Posts Tagged ‘Lynn Westmoreland’

If you were in any way unclear why the Republican Party is unable to build any measurable minority base…let’s just review recent history.  This isn’t 1964 Mississippi…this is 2009 with an African-American president.  Yes, the GOP is clinging tightly to the 20th century.  God bless their little racist hearts.  They’re so cute, yes they are (pinching their cheeks).

Let’s review the past 12 months through the eyes of GOP racism at its unparalleled best.  OF COURSE the GOP does poorly recruiting African-Americans.  Who in the hell wants to be associated with a party without outright contempt for you and anyone who looks like you?  And Mo’Kelly is only referencing the PUBLIC gaffes by party leadership.  Mind you, this is all POST the death of Jesse Helms.

Keep it up Republicans, you’ve just ensured another 50 years of African-American loyalty to the Democratic Party.  That stale argument of Democrats taking African-Americans for granted is lukewarm on its best day, especially when we have this RECENT history in which to prove that the Republican Party is and will always be the party of “Southern Politics.”

Yes, welcome to the “post-racial” America of the 21st century.  We may be in the 21st century, but the GOP has a stranglehold on 1964 and just won’t let it and the rest of the 20th century go.

6.17.09 – JUST ADDED! – South Carolina GOP operative tweets…

“JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT’S WHITE AND IT WORKS.”

6.16.09 – Tennessee GOP staffer emailed the “Spook” President photo

Sherri Goforth

Sherri Goforth, an executive assistant for Tennessee State Rep. Diane Black (R-Gallatin), sent this picture out to other legislative staffers.

Goforth admitted to sending the email, but she apologized only for sending it to the wrong people.

“I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button,” Goforth said.

“I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”

Spook Jokes in the 21st Century?!

6.15.09 – South Carolina GOP operative

Rusty DePass

Rusty DePass

Over the weekend, a gorilla escaped from a zoo in Columbia, and according to the New York Daily News, DePass just couldn’t resist what he saw as the perfect opportunity for humor, updating his status message to read,

“I’m sure it’s just one of (First Lady) Michelle’s ancestors – probably harmless.”

6.4.09 - GOP operative Manuel Miranda

Manuel Miranda

“By the way, Hispanic polls, Hispanic surveys, indicate that Hispanics think just like everyone else.

We’re not like African Americans. We think just like everybody else.”

5.4.09 - GOP Chairman Michael Steele plays Magic Negro Card

2.27.09 – Republican California mayor Dean Grose and the “Watermelon Patch” email photo attachment

White House "Watermelon Patch"

12.27.08 – RNC Chairman candidate Chip Saltsman plays Magic Negro card

Chip Saltsman

Chip Saltsman, the former Tennessee state Republican chairman who ran Mike Huckabee’s underfunded but shrewd bid for the GOP’s presidential nomination.  Remember him?  Saltsman wanted to be Republican national chairman, and, apparently as part of his campaign, he sent his associates a Christmas gift consisting of songs by the satirist Paul Shanklin.

The title track, sung in a voice meant to impersonate Al Sharpton, is Barack the Magic Negro.  It parodies then president-elect as a Black man acceptable to whites. Another song, Star Spanglish Banner, disparages Latinos.

10.17.08 – Republican website encourages “torture” of Obama

9.6.08 – Obama called ‘uppity’ by Republican Congressman

Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said.

Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”

4.12.08 – Republican

Geoff Davis (R-CA)

Congressman calls Obama ‘boy.’

At an April 12 event in his district, Kentucky Rep. Geoff Davis (R) said of Obama: “I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button.

He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”

7.22.08 – Republican state senator directly compares Obama and “Osama”

Feel free to share this with your Black Republican friends…all 3 of them.

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There was a part of me that wondered…no, check that.

(That’s the wrong word to convey my true emotion.)

There was a “part” of me that laughed UNCONTROLLABLY while watching senators John McCain and Barack Obama square off at Ole Miss in the first of three presidential debates.

That “part” would be…ALL OF ME.

An “uppity” African-American man (as Georgia Congressman Lynn Westmoreland characterized him) was running for president and participating in a debate on the campus of Ole Miss, complete with confederate mascot Colonel Rebel et al…

Yes, there was a moment in which a deep belly guffaw sprung forth with almost an evil splendor. What triggered it was the fleeting thought about the most recent Mississippi chapter Ku Klux Klan meeting.

We can assume the main item on the agenda was…”What in the hell went so horribly wrong?!”

If the goal was subjugating and terrorizing African-Americans and prevent them from having any standing or status in society…something went horribly wrong.

Oops.

This post is begging for the obligatory line…“A funny thing happened on the way to the Klan meeting.” But no, I won’t do it. Mo’Kelly will NOT use such a trite and predictable line for the purpose of an easy laugh.

No, Mo’Kelly WILL say, “A damn funny thing happened AT the Klan meeting.”

African-American man running for president and is participating in a presidential debate on a campus in which he couldn’t possibly have attended in the era in which he was born. Yes, the KKK were likely united in asking themselves…

“What in the hell went so horribly wrong and how did we get here?! Who dropped the ball?!”

You know somebody in the Klan lost their “job” or pointy hat…or free white sheet dry cleaning privileges. Somebody got a pink slip for sure. Klan HR was drawing up the paperwork from the moment Obama secured the nomination.

To say that the Klan has been “white-knuckling” as of late is an understatement…pun intended. In fact, if you visit their official website, there are “banners” with the slogan, “Doomed ‘08 – Start buying canned goods.” (see picture above)

Even beyond the KKK, such “stalwart” civil rights advocates such as Mississippi’s own Trent Lott must be overwhelmed and overjoyed at the prospect of Senator Barack Obama sitting center stage on the campus of Lott’s alma mater. That would be the same Trent Lott who did everything in his power to prevent African-Americans from joining his beloved Sigma Nu fraternity.

See HERE.

Who said God didn’t have a sense of humor? God is tremendously funny. Some have called it irony, others…symbolism. I call it hilarious.

HEE-LARRY-US!

God has a very tight 10-minute stand-up routine and the joke’s on the Klan. We can all imagine how that meeting went down…

“I’d like to call to order the September meeting of the Mississippi Chapter of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. First order of business…the presidential debate. What in the hell went so horribly wrong and how did we get here?”

“Don’t everyone speak up at once…anyone…anyone…Bueller…Bueller?”

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Not Mo’Kelly’s words…just the Republicans. Read for yourself. The direct link is HERE. But to make it a bit easier, the text from the article is copied and pasted below. And for young people (or older ignorant people too) who don’t know what the big deal is…understand the following.

Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (pictured top/left) used the racially-tinged term “uppity” to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday.

Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare her with Michelle Obama.

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”

Other Democrats have charged that the Republican campaign to paint the Illinois senator as an “elitist” is racially charged, and accused them of using code words for “uppity” without using the word itself.

In August, Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) told reporters, “When I hear the word ‘elitist’ linked with Barack Obama, to me, that is a code word for ‘uppity.’ I find it extremely offensive and John McCain should know better.”

Political consultant David Gergen, who has worked in both Republican and Democratic White Houses, said on ABC’s “This Week” that “As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ‘The One,’ that’s code for, ‘He’s uppity, he ought to stay in his place.’ Everybody gets that who is from a Southern background.”

The Obama campaign, asked about the quote, did not note any racial context.

“Sounds like Rep. Westmoreland should be careful throwing stones from his candidate’s eight glass houses,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.

Campaigning against the first black major-party nominee has already created some problems for Republicans.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) (pictured left) said that Obama’s middle name – Hussein – is relevant to the public discourse surrounding his candidacy, saying in March that if Obama were elected, “Then the radical Islamists, the al Qaeda, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”

At an April 12 event in his district, Kentucky Rep. Geoff Davis (R) said of Obama: “I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button. He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Davis sent a letter of apology to Obama in which he described his remark as a “poor choice of words.”

Westmoreland originally supported former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination. He now supports McCain, but missed an August fundraiser for the nominee because he was vacationing with his family.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.mokellyreport.blogspot.com.

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Not Mo’Kelly’s words…just the Republicans. Read for yourself. The direct link is HERE. But to make it a bit easier, the text from the article is copied and pasted below. And for young people (or older ignorant people too) who don’t know what the big deal is…understand the following.

Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (pictured top/left) used the racially-tinged term “uppity” to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday.

Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare her with Michelle Obama.

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”

Other Democrats have charged that the Republican campaign to paint the Illinois senator as an “elitist” is racially charged, and accused them of using code words for “uppity” without using the word itself.

In August, Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) told reporters, “When I hear the word ‘elitist’ linked with Barack Obama, to me, that is a code word for ‘uppity.’ I find it extremely offensive and John McCain should know better.”

Political consultant David Gergen, who has worked in both Republican and Democratic White Houses, said on ABC’s “This Week” that “As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ‘The One,’ that’s code for, ‘He’s uppity, he ought to stay in his place.’ Everybody gets that who is from a Southern background.”

The Obama campaign, asked about the quote, did not note any racial context.

“Sounds like Rep. Westmoreland should be careful throwing stones from his candidate’s eight glass houses,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.

Campaigning against the first black major-party nominee has already created some problems for Republicans.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) (pictured left) said that Obama’s middle name – Hussein – is relevant to the public discourse surrounding his candidacy, saying in March that if Obama were elected, “Then the radical Islamists, the al Qaeda, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”

At an April 12 event in his district, Kentucky Rep. Geoff Davis (R) said of Obama: “I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button. He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Davis sent a letter of apology to Obama in which he described his remark as a “poor choice of words.”

Westmoreland originally supported former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination. He now supports McCain, but missed an August fundraiser for the nominee because he was vacationing with his family.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

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Not Mo’Kelly’s words…just the Republicans. Read for yourself. The direct link is HERE. But to make it a bit easier, the text from the article is copied and pasted below. And for young people (or older ignorant people too) who don’t know what the big deal is…understand the following.

Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (pictured top/left) used the racially-tinged term “uppity” to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday.

Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare her with Michelle Obama.

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity,” Westmoreland said. Asked to clarify that he used the word “uppity,” Westmoreland said, “Uppity, yeah.”

Other Democrats have charged that the Republican campaign to paint the Illinois senator as an “elitist” is racially charged, and accused them of using code words for “uppity” without using the word itself.

In August, Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) told reporters, “When I hear the word ‘elitist’ linked with Barack Obama, to me, that is a code word for ‘uppity.’ I find it extremely offensive and John McCain should know better.”

Political consultant David Gergen, who has worked in both Republican and Democratic White Houses, said on ABC’s “This Week” that “As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ‘The One,’ that’s code for, ‘He’s uppity, he ought to stay in his place.’ Everybody gets that who is from a Southern background.”

The Obama campaign, asked about the quote, did not note any racial context.

“Sounds like Rep. Westmoreland should be careful throwing stones from his candidate’s eight glass houses,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.

Campaigning against the first black major-party nominee has already created some problems for Republicans.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) (pictured left) said that Obama’s middle name – Hussein – is relevant to the public discourse surrounding his candidacy, saying in March that if Obama were elected, “Then the radical Islamists, the al Qaeda, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”

At an April 12 event in his district, Kentucky Rep. Geoff Davis (R) said of Obama: “I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button. He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Davis sent a letter of apology to Obama in which he described his remark as a “poor choice of words.”

Westmoreland originally supported former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination. He now supports McCain, but missed an August fundraiser for the nominee because he was vacationing with his family.

The Mo’Kelly Report is an entertainment journal with a political slant; published weekly at www.eurweb.com. It is meant to inform, infuse and incite meaningful discourse…as well as entertain. The Mo’Kelly Report is syndicated by Newstex and Blogburst. For more Mo’Kelly, http://www.MrMoKelly.com.

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