All Posts Tagged With: "racism"
Dr. Laura Gives Advice
Dr. Laura is really sorry that she used the n-word multiple times with a African-American caller.
13Aug2010 | Unstable Isotope | 25 comments | Continued
Shirley Sherrod Gets Her Apology
Shirley Sherrod who was unjustly smeared by Fox News and Andrew Breitbart gets a formal apology from the President and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
22Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 20 comments | Continued
Beware of Winguts Bearing Tapes
Dedicated public servant Shirley Sherrod was fired from her USDA job after conservatives edited a tape of a speech she gave and viciously smeared her reputation.
21Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 55 comments | Continued
This Is A Joke Right?
Human Events magazine sent an advertisement for a book that purports to “exposes the truth about the South, slavery and states’ rights.”
1Jul2010 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
President Obama Doesn’t Care About White People
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa): “…the president has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race — on the side that favors the black person.”
15Jun2010 | Unstable Isotope | 41 comments | Continued
Another Tale Of GOP Minority Outreach
Welcome to the North American DMZ:
The Republican nominee for a New Mexico congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary.
Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins emphasized that he does not advocate doing so.
Mullins says border security came up during [...]
Arizona Proves What We All Knew…
… It’s about race.
Maybe it’s time to admit that large chunks of America are in the hands of unreconstructed racists and vulgar idiots, and that the popular election of a black man as president just might’ve pushed these furious, economically doomed old white people into a final rage that is going to end very, very [...]
Is Rand Paul Racist?
Rand Paul believes that the government has no role in enforcing individual civil rights – only the free market can decide. Is this racist or utopian?
21May2010 | Unstable Isotope | 133 comments | Continued
Another Tea Party Racist
Carl Paladino is a prominent Republican developer in Buffalo, New York. He’s a member of the Tea Party and has decided to run for governor. From Paladino’s own website:
Mr. Paladino, 63, delivered a Palinesque populist message to a boisterous group of about 1,000 flag-waving supporters here, denouncing what he said was the government’s [...]
At Least He’s Consistent
I’m not sure why National Review’s John Derbyshire doesn’t get more attention from the blogosphere. He’s not as prominent as other conservatives but he is a fountain of misinformed cultural commentary. We talked about Derbyshire once before when he released a book and included a chapter about how women’s suffrage should be repealed. [...]
12Apr2010 | Unstable Isotope | 20 comments | Continued
The Tea Parties Are About Race
I know you’re really shocked to hear this. This week sort of feels like a “I told you so” type of week. Two different incidents of unstable people threatening lawmakers because of radicalization over health care reform. Now we get some results of a new survey about people who support the Tea [...]
9Apr2010 | Unstable Isotope | 30 comments | Continued
McDonnell Decides Slavery Was Significant After All
Virginia governor Bob McDonnell fueled a huge controversy when he resurrected “Confederate History Month” after an 8-year hiatus. Just to make things extra controversial he included absolutely no statement about slavery and when asked said slavery wasn’t significant enough to be included in the declaration. After much criticism, including from many Republicans, McDonnell [...]
8Apr2010 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
McDonnell: Slavery Wasn’t Significant
You’ve probably already heard that Virginia proclaimed the month of April as “Confederate History Month” but have you read the actual proclamation?
WHEREAS, April is the month in which the people of Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in a four year war between the states for independence that concluded at Appomattox Courthouse; and
WHEREAS, [...]
He Knows Why The Caged Bird Sings
I think I know how Glenn Beck chooses his guest hosts. Beck picks someone more nutty than he is so that he sounds sane by comparison. Case in point, guest host Doc Thompson:
On Glenn Beck’s radio show this morning, guest-host Doc Thompson explained his belief that he, as a white person, is a [...]
Is Graham a RINO in Recovery?
Sen. Linsdey Graham, John McCain’s BFF, talking about health care reform on South Carolina radio inteview:
Nancy Pelosi, I think, has got them all liquored up on sake and you know, they’re making a suicide run here.
Rep. Mike Honda, a Democrat of Japanese-American descent, was not too pleased:
I am disheartened that Senator Graham chose to [...]
They Just Can’t Help Themselves
If you watch the news media very much (especially Fox), you’d think that Obama is a terrible failure and extremely unpopular. The truth is that Obama remains fairly popular, around 50% approval, despite the terrible economic conditions. He’s more popular than Reagan was at this point in his term (Reagan eventually hit 37% [...]
8Mar2010 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
John Mayer’s Penis
Singer-songwriter John Mayer did an interview with Playboy magazine recently that he may have wished he didn’t do:
“My d–k is sort of like a white supremacist,” Mayer went on. “I’ve got a Benetton heart and a f—in David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my d–k.”
Oh my.
Tea Party Racism
Former Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Tom Tancredo opened the Tea Party Nation convention. In his speech he said the U.S. had elected a “committed socialist ideologue” because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”
5Feb2010 | Unstable Isotope | 18 comments | Continued
Another Dispatch From The GOP Braintrust
It’s been a pretty depressing week for Democrats, watching their supposed leaders turn into lumps of useless jelly because they are actually supposed to do something instead of just talking about doing something. Then along comes NRO’s Mark Krikorian to remind us that, yes, Republicans are worse.
Today, Krikorian is arguing against the U.S. taking [...]
Stars and Bars
Close to 150 years ago, the United States quelled a rebellion which cost the lives of 500,000 men and boys but which also led to the freedom of some 4,000,000 African Americans from the shackles of slavery. (Note that the number of slaves does not include the generations of African Americans who died in slavery’s [...]
20Jan2010 | nemski | 41 comments | Continued
Why Colbert Rules the World
Stephen Colbert takes on Harry Reid’s “negro” comment. Do not drink liquid around this clip.
12Jan2010 | liberalgeek | 2 comments | Continued
Race and Speech Patterns
Harry Reid has come under fire for his statements about the benefits of President Obama’s speech patterns. The statement in question is that then-candidate Obama didn’t speak in “the negro dialect” unless he wanted to.
I am a little torn on this issue. There is a dialect, one could call it an accent, that could be [...]
Some Tea Partiers Are Just Bad Spellers (and Racists)
Remember this past summer, when we were all debating whether or not the tea-party movement was racist or not? One of the interesting parts of the movement was creative sign spelling.
Today brings us news that the two issues are related (as if we didn’t have some supicions all along).
4Jan2010 | liberalgeek | 4 comments | Continued
Hal Turner, FBI Informant
[Warning - this post contains some offensive language. -- UI]
Hal Turner is a rightwing radio host known for his extremist, far right views. He has a small, hard-core following among white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Hal Turner was named one the “40 To Watch” by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2003:
Just when some [...]
Are You A Good White Person?
Fox “News” commissioned Zogby run a poll for them regarding free speech reports FAIR Blog. Here’s one of the questions:
Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for more African-Americans and gays to [...]
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