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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:13 PM Aug 2012

GOP stops blowing the dog whistle and goes full frontal racist:

President Obama Accused Of Racism Against Whites In New SuperPAC Web Ad

A web ad released by a new superPAC suggests that President Obama's administration has quietly accepted and even promoted racism against white people.

The ad, by a superPAC called FightBigotry, said that the president has gotten a free pass for "his disturbing, yet crystal-clear pattern of tacitly defending black racism against white folks before and since being elected president."

According to ThinkProgress, the group was founded by Stephen Marks, a Republican media consultant and opposition researcher, who penned a 2008 book called "Confessions of a Political Hitman."

The ad goes on to assert that Attorney General Eric Holder said that the administration's critics are motivated by race. "Implying that whites are too stupid to have honest disagreements with the president without being racist is, in and of itself, racist against whites," the narrator says.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/obama-racism-super-pac-web-ad_n_1739800.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

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GOP stops blowing the dog whistle and goes full frontal racist: (Original Post) sufrommich Aug 2012 OP
It only shows how pathetic and desperate they really are darkangel218 Aug 2012 #1
I was just going to say the same thing-- they're really desperate ailsagirl Aug 2012 #23
Their brains must be really twisted. Flashmann Aug 2012 #51
I fear for my Country.... jaysunb Aug 2012 #2
They need to be called out for what they are, Domestic Terrorists! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #29
I totally agree ! n/t jaysunb Aug 2012 #48
I thought they started along time ago with the term, "elitist"... NYC_SKP Aug 2012 #3
We will see much worse than elitist this time around. sufrommich Aug 2012 #14
every day they get more depraved and desperate. this should be illegal. progressivebydesign Aug 2012 #4
Have they completely forgotten that POTUS is half WHITE? nc4bo Aug 2012 #5
He's a Half-Self-Loather thelordofhell Aug 2012 #21
But he doesn't "look" half-white... DontTreadOnMe Aug 2012 #33
So AOL censors comments now? progressivebydesign Aug 2012 #6
AOL censors the whole internet for people who use their gateway Viva_La_Revolution Aug 2012 #15
So, how does he explain the racial diversity of the crowds President Obama attracts Siwsan Aug 2012 #7
You forgot the blue of some of their blood. KamaAina Aug 2012 #10
These ads are made for people who would refer sufrommich Aug 2012 #12
Exactly! Next they will be getting out the burning crosses and robes! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #28
Exactly. Which begs the question, what's the point? Jessy169 Aug 2012 #40
I'm not sure they're convinced they have the sufrommich Aug 2012 #42
I'm sure you're right Jessy169 Aug 2012 #43
I see your point now. Yes, they certainly sufrommich Aug 2012 #45
+1! uponit7771 Aug 2012 #64
I figured they would wait til October to go full bore Klan Va Lefty Aug 2012 #8
I can only imagine what the last 2 weeks of the election will look like. sufrommich Aug 2012 #11
klan? nah....neo nazist madrchsod Aug 2012 #18
They be doing the Nuremburg foxtrot. alfredo Aug 2012 #25
They blew their wad early BumRushDaShow Aug 2012 #9
. . .they had nothing to start with. . . bobhuntsman Aug 2012 #57
+1! uponit7771 Aug 2012 #65
The GOP is Klantastic! Tom Ripley Aug 2012 #13
Perfect TheKentuckian Aug 2012 #16
+ 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!! WillyT Aug 2012 #19
That sure nailed it spot on!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #30
This is probably the most racist political ad in history Bjorn Against Aug 2012 #17
Like how the Chick-Fil-A protesters are the bigots. Curtland1015 Aug 2012 #20
The white churches came out in support of Lester Maddox. alfredo Aug 2012 #26
Yep, good old churches supporting racism and evilness. Oh, Jesus is so proud of them, NOT! And why I RKP5637 Aug 2012 #31
I'd rather think for myself. alfredo Aug 2012 #41
Yep! Same here! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #46
Republicans -- nothing original since Gabby Johnson doohnibor Aug 2012 #22
Why am I not my2sense Aug 2012 #24
So... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #27
Have you noticed that they have started using the term"heterophobe" sufrommich Aug 2012 #32
I had not heard that one... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #49
Am I the only one to consider the production value to be really cheap? Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2012 #34
What, They Failed To Mention DallasNE Aug 2012 #35
by late october it will probably be the n word spanone Aug 2012 #36
sourcewatch exposes his motive...... Grassy Knoll Aug 2012 #37
"In 2000, he founded Americans Against Hate" sufrommich Aug 2012 #39
there they go again, their one-trick pony Voice for Peace Aug 2012 #38
Why isn't the G0P considered a hate group? Jamaal510 Aug 2012 #44
Is it possible Oilwellian Aug 2012 #47
The answer is "yes". 6502 Aug 2012 #59
It's easy to see Doc Holliday Aug 2012 #50
Only An Effective Ad for Racists liberallibral Aug 2012 #52
BOO!! TO THE GOP elbloggoZY27 Aug 2012 #53
Whine, whine, whine, how utterly stupid treestar Aug 2012 #54
This too is destined to fail lunatica Aug 2012 #55
Bogus libodem Aug 2012 #56
So the racist bigots can say all the stuff they do Smilo Aug 2012 #58
Those poor victimized white guys... King_Klonopin Aug 2012 #60
Well said! JNelson6563 Aug 2012 #61
+1! uponit7771 Aug 2012 #66
I swear, they're channeling Charles Manson Canuckistanian Aug 2012 #62
"White folks?" Rikki Aug 2012 #63
+1 Im not orginally from the south but I live in the Dirty now, DFW is so metropolitan its hard to.. uponit7771 Aug 2012 #67

ailsagirl

(22,904 posts)
23. I was just going to say the same thing-- they're really desperate
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 08:38 PM
Aug 2012

and despicable. Their brains must be really twisted.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
2. I fear for my Country....
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:20 PM
Aug 2012

The promoters of this kind of stuff are seriously stoking the embers that remain from the last Civil War.

I think we've passed the tipping point now and I don't think it will end well

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
3. I thought they started along time ago with the term, "elitist"...
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:21 PM
Aug 2012

While their candidates are, I suppose, just regular Merkuns!



progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
4. every day they get more depraved and desperate. this should be illegal.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:21 PM
Aug 2012

Editing speeches, as Romney and his PACS have been doing, should be considered slanderous.

I keep thinking every day that I'm not going to be devastated or surprised by their hate and racism, but I've been wrong every single day.

To read the comments that people are now posting on the story of the American gymnast "Gaby" and how racist and "poor me I'm white" while signed in with their personal facebook accounts, tells me how racist this country truly is, still.

 

DontTreadOnMe

(2,442 posts)
33. But he doesn't "look" half-white...
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:39 PM
Aug 2012

There is a deli owner where I live, and one day with many customers in the shop, he blurted out "President Nigger"... while commenting on the POTUS. I looked around and there were a few customers who all just glared at him. I live in NJ and in a very Dem area. Hate is the easiest trick in the book for the GOP.

I don't shop at that deli anymore.

progressivebydesign

(19,458 posts)
6. So AOL censors comments now?
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:24 PM
Aug 2012

I wrote a very simple comment, with no name calling, nothing inflammatory in it. No bad words, nothing. And it went from Pending.. to GONE. Guess they won't let anyone insult the republicans.

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
15. AOL censors the whole internet for people who use their gateway
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:48 PM
Aug 2012

so I'm not surprised they would delete comments too

Siwsan

(26,315 posts)
7. So, how does he explain the racial diversity of the crowds President Obama attracts
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:30 PM
Aug 2012

Here AND abroad. A far cry from the crowds at a republican or tea party gathering where the only skin color, other than pasty white, is the red of some of their necks.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
12. These ads are made for people who would refer
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:44 PM
Aug 2012

to Obama's racially diverse crowds as n****r lovers. Let's not fool ourselves as to who the GOP is speaking to with ads like this.

Jessy169

(602 posts)
40. Exactly. Which begs the question, what's the point?
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 10:04 PM
Aug 2012

They have all the hard core racists in the bag already. Why waste money on propaganda aimed directly at that group? Not that they don't have a lot of money to waste, but still, what's the goal? Are they out of ideas and more of this crap is all they can come up with? Is it just a local yokal -- Stephen Marks -- who has a deeply felt hatred that he wishes to share with the public? Keeping in mind that Stephen Marks is probably pretty well connected with the Republican Machine and that the Republican Machine is coordinating their messaging, it isn't totally illogical to suspect that there might be much more sinister reasons behind this ad. And that is very troubling.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
42. I'm not sure they're convinced they have the
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 10:11 PM
Aug 2012

racist mouth breathers in the bag,the teabaggers are wary of Romney and believe he's a RINO, I think the message is "if you want the White House to be white again, you better vote for whoever we give you".

Jessy169

(602 posts)
43. I'm sure you're right
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 10:16 PM
Aug 2012

It does seem however that the Republicans go out of their way to repeatedly incite some of the most foul elements of our society.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
45. I see your point now. Yes, they certainly
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 10:18 PM
Aug 2012

incite hatred. Divide and conquer,it works. I've seen many freeper types say they are preparing for the coming "race war".

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
11. I can only imagine what the last 2 weeks of the election will look like.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:41 PM
Aug 2012

Countdown to robo-calls using the "N" word.

alfredo

(60,078 posts)
25. They be doing the Nuremburg foxtrot.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:16 PM
Aug 2012

There's just a wardrobe change between the Klan and Neo Nazis. The Klan is more overtly "Christian."

Bjorn Against

(12,041 posts)
17. This is probably the most racist political ad in history
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 07:58 PM
Aug 2012

I just love how after spewing 90 seconds of racist slime the ad tries to invoke Martin Luther King and pretend King would be on their side. This makes the Willie Horton ads look tame, it is absolute bigotry that falsely claims to be fighting bigotry.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)
20. Like how the Chick-Fil-A protesters are the bigots.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 08:18 PM
Aug 2012

...and the real bigots against gay rights are the "victims who's beliefs are being infringed on."

What a bunch of assholes.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
31. Yep, good old churches supporting racism and evilness. Oh, Jesus is so proud of them, NOT! And why I
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:34 PM
Aug 2012

stay as far away from religion as one can get.

 

doohnibor

(97 posts)
22. Republicans -- nothing original since Gabby Johnson
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 08:22 PM
Aug 2012


I expect each ad in the fall campaign to be full of authentic frontier gibberish.

my2sense

(2,645 posts)
24. Why am I not
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 08:47 PM
Aug 2012

surprised by this foolishness. This is all they have. I suspect the months and days leading to the election will be a dangerous time in this country. SMDH

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
27. So...
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:22 PM
Aug 2012

When I point out your racist behavior, I'm the one who's racist because I pointed it out?

Okie Dokie...

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
32. Have you noticed that they have started using the term"heterophobe"
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:37 PM
Aug 2012

for anyone who supports gay rights? Because anybody who doesn't want gay people to be second class citizens obviously hates straight people.Another okie dokie.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
34. Am I the only one to consider the production value to be really cheap?
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 09:41 PM
Aug 2012

I wonder if someone made a million bucks on this turkey too.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
39. "In 2000, he founded Americans Against Hate"
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 10:01 PM
Aug 2012

George Orwell is screaming "I told you so" from his grave.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
44. Why isn't the G0P considered a hate group?
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 10:18 PM
Aug 2012

This ad is clearly hateful and a form of rabble-rousing for the fringe RW.

6502

(249 posts)
59. The answer is "yes".
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 12:48 AM
Aug 2012

Racism is only the ideology.

Anyone can believe in the ideology.

The oppressors.
The victims.
The bystanders.

No one is immune.

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
50. It's easy to see
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 10:58 AM
Aug 2012

how racist our President is by simply looking back over his time in office and seeing how he's really cracked down on rich white people. He sure has made their lives a living hell for the past four years....all that 'uncertainty.'

 

liberallibral

(272 posts)
52. Only An Effective Ad for Racists
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 11:37 AM
Aug 2012

The Black Panther controversy definitely didn't help (voter intimidation is voter intimidation, regardless of who's doing it) - but you'd think the idiots on the right would try and stick to some economic issues instead of this gutter-slime crap...

*sigh*

 

elbloggoZY27

(283 posts)
53. BOO!! TO THE GOP
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 11:44 AM
Aug 2012

What a surprise. The GOP Agenda has been against Mr Obama from day one. I predicted this since he was inaugurated and due not support the GOP what so ever.

They are the enablers of this financial mess we are in.

*Read Paul Krugmans New York Times Article from 08/03/12.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
54. Whine, whine, whine, how utterly stupid
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 11:45 AM
Aug 2012

Really they show just how stupid they are. How many white people support the President? And they are pathetic in their whining about themselves as victims of "racism" because they don't have a free pass on their own racist statements.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
56. Bogus
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 12:38 PM
Aug 2012

Just like the million moms campaign. Probably 5 disgruntled old biddies making a fuss from behind a kitchen table somewhere in New Jersey.

They have a way of making a coalition out of two concerned families that sounds enormous.

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
58. So the racist bigots can say all the stuff they do
Sat Aug 4, 2012, 08:05 PM
Aug 2012

yet if the president dares say anything - such as if "I had a son he would look like Trayvon" they call him anti-white and racist.

You know the saying about the dog that lays down with fleas - even the fleas wouldn't have anything to do with people such as Marks.

King_Klonopin

(1,307 posts)
60. Those poor victimized white guys...
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 02:08 AM
Aug 2012

Republicans are quite adept at portraying themselves as "victims".
As you know, white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, land-owning, wealth-accumulating males have been
the most oppressed class for decades.

Most of their playbook is based on simple political Jiu Jitsu, combined with classic ego projection
(accusing others of offenses which THEY are guilty of themselves) to wit:

Cries of "racism" coming from racists (Obama is "foreign&quot
Cries of "victim" coming from those who seek total dominance
Cries of "entitlement mentality" coming from the most entitled group ever collected
Cries of "judicial activism" coming from turds like Scalia
Cries of "media bias" coming from top-notch propagandists and liars
Cries of "socialism, fascism, etc." coming from true krypto-nazis (corporatists)
The list of hypocrisies is endless.

They've been trying to sell this stupid point for years -- that Liberal ideology is racist and Conservative
ideology helps minorities, women, the poor (helps them stay in their subordinate place) -- using the most insane,
twisted logic. Otherwise, how could they live with themselves, knowing what's in their hearts ?

How often has President Obama injected race into any debate, any issue, any discussion ?
How often would it have been justified, especially when defending himself from the not-so-subtle racism hurled at him ?




Rikki

(1 post)
63. "White folks?"
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:09 PM
Aug 2012

Who the hell says "white folks?" The only people I know who say that are southern racists and southern blacks. I know that because I am southern.

uponit7771

(90,370 posts)
67. +1 Im not orginally from the south but I live in the Dirty now, DFW is so metropolitan its hard to..
Sun Aug 5, 2012, 10:15 PM
Aug 2012

...believe this level of racism isn't from out in the middle of now where...

I'm really disillusioned at the amount of racism that is ACCEPTED from the GOP...

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