking about this election.
Tick tock. Tick tock.
Can someone explain to me why you guys think its meaningful to say, “this particular terrible person here represents the exact views of the ENTIRE Republican party”? (Leaving aside that you might do so because it makes you feel righteous thinking that you are on the ‘good’ side.) I mean, if you want to play that game, wouldn’t it be just as meaningful to say “What The Democratic Party Thinks of Republican Women” with a picture of that lady with the C*nt T-shirt?
NG may be onto something. I’m talking about this election.
Oh.
Well, never mind, then.
It’s yet another exhibit on an increasingly huge pile of evidence.
What I’m interested in is not your changing of the subject, but what you actually think about that picture.
My question – did they obtain permission to use the KFC and Kool-Aid images? I’m guessing those corporations might not want to be linked to this.
Conservatives pledge allegiance to the white race, not the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands
jr – I’m curious – do you really believe that? I mean, I can understand why you might say that from the political standpoint, it’s a club to beat someone with, but in your heart of hearts, do you *really* think that someone who is conservative (which probably numbers million of people in this country) is primarily interested in furthering the white race?
Haplo9, please see my prior post on the difference between a regular insult like referring to someone by their genitalia (which actually is a term that campus feminists were always saying we needed to “reclaim” — I have seen the Vagina Monologues twice, god help me, and I still can’t join the “cunt” chant), and the kind of thinking that goes behind making something like a food stamp with Obama’s picture and a tidy trifecta of stereotypes about the diet of shiftless negro. The man talks about arugula and he still gets consigned to watermelon-fried-chicken-Koolaid? Y’all just aren’t ever going to let the possibility of an upper class, educated black man enter your skulls.
Again, what are the negative stereotypes about women that we have been seeing emanate from Democratic organizations with regard to Palin? Have you seen a local Democratic club putting out a newsletter that, for humor, had a pantyliner advertisement with Sarah Palin’s face, talking about how it was soft and malleable like her? “Soft and malleable” is a stereotype associated with women, and whatever Palin’s faults, it’s not one that’s applicable to her.
>It’s yet another exhibit on an increasingly huge pile of evidence.
Ever heard of confirmation bias?
Does this huge pile of evidence of yours include some significant percentage of people who describe themselves as conservative?
>What I’m interested in is not your changing of the subject
Hmm lets see. My specific comment is in regards to the subject line that Oliver chose for his entry. You consider that to be changing the subject. I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that one.
>but what you actually think about that picture.
Nimrod, in his righteous indignation, demands a condemnation! As a matter of fact, I think most commenters are about right on this one – she’s got a problem with a black man being president. Her after the fact attempts to explain it away aren’t very convincing. I’m sympathetic to the claim that Obama has occasionally tried to use his race to preempt criticism in this campaign – which is what she says the picture is supposed to make fun of him for, i guess. Except, it doesn’t. It’s just a whole bunch of racial stereotypes thrown into a picture, that doesn’t convey anything other than her own issues. (Not surprisingly though, she got a big wtf from most everyone who saw it. But they are all feigning outrage, right Nimrod?
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Haplo9, jr is what we in the reality-based world call a “comedian” or a “humorist.” And a damn funny one, too. See, his style is to post these “one-liners” and make people “laugh.”
No, Bruce, I think jr is just articulating what the Democratic Party Thinks About Conservative People.
If folks can’t tell the difference between some official Republican Organization, and some lady with a facebook Obama page, I can’t help them.
The thing about it all – if I had a poster like that in my office, do you think any African Americans would come back for a second interview, or would they send in their lawyer.
Would a White guy who is against racism think twice about joining my company? Yes.
Images like that paint a picture about the larger organization. And an immediate apology and expulsion or correction would help, but that didn’t exactly happen.
If your kid went to a public school with picture like that in their classroom, what would we think?
PG,
I understand what you mean, but it doesn’t seem very convincing. I’d agree that the picture is worse on a sort of moral scale, than the lady wearing the Palin t-shirt. So? All you seem to be saying is that I just need to come up with an example of Democratic hate that is bad enough that it can compare. Ok then, how about the rather ubiquitous conservative = Nazi? This equivilence has been tossed around many times, by Oliver himself even. Nazis. The people that killed large swaths of an entire class of people because they decided that that class was bad. And yet this equivilence is used by Democrats with very (apparently) little thought to what they are accusing conservatives of by doing so. Does that ‘count’?
I think this ‘the hate you guys have for us is worse than the hate we have for you’ thing is kind of silly. Racial stereotypes are just one of many ways to try to dehumanize an opponent. I don’t see how you can engage in one type and not be hypocritical when you turn around and be outraged about another.
Mobius,
“Chaffey Community Republican Women”
Yeah. Boy, I bet the president of that group (which appears to be the only member of that group that thought the picture was ok) really has her thumb on the pulse of conservatism.
Not all conservatives are racists but most racists are conservative. The conservative party in America has regularly used race based attacks in order to achieve political goals.
I would concede that folks like me sometimes too often compare Nazis to Republicans, but very often the strategies used by the right are mirror images of the strategies used by the nazi-style right in history.
>very often the strategies used by the right are mirror images of the strategies used by the nazi-style right in history.
Yeah, hey, get back to me when we have gas chambers and dissent isn’t allowed on pain of death, ok? (Though if it ever got that far, I’d hope neither of us would be in the country anymore.) Then I won’t think you are engaging in ridiculous hyperbole. I mean, seriously, when you say “Nazi”, do you think that conjures up an image of “strategies”, or “killing a bunch of people” in a readers mind? Um, the second one. As such, why would you even use the word Nazi when talking about your political opponents in passing, except to try to gratuitously get the whole “killing a bunch of people” stain to rub off on them?
Obama has given a lot of people a great opportunity to help set this country right side up. I’m glad to be able to vote for a viable black candidate as an extra bonus.
But his candidacy got a huge assist by the GOP, first by forcing the Republican agenda on us for several years with the inevitable results, and secondly by nominating McCain as their candidate.
But his candidacy got a huge assist by the GOP, first by forcing the Republican agenda on us for several years with the inevitable results, and secondly by nominating McCain as their candidate.
Sometimes I wonder if we’d have Obama if it hadn’t been for 8 years of Bush.
[...] Lest anyone think I believe this is phenomenon restricted only to the rabble, feast your eyes on this: The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women’s group depicts Democratic presidential [...]
These images and circulars are just as bad if not worse than the fried chicken, watermelon, kool-aid food stamp image…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/16/rnc-mailer-what-does-obam_n_135407.html
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/virginia_gop_mailer_appears_to.php
I just don’t understand how a black person, or any person of color, or person who has experienced oppression can be a Republican.
“I would concede that folks like me sometimes too often compare Nazis to Republicans, but very often the strategies used by the right are mirror images of the strategies used by the nazi-style right in history.”
Actually that is partially a reflection of a poor education. The National Socialist Party in Germany had many overt leftist tendencies.
It is easy to find parallels between Hitler’s Brownshirts and the tactics routinely used by leftists on college campuses in this country today. Heckling and shouting down opposing political viewpoints were standard brownshirt tactics, little different from many of the things celebrated across American campuses and even here on this site. Compare the antisemitism of Palestinian college protesters with German sentiment in the late 30’s.. Not to mention the noted antisemitism of Black civil right leaders like Jessie Jackson and Lou Farrakan.
And for outright racist hate how much more deliberate can you get than Reverend Wright’s fiery rhetoric blaming aids as a government plot to exterminate blacks.
Socialism, antisemitism, hatred of America, all have a part in the big tent of modern day leftist politics and were part of the fabric of Nazi Germany too. So who you calling a Nazi?
Compare the antisemitism of Palestinian college protesters with German sentiment in the late 30’s.
Translation: “Pro Israel = Pro Jew!”
Heckling and shouting down opposing political viewpoints were standard brownshirt tactics, little different from many of the things celebrated across American campuses and even here on this site.
Translation: “They call me a bad person when I talk about my desire to kill gays! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Here’s how Andrew Sullivan, probably the most delusional and wacky blogger in the business, posted the same story…
How Some Republicans View African-Americans
Even the one blogger known for over-hyping the most obscure, inane things doesn’t go even close as to say the whole Republican Party thinks this way of black people.
It is easy to find parallels between Hitler’s Brownshirts and the tactics routinely used by leftists on college campuses in this country today.
So wait.
The tactic is leftist? Srsly, AO, are you making the claim that anyone who shouts has “leftist tendencies”?
I am in awe at the changes that have taken place in the Democratic & Republican parties. From the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, the Democratic party was associated with racism and the numerous KKK members that were involved with the party. The Republican party during Lincoln’s administration tried to free the slaves and give them rights that they never had before. Now, this is the opposite. I just can’t understand how the black community got involved with the
Democratic Party especially considering that it represented oppression for its people for over 100 years. I would have thought that they would prefer to be Republicans. And, I can’t seem to understand how all of a sudden the Republican party has become racist unless the children of the KKK members that were with the Democratic party jumped ship for the Republican party.
All I say is this…how easily people forget….