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GOP W. Va. Gov. Candidate: Obama is a "Sambo"; Pelosi a "Bimbo."

West Virginia former Republican lawmaker and current Republican gubernatorial candidate (in the primary) Larry Faircloth apparently called President Barack Obama a "Sambo" and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi a "Bimbo" in a candidate forum on April 29:

Faircloth referred to Pelosi as a "bimbo."

"Is she not one?" Faircloth said in a Tuesday evening telephone interview. "I mean, a lot of people think she is a bimbo; that's why they replaced Congress with Republicans, and they removed her as speaker. I don't find that as anything different than a political poke at her."

He also referred to Obama as a "Sambo,"

Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail

He even offended a tea party couple who put on the forum:

The leaders of an Eastern Panhandle Tea Party group are claiming former state lawmaker and current GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Faircloth made a racist and sexist remark about President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

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"While Mr. Faircloth was giving his opening comments, he chose to tell a racist, sexist 'Joke,'" the couple said in a Monday email obtained by the Daily Mail. "This offended several people, some laughed, most gasped, and one man stood up and walked out and made the statement 'You're all nothing but a bunch of bigots' on his way out the door."

Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail

Faircloth's defense? He claims it's just a "joke."

"It was meant to be a joke, and if they took it different, I told the people there that I apologized," Faircloth said.

Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail

Steve Benen at Washington Monthy describes it as Another setback for Republicans’ minority outreach efforts

Larry Faircloth, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in West Virginia, decided he knew just how to connect with a local Tea Party organization — he’d call Nancy Pelosi a “bimbo” and President Obama a “Sambo.”

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Reiterating a question I asked a couple of weeks ago, after a GOP lawmaker in Oklahoma argued the state has a high African American population because blacks don’t work hard, where does the Republican Party even find people like this?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/13/975808/-GOP-W-Va-Gov-Candidate:-Obama-is-a-Sambo;-Pelosi-a-Bimbo