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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Gingrich Is Using Racial ‘Code Words’
The Blaze ^ | 1/21/12 | Madeleine Morgenstern

Posted on 01/21/2012 11:12:58 AM PST by Baynative

Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Friday accused Newt Gingrich of using racial “code words” in calling President Barack Obama the “food stamp president” and saying schools ought to hire children to do janitorial work.

The Texas congresswoman’s comments came in response to a question about remarks she made on the House floor Wednesday, when she said there are “candidates like Newt Gingrich who want to throw fuel and matches and fire to develop sort of an explosiveness in this country” and there are “underlying suggestions” to calling Obama the “food stamp president.”

“These are code words. It’s inappropriate,” Jackson Lee told MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Friday. “Let me say that the code words, as far as I’m concerned words that generate and signify race.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: attemptedcensorship; codewords; layoffobama; race; racecard; racialcodewords; sheila; sheilajacksonlee
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To: afraidfortherepublic

You hit the nail squarely on the head!!!


81 posted on 01/21/2012 12:36:22 PM PST by abclily
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To: Baynative
And the phrase "Code Words" is, in fact, her attempt at using the phrase "Code Words" - To alert the black community that if they want to continue getting their freebies, they need to "Vote Racist!" (Obama) and not ""Vote For America"!(anyone but Obama)
82 posted on 01/21/2012 12:39:00 PM PST by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: Baynative

Who really should care what she thinks? 94% of blacks voted for obama and 94% of them will again.


83 posted on 01/21/2012 12:42:13 PM PST by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: Baynative

Yeah, you go girl! I just wish we could get our flag back from the martians.


84 posted on 01/21/2012 12:44:26 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: illiac

Garbage from one of the biggest racists in congress. And one of the most incompetent. SJL is the reason we need some kind of “test” before you can run for congress. She has absolutely no clue. It’s one thing to have an honest policy debate. But how do you deal with complete idiots?


85 posted on 01/21/2012 12:45:24 PM PST by gswilder
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To: Baynative
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Friday accused Newt Gingrich of using racial “code words” in calling President Barack Obama the “food stamp president” and saying schools ought to hire children to do janitorial work.
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is engaging in censorship by arrogating to herself the right to say that middle class people don't have the right to tell the truth.

86 posted on 01/21/2012 12:45:34 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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To: Baynative

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is a barely functioning idiot.


87 posted on 01/21/2012 12:49:15 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
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To: N. Theknow

” the brain-sucking alien on your head has died of starvation.”

Hahaha! Post of the day award to you FRiend!


88 posted on 01/21/2012 12:54:19 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: LostInBayport

A Black woman in a white space suit, Damn that’s racist. Don’t they make black suits?


89 posted on 01/21/2012 12:58:12 PM PST by JimC214
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To: smokingfrog

TX Congressional District 18 is not gerrymandered. No way, no how. < /sarc>


90 posted on 01/21/2012 12:59:12 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
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To: Baynative

Sheila, you ignorant slut.

/Dan Aykroyd parody

91 posted on 01/21/2012 1:05:11 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Baynative

Lets see, Harvard alumni, Bush one, Bush two, Clinton both Bill and Hillery, Obama both MR and MRS, Romney and now another one, Sheila Jackson Lee speaks up in defence of MR Obama. I have instructed my children and grand children to not attend Harvard nor associate with Harvard grads out of fear that the stupidity might be contagious.

Do we really want another Harvard alum, Romney, as president?


92 posted on 01/21/2012 1:07:43 PM PST by W. W. SMITH (Obama is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: Baynative
With their constant whining the legally favored “minority” is becoming tiresome.

Perhaps it is time for a civic minded bystander to place a sock in the complainant's mouth each time racism or its variant is claimed!

93 posted on 01/21/2012 1:10:35 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: traditional1
Code words for what? Oh; I know.....the politically-incorrect truth?

Ding, ding, ding. We have a thread winnah!

94 posted on 01/21/2012 1:15:17 PM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: Baynative
Wisdom of Sheila Jackson Lee

95 posted on 01/21/2012 1:23:59 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: ROTB
Yeah, I know.

But Capt. John Smith enforced it in Virginia with his sword, dagger and musquet. [precedent]

96 posted on 01/21/2012 1:32:35 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Work n Virginia? ? Who knew?)
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To: Baynative

“Racial Code Words” is the new meme of the day, it lets the Left demonize nearly anything. To help them out, I am provide the official right wing list of code words:

ice cream
car
mirror
‘the’
‘and’
communist
socialist
unemployment rate
we’re bankrupt
honky
dark chocolate

Join the fun, create your own ‘racist code words’ in your spare time.


97 posted on 01/21/2012 1:40:30 PM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: Baynative

Sheila Jackson Lee is racist for ASSuming that all food stamp recipients are black. Plenty of white people on social assistance programs.


98 posted on 01/21/2012 1:42:37 PM PST by a fool in paradise (SecofState Clinton applauded when a POW named Gaddaffi was murdered in captivity & his body defiled.)
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To: Baynative

Sheila is politically, emotionally and intellectually challenged. God bless her, she needs it.


99 posted on 01/21/2012 1:44:50 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Baynative
Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on Friday accused Newt Gingrich of using racial “code words

The obsessive compulsive disorder of libtards causes them to speak as if they are a broken record: race baiting, playing the race card, and class warfare.

100 posted on 01/21/2012 1:48:36 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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