Dimwitted racist bids for GOP chairmanship
December 27th, 2008 at 07:31am Pat Cunningham
Chip Saltsman (pictured above without his Klan hood) seems to think that his campaign to become chairman of the Republican National Committee will benefit from his APPEAL TO BIGOTRY.
As if the GOP hasn’t done enough to narrow its image to that of a mostly Southern party.
UPDATE: More on the Saltsman controversy HERE.
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1. snuss | December 27th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Maybe he should have bashed Christians, instead. You Liberals seem to love that. And isn’t it the DEMOCRATS who have a former Grand Wizard of the KKK as one of their honored elder statesmen?
BTW, I happen to like Michael Steele for chairman.
2. shawnnews | December 27th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Democrats aren’t against Christians. Most of them are Christians, like a majority of people in this country, but it certainly isn’t a requirement. Democrats don’t insinuate you are against God or anti-Christian if you don’t agree with them. Democrats don’t insinuate their party has God’s endorsement.
I am sure your KKK refernece is to Robert Byrd who became “an Exalted Cyclops” not a “Grand Wizard.” Byrd claims his being part of the Baptist church led him to change his views.
If you are upset that Byrd is a repentant member of the Democratic Party and the Baptist church who has a leadership position, take it up with West Virginia voters.
From this article I do not believe Saltsman is a bigot, but like many people, he enjoys tastelessness, and it bites him in this article.
The “magical negro” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro has been spoofed on the Dave Chappelle show. I suppose the context of how the term it is use would make the comments on the CD bigoted.
3. Craig Knauss | December 27th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Snuff,
You are aware that almost all of the KKK members also happen to be good Southern Christians, right? Do you think it’s just a coincidence that the KKK regions also happen to be the Bible Belt regions? And you did know that the Southern Christians used the Bible to justify slavery, right?
Democrats aren’t against Christians. They’re against people who use religion to justify bigotry and hatred. People like Bible-thumping KKK members.
4. snuss | December 27th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
I didn’t say Democrats, I said Liberals like to bash Christians, particularly the hate-filled Howard Dean/MoonBat faction of the Democratic party. Many Dems are actually reasonable people.
And Byrd was not only a “former” KKK “Kleagle”, he filibustered against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and opposed the nominations of Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. You tell me why.
As to “Barack, the Magic Negro”, that was pure satire, aimed at those who seem to believe BHO will “magically” cure all of America’s ills (real AND imagined), just by being elected. This is similar to those who seem to think he is “The Messiah”.
5. Craig Knauss | December 27th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Liberals don’t like to bash Christians. Where do you get that crap? And by Christians, I assume you mean only the religous far-right. Most mainline Christians are liberals or moderates, FYI. They are the people who actually respect the rights of others and are therefore subject to bashing from the sanctimonious far-right. People like me, a moderate Christian. It’s the religious far-right that thinks it has some sort of mandate to inflict its narrow-minded views on everyone else.
Byrd probably opposed Marshall’s nomination for the same reason that Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms opposed it. Bigotry. Don’t put Clarence Thomas’ nomination in that category. He was opposed by a lot of people for reasons that had nothing to do with bigotry.
Finally, the only references to Obama as “The Messiah” that I’ve heard are sarcasm from half-wit conservatives that refuse to acknowledge that the election is over. I’ve noticed that you use “The Messiah” frequently. Coincidence?
6. shawnnews | December 27th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Robert Byrd has a career of a “Dixiecrat.” His wikipedia entry shows that what Snuss claims is true but also shows that Byrd voted FOR the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and has denounced his memebership in the Klan many times.
Howard Dean’s wikipedia entry says he is a United Church of Christ member. I’ve had trouble posting the links but the info is on those pages. I didn’t check on how he voted for the justices but it wouldn;t surprise me.
7. lyle nubbins | December 28th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Like this columnist cares about racism - - only if you can skewer a Republican. It’s all about moral preening if you are a liberal.
Blacks have done so well since 60’s, when they became clients of the liberala. Not!
8. snuss | December 28th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Quote: “It’s the religious far-right that thinks it has some sort of mandate to inflict its narrow-minded views on everyone else.”
That must be why so many Leftist speakers are attacked on college campuses, and denied their chance to speak. Oh, wait, those were CONSERVATIVE speakers, having their 1st Amendment rights denied by the so-called “tolerant” Left.
9. Craig Knauss | December 28th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Just what does your response have to do with my comment? I’m talking about the Religious Right trying to ban anything and everything that they don’t like, e.g., abortion and gay marriage, to name two obvious ones. Neither one is any of their damn business, but they want them banned anyway because, “It’s aganst God’s will.” Why don’t they go after the polygamists in Texas and Utah?
“That must be why so many Leftist speakers are attacked on college campuses, and denied their chance to speak. Oh, wait, those were CONSERVATIVE speakers, having their 1st Amendment rights denied by the so-called “tolerant” Left.”
Really? Maybe you’d like to tell us just how many liberal speakers have been allowed to speak at Liberty University, Bob Jones U., Oral Roberts U., Brigham Young U., Wheaton College, etc.? Or on Fox News without being constantly interrupted by Bill O. and halfwits like him? So much for the “tolerant” Right. On the other side, it was the “liberal” ACLU that fought for the right of the American Nazi Party to march through predominantly Jewish Skokie, IL. Remember that? I do.
10. snuss | December 29th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Yeah, and I also remember that the ACLU supports NAMBLA.
11. Pat Cunningham | December 29th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Snuss, like all fascists, opposes the ACLU because he opposes civil liberties for those with whom he disagrees.
Here’s what the ACLU said when it defended NAMBLA in the Supreme Court eight years ago:
“In the United States Supreme Court over the past few years, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken the side of a fundamentalist Christian church, a Santerian church, and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. In celebrated cases, the ACLU has stood up for everyone from Oliver North to the National Socialist Party. In spite of all that, the ACLU has never advocated Christianity, ritual animal sacrifice, trading arms for hostages or genocide. In representing NAMBLA today, our Massachusetts affiliate does not advocate sexual relationships between adults and children.
“What the ACLU does advocate is robust freedom of speech for everyone. The lawsuit involved here, were it to succeed, would strike at the heart of freedom of speech. The case is based on a shocking murder. But the lawsuit says the crime is the responsibility not of those who committed the murder, but of someone who posted vile material on the Internet. The principle is as simple as it is central to true freedom of speech: those who do wrong are responsible for what they do; those who speak about it are not.
“It is easy to defend freedom of speech when the message is something many people find at least reasonable. But the defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people find repulsive. That was true when the Nazis marched in Skokie. It remains true today.”
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