Racist e-mails target Obama

The Spokesman-Review/AP ^ | 12-18-2008 | Rachel D'Oro

[lilylangtree]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska officials are investigating racist jokes about President-elect Barack Obama that have been circulating on state government e-mail accounts.

One of the five e-mails obtained by the Associated Press asks what was the outcome of the Democrat’s victory after all the time and money spent, and concludes: “Another black family living in government housing!”

State officials were unaware of the e-mails until asked about them by the AP.

Three of the racist messages were confirmed by the state’s information technology division after an electronic search of the government’s e-mail system, Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer said Wednesday.

“It’s embarrassing to the state,” she said.

Kreitzer said she alerted the office of Gov. Sarah Palin – the failed Republican vice presidential candidate – about the e-mails.

Bill McAllister, Palin’s spokesman, said in an e-mail that the matter concerned individual actions taken by a handful of state employees among thousands.

For the remainder, see: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/dec/18/racist-e-mails-target-obama/

[lilylangtree]

Sounds like a hoot. Oops, this mainstream media's golden boy. Can't say anything negative about him, or it will be misconstrued as racism, even though his campaign made racism front & center issue.

[AppyPappy]

Just Alaska huh?

[Sarah Barracuda]

Maybe it was the same looney tune that burned down her church, ya know the church that the media refuses to bring up

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Here we go. The witch hunt for racism against Obama to prove that we still live in a racist nation. And the fact that its in Palin’s state is a two-fer for the MSM. Expect a lot of this. Every moron who makes a racist joke is going to get front page attention to build up poor oppressed Obama’s hero status.

[OldNavyVet]

This sounds like Saturday Night Live material.

[trumandogz]

Not on the taxpayers’ dime or equipment.

[mylife]

yer joking?

[JoanneSD]

It is always mentioned about Palin, being the failed Republican vice presidential candidate, never have I heard or seen about the failed democratic president candidate, Hillary Clinton, or Biden, or Richardson...msm media is sick

[reagan_fanatic]

Oh, it’s Alaska, so Sarah Palin probably had something to do with it!!!

/DUmpster Rant Mode Off

[AppyPappy]

They’ll bring it up if it turns out to be an inside job

[NurdlyPeon]

And of course all the jokes that get circulated about Palin, well, that's not a problem.......

[Allegra]

Wonder why I haven't gotten any of these e-mails what with all of the delightfully politically incorrect friends and family I have?

Who's holding out on me???

;-)

[dragnet2]

Maybe it was the same looney tune that burned down her church

While employed by the state government.

[LiberConservative]

"Just Alaska huh?"

My first thought as well.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yeah notice no one refers to Hillary Clinton or John Kerry as “failed” candidates. Again, liberal hypocrisy, they have no shame

[FMBass]

“Sarah Palin – the failed Republican vice presidential candidate”

I caught the use of the word “failed” also.

Right out of the liberal’s book of phrases.

[TYVets]

One of the five e-mails obtained by the Associated Press ,,

At least 4 of 5 of the emails originated from the AP

and probably all 5.

[Tallguy]

...Gov. Sarah Palin – the failed Republican vice presidential candidate – The game for the print journalists seems to be to find any excuse to get that phrase into as many News stories as possible before 2012.

[AppyPappy]

Gov. Sarah Palin – the failed Republican vice presidential candidate who is just a stupid old girl and no one likes her because she is fat and stupid and has no friends.

[MrB]

The MSM and the left, but I repeat myself,

will play up any little bit of racist negativism towards 0bama,

in order to insulate him from legitimate policy criticism.

[Dallas59]

Q. Why won't Obama release his real birth certificate?

A. The ink isn't dry yet.

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Q. Why won't Obama release his real birth certificate?

A. Hillary Clinton won't give it back to him.

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Q. Why won't Obama release his real birth certificate?

A. He accidently smoked it.

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Q. Why won’t Obama laugh at himself?

A. Because it would be racist.

[what's up]

I wonder how many state e-mails they can find in CA over the last 8 years deriding Pres Bush?

Thousands in that state alone, I'm sure, especially in the education dept.

[NTHockey]

Must be a REALLY slow news day at AP for them to look at Alaska state e-mail accounts. Or, more likely, they are fishing for “proof” that some cockamamie idea that they made up is correct.

Of course, Alaska is the ONLY place where this is going on, and Governor Palin is SOLELY responsible. BDS lives on as PDS.

Other than the obvious, why do they hate women so much? And when do women stand up and say that they are offended by all the hate speech?

[Tallguy]

... and of course we ignore the fact that the other side appears to be committing violent acts (burning Palin’s church), while playing up the exchange of tasteless e-mails like they are some overt threat to the President-elect. The other side has no sense of proportion.

[massgopguy]

Barack Obama will have his National Civilian Security Force using Echelon to Data Mine the internet for jokes about him.

[RetiredArmy]

Hey, where is the post of the little black kid screaming that is racists? That fits here!!!

[Tallguy]

The Media just got done treating the presidential election like it was an election for the Homecoming Queen. Remember how catty those elections were? It wasn’t enough to win, you had to whisper about your competitors as well. Hope the tiara fits OK, Barry.

[johncocktoasten]

Get used to hearing way more about Alaska than we ever have before. The next four years will be a constant drumbeat of Palin/Alaska sucks by the DBM.

What is pathetic, is that Obama is already running for re-election before he even gets inaugurated.

[freekitty]

Obambi’s probably got a left over lawyer up there posting these things.

[AppyPappy]

They still drag her out because they don’t have anything else. It’s going to be really hard after January. They have no one to bash. For 8 years they have been hammering Bush and soon, there won’t be a reason to watch political shows.

[AppyPappy]

I don’t think it will get traction. Alaska is too far away and not very exciting politically.

[vietvet67]

[hoe_cake]

One e-mail, with the subject line of “Night Befo Crizzmus,” was forwarded dozens of times, Kreitzer said.

I do believe that email came across my desk as well.

[MrB]

When ‘bammy’s policies fail, and he’s not able to fill Peggy’s gas tank and pay her mortgage, and everything isn’t rainbow pie & bubble stew for black people,

he’s going to find someone to blame.

That will be whitey, more specifically the white heterosexual married Christian male.

[hoe_cake]

~snort~

[mkjessup]

Why should the Obama family be embarrassed about living in subsidized housing? The Bush, Clinton, Bush Senior, Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon families did, what’s the big deal? ;)

[Trillian]

Has obama added anyone to his staff yet who is black?

[AppyPappy]

I don’t think so. I think it is all a matter of how you spin things.

The Dems want to raise taxes
You can’t raise taxes during a recession.
What the answer?
Get rid of the recession.

[RetiredArmy]

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!! Too freaking funny!!!

[FrankR]

What these anti-Palin yahoos don't know is, even if it were her fault (which it is plainly NOT), her supporters are her supporters; we see what the left and the MSM is trying to do to Palin, and it ain't workin'. She's as popular as ever, you betcha.

Those obama emails are all over the internet, in thousands of company emails too. How exactly did the MSM get access to those emails anyway? Is there an "insider" working in Alaska? And, s/he must have received the email if s/he had access to it, so that makes her/him a de facto participant...IMHO.

"Barack"....the sound of a fat lady sitting on a whoopee cushion.

[girlscout]

Actually, I received that same email and I’m in Texas.

[MrB]

The only way out of a recession is going to be lowering taxes on those that pay taxes and create business, wealth, and jobs. This concept is appalling and an anathema to liberals.

However, look for reporting on the economy to make a dramatic turnaround on Jan 21, 2009.

[JimSEA]

Kreitzer said she alerted the office of Gov. Sarah Palin – the failed Republican vice presidential candidate – about the e-mails.

First, I don't like jokes that attack people based solely on racial stereotypes. I never have. I found the Lizza and Rastus (sp?) jokes crude and unfunny. That was when I was a kid and things have not changed since.

In spite of my personal tastes, ugly speech is still speech. If you want to keep it off the State Email system, you have to keep all extraneous BS off the system. There is nothing in the constitution prohibiting "hate speech".

I am really tired of the press uniformly referring to Palin ans "the failed VP candidate." It is obvious what they are doing. Journalism is totally corrupt.

[trumandogz]

Those who sent the e-mails on State of Alaska time and computers should be fired.

The Tax Payer should not have to fund the personal use of computers by state employees.

[devistate one four]

If that chump can talk about lipstick on a pig, and we all know what he meant, that opems the door for black jokes. What say you?

[TonyStark]

This is exactly why the incoming regime administration needs to activate the Communication Civilian Service Corps immediately. Anti-coup government communications must be prevented, intercepted and punished immediately before they can spread counter-revolutionary bigoted sentiment.

Jokes are fine, but only if directed at Christian conservatives deserving targets.

[Lou Budvis]

You know that Gov. Palin must have the fire in the belly to be Prez. She could stop all of these msm bs stories by announcing that she would never run against 0bama and that after this term, she is going to go live in an igloo.

[Tallguy]

... which is why I think the Media will eventually turn on the Obama administration... Oh, they won’t touch the figurehead, but they’ll probably go after everybody else — starting with Rahm Emmanuel. It’s a target-rich environment.

[hoe_cake]

here’s the Cajun version...

http://www.amazon.com/Cajun-Night-Before-C...s/dp/0882899406

[muawiyah]

The jokes aren't new. When Michael Steele was running for Md. Lt Governor several years back, Democrats put them to work against him. Later when he ran for the Senate Democrats threw oreo cookies on stage wherever he spoke.

If those jokes were racist now, they were racist then and Leftwingtards and Democrat agents who used them should, of course, be thrashed with canes and imprisoned for appropriate AND lengthy periods of time.

Obama should be prepared to start handing over his campaign staff people who engaged in such business.