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Dr. David McKalip, who thought that a smart critique of President Obama’s health care reform plan involved circulating an email showing the POTUS dressed in witch doctor garb with a bone in his nose to a teabagger listserv, has resigned as president-elect of the Pinellas County Medical Association. An audio clip of McKalip resigning is here. Feeling the heat, the conservative activist has decided a lower profile is in order:
“For now, in the interest of protecting this movement from any collateral damage, I am withdrawing from making media appearances on health system reform,” McKalip wrote this morning in an email — obtained by TPMmuckraker — to fellow members of an online health-care discussion group affiliated with the Tea Party movement
He wrote an apology to the President, but then sent out a message to his buds that didn’t sound very contrite; in fact it’s a liberal conspiracy to portray him as a racist:
Here they come. The first of what likely will be many emails accusing me of being a rascist (sic) for forwarding this email of Obama as a witch doctor. Almost like Hillary and the Obama photo form the presidential campaign.
ADVICE TO ALL: DON’T GET ANGERED AND TAKE THE BAIT ON STUFF LIKE THIS. Remain calm and cool and discuss health policy at all times. The worst they got from me was that people are worried about the health care plans Obama has and that I am busy and had to end the call.
So Talking points memo is apparently painting me as a racist for sending around a picture that points out that health care will get worse if the government takes it over. Looks like I made the top of the list and they BUT THEY DID USE THE ONLY QUOTE I GAVE THEM!! (see below). Apparently they have a professional “Muckraker” for a reporter (see below).
This may be worth doing a story on about how these ultra liberal groups like to race bait and avoid the issue. Professional muckraker? Please. Now they are calling my office phones too!!! Yippee.
Lesson learned: Any attempt to discuss politics will lead to a race-baiting war. Also: Don’t engage on anything that looks like personal attacks on Obama. It casues distraction that confuses the issues.
Don’t let them bait you. I will choose to ignore them and always talk about the issues.
Uh, who hit the send button on the witch doctor email? No commie health care liberal did, doctor bonehead. As folks might recall, in my earlier post, McKalip defended his love-the-negro status by proclaiming that he once “helped organize a career counseling day several years ago for African-American Boy Scouts.”
Hat tip, Electronic Village.
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Brush with blacknessI love how the instant these people are called on their outrageous, blatant racism, they suddenly remember the ONE time they helped a black person – and wield that moment like a flaming Sword of Truth!
I can’t be a racist! There was this one time when I was going into an office building and a black guy was right behind me – and I totally held the door open behind me instead of letting it drop in his face! Doesn’t that count for anything, you race-baiters?
Yeah ex-doktor McKalipWe evil liberals really had to go out on limb to call you an ignorant racist F*CKTARD.
You make it SO easy….cupcake.
I hope you are mortgaged up to your hateful eyeballs, in medical school bills. Thinking of you living in a cardboard box….gives me great joy.
call the hospital…..…he is affiliated with and ask the President’s or Chief Medical Officer’s office if they really want to take the risk that the doctor presents to their risk management program.
why is it thatracist/homophobe republicans all have the same teenager-style of email compositions?
Because they are unsophisticatedI have noticed this, too.
Most of these folks aren’t creative thinkers. They may be intelligent, but they don’t have the ability to use creative language and organize their thoughts into something that is elegant and mature.
These people don’t write peotry. They may be able to do the N.Y. Times crossword, but they can’t put the words they know into anything artful.
That’s why this human turd thought that his witch doctor image of Obama was funny. He probably tells his wife fart jokes.
These are the kinds of people you run away from at a party. They are simply dull.
about those jokes…
Great, just when I’d gotten those James Joyce letters out of my head…
Dear Dr. McKalip: I read with interest your position on Government Funded Healthcare…and frankly, you are so wrong it is unbelievable. In an email to friends after your resignation from the County Medical Association you said, “This may be worth doing a story on about how these ultra liberal groups like to race bait and avoid the issue.”
Since I don’t know you personally, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt about the possible racists motivations of the photo of the President you distributed, but that doesn’t change the fact that it showed incredibly poor judgment, was certainly in extremely poor taste, and was just a stupid thing to do. You complain about race-baiting to avoid the issue, and then you yourself stoop to a tactic like this photo. It’s one and the same, so please get off the “holier than thou” meme. You fell off the high road Doc the instant you hit the “send” on the email that contained the picture. So if you want to get into a tit for tat…well you started it.
The numbers are in, and the current system of private health insurance for profit does not work to help sick people. It does help rich people get richer though.
Here’s a little economics lesson for you. In a free market the primary overriding legal obligation that the insurance companies (as publically traded companies) have is to increase shareholder value. That’s fine, that’s their obligation under the law. However, they don’t do that by keeping me well or paying for my healthcare. They do that by cherry picking who they will insure, collecting the most they can in premiums, and paying out the least they can in claims.
I have employer provided coverage. I have never once filed a claim that I didn’t have to argue with the insurance company about before they paid all they were obligated to pay. The system is to deny, deny, deny, and hopefully I’ll just give up and go away. I’ve had them second guess my physician on many occasions. If the system you advocate works so well why are most bankruptcies in this country the result of catastrophic healthcare costs (even for people who supposedly have insurance)? If the system works so well, why does the government-run healthcare we do have operate with less than 12% overhead while the insurance companies need 30% to operate? If the system works so well why did people drive from Florida and Georgia to Virginia and line up outside for two days just to try to see a doctor or a dentist?
You call for a plan where the young and healthy pay “actual costs” and don’t carry the burden for the old and sick. That sir is the definition of “insurance.” It’s supposed to be a pool that everyone pays into. Some will never claim as much as they pay in, and some will have to claim more. You advocate for a system where people who already can’t afford to make it to the end of the month pay into, in addition to insurance premium, a “super health savings plan” so they can go to the doctor they choose. You advocate for insurance companies to be able to sell “across state lines.” This only gives them the ability to incorporate in the states with the least regulation.
You are obligated under your oath to “do no harm,” but sir, advocating for more of the same as the way to fund healthcare in this country is harming millions of people, both their physical and fiscal health…and you should be ashamed of yourself. I for one will never use your services, and will discourage everyone I know in this area from using your services.
Yours,
P.S. I also understand you are involved in some sort of “tea-bagging” movement. I feel strongly that consenting adults are entitled to do whatever they want in the privacy of their homes, but it is in very poor taste for anyone, especially a professionally licensed person such as yourself, to make their personal sexual proclivities public. Please keep that to yourself.
And probably thisclose to having a black bff“I hung out with this one black dude at the bar during the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and he was totally cool and I didn’t think he was going to [insert negative stereotypical action here] or anything!”
Clumsier than Constanza.
that’s what struck me about this guywe see these from time to time–it’s fascinating because it’s a glimpse beyond the “professional” facade of carefully constructed public statements and into the true casual nature of these nitwits. not all of them have much intelligence beyond public manipulation, but this guy got himself through medical school, for crying out loud. he’s got some brains somewhere. and that email is so dumb, inarticulate, and sensationalistic that it reads like something written by lindsay lohan.
Just so we’re clearI do actually know what the tea-baggers are all about, but thought this was a good snark, and a lot of fun to write to him.
Here in FloridaThe Bishop of the Methodist Church is a huge homophobe. I know, I have talked to him several times on this subject, and had extensive email exchanges. He does have a PhD, and actually fancies himself quite the intellectual. But so help me god, he once defended himself by saying, “I couldn’t be bigoted, there are gay people living in my neighborhood.” I swear I wrote it down because I couldn’t believe he said it.
I responded with, “So you get a vote on who moves in?” He never answered that question.
As hard as it is to believe, apparently these people actually think they’re not homophobes/bigots/racists if at some point in their life they came within a city block of someone of color or gay or whatever else.
As my grandfather was fond of saying, “You’re not a cowboy just because you stepped in a pile of cow manure once.”