Posted on 10/05/2009 7:38:38 PM PDT by classified
RICHMOND, Va. - The billionaire co-founder of the Black Entertainment Television mocked Democrat Creigh Deeds' occasional stuttering at a fundraiser she held for Deeds' Republican opponent in the governor's race, Bob McDonnell.
In a YouTube video, Sheila Johnson says Virginia needs a governor "who can really communicate, and Bob McDonnell can communicate."
Then she tells a small crowd of wealthy donors, "The other people I talk to, especially his op-op-op-o-opponent, di-di-did this all through my interview with him."
After muted laughter among the guests, she adds, "He could not articulate what needed to be done."
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Well good speaking skills ARE important for a governor...
That’s s-s-s-s-so un-un-un-un-fair!!!
No comment needed.
When are Republicans going to learn. You do not hire Democrats to represent you. She obviously has her head up her A$$ to even say this!
What do we expect from a b-b-b-black r-r-r-racist?
K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy,
You’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore;
When the m-m-m-moon shines,
Over the cowshed,
I’ll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door.
Who axed her?
This raises the question: Can an African-American have a “macaca” moment?
Deeds mocked him for anything and it would be proclaimed racists. See the irony here?
Stuttering and deafness are two handicaps which some people find highly amusing. Neither is funny to those afflicted or their families. When a comic or anyone else jokes about either, I tune them out as arrogant bores.
Agreed.
LOL!
All I know is the Republican candidate was a fool not to recognize what kind of idiot this Johnson woman is that he chose to represent and campaign for him. I personally think she knew well what she was doing. This Republican candidate has lost a lot from this faux/pas.
OMG-—I forgot all about that song, but being 50-something, we sang this as kids! GG Great find...!
(Both grandparents were WW1 vets)
Thanks!
My older brother occasionally stuttered, but had a great sense of humor about it. His favorite piano roll:
Bill McClusky, big and husky, was a handsome lad, and he had
a pretty little girl by the name of Pearl. But McClusky, big and husky
stuttered very bad; so when he wanted to marry her he asked his brother Jim:
You-you-you-you tell her ‘cause I-I-I-I stutter and always get in dutch.
Obviously this McDonnel doesn’t KNOW that the Retired head of BET supported Zero. Why in the world would he have a Dem anywhere near his campaign. Is he a Rino in Conserv clothing?
To target swing voters.
In the entire article, while they mentioned she was a billionare, they never said that she was black.
They also didn’t mention that McDonnell is the first Republican she has ever supported — she was a big Obama supporter.
And Deeds doesn’t “stutter”, he stammers, when he doesn’t know the answer to questions, or gets flustered.
The Washington Post said he stammers. He is not disabled, or the WP certainly would have said so instead of saying he stammers.
But by tomorrow, his Wiki entry will probably include a made-up story about how his accident and coma when he was 12 left him with a brain defect.
To which I say: Why has Deeds hidden this from the public?
She also apologized.
Deeds doesn’t have a stuttering handicap, he simply stammers when he doesn’t know the “right” answer to give to a question.
She was not “hired”. She’s a supporter and a donor.
I’ve met her.... shes a good person and I respect her.
The hatred sure is coming out.
What a low class POS scumbag this woman is. Classless, mannerless; a real loser.
They all issue fake apologies after the dirty deed has been done.
I heard that about Sotomayor too. If they are so nice; why do they do the things they do?
Personally, I don’t understand why people feel the need to mock the opposition personally at these fundraisers.
Of course, I think the whole childish name-calling contributes to the failure to have constructive dialog about real issues, but childish namecalling has become the standard for political discourse.
In this election, for example, we have “Taliban Bob” for Bob McDonnell, and “Dirty Deeds” for Creigh Deeds.
The talk show hosts are always making up derogatory names for the politicians they don’t like; occassionally the names are not really derogatory, but explanatory of the person’s actions, and I don’t really fault those names (like if you called a politician who raises taxes all the time “The Taxman”.).
But mostly it’s snide comments about the person’s looks, especially if they are fat or ugly.
But it seems that the namecalling and other pranks randomly come back to bite us, especially on the conservative side — because whenever they want, the media can suddenly take notice of namecalling, call it childish, make it sound like we are the only ones doing it, and take a few percentage points off our lead.
“Macaca” in the end was simply an attack about childish namecalling taken to the extreme, but it cost an election. Also locally, a joke about Osama Bin Laden and Obama made by our RPV head, (the joke was praised here) became a major attack against John McCain, and who knows how many independents may have been swayed by it.
The left calls our side names all the time. I can guarantee that the term “Taliban Bob” has been used by volunteers for Creigh Deeds, but even if we had a video of it, and complained, the media would ignore it, or instead spin the story as our side “whining” about it — and would probably also EXPLAIN exactly where the name came from, in a way that would be detrimental to our candidate.
There is absolutely no excuse for what this woman said.
I don’t care what she may have accomplished in her lifetime. She blew it with that one remark.
Oh sure, she will issue a fake apology; but she will have to live the rest of her days knowing that she and the world know what a low class skank she really is.
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