Washington Times: Obama lacks ‘blood impulse’ for what America ‘is about’ due to his ‘Kenyan father'

[Wetzelbill]

Ahh good old fashioned racism. Look at his picture at the link and tell me this guy isn't a GOP caricature come true. Sample reader comment: "Pilotshark says: 'DNFP says: Hey, if we liposuctioned his face, I could heat my home for the winter. The eyes alone have gallons of oil and waste reserves…' drill baby drill." -WB


Washington Times op-ed: Obama lacks ‘blood impulse’ for what America ‘is about’ due to his ‘Kenyan father.’

In a column today criticizing President Obama’s bow before the Japanese Emperor, Wesley Pruden, the editor emeritus of The Washington Times, claims that President Obama “seems never to have studied much American history” because he apparently doesn’t know that “the essence of America is that all men stand equal and are entitled to look even a king, maybe particularly a king, straight in the eye.” Pruden then claims this lack of understanding of America’s “essence” is “no fault of the president” because Obama’s father was Kenyan and his mother was “attracted to men of the Third World”:

But Mr. Obama, unlike his predecessors, likely knows no better, and many of those around him, true children of the grungy ’60s, are contemptuous of custom. Cutting America down to size is what attracts them to “hope” for “change.” It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of “the 57 states” is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.

Pruden has a history of writing racially-charged items. In 2005, he wrote a column criticizing the Senate for passing a resolution that apologized for never enacting an anti-lynching law. As Media Matters noted at the time, Pruden had previously made numerous “sympathetic statements about the Confederacy” and employed “a neo-Confederate activist in the Times newsroom.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/17/pruden-blood-impulse/

[joeybee12]

1. His mother was attracted to men of the third world!!!!????

WTF...oh no, no racism here! Fuckheads!

[Wetzelbill]

2. oh you're just being too PC

Political correctness is what's wrong with Mercka, don't you know that? :)

[joeybee12]

Yeah, I'm hyper-sensitive I guess...

We should go back to the 50's when no one was PC..life would be a lot easier... :crazy:

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Typical racist crap...

Not at all surprised about this type of stuff from the Washington Post. He was just looking for a less vile way of saying Obama's white mother was sleeping with black men. But there is no kinder genlter way to say such racist crap.

[Wetzelbill]

4. Washington "Times"

but yes you are exactly right. These people are ridiculous. This guy sounds like he lives in the 13th century.

[struggle4progress]

44. The Washington Times and the Clinton "Black Love Child" Rumor

Thursday, April 3, 2008

... I .. came across a Daily Howler post about Washington Times emeritus editor Wesley Pruden's role in the spreading of the rumor that Bill Clinton had a black love child ... realsunmyungmoon.blogspot.com/

[marmar]

5. Uggh.....That rag isn't fit to line a birdcage.

Just blatant racism.

[joeybee12]

6. Think of the poor bird if its cage were lined with this...

...call the ASPCA.

[peacetalksforall]

7. How many millons of people were just insulted - all of the third countries, all of Hawaii, all

of Kenya, all of Black Africa, all of African heritage all over the world, especially in this country - the U.S.

If your heritage is not Northern European you are nothing in America. That is what Pruden is saying, that is what the Washington Times is saying, that is what all the employees of the Washington Times are saying, that is what Reverend Moon (owner) is saying, and that is what all right and left wing racists are saying.

That is the widest bat every swung against all non-whites who are not from Northern Europe.

What a way to sell newspapers.

Does this mean there are no blacks, no dark skin people from other heritages working at the Washtinton Times. Does this mean that a Black American right winger is in a no mands land?

The scope of this insult just amazes me. I think it is the worst I've heard.

Someone should write a book - and get it down in writing for posterity - the degress of written word filled with hatred and disrespect - in America. Blind ignorance.

Half the book should cover the bios of those with the drive to bring us the hate - starting with a long piece on the Reverend Moon - who claims he is what?

[peacetalksforall]

15. I forgot to include hippies - does anyone know what Pruden looked like in the 60's and 70's.?

Short hair? Clean shaven? Sport jacket? Neat shirt? Ties? Shined shoes? Slacks? Never jeans? And he never went to a rock and roll performance or smoked. Not even a yoga class. I assume. Or was he just a young adult living in a house with prim and proper parents and playmates?

He and Michelle Malkin must be friends. She has let it rip about the decadence of the 60's being rhe reason for everything wrong with Democrats - or was it everything wrong for the entire country?

[Zomby Woof]

26. The Right has always been obsessed with the 60's

They hate it because civil rights took a big leap forward, and they could no longer keep women or non-whites "in their place". Then people had the temerity to question war and our country's direction. They LOVE the 50's, where lily-white America reigned, and stifling conformity and pious "Christians" ruled the nation. "Under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance, and "In God We Trust" replaced "E Pluribus Unum" as our motto. Segregation, de facto in the north, de jure in the south, was the norm.

Up until last year, I used to work in an office across from a mall in a very white Republican area, and the piped-in music at the mall (The First Church of Consumer America) was ALL from the 50's. Not only inside the mall, but also, very loudly, from speakers outside. It was like the creepy Republican/Right-wingers who ran the city wanted to keep, even in our subconscious mind, the ideal of Perfect 50's America alive. How wholesome those times were! Before the 60's ruined America! The good ol' days when virtue and white goodness ran this country! Eisenhower, save us! :puke:

[hatrack]

33. I thought white male GOP 60s rage was inspired by the fact that they couldn't get laid even THEN

:rofl:

[Zomby Woof]

46. That's Part 2 of my theory

:evilgrin:

[rocktivity]

48. Race has nothing to do with this

Any American who has or had a parent who wasn't born here should be offended by this.

:mad:
rocktivity

[Wapsie B]

8. "Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream."

They're still desperately to spin the Hawaii not part of the United States myth. Does any of this sound like a political party that is confident of its own philosophy? Certainly not to me.

[KamaAina]

10. Mahalo nui loa (thank you very much)

I'd like to see this slimeball tell a veteran of the 442nd/100th "Go For Broke" battalion, such as Sen. Daniel Inouye, that Hawai'i is "far from the American mainstream". Or anyone who has a relative buried at Punchbowl Cemetery. :grr: :banghead:

[Wetzelbill]

13. hell yeah

You hit that right on.

[emulatorloo]

42. Apparently the only "Real America" for that author is the DEEP SOUTH.

If you get my drift.

[Cha]

22. Hawai'i's hurting now just like a lot of America due

to the economy that bushcheney put it in the crapper.

But, it's had a republicon governor for the last 8 years so that hasn't helped. Next year I hear Rep Neil Abercrombie from Kaua'i is going to run for Gov and I will be back in time to vote for him!

[KamaAina]

23. Abercrombie is from O'ahu

but do please vote for him anyway.

State Sen. Gary Hooser, who's running for Lt. Gov., is from Kaua'i.

[Cha]

27. My bad..I always thought Abercrombie represented

Kaua'i. It's Mazie Hirono who will represent me on Kaua'i.

Most definetly voting for Abercrombie and Hooser(who I looked up the bio..thanks).

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/senate/members/Sen7.asp

[Wapsie B]

35. I hope you do get back to vote for him.

We need all the help we can get. Not surprising that Hawaii is hurting. Fewer dollars going around for trips to nice places like that.

[Cha]

36. I will..I'm retiring next year and

Kaua'i bound.

You've been around for long time(DU)!

[Wapsie B]

37. Yes since 2001.

I see you've been here since '02. Amazes me how many people have been around that long that I've never seen before. Then again there are lots of places here I've not been.

[Cha]

39. Well, I changed my name after the

2008 election..not that you would remember that name.

I remember your name from the early days but haven't seen you lately.

Now we have a president from your state.

[Wapsie B]

40. Yeah my username had outlived its usefulness after the election.

What was your previous name?

Remember now, Obama's from Kenya. ;-)

[Cha]

41. My previous name

was..ta da! "zidzi".:) I was a Dean and then Kerry supporter in 2004 and then I supported Mr Obama from KenyaB-):smoke:

[Wapsie B]

47. I remember you!

Cool. Yeah I was a Deaniack then supported Kerry, as well as that guy with the phonied birth certificate. (just joking for any lurkers)

[MisterP]

49. they don't have a "philosophy," just short attention spans and fear of everything around them

that's why "peace through strength" is so attractive to them (well, that and they're blistering militaristic idiots)

[StarfarerBill]

9. Ahh, blood...

The nazis too had a fetish about blood and its ethnic characteristics.

[Wetzelbill]

14. yes it's a staple of white supremacy

and modern colonial thought. During the Spanish Inquisition they utilized the concept of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood) to persecute people. If you see how segments of the GOP go nuts over Obama, Judge Sotomayor, immigration etc etc, whether they admit it or not it's related to white supremacist ideology.

[StarfarerBill]

17. Good point.

[branders seine]

11. that is the language of heinrich himmler

he was way into the aryan blood

[NJmaverick]

12. Oops, hey you guys on the right.... your racism is showing!

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. Right.... because if I want to know what America is about.......

....I should ask an old batshit insane Korean cult leader who thinks he's Jesus Christ.

[Cha]

25. I know..

too weird..how working for the moonie times necessitates them to be all racist and shit.

[11cents]

18. Wes Pruden is the son of a prominent white supremacist.

This acorn (not ACORN) didn't fall far from the tree.

[Ganja Ninja]

19. They don't even try to hide it anymore.

This type of stuff use to be confined to klan meetings.

[damntexdem]

20. This is about as racist as anyone can get.

"Blood impulse"? The Wash Times should be picketed for weeks over printing such racism.

[gratuitous]

21. What was the headline for this tripe?

"Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger!"? Because if it was anything else, the Washington Times should be on the block for deceptive columning or something. John Lewis should pay a special visit to their offices and pop Mr. Pruden right in the nose.

[KamaAina]

24. Got racism?

:grr: :banghead: :argh: :nuke:

[chemenger]

28. I wonder if this douchebag feels the same way about Sun Myung Moon

owner of the Washington Times and self-proclaimed "King of the United States." I'll bet Wesley Pruden bows before him.

[AlienGirl]

29. "Blood and Soil" thinking in relatively mainstream American political discourse?!

Ugh. :puke:

Tucker

[Canuckistanian]

30. Wow, you can actually hear the dog whistles

This stinker emits a signal that even an earthworm could hear.

[MilesColtrane]

31. I didn't know Nixon's dad was from Kenya!

[DU GrovelBot]

32. ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##

This week is our fourth quarter 2009 fund drive. Democratic Underground is
a completely independent website. We depend on donations from our members
to cover our costs. Please take a moment to donate! Thank you!

[hatrack]

34. Grovelbot, do YOU have a blood impulse for what America is all about?

:toast:

[MilesColtrane]

38. Grovelbot is a bloodless, remorseless, begging machine.

[emulatorloo]

43. Yeah, so don't make it mad.

[mitchum]

45. But Pruden gladly slurps Moon's tiny little cock

[CrunchMaster]

50. The Washington Times is a Foreign Intelligence Group on American soil

Used to blackmail American politicians to keep them in align with foreign interests. Ignore this 5th column white supremacist traitor jackass

[dusmcj]

51. my family's been here since 1640 and we all lack it too so fuck those douchebags

instead we have all that weird old shit, like working on building functioning morals. identifying truth and acting based on it, you know, all that "reality-based" shit. I.e. we're non-programmable.

[Rupert Notmurdoch]

52. The Washington Times?

Aren't they owned by the Moonies?

[Generic Other]

53. And Moon and his minions are MORE American??????

Korean halfwit.