Irony to the white courtesy phone, please.
Donald “I have a good relationship with The Blacks™” Trump is calling for Jon Stewart’s head. Apparently, he lives in a world where making a joke about kidnapping babies is racist.
No, it doesn’t make any sense:
In his latest Youtube video Tuesday afternoon, the birther-curious host of The Apprentice had a lengthy rant about Stewart’s confusion over Cain’s response to the sexual harassment charges.”
“How come Jon Stewart gets away with a racist rant against Herman Cain?” Trump asked. “Nobody else could pull that off. Where is Rev. Jackson? Where is Rev. Sharpton? Where are all the critics where if someone else did it, it would be a disaster?”
Trump then cited the part where his outrage at Stewart was based on.
“He horribly stated in his imitation, ‘Have you ever kidnapped a baby other than the Lindbergh baby,’” Trump said. “Now if anybody watches this, they would say ‘Wow, that’s amazing.’ It’s not what he said, but the way he said it. The tone of his voice, the inflection, unbelievable. Anybody else, deep, deep trouble.”
~snip~
When somebody else says something, even a little bit non-politically correct, they go after him. But when Jon Stewart does a horrible, horrible thing to the African-American community, they leave him alone.”
I’ll tell you were Reverends Jackson and Sharpton are — laughing at your dumb ass.
As you can see in the video in question, Jon Stewart neither says nor does anything that could remotely considered racist:
Nothing racist. Not even a little. Nothing even racist-ish. Trump is full of shit.
Furthermore, Trump’s trumped-up accusations are rich coming from the guy who demanded that President Obama release his birth certificate and acted like a gleeful jackass when he did so, completely blind to the fact that his request was borne of racism and privilege and was, unlike Stewart’s comments, “insulting to the African-American community.”
And let’s not forget that Trump also demanded to know how President Obama got into Columbia and Harvard.
But yeah — Jon Stewart is racist because he spoke in a deep voice when mocking Herman Cain’s ridiculous responses to questions about the sexual harassment scandal.
Donald? You, sir, are an idiot.
[via Raw Story]
Villago Delenda Est
What have we fucking done (aside from not stage a revolution in 2000 when the Supreme Court appointed a deserting sack of shit to the Presidency) to deserve being subjected to the continued bleatings of this fuckstick?
Brachiator
First we have Ann Coulter crawling out of the alien cocoon in which she regenerates her faux human covering to talk crazy shit out “our blacks.” Now, Donald the Chump Trump pops up again to make a fool out of himself.
Republicans are losing their mind over race. And the GOP primaries haven’t even begun yet. At this rate, they won’t even make it to the November presidential elections without all doing a Rick Perry St Vitus Dance jitterbug.
Maybe Obama needs to calm everybody’s shit down again with another speech on race. And I don’t mean this ironically.
The Moar You Know
Shorter Orange Combover: I have ONE BILLION DOLLARS and yet am forbidden by law from owning a black slave, also, more importantly, I cannot find a hairpiece that doesn’t look like a weasel met an untimely end on a glue trap stitched to my scalp.
Social outcast
Could be, Donald, because everyone knows that Stewart isn’t a racist. You, on the other hand…
Martin
Well, Stewart was impersonating a New York Italian goomb… ohhhhhhh, now I see the problem.
pragmatism
shorter wingers: we need to show the black people how to appropriately stick up for themselves (hint: a conservative is never racist).
BGinCHI
Trump’s note to himself while preparing for making that video:
“Don’t forget the part where that k*ke runs down our n*gger”
Amir Khalid
@The Moar You Know:
How many times must I say this? THAT IS NOT A HAIRPIECE on Donald Trump’s head. No self-respecting wigmaker would produce one that ugly. It can only be an overambitious combover.
RalfW
Stewart was brilliant. And since Trump clearly isn’t, he had to try what all the GOP-ers are trying. Cry “racism.” Even and especially when there isn’t any.
I hope everyone is catching on — they’re useless, brain-dead bullies.
RalfW
@Brachiator:
No way, dude. The metastasis is the only way to save the patient. Let it run it’s course.
General Stuck
The wingnuts are deploying the same strategy the Bushies used to confound us all with their craven illegal acts. I call it the Zebra Effect, where they broke so many laws, liberals couldn’t focus on just one or two.
Like the herd of Zebras looks like nothing more than a sea of black and white stripes to the lion, also too, the steamy piles of bullshit dolloped out by wingnuts has the same effect on voters. Or something like that
John Cole
Do these idiots ever learn? Did Trump not see what happened to Jim Cramer?
Why would you fuck with a guy who is wicked smart, surrounded by talented comedic writers and performers who basically have nothing to do but figure out how to spend a half hour of television time every night?
Reality Check
What is it about black conservative men that makes liberals go nuts? Just look at what they say about Justice Thomas
http://tinyurl.com/6kp5ure
They want to “hang” him and wish he would “pick cotton”.
c u n d gulag
It’s time to “Santorum” ‘The Donald!’
A frothy mix of towering hubris and sheer stupidity that makes one think that being born on 3rd base meant you hit a Grand Slam Home Run, but were penalized a base for your outspoken idiocy.
Zifnab
Someone really misses being in the media lime-light all of a sudden. “Everyone is talking about Herman Cain and Jon Stewart and LOOK AT MEEEEE! WHAAA!”
scav
To call it a Pot-Kettle problem is to ascribe too much equivalence between the sides: it’s more of a Pot-LicoriceJellyBean problem.
Zifnab
@John Cole:
Because you’re a moron with a mic in his face?
BGinCHI
@John Cole: 1. Ego.
2. No publicity is bad publicity when you’re in a business run by and catering to assholes.
3. Arrogance fueled by ignorance.
4. Tiny cock.
harlana
Anybody seen this yet? Third former employee alleges sexual harassment by Cain.
Brachiator
@Reality Check:
It’s really too bad that you are not capable of making an intelligent point. Kinda sucks to be you, don’t it?
Villago Delenda Est
@harlana:
The only shoe we’re waiting to see drop in this mess is if one, just one, of the accusers is white.
Then all bets are off amongst the teatards. Cain will be left to twist slowly, slowly in the wind at that point.
Reality Check
@Brachiator:
Check out the link I posted, and ask yourself: what would you all be saying if a conservative was saying those things about Obama?
hhex65
lol, Perry’s volunteer COINTELPRO man weighs in…
Brachiator
@harlana:
Here’s my problem. As much as I am unimpressed by Cain, I tend to discount mere allegations, no matter how sincere the person making them appears to be.
Satanicpanic
Donald is special. How many other “billionaires” do you see doing crappy reality shows?
BGinCHI
@Reality Check: OMG, they aren’t saying that stuff about Obama, are they?
I can’t believe an American would do that. I just can’t.
harlana
@Brachiator: That remains to be seen. But he’s still lying.
KG
@Reality Check: so then, everyone who has ever attended a Tea Party rally can be called a seditious traitor, right? Afterall, there were a few people who carried signs that were vaguely threatening, and some more that were explicitly threatening violence and revolt against the government.
ETA: I know I shouldn’t feed the trolls, but sometimes I am reminded that someone is being an idiot on the internet and I must do something about it.
Svensker
@John Cole:
The questions answer themselves.
Brachiator
@Reality Check:
Check out my posts. I am hardly a knee jerk Cain basher.
And conservatives have been saying stupid shit about Obama since he first started talking about running for president.
And you are a fool.
dj spellchecka
well, we went from “racism isn’t a problem in america” to “high tech lynching” in record time…
Zifnab
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yeah, I was honestly waiting for that myself.
Although, honestly, this might put the entire conservative movement in a spot. If the woman isn’t particularly attractive (and as this is, like, what? A twenty year old scandal? I doubt she’s going to a FOX Newshead girl) the crowd could just as easily turn into a barking mad pack of misogynists.
Steve
I’m completely baffled. I mean, Stewart wasn’t even doing an impression of Cain, let alone some stereotypical “black voice.” I don’t even know what that voice was that he was doing when he said the Lindbergh thing, but there’s no way anyone on the planet could think it was racist. As someone noted above, the part where he imitated the pizza guy was far edgier!
And yet, you will inevitably see any number of conservatives parroting this claim from Trump, because that’s how they roll. “Remember when Jon Stewart launched that racist anti-Cain tirade?” These people are certifiable.
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator:
Check this out, and get back to us.
Apparently, the idiot did the deed in front of witnesses. This does not look good for Cain, nor does his containment strategy over the last few days.
Svensker
@Reality Check:
Because some random person on the street is the same as Rush Limbaugh or Donald Trump? Let us know when that random person is a spokesperson for the Democrats and we’ll get back to ya.
Calouste
From TPM: Blame Game: Cain Implies Perry Is Behind The Harassment Claims, While Limbaugh Suggests It’s Romney
GOP circular firing squad warming up, popcorn shortage predicted.
Villago Delenda Est
@Calouste:
Finally, SOMEONE has figured out what everyone here knew on Sunday when this first broke:
This is a GOP inside job on Cain. The Obama people would save this for after Labor Day. There’s no need to interfere with the Rethugs savaging each other at this point…especially since not a single vote, be it caucus or primary, has been cast at this point.
Baud
Stewart was more offensive to Rick Perry than Herman Cain. Why does Jon Stewart hate white people?
MikeJ
@Calouste: I’d had assumed Rove.
piratedan
check out my links, check out my links! see… I’m bonafide! Bonifide I tells ya!
Dr. Squid
@Zifnab: The next season of Celebrity Apprentice is about to start. George Takei FTW!
pete
@Villago Delenda Est: Yup. Also, if you figure Cain is mostly after raising his profile in order to cash in next year & thereafter … it ain’t hurting him that much, except maybe electorally and that’s the least of his concerns. I think he can tough this out and still sell books & tickets to his base. I mean, were you going to buy his stuff? Not me.
Chyron HR
@Reality Check:
I forget, how many states did Cain win in the 2000 republican primaries? It must have been a whole lot, since he’s such a brilliant politician and there isn’t a single racist in the entire GOP.
Dave
@Villago Delenda Est: Wait…he had a strategy?
Reality Check
@Chyron HR:
What are you babbling about? Cain wasn’t running in 2000.
John PM
A Republican-voting attorney (non-winger) in my office actually came in to tell me that he saw this slip on The Daily Show yesterday and that he thought it was hilarious. Trump is yet another reason to not watch NBC or any subsidiaries, etc.
Reality Check
@Chyron HR:
And Cain WILL be on the ticket w/Romney this year. Like I said, black conservative men drive “progressives” absolutely bonkers.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Reality Check: You are such a drag.
Baud
@Reality Check:
Hate feeding the troll, but wouldn’t you want to not drive progressives “bonkers” in order to depress their turnout?
Satanicpanic
@Steve: When you’re a Republican and you think that every accusation of racism is probably bogus, it’s that much easier to thrown around your own bogus accusations.
Calouste
@Villago Delenda Est:
Quite. You’re not going to take down the opposition candidates before they have picked one, because if you do that, you’re going to end up with the one you have the least dirt on.
IM
@Reality Check:
Yes like Alan Keyes.
Weren’t you a big Pawlenty supporter by the way?
Whatever happened?
Calouste
@Reality Check:
I didn’t know there were places that have a line on the ballot for assistant-dogcatcher. And they have to be quick, only 6 days left.
Chyron HR
@Reality Check:
How post-racial of you!
So why wasn’t he Bush’s running mate, then?
By the way, he was running in 2000.
Or did the Rushatollah tell you that Wikipedia is just a lie concocted by the liberal Shaitan?
Satanicpanic
You know which black conservative really drives us bonkers, Michael Steele. Republicans should totally put him on the ticket. Guaranteed win for Republicans, trust me!
BGinCHI
@Calouste: I think it’s Assistant Lady Harasser.
gnomedad
Liberals are the real racists. Also, Obama has the real combover.
Brachiator
@Villago Delenda Est:
Oh. More allegations and claims. This reminds me of the certainty with which Balloon Juicers announced the obvious guilt of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
I don’t like Cain. Maybe there is something here. But you dopes never learn.
I have a strong aversion to anyone being tried in the court of public opinion, or being damned merely because of allegations, claims and accusations.
Must be my liberal values.
BGinCHI
@Satanicpanic: Pray to God they don’t nominate Santorum, for we could never beat the likes of him.
Zifnab
Just purely out of interest, why is everyone replying to Reality Check? Feeding the trolls only makes them stronger.
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator:
I don’t know. This has a ring of authenticity to it.
You’re welcome to sit back and wait, it’s the prudent thing to do. But the clouds are gathering on the horizon for Cain.
Like I said before, if one of the accusers is white…that will change the game radically against him, in the GOP base.
Svensker
@Satanicpanic:
It reminds me of my dearly departed FIL who didn’t really understand what words meant. He sorta kinda knew some things were considered good and some things were considered bad, but he couldn’t figure out how anyone could decide out what that was (I think he was undiagnosed high-functioning autistic..or something). So he would use words that he thought sounded right — you’re arrogant! He’s intimidated! etc. But he didn’t really know what they meant, just that somehow they were supposed to be good or bad, depending on the situation.
The Repubs seem to be like that: Look, liberals say a bad thing about a black man! Must be racism! Look, liberals say Sarah Palin is an idiot! They don’t like strong women!
Nothing really means anything to these people. It’s all posturing and tribal associations.
Steve
@Zifnab: We are ashamed that their whites are better than our whites.
scav
@Villago Delenda Est: This is also a game of politics, not law or peer-reviewed science. Rules aren’t exactly the same for better or worse.
4tehlulz
Cain confirmed for birther.
Cacti
@Brachiator:
Royalty check is a paid by the post troll.
It isn’t here to make any sort of point. I’m surprised it hasn’t mentioned climate change yet.
Svensker
@Cacti:
It did a few threads ago.
General Stuck
OT
For any who care.
Obama’s daily Gallup approval reached 45% today, with 48% disapprove.
And the snap shot Quinipiac poll that almost always runs the lowest approval for a POTUS, hit 47%.
Lojasmo
@Reality Check:
Turgidson
@Reality Check:
fixt. see: Keyes, Alan (Ok, ok, he was already batshit insane); see also Steele, Michael.
Plus, we probably wouldn’t know who Romney’s VP candidate is until a few hours before Election Day begins, what with how many times we can expect him to change his mind about it after the GOP convention.
Baud
@General Stuck: I don’t usually care about polls, but DC does. If his numbers keep rising, it changes the conversation within the Beltway, which could be a good thing.
Brachiator
@Villago Delenda Est:
That’s one of the reasons that I don’t need to jump to conclusions.
This is politics. But even here, I think that Cain may be undone if the charges seem plausible, no matter the ethnicity of his accusers.
And even though you may not mean it this way, I note that you are not the first person to appear to take some pleasure in the notion that white conservatives might discount any testimony of a black woman, and be particularly offended if Cain harassed a white woman. I always wonder here if people are remarking about the supposed racism of all conservatives, or projecting their own racism.
Satanicpanic
@BGinCHI: That would pretty much guarantee a 50 state victory. Especially when they announce their cabinet- Bachmann at SecDef, Paul at Labor, Bolton at State.
Cacti
@Turgidson:
And a white conservative man losing to Obama absolutely sent the white conservatives round the bend.
Their unhinged responses included questioning the President’s country of birth, and organizing into a white resentment movement that claimed to be upset about taxes, despite taxes decreasing over the past two and a half years.
Emperor of Ice Cream
Reality Check — you need to ask for overdraft protection. You are a moron. You can find random people who will say all kinds of stuff. Tea Party/OWS … we could play tit for tat there I’m sure. What you conservatives never seem to get is EQUIVALENCE. Finding a random person who says mean things is not the same as elected officials or representatives of a political party. Show me the Democratic elected officals or party representatives who are on record as saying things like GOP elected officials or party representatives and perhaps we can talk. I’ll wait.
Turgidson
@Satanicpanic:
I would love to see a movie about the fate of the world if the next president appointed that Cabinet. But that’s as close to it is as I’d prefer to get.
Monala
@Reality Check: Bonkers? Not really. I find both Cain and Michael Steele very amusing. I consider Colin Powell an intelligent and once-decent man who sold his soul when he worked for the Bush II administration.
Clarence Thomas, OTOH, I despise. That’s because he’s a Koch-purchased fool in an extremely powerful lifetime position to negatively impact the U.S.
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator:
Two words: Anita Hill.
Frankly, I don’t think that Cain’s teatard base would be too bent out of shape if he kept it within the melanin group.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about that aspect of it…sexual harassment is sexual harassment…but you can bet your bottom dollar that the teatards DO draw that distinction.
That bit of dialog in Blazing Saddles (at the thug recruitment line) rings too true to be dismissed casually.
ABL is thinking along these lines as well, and she’s got a perspective that lends her to doing so.
scav
@Brachiator: Well, as long as we’re being very precise and loathe to judge and all that, there is also the distinct possibility (I’ll cop to feeling it) that the pleasure is not so much in the state and existence of the unwritten rules as such, but rather in seeing those the essentially writ dem rules getting tangled up in them. Party of the Blue Dress, Calling Party of the Blue Dress to the Media Battle Lines! Will there be instant calls for his impeachment as unfit to govern once the battle to elect him is over? Inquiring minds want to know. It would also be far less amusing a situation if he wasn’t such a clown of a candidate; the sound tract is instantly kazoos and slide-whistles instead of oboe and cellos.
Brachiator
@Villago Delenda Est:
I don’t know that to be the case at all, and I have noted the racism among the Tea Party People.
But racism is also an American problem, and I tire of the phony BS that wants to pretend that liberals, progressives and Democrats have freed themselves from it, and that only conservatives, Republicans and Tea Party People are the only bigots left.
It is beginning to look like Cain’s pizza is cooked. Let’s see how it plays out.
And can we retire Blazing Saddles references to the Godwin pile. It’s getting old.
Cacti
@Brachiator:
Never.
Brachiator
@scav:
I’m really not sure what point you are trying to make. But it’s been a long day.
And as an aside, I have no problem judging. In fact, I can be a harsh judge, when I have the facts.
Calouste
@Turgidson:
LBJ already made that movie in 1964. It’s called Daisy.
maya
You’ll know the end is nigh when the CainTrain hires Ahnold Schwarzenegger as a consultant. He, BTW, was also accused of sexual harrassment by several women while running for gov of Calif. While ‘schwarzen’, means black person in German, it would be a bit of a stretch to consider him an African American.
scav
@Brachiator: You were assuming the pleasure taken in the application of the “white women” rules was due to racism. I was pointing out it could be due to the garden variety appreciation of watching hypocrites get caught in their own webs.
lacp
@Brachiator: I certainly hope these allegations are not true. We would likely lose the entertainment value Mr. Cain provides.
In some ways he’s fascinating. I wouldn’t expect him to be particularly informed about, say, foreign policy (hell, W didn’t know squat about foreign anything, and he had been in politics for many years); but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect someone with a background including high-level corporate positions and a stint on a Federal Reserve board to know that he can’t prevent China from acquiring the nukes they’ve had for 50 years. It’s a bit like Dr. Watson’s reaction when he finds out that Sherlock Holmes doesn’t know that the earth goes around the sun – it’s kind of jarring.
scav
@scav: Furthermore (missed the ETA window) the fact that it’s Cain is immaterial to the inglorious pleasure I have in watching certain pundits and media leap, purity fangs out, to his defense.
soyaki
I always thought that Larry Whitmore seemed more than a little uncomfortable on set with Stewart… now Donald Trump has made it clear for all to see why.
Jax6655
@Brachiator:
As a Black woman, hardly projecting my own racism, I pretty much assumed that they’re all white women. I take no pleasure in this, sad as it is, I don’t see them [NRA] paying a Black woman a year’s salary for saying a Black man sexually harassed them.
Anita Hill anyone? Her disclosures were just a bit earlier.
ETA: I see someone else is feeling the same thing.
ABL
@gnomedad: best comment of the day.
ABL
@scav: precisely.
Xenos
@Villago Delenda Est:
This is an important point. The teatards love their alpha males, and this harassment was a matter of marking territory in front of other alpha males. It is no coincidence that there were witnesses to this harassment – that was the whole point. Cain singled out and publicly humiliated young black women who were subordinate to him. He probably did not know why he did it, it was just a matter of testosterone poisoning.