Submitted for your approval: A world gone mad and a PC society so invested in finding offence where none is proffered; so much so that all discourse has been outlawed. I believe we've entered ... The Twilight Zone.
Posted on 08/27/2009 11:49:45 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Republican congresswoman from Kansas is issuing a great big apology for saying the GOP is searching for a "great white hope" to stop President Obama's policy agenda.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins "apologizes if her words have offended anyone," her spokesman, Mary Geiger, told The Associated Press. "That was not the intent in any way, shape or form."
During an Aug. 19 forum, Jenkins attempted to reassure the crowd that that the Republican Party has promising young leaders. "Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," Jenkins, who is white, said. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington." Later, at an event at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Jenkins denied she was using racial terms. She said she meant only that the GOP needs "a bright light." "I was unaware of any negative connotation, and if I offended anybody, obviously, I apologize," Jenkins told the Lawrence Journal-World. The term originated in the early 20th century when whites upset that a black man, Jack Johnson, had become the heavyweight boxing champion pined for a "great white hope" to dethrone him.
A White House spokesman declined to comment ahead of Thursday's briefing in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where Obama is vacationing.
Obama, the nation's first African-American president, is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas.
There is nothing racist in the Rep’s. speech. MSM is grasping at straws to take the heat from Bam’s healthcare. And what ever happened to free speech??
On the other hand, anyone stupid enough to vote against Republicans on the basis of a few choice comments, while ignoring similar choice comments from the other side, deserves whatever he gets.
Obama is no Jack Johnson.
We don’t have the media on our side. We can’t afford to have anyone making stupid comments.
She has an incredibly sexy mouth, but she should have kept it shut this time.
Rule #1. Never apologize. That’s what Democrats are for.
Former Senator George “Macaca” Allen has issued an apology.
“This was a stupid, inane statement that the corrupt MSM will use and cite endlessly as PROOF! that anyone who opposes Obama only does so because they are racists.”
Why would any sane person care what the lying, corrupt MSM thinks?
I don’t care.
You do. Why?
I don’t care if some fat moonbat ACORN communist will be offended and fake outrage.
Olbermann was filling his depends over this. He had Maxine Waters on to respond(talk about a racist!). Apparently Olbie has some fans here.
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
For sure! You don't need to be white to know what's right.
Well, lookie what I found!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011101414.html
I guess the WAPO and the Ossiah are a bunch of black hating racists, huh?
I REFUSE to let the real racists infesting this great land get away with another friggin MICRON of anything. THey wanna play? They better be careful what they wish for. They just might get it.
In case the dang thing disappears like it has a tendency to:
Why Obamamania? Because He Runs as The Great White Hope.
by David Greenberg, Jan 13 2008
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