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, Whos 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 partys 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 hes 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 Kings 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.
Limbaughs 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 its not funny. Racism is not funny. Racism, male chauvinism and homophobia are virulent and deadly ideologies.
Its 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 Obamas 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 todays political climate as opposed to before 2006, the Republican Party is headed down the road to oblivion. And I say good riddance.
...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.
Hey, Jive. It isn't, and it's not. For one thing, only a moron would believe that 0bama wrote this POS. Secondly, the allusion was to: 1)a chimp who attacked the friend of its owner and 2)the monkey like intelligence of the 'Rat Congresscritters who did write Porkulus.
Btw, I may as well confess to the most racist thing I did in my life, since Jive is in his 'racist' mode. When I was young and stupid, I once told a female coworker who was black that she could call me 'uncle' (my nickname is 'Tom', but I'm a whitey.) So there. The murder is out. I just told the most racist thing I ever did in my life.
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To imply that a simian wrote the stimulus bill is an insult to the intelligence of all simians. It was written by the Dems, overseen by Pelooser and Cathouse Harry. Thus, it was put together by a herd of jackasses.
False! The cartoon did NOT read like that.
The cartoon read, "They will have to find somebody else to write the next stimulus BILL.
What's the difference?
A huge one.
Presidents don't write Bills.
CONGRESS WRITES BILLS.
Ask any schoolchild that paid attention to Schoolhouse Rock.
Who would intentionally falsify the text of the cartoon to imply that President Obama was depicted as a chimp?
Racist race-baiters.
The GOP is racist? Martin Luther King, Jr. was a lifelong Republican and I wonder if the author is accusing HIM of being a racist?
I usually counter that with a “The only racist here is the one throwing around the accusations” That generally shuts them up.
Idiots and ACORN they mean and Election Fraud with a unqualified Kenyan Marxist Clown.
“Thus, it was put together by a herd of jackasses.”
I am offended by your insult to mules.
Travis IS a liar...and lib lies, ironically, almost always come with the poker tell words of ‘’it’s undeniable’’ or ‘’that’s a fact!’’.
Little Travis must also be a young 20 something commie, by the way he writes.
Jarvis, Travis...whatever. They’re all so obsessed with race. It’s the cheap card one may play to ‘’feel’’ morally superior - and feel sorry for a class of people both at the same time.
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The book is no longer red, it is blue.
http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Obama-Editors-History-Company/dp/0978736842
All things change. :-)
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