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When will they ever learn? I’m not just talking about moronic Republican bigoted politicians like this Virginia Beach Republican chairman (remember NC State Rep. Larry “Fruit Loops” Brown?), but people who think that somehow your randy/racist/homophobic emails to your “friends” may lead to forwards to “friends of friends” and then eventually to the MSM?
But back to this brain-dead pol — David Bartholomew, now the former chairman of Virginia Beach’s Republican Party resigned after sending this out to friends:
MY DOGI went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare.
At first the lady said, “Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare”.
So I explained to her that my Dog is black, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and has no frigging clue who his Daddy is.
So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify…
My Dog gets his first check Friday.
Is this is a great country or what?
Yes, the mask comes off easily these days for the GOP politicians. As Monica Roberts said on my Facebook wall…
VA has a GOP governor and a GOP AG, so the bigots feel comfortable enough to KKKome out and play.
But wait, it does get better (as these stories often do). Look at the statement in the Virginia Pilot.
The city’s Republican chairman agreed to resign late Monday night, just hours after a racist joke sent from his e-mail address surfaced.David Bartholomew is not a racist and agreed to resign because the e-mail had become a distraction to the Nov. 2 election, said Gary Byler, the 2nd Congressional District GOP chairman, after meeting with Bartholomew.
The e-mail was dated March 15 and sent from the address that Bartholomew uses as party chairman. Bartholomew forwarded it without reading the contents when “he was first getting familiar with the Internet,” Byler said.
Oh. My. F*cking. Dog. Is that not the most ridiculous excuse you’ve heard? OK, first, any disclaimer that starts off with “he’s not a racist” should just go into the circular file pronto. But “getting familiar with the Internet” makes the guy look like a moron. Perhaps Bartholomew’s “forward” and “send” buttons in his email client must be inordinately larger than the rest of the commands, and his hands uncontrollably moved to hit them on that one missive.
Come on, go with the simplest explanation, since Republican bigots are a dime a dozen. Bartholomew just wanted to share his tasteless humor with people he thought were his friends. Now who’s going to fess up to sending to the media? I’m sure he wants to know.
The Maddow blog has more, with the hat tips going to Daily Kos diarist @lowkell and Blue Virginia.
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Racist or Moron?Hmmm… difficult…. I vote for Both.
And remember, I lean to the Right.
I wouldn’t care to make a bet that the same kind of stuff doesn’t sometimes, rarely, circulate in DNC nets. But it gets sat upon, quickly. While it takes the GOP days or even hours to decide what to do, I can’t blame anyone for voting against them.
That’s the problem. Not individual morons or racists (or racist morons), but a system that tolerates them. I just hope that this serves as a Horrible Example, not of someone getting caught, but to those who elected this Goon into a responsible position in the first place.
If the GOP is going to be perceived as a rational alternative to the mess that the DNC is making, they must clear up their act. Not just this guy, but all those like him.
A photo-op with Michael Steelestill might rehabilitate him with the GOP; maybe they could even share a drinking fountain to show just what an egalitarian Republican he is…
That’s not just a Virginia problem..It’s a pattern I’ve noted anywhere the GOP takes control.
Bigots seem to get more comfortable expressing their inner Klansman whenever the Republican party is running the government.
Meanwhile…A college Professor at Lincoln University (the nations oldest historically black college) says that the Holocaust is a lie, Jews control the US government, and that the Jews must be ethnically cleansed out of Israel, he also advocates for convicted terrorists. But nothing will happened to him because he has tenure.
When in a moment of stupidity a conservative forwards a racist joke he gets fired within a few hour, when a liberal denies the Holocaust, calls for genocide, supports terror, and spreads racist conspiracies, its business as usual. Enough with the double standard.
Lincoln University needs to fire the scumbag or be defunded and shut down.
Linkhttp://www.breitbart.tv/colleg…
This guy is an idiot of the highest calibreWhen someone complains very bitterly about the nonsense and anti democrat comments made on these blogs…this is the only reason. LOOK AT OUR ALTERNATIVE.
Mencken, in ON DEMOCRACY:
He wrote that in the mid-1920s, and it is truer now than it was then. Who could argue?
Sometimes it seems to me……that the main benefit of a more active government over the Libertarian wet-dream of unfettered corporate control is that when the assholes are in government we have some oversight. Even the frauds, fanatics, poltroons and scoundrels will be a bit more restrained when there are a few million people looking over their shoulders who aren’t their peers on the executive board.
That hasn’t stopped Michelle Bachmann, Virginia Fixx, Louie Gohmertor any of the other reactionary halfwits in congress.
Zazu…what double standard?The GOP has engaged (and is doing so right now) in race baiting, voter suppression of POC’s, opposing civil rights legislation since the mid 1960′s, has been the home of the Dixiecrats since 1968, get caught on an almost weekly or monthly basis saying something insensitively racist, sexist (et cetera).
It is the party of Willie Horton, ‘The Southern Strategy’ birthers, deathers, and the ‘I believe in State’s rights’ 1980 Reagan Speech in Philadelphia, MS.
Shall I continue?
And I haven’t even begun to point out the monochromatic, monoracial composition of the Republican House and Senate leadership and their various state parties.
Double standard? Please. Don’t even try to pimp that ‘false equivalency’ BS in the face of four decades of evidence the GOP and conservatives in general are racist turds.
The Republicans have earned and continue to live up to their racist reputation they have worked tirelessly to earn over the last 40 years. Those of you who support them or make excuses for them are only enabling GOP racism.