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07/14/09 4:24 AM

#79643 RE: F6 #79640

All This Because Of A Peace T-Shirt



Posted in Liberaland by Alan
July 13th, 2009, 9:47 PM EDT

The next time Sarah Palin or one of her defenders complains about how her family is being treated, note the Free Republic website and the things it publishes [ http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Conservative+Free+Republic+blog+free+speech+flap+after+racial+slurs+directed+Obama+children/1782375/story.html ] about Barack Obama’s children.

“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.”

These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.

The thread was accompanied by a photo of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that featured the caption, “To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds.”


The thread was removed and then reinstated, attracting even more slurs.

“This disgusting display makes me more and more eager for the revolution,” while another read, “I never actually wnated [sic] to be a pistol before but…”

The site’s owner only added fuel to the fire in response to one of the few complaints he received.

“The writer has a point,” wrote site owner Jim Robinson sarcastically. “We should steer clear of Obama’s children. They can’t help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig.”

Here’s a screen capture [ http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/7610/missobamaspeaceniktshir.jpg ] of some of the comments. And add to this some of the comments on a fan site of the conservative radio host Mark Levin, as mentioned by Frank Rich in Sunday’s Times [ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/opinion/12rich.html (at http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=39466986 ) (many primary source links embedded in the original)].

“Bottomline, do you know of any way we can remove these idiots before this country goes down the crapper?” wrote one Levin fan. “I WILL HELP!!! Should I buy a gun?” Another called for a new American revolution, promising “there will be blood.”

This is what passes in 2009 America as the “loyal opposition.”

Copyright © 2009 Alan Colmes

http://www.alan.com/2009/07/13/all-this-because-of-a-peace-t-shirt/ [with comments]

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the first comment strikes me as particularly apt:

This is why the radical rightwing extremists do not deserve America, and America does not deserve them. And its the best reason I’ve seen in a long time for using the law, not as a shield, but as a sword.

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07/16/09 7:19 AM

#79678 RE: F6 #79640

Steele: I'll Woo Blacks To GOP With "Fried Chicken And Potato Salad"

Bil Browning [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bil-browning ]
Posted: July 14, 2009 12:28 PM

The Young Republicans convention was held in Indianapolis last weekend and their election of a racist, middle-aged woman as President [ http://indiana.bilerico.com/2009/07/young_republicans_elect_racist_middle-ag.php ] isn't the only controversial item to come out of the GOP gathering.

Local Republican blog Hoosier Access [ http://hoosieraccess.com/blog/2009/07/13/more-from-michael-steele-meeting-with-bloggers/ ] was able to get RNC Chairman Michael Steele to sit down with a group of bloggers and they taped the conversation. The old gaffe-o-matic (or as I like to call him, the Republican Joe Biden!) answers a question from a gay person of color [ http://www.milehive.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=585&Itemid=232 ] in this clip about the GOP's diversity outreach.

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Yes, that's right. To lure African-Americans into the GOP, Steele is offering "fried chicken and potato salad." Since he mentions Republicans should also be reaching out to the LGBT community, I wonder what stereotype he's going to offer us? Buttplugs and Birkenstocks?

(Crossposted at Bilerico Project [ http://www.bilerico.com/2009/07/steele_gop_woos_blacks_with_fried_chicken_and_pota.php ])

Copyright © 2009 HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. (emphasis in original)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bil-browning/steele-gop-woos-blacks-wi_b_231534.html [with comments]