From The HuffingtonPost: “A Republican Senator ‘Had His Hand On My Inner Thigh‘ For A ‘Whole’ Dinner Party,” says columnist David Brooks (SEE VIDEO BELOW). Brooks was at a dinner party and had the misfortune to sit next to a Republican senator who “had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.” [ READ MORE ]
Senator Kyle Thinks Obama Does Not Care About Protecting America
The Republican party rose to power on the filthy waves of racial demagoguery. As part of its Southern strategy, the G.O.P aggressively courted the bigots who fled the Democratic Party because the Democrats had become insufficiently hostile to blacks. For Republicans, there is no level of achievement sufficient to escape the stultifying bonds of bigotry — It is impossible to be smart enough or accomplished enough. Nevertheless, there is every reason to hope that we’ve improved as a society to the point where the racial and ethnic craziness of the Gingriches and Limbaughs will finally have a tough time finding any sort of foothold.
The Howls of a Fading Species
[ By: Bob Herbert ] One can only hope that the hysterical howling of right-wingers against the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is something approaching a death rattle for this profoundly destructive force in American life.
It’s hard to fathom the heights of hypocrisy currently being scaled by the foaming-in-the-mouth crazies who are leading the charge against the nomination. Newt Gingrich, who never needed a factual basis for his ravings, rants on Twitter that Judge Sotomayor is a “Latina woman racist,” apparently unaware of his incoherence in the “Latina-woman” redundancy in this defamatory characterization.
Karl Rove sneered that Ms. Sotomayor was “not necessarily” smart, thus managing to get the toxic issue of intelligence into play in the case of a woman who graduated summa cum laude from Princeton, went on to get a law degree from Yale and has more experience as a judge than any of the current justices had at the time of their nominations to the court.
It turns the stomach. There is no level of achievement sufficient to escape the stultifying bonds of bigotry. It is impossible to be smart enough or accomplished enough.
The amount of disrespect that has spattered the nomination of Judge Sotomayor is disgusting. She is spoken of, in some circles, as if she were the lowest of the low. Rush Limbaugh — now there’s a genius! — has compared her nomination to a hypothetical nomination of David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. “How can a president nominate such a candidate?” Limbaugh asked.
Ms. Sotomayor is a member of the National Council of La Raza, the Hispanic civil rights organization. In the crazy perspective of some right-wingers, the mere existence of La Raza should make decent people run for cover. La Raza is “a Latino K.K.K. without the hoods and the nooses,” said Tom Tancredo, a Republican former congressman from Colorado.
Here’s the thing. Suddenly these hideously pompous and self-righteous white males of the right are all concerned about racism. They’re so concerned that they’re fully capable of finding it in places where it doesn’t for a moment exist. Not just finding it, but being outraged by it to the point of apoplexy. Oh, they tell us, this racism is a bad thing!
Are we supposed to not notice that these are the tribunes of a party that rose to power on the filthy waves of racial demagoguery. I don’t remember hearing their voices or the voices of their intellectual heroes when the Republican Party, as part of its Southern strategy, aggressively courted the bigots who fled the Democratic Party because the Democrats had become insufficiently hostile to blacks.
Where were the howls of outrage at this strategy that was articulated by Lee Atwater as follows: “By 1968, you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff.”
Never a peep did you hear.
Where were the right-wing protests when Ronald Reagan went out of his way to kick off his general election campaign in 1980 with a salute to states’ rights in, of all places, Philadelphia, Miss., not far from the site where three young civil rights workers had been snatched and murdered by real-life, rabid, blood-thirsty racists?
We’ve heard ad nauseam Ms. Sotomayor’s comments — awkwardly stated but hardly racist — about what she brings to the bench as a Latina. But how often have we ever heard the awful, hateful position on race offered up by William F. Buckley, the right’s ultimate intellectual champion? He felt comfortable declaring, in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision ordering the desegregation of public schools, that whites had every right to discriminate against blacks because whites belonged to “the advanced race.”
Right-wing howls of protest? I think not.
Ms. Sotomayor’s nomination is a big deal because never before in the history of the United States has any president nominated a Latina to the highest court. Only two blacks have ever been on the court, and the one selected by a Republican has been like a thumb in the eye to most African-Americans.
The court is a living monument to America’s long history of exclusion based on race, ethnic background and gender. Where is the right-wing protest against that?
It was always silly to pretend that the election of Barack Obama was evidence that the U.S. was moving into some sort of post-racial, post-ethnic, post-gender nirvana. But it did offer a basis for optimism. There is every reason to hope that we’ve improved as a society to the point where the racial and ethnic craziness of the Gingriches and Limbaughs will finally have a tough time finding any sort of foothold.
Those types can still cause a lot of trouble, but the ridiculousness of their posture is pretty widely recognized. Thus the desperate howling.
About The Author: BOB HERBERT — joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in 1993. His twice a week column comments on politics, urban affairs and social trends.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Herbert was a national correspondent for NBC from 1991 to 1993, reporting regularly on “The Today Show” and “NBC Nightly News.” He had worked as a reporter and editor at The Daily News from 1976 until 1985, when he became a columnist and member of its editorial board.
In 1990, Mr. Herbert was a founding panelist of “Sunday Edition,” a weekly discussion program on WCBS-TV in New York, and the host of Hotline, a weekly issues program on New York public television.
He began his career as a reporter with The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., in 1970. He became its night city editor in 1973.
Mr. Herbert has won numerous awards, including the Meyer Berger Award for coverage of New York City and the American Society of Newspaper Editors award for distinguished newspaper writing. He was chairman of the Pulitzer Prize jury for spot news reporting in 1993.
Born in Brooklyn on March 7, 1945, Mr. Herbert received a B.S. degree in journalism from the State University of New York (Empire State College) in 1988. He has taught journalism at Brooklyn College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Manhattan on the Upper West Side.
The Anti-Immigrant SKUNK from Colorado, former congressman Tom Tancredo could not resist the smell of LATINA STEW. The filthy bigot who would love to see every single immigrant removed from the United States, is officially out of his hiding hole, with his anal scent glands excreting a strong foul-smelling odor of Racism. Even in retirement, this scumbag cannot hide his hatred for Latinos.
President Obama Nominated Judge Sotomayor To The Supreme Court on Tuesday
Appearing on CNN, Tancredo suggested that Judge Sotomayor’s affiliation with the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group, was equivalent to being a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
A congressman from the 6th Congressional District until he retired last year, Tancredo has made statements over the years threatening to bomb Mecca, calling Miami a Third World city and suggesting the U.S.-Mexico border wall separate Brownsville, Texas, from the rest of America.
Notes: Tancredo conveniently chooses to ignore his IMMIGRANT history:
Tancredo is a descendant of Italian immigrants — He was born in Denver, Colorado to Adeline Lombardi and Gerald Tancredo. Both sets of his grandparents emigrated from Italy. In the 1890-1920 period Italian Americans were often stereotyped as being “violent” and “controlled by the Mafia“. In the 1920s, many Americans used the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, in which two Italian anarchists were wrongly sentenced to death, to denounce Italian immigrants as anarchists and criminals. During the 19th and early 20th century, Italian Americans were one of the most likely groups to be lynched. In 1891, eleven Italian immigrants in New Orleans were lynched due to their ethnicity and suspicion of being involved in the Mafia. This was the largest mass lynching in US history.
Rush Limbaugh guest host attacks Obama appointee as extremist for supporting comprehensive immigration reform, which Bush also supports. Fabricationists and Distortionists thrive in the Republican world of GOD, GUNS and HOMELAND SECURITY – a quagmire of bitterness, bigotry and vicious “Neanderthal racism.“
On The Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis accused President-elect Barack Obama of choosing an “amnesty fetishist” in his appointment of Cecilia Muñoz, of the National Council of La Raza. But contrary to Davis’ suggestion, Muñoz and NCLR’s position in support of comprehensive immigration reform is far from radical, and shared in principle by members of Congress from both parties and by President Bush.
….and here is another right-wing bigot playing the “Slavery Card“
While discussing potential Republican outreach efforts toward African-Americans during the November 14 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Jason Lewis stated: “This whole notion of taxing — taxing America’s labor — you know, I don’t know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody’s ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor.” Lewis later added: “We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it’s like to have to work for free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it’s OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you’re taking something that doesn’t belong to you.”
My question is: Who should be playing the “Slavery Card“, ME a black man or some white right-wing RACIST, who is enjoying the fruits of 400+ years UNPAID black slave labor, in the United States? WHO?
Right-Wing Republicans have this nauseating tendency of playing some weird form of victim hood — stealth propaganda very similar to Hitler’s Nazism, in the hope that the “White Masses” will rise and fight a fictitious and cooked-up enemy,….and they are very good at it. Fabricationists and Distortionists thrive in the Republican world of GOD, GUNS, BACKWARDNESS and HOMELAND SECURITY – a quagmire of bitterness, bigotry and vicious “Neanderthal racism.”
In an Amazon book review, John Moe writes: Conservative talk show hosts and newspaper columnists have made an industry out of incessantly deriding the American left, citing liberals for everything from moral decay to bad economic policy to a soft approach on terrorism.
Often these accusations are bound in book form and sell quite well. Only one problem: the charges they’re leveling just aren’t true. In Big Lies, author Joe Conason dissects 10 of the most persistent, and–according to him–glaringly incorrect, arguments made by conservatives.
Each chapter begins with a quotation (“Liberals control the media and misuse their influence to promote left-wing politics,” “Conservatives are the only true champions of free enterprise”), which is then picked apart using statistical evidence and detailed historical research and rejected.
The modern right wing, in the opinion of Conason, is not the bastion of virtue and defender of the common man it claims to be. Rather, it is a calculating and shrewdly efficient group of propagandists fueled by revenues generated by a system that rewards cronyism.
Granted, it doesn’t take much to deflate the bombast of shrill political talk show hosts whose very living depends on making shocking accusations about public figures, a couple of raw facts usually does the trick, but Conason offers more than simple refutation, going deeper to challenge the presumptions that generate such platitudes.
And he navigates a highly readable and informative writing style that feels more substantive than Molly Ivins and Al Franken but still a lot wittier than Noam Chomsky. [See: Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind]
Many of Conason’s arguments, like those of his foes, naturally come down to matters of opinion, and published material can readily be found to back up nearly any perspective. Nonetheless, he presents clear and logical points, and his thinking is well supported by both the historical record and empirical data. Accusing Joe Conason of lies (of any size) would certainly be a difficult task.
Right-Wing radio which flourished during the Clinton/Lewinsky years is killing the GOP, so indicates Michael Medved, a GOP NUTBAG himself.
Says Medved: “….if the new president makes credible efforts to govern from the center, then talk radio can’t afford long-term marginalization as a sulking, sniping, angry irrelevancy. It makes no sense to react with pre-emptive rage (and an odd obsession over Obama’s birth certificate) ….”
Donofrio v. Wells — A non-American President?
Yes, the GOP is quickly becoming an “angry irrelevancy,” — drop in the “Sarah Palin dimension” and the the ReTHUGlican Party slides a confused mix of GOD, STUPIDITY, GUNS and “MOOSE-TURKEY” ADDICTED COMEDIANS.
Bob Cesca sums up the Republican morass quite nicely: “Right now, the Republicans have an exorcist, a Bush, a turkey geeker who makes people explode, and Newt, who, by the way, wrote a book imagining if the South had won the Civil War. If these cable reality show misfits represent the future of the Republican Party, it’s going to be a seriously entertaining four years.” — [ READ MORE ]
Myers is an unqualified Bush stooge, who was installed into power by a recess appointment, a constitutional provision that Bush has mis-used often during his corrupt and bloody reign. Deportations have soared to record levels during her tenure, which have drawn condemnations from civil liberties and immigrant advocacy groups, which say ICE has violated humanitarian standards and trampled on due process rights by using criminal-style tactics and charges in massive roundups of workers.
Julie L. Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will leave the Bush administration on Nov. 15.
ICE spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said, “She is very passionate about these [immigration] issues and will carry that passion into future endeavors.”
Myers is an unqualified Bush stooge, who was installed into power by a “recess appointment,“ a constitutional provision that Bush has mis-used often during his corrupt and bloody reign.
Since her appointment, Ms. Myers has presided over a dramatic increase in anti-immigrant enforcement activities and spending at the $5 billion agency, setting records for three fiscal years in arrests and deportation of immigrants.
Deportations have soared to record levels during her tenure, which drew condemnations from civil liberties and immigrant advocacy groups, which say ICE violated humanitarian standards and trampled on due process rights by using criminal-style tactics and charges in massive roundups of workers.
Myers also oversaw a burgeoning detention system whose growth has led to noncriminal immigrant detainees often being medically neglected.
Early this year Photographs emerged of Myers at a 2007 Halloween office party honoring a white employee dressed as an escaped prisoner with dreadlocks and makeup that made him look African American or Hispanic.
Another Suspicious Bush Resignation
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I strongly believe that her resignation has everything to do with the investigation that has been launched as to who broke the law in leaking the immigration status of Barack Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango?
Note: ICE officials are ‘prohibited from commenting on any individual’s status or the status of any case.’
Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone questioned whether Myers may have been the source of the unauthorized leak.
Yes, the stinking BITCH is the source!
This Republican woman is a RACIST — part of the racist anti-immigrant movement (that has infiltrated ICE), which has been stinking up America in the last two years — Immigrant hate sanctioned by the Bush Administration and propagated by Cable News, Talk-Radio and the Right-Wing blogosphere….resulting in merciless thuggery on immigrants by ICE and NEO-NAZI lynchers.
The toxic fear and loathing perpetuated by Republicans like Lou Dobbs and the Syphilitic NAZIS at Fox News, cost McCain dearly this election cycle. Sixty Six percent of Latino voters cast their votes for Obama, and I am sure similarly, large numbers of other immigrant groups did likewise.
What McCain and the GOP totally mis-judged, is that when you scare “Illegal Immigrants,” the hate from the right-wing spills over to “Legal Immigrants,” and in order to protect themselves, immigrants ganged up against McCain and voted for Obama in buckets.
Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau paint a clear picture: By as early as 2023, more than half of all children in the United States, will be members of what are now minority groups, an evolution fueled significantly by a baby boom among recent immigrants. By 2050, they will make up more than 60 percent of all American children.
By 2050, the number of Americans of Hispanic origin will double to comprise a third of the American population. The Asian population is projected to nearly triple, to 9.2 percent of the population. And as those populations mingle, the number of people who identify themselves as being of two or more races will more than triple.
The result will be a United States in which the so-called white majority will, for the first time, be in the minority.
The consequence: If the Republican party continues on the same HATE-MONGERING path — preaching intolerance and white supremacy, these young sons and daughters of immigrants will continue to flock to the Democratic party, and may well render the Republican party, a regional and fringe party.
Internet sources indicate that Myers’s has a sadistic and cold-hearted reputation — quite evident by her treatment of immigrants, especially helpless immigrant children born in the United States, to their undocumented parents — who are being rounded up like “diseased cattle” all over the United States.
By this criminal woman’s actions, it is very clear that she never expected Obama to win this election, and in all probability, it is GUILT that has driven her to resign — before the Obama train catches up with her.
If it is determined that Myers was responsible for the illegal leakage of Onyango’s immigration status, contrary to laid down law, she should be punished accordingly. Further more, the inhuman and racist anti-immigrant GESTAPO TACTICS she presided over at ICE should be dismantled forthwith!
Watch out ReTHUGlicans! …..the son of a KENYAN IMMIGRANT has just “snared” the White House
….and may GOD bless him ….and may GOD DAMN the Republican Party.
One can only hope that the hysterical howling of right-wingers against the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is something approaching a death rattle for this profoundly destructive force in American life.
