I’m worried about his underpublicized ties to known Communist agitator Kool Aid Man, who apparently has such disdain for private property that he busts through the walls of houses and businessman to dispense RED LIQUID to UNWILLING GOD FEARING WHITE CHILDREN.

And everyone knows that it’s grape drink (Ingredients: Water and purple, according to Dave Chappelle) that’s the official drink of the black community. When they’re feeling upscale, they might ask for a handful of soda to go with their one rib.

I will say that I have now been enlightened that Kool-Aid is the drink of choice for Negroes, according to Fedele.

I was surprised by its inclusion, too. After all these years of supply-side and PNAC fantasies, I thought Kool-Aid was firmly ensconced as the official drink of neoConservatism.

I think this fake currency has more accuracy, with the inclusion of Kool Aid, than real currency has.  As a white American, I have never once bought a pyramid topped by an all-seeing eye.

I can only imagine a cluster of Republicans giggling like ten year olds drawing naked people as they put this together.  “But we’re gonna get in trouble!”  “It’s SO worth it!”

BTW they should replace the Illuminati pyramid in the dollar bill with the giant face of Colonel Sanders. Colonel Harlan Bilderberger Sanders.

I thought it was purple drink….

I think this fake currency has more accuracy, with the inclusion of Kool Aid, than real currency has.  As a white American, I have never once bought a pyramid topped by an all-seeing eye.

My organisation is very pleased that you feel this way, and urges you to spread the word about this “harmless and archaic” symbol on the dollar bill. Also, if you happen to notice the eye blinking when you make a purchase, pay no attention—merely a figment of your imagination…

he said she simply wanted to deride a comment Obama made over the summer about how as an African-American he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”

“It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement.”

She SHOULD have been offended by this comment because the idea that it’s 2008 and this is the first time either a black man or a woman actually were contenders for the White House should offend everyone.  But instead of being offended that our system is so deeply fucked she decided to insult and degrade Obama.  Can’t have “those people” forgetting their place, now can we?

Did they make that in between hits of meth?

Grape? I thought it was orange pop. I am feeling very out of touch now.

On the plus side, they didn’t tack a turban on, choosing instead to focus exclusively on traditional black stereotypes. It’s almost refreshing. It’s old-school bigotry, and not the newfangled kind of bigotry that’s been so popular during the current campaign.

Shorter Entire Republican Party Post-1964

Diane Fedele, president of the group, said she had no racist intent.

“I never connected,” she told the newspaper. “It was just food to me. It didn’t mean anything else.”

Unbelievable. I thought I was through being shocked by these people.

“It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement.”

In what respect, Diane?

I mean, it is true. But I kinda doubt that’s what you’re upset about. And what the blue fuck do food stamps,  fried chicken and watermelon have to do with pointing out that ‘outrageousness’?

(p.s. What’s with the whole black people <-> watermelon connection, anyway. I love watermelon, and I’m as white as the ace of, um…something very white? I just don’t get it.)

(p.s. What’s with the whole black people <-> watermelon connection, anyway. I love watermelon, and I’m as white as the ace of, um…something very white? I just don’t get it.)

I don’t get it either (and I’m part-black)...same with fried chicken too.

To paraphrase Dave Chappelle “Chicken and watermelon are delicious. If you don’t like chicken and watermelon, motherfucker there is something wrong with you!”

I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn’t my attempt.

Putting aside the pitiful (and no doubt stress-driven) malapropism, Fedele is being honest in her own screwed-up way. Her intent was not to offend an audience of African Americans (which would be pointless), but rather to pander to the racism of her fellow Republicans.

Given that intent, made obvious by her choice of clip art (except for Kool-Aid, which still puzzles me), does she have any apologies for that deliberate act? Any reporter worth his salt would have followed up with a question along those lines, whether she liked is or not.

In what respect, Diane?

Why, that there is someone actually running for President who does not look like the Founding Fathers on the money.  It is outrageous.  What has America come to?

Obama is not like we real Americans, if you know what I mean.

The one great thing about this stuff is how paralyzed and frozen many of the racists look when people are like, um, what did you just say?  It happens over and over in those clips shot at McCain rallies—as soon as people actually engage with them, and have them on camera, and document them individually as spouters of hatefulness many of them (not all, of course) start to look shifty and uncomfortable and want to back away and melt back into the crowd ... they just thought they’d be able to be hateful and not get called on it.  Same as this woman, as soon as someone *calls* her on her bs she’s like, “me, racist, what what? sputter sputter I have to go hide under my sink now”.

what cowards.  I’m thrilled they are being caught in the light.

Ooohhh… being honest is haarrddd!!!  Muffie and I just can’t figure out how NOT to be racist when we want to criticize a black guy who should be a waiter or something down at the club…

I can just hear this bitch’s gears spinning in the muck of her own racism. You know… she probably IS that stupid…

Putting aside the pitiful (and no doubt stress-driven) malapropism, Fedele is being honest in her own screwed-up way. Her intent was not to offend an audience of African Americans (which would be pointless), but rather to pander to the racism of her fellow Republicans.

When will people figure out that in the age of the internet you can’t send a “funny” newsletter to just your buddies anymore?  Especially if you’re involved in party politics in an election year.

It was outrageous to point out that no other president has been black?  When THIS shit was going on all around him?

I think they’re mad that he mentioned his race before they could…? That’s the only explanation I can come up with for why they found it so outrageous.

LOL at this woman saying it’s just food to her, and her other lies. She sounds like a brat whining to mom after being caught stealing from the cookie jar.

God, these racists just can’t OWN their racism for what it is. They always whine and equivocate.

To echo some of the commenters above, I am one pale-white honkie, and I love fried chicken and watermelon!  Thinking of fried chicken makes me want to run out to KFC right now.  Incidentally, I seem to recall that during the debates, someone wrote about how the eating habits of Obama and his staff were more elitist (no fried chicken, watermelon and Kool-Aid for them) than those of Hillary and her staff.

I’m guessing that Obama’s weird food fixation would be Spam, if I may stereotype just a bit.  Just goes to show how much our ethnic/racial stereotypes are tied into regionalism even if you’re talking about someone who’s never lived in that region.

You guys do realize that after all of this food talk now I’m going to have to take a trip to Roscoe’s, right?

Considering that she didn’t create the image, she took it from an email she received, and considering that she put it in the group newsletter for a group that includes several black women, there is a possibility that she is so stupid as to not realize the racial imagery of what she was sending. So she might not be a straight-up racist. She might just be a complete, total idiot.

I like this comment from gawker.com, which distracted me from my complete and utter shame at being part of the same species as this woman:

The woman responsible for the picture’s inclusion in the newsletter, Diane Fedele, is a terrible, terrible, terrible human being by basically every observable standard…[snip]Oh god, lady. Jesus Christ. We’re all very proud of you for having voted for insane Alan Keyes, some of your best lunatic candidates are black, we know.

They had some other horrifying ignorant shit: http://gawker.com/5064741/the-racist-anti+obama-gop-newsletter-listicle

Okay, off to hide under the covers now.

They don’t drink Kool-Aid, they drink “Dick Gregory”!

“Peanut, fix me some of that Dick Gregory”
-House Party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBegHp8llJE

White Guilt is the locomotive propelling the Obama campaign. American kids are being guilt-tripped in all the public schools today, from grade school to graduate school.  By the time they get to voting age, they feel so bad about the slave trade and Jim Crow that they are ready to pay up for forgiveness. That’s Senator Obama’s Youth Vote.

I keep forgetting that it’s not racist for a Republican to use symbols of racial stereotypes, particularly if said Republican uses them in order to insult someone of the stereotyped race; however, it is racist for a black man to note the clearly OUTRAGEOUS fact that his appearance is that of a black man.  Shame on you, Obama, for being black and admitting that you have noticed it!

White Guilt is the locomotive propelling the Obama campaign. American kids are being guilt-tripped in all the public schools today, from grade school to graduate school.  By the time they get to voting age, they feel so bad about the slave trade and Jim Crow that they are ready to pay up for forgiveness. That’s Senator Obama’s Youth Vote.

KLH, how many more lame excuses are you going to come up with for why your party is going to get a major ass-kicking at the polls on Nov. 4?  Next you’re going to be telling us Obama’s dog ate your homework and that’s why he’s winning.

“It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don’t want to go into it any further,” Fedele said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn’t my attempt.”

It “clearly” wasn’t her intent to offend anyone with that? In what fucking universe would that…thing…be considered a piece of legitimate political commentary? What was her internal monologue when she came up with and subsequently published that bit of racist trash?

“I am so offended by Obama’s claim that he’d be the first black man to be featured on an American bank-note, thus causing said bank-note to look slightly different than those that feature white presidents. That observation - clearly racist on Obama’s part! - just burns my bottom.

“Oh, I know! I know the perfect way to express my outrage in a satirical, though totally inoffensive, manner: I’ll place Obama’s head on a wacky cartoon donkey and surround the image with depictions of fried chicken and watermelon! Then - oh, and this is the absolute bestest part - I’ll write that he’d be the first president featured on a food stamp instead of a dollar bill! Oh my gosh; it’s so perfect. I can’t think of a single flaw in my brilliant plan.”

I’m betting any one of Fedele’s houseplants is smarter than she is.

It “clearly” wasn’t her intent to offend anyone with that?

Okay, let me take a minute to try and get into the California Republican mindset ....

Basically, she’s saying that since Obama was a racist for saying he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the dollar bills, it was only fair that she be allowed to be racist, too.  Tit for tat, just like 5th grade.

Of course, only cuckoo-crazies like KLH thought that what Obama said was a racist comment, so her response looks way, way over the top.  But to her mind, she was just doing the exact same thing Obama did and why does he get a free pass and she doesn’t?

White Guilt is the locomotive propelling the Obama campaign. American kids are being guilt-tripped in all the public schools today, from grade school to graduate school.  By the time they get to voting age, they feel so bad about the slave trade and Jim Crow that they are ready to pay up for forgiveness. That’s Senator Obama’s Youth Vote.

Where have you been the last eight years? The Republicans have failed socially, economically, militarily, morally, diplomatically and just about every other way a party can fail. Your country is an indebted laughingstock with debased currency.

But noooo – folks aren’t voting for Obama because they like him, and think he’d make a better leader than either McCain or Bible Spice Palin; they’re doing it out of white guilt. That’s it; that’s the only reason.

And Republican feeders – tax exempt churches, for example – are in no way trying to guilt-trip their own people into voting “for life” either.

You are such a fucking tool.

Ahh, California…my home state, the Golden State, the land where we raise almonds, walnuts, all kinds of nuts…

I don’t for one moment believe she didn’t know those were “black” foods (although, like every other white person commenting on this so far, I LOVE watermelon and loved fried chicken before I went vegetarian. I’ve been planning to try chicken-frying some TVP or tofu sometime.) And how is it not racist to say Black President = Food Stamps anyway?

Also, in California, we get debit cards for food stamps. Not funny money. If she wasn’t living in a happy bubble of affluence, she’d know someone who could tell her that.

That is how white guilt works… liberals suffer from this by a large majority.

....driven into guilt from liberal public edjucation. From this, they also suffer the ‘terrifying’ idea of being called a racist, they fear this more than anything else, so they overcompensate.

Also, liberal whites, the psuedo intellectuals types like to accuse other whites of racism for the most innocent things…it makes them feel better about themselves. So, they take out their guilt on conservative leaning whites.  (Joe the Plumber for instance).

That is how white guilt works… liberals suffer from this by a large majority.

In other words, 8 years of Republican misrule have turned the majority of Americans into liberals.

Makes sense to me.  After all, once you realize that your ideology is completely bankrupt, your only choices are to give it up for something that works in the real world or to insist that nothing’s wrong with it—nothing at all!—and everything is perfect and the problem is the people who just don’t understand why they think the way they think and you’re TOTALLY going to enlighten them!

Are you going to sell us some Amway next?

Mnemosyne,

Try critical thinking for once. Look what got us into this mortgage mess…  now all Americans are paying for this splurge of political correctness.

just curious why it’s racist if the right does something like this, but if the left does it making fun of Christians or the right, it’s satire or comedy? I don’t get it. Seems like a double standard, but then again you left wing assclowns are full of double standards!

That is how white guilt works… liberals suffer from this by a large majority.

Get me proof that “white guilt” exists anywhere except in your diseased little brain, then go on to prove that the majority of members in a specific political party suffer from this condition.

....driven into guilt from liberal public edjucation. From this, they also suffer the ‘terrifying’ idea of being called a racist, they fear this more than anything else, so they overcompensate.

Your addition of a ‘j’ to the word education - was that supposed to be an oh-so-clever slam against “liberals”, or is it merely an artifact of the substandard training your parents gave you?

Also, liberal whites, the psuedo intellectuals types like to accuse other whites of racism for the most innocent things..

Placing the likeness of a black presidential candidate among pictures of fried chicken and watermelon is not some innocent mistake. If you believe it is innocent, you’re…well, I can’t think of a better term for it, so here goes…a complete fucking moron who eats his own poop.

No, seriously – I think people like you eat you own feces. You’re so accustomed to chomping on shit that you’ve developed a superhuman tolerance for it when politicians feed you a series of steaming turd sandwiches. 

That’s it. That’s the only explanation. 

it makes them feel better about themselves. So, they take out their guilt on conservative leaning whites.

Or maybe sometimes, people get called racists for…gasp…actually being racists.

just curious why it’s racist if the right does something like this, but if the left does it making fun of Christians or the right, it’s satire or comedy? I don’t get it. Seems like a double standard, but then again you left wing assclowns are full of double standards!

Oh, but I thought Christians are supposed to be above that sort of thing - turn the other check, love your enemies and all that.

Y’know - and I mean this, absolutely - most of the “Christians” targeted for mockery are thus chosen because their actions don’t match their words.

Try critical thinking for once. Look what got us into this mortgage mess… now all Americans are paying for this splurge of political correctness.

Yeah, right.

Devil,

It appears I hit a nerve with you… I suspect you are one of these white liberals….your smugness give it away.

Note: white guilt was coined by black author Shelby Steele.

http://www.amazon.com/White-Guilt-Together-Destroyed-Promise/dp/0060578629

Samantha, there is a great faux-fried-chicken-tofu dish in Crescent Dragonwagon’s The Passionate Vegetarian.  Wacky name, great cookbook.  Seriously.

(This is me, choosing to feed my fellow commenters and not the troll.)

Doesn’t the watermelon stereotype go back to minstrel shows or something?  *off to the google to find out*

<blockquote>It appears I hit a nerve with you… I suspect you are one of these white liberals….your smugness give it away.<.blockquote>

I’m not a liberal. I just hate people like you with the power of a thousand suns. You’re a partisan jackass who nips at the heels of his betters.

And I don’t care who coined the term; the challenge is to a) prove white guilt exists; and b) prove the majority of liberals suffer from it.

Devil,

from your own article:

“By and large, the problem with subprime lending was that independent, unregulated brokers pushed inappropriate loans to poor borrowers “

the borrowers were forced to give the loans to minority groups by GOVERNMENT regulations, as in Fanny Mae and Freddie mac. They had certain quotas to meet.

Damning video of democrats opposing regulation of Fanny and Freddie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p1Wc2NFa3w

@KLH - I don’t think I would quote Shelby Steele as the arbitor of “blackness”.  He’s thought of in the same vein as Clarence Thomas, like a relative you’d rather not see too often.

That is how white guilt works… liberals suffer from this by a large majority.

....driven into guilt from liberal public edjucation. From this, they also suffer the ‘terrifying’ idea of being called a racist, they fear this more than anything else, so they overcompensate.

Viewing the other, the perciever sees themselves.

Raise your hand if you’re “terrified” of being called racist more than anything else….

KLH: clearly in violation of the stick rule by arguing IN TWO CONSECUTIVE SENTENCES that UNREGULATED brokers were FORCED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

“He’s thought of in the same vein as Clarence Thomas, like a relative you’d rather not see too often. “

Or a black who thinks for himself? who has left the liberal, democrat plantation?

Haven’t you liberals taken advantage of blacks enough? to support your socialist ideals.

just curious why it’s racist if the right does something like this, but if the left does it making fun of Christians or the right, it’s satire or comedy? I don’t get it. Seems like a double standard, but then again you left wing assclowns are full of double standards!

“Christian” is not a race? You can choose to be Christian or not? The last time Christians were oppressed was at the height of the Roman Empire and Jim Crow ended all of fourty years ago? There are no stereotypes of the ways Christians behave “naturally” that are used to disenfranchise them? 

Really, take your pick.

Also, to go off topic for a while:

(p.s. What’s with the whole black people <-> watermelon connection, anyway. I love watermelon, and I’m as white as the ace of, um…something very white? I just don’t get it.)

I had a teacher who suggested it was because chicken and watermelon were the two things slaves could easily steal to round out their rather crappy rations: chicken because they were a rather portable meat source and watermelon because they were big enough you didn’t have to worry about picking a bunch of them. She was hazarding a guess in response to someone’s question, though, so I wouldn’t take it as gospel.

As to the grape soda/kool aid, I have no bugfuck idea.

The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and “redlining” because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.

The pressure to make more loans to minorities (read: to borrowers with weak credit histories) became relentless. Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act, empowering regulators to punish banks that failed to “meet the credit needs” of “low-income, minority, and distressed neighborhoods.” Lenders responded by loosening their underwriting standards and making increasingly shoddy loans. The two government-chartered mortgage finance firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, encouraged this “subprime” lending by authorizing ever more “flexible” criteria by which high-risk borrowers could be qualified for home loans, and then buying up the questionable mortgages that ensued.

All this was justified as a means of increasing homeownership among minorities and the poor. Affirmative-action policies trumped sound business practices. A manual issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston advised mortgage lenders to disregard financial common sense. “Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor,” the Fed’s guidelines instructed. Lenders were directed to accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits as “valid income sources” to qualify for a mortgage. Failure to comply could mean a lawsuit.

Shame, Shame, Shame on you liberals taking advantage of blacks and minorities…

The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and “redlining” because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.

Oh, honey, don’t tell me you got taken in by that load of bullcrap.

Hmmm .... okay, so in real life I’m a millionaire and I live in Nigeria.  Yeah, that’s it.  I really need to get to the United States.  If you send me your bank account number, I will transfer all of my money into your account and you’ll be rich!  Come on, it’s a sure guarantee!

(Hey, it’s worth a try, right?)

just curious why it’s racist if the right does something like this, but if the left does it making fun of Christians or the right, it’s satire or comedy?

Because you can choose your religion or your politics, but you can’t choose your race. 

Glad I could clear that up for you.

Devil,
It appears I hit a nerve with you…

Bald faced liars usually do.

I especially hate the dig at food stamps.  What the fuck is wrong with making sure people, especially children, don’t go hungry?  And most of those people work, which brings up the end result of Republican policies.  Even people who work 40-plus hours a week can’t afford to put food on the table.

Actually, I think the Republicans should keep this up.  Food stamps are at least one government program that pretty much all Americans can get behind.  Let the Republicans show themselves as the greedy, grasping bastards they truly are that they’d begrudge the child of working-poor parents enough food to eat.

Actually, I think the Republicans should keep this up.  Food stamps are at least one government program that pretty much all Americans can get behind.

I’ve sorta been thinking about exactly that strategy lately. Do our best to encourage and egg on Republicans farther and farther into their madness. Go to their websites and do parody trolling, for real.

I’m not sure about that tactic.

Never understood the blacks watermelon, fried chicken thing. Chitlins and Pigs feet I can understand if they were used.

Watermelons do come from Africa but as for stealing them honestly have you ever picked one up and tried to run with it? Chickens aren’t something you would want to try steal either from a coop due to the noise factor. Watermelons are a diuretic due to the large amount of water in them. Not exactly something you would eat if you were a field worker starving.

“Food stamps are at least one government program that pretty much all Americans can get behind. “

Well lots of white people without jobs are now going to get the paperwork and then doing the interviews to get them. It’s not a food stamp anymore anyway. It’s called EBT and it’s a card you swipe through a reader and input a pin number for.

Oh found a website describing some of the earliest racial films with watermelons in them. http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-watermelon.html the earliest film is from 1896.

If it’s about Obama, why isn’t there Hawaiian food or Kenyan or Chicagoan?

If it’s just food, why did you choose that food?

That’s what I want to ask…

The connection with watermelon:  Watermelons are a poor melon, low sugar, and one of the first to be shipped.  So poor workers who immigrated to the city could also eat this food of the field.

Poor people, farm workers, would put them in streams and eat them cold after working.  The taste never caught on with upper ‘class’ people, who could have ice cream instead.

So it’s one of the things my father would talk about, having watermelon for lunch after working in the fields as a picker or weeder.

And no, I’m not black and neither is he, but for the longest time, a large portion of farm workers were.

Guys, why are you feeding the troll? It’s just pasting crazy talking points from Free Republic. Either it’s so far into wingnuttia that it can’t hear reality, or it’s a troll. Either way it’s not going to benefit from thoughtful commentary. The real question is why Amanda hasn’t replaced it with something more interesting, like a link to icanhascheezburger.com.

there is a possibility that she is so stupid as to not realize the racial imagery of what she was sending

There is also a “possibility” that mad Democratic hackers broke into her house while she was asleep and turned a perfectly innocent image of “Obama Bucks” covered in pictures of flowers and puppies into this hideous racist design. The fact that something is “possible” doesn’t mean it is “remotely fucking likely”.

I have just placed The Passionate Vegetarian on hold at my local library. I need to experience southern fried tofu for myself, plus the author’s name is the most awesome ever.

“By and large, the problem with subprime lending was that independent, unregulated brokers pushed inappropriate loans to poor borrowers “

the borrowers were forced to give the loans to minority groups by GOVERNMENT regulations, as in Fanny Mae and Freddie mac.

You fail forever.

(1) “[I]ndependent, unregulated brokers” were “forced to give the loans”? Are you even literate?

(2) “the borrowers were forced to give the loans to minority groups by GOVERNMENT regulations…” Um, the borrowers and the minority groups are the same people, you moron.

I’ve devised a KLH-comment generator: it’s kind of a cage that you put over your keyboard and place a hamster or gerbil within.  If you put some espresso in the rodent’s water bottle, it generates a KLH comment. 

Except with more meaning, thought, and logic.

White guilt is complete BS, at least in the context that KLH is talking about it.

However, if we’ve gotten to the point that kids graduate from public school with the idea that Jim Crow and slavery and Japanese-American internment camps and lynchings and such things are bad, well, about fucking time.

And, KLH, if YOU didn’t graduate from school thinking that, drop everything and sue your school. And slap your parents on the way. How morally bankrupt can a person be?

Obama didn’t say he didn’t like those other presidents on dollar bills.  What kind of racist idiots are in charge of the Chaffey Community Republican Women?  Obama said he didn’t look like those other presidents.  Diane Fedele thought that was “outrageous”?  On what planet is that outrageous?

Oh, the planet of Racistonia.  That’s right.

“By and large, the problem with subprime lending was that independent, unregulated brokers pushed inappropriate loans to poor borrowers “

  the borrowers were forced to give the loans to minority groups by GOVERNMENT regulations, as in Fanny Mae and Freddie mac.”

Even if that were true, who FORCED them to charge poor people 3 times the interest they charged rich people? Seems to me that this was the main problem.

I’m with Sophist and Gozer…I’m a white Southerner and I could totally f*ck up a platter of ribs & chicken, then have some watermelon for dessert.  Why should the brothas have all the fun?

Oh, and wash it all down with Kool-Aid.  Grape was my favorite when I was a kid.  But then I went to integrated schools, so maybe that explains it.

There’s a lot of heat on the women’s Republican group and the reason that Fedele is backpeddling is because there’s pressure to oust her from the leadership position at its next meeting. I’ve met Sheila Rains through work and I know she’ll definitely keep Fedele’s feet to the fire.

I’d say she deserves it for being such an ignorant, hateful jackass.  But that’s just me.

One of the best things that might happen to America is all of the racists finally coming out of their closets and showing their hoods and robes for the whole world to see.  And then we can brutally point out these troglodyte pieces of shit for who and what they really are.

I saw a clip about this vile garbage last night on Countdown (Olbermann named Diane Fedele as the Worst Person in the World), and I was watching with a friend who is black.  He wasn’t aware of it, and when he saw it, he started laughing his ass off.  I looked at him and asked if he really thought it was funny, and he told me, “Isn’t it a beautiful thing seeing all of these rich Republican assholes showing the world what a bunch of hillbilly racist mother fuckers they really are?”

We talked about it, and I said, “It’s only gonna get worse, you know, once he gets elected.”  And he agreed, but he told me he thinks it’s a good thing for America.  He believes the most dangerous racists in the world are the ones who do their best to hide their racism.  The person who boasts about his “black friend” and would never utter the N word (publicly).  My buddy has a great phrase that sums up his attitude towards racism and racists:

“I’m not afraid of the asshole who wears his pointy hat right in front of me.  I’m afraid of the asshole who keeps the pointy hat tucked under his bed and pretends not to own it, but still shakes my hand like we’re cool.”

Can’t say it better myself.

DTG, not really understanding your buddy. The asshole wearing the pointy hat right in front of you is still going to yell “Kill him!” at Palin rallies, is still going to vote racist assholes into office, and is more than happy to do racist shit because he doesn’t care what you think. Being more worried about stealth racists doesn’t require you to give the obvious ones a pass.

Radfem, thanks for the reminder - I’m going to drop a line to the state organization and mention that a) this is the first I’ve heard of California Republican Women and b) although normally as a Republican I would be interested in becoming a member, if this is how they permit their local organizations to operate, I’ll take my time and money elsewhere.