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Ken Hutcherson’s ‘Minority Thought Pattern’ as he defends Rush, slavery

Honest to god, it’s hard to take Washingon State-based homobigot Rev. Ken Hutcherson seriously. This is a man who stood up and said he was going to take down Microsoft by buying shares and dumping them, “putting the fear of god” into the Redmond, WA software company for not hating on the gays.

The former NFL linebacker and full-time anti-gay activist has penned a column in—irony alert here—American Thinker—that has to be read to be believed. He’s tired of people picking on his pal, Oxy procurer and all-around fetid radio gasbag Rush Limbaugh for his Obama the Magic Negro and “Child” moniker for the President pro-American values.

I have watched the news, I have seen television, and I have heard different commentators talk about my friend, all the while knowing the things they say are lies. I am proud to be an American and proud of the United States of America, and again this makes it personal to me. I not only see Rush Limbaugh and the conservative movement in this action being attacked, but the entire foundation of what made America great.

Freedom is under attack, and we as Americans need to wake up and stop this madness in the greatest nation ever formed.

Let’s talk about what seems to have happened to Rush Limbaugh. Here is a man who loves professional football almost as much as he loves America’s traditions, values, and heritage of liberty. Rush has dedicated his life to the study of both football and America. He understands America and superbly communicates his understanding with millions every weekday. He understands the game of football, and has influenced it positively by being its biggest fan. Yet Rush has suffered attempts to destroy him with lies, misunderstandings and a direct effort to eliminate his influence in America...over the pretext of what? A game?

Hutch goes on to make an insane, but passionate case for honoring slavery and the masterful white men who arrived on this continent’s shores and how their whips and subjugation of red, yellow, brown and black people in various ways hard work built this country. So damn unappreciated, says the reverend.

I truly believe that this is brought on by what I call the Minority Thought Pattern. Let’s not mince words: the Minority Thought Pattern is the total disdain and hatred of what God has accomplished through the white male throughout history. Coming from an African-American, I know this will shock you.

I am not minimizing the accomplishments of women, African-Americans, immigrants, the religious, or anyone else who is part of America. But the white male was here on Plymouth Rock for God to use, and the Pilgrims had a great belief in that God. The nation built out of their efforts, reflecting their values (most especially their religious values), has become the light of liberty for the world and an obstacle to those power-hungry individuals who hate it.

WT ever-loving F? I’m not minimizing the accomplishments of these minorities, but I’ll just go ahead now and do it. I think what we are seeing here is the Minority Lawn Jockey Thought Pattern, suffered from too much exposure to white evangelicals who prey on misguided, God-fearing black pastors from Washington State who sees them as his masters.

This is extremely personal to me. It’s about a friend. When I look at Rush, I don’t see a white man; I see a friend. I don’t see a talk show host (a very famous talk show host); I see a friend, and friendship overrides color and political stances. I don’t see a controversial figure, but a man whose heart and thoughts I know, and a man who is not a racist.

Screech….What? Barack The Magic Negro wasn’t racist? How about this:

LIMBAUGH: As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion. The deterioration reflects lower tax revenues and higher costs for bank failures, unemployment benefits and food stamps. But in the Oval Office of the White House none of this is a problem. This is the objective. The objective is unemployment. The objective is more food stamp benefits. The objective is more unemployment benefits. The objective is an expanding welfare state. And the objective is to take the nation’s wealth and return to it to the nation’s quote, “rightful owners.” Think reparations. Think forced reparations here if you want to understand what actually is going on.

What about his call to resegregate school buses? Or this one:

On the January 24 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Rush Limbaugh referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and actress Halle Berry as “Halfrican American[s],” stating that “Barack Obama has picked up another endorsement: Halfrican American actress Halle Berry.” Limbaugh then said: ” ‘As a Halfrican American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry’s support, as well as the support of other Halfrican Americans,’ Obama said.” Limbaugh then conceded that Obama “didn’t say it.”

One more for the road:

When the reality show Survivor split competing groups by race/ethnicity, Limbaugh commented that the contest was “not going to be fair if there’s a lot of water events” and suggested that “blacks can’t swim.”

I guess the good Rev. only watches Faux News and doesn’t read up outside his boundaries. Psst, Hutch—Rush is a race baiter. Hope you sleep soundly at night and dream about your BFF’s open arms to the negroes.

Everyone has their price. The question is, was Rev. Hutch obtained during a find-an-anti-gay-black pastor fire sale?

 

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Posted by Pam Spaulding on 02:57 PM • (33) Comments

Wow.  Well, studies have shown that football players tend to suffer the same sort of brain injuries as boxers.  I guess this guy is living proof.

Comment #1: m'quirk  on  11/03  at  03:10 PM

Years and years of intense psychotherapy.  Dude needs it.  Has got to be one of the most self-hating public figures I have ever heard of.  Jeebus.  This guy almost makes Alan Keyes look like Jesse Jackson.

I just don’t get it.  At all.

Comment #2: DTG in STL  on  11/03  at  03:18 PM

Coming from an African-American, I know this will shock you.

Shock? Not really. This shit has been around for a long time.

In fairness, unlike how the christofascists like to think that they invented pregnancy and parenthood, they actually did invent the self-hating minority.

Comment #3: Dan, Grand High Emperor of Bananas Foster  on  11/03  at  03:22 PM

“When I look at Rush, I don’t see a white man; I see a friend.”

...and when Rush looks at you, he doesn’t see a black man; he sees a useful idiot…

Comment #4: MikeEss  on  11/03  at  03:30 PM

Freedom is under attack, and we as Americans need to wake up and stop this madness in the greatest nation ever formed.

I’m so very, very tired of listening to wingnut yahoos hide behind the word “Freedom” and the phrase “greatest nation ever formed”.  After 8 years of Bush malfeasance - of disastrous foreign wars and wiretapping and illegal detentions and media bullying and politicized bureaucracy and race-baiting at every level - it’s the most nauseating thing in the world to listen to a GOoPer talk about all the freedom they are being deprived of.

The conservatives in this country haven’t suffered one wit since January of 2009.  The big business interests have only grown richer, sucking more voraciously at the corporate tit.  The teabagging protesters have had every opportunity to raid speeches and town halls, flood mailboxes with angry letters and bags of poop, and openly brandish firearms in public dissent.  Lawbreakers under the Bush Administration have picked up cushy jobs as lobbyists and public speakers.

This is as FREE AS IT GETS.  You’ve got massive banks run by extreme right wing managers getting free money to run failing enterprises.  You’ve got angry mobs of conservatives running up and down the streets screaming at the top of their lungs while brandishing firearms, completely unopposed.  People in the highest reaches of government who actively and transparently broke few laws we did have on them and are still walking this “great nation” free as birds.  This is it.  You do not get any freer.

As for the “Greatest Nation on Ever Formed!”, get back to me when my 401(k) breaks even.

Comment #5: Zifnab  on  11/03  at  03:50 PM

Uncle Ruckus?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdqFfAzv770

Comment #6: 2CR8LF  on  11/03  at  04:01 PM

If anyone’s interested in what the Pilgrims actually planned to do in New England, I highly recommend Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates.  There was a hell of a lot more arguing and debate than the wingnuts will cop to.  And if you get it as an audiobook, you get voices by John Oliver, John Hodgman, and Peter Dinklage, among others.

Comment #7: Mnemosyne  on  11/03  at  04:05 PM

Hutcherson is to racial equality as Phyllis Shlafly is to feminism.  It’s disgusting.

Comment #8: bananacat  on  11/03  at  04:07 PM

I haven’t read “The Field Negro” in a while, but I’m Sure the author of that blog has demoted Hutcherson from lawn-jockey to slave-catcher. Read the blog to understand how these terms are used there.

Comment #9: Bacopa  on  11/03  at  04:53 PM

<blockquote>The conservatives in this country haven’t suffered one wit since January of 2009.</blockquotes>

The one that drives me absolutely nuts from the teabagging colostomy bags is the incessant whining about “crushing federal taxes that are just suffocating us!!!”

Look you stupid fuckwits, there hasn’t been a single increase in federal taxes on ANYONE since the 1990s, so I have no idea what the ever-loving fuck you goddamned idiots are bleating about.  Furthermore, I don’t believe there has been a single federal tax increase on anyone that falls in the bottom 90% of the income bracket in decades.

This constant screaming about rising federal taxes is shit that these racist fuckheads just literally pulled out of their assholes, with absolutely no basis in reality whatsoever.

Comment #10: DTG in STL  on  11/03  at  05:02 PM

Damn it, 2CR8LF beat me to the Uncle Ruckus comparasion but it’s so apt. I cannot wrap my mind around the mental disconnect he must have but I understand it, sadly. He needs his cookie of approval, and he needs it bad. I’m sure a pat on the head would get his leg twitching as well.

Comment #11: UltraMagnus  on  11/03  at  05:44 PM

DTG, they also don’t seem to get that if you starve the federal government of revenue, then the feds don’t send money to the states, who raise their property and sales taxes to pay for services.  And then they REALLY scream.  Here in Washington state, there seem to be perpetual initiatives to starve the state government as well (including one we’re voting on today).

I’ve been asking my conservative acquaintances if they’d like to go back to the days of paying the fire department directly so their home won’t burn down.

</threadjack>

On “Rev.” Hutcherson, he reminds me of a three-year-old: he throws a tantrum (see his opposition to the Day of Silence), we ignore him, he throws a bigger tantrum.  How he became the pastor a large church in liberal western Washington mystifies me.

Comment #12: NobleExperiments  on  11/03  at  05:48 PM

I’ve been asking my conservative acquaintances if they’d like to go back to the days of paying the fire department directly so their home won’t burn down.

Of course they would, because they think there’s no way a house fire could ever possibly happen to them, so there’s no reason they should have to pay someone to stand by and be ready to put one out for them.  Wingnut logic 101:  I am a good person, therefore nothing bad will ever happen to me.

Comment #13: Mnemosyne  on  11/03  at  06:22 PM

Wingnut logic 101:  I am a good person, therefore nothing bad will ever happen to me.

Don’t forget the corollary.  If something happens to me, it wasn’t my fault, and someone else should fix it.

Comment #14: Zifnab  on  11/03  at  06:52 PM

Another corollary, or perhaps reversal:

Bad things happen to bad people.  If something bad happens to you it’s because you’re wicked or depraved.

Comment #15: tannenburg  on  11/03  at  07:07 PM

LIMBAUGH: As the economy performs worse than expected, the deficit for the 2010 budget year beginning in October will worsen by $87 billion to $1.3 trillion.
Who the hell got us into this mess? Georgie Boy. I’m tired of them screaming about freedom being under attack too: where was the uproar when Bush suspended Habrus Corpus? Illegal wiretapping? Torture? Fuck.
The good Reverand makes Alan Keyes look like Malcolm X. Pathetic.

Comment #16: pitbullgirl65  on  11/03  at  07:41 PM

Damn it, 2CR8LF beat me to the Uncle Ruckus comparasion but it’s so apt.

I wonder if he expects Ronald Reagan to let him in to white heaven when he dies?

Comment #17: Incertus, Nacho Daddy  on  11/03  at  08:02 PM

Look you stupid fuckwits, there hasn’t been a single increase in federal taxes on ANYONE since the 1990s,

I have to disagree.  There’s loads of new taxes on people who care for people who are in their households but not related by blood.  Personally, we’re paying $3K more just this year alone.  And remember, the right-wing are always on the lookout to remove any sort of perceived benefit from immigrants or women…

Comment #18: Crissa  on  11/03  at  09:20 PM

There’s loads of new taxes on people who care for people who are in their households but not related by blood.

You don’t need to be related by blood to take someone as a dependent on your return.

Link to IRS publication 501, Exemptions, Standard Deduction, and Filing Information.

Comment #19: Dark Avenger Guardian Chow Mein  on  11/03  at  10:31 PM

I am not minimizing the accomplishments of women, African-Americans, immigrants, the religious, or anyone else who is part of America.

Stick it up your goddamned big fat black Negro ass, you sure as shit are.  Apologies to other POC, but the dude is using his color as a way to justify his stupidity.  So, using his color to emphasize in reply is justified.

Comment #20: phylosopher  on  11/03  at  10:34 PM

I’m bewildered how this ... “man”... (word used advisedly) has a massive congregation on the west side of the state. Out here on the east side I could see it- except that black men don’t generally rise high in the priesthood yet in LDS churches, and I don’t know all that many black Catholics (here the Catholic churches are predominantly Hispanic), and those are really the two major churches here in the hick part of Washington.

But yeah, I think I need a vicodin after pounding my head on the keyboard. I can only deal with so much stupidity after 8 hours of working at (retailer known for smiley faces).

Comment #21: TheRealistMom  on  11/03  at  11:36 PM

Apologies to other POC, but the dude is using his color as a way to justify his stupidity.  So, using his color to emphasize in reply is justified.

No. No, it’s not, it’s not OK at all, and that wasn’t a real apology, which you should make.

Comment #22: kristin  on  11/04  at  12:21 AM

Kristin, you really aren’t getting it - and your continued ad hominem responses to my posts are getting a bit tiresome.  If Hutcherson where white, he wouldn’t have a) the option of saying such without the usual response and b) he wouldn’t have been given the time of day by Rush et al except as one more of the rank and file.  So, he’s capitalizing on his status as a black supporter of reTHUGlican bigots.  So, yes, the response is justified. 

So, yeah, the response is similar to say, a Limpball’s comment as in “up your fat, pale pink Caucasian arse.”  (Apologies to ALL for that unfortunate mental image.)

Comment #23: phylosopher  on  11/04  at  01:38 AM

Stunning.
Stunning.
And now this piece is what right wing aholes are going to point to and say “look! Look! He’s NOT racist! ONE black man is DEFENDING him!!!”

Ugh.

Comment #24: Danica Lefse Queen  on  11/04  at  01:40 AM

If Hutcherson where white, he wouldn’t have a) the option of saying such without the usual response

Are you kidding? It’s practically a daily fucking ocurrence that some white dude says something completely jacked up about race to a general response of: *crickets*.

And I think you need to look up what “ad hominem” means.

It is not OK to sling racist namecalling around. Period. Frankly, I’m surprised I was the first one to say it and that there wasn’t an immediate pile-on.

Comment #25: kristin  on  11/04  at  02:01 AM

Wrong, Kristin, white dudes say it on a daily basis and get slammed, at least on the liberal blogs.  The thing is Hutcherson is trading on his skin color to give added meaning and protection to his saying it.  I feel for African American preachers, really.  For the most part, their appeal is to only their own people - that’s just an observation, and they’re basically a dime a dozen in their own neighborhoods(travel through any impoverished African American neighborhood and note the preponderance of businesses: hair/nail salons, liquor stores, convenience stores, payday loan stores. ANd storefront churches.  The first is a woman’s business, generally, the second requires being in with the city for licenses and the distributor, the third is now usually Asian or middle eastern owned, and the last caucasian/corporate owned.  There are probably some very sincere preachers out there, but since I see the majority of religious types as simply in the support oneself (in style) business, I’ll say it again - it must be tough making it as an African American preacher/entrpreneur.

Comment #26: phylosopher  on  11/04  at  02:15 AM

Phylosopher, you’re straight-up wrong on this one. Drop it.

Comment #27: Bagelsan  on  11/04  at  06:09 AM

Fat-hating, too. Double the fail.

Comment #28: Bagelsan  on  11/04  at  06:11 AM

Quote part deux is a CLASSIC EXAMPLE of the “I’m going to say I’m not about to _____, which will make the fact that I am actually about to _____ totally not offensive,” and I will be preserving it in my files like a prized butterfly on a pin.

Comment #29: Seize  on  11/04  at  08:37 AM

travel through any impoverished <strike>African American</strike> neighborhood and note the preponderance of businesses: hair/nail salons, liquor stores, convenience stores, payday loan stores. ANd storefront churches.

FTFY. Really, while it’s interesting to watch you dig a hole for yourself, you’re missing the point. A confidence artist is a confidence artist, no matter what his skin colour (which, in cases like this, is simply a marketing hook). Poverty and lack of educational opportunity attract con-men (although I’d classify Hutcherson, like MC Steele, as more of a shill or patsy).

Here’s the principle at work on the international scale:

Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless
By ROD NORDLAND, NYT

BAGHDAD — Despite major bombings that have rattled the nation, and fears of rising violence as American troops withdraw, Iraq’s security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless.

The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works “on the same principle as a Ouija board” — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack, who described the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod.

Still, the Iraqi government has purchased more than 1,500 of the devices, known as the ADE 651, at costs from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Nearly every police checkpoint, and many Iraqi military checkpoints, have one of the devices, which are now normally used in place of physical inspections of vehicles.

Magical thinking and woo work particularly well on the desperate and ignorant, although (as we see with the anti-vax movement and Twoofers) not exclusively so.

Comment #30: Gracchus.  on  11/04  at  10:37 AM

Maybe Ken is objecting to his being restricted to preaching hate on his own dime instead of leeching off of tax payers. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/227444_hutcherson07.html

As for Rush, Ken, He’s just not that into you.

Comment #31: cynickal  on  11/04  at  03:22 PM

I’m so very, very tired of listening to wingnut yahoos hide behind the word “Freedom” and the phrase “greatest nation ever formed”.  After 8 years of Bush malfeasance - of disastrous foreign wars and wiretapping and illegal detentions and media bullying and politicized bureaucracy and race-baiting at every level - it’s the most nauseating thing in the world to listen to a GOoPer talk about all the freedom they are being deprived of. budget hosting

The conservatives in this country haven’t suffered one wit since January of 2009.  The big business interests have only grown richer, sucking more voraciously at the corporate tit.  The teabagging protesters have had every opportunity to raid speeches and town halls, flood mailboxes with angry letters and bags of poop, and openly brandish firearms in public dissent.  Lawbreakers under the Bush Administration have picked up cushy jobs as lobbyists and public speakers. email hosting

This is as FREE AS IT GETS.  You’ve got massive banks run by extreme right wing managers getting free money to run failing enterprises.  You’ve got angry mobs of conservatives running up and down the streets screaming at the top of their lungs while brandishing firearms, completely unopposed. image web hosting  People in the highest reaches of government who actively and transparently broke few laws we did have on them and are still walking this “great nation” free as birds.  This is it.  You do not get any freer.

Comment #32: Huseee  on  11/06  at  01:46 AM

“Hutcherson is to racial equality as Phyllis Shlafly is to feminism.  It’s disgusting. “
100% ACK

Comment #33: andre117  on  11/10  at  07:19 AM
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