How Right-Wingers Celebrate The End Of Racism

At a tea bagger conference sponsored by the billionaire Koch brothers' "Americans for Prosperity Foundation," the headline generated was "GOP activists heckle [Sen. Marco "Glug Glug"] Rubio" (hahaha).  But we found this from frothing loon David Horowitz quite revealing:

The strongest rhetoric of the day came from conservative writer David Horowitz, who called the president “the most brazen and compulsive liar to ever occupy the White House,” drawing loud whoops and cheers from the audience.  [Ed. note: =cough= Richard Nixon =cough]

“The reason we don’t attack him is obvious, but no one will say it out loud. I will: It’s because the color of his skin is black,” Horowitz told the crowd, which was predominantly white. “It is because Obama is a minority that nobody will hold him to a standard or confront him with what he has done.”  (our emphasis)

"The reason we don't attack him..."  One has to wonder, in surveying the past 5 years, under what moss-covered rock Horowitz has been living to suggest right-wing nut sacks have held off on attacking President Obama.  Also, see Horowitz' judgement immediately preceding the bolded quote.  No matter.

As for Horowitz' "blackity- black- black Obama" comments, the tea baggers would like you to remember:  it's racist to suggest a white person's being racist when they cast something in offensive racial terms.

Rethuglicans Racist? Nah! (Cont.)

The peckerwoods are out in force over at right-wing sites "Fox Nation" and "Hot Air", a-fussin' and a-fumin' over Michelle Obama's presentation of the Best Picture Oscar last night.  Here, courtesy of LGF,  are their deepest thoughts (the "Star Wars" references are the peckerwoods' idea of a clever joke, comparing the First Lady to a Wookie):

"At Fox Nation:

At least Moochell is crashing the oscars now… Probably not as much fun as crashing through the forest and terrorizing tent campers.
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Narcissists? Somewhere in the WH, the president has locked himself in a bathroom with a bottle of astroglide, a zucchini, and his press photos.
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I wonder how many favors Barry had to call in to get that mule on stage.
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Bought and paid for political plantation hor…
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the First Wookie is with out a doubt and embarrassment to the nation, she has never held a real job, earned a dime herself or cares about this country, do not be surprised when George and Weezy are out of the White House she drops Barack quickly and gets her a NBA star.
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The Obamas are like ill-bred ghettø kids who just won the lottery. Spendthrift, vulgar, irresponsible, and utterly filled with arrogant delusions of their own self-importance.
Disgusting.
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Ugh. I would sooner French kiss an Óràngután.
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Good for Michelle. This is the least masculine she’s looked in years, and that mop of a haircut really makes her aboriginal good looks shine. Lucky, lucky Barry.
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Like a prom dress on a mule.
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this racist is sickening. she has no problem spending tax payers money. thank you skin, food stamp voters for the no class Whitehouse.
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Reminds us very much of Marie Antoinette.

At Hot Air:

Barf-o-Rama. And even in an updo the bangs make her look like Rick James.
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Some country will make Obama king after he destroys Amerika.
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What a hideous beast! What’s happened to our country? Is this some kind of freak-show or what- like Divinity eating poo off the sidewalk in that John Waters flick. My worst nightmare is a dream compared to this. Would someone please open the gates and let me out already?
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Scientific studies show that animals are often attracted to shiny objects. just saying’.
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I think Michelle has no intention of being an ex-monarch. This is all about her running for Senate and then president. After all, the transformation to socialism is not yet complete! Women like her and Hillary cannot stand to have their husbands accomplish more than they do.
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I think The Onion had the wrong person.
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Hey skank, half the country hates you. Go away. Tired of having to windex my TV everytime you muck it up.
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Dr. Zira presented last night?
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My proud ownership of male genitalia precludes the possibility of viewing Hollywood self-adorations. Apparently, this policy has spared me a di**-shrivelling moment.
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Was there a tribute to Star Wars that I missed?
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“All this for a flag?” -Mooch Obama
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As happy as seeing Barak Obama murdered would make me, I think Id be happier if someone put a bullet in that fat pig of a wife."

Is there somebody or something that can drain this swamp?

(Image:  visual approximation of the typical commenter on "Fox Nation" and "Hot Air.")

John Derbyshire: Prominent Conservative Racist

Barely scratch a right-winger like the National Review's resident nutsack John Derbyshire and you get some noxious racist shite. While this latest racist screed by the Derb is in "Taki's Magazine," Brad DeLong has helpfully documented that the racism of the Derb's employer, the right-wing National Review, goes back a long, long way. May we have a comment from Etch-a-Sketch and/or Frothy Mix?

UPDATE: He gone.

P.S. We don't serve as a forum for right-wing, pseudo-scientific, cherry-picked "data", thank you very much!

(Photo: Derbyshire takes a dim view of "the blacks." And, by the way, get off his lawn!)

The Racist Right

In her column today in the New York Times, MoDo is on to something when she says that the undercurrent of much of the opposition to President Obama is racism. "Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it," MoDo writes.

Not surprisingly, the South Carolina clown who interrupted the President's speech on Wednesday is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and fought to keep the Confederate flag flying over the South Carolina statehouse. He's become typical of the shrinking far right lunatic base of the Rethuglican Party. Just go to any newspaper and check out the signs that were on display in yesterday's wingnut rally in Washington, DC. All that was missing were the white hoods and sheets.

Frank Rich on Beer and Birthers

It's always a pleasure to read the NY Times' Frank Rich. His focus today is on the "conversation on race" that the Gates episode and subsequent "beer summit" was supposed to engender. What is really going on, as Rich explains, is that it's exposing "racial and nativist panic", especially among the tony Tories (eg., Wee Willie Kristol, the blue bloods at National Review, the Fux Nutwork gassers, etc.-- in other words, the Rethuglican establishment), who are fond of stoking fears using white working-class "surrogates" (pawns) like "Joe" (not his real name) "the Plumber" (not his profession) and the New Haven firefighters, with whom they have nothing in common, to advance their reactionary worldview.

Ass of the Week

Yes, we have another racist Rethug "Ass of the Week" to give you. This dubious distinction is given to Rethugs who expose themselves as common racist thugs. It's a career in itself, in other words.

Courtesy of The Daily Beast, this week's winner (so far!) is Audra Shay, lead candidate for "Young" Republicans (Shay's 38, which does qualify her as young in the Rethug base demographic). Shay, whose candidacy is supported by her homestate's Gov. Bobby "Kenneth" Jindal, commented favorably on a Facebook "friend's" remark about the "...need to take this country back from all these mad coons and illegals." When a few other "friends" commented negatively about the racist remark, Shay de-friended them, not the racist who made the "coon" comment! Good ol' Rethug values, y'all!

(Photo: "Young" - heh heh - Rethug Audra Shay)

FLASH! Another Blind Squirrel Finds Another Nut

Stop the presses!! Kathleen Parker has found another nut! (You may recall she found an earlier nut buried deep in the musty, foul debris of wingnuttia.) This time, Parker notes the need to purge the Rethugs of racists like Rusty "Ass" DePass and Sherri "Don't" Goforth.

Good luck with that, hon. That would mean purging 90 percent of the Rethug base! Don't think so? Well, it so happens we had to link to Parker's column via the wingnut cornucopia "Clownhall" (sorry) since the WaPo won't let you link without registering with their asshole web site. Check out the comments to her column at Clownhall to see what we mean when we say there won't be much party left when you take out the nuts.