Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>On Thursday's Pub Politics Live show, Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington) said, "we already got one rag-head in the White House, we don't need a rag-head in the governor's mansion," in reference to fellow Republican Nikki Haley's campaign for governor. << Much more at the links: <a href="http://www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=12596702" target="_blank">http://www.wistv.com/global/st...12596702</a> <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/sc-sen-jake-knotts-calls-nikki-haley-a-fking-raghead-sc-dems-call-for-his-removal/" target="_blank">http://www.mediaite.com/online...removal/</a> It's stories like this that make me double check the year on the ol' calendar on the wall. How do ignoramuses like this Knotts clown get elected?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 From the second link: "I don’t know what’s worse. That a STATE SENATOR is unapologetically calling someone a racial slur, or that we still live in a country where being a “raghead” is somehow evidence that you’re unfit for office." No kidding. Damn. <How do ignoramuses like this Knotts clown get elected?> By other ignoramuses. (Ignorami?))
Originally Posted By Mr X After being pressured into issuing a faux apology... ***...he eventually issued an apology. “My ‘raghead’ comments about Obama and Haley were intended in jest,” Knotts said in a statement. He made the comments during an interview with the webcast Pub Politics, and defended himself by saying, “Bear in mind this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It’s like local political version of Saturday Night Live.”*** ...we learn that THIS guy was just getting started! ***He “defended his remarks” immediately following the interview while talking to reporters, and upped his rhetoric then by calling Haley a “f**king raghead.” He then avoided retracting the comment, clarifying to say “he did not mean to use the F-word.” He also repeated his line about the “raghead in the White House,” and said, “This isn’t the first time I’ve said it.” Knotts went on to say that Haley — who was raised as a Sikh but later converted to Christianity — was not Christian enough to govern South Carolina, and that she was being directed by a secret cabal of Sikhs: Knotts says he believed Haley has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it. [...] “We need a good Christian to be our governor,” he said. “She’s hiding her religion. She ought to be proud of it. I’m proud of my god.” Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban. “We’re at war over there,” Knotts said. Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with “foreign countries.”*** <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/04/raghead-show-canceled" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/2010/...canceled</a> I wish I could say I'm speechless, or shocked or whatever, but it seems to me that ratcheting up the bile is the order of the day now...every time I think I've read something truly beyond the pale, the next guy steps up and goes further. *sigh* I hate humanity sometimes. And then, just today, it gets even WORSE (this time from the left!). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...embedded</a> You can watch for youself, it's pretty shocking. But in a nutshell, Helen Thomas basically tells the Jews to go back to Germany. *sigh x1,000,000*
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt >>“We need a good Christian to be our governor,” he said. “She’s hiding her religion. She ought to be proud of it. I’m proud of my god.”<< Let's watch and see how many Christian leaders stand up to protest this ridiculous statement.
Originally Posted By ecdc It gets worse. Much, much worse. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/04/arizona-elementary-school-mural_n_601436.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...436.html</a> An Arizona elementary school has a wall mural of children who actually attended the school. Now, thanks to white racists, the school will repaint the mural to lighten the faces of the black and Latino students. Again, these are students who attended the school whose skin is being lightened. It was not some PC attempt at diversity when the mural was painted.
Originally Posted By Mr X That is horrible ec. Is there any way you could start a new topic on it? I have some thoughts, but I feel as though this first issue could quickly become diluted (and the same for my added Helen Thomas stuff, which is why I started a new topic on HER vile comments). One thing I wonder is if any of those kids being "re-painted" could sue for defamation or something. This is just ridiculous!
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 "Let's watch and see how many Christian leaders stand up to protest this ridiculous statement." Well, I am by no means a leader but as a Christian (and, you know, a human)I find Knotts's words absolutely disgusting!
