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gawkimo
12/31/08

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Where does the Barack monkey doll, the emphasis on HUSSEIN, and forced comparisons to Obama as a Black Muslim radical fit into the Republican's sense of well-balanced completely non-bigoted parody?
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DoctorNine
12/30/08

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Oh for Pete's sake... please page back a few to John Murtha, if you guys think this is a Southern issue. That in itself is stereotype of the very worst sort. Just go here:

[www.splcenter.org]

Southerners don't like this either. We've been rooting it out for a long time. Because of the prejudices it arouses, we are even more sensitive to such accusations, actually.

No matter where you live in the world, there will be those who tell you one group or another deserves unfair treatment, or is in some way inferior. In fact, if you live in the Northeast, there are those who will tell you that Southerners are inferior. Can you imagine someone actually writing or saying that?

What a benighted condition they must exist in...
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JeanBrodie
12/30/08

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For the love of God (and country, of course), could someone please explain to me why Republican men are so goddamn fugly! Every GOP fug, from trailer trash bred Newt--what kind of a name is that?--Gingrinch to Dick Cheney, the meanest, greediest human to ever walk the planet, makes me wanna turn Lohan.
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skahammer
12/31/08

@JeanBrodie: Failure to broaden the gene pool. Simple as that.
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Adah
12/30/08

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This posting is worthless without a link to a soundclip of "Barack the Magic Negro".
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Mafalda para Presidente
12/30/08

@Adah: Why should we give them more clicks? I think the title itself tells us all we need to know. No need to hear the rest of their idiotic lyrics.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
12/30/08

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RNC- Ur still doing it WRONG.
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NoWireHangers
12/30/08

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There's also this to consider:

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Pope John Peeps II
12/30/08

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"I demand that YOU sir, YOU. Take me to funkytown".
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
12/30/08

@Pope John Peeps II: well... I know who can get you there, but there are issues given the context of the post

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theysaidwhat
12/30/08

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Actually, it's a bit more than using the word "Negro". "Magic Negro", the term used in the song, is a separate way to insult blacks by implying that they are still mainly around to service white people in some way or another.

[en.wikipedia.org]
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Adah
12/30/08

@theysaidwhat: No, the Magic Negro reference was in regard to a column in the LA Times by a liberal, black writer who was analyzing Obama's appeal. Is it stupid, lazy, and bad satire? Sure. Is it a huge racist scandal as all the commentaters in this thread are making it out to be? Not really.
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gawkimo
12/31/08

@Adah: Actually, the racial and gender ratio of elected Republicans pretty much sums it up. We don't need bad parody to realize the GOP is a party run for and by white men. That's why the GOP is going ga-ga over Jindal. They're desperate to add some color to the predominantly white (and male) mix. DUH!
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TheHonJudgeSmails
12/30/08

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I'm sorry, I'm still busy trying to figure out if I've been not raped.
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Dead Wrestlers Society
12/30/08

@TheHonJudgeSmails: heh.
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Pope John Peeps II
12/30/08

@TheHonJudgeSmails: If you accidentally clicked on the link, and found yourself in Jezebel, well... that's a kind of rape. Internet rape.
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Dickdogfood
12/30/08

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I suspect his viability as chair comes from his peers thinking experience with "humor" is an asset in this age of Stewart 'n' Colbert...which only goes to show you that Republicans understand laffs about as much as robots understand love. (Or maybe much less: at least robots have Daft Punk and Wall-E on their team.)
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NotChoinski
12/30/08

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Old fat white guys aren't racist. But they sho' can dance.
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Urbania
12/30/08

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I'm sticking with "shot themselves in the foot" on this one.
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@Urbania: That assumes they can smell the smoke, feel the bullet wound, and sense the blood-loss.
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misslinda
12/30/08

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You know what I find most annoying about Republicans? They tend to be completely uninformed about politics. So while this may be a big deal to us, they haven't heard word one about it. And if you get a Republican out there who thinks racism is a bad thing (hey, it's possible) they vote for schmucks like this guy anyhow cause they never hear any of the crappy shit that they do. All they know is he goes to church, loves his family, and combs his hair into that same stupid shape all the other Republican politicians do. So yeah, that's what I hate about Republicans.
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bess marvin, girl detective
12/30/08

@misslinda: change around some words (or even leave them be) and you can say the same for democrats.

americans aren't a smart bunch on both sides. trust.
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DrGirlfriend
12/30/08

@misslinda: From what I have been reading regarding this whole situation, there appears to be a divide between the older Republicans and the younger ones. Particularly, younger Republican bloggers - they are the ones saying this is racist an irresponsible.
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misslinda
12/30/08

@DrGirlfriend: I hope you're right. None of my Republican in-laws over the age of 40 understood my holiday card (Joe to the World, with greetings to all of our Joe the Friends and Joe the Family). Even when we explained it to them with the requisite "you know, Joe the Plumber...from the election?", it was just a bunch of blank stares. I guess they didn't watch the debates or the news cause they had already made up their minds. The younger Republican inlaws, they got it, but were not amused.
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WaltzingMatilda
12/30/08

@misslinda: Ah, so you do know my in-laws. All I learned last week is that Sarah Palin is "good people" and Michelle Obama is "an elitist with bad taste." Yay, Christmas! And thank you, brandy, for getting me through another holiday.
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misslinda
12/30/08

@WaltzingMatilda: Oh puh-leeeze, you had it easy! There ain't no drinkin or cussin at my inlaws, but there is whole lotta huntin and prayin. No book learnin either, but you probably guessed that already.
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Mafalda para Presidente
12/30/08

@WaltzingMatilda: Well, with political opinions as informed as that one, who can argue?
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Colander
12/30/08

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This is only sad because people are defending him doing this and pretending they can't see why ANYONE would be outraged or, like, annoyed or whatever. Other than that, just let them have it--they're acting like dumbies, and people will notice.
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@Colander: i got in trouble for saying things like this before, but here goes: In the South, to which the GOP is increasingly restricted in its appeal, racism is still pretty rampant. No one will admit it, but it's there (my southern father-in-law, for example, opposes interracial marriage "for the children's sake"), but it's also larger than that, something bordering on xenophobia. So long as people, and these are the sorts of people to whom the GOP still appeals, think you're just like them, you're fine. As soon as you're Other, you're...well, other, and they don't much care for you. So this putz is saying what a lot of people secretly think. Only a parliamentary trick kept a white supremacist off the.... And that's in South Florida, which isn't even "the south."
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Ron_Obvious
12/30/08

@Hydroceph: The Republican Party isn't a "Southern" problem. And racism here in the South is anything but clandestine, if you'll pardon the pun. There are plenty of people who admit openly they hate black people, Mexicans, gays and anyone else who isn't a white Southern Baptist hayseed. But I have seen the number of those people decline dramatically during my lifetime. You get a redneck out of the tobacco field or the mill town and into a college classroom or the U.S. military, most of them drop the racism pretty quickly. I think the urban South is well on its way toward working out some kind of racial accord, although we certainly aren't there yet. How about up in your neck of the woods?
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@Ron_Obvious: I live in a college town in California. Probably not the best example, and talking about race is complicated by the fact that there is no numerical majority race in CA anymore. Class is one way of subdividing things, and one of my personal favorite analytical categories, but off-topic here.

And in the interests of full disclosure, which i think is how the chattering class gets around conflicts of interest that might otherwise shut it up, i haven't lived in the south since 1998. It was rural coastal Florida, but i also spent time in Gainesville. G'ville thinks of itself as the Berkeley of the South, a laughable notion on many levels. But even then and there, G'ville had a very stark white-black divide, and there were virtually no Asians at the University of Florida until right before i graduated. It's possible things have changed in the urban south in the last decade, and it may be far easier to be a middle class GWM in Metro Atlanta than a poor black.

But having observed the military in Savannah, i'm not sure it leavens all that much. Racism, sure. But homophobia (my hot-button issue)? Not so much. Interestingly enough, however, my Georgia raised, South Carolina born father-in-law preferred by husband to bring home a white man over a black woman.

But as for as the GOP being a Southern problem? McCain won in the Bible Belt, the under-populated square states, and Appalachia. The GOP is essentially irrelevant in California, and looking to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
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Mafalda para Presidente
12/30/08

@Hydroceph: I was getting my hair cut once by a blonde lady in the middle of central Texas, and we were discussing Hurricane Katrina (the woman was from Louisiana originally). Imagine my surprise when she told me "Well, at least it cleaned out those people, huh?"

I wish I would have said something to her, but I was rendered speechless at the moment (and the lady was holding scissors to my hair).
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@Mafalda para Presidente: I think Barbara Bush said something similar.

For what it's worth, i think you were right to hold your tongue--hair-stylists have a fearsome power.
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Mafalda para Presidente
12/30/08

@Hydroceph: Maybe an innocent "What do you mean?" would have done it. I've said that in response to other racist comments and most people just stutter and don't elaborate. It pisses me off. If you're going to be racist, at least have some cojones and own up to it!
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@Mafalda para Presidente: Yep, i hear you. I can't decide whether that means they know it's wrong or just that they know other people think it's wrong, that they're "not supposed" to say things like that. If it's the former, why do they assume we share their flaw? If it's the latter, again, why do they assume we're in with them?
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DoctorNine
12/30/08

@Ron_Obvious: Let's see.. is Pennsylvania a southern state? LMAO.
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Ron_Obvious
12/31/08

@DoctorNine: I have to be honest with you, Doc. I spent some time in Pennsylvania about a year ago and some of the stuff I saw and heard made my hair damn near stand on end. Maybe the Keystone State is an annex of Alabama?
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skahammer
12/31/08

@Ron_Obvious: @DoctorNine: Yes, one of the odd dislocations of growing up in rural PA is seeing how many local Camaros and Trans Ams have their back windshields emblazoned with the Stars & Bars.

If there's ever a place that suffers from "Confederate envy" (yes, Southerners, that feeling is your head starting to spin), it's the Pennsyltuckey part of the Keystone State. Some sociologist could write a book about it.
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Andy Matter
12/30/08

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God, will the Confederacy please secede again so we can properly bomb it this time?
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Pope John Peeps II
12/30/08

@Andy Matter: If you need tips, I hear Israel posted some good how-to youtube videos on large scale bombings of whole populations.
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Nice Beaver
12/30/08

@Andy Matter: That's a fantastic idea or my name isn't William Tecumseh Sherman VII!!!
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@Andy Matter: why waste the munitions? just let it go and then stop sending all that money to the former donor states.
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dj_chick
12/30/08

@Andy Matter: Hey, dammit, I live in what used to be the confederacy and I can vouche for a lot of us who aren't racist asshats. Most of the urban areas (Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, etc.) are even primarily democrat! That's right... blue dots in the middle of the red states. So keep your bombing to the rural areas, aight?
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Perhaps Not
12/30/08

@dj_chick: Oh, I'm originally from rural NC and it's a perfectly fine place for both black people and white people to live (in fact, it's one of the few places in the nation where there are poor black people and poor white people in the same neighborhoods, not killing each other). The real problem is these too-rich dickheads who can only stay in office by convincing their constituents that the rest of us are effete liberal snobs who look down on them (which appears to be largely true, friends and neighbors). Then they rob them blind. I used to live in Charles Taylor's district. Go on, Google him.
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nystar2000
12/30/08

@Andy Matter: [www.fuckthesouth.com]
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
12/30/08

@Andy Matter: No! They have such purdy accents, it'd be a shame to see that go!
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@nystar2000: I...i think i love you.
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Hydroceph
12/30/08

@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: That's OK, they'll all be over in Blue America for work, anyway.

And...uh, aren't you from the Crumbled Empire? I married into a southern family. Trust me, your accents are way sexier.
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DoctorNine
12/30/08

@Andy Matter: Because of course, racism only exists in the South. (rolls eyes)
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gawkimo
12/31/08

@Andy Matter: I find it interesting to note at this point that the Mason-Dixon line runs through New Jersey.
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skahammer
12/31/08

@PerhapsNot: You used to live in Liberia? That's hardcore.
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Perhaps Not
12/31/08

@skahammer: There was no shortage of giggling about that when he left office, believe you me.
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