Republican Tea Partiers just can't seem to get enough of those Obama/black people/chimpanzee jokes
This is the image e-mailed to her friends by Orange County Republican committeewoman and Tea Party activist Marilyn Davenport
(Credit: OCWeeklyBlog)Dave Neiwert
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Republicans seem to have a really, really narrow idea of what constitutes racism -- which is how they're able to claim that the Tea Parties aren't riddled with racism throughout.
But then little stories like this one from Orange County keep bubbling up to the surface of their fetid little Tea Party cesspool:
The Weekly has obtained a copy of an email sent to fellow conservatives this week by Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party.As always, the "sweet little old lady" who sent the mail had no idea that anyone might possibly construe the mail as racist, even though comparing black people to various kinds of apes has always been a stock feature of racist denigration in America. Why, some of her best friends are black!
Under the words, "Now you know why no birth certificate," there's an Obama family portrait showing them as apes.
Reached by telephone and asked if she thought the email was appropriate, Davenport said, "Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people--mostly people I didn't think would be upset by it."(More here.)
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There is plenty of ignorance to go around folks. I am trying hard to believe that Vox Verax enjoys telling only half of the truth and not that Vox Verax only knows half of the truth. Take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgV3PZkJmk4 and tell me that you are proud to call the WI demonstrators part of the liberal community. Accurate and “Full-circle” political commentary is good; using the work of ignoramuses to stir up ignoramuses does all a disservice.
As a registered Tea Party Patriot, this is the first I have ever even heard of these jokes. I get daily emails and updates and have never seen anything such as this.
I wonder how much of this is ginned up by the anti-tea party people to make Tea Party Patriots look bad...
well, if this Ms Davenport indeed made this photograph, that's beyond reprehensible. And certainly not indicative of the Tea Party as a whole.
As a registered Tea Party Patriot I would never condone making light of President Obama's race or birthplace or family history. He is now the President and as long as he is the President and continues enacting his socialist agenda, I will be at the front of the line criticizing him and signing my name as large as John Hancock wherever I can so that people know who I am and that my criticisms are not of the man, but the policies of the man.
It is sad that so many people let their emotions cloud their judgement. There are so many substantive things to criticize President Obama on without bringing up picayune minutiae such as the clothes he wears or where his family takes their vacations or that he smokes or what his skin color is or his birth record.
What I hope the media would avoid is painting all of us Tea Party Patriots as racists due to the wholly inappropriate actions of one person. But, I am not going to bet the media would restrain from using the broad brush to paint us all as racists.
As for me, I will continue to levy criticisms on Obama's policies as long as I believe them to be wrong. You can go back to anything I have ever posted, emailed, or spoken that criticises Obama on anything other than his policies. How about we paint the Tea Party based on someone like me instead of someone like Ms Davenport?
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