oh so...what were you saying?
Posted on 03/04/2009 4:06:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
Recently the Republican-owned New York Post ran a scurrilous racist cartoon comparing Obama to the Connecticut chimpanzee that was shot dead by the police. The headline read, “Who’s going to write the stimulus package now?”, a more than a sub-textual suggestion that assassinating President Obama is an option to those who disagree with him. I think that is against the law.
This week the newly elected first Black chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Steele, proclaimed, what should have been obvious, that he, not radio provocateur Rush Limbaugh, was the head of the GOP. Steele called Limbaugh an “entertainer” whose show is “incendiary and ugly.”
Limbaugh who apparently does think he is now the party’s head went on a tirade against Steele telling him to “go behind the scenes and do your job instead of trying to be some kind of “media star.” Was this not a typical racist act: telling a Black person who thinks he’s a leader to “stay in your place?”
And as if to confirm that relationship, the next day, Steele made an embarrassing apology. This has happened before. When Washington Post columnist William Raspberry criticized Limbaugh for “gay bashing and his racial putdowns” and called Limbaugh a bigot, eleven days later he apologized too. In Republican circles, Blacks dare not criticize racism.
Steele and Raspberry told the truth. Limbaugh is a racist. He is the radio personality that said that Martin Luther King’s assassin James Earl Ray should get the Medal of Honor! He criticized the Democrats for standing behind Nelson Mandela and getting rid of the “white government of South Africa”. He calls Feminists “Feminazis” and once told a Black women caller to “take the bone out of your nose and call me back.” And of course it was on his show that aired the racist song “Barack the Magic Negro.” For many years now he has been blurting out this poison while under the influence of illegally gotten prescription drugs.
Limbaugh’s long record of vile racism, anti-women, and anti-gay bigotry is undeniable. Apparently now his voice is more powerful then the chairman of the Republican Party. That a voice of racism and hatred is now dominating the GOP is apparently ok with them.
Of course this is all done using humor - but it’s not funny. Racism is not funny. Racism, male chauvinism and homophobia are virulent and deadly ideologies.
It’s important to note that the extreme right has for too long used bigotry to rationalize its disastrous policies in defense of neo-con capitalism and imperialist policies.
The voters have spoken. The Republicans refused to listen. They would rather see the country go down the tubes than see Obama’s agenda succeed. Imagine: not one vote in the House for the stimulus package! The Democrats need to keep pushing and push harder and stronger.
In today’s political climate as opposed to before 2006, the Republican Party is headed down the road to oblivion. And I say good riddance.
It would be funny, if it wasn’t so sad...
Odd how the party of the KKK can’t let go of racism.
Ignore them?
So they've worn out the "racism" angle--now that cartoon was also call to assassinate? Damn, that's SOME cartoon!
That the left is STILL whining about that one cartoon shows how silly they are and how empty their complaints. If we bitched about every Bush-bashing cartoon that went over the line, we'd still be working our way through those put out before he was even inaugurated the first time.
Yeah, conservatives believe that all people, no matter what the color of their skin is, need to improve themselves and rise to their full human potential.
Now that's racism.
These people are truly insane.
“I think that is against the law.”
Well, thinking isn’t your strong suit then. Since Obama didn’t write the stimulus bill how could the monkey in the cartoon be referring to him?
I always find it hilarious when a Communist calls someone else a “racist.”
I guess communists never stop lying.
Oblivion for liberals, leftists, and socialists.
There, that’s better.
dont forget the left calling Colin Powell uncle Tom and Condi Rice Aunt Jememiah
We’re going to hear this for at least 4 years because our crime is disagreeing with their policies.
You know the drill.
If you disagree with their marxist agenda they discredit you by calling you a racist, or intoooolerant.
It is the only attack they have.
Steele going soft on Obama? Why?
When, in all times in the history of America, the Republican Party needs to unequivocably fight the ideas being put forth by the communists in the Democrat party, why is Steele soft pedalling on Obama?
Every policy the Administration is pursuing is bieng pushed as a pass-it-yesterday, sign on the dotted line don't have time to read the d@mned thing EMERGENCY measure. What's to like?
If Steel can't get behind the idea that we really want Obama to fail in implementing his country-destroying policies, he is the wrong man for the job.
After listening to Rush's CPAC speech, where I heard anything BUT racism, this is unadulterated crap.
Rush has done one thing. He, leader or not, is point man for this sh*tstorm, and if we fail to back him we will be stripped of any public voice in the future.
Have you ever noticed that every election cycle “the extremists” have take over the Republican Party from the, “good Republicans.”
Good republicans?
You mean the democrat moles, right?
What a waste of space. I notice you have no opinion of the article. Litterer.
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