More evidence that conservatives have no idea what the word ‘racist’ actually means.
An Atlanta bar owner posted a sign outside his restaurant that says, “I do not support the N*gger in the White House.”
The sign, posted outside the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, Georgia, has caught the attention of many onlookers.
In an interview with Atlanta’s Fox 5 news, bar owner Patrick Lanzo says that he’s been posting outrageous signs for years, and this is no different. Lanzo, of course, says that he is not a racist, but just enjoys using his free speech to call the President a n*gger.
“I don’t feel bad about anything whatsoever,” said Lanzo. “Therefore, they can go out and put their own sign in their own yard and I will not be offended.”
Why this moron thinks anyone outside his probably just-as-racist patrons will buy this insane and illogical crap isn’t explained. My guess; Patrick Lanzo is just that stupid.
Wall Street’s whining gets even more absurd.
Nick Confessore of the New York Times has a big story in the forthcoming Sunday magazine about Obama’s sour relations with Wall Street and the impact it’s having on fundraising.
Buried in the story is an extraordinary anecdote: Wall Streeters are so upset about Obama’s harsh populist rhetoric that they privately called on him to make amends with a big speech — like his oration on race — designed to heal the wounds of class warfare in this country.
Yes, because with the Trayvon Martin tragedy still very much a news story, it’s such a good idea to start comparing being asked to pay your fair share with racism. A black kid can’t walk down the street without getting shot dead and a Wall Street CEO can’t drive his Bentley around town without someone giving him the finger. Pretty much the same thing, really.
Further, the ultra-rich are handing out money to Republicans, not Democrats — so the Democratic president should aid in the Republican messaging. Because that’s just the right thing to do. One must make sacrifices to repair the terrible inequalities suffered by the unimaginably wealthy.
I have two pieces of advice for the Wall Street Whiners; “shut up” and “stop it.”
![White Folks for Romney.
ThinkProgress:
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) lambasted President Obama this week for creating a voter outreach group called “African Americans for Obama,” calling the move “worse than sad.”
Gingrey’s comments came on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show Tuesday. The host attacked Obama’s campaign for creating the group, speculating that if presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney created a group called “White Folks for Romney,” “the country would go bananas!” Gingrey agreed, going on to accuse Obama of using “African Americans for Obama” to “create divisiveness” and pit “one race against the other.” “It really is worse than sad,” Gingrey declared:
LIDDY: President Obama [made] a speech in which he forms an organization he calls “African Americans for Obama”. Can you imagine what the hue and cry would be if Mitt Romney got up and said, “I’m organizing white folks for Romney.” The country would go bananas!
GINGREY: Well they absolutely would. I would like to think in 2012, thinking back to 1965 and the Civil Rights Act and everything that has occurred to improve race relationships, that we would be over most of that racial divide. I guess you always have some prejudices that exist in the minds and hearts of certain individuals. To use it as a political tool to get out the base is sad. It really is worse than sad. President Obama is going to get 95% if not more of the African American vote and I can understand that. I think we all can understand that. To use that and to go out and try to create divisiveness or one race against the other, it’s not just that, it’s one gender against the other, male versus female. I’m sick of all that and I think the American people are too.
This is just another example of Republicans completely misunderstanding racism. They seem to believe that anything that mentions race is racism and that they can use “gotcha” issues like this to accuse liberals of hypocrisy. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t tend to get any traction.
And it’s extremely selective. The report goes on to point out; “Gingrey didn’t have a problem in 2008 when John McCain announced his ‘Hispanics for McCain’ leadership team. Nor did he say anything in 2004 when President Bush created ‘African-Americans for Bush’. Same in 2000 with ‘Arab Americans for Bush/Cheney’, ‘Women for Dole’ in 1996; ‘Asian Americans for Bush/Quayle’ in 1992; and ‘Hispanics for Bush’ in 1988.”
But there’s no “White Folks for Romney?” I think Restore Our Future PAC would qualify, although for the sake of accuracy you’d need to call it “Rich White Folks for Romney.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33gwuleQo1qfengno1_1280.jpg)
White Folks for Romney.
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) lambasted President Obama this week for creating a voter outreach group called “African Americans for Obama,” calling the move “worse than sad.”
Gingrey’s comments came on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show Tuesday. The host attacked Obama’s campaign for creating the group, speculating that if presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney created a group called “White Folks for Romney,” “the country would go bananas!” Gingrey agreed, going on to accuse Obama of using “African Americans for Obama” to “create divisiveness” and pit “one race against the other.” “It really is worse than sad,” Gingrey declared:
LIDDY: President Obama [made] a speech in which he forms an organization he calls “African Americans for Obama”. Can you imagine what the hue and cry would be if Mitt Romney got up and said, “I’m organizing white folks for Romney.” The country would go bananas!
GINGREY: Well they absolutely would. I would like to think in 2012, thinking back to 1965 and the Civil Rights Act and everything that has occurred to improve race relationships, that we would be over most of that racial divide. I guess you always have some prejudices that exist in the minds and hearts of certain individuals. To use it as a political tool to get out the base is sad. It really is worse than sad. President Obama is going to get 95% if not more of the African American vote and I can understand that. I think we all can understand that. To use that and to go out and try to create divisiveness or one race against the other, it’s not just that, it’s one gender against the other, male versus female. I’m sick of all that and I think the American people are too.
This is just another example of Republicans completely misunderstanding racism. They seem to believe that anything that mentions race is racism and that they can use “gotcha” issues like this to accuse liberals of hypocrisy. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t tend to get any traction.
And it’s extremely selective. The report goes on to point out; “Gingrey didn’t have a problem in 2008 when John McCain announced his ‘Hispanics for McCain’ leadership team. Nor did he say anything in 2004 when President Bush created ‘African-Americans for Bush’. Same in 2000 with ‘Arab Americans for Bush/Cheney’, ‘Women for Dole’ in 1996; ‘Asian Americans for Bush/Quayle’ in 1992; and ‘Hispanics for Bush’ in 1988.”
But there’s no “White Folks for Romney?” I think Restore Our Future PAC would qualify, although for the sake of accuracy you’d need to call it “Rich White Folks for Romney.”
Does the right even understand what racism is?
The Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson launched another attack at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Hannity Monday evening.
Appearing on Fox’s panel discussion, Carlson’s latest outrage at the NAACP stemmed from its Martin County branch’s decision to cancel its Tuesday event and unitive Rep. Allen West (R-FL) from speaking after he insisted that “up to” 81 Democratic members of Congress were secretly Communists.
“The NAACP, storied history though it has, is a totally discredited group,” Carlson said. “And anyone that doesn’t think so doesn’t know much about the modern NAACP. It represents virtually no one. It’s bankrupt literally and morally. It’s an absurd fringe group and I don’t know why we pay any attention to what they think. We’re bullied into it because it was, at one point, a force for good.”
Carlson’s comments are the latest hostile statements he has said about the NAACP. In 2010, Carlson called the organization “totally discredited” and “pathetic.” He also labeled the NAACP a “sad joke that should be shut down” in 2007.
Raw Story has video, but save yourself some time; imagine a smug, over-privileged dick who’s barely matured since his freshman year of college saying all this and you’re pretty much on the money.
But I don’t bring this up to report that Tucker Carlson is a useless tool trying to poach some of Breitbart’s traffic by being as extremist as he can bring himself to be — that’s hardly breaking news. I bring this up because I just read a quote from Ta-Nehisi Coates on Ed Kilgore’s blog and it fit so perfectly with this story that I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to apply it here:
The conservative movement doesn’t understand anti-racism as a value, only as a rhetorical pose. This is how you end up tarring the oldest integrationist group in the country (the NAACP) as racist. The slur has no real moral content to them. It’s all a game of who can embarrass who. If you don’t think racism is an actual force in the country, then you can only understand it’s invocation as a tactic.
In other words, “racist” exists only as an accusation for most on the right. It’s a smear that liberals apply to conservatives. That Allen West ran afoul of the NAACP is proof of this, since West is black and racism — in conservatives’ world — is the NAACP’s entire reason for existing. Anything West does should automatically be applauded by African-Americans everywhere; even blatant, over-the-top lies like his “communist” bullcrap. The NAACP, in Carlson’s mind, should be backing West to the hilt, because disagreeing with black people is what racism is all about — a bunch of hogwash designed to frighten and shame white people into giving in and agreeing with black people.
Romney to receive less-than-coveted NOM endorsement.
The National Organization for Marriage plans to throw its support to Mitt Romney today, giving the former Massachusetts governor a stamp of approval from the high-profile conservative group helping lead the fight over same-sex unions, POLITICO has learned
In a statement, NOM President Brian Brown will urge conservatives to get behind Romney: “Now is the time for all people who recognize the importance of marriage to come together to support a true champion, Mitt Romney, against an incumbent who has done virtually everything in his power to undermine the institution of marriage.”
“Gov. Romney was an early signer of NOM’s presidential pledge which represents his commitment to the nation to take specific actions as president to preserve and protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” Brown’s message says .”President Obama has declared our nation’s marriage laws to be unconstitutional and not only has refused to defend them, his administration is actively working to repeal them in the courts. He’s come out against state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. And he has appointed leaders of the same-sex ‘marriage’ movement as national co-chairs of his reelection campaign.”
Of course, now that he’s all but officially won the GOP nomination, Romney’s running scared from social issues. This is just another example of how the base will try to drag him kicking and screaming back to the right.
This will be an especially unwelcome endorsement. NOM was recently caught up in a race-baiting scandal and, while the media seems to have let it slide, a lot of voters — especially African-American voters — have not. It’s not going to help Mittens much when these voters — who he desperately needs — find out that Mitt’s Super PAC was a funder of the group.
Jonathon asked: Clearly racist….
Yo, I know that in their imaginations, White Supremacists think that if they’d only get their way, everyone would look like Dolph Lundgren or whatever, but they always forget that the actual face of racist assholes is kind of more like this half-toad half-Ned-Flanders fuckface who’s somehow both a dad and a virgin at the same time.
I’m not going to link to it, but the website at that URL at the top of his placard is just insanely racist. This guy was actually a lone counterprotester at a rally for Trayvon Martin. If I had to come up with a parallel, the closest I could come would be the Westboro Baptist cult protesting the funerals of gays.
This is a seriously awful person.
Gingrich calls Obama's comments on Trayvon Martin "disgraceful"
“Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn’t look like him?” Gingrich asked. “That’s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot. It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian American of if he’d been a Native American. At some point, we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American, it is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.”
President Obama responded to a reporter’s question on Friday during a press event by saying Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen fatally shot in February, would like like his son if he had one.
Proof positive that Newt Gingrich, being a completely shameless man, can find a way to play the victim card on anything.
#killer #coward
It’s worth noting that he’s so far offered no apology for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin.
(via randomactsofchaos)
When I saw this I screamed “wtf” and dropped my cell phone.
I thought I could not be shocked anymore.
Kudos to this guy for shocking someone who is essentially unshockable.I can’t even elaborate on this because I am speechless.
I’ll keep saying it until it becomes common knowlege; the conservative base are mostly just people seeking a world where it’s OK to be an asshole.
