THIS cover of the latest New Yorker Publication cannot be termed satire!
It is a cheap, racist, incendiary and shameless trick to gain readers — by a failing “Left-Wing” magazine, probably pro-Clinton.
As I have mentioned before, some of the so-called “liberal whites” are just as hopelessly racist as their “cousins” on the extreme right, and I am very saddened by that. The “Clinton Bigot Strategy,” and now THIS crap, affirms my assertion.
Polls have consistently indicated that 10 to 12 percent of Americans believe that Obama is a practicing Muslim — quite believable, based on my own interactions with “ethnic” and “low-information” America.
The level of ignorance is astounding!
Right wing blogs are on fire, smoking and permutating Obama falsehoods relentlessly. Smear emails are criss-crossing the internet with more urgency that your typical Viagra peddler. The “pornographic” folks at Fox News have been in 24/7 “pant-wetting orgy” for months,….and now a desperate liberal publication comes up with this crap.
The biggest “Gook” of them all, radio “prankster” Rush Limbaugh must be swimming in his bile — farting his way to 400 million dollars!
Hey, it could be Hillary and Bill Clinton behind this again….after all there is evidence that they were responsible for circulating a photo calling attention to the African “Muslim” roots of the senator from Illinois.
Racism, the crutch that supports the weak-minded and the cudgel that marginalizes those simply looking for a fair shake — America’s most disgraceful legacy, is alive and well….[MORE >>]
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The Obama campaign quickly condemned the rendering. Spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create. But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive.”
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Obama Rumors Debunked
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Some states are making it harder for illegal immigrants to attend college by denying in-state tuition benefits or banning undocumented students.
In the past two years, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia and Oklahoma have refused in-state tuition benefits to students who entered the USA illegally with their parents but grew up and went to school in the state. That represents a reversal from earlier this decade, when 10 states passed laws allowing in-state rates for such students.
This summer, South Carolina became the first state to bar undocumented students from all public colleges and universities.
North Carolina’s community colleges in May ordered its 58 campuses to stop enrolling undocumented students after the state attorney general said admitting them may violate federal law.
“The new trend is to kick illegal aliens out of college altogether,” says William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee, which opposes taxpayer subsidies for undocumented immigrants.
Josh Bernstein of the National Immigration Law Center, an illegal-immigrants advocate, says sweeping anti-immigration bills are “a very serious threat” to the overall illegal population.
Georgia, which barred undocumented students from in-state tuition rates in 2006, enacted laws in May preventing them from receiving state scholarships and certain student loans.
This fall, the University of Arkansas will require students to submit Social Security numbers and proof of residency. In May, Arkansas Department of Higher Education Director Jim Purcell warned that students without documentation “will not be considered as legally enrolled students” when determining an institution’s state funding.
Opponents say students shouldn’t be penalized for their parents’ actions. Helping them is “the right thing to do even if it’s unpopular,” says North Carolina state Rep. Pricey Harrison, a Democrat who introduced a bill that would prevent state institutions from asking about students’ immigration status.
Jesse Helms - Enlarge Image No matter how much Republicans try to sanitize Mr. Helms — after his death last week, his legacy will remain that of Racism, Anti-Semitism, Homophobia and Confederate Segregationism.
The former North Carolina Senator was an unyielding champion of the conservative “Bigot” movement.
And he was the only senator to vote against making the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. His lone dissent came only after he conducted a 16-day filibuster against the King holiday, during which Helms took to the Senate floor to decry the assassinated King, a pacifist and beloved civil rights leader, for his “action-oriented Marxism.”
In an opinion piece, columnist DeWayne Wickham asserts that Helms subtly carried the torch of white supremacy during his lifetime:
“The former North Carolina senator seldom displayed the overt, incendiary racial prejudice that Ben Tillman, the turn-of-the-20th century South Carolina demagogue, often spewed on the floor of the U.S. Senate. But in many ways, Helms accepted the torch that Tillman passed to a new generation of white supremacists — and served the same cause with a tad more subtlety.”
While working as a television editorialist in Raleigh, N.C., in 1960, Helms called the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus the “university of Negroes and Communists.” That snideness echoed the ring of Tillman’s condemnation of education for blacks: “When you educate a negro, you educate a candidate for the penitentiary or spoil a good field hand,” …wrote Wickham
When President Theodore Roosevelt invited black leader Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House in 1901, Tillman was outraged. “The action … will necessitate our killing a thousand “niggers” in the South before they will learn their place again,” the senator said.
Ninety-four years later, as a guest on Larry King Live, Helms was greeted by a caller who thanked him for helping to “keep down the niggers.”
“Whoops, well, thank you, I think,” said Helms, sounding just a bit embarrassed — and a lot like the linear successor to Tillman.
That was “White-Sheet” Jesse Helms — a bigot whose “nobility” is being shamelessly parroted in the air-waves by right-wingers ….who have eagerly been linking his death to July 4th — Independence day!, to smother the ugliness of Mr. Helms’ White-Supremacist past.
“….don’t let the Independence Day paeans fool you. Jesse Helms was a bigot, a racist, a homophobe — and a media charlatan. America would be a much worse place if he’d had his way on his many signature issues. Our nation’s birthday is brighter for him not in it.” ….Click here for more
In an Aug. 29, 2001 piece, David Broder, a columnist for the Washington Post states:
“What is unique about Helms — and from my viewpoint, unforgivable — is his willingness to pick at the scab of the great wound of American history, the legacy of slavery and segregation, and to inflame racial resentment against African Americans.”
“In 1984, when Helms faced his toughest opponent in Democratic Gov. Jim Hunt, the late Bill Peterson, one of the most evenhanded reporters I have ever known, summed up what “some said was the meanest Senate campaign in history,” ….says Broder.
“Racial epithets and standing in school doors are no longer fashionable,” Peterson wrote, “but 1984 proved that the ugly politics of race are alive and well. Helms is their master.”
In 1990, locked in a tight race with an African American Democrat, former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, Helms aired a final-week TV ad that showed a pair of white hands crumpling a rejection letter, while an announcer said, “You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota.” Once again, he pulled through.
Jesse Helms’ White Hands AD
That is not a history to be sanitized.
Richard Nixon was one of the first Republicans to recognize Helms’ Racist utility.
The North Carolinian was welcomed into the GOP by then President Nixon and his southern strategists of the late 1960s and early 1970s because they understood that Helms was skilled at working the fault lines that could turn white fears into Republican votes.
The Republicans are still working those fault-lines. Indeed, some of the people who worked most closely with Helms as he transformed what began as an anti-slavery party into a comfortable retreat for white-backlash voters are now key players in the campaign of John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
“Let us remember a life dedicated to serving this nation,” McCain declared in a statement on the death of Helms, to whom he was compared favorably by former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole earlier this year. (Actually, Dole suggested that McCain was somewhat more conservative than Helms.)
In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, Richard Nixon touched the essence of the southern strategy:
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don’t need any more than that… but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That’s where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.
Republicans have used this Racist strategy ever since — very effectively. Read more about The Southern Strategy.
Jesse Helms — May You Rot In Peace!
OVERHEARD AT THE BIGOTS’S FUNERAL ON TEUSDAY:
“We need more men like Jesse Helms,” Holloway said. “He’s an icon - a Southern gentlemen. He’ll be remembered for integrity and truth.”
“Jesse Helms always stood his ground,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said from the pulpit. “He put duty above all else — duty to God, to country, to family … the simple duty of treating other people well.”
John Donald Imus, Jr. Has a Long Record of Incendiary Remarks.
The latest:
On Monday, WABC anchor Warner Wolf read a report about footballer Adam “Packman” Jones dropping his nickname, “Pacman.” Wolf also mentioned that Jones had been arrested six times since he was drafted in 2005.
Imus then asked, “What color is he?”
“He’s African-American,” Wolf said.
“Well, there you go,” Imus said. “Now we know.”
Imus said through a spokesperson that he was misunderstood.
“I meant that he was being picked on because he’s black,” Imus said.
“I find the inference of [Imus'] remark disturbing because it plays into stereotypes,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, which was part of protests that led to Imus’ firing last year.
“I’m truly upset about the comments,” Jones said. “Obviously Mr. Imus has problems with African-Americans. I’m upset, and I hope the station he works for handles it accordingly. I will pray for him.”
Imus called the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” and for good measure the show’s executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, called the team “hard-core hos.” Later, former Imus sports announcer Sid Rosenberg, who was filling in for sportscaster Chris Carlin, said: “The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the [National Basketball Association's] Toronto Raptors.”
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Over the years Imus has made numerous racist slurs on TV and Radio — The long string of racial slurs and inflammatory comments is well documented by Media Matters …..[MORE]
He has also been accused of making offensive remarks off the air. Here are some examples:
1. In a 1984 interview, answering a question about Howard Stern, Don Imus said: “yes, Howard’s a slut too, Lloyd…Plus a Jew bastard, and should be castrated… put in an oven.”
2. Imus referred to African-American sports columnist Bill Rhoden as a “New York Times quota hire.”
3. In 1993, Imus referred to PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, a black woman (then with the New York Times) as a “cleaning lady.”
4. As reported by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, in the course of a 1998 interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, Imus told a producer off-camera that McGuirk was hired to perform “nigger jokes.”
5. Robin Quivers claimed that when she worked with Imus at WNBC, Imus called her a “nigger” to her face. Both Howard Stern and Quivers have also claimed that he screamed “Nigger, Nigger” at an African American secretary named Becky during their time at WNBC.
6. Imus has also repeatedly referred to Arabs as “ragheads.”
7. He has berated many female newsreaders, including MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, which caused her to leave Imus’s show. After she left the show, Imus went on a tirade, saying, “With that fat ass she’s got, she wouldn’t be one of ‘em,” [a news 'babe'.]. Imus said on the air, “That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning.” The tirade was allegedly tied to comments overheard from Contessa’s calling Imus “a cantankerous old fool” at a 2005 dinner in a restaurant when she was still a newsreader.
8. During a show a producer also made fun of poet Maya Angelou.
9. On a December 15, 2004, show, Imus referred to publishers Simon & Schuster (under same ownership as CBS Radio) as “thieving Jews,” and later in the show issued a mock apology, saying the phrase was “redundant.” In October 1998, he described media critic Howard Kurtz as “that boner-nosed . . . beanie-wearing little Jew boy.”
10. Imus’s show routines sometimes have contained derogatory epithets for homosexuals, including “faggot” or “lesbo” and various terms describing homosexuality.
11. Imus has also made fun of Irish, Jews, Italians, other nationalities and all political positions.
Don Imus is just but a speck in a huge crop of right wing extremists in America’s media — THUGS hiding behind TV and Radio, screaming and snorting their “Hate Rhetoric” like Hyenas in “extreme sexual heat,” fueling anti-immigrant xenophobia and the baseless hate of “Foreigners” and non-whites in America — Blacks, Latinos, Immigrants…you name it.
Media Matters for America has extensively documented, bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity continue to permeate the airwaves through personalities such as Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Michael Smerconish, John Gibson, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, ….[MORE]
…and these bonehead “airwave” morons are not always white. Here is “The Honorable” Pastor James David Manning outlining the seven winners of the “National Bigot Award.” Message originally preached on 28 May 2008.
The e-mail/website/air-wave ’smear assault’ on Barack Obama has reached epidemic proportions.
THUG Republicans, idiots, missionaries based in Kenya, Appalachians, angry “White Women,” “blue-collar” white morons, racist radio pundits, Uncle-Tom she-goons like Michelle Malkin, Black Idiot Pastors like “The Reverend James David Manning” and Jesse Lee Peterson (Neo-Nazi Sean Hannity’s “Black” Pastor), bigots with guns, bigots in suits, The Neo-Nazis at FOX News — the ReTHUGlican mouthpiece, and many other media outlets across the US, have ganged up against Obama to disseminate big FAT lies …..hoping to floor his candidacy.
They are running around “spamming” the Internet and the air-waves with stinking HYENA dung.
This relentless smear campaign against Sen. Barack Obama has forced him to launch FightTheSmears.com.
Common Smears Circulating on The Internet/Air Waves:
1. False attempts to cast Obama as a Muslim
2. False attempts to cast Obama as un-American
3. Malicious attempts to question Obama’s citizenship and patriotism — some falsely claim he was born in Kenya, and is related to Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga,….a Communist!
This is totally false — Obama is American and Raila Odinga is a “True Democrat,” and a patriotic Kenyan — a Freedom Fighter who is solely responsible for ALL future steps Kenya will take to democratize its political institutions.
I have also read on some websites that Raila Odinga ordered the recent Kenyan “Mini-Genocide!”
This is also FALSE!
Raila Odinga was robbed of an election he won outright — by political forces in Kenya who operate in the same mode as the George Bush’s Republican dictatorship in America.
The violence that erupted was not caused by Prime Minister Odinga.
4. False attempts to portray Obama as linked to terrorists — “a threat to mainstream white America”
5. ….and many more scurrilous lies and contortions.
“The Republicans, they’re trying to make [it] ‘this is not about you; it’s about me.’ They’re trying to say, ‘Well, Obama, we don’t know him that well, he hasn’t been around that long, he’s got a funny name; maybe he’s a Muslim,’” Obama said last month in Montana. “They want to make people worry about me.”
Websites like Snopes.com have also listed and debunked many of these anti-Obama e-mail lies.
The “utter ignorance, illiteracy” and “racist inclinations” of some Americans just exacerbates the situation. 1 out of 7 Americans can’t point to Iraq on a map. Even more don’t read newspapers regularly. Most are glued to their TVs and car radios, consuming FAT falsehoods spewing out of the mouths of pundits, NAZI talk show hosts and Fox News.
Fortunately, younger Americans (who flock to Obama in large numbers) tend fare much better because of a voracious appetite for the Internet.
Extreme Ignorance in America!
Obama Rumors Dispelled!
Some illustrations:
A focus group conducted with 12 independent voters for NBC and The Wall Street Journal earlier this month in Charlottesville, Va., found that fully half said “no” when asked point-blank if they thought of Obama as an American. Two believed he is a Muslim and another mentioned the Quran fabrication.
One voter concluded that, “The United States of America should be run by somebody from the United States of America.” When reminded by the reporter capturing the footage that Obama is, in fact, American, the voter responded: “He’s Muslim.”
Voters widely and repeatedly cite information that has been gleaned directly or indirectly from the e-mails to explain why they won’t support Obama.
A Pew survey found that one in 10 Americans think Obama is Muslim, a misperception that crosses party lines.
Visit FightTheSmears.com to help combat these baseless and racist smears.
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Sample Smear Videos:
Proven GOP sleazemeister Roger Stone said on Fox News on June 1st that “there’s a buzz, which I believe now to be credible, that some indelible record exists” of a tape of Michelle Obama using the term “whitey.”
Truth: Stone conceded on June 2nd that he hasn’t met anyone who has seen the tape and that it therefore may be a hoax.
Barack Obama is a Muslim — and has attended a “radical madrassa.”
Some states are making it harder for illegal immigrants to attend college by denying in-state tuition benefits or banning undocumented students.
