This Could Be the ‘Willie Horton’ Ad of This Campaign
Just when you thought the Tea Party had shriveled up and died, their super PAC comes out with this piece of vileness that panders to the whitest part of the GOP base.
Tag: Racism
Why Does Romney Not Expect to Be Asked About His Birth Certificate?
Yes, he really said this:
No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.
And these people said this about the remark:
- Take a moment or two to think about that, what he’s actually saying, and what it says about Mitt Romney. — Jim Messina, Campaign manager, Obama for America
- [Romney] wasn’t using prepared remarks. — A Romney campaign aide quoted by CNN
- The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States. He was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised. — Kevin Madden, Romney senior adviser
- It’s one thing to give the stage in Tampa to Donald Trump, Sheriff Arpaio, and Kris Kobach. But Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across America. — Ben LaBolt, Obama campaign press secretary
- I thought it was great because why should we have to worry about whether the president has a birth certificate or not? — Guy Myers, a Romney supporter from Clarkson, Mich., who witnessed the remark
New Study Links Support for Voter ID Laws to Racial Resentment
Despite its conclusion, the study was not produced by Duh University and at least one surprising tidbit it uncovered shows it.
New research from the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication found that people with high “racial resentment” scores, along with those who consider themselves Republicans and conservatives, are most likely to be concerned about the largely imaginary issue of vote fraud.
Intense vote fraud investigations in Iowa have produced a confused elderly man who voted twice, a college student whose parents are divorcing who didn’t get the postcard, and a lady who lives at the address on her voter ID but gets mail elsewhere
To gauge their depth of racial resentment, non African-American survey respondents were asked how strongly they agreed with these statements:
- I resent any special considerations that Africans Americans receive because it’s unfair to other Americans.
- Special considerations for African Americans place me at an unfair disadvantage because I have done nothing to harm them.
- African Americans bring up race only when they need to make an excuse for their failure.
Not all liberals and Democrats came up clean in the survey.
Romney’s Foreign Trip Stumbles at Start – Campaign Adviser Tells UK Paper That, Unlike Obama, Romney Is ‘Part of an Anglo-Saxon Heritage’
Romney at NAACP Convention: Race Baiting Is a Standard GOP Tactic – Reagan Launched His 1980 Campaign at Site of a KKK Murder of Civil Rights Workers
“I think it was a calculated move on his part to get booed at the NAACP convention,” said former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an interview yesterday when asked to react to Mitt Romney’s address to the NAACP earlier in the day. Romney’s motive for race-baiting was to create a moment on video that Fox News can play on an endless loop, showing Romney confronting “angry blacks” at the NAACP, which one Fox pundit referred to as a “hate group” yesterday.
Does Wishing the South Had Won the Civil War Make Ted Nugent a Racist?
I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.
One-hit wonder Ted Nugent, somehow relating the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act to the Civil War, which nearly ended the United States and split the nation in two. Perhaps Nugent is trying to say that two Americas, one liberal and one conservative, would be more harmonious. Or perhaps he’s trying to say that he’s a big ol’ fat stupid racist.
Bad News for Obama: Racism Could Cost Him Re-election
Creative research published by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz shows Obama will be in trouble in his bid for re-election in part because of his race.
Stephens-Davidowitz decided to see if there was a correlation between Google searches for the word, “nigger” and voting behavior. Yes, he looked at searches for that word.
The conditions under which people use Google — online, most likely alone, not participating in an official survey — are ideal for capturing what they are really thinking and feeling. You may have typed things into Google that you would hesitate to admit in polite company.
He examined searches conducted nationally in the years 2004 to 2007, before Obama was officially running, and long before he was the front-runner on the Democratic side. From that study, he identified the most, and least, racially charged areas of the country.
Most racially charged areas of America:
- West Virginia
- Western Pennsylvania
- Eastern Ohio
- Upstate New York
- Southern Mississippi
The state with the highest racially charged search rate in the country was West Virginia. Other areas with high percentages included western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, upstate New York and southern Mississippi.*
Next, Stephens-Davidowitz came up with a baseline for how a generic Democratic candidate would have performed based on the vote for John Kerry in 2004 which presumably reflected the ballots of people who were likely to go Democratic, even if a not very exciting, privileged, rich Massachusetts liberal who said stupid things like, “I voted for it before I was against it” was the candidate. He also looked at how Democratic Congressional candidates did in the 2008 election.
The results were striking: The higher the racially charged search rate in an area, the worse Mr. Obama did.
You Decide: New Video Appears to Show Santorum Using the N-Word to Refer to Pres. Obama
Transcript:
RICK SANTORUM: We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like – the anti-war government nig… America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.
Montana Judge Who Sent Email Implying Pres. Obama’s Mother Had Sex With Dogs Says He Isn’t Racist
To those who say that all racism is in the South (and that all those in the South are racist), I give you Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull from the state of Montana.
His honor, appointed to the bench by Pres. George W. Bush, thought this email was appropriate to circulate among six “old buddies:”
The forwarded text reads:
“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.
“A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’” the e-mail joke reads. “His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!’”
The judge, upon being ratted out by one of those buds, quickly apologized, saying it’s not that he’s racist, it’s just that he hates Pres. Obama.
