I’m not sure whose turn in the rotation it is at Reason magazine to tell us there is no racism in the tea party movement (Welch, Young, Walker, and Michael Moynihan, with multiple entries, have all done their best, while the Fonzi of Freedom Nick Gillespie had a leather jacket to oil and outsourced his efforts… yesterday. Nice timing, boss.), but which ever poor bastard draws the short straw, I have some advice- start drinking. Heavily:
Dear Mr. Lincoln
We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!
In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the ‘tea party movement’.
The tea party position to “end the bailouts” for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn’t that what we want all Coloreds to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us coloreds! Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.
And the ridiculous idea of “reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government.” What kind of massa would ever not want to control my life? As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions!
The racist tea parties also demand that the government “stop the out of control spending.” Again, they directly target Colored People. That means we Colored People would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.
Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government “stop raising our taxes.” That is outrageous! How will we Colored People ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society?
Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.
Sincerely
Precious Ben Jealous, Tom’s Nephew National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Head Colored Person
That would be Mark Williams, Tea Party Express Chairman, who last night took to CNN to call the NAACP “the real racists.”
No racism there. No sirree.
(via)
El Cid
They call me Mister Tibbs.
abo gato
I don’t think there IS enough scotch to handle that load of shit.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
Another fine moment in GOP minority outreach.
General Stuck
Somewhere, Candy Crowley is perplexed.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal
@abo gato: Bourbon is stronger.
Zifnab
But I think Mark has some really good points here. For instance, whatever the fuck that was overshot “racist” by a country mile. We need a new word for this kind of shit.
Hunter Gathers
Wow. That statement puts the drunken tirades of my late grandfather to shame. Scotch isn’t near strong enough. I recommend grain alcohol. Or crack.
D.N. Nation
Dearest wingnuts:
This stuff only works if you are funny. Which you aren’t. So.
EvolutionaryDesign
And yet they will still come close to taking back congress. GOD BLESS AMERICA!! *tear falls down cheek*
dmsilev
Remind me: Is it possible for a political party to get a negative percentage of the vote from some ethnic group? Because the GOP is certainly doing their best to try.
dms
beltane
When do we get to kick these people out of the gene pool?
4tehlulz
That’s gotta be the most insane thing I’ve read in a long time.
Seriously, even Stormfront has better political sense than this.
icedfire
What. The. FUCK?
The only thing that even approaches the depression factor of this keyboard vomit is the fact that no one in the mainstream would ever dare to bring it up.
handy
@abo gato:
How about white rum?
El Cid
I think they should read this letter outloud in full blackface in downtown Atlanta at night.
dmsilev
What a waste of good Scotch. Hell, what a waste of *bad* Scotch.
dms
SiubhanDuinne
I just saw this in the other thread and was beyond horrified. I’m genuinely getting scared that some kind of violence is going to result from this — maybe not this specific letter, or a specific Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh radio show, or a specific sign held at a Teabagger Rally — but the aggregated ugly and stupid which are roiling like storm clouds, and you just know sooner or later there’s going to be lightning and tornados and flash floods and dead people.
And when that happens — and it will happen — Mark Williams and his ilk will be all “Oh, we didn’t promote violence! Whassamatta, can’t you take a joke? We were just having fun, just a little pushback against librul political correctness, you know? We’re not responsible! It’s not like we were telling people to go out and kill the ni. . . er, I mean, the Culled Fokes.”
HumboldtBlue
As someone else suggested, maybe Steve Benen, it almost appears that we dirty fucking leftist baby-killing homo-loving anti-christ supporting are infiltrating the tea baggers to write stuff like this.
I began to ruminate on it, but this passage As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions! brought me back to my senses. that’s classic whiteboy racism there, classic stuff.
DFS
@handy: Yeah, I recommend whatcha call a “Kapu Kai.” One part lime juice, one part sugar syrup, two parts Lemon Hart 151. Toss a few back and you’ll be ready for anything.
Chad N Freude
That is the most appalling thing I have ever seen on the Internet. I would have posted this comment sooner, but I was busy cleaning the vomit off my keyboard. How in this day and age can anyone put up something like that? Since the 60s, this has been consigned to the deepest, darkest Southern closet. Now it’s being proudly waved about. I can’t express the disgust and despair I feel about this.
YellowJournalism
I would say this would be a bad week for them to quit sniffing glue, but by the looks of that letter, they never stopped.
beltane
@dmsilev: They don’t care. All they care about is energizing their white trash base, and convincing others, who may have struggled with their racism, that it’s OK to let their inner You-Know-Who out of the closet.
Bob L
Wide-Screen TVs, the blacks have truly arrived, not ten years ago this cracker would have been ranting about fried chicken and watermelon.
Anyway since its been shown most of the Tea Baggers are sucking on the government tit way or another the irony in that rant is truly hilarious. Yes Mr Williams, who will your dead beat followers get their Wide Screen TVs when you and the blacks have compete for the same social safety net you all so eagerly voted to gut the past thirty years?
EvolutionaryDesign
@HumboldtBlue: It really has a sort of upside-down world poetry to it, doesn’t it?
JAHILL10
OT, but another one of those significant accomplishments that the far left will overlook in their assessment of Obama’s presidency just occurred: they got Fin-Reg passed.
r€nato
Oh, come on. He was just being sarcastic.
El Cid
@JAHILL10: I’m the far left, and I didn’t overlook it.
matoko_chan
If the goal of the TPM is to refute charges of racism so that people outside the TPM demographic will listen to their fiscal conservatism message…..wtf are they doing?
its like they have gone mad with rage.
and Cole, there is definitely a full court press to pushback on the NAACP resolution.
Bodenner is a concern troll now–
handy
I think the phrase that comes to mind for me when I read this was: “Now, Marky, show us on the doll where he touched you.”
This dude is seriously damaged in the cabeza.
Elliott
Whooo. Heads will roll.
middlewest
Reposting from the previous thread: Everyone really needs to read Tim Wise’s big list o’ racism. It took less than three days to be outdated.
JAHILL10
@El Cid: Good!
cat48
Well, whomever, is charged with defending a screed like this, “some cynical people” might hope it goes as well as Reason’s “Draw Mohammed Day.”
suzanne
The fact that people are *this* fucking stupid and *this* fucking horrible is just…. words fail.
Keepin’ it classy, Tea Party. Keepin’ it classy.
Cat Lady
You know all those dog whistles we talk about endlessly – well when you blow dog whistles all. the. time. then Mark Williams is what shows up. Why should anyone be surprised? What’s amazing is Lee Atwater has been dead almost 20 years, and it’s taken that long for all the dogs to show up.
General Stuck
@El Cid: And to your credit I must say.
beltane
@matoko_chan: Boner is jealous. He wishes there was an organization called the National Association for the Advancement of Orange People.
Hunter Gathers
Did Lester Maddox write that? Strom Thurmond? Pat Buchanan?
Comrade Mary
But guys, don’t you see that this was satire aimed at the NAACP, who are not just real racists for condemning those great freedom-lovers in the Tea Party, but for having the gall to use “Colored” in a non-ironic, non-satirical way (while Mark, of course, used the word is a very ironic, satirical way. Repeatedly. With relish.).
It’s the NAACP that is actually keeping the dumber col– err, black people down by encouraging their worst, childish, selfish natures. Of course the Tea Party doesn’t think all black people are lazy, cowardly good for nothings. The 17 or so who have shown up at their rallies are just peachy keen.
JAHILL10
@matoko_chan: Yes, by all means, go behind close doors to confront this ugliness, because I am sure the TPM had no idea up to this point than any of their members hated black people. I mean, all those racist signs at their rallies were mere… what?, anti-tax exuberance?????
What is this Bodenner guy smoking?
matoko_chan
The NAACP basically called out the TPM for pandering to racists to get their votes.
This is more glibertarian bs….like McMegan and Friedersdorf….its the liberals fault that the teabaggers are batshit crazy…if we didnt laugh at them and mock them they would get sane.
heres a thought…..Mc Megan, Douthat et al COULD tell the teabaggers THEY ARE WRONG.
do their fucking conservative elite jobs.
Malron
Cue the apologists on the left and the right who defend the Tea Party movement by
a) saying “only a few” of its supporters are spouting such bigotry, while they agree the Tea Party “does have some legitimate positions they agree with”
b) claiming much of the signage is being hoisted by liberal plants trying to make the movement appear racist.
c) immediately pivoting to attacking the “New Black Panther Party” to deflect attention from the openly racist Tea Party.
JD Rhoades
@handy:
I’m a fan.
cat48
ForgoTto mention, Rand Paul plans on having a “Tea Party Caucus”. Won’t that be fun!
matoko_chan
@beltane: lol
i think he is ekshually a space alien with a healthy radioactive glow from his internal reactor core.
KG
It’s moments like this that I regret the fact that I do not have a bottle of vodka in my bottom desk drawer anymore.
This is absolutely vile. The blogger in me wants to fisk this piece of shit to death. But I think I’m going to call it a day and grab a drink instead.
freelancer
“We got cher Angles, your Saxons, Scandinavians, Irish, Welsh, Scots, your Eyeties, germanics, pollacks, rooskies, slavs, gypsies, and yeah maybe a few Jews.”
Whole lotta diversity there, sister.
matoko_chan
@Malron:
does anyone else have the uncontrollable urge to squeeze Kelly’s neck when she makes the pop-eyes until her eyes DO actually pop out of her head?
Blue Shark
…words fail!
Midnight Marauder
More from the Greatest Hits of Mark Williams:
We are talking all-galaxy ignorant with this clown.
Hypnos
You can feel the hatred dripping right through the lines. The single most heartfelt statement in that awful screed is the last one.
Repeal the 13th and 14th amendment. N*ggers are meant to be slaves.
Sarcasm my ass.
It gets worth tho. The climate deniers are also out in full force. After John Abraham, a scientist at St. Thomas University, called out Lord Monckton on his lying habits, Monckton replied by calling him a Nazi, and posting a topic on WUWT asking for readers to pester St. Thomas with mails pretending Abraham presentation on Monckton is taken down from the university’s website and Abraham is investigated for misconduct.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Monckton-tries-to-censor-John-Abraham.html
And then Anthony Watts at WUWT opened his new “comment of the week” feature with this pearl:
“I completely understand, why Christopher Monckton felt a need to make an example of a typical reprehensible representative of modern Academia. People like Christopher Monckton make me hope again that not everything is lost yet under the Moon.
And yet… I spent first half of my life battling liars and cockroaches in the former USSR. I would win against any individual liar or cockroach, no sweat. But year after year after year, I was getting more and more convinced that I didn’t want to die in this battle, overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of my enemies.
So. I live in a quiet valley now, in Colorado Rockies. Grass is green, air is fresh, sky is huge. But what is this constant swish and rustle coming from the East Coast and from the Left Coast? I know this sound well! There is no escape from the battle: cockroaches are coming.”
That thread is chock full of people clamoring for the extermination of the cockroaches.
Sounds familiar?
Should be. “Exterminating the cockroaches” was a pretty popular statement coming out of one African radio in 1994.
Specifically, Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines, based in Kigali, Rwanda.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3257748.stm
We’re there now. Openly calling for the extermination of dissenters, who are dehumanized to the point of being represented as bugs. Pests.
Can it get worse?
BombIranForChrist
Don’t worry, guys. The free market will take care of coloureds.
abo gato
@TMOATYP, yeah, I’m a bourbon kind of girl too. May have to think about breaking out the bottle of the Pappy to counter this horseshit.
Fortunately, the tequila shot I have right now seems to be adequate.
Omnes Omnibus
Words fail me. When and where was this published?
Emma
I wish I could say I’m surprised. Or shocked. Or any of those things. I’m not. They have been telegraphing this for a while; I’m just surprised it took so long to pop out into the open.
TR
Somebody get a screen cap of that, right away. That’s going to disappear down the memory hole soon.
And seriously, that makes “racism” seem too light a label.
eric
Here is my fear: the elections take place and the GOP does not do as well as expected or as well as the polls now suggest. (That part is my hope, not my fear.)
However, the Teabaggers (including Rush and the Snowbilly) will point to — get ready — voter fraud, including ACORN, and will make a stink about Dems fraudulently stealing the election. That is when I fear violence. Even worse if latino and african-american turn out is higher than normal for midterm elections. (That would not surprise me given the GOP’s stellar minority outreach program.)
eric
Elizabelle
It makes me sad to see a thread up about this, after such a big and positive news day.
In the words of Peggy “sometimes insane, occasionally insightful” Noonan, we should just “savor” the victories. Because they are so hard fought and few.
More positively, it would be fun as a group to draft up a response from Abraham Lincoln to Mr. Williams (and, more broadly, his fellow Republicans).
Mr. Lincoln knew a thing or two about a house divided against itself.
Anybody up for it?
Hal
This is a aberration. I was just watching Megyn Kelly on Fox News and she had a Tea Party spokesperson who explained to me that there might be some racists, but they are in every movement, and that the Tea Party is all about taking back America, so there!
Jay in Oregon
…I don’t think I’ve ever said “words fail me” and meant it so emphatically.
bobbo
Rush Limbaugh will read this on the air. Because it’s satire, duh!
Jay in Oregon
Someone should re-edit that and change the references from “coloreds” to “Jews” and “Lincoln” to “Pharoah” and see how far that flies.
beltane
@Elizabelle: Abraham Lincoln was a master of dark-humor and one-liners. I’m sure he’d have a suitably pithy reply. We’ll have to wait to see if Jon Stewart addresses this.
freelancer
@TR:
From further down the thread, Marc has some justifications to make:
Oy.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle:
Dear Mr. Williams,
Fuck off, asshole.
Yours faithfully,
A. Lincoln
Allison W.
ready for this?
From Talking Points Memo:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/muslim-civil-rights-group-backs-endorses-naacp-tea-party-resolutiopn.php
Duck! wooo…lol!
gbear
I’d can just imagine the comments if this dollop of stupidity was run in the St Paul Pioneer Press. The comments section there has been overrun by guys who’d think that truer words were never spoken and they’d insult and shout down anyone who tried to tell them that they are nuts. There are a lot of really angry assholes doing slow burns at the computer while watching Fox News and believing everything they hear. They’re a truly scary bunch (It doesn’t take much of a comment to drive them over the edge to the point that the paper has to pull the entire comment section down).
abo gato
Oh, and recipe time…..I made a bourbon barbecue sauce that I think all of you would like. We had a brisket cookoff at the office today. I wuz robbed, I tell ya! Mine cooked for 16.5 hours in the smoker, with a very nice rub on it and with the drip pan full of water, port, two heads of garlic cut in half and an onion, quartered. Oak and cherry for the woods. The winners (I feel I must spit now) honestly were just baked in an oven and then put on a charcoal pit. They were not trimmed of fat and were swimming in a pool of grease. We need some professional judges instead of the idiots with no tastebuds we had today if we ever do this again.
Bourbon Barbecue Sauce
1 1/2 cups bourbon (Weller’s is our house brand)
1 c ketchup (use the non high fructose corn syrup kind)
1 T lemon juice
2 T worcestershire sauce
2 T malt vinegar
4 T molasses
Put one cup of the bourbon in a saucepan and over high heat, bring to a boil and then reduce to where you have about 2 T of bourbon.
Add the rest of the ingredients, including the other half cup of bourbon and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes.
This stuff rocks! If we had been able to have our brisket judged with sauce, I think I might have had a better outcome…..but thinking about who the judges were, maybe not. But, everyone who had some of this sauce loved it. It would be great with ribs too.
beltane
@Midnight Marauder: Someone must tell Williams that tanning booths are for self-hating white people.
Victor
Pardon the moment of geek.
Curious visitors to the marktalk website will find its homepage infected with a WordPress virus as described here:
http://www.devhunters.com/wordpress-discussion-support/6039-new-dangerous-wordpress-virus.html
So, the website’s not just insulting, but infectious, to boot.
HumboldtBlue
@beltane: You win today’s internets.
kay
There’s so many, many media experts on the Tea Party I’m sure we’ll get some thoughtful and incisive commentary on this gem.
Reams of words written by professional journalists analyzing this “movement”, and all anyone needs to read is this.
And it’s in their own words.
Watch the media scramble to minimize and excuse it. They won’t know what to do.
demo woman
@SiubhanDuinne: Hi, If you are still around, who do you recommend for State Superintendent of Schools?
Last election I voted in the Repub primary because I voted against Price in the primary. I have received Robo calls from Sarah, Jan and many others. I also was called by a candidate doing a poll and the first question was what primary are you voting in, response..democratic..response..click.
Xero
@Omnes Omnibus: Was originally posted a Mark Williams’ site, you can see a screenshot here, and subsequent post where Williams defends it.
Elizabelle
@beltane:
I know. Wish I knew more Lincoln quotes and lore. He would have relished taking this fool on, elegantly.
Further to my post above; couldn’t edit it:
Apologies if I sound like a nag, because BJ can and will discuss anything it likes. Not trying to censor or pontificate.
But honing in on this, after such a big and positive news day (financial regulatory reform, or what you can get out of this Congress), feasting on this joker’s tirade is like diving into dogsh*t masquerading as pate, when there’s champagne and better fare to be had.
We live through so much poutrage. Today’s a day to be happy for some change the banksters hoped they’d head off.
For an oil well that’s not gushing, even if that’s temporary.
For half a billion less that Goldman Sachs can award itself in bonuses.
LivingInWingnutHell
Even supporters on his site are strongly hinting that maybe he should take it down and re-work it because some people may not understand the subtlety of the satire. Translation: “WTF are you thinking?”
Midnight Marauder
@freelancer:
You don’t even need to make it to the comments for your head to explode. This is how he introduces his “satirical letter”:
Truly astonishing! To think that people would have the audacity to defend the phrase “colored” as having racist origins, because of the simple fact that it is true! HOW DARE THOSE GODLESS, RACIST HEATHENS?!
I mean, what world have these people been living in that “colored” doesn’t have an ugly, racially charged history? These people are just becoming less and less of actual human beings, and more like some kind of avant-garde political science project from some enterprising writers from The Onion.
Just all-galaxy ignorant once again.
danimal
Within the last week or so, someone on the intertubes was wondering when the GOP would dust off the reparations issue. The GOP/tea party is predictable, that’s for sure.
Race-baiting now, race-baiting tomorrow, race-baiting forever!
freelancer
@Midnight Marauder:
Did he go to school in Texas?
DarrenG
@abo gato:
You are apparently a man of refinement and taste, so I shall assume you merely forgot to type which sort of chile peppers and/or mustards you used in your BBQ sauce, for surely you wouldn’t have made a sauce without?
Darius
Nah, the media knows exactly what to do: ignore it.
El Cid
Just coincidentally the newest season of awesome British sketch comedy show “That Mitchell and Webb Look” premiered.
There’s a skit pretty close on to the topic, although it involves a bit more accidental racism.
Give it a look, starting at 7 minutes 47 seconds in. It’s a recurring character who plays the always well-intentioned assistant to the lunatic department store owner boss. (Sort of a much darker parody of ‘Are You Being Served.’)
Elisabeth
@freelancer:
That is, somehow, worse than the original “letter.” Sounds like he’s tossing in all non-whites just to make sure all his racist bases are covered.
Chyron HR
@Darius:
cat48
Keith
Wow, I took to the comments of the original post, and guy’s defense is literally that he wasn’t making fun of blacks. Oh, no, he was really making fun of people who call themselves “colored people”. This guy is delusional. And how the fuck did he get on CNN, anyway? I mean, seriously, he just called the head of the NAACP an Uncle Tom.
freelancer
I posted this in this morning’s Walnuts/Betty Draper OT, but I’m reposting it here:
I like the guy, but was Weigel as maddening at the Wapo as he has been borg blogging for Sully? Jesus Christ, he has been full of “Left is just as bad as the Right” Bobo-esque false equivalencies, and it’s driving me nuts.
kay
@LivingInWingnutHell:
I think it’s wonderful. The more blatant, the better. At some point, even the moronic pseudo-sophisticates in the media are going to have to stop covering for the Tea Party and start covering the Tea Party.
The real Tea Party, not the media-driven myth. The people who happily lettered and carried those signs and write things like this and pay to put up horrible billboards.
TR
Looks like Olbermann is on it, coming up soon.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong Impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
db
Wow…. just wow!
I remember sometime ago there was a post with a video encouraging people not to call other people racists but rather just call their actions racist.
Screw that…. this guy is racist.
abo gato
DarrenG, no peppers in this sauce, although I am certainly fond of them. Try it and you’ll see that peppers are sometimes superfluous.
TR
@freelancer:
Let’s put it this way — the number of people who have been murdered by unhinged nuts on the right in the past two years is more than the number of people who are in the “New Black Panther Party.”
Comrade Mary
Called it. Wish I hadn’t.
TaMara (BHF)
@Chyron HR: That seems about right.
I’m beyond even sarcasm and rage at this point. I don’t even see how in 2010 anyone can let this pass.
Midnight Marauder
@freelancer:
You tell me after reading this comment:
You read that correctly. According to Mark Williams, the NAACP still believes that black Americans do not have the right to sit at a lunch counter or at the front of the bus. That is who we are dealing with here.
Just let it all marinate for a while.
And this might be my favorite comment on the entire post:
“That was 1773 so you will excuse me for being absent.”
Funniest.Racist.Ever.
wasabi gasp
He really should have run this by his black friend.
Elisabeth
@Keith:
MSNBC had Pam Geller on yesterday to clarify why the Mosque near the WTC site is a bad idea. Too bad for them ~ Geller sounded reasonable. Wrong, but reasonable.
Tom Q
This thing is so bad I honestly first thought John had made it up as a parody. I’m astounded someone could be this overtly racist. (Covertly, sure)
Omnes Omnibus
@wasabi gasp:
I am sure he would have if he had one.
matoko_chan
@Allison W.:
and your point is Allison?
im a sufi.
CAIR fills the same function for muslims that the NAACP does for blacks.
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus:
very good.
Found this quote as well:
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln
BH
This dude just used the Erick Erickson approach to getting a lot more time on CNN. A lot. He may even get his own show.
kay
@TR:
The focus on the new Black Panther Party is about discrediting Eric Holder, and, more broadly, the Obama DOJ.
Something about an African-American AG makes conservatives very, very nervous. I sometimes think Holder rattles them more than Obama. It’s amusing to me, shoe on the other (historic) foot, and all. They’re not comfortable with that.
He should come right out and reassure them. He won’t be putting them all on a chain gang, or anything.
Jake
I just wrote an open letter to AIPAC. I told them to stop advocating for “entitlements” for Israel, that Israelis should get jobs and not expect Americans to pay for their laziness, that it was time they paid for their own defense, and to stop being American “pets.” Am waiting for Ms. Palin’s tweet on how patriotic Americans only want limited government, and Israelis should not look forward to a redistribution of our wealth.
b-psycho
Whenever I see such blatant racist garbage, I just imagine the writer being traumatized as a child by walking in on mommy deep-throating the biggest, blackest sausage on the face of the earth — at which point she flings a liquor bottle towards the little fucker’s head, and promptly gets back to sucking.
Midnight Marauder
@kay:
That’s exactly what a radical Mandingo
warriorattorney general who was planning on enslaving all white people in the United States would say.kommrade reproductive vigor
Dear Fucktard,
Your complete overreaction to a few gentle suggestions: Think about some of your rhetoric, toss the assholes waving the Obama Witch Doctor signs the minute they show up, and watch out for KKK members trying to join your party, shows that we were to nice. Thanks for proving our point.
Assholes.
Sincerely,
The NAACP & every other person who has called you racist fucks a collection of racist fucks
kay
@Midnight Marauder:
That’s rich. Coming from the Tea Party. Who object to every amendment of the Constitution that comes after the Second.
Bubblegum Tate
Help me out here–which racist teabagger leader is Mark Williams again? It’s hard to keep them all straight.
kay
@Midnight Marauder:
I think it would be great. I don’t give a shit anymore.
After he reassures white Americans that although he is a black man, he isn’t bent on vengeance, he can take a coupla questions.
A town hall! Better.
maus
Liberals are the true gay-haters. Liberals are the true racists. Liberals are the true Nazis. Liberals are the true misogynists. Liberals are the true blah blah blah blah blah blah
Omnes Omnibus
@matoko_chan: Far be from me to put words in Allison W.’s mouth, but I got the impression she was referring to the undoubted shitstorm of stupidity that the teabaggers and their ilk will unleash as a result of CAIR’s statement. Nothing more.
Chad N Freude
@Allison W.: So now the NAACP is allied with the terrorists. How much better can it get?
Polar Bear Squares
Smart accountability is holding the president accountable while not undermining the movement by weakening the president and enabling the Republicans. Unfortunately, constant badgering by some of the cool kids in the progressive blogosphere directed at anyone else who says something nice about the president appears to be the order of the day. And anyone who points out the political consequences is shouted down by the cool kids as well. — Bob Cesca
Nothing to do with the post, but a very salient point.
Thanks for the post, John. I’m really racking my brain to find another word to use but “racist” because, you know, I know Michelle Malkin hates that word. But just seems appropriate.
Omnes Omnibus
@Polar Bear Squares:
I would consider using fuckingracist.
AnotherBruce
Why in Satan’s name does anybody watch CNN anyway?
Jared
“Precious Ben Jealous.”
Yikes.
I’m a little disappointed no one picked up on the gay-baiting in the letter (Jealous is a nerdy looking, light-skinned black dude, so ya know, he MUST be gay). Remember, all: hate rarely stays in one place. If you dislike blacks, you’ll probably be on to Jews, gays, and so forth, before eventually shooting the mirror.
kay
@Polar Bear Squares:
Somebody else here said something which I think is true: media only invite even-steven. So if you have the requisite two liberals, and they’re both bashing Obama, and you have the two conservatives, also bashing Obama, that’s all the available seats, and everyone’s bashing Obama.
With the host nodding sagely, in the middle. We all hate Obama! See?
General Stuck
Longer Mark Williams – It’s not our fault those Afreecan natives wanted to ride in our boats.
Chyron HR
@Jared:
I think that’s a reference to “Precious”, that movie that was full of filthy “colored people”.
(P.S. I didn’t say anything about blacks, and you’re the real racists for thinking I did.)
Gozer
“Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.”
Wait, wait, wait…don’t the teabaggers want to repeal the 14th amendment? What with all those “anchor babies” corrupting our precious bodily fluids.
Scott
God damn.
This is why I need fireaxes. So very, very many fireaxes.
Jake
I posted a comment on Mark Williams website. I asked why is it that whites never accept entitlements — not farmers, defense contractors, corporations, etc. The post was in moderation and then deleted….
cat48
kay
@cat48:
Thanks. It was you because the person mentioned Spitzer, who I didn’t even know was an Obama-basher.
It makes perfect sense to me.
I don’t even watch anymore. I’m so tired of the rote repetition and list of complaints. Each speaker sounds exactly the same to me.
Svensker
@General Stuck:
LOL
Allan
No time to read comments now, but you need to be aware that Williams is planning a run for Sacramento City Council.
Pray for us.
SiubhanDuinne
@demo woman #73: Probably Joe Martin, but I haven’t been following that race quite as closely as some of the others and may well change my mind between now and Tuesday. Do you have a preference, or any views one way or the other?
BTW, I’ve probably changed my vote for Gov. I heard the 2-part interview with DuBose Porter on NPR this morning and was WAY impressed!! I doubt he’ll win the primary, so I can still vote for Roy in the general, but I really liked what I heard. (So, FWIW, did one of my colleagues, who is about as liberal/progressive as anyone I know.)
I know (very slightly) both Porter and Barnes and like them both as people. Would be happy enough if things ended up with Barnes for Gov and Carol Porter for LG.
It’s going to be fun watching the ‘Pubs, though. Karen Handel the big scary liberal? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@abo gato:
Wait, wait, wait. You’re a girl (this is the right thread for that sort of condescension, I think) and you like bourbon? I think I’m in love.
I think to be adequate to the occasion, you’re going to need about six of those. That should make you sick enough not to care any longer.
El Cid
Did anyone else notice the reference to cotton in the first sentence?
kommrade reproductive vigor
WAAAH! LOOK LIBERAL HOMOPHO-
Oops, false alarm.
Mark S.
Shit, even Dan Riehl thought this was racist.
That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal (JMN)
@kommrade reproductive vigor: Nah. They’ll just accuse us of heterophobia until the next time they need to make the opposite claim.
Allison W.
@matoko_chan:
My point is that the shit will really hit the fan as the Tea Party will now claim that they are being attacked by Colored’s and Muslism’s.
didn’t think that would be so hard to figure out.
Allison W.
@Chad N Freude:
Of course. Muslim’s and blacks attack the poor widdle tea party.
Allison W.
@Omnes Omnibus:
THANK YOU!
geesh.
Hob
@Omnes Omnibus: “Fuckingracist” makes me giggle, because I imagine it spoken in the mellow hippie tones of certain Unitarian ministers and Reform rabbis who like to write “lovingkindness” as a single word… e.g., “May the Divine be with us as we engage with our brothers and sisters who live in the spirit of fuckingracism, amen.”
batgirl
@matoko_chan: I love the title of that post: “The Correct But Tactless NAACP” like there is some Miss Manners guide to calling out racists that Bodenner is privy to.
cminus
@Mark S. #133: Yeah, but I note how he used the “No True Scotsman” fallacy to prove that, the preceding notwithstanding, the Tea Party movement is in no way racist.
Tonal Crow
I wonder what Michael Steele’s response will be?
Tonal Crow
@dmsilev:
No. Not unless Diebold has become an ethnic group.
Tonal Crow
@JAHILL10: Shouldn’t you be trolling at FDL?
jeff
I would like to demand that this not be true. I have had a really horrible week, in which I had to admit to myself that my family are racist and bigoted against muslims. I posted earlier this week or maybe last week that “something” was up–there’s been a big uptick on the rhetoric from the right. I actually am concerned for the physical welfare of muslims for the first time in 8 years. WTH is going on? I’m getting a giant spike in hatemail from the family.
Beth in VA
Is this for real?? I don’t believe it. It’s too horribly juvenile to be real.
matoko_chan
@Allison W.: apolos.
im kinda raw after commenting in my muslim name at abu muqawama.
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Worse, some moran is going to send this funny funny email to his “Black Friend at the Office”, aka the guy in the next cube who hasn’t yet convinced HR a reassignment is necessary, and said moran will end up wearing bits of his company-owned desktop operating system. Which will “prove”, to the entire satisfaction of Mark Williams and his friends among the Media Village Idiots, that it’s all the fault of Those People, who can’t take a joke.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
I followed the links back to their origin. Did you know that for a mere $19.95 Mark Williams will sell you a 63 page book on how to get a concealed weapons permit? I think John Cole could learn a thing or two about marketing from this guy.
matoko_chan
@batgirl: it really makes me furious that he thinks the NAACP should do crap like this…
Bodenner, thats YOUR FUCKING JOB.
man up and do it.
some lowhanging frumfruit here
mebbe we can have a thread where we can help the man out?
/wicked grin
Jong
What a waste of tallent. @matoko_chan:
This is an email I sent to sully a few minutes before I checked over here.
“Was the NAACP resolution helpful for race relations? Based on the immediate and inflammatory backlash showcased in the MSM, I think not.
Perhaps the NAACP could have approached TPM leaders in private first, offering to help with a PR strategy to purge the racist elements of the movement from its core, small government message. That would have been the Obama-esque approach. But publicly shaming the TPM into doing so doesn’t seem smart or pragmatic.”
And once they have reformed the TPM public relations, they can move on to the KKK.
The suggestion that the NAACP should have quietly reached out to the TPM to help with their PR strategy is one of the most naive ideas expressed on the dish in years. And making suggestions about what the Tactless NAACP should have done suggests that you think that they are some how responsible for this whole kerfuffle.
Race realtions will be improved when the TPM gives up the riddiculous message of white-victim-hood at the hands of Obama. And certainly individual tea-party-goers have an well documented history of racist behaviour. The fact that bloggers at the dish were previously ignorant of the white-victim-hood meme is exactly the reason why the NAACP needed to call it out.
TooManyJens
“Have you ever had something happen that was so racist, you didn’t even get mad? You were just like ‘God damn, that was racist!’”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ4B7G8Rw3Q
(Also, too, I keep getting confused in this thread because when I see TPM, I think of Talking Points Memo.)
Roger Moore
@jeff:
I suspect that you’re seeing a right wing panic attack. The Republican leadership has talked a lot about winning majorities in both houses of Congress, but that’s not looking so likely anymore. If they can’t win now, when the economy is a mess, they’re going to have a lot more trouble in 2012 when things have gotten better and the Democrats will have a Presidential election to fire them up. So they feel an intense need to win now. Since their message doesn’t seem to be firing up the base enough to win the election, they’re trying the old standard of shouting louder. The racist and xenophobic messages are getting more frequent and less subtle. If their poll numbers start sagging- and something tells me that wingnut crazy and outright racist rants aren’t winning them many friends- expect things to get worse before the election.
noncarborundum
It needs to be pointed out that Williams writes like Lovecraft.
tomvox1
Holy fucking shit. Well, at least it’s crystal clear where the Tea Party is coming from. Can this racist pig ever get booked on a mainstream talk show again? If he does & doesn’t get reamed out for this vile screed by the moderator, it really is game over for any pretense of sober ethical judgment in the media. Tweety might as well give Mengele equal time alongside Mandela and pretend that both their perspectives are equal, for chrissakes. In short: It better not fucking happen. This Mark Williams clown should be persona non grata from here on out, no ifs, ands or buts.
matoko_chan
I’ll start.
Dear Dave Frum
as a mission statement that sentence is so full of fail it hurts my eyes.
its like the photo-negative of the conservatism you now have.
you now have
heres my suggestions–
1. junk the dead white guy philosophy and find some third culture intellectuals that will support the sane parts of your ideology.
2. give up on anti-abortion activism….by the time you can change the court makeup we will be buying fullterm human ectogenesis from the japanese….they have been doing goat embryos for over 10 years.
3. Quit pandering to your base and tell them truth. they are racists. they are not as smart or as well educated as liberal intellectual elites–tell them commonsense is not the same as intelligence. tell them they are going down in permanent defeat if they can’t attract minoritities.
4. cooperate with liberals in fixing our current HORRIFIC problems instead of just trying to win.
5. Admit truths….torture is wrong. The Bush Doctrine failed because GW was stupid. Muslims will for vote for Islam when they can vote. All that blood and treasure for nothing.
6. Tell them America is never going to be a theocracy.
7. and this is the most important….educate your base instead of just exploiting them to win. its like you WANT them to be stupid….you don’t have any faith that they can learn.
matoko_chan
@noncarborundum:
blasphemer!
he writes NOTHING like the Holy H.P. !
a perfect description of the Tea Party.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
S. cerevisiae
@kay: A Black sheriff?!
Walker
Except that the fact that H.P. was (in his pre-soc*al*sm days at least) a horrendous racist. Go back and read Shadow over Innsmouth with understanding that it is social commentary about immigration at the time. I like H.P., but you have to treat him like Chandler Harris.
With said, this suggests that the writing analyzer toy might be on to something.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@Jared: That’s biracial dude. Jealous’ father is white. I believe the NAACP picked him to appeal to a younger generation – he was a classmate of mine in college. I’ve never thought he looked nerdy though.
Lurker
@matoko_chan:
Cutting-and-pasting the entire hateful Mark Williams letter into the “I Write Like” analyzer gets you H.P. Lovecraft. :-O
Karen
Evil yes but I’ve reached a point with these douchebags that I want them all to DIAF. Slowly. Painfully. I hate that I feel that way but I hate bullies and bullies will win.
I bet they try to use the “2nd Amendment solution” against Obama if they don’t win in November and the Republicans aren’t in power.
If Obama can’t be impeached, these wastes of life will act even more desperately than they are now. Desperate actions. The ammo and gun purchase increase isn’t for nothing.
And if they succeed, I figure the Tea party admirers will say that “Obama finally did something for America,” Pat Buchanan and Peggy Noonan will say that whoever took Obama out is a true patriot and to say they’re racist is mistaken. It wasn’t a matter of race, they’ll say, it was to save America.
All that hatred is bubbling up and if not at Obama, other people will get hurt. Killed. Nothing is more scary than a zealot and the Tea Party and other bigots are definitely zealouts.
TooManyJens
@Karen: This is probably the nicest thing I’ll ever say about Peggy Noonan, but no, she wouldn’t. (Nothing would surprise me about Buchanan, though.)
Josh
Nothing beats Williams’s initial response (via TNC):
Not a defense of Du Bois; not a suggestion that the NAACP was ever anything other than a “vile racist group.”
As Marauder points out above, the teabaggers’ other strategy is to say, “Hey, the organization is racist because they still use the phrase ‘colored people’ in their name” and be astonished when their interlocutor says, “Are you stupid?”
Short Bus Bully
@matoko_chan:
Holy shit that was a legit post.
You win the interwebz and a beer on the house if ever we should meet face to face.
ruemara
@Allan: That douchebag is a local?! Oh, it’s on now, motherfucker. It is so fucking on. Not only will he lose, he’s gonna wish all that happened was a public deflowering in a macy’s window by Mr. T. I will personally make sure this bastard does not step outside his house without everyone knowing what he said, for as long as he lives.
YellowJournalism
@Josh:
So, basically, the racist bigot’s equivalent of “I’m rubber, you’re glue” in response?
Batocchio
Mark Williams spouted some really racist shit after Hurricane Katrina, but this is even worse.
roshan
@Hypnos:
Thanks for the link to the John Abraham presentation on debunking Monckton lies.
Patrick in Detroit
Gents, we might not agree on much politically, But this one thing we can unite on. This asshat has got to go…
please, go here to read my rant…
It’s one thing to gripe about identity politics and such. But this asshole is just a straight up bigot. I can tell the difference and he is an bigot.
Consider me one who will not tow the party line, or whatever… I know a racist when I see one and he is one.
thanks,
-Pat
bob h
When Clinton, the first black President, was being impeached, black people rallied to his defense with their “Leave Our President Alone” meme. That something similar is not happening with Obama is a surprise to me; I would welcome a new Mau Mau Party.
abo gato
Well, at least this has some traction…..Keith talked about it last night and I just saw on CNN while I was at the gym, that they were talking about it too….
Maybe this fucker will really rue the day he thought writing this was a fun idea.
brantl
@Elizabelle: You still have to pay attention to the weasels, otherwise, the next thing you know, they’re biting the shit out of you.
TR
CNN has had three different segments on this in an hour. This story has legs.
Patrick in Detroit
Also, let me say this….
My side of the fence likes to call this “Dog Whistle” racism…
In this guys case; it’s a fucking fog horn…
he needs to be drummed out…
Period.
-Pat
BruinKid
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, I’ve already had a racist tell me that Williams was only using “satire”. I told him he mixed up “repeating stereotypes and making racist jokes” with “satire”.
JenJen
@Mark S.: Well, kinda. But then Riehl writes:
Well!! That settles that.
Zach
It’s incredible that the criticism headed his way will likely focus on his abuse & interpretation of the word “colored,” and not his claims that people who support social welfare really just want to bring back slavery.
Hob
@JenJen: Yes, just like Mel Gibson punching women and threatening to burn down houses is not helpful, since it just gives mean people an excuse(*) to claim that Mel Gibson is a crazy asshole.
(* I believe “excuse” is the word Riehl was looking for, since “foil” doesn’t make any sense the way he used it)
matoko_chan
@Short Bus Bully: i drink guiness, like all good sufis. <3
@Walker: well…..as my quote indicates, Lovecraft hated religious buffoons too. i think the analyzer is flawed.
:)
joe from Lowell
I’ve often commented that conservatives trying to play a race card remind me of a monkey that has somehow gotten hold of a field researcher’s cell phone. Poke poke poke, why this not work?!?
Eg, “Ted Kennedy and Pat Leahy hate Catholics!”
But never before have I seen one of the monkeys beat himself into consciousness with the cell phone.
wolfetone
@Chad N Freude: Numbnuts, CAIR is not a terrorist organization. Perhaps you should crawl back into your cave, you fuckwad.
DarkBulb
“Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.”
I believe the mot juste here is “disburse” not “disperse,” since the subject being referred to is black welfare (bad), not black oil (good). Given Williams’ otherwise unexceptionable Aryan-intrinsic powers of persuasive written communication, can we correctly assume this to be intentional malaprop in the character of PBJ?