Sally Kern's Most Outrageously Offensive Statements

Sally Kern, or (hopefully), Rachel Dratch doing an
offensive bigot character. From source, BuzzFlash

Right now, the NAACP is trying to get Representative Sally Kern (R-Ok.) to resign for making outrageous statements about black people and women. Kern thinks both categories of people don't work hard enough, and probably should have kept that little butt nugget of information to herself, whether she thinks it or not. Since she said it (and believe me, I put it nicer words than she did), she's had a lot of backlash, understandably. And she's offered up a lame "oopsie, that's not what I think" half-assed apology of sorts. According to Sally, it came out wrong, and she's not really a sexist bigot. Funny, considering how often she says horrible things.

Below are examples of this woman's blinding nastiness (though whoever collected the statements seems to be allergic to apostrophes).

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22 INSANE Things Representative Sally Kern Has Said

A collection of quotes from the worst, most horrible, bigoted woman in the US government. Sally Kern makes Sarah Palin look like a smart, sane lady. If you want, you can email Sally at sallykern@okhouse.gov. BE CIVIL, this woman is crazy. . .

#2 - “Not everybodys lifestyle is equal, just like not all religions are equal, gays are an even bigger threat than terrorism or Islam, which I think is a big threat. . .”

Read them all at: BuzzFeed

FOX "News" Trashes Innocent Woman in Race-Baiting Ploy

There has been a concerted effort by FOX "News" and its allied partners in right-wing world to get white people to feel they're victims of racism.  It's nothing new--I think Sean Hannity invented the term "reverse racism"--but it has picked up steam lately.  There was the overblown, two-year-old story about the New Black Panther Party. There was the overblown response to a tepid statement from the NAACP warning tea baggers to repudiate the racists in their midst. And now, there's the railroading of a seemingly decent woman, Shirley Sherrod, by Andrew Breitbart, painting her as an evil racist within the Obama Administration.

This led to an unfortunate, knee-jerk denouncement of Sherrod by the NAACP itself, and a forced resignation by the Obama Administration.  The NAACP has made amends. I hope the White House does as well.  They've fallen for the FOX spin far too many times already.

The entire story was bogus, an edited tape taken out of context, representing the story to be absolutely the opposite of what happened. You know, the FOX "News" stock-in-trade.  The story is complex if you're not familiar with how these faux outrage stories bloom.  So, while I was going to try to avoid any Rachel Maddow Show clips for a couple of days, I could think of no better way to explain it all. This is primo stuff.  If you haven't seen it, please watch.  The second clip is worth a view too, but the choice bits are in the first clip (good stuff starts at 1:35).

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Tea Party Topples Top Teabagger

This whole tea party thing is getting confusing. Sunday morning on Face the Nation, there was a black guy, David Webb, speaking for the movement. . .when did that happen? He was speaking for the Tea Party Federation. How that ties to the Tea Party Express, the Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party Nation, the Tea Party Party, (and I'm sure I'm leaving some out) I have no idea. But since the movement's message is so diffuse and vague, I guess it makes a sort of sense.

There seems to be a genuine effort afoot to start some sort of race war though, with FOX "News" and right-wing talk radio leading the charge.  All of the squawking about "the New Black Panther Party"--by all accounts a minuscule movement--that occurred two years ago is part of it. The extreme overreaction to a rather tepid pronouncement by the NAACP about tacit acceptance of racism in the tea parties is another.  It's going to get worse--and stupider--before it gets better.

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Tea Party Federation Expels Mark Williams Over 'Offensive' Response To NAACP's Racism Charge

The National Tea Party Federation has expelled conservative commentator and Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams over a fictional letter Williams wrote on his blog last week from "Colored People" to Abraham Lincoln.


"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday on CBS's "Face The Nation. . ."

Read more at: Huffington Post

Monkeys of Color Terrify GOP Presidential Primates...

Yet again the Republicans prove they just don't get the "colored folks". One lone GOP primate showed up to the NAACP sponsored debate. He must have felt like a white guy about to tell a bad racist joke at the Apollo Theatre.
I can't help but imagine this type of GOP thinking must go something like... "You're not slaves anymore... we freed ya... We share the bus... It's illegal to hang ya from a tree or jam a plunger up your sphincter... The railroads are all built... And sometimes we even let you out of your 'cage' to vote... Ain't that enough? Sheesh! These guys act like they got hit by Hurricane Sambo or something."
Lonely GOP Monkey
NAACP's Bond blasts GOP leaders on equality