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A bushorchimp.com Classic!
Racists are so predictable. As R. Scott Moxley published his OC Weekly exclusive exposing an email sent by OC Teabagger/GOP central committee member Marilyn Davenport that depicted President Barack Obama as an ape, the offender was nice enough to give a quote for the story. It featured classics of the “I’m not a racist” response including the number #1 hit, “I have friends who are black!” But, no, as anyone savvy to these sorts of things, it doesn’t — and CAN’T — end there! After several media outlets picked up the story, the time came for…”the apology!”
As Moxley updated readers yesterday afternoon, Davenport sent out another email noontime Saturday to OC GOP leaders. It’s chalk full of “predictables!” First, the Teabagger writes, “I’m sorry if my email offended anyone.” This is much different than stating strongly from the onset something to the effect of “My sincerest apologies for sending out such an offensive email.” No, Davenport is only sorry if you happened to be offended by it.
Then, she goes on to say in reference to the President, “In no way did I even consider the fact he’s half black when I sent out the email. In fact, the thought never entered my mind until one or two other people tried to make this about race. We all know a double standard applies regarding this president. I received plenty of emails about George Bush that I didn’t particularly like yet there was no ‘cry’ in the media about them. One only has to go to Youtube or Google Images to see a plethora or lampooning videos and pictures of Obama, Bush and other politicians.”
Wow! There’s a lot of classics to dissect there from the ol’ Rulebook for Racists! First, if you find yourself offending Barack Obama on the grounds of race, suddenly remind everyone and take the time to over-emphasize that he’s only half-black after all. That instantly cuts the racism involved by 50%! Second, allude to the lampooning of other politicians and disregard the historical relevance of apelike depictions of blacks in racial apartheid America. A favorite of this is the false equivalence of the ‘Bush or Chimp’ images popularized by the now defunct website. Davenport doesn’t trot it out explicitly the way her email was worded, but it’s so commonplace that an easy take down is in order.
The test is a simple one and involves a little history. Is Davenport correct in saying that a Google image search will land folks with plenty of lampooning images of presidents and other politicians? Yes, but was the one she sent out really deserving of such a benign equivalency? Ah hells no! Sure you can find other images, even ones that compare President George W. Bush’s various facial expressions to those of chimpanzees. But you can’t do that with apes and an African-American politician and claim it isn’t racist. Why not? Well, here is a Tea Party challenge! Point to a time in American history where whites lived under racial apartheid metered out by a black ruling class during which the nadir of race relations between the two sought to reinforce notions of white inferiority by utilizing stereotypes popularized in advertisements and elsewhere that depicted whites as ‘apelike’ connecting it all to an intellectual attempt to codify it in the ‘science’ of eugenics! *Whew* I’ll let the clock tick-tock on that one…
Since Davenport won’t be doing such homework anytime soon, we can hold to the rest of her second email. Once the racist has established that actions taken were not racist in nature, in accordance to the Rulebook for Racists, the offender can, in defiance, resist any and all public calls for accountability. As if on cue, the Fullerton-based activist goes on to state, “That being said, I will NOT resign my central committee position over this matter that the average person knows and agrees is much to do about nothing.”
Davenport, your “I’m sorry if” isn’t good enough. Scott Baugh, the ball is in your court.
i think ms davenport racism is one of the under lying currents of the tea party, and creating the tea party, he GOP, was able to capitalize on the fear and re-brand it allow them (the GOP) to separate themselves from it when it reach the public level.
We’ll see how that framework/dynamic plays out here. This isn’t the case of some offensive sign at a rally. Davenport is both a Tea Partier and OC GOP central committee member.
YAWN!
What’s the matter Stan? Another long night of Anti-Semitism got you groggy this morn?
“Another long night of Anti-Semitism got you groggy this morn?”…….. Hmmmm
There is no difference in Pro-Semitism and Anti-Semitism!…… they are both racisms.
If you are Pro-Semite you are Anti-Gentile…… your racism.
If you are Pro-Brown you are Anti-White…… your racism.
If you are Pro_Retard you are Anti-Intelligent…… your discrimination.
Are you any better?
Try ‘anti-racist’ in your funny little equations!
Other targets of the Nazi mass murder or “Nazi genocidal policy”,[194] included Slavs (Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Serbs, and others), Romani people (see Porajmos), mentally ill (see T-4 Euthanasia Program), Homosexuals and “sexual deviants”, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political opponents. R. J. Rummel estimates that 16,315,000 people died as a result of genocide, just over 10.5 million Slavs, just under 5.3 million Jews, 258,000 Romani and 220,000 homosexuals.[195][196] Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition would produce a death toll of 17 million.[197] A figure of 26 million is given in Service d’Information des Crimes de Guerre: Crimes contre la Personne Humain, Camps de Concentration. Paris, 1946, p. 197.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
I am Slav (Czech) 10.5 million Slavs and just under 5.3 million Jews were kiled by Nazis.
I do not ever see you mention Slavs genocide, only Jewish.
So who is racist?……. Huh?
“Try ‘anti-racist’ in your funny little equations!”…….. Hmmmmm
I am glad that I can entertain you.
If you are Anti-Racist you are Pro-racist…… your racism.
As long as the race is common denominator you are racist.
Obviously your Latino brain whose IQ is maintain by the affirmative action is incapable to comprehend that.
You will always be a prisoner of your genetic makeup.
If you don’t get what Stan is saying, let me para-phase.
There are 2 types of people
Racist
Liars
So are you a racist or a liar?
Oh I get what Stan is saying and it is without merit.
Here are your merits!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rwanda_genocide_wanted_poster_2-20-03.jpg
They killed same amount of black as did Hitler Jews.
I meant to say peoples not blacks.
You Socialists would gain more credibility if you would depict Republicans as liars when it comes to the election promises.
That is real issue.
They are liars and scumbags because they will always kiss your socialistic ass when it come to new taxes.
After reading the OC Register publication of Davenport’s apology, it sounds insincere and i hate to say it, but also has a tone of racism. A person in her political position is not exempt from the higher standard expected of her. As stated in the article, she “will NOT resign”, so she needs to be ousted! Our society is better served without her.
Mark —
I definitely agree. Thanks for centering this discussion back on its original points.
He is an idiot that he apologized.
He done noting wrong to apologize for!
The fact is that Obama is an APE!……. and stupid too….. and not born in the USA.
Davenport is typical big moth weak Republican / Teacrat and he wants to lead?
Where is Sarah Palin to show some courage to these ladies.
Stanislav, you are a shameful fool. Shameful as a human being, shameful as a man of Slavic heritage.
I support your right to express your racist, quasi-fascist views, even though I despise them. You say you came from the Czech Republic. Its a shame you brought your views here. That you did diminishes America and improves the Czech Republic.
“I support your right to express your racist, quasi-fascist views, even though I despise them.”………. Hmmmmm
YAWN!
Another stigmatizing speech by the liberal socialist troll apologist whose vocabulary contain only “racist and fascist”.
You have forgot reference to Hitler in your drivel.
Typical ignorant Teabaggers. I wouldn’t expect anything less from these racist Tea-Brains.
Leaders exemplify the tenets of their group. Since the Tea Party supports racism — and this is so racist — Ms Davenport is spot on for her mission vision of her group. I think a lateral transfer to her next assignment is a natural — Ms. local “Grand Klott” of the Klu Klux Klan.
“Klu Klux Klan”……. Hmmmm
I was waiting for that Popov Reflex from peanut butter brain.
Jim Brulte and Duff Sundheim….
I suppose this is an example of the mindset of the California Republican Party that you referred to at the IGS symposium on the 2010 Governor’s Race when you talked about how the Republican Party is headed for oblivion in California and needs to gain inroads into minority communities in California if it is to survive….After all, California is very close to being a minority majority state per the recent US Census population projections over the next 10 years. As you both correctly put it, the Republican brand is dead in California.
This kind of crap is what cements the further burial of the California GOP. The kind of crap that comes out of the collective mindsets of Jon Fleischmann (the acolyte of Grover Norquist), Chip Hanlon (SEC indictment), and Matt Cunningham (amidst his public ostracization over the OCFC contracts that have been made available for all to review) is what further dooms the CA GOP to irrelevant third party status.
What is amazing is the lack of action by Scott Baugh and Mike Schroeder on this situation. No action is to keep the Davenport situation front and center in the local public eye as well as the state and nation (as evidenced by this having gone national in the Washington Post and the LA Times).
Bottom Line: Where is Tom DelBaccaro as head of the CA GOP? Silence says a substantial amount….Maybe he is still immersed in that bus tour and views the Davenport situation as a minor to non existant itch on the backside of the party….
As the biblical statement goes, the CA GOP reaps what it sows…..
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All homo-sapiens evolved out of Africa. Before that we were all “monkeys” so to speak. The only difference is some “monkeys” are more easily offended than others.
Reminds me of when I was over at a friend’s house. They happened to be black. Their 3 year old daughter was climbing around on the furniture like a monkey. I said that out loud. Luckily, they were sane rational people. I didn’t need to explain anything to them. I say the same thing about all little kids climbing on things. Leave it to someone with a chip on their shoulder or an inferiority complex to make a big deal of something that isn’t a big deal.
In simpler terms, if black people felt they were just as smart as anyone else, then there is no reason for them to be offended.
Having said that, that Davenport e-mail was in poor taste. I didn’t think it was funny. It was fairly lowbrow. I guess that makes Davenport more of a monkey. A lowbrow mind is worse than a low brow ridge.
Never liked when Bush was depicted as a chimp.
And wow, did the left ever use that image of Bush a lot.
But I have to wonder why those on the left, who think they actually are the descendants of apes, chimps, monkeys or whatever, would be offended so much.
Okay, so maybe we are ready to admit that the dumb animals are no where near what humans are, even if they have some of the same building blocks.
I mean, having a lot of water in my body doesn’t make me related to a watermelon. And if a creator used a lot of the same or similar parts to construct a number of different creatures, that doesn’t mean I have to believe we all came from some ape in Africa.
So being as I don’t believe the president ever had any chimp for even the most distant relative, I could see someone being upset with this picture.
But then again, next time you see a Republican depicted as non-human, please let your displeasure be known. Otherwise, we will all know you for what you are. A hypocrite.
Stan, reading and writing are obviously not your cup of tea!!!
You are correct!
I am not a member of the Tea Party.
JT and Grainger Lewis —
Way to ignore racism in American history and its very specific relevancy here.
Whiff and a strike!
gabriel san roman, I think you are the one ignoring relevant facts. Black people deserve to be treated just as fair as anyone else. What’s the difference between calling someone black stupid compared to calling anyone else stupid? You think only non-black people can be called stupid?
Don’t forget this is a free speech issue as well. Claiming the president was descended from apes is basically calling him stupid. As a general rule, I don’t think it’s appropriate to call anyone stupid. However, the Bill of Rights protects it.
Just like GL — another whiff and strike!
gabriel san roman, What I said was true which is most likely why you ignored it.
Nope.
Okay Gabriel San Ramon,
No doubt you were as quite as a mouse when you saw whitey being called a chimp.
Hard thing to turn off that contempt, isn’t it.
So you’re definitely a bigot.
We got that.
Now let’s move on to the eugenics.
You do know who the queen of eugenics in the U.S. is, right?!
It wasn’t no conservative.
Fact is, it was the liberal who started Planned Parenthood.
Margaret Sanger.
If you’re going to use words like eugenics, then get a clue.
Read it and weep.
http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html
Oh my god! Margaret Sanger a eugenicist? No way! Thanks for the historical enlightenment!
Oh wait, I already knew that. That being said, it still doesn’t excuse Davenport’s email.
Whiff! Strike two!
Okay to call whitey a chimp, huh, Gabriel San Ramon?!!
You probably got a rush when you posted the picture above.
Don’t you have even the slightest bit of decency?!!!
What a slob.
Never liked when Bush was depicted as a chimp.
I agree.
Not fair to the chimp. LOL !!!
Sometimes people are so used to something that others regard as racism that they do not know the difference themselves. This should not exclude them for being called on it like in this case. Public officials represent everyone and need to be very mindful of what they say or write at all times.
GL, get a dictionary and look up the word “context.” Bush as a chimp was a statement about his intelligence, or lack of it. What this woman has done is far more insidious–the picture is a direct statement that Obama and his family, as they are black, are akin to cimpanzees. Now, if that’s how she feels, she has the right to think accordingly. But it does not excuse the reeking racial overtones that are a product of centuries of the dehumanization of blacks in this country, and is highly indicative of the teabagger mindset. If a white male Democrat were president, I’m sure there would be far less wearing of silly outfits and misreading of the Constitution by the dimwitted Republican base.
GL —
Heed Rapscallion’s words.
Rapscallion.
Don’t paint a picture condemning the tens of thousands engaged in the TEA party movement across this country based on this isolated and dumb act.
As I have a church Board meeting tonight I will not be attending the GOP Central Committee meeting to see how this issue is addressed, if in fact it is on the Agenda
Hiding behind the Lord. Man, Gilbert, you are bound for hell.
Rapscallion, actually, comparing someone to a long line of chimpanzees can also mean that they are not just unintelligent, but hopelessly unintelligent. Kind of like how there are dares and double dog dares.
I do see your point. However, calling someone stupid and then their whole family stupid isn’t necessarily racist.
By the way, I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama has a fairly high IQ. Probably higher than Davenport’s.
You guys are nothing but bigots.
You like calling whitey a chimp.
GL — fastball straight down the middle, whiff, and a strike three called! You’re out!
While you’re in the dugout, ponder the Tea Party historical challenge for your next at bat!
As a white man, I take offense at your accepting George W. Bush as an exemplar of our race. I think that after eight years of closely and painfully observing him, I can attest that he is more chimp than WHITE MAN.
Just for the record, I think Bush looks more like a chimp than Obama.
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/002/9/d/bush___chimpanzee_comparison_by_dogman93-d368xzc.jpg
http://www.lifeisajoke.com/Bush/bush_chimp.JPG
No getting away from that bigot title Gabriel.
You just can’t bring yourself to say that what was done to Bush was terrible and wrong and should never have been done, because it just doesn’t bother you much, or at all.
Rulebook for Racists: Deflect directly confronting the charges at hand by reversing the charge with an argument bereft of merit.
Just can’t bring yourself to say how wrong it was to call Bush a chimp.
Bigot.
No big deal. Bush made chimp faces, spoke chimp words, and made chimp decisions. Had nothing to do with him being a caucasian – although you’re right, caucasians and chimps do have thin lips in common!
Wow, the liberal bigots are really starting to come out of the woodwork.
Hopefully, some MSM will take note of this blog.
You rightwingers are so silly with your new word “bigot” that can mean anything you want it to mean. You use it to mean – wah! – someone who doesn’t like me because of how I think or what I say or do. A meaningless word, the way you people use it.
Why would some MSM outlet take note of this blog? The LA Times Op-Ed section recently ran this political cartoon of Donald Trump. It’s not comparing a black person to an ape and doesn’t come with the racist baggage of U.S. apartheid history, therefore there is no controversy. This is such a simple notion that it’s mainstream itself! Maybe someday you will catch up to speed GL!
It’s ok because Trump is white. Strange huh?
Just imagine if Pastor Manning was caricatured the same way?
I’m not a birther by the way. I actually voted for Obama.
Not strange at all. Take the Tea Party history challenge!
I was being sarcastic. I think you missed the point about caricaturing the de-evolution of Trump versus the caricaturing the de-evolution of Pastor Manning.
If someone did that to Pastor Manning, would it be racist?
I say not necessarily. It depends on the persons intent. If you thought black people were subhuman, then yes, it probably would come out fairly racist.
If anyone would replicate this cartoon about any other person who is not white he would have to show the color in the picture.
Agree?
That itself would be in your eyes racist.
THE FACT IS THAT YOU CAN’T TALK ABOUT ANY RACE EXCEPT THE WHITE!
Just saying “Jew” which is same like to say “Slav” will give me automatic label as Ant-Semi.
However, I do agree that Republicans are stupid because they are incapable to do same to Democrats and if they make BoBo like this one they will trip all over themselves to destroy Republican party instead to form a coalition, create Right Wing Union and take it to the street.
For that reason, I believe that there is no power opposition against Liberalism and the USA is firmly Socialistic country which must go through the same process as did USSR. It will take 60 years to finish such process so I am not concern.
With Trump running the history will repeat it self because people forgot about Perot. In the end Trump will quit because Republicans / Teacrats are sissys.
Have you notice deafening silence of Larry Gilbert on this issue…… it probably did not hit Drudge report yet…. Noting to copy and paste!
Okay Vern,
You feel it’s okay to call one person a chimp but not another.
There you go.
Bigot
Chimp.
(Justified by a chimp-like understanding of logic and arguments. No idea if you actually look like one.)
(Justified by a chimp-like understanding of logic and arguments. No idea if you actually look like one.)…….. Hmmmm
I believe that Obama fits that description.
In contrast, R. Scott Moxley fits description of a RAT and I believe his journalistic (blogging) credentials have been seriously undermined by ratting out trusted sources. Actually, you have touched on his character in your prior post.
(5 min. fame) He is finished!
FYI comrade Vern, I am fully aware that your posts in conversation with Grainger Lewis are classical satiric expressions. He is not getting it.
There you go.
You fit the definition perfect.
Bigot
Maybe Davenport needs to apologize to the chimpanzees? They might not want to be associated with Barack Obama. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s for more animal testing than most other presidents.
Let’s also not forget Barack Obama is just as much white as he is black. Unless of course you believe in the one drop rule. So, for the people that took offense to Obama being compared to a chimpanzee, it’s only half as offensive as they make it out to be.
Does it seem right we can’t compare our president to a chimpanzee because he’s black?
Should that kind of humor be made illegal?
Rulebook for Racists:
“if you find yourself offending Barack Obama on the grounds of race, suddenly remind everyone and take the time to over-emphasize that he’s only half-black after all. That instantly cuts the racism involved by 50%!”
Rulebook for Whacked Out OJ Blogger:
“When in doubt, don’t use logic, just call everyone a racist.”
It seems evident this wouldn’t be an issue at all if Barack Obama was 100 percent white. Will you admit to that?
I thought your whole gripe was that because he’s black (technically half black), that people shouldn’t compare him to a chimp?
No kind of humor should be illegal. It’s just that it reflects badly on the OC Republican Party for one of their central committee members to be enjoying and sharing such humor.
I agree! What she did wasn’t illegal. However, it was in poor taste. Kind of like when Loretta Sanchez made fun of white Southerners in an on air interview.
Hopefully Davenport will apologize to Barack Obama for any offense. Has he even made a statement about it yet? He doesn’t seem like a person to hold a grudge or be easily offended.
She. Marilyn Davenport.
I meant has Barack Obama made a statement about it yet? If he has, and he said he is upset, then she should apologize.
I knda doubt Barack gives a flying fuck. That doesn’t make it right.
“I knda doubt Barack gives a flying fxxx”……. Hmmmm
I am sure that you wouldn’t say same about Clinton……. Huh?
In Clinton’s world any zzzz was good zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
This is how morons establish their powers. You can see that in every walk of society. Mainly socialistic one.
What is yours is mine and what is mine is none of your business.
Only idiots do that.
Looks like she finally apologized in a round about way.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/19/california.apology/?hpt=T2
Apologizing without voluntary resigning and appearing on the KFI John and Ken show…sounds like real good damage control there! LMAO!
Really, how did J&K treat her? As some unfairly persecuted heroine, I’m guessing.
3 p.m. today.
Crazy times, I never would have guessed two years ago that Wendy Leece would be the hero in Costa Mesa.
Of course Scott’s whole thing is wanting to keep the OCGOP’s eye on the ball – racism is just a distraction from destroying the working class and helping the rich get richer.
Now Deborah Pauly is criticizing Scott Baugh for criticizing Marilyn Davenport……God I love this.
The only more embarrassing than being a Republican in Orange County is the fact that Democrats can’t win elections over these idiots.
http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2011/04/19/gop-critics-of-obama-chimp-email-face-backlash/51851/
Pauly and Davenport making Scott Baugh look like the sane one in all this!
Thought I would “live-blog” the Marilyn’s John and Ken appearance as its own story, but it wasn’t really interesting enough. She really sounds like a doddering, clueless old church lady. Tim Whitacre was with her for moral support, and you could hear him quietly prompting her on what to say here and there.
From the little I know about John and Ken (immigrant bashers) I expected them to be sympathetic and make a martyr of her. But whoever it was doing the interview (I can’t tell the two apart) gave her a pretty hard time, and was pretty incredulous that she never saw and still couldn’t see the racial aspect of the image.
She continues to insist that she didn’t see anything racial about it, that it was just a really funny joke about the President’s birth certificate, that she passed it on and didn’t think any more of it. Oh and also she’s not a birther she claims (does she even know what “birther” means I wonder?) she just thought it was a really funny joke. Because apes don’t have birth certificates, you know.
She insists she’s not leaving the Central Committee, that she is going to stay on until the next election, because her “constituents” are all calling her and urging her to stay on. When John/Ken asked how these constituents had been in touch with her and how many had said that, she seemed really flustered. “Oh, I don’t know, um, on the phone. Or um, whatever method they can.” She had no idea how many constituents had urged her to stay on; after a while she settled on about twenty.
Whitacre was in a rage and had a hard time keeping quiet and letting her speak. He claimed that a lot of committee members support Marilyn, but that he was the only one to “step up” and support her on the radio. He had looked up a definition of racism, and went through each clause with Marilyn to demonstrate that none of them fit her. And he is especially furious with Scott Baugh and Mike Schroeder for allowing this whole incident to be publicly known. (Tim’s rivalry with & criticisms of Baugh are well-known.)
J/K wanted to know who exactly she was apologizing to? She said “all Americans and anyone who’s seen the e-mail.” Then she re-read her official apology, the latest ones. She continually emphasizes how “Christian” she is, and this last time hearing her apology I noticed that she mentions that probably a lot of her critics ARE NOT CHRISTIAN, but she apologizes to them anyway.
That’s what you all missed – not much. She’s just a really dumb old lady, who will pass along anything that comes her way. Enough really dumb people, especially ones who don’t examine or understand themselves but instead keep telling themselves they’re Christians, make for a real dangerous place where evil people can get away with anything.
Is that what you gave me a ring about? Sorry I missed your calls. I was going to check out KFI @ 3 p.m., but ended up missing the whole thing! I think it replays at 5, but by your recounting, I may just end up skipping the bore fest.
Yeah that’s what I called about.
I can’t believe I backed Whitacre over Baugh last year. Oh well, they’re all just different varieties of crazy and/or mean.
These people are all so full of shit. Like I said, Marilyn just told John and Ken she’s “not a birther,” right in front of her defender Tim Whitacre. Well, here’s Tim attempting to defend her the other day:
“Marilyn Davenport is a staunch, ethical Republican lady. There is nothing unethical about this from a party standpoint because it wasn’t sent out to the party at large with any racist statements and it wasn’t signed as a central committee member. As a private individual, she is just real big on Birther stuff. One of her passions that drives her is the president’s lack of forthrightness about where he was born. Marilyn believes that nobody knows where he was born and so this picture says a thousand words.” Words mean nothing to her and her friends.
http://thelibertytree.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/driving-miss-davenport-or-a-racist-orange-county-republican-emails-a-picture-depicting-president-obama-and-his-parents-are-apes/
And it turns out she has a long history of strongly defending EVERYBODY ELSE’S racist gaffes in the OC GOP, Here’s Mike Schroeder:
“This is a three strikes situation for Marilyn Davenport,” Schroeder said. “She was a passionate defender of former Newport Beach City Councilman Dick Nichols, who stated that he was voting against putting in more grass at Corona del Mar’s beach because, he said, there were already ‘too many Mexicans on the beach.’ She was also on the wrong side of the fence with the Los Alamitos mayor and his White House watermelon patch picture. Now, she has managed to top both of those incidents by comparing African Americans to monkeys. She has disgraced herself and needs to resign. If she doesn’t, the Republican Party must remove her.”
Angry libtards just mad that people disregard their illogical nonsense, constantly throwing their tattered race card down and expecting people to give a chit. Bush did look kinda chimpy, albeit a matter of opinion, and so does Obama, although Obama’s big ears make me think of a rabbit or a jackass more than a chimp. Michelle looks like Chewbacca when she’s angry, that’s only racist if you need it to be. Chewbacca isn’t even real, but its kind of funny that you libtards think stuff like that is actually racist, it tells the rest of us a lot about you. Unfortunately it also waters down the ability to spotlight true racist policies and attitudes when you predictably cry wolf over and over again simply because you have no intellectual response to the Tea Party folks.
Thank you for your submission to the contest. So far, you’re probably winning.