Comments on: McCain Agrees That Western Pennsylvania Is Racist.. I Think

By: I hate Sarah Palin

I hate Sarah Palin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:29:57 +0000

Wow. People are just going to overlook this? Gaffe? Are you fucking kidding me?

By: daniel rotter

daniel rotter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:38:23 +0000

“This is almost as bad as 57 states”.

Actually, McCain’s misspeaking here is, if not worse, at least funnier, since it involves confirming a viewpoint he was actually attempting to condemn.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:15:43 +0000

I’m going to agree with brom bones here, I live in Pittsburgh and to the south of us is a little county called Washington county which hosts one of the highest concentrations of Klan members in the country. Murtha might have been understating some of the racism.

By: SaveFarris

SaveFarris — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:03:02 +0000

This is almost as bad as “57 States”.

By: daniel rotter

daniel rotter — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:19:04 +0000

As someone who is not going to be voting for McCain, let’s give the guy a break. We all misspeak.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:26:14 +0000

Pitiful.

It was bad enough that he tried to make Obama responsible for what someone else said. But then he couldn’t even drive his point home.

By: Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:22:14 +0000

Painful.

You would have to REALLY hate Obama to vote for this shattered, withered relic of a once-robust criminal moron.

By: brom bones

brom bones — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:44:30 +0000

Oliver, I’ve lived in central-western PA for nearly 50 years, and Jack Murtha only spoke truth about the area’s racism. It is real, it is virulent and it’s not going away any time soon. The ratio of ’stars and bars’ to ‘Old Glories’ is probably only higher in the deepest south. James Carville called it right when he dubbed PA as Philly in the east, Pittsburgh in the west and Alabama in the middle. Did you not see the fool with the monkey and the Obama sticker at a McCain/Palin rally in Johnstown? That is not an aberration(sp?) here, but a frequent laugh-getter among “the boys” and their women. Even in the more “enlightened east” of the state, have you not seen the discrimination against Latinos and the outright racism exhibited in the Scranton area? With all due respect, Oliver, pretending that blatant racism is not endemic in rural PA is hiding your head in the sand. Racism needs to be called out for what it is, and those who encourage or support it need to be held accountable by all.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:18:15 +0000

Dang. He really *is* just like Bush.

By: Duros Hussein 62

Duros Hussein 62 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:27:45 +0000

Wow. Senior moment, big time.