New proof that all town-hall protesters are racist: Guy tears up woman’s Rosa Parks poster
posted at 1:25 pm on August 13, 2009 by Allahpundit
A “Larger Truth” brought to you by the same nutroots liars who now insist that eight years of Bush = Hitler rhetoric was fringe stuff that shouldn’t be used to tar the entire left. I suppose if you can believe that quoting the Boston Globe amounts to “stalking,” you can believe that fears of socialized medicine are really all about resegregating buses. Funny thing about this: The whole thing happens so fast, and the perpetrator’s angle of view is so acute, that it looks like he never even saw what was on the poster. As McCaskill herself — to her great credit — notes in the second clip below, this was almost certainly a case of overreaction to the “no signs allowed” policy at the town hall rather than some targeted attack on a civil-rights icon. But this is where our national “debate” is right now, so behold racism in action. QED.
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I would argue that falling victim to race baiting is the epitome of ignorance.
ADB on August 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Gee, I must have missed the tired old fat white man part. Nice to see ya go ad-hominem.
Classy.
By the way: 400 years?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM
robertnyc please please please tell me you have voted democrat your whole life, I need the luscious irony!
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM
Btw, fat, tired, old, white man?
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Maybe you can graduate to super-racist by pointing out slavery in Africa still exists and has been going strong for 5,000+ years.
Oh, but then you have to mention Islam.
Look, if people are so passionate about this issue, go to Sudan or Niger and fight against slavery that still exists.
My family was scratching out a meager living in Ireland until the late 1930s, so I will not be guilted into ruining this country – a country that my grandparents risked a lot to come to.
Of course, even if I my family traced it’s roots back to Jamestown, my feeling would be the same.
reaganaut on August 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Yeah, I just can’t stand having my plantation stocked up with shiftless, lazy Native Americans.
Not that I would want to, um, stereotype anybody, of course.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM
It is 2009, time to STFU and join the productive class of society.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Honestly, is that your best shot?
Pathetic.
At least Terry Skyver issued nice, scary death threats.
By the way: 400 years?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:51 PM
You just can’t have lefty outrage without an idiotic little rhyming jingle.
clearbluesky on August 13, 2009 at 3:51 PM
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Native americans were not shiftless/lazy at all. Just not as adaptive to the harshness of slavery.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Come on, daesleeper, race-baiting can be very lucrative.
Just ask Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton. Skip Gates.
And that, um, kinda black guy in the White House.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM
I’ll admit to 400 years if you admit you’re fat, old and white.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 3:53 PM
They never had the opportunity to vote democrat huh?
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Where did you learn that? In the Race and Eugenics course at Black History University?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:53 PM
True.
Wrong.
European immigrants benefited greatly from a series of welfare programs that were specifically created for them under the Roosevelt Administration and which were continued through Truman and Eisenhower.
Historians of the New Deal/WW2/”Fair Deal” Era refer to what happened as the creation of a “two-tiered welfare state.” In essence, that there was a welfare system for white male industrial laborers and one for everyone else. For example, if you were a domestic worker or a farm laborer you got bubkis from the Social Security Act, the creation of unemployment insurance, or workplace hazard insurance in the New Deal.
Worse, when we thnk about the creation of the middle class, that transition for so many European immigrant childrens from working class to middle class we have to talk about the Federal Housing Authority (the FHA), urban deindustrialization and the solidification of whites only policies within industrial unions after the war. The FHA was the most pernicious whites only welfare system that, single handedly gave a generation of white workers sweetheard loans for their first home, the basis of wealth for so many families who moved into the middle class during the 40s and 50s. Unfortunately, there were no conditions placed on FHA loans. Realtors who openly refused to show or sell houses to African Americans in suburban areas were not barred from giving their customers access to the program (hint, nearly ALL realtors engaged in this practice). So even if African Americans got access to one “tier” of expanded welfare via Aid to Families with Dependent Children, working African Americans were never allowed to take into the more important second tier of welfare, FHA loans. Another “tier” of welfare was federal support of the conversion of urban war-time industrial plants into suburban manufacturing plants. While employment discrimination against African Americans was barred in federal employment during the war, as plants converted into private operations, no such anti-employment discrimination laws existed in the late 40s and 50s. Despite this, the federal government spent billions of dollars assisting industry in their move to the suburbs, i.e. welfare for whites.
I won’t babble on for too much longer, but yeah. It’s wrong to assume that white people did not have federal “welfare” assistance as they transitioned from immigrants to the middle-class. And, I think because there wasn’t a lynch mob involved people assume that these things just happened. No they were planned.
CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM
400 years, huh?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM
400 years, huh?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM
I rest my case.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 3:55 PM
God,I miss Jesse Jackson.
That man could rhyme nonsense like nobody’s business.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM
hey robert, how much of my money can i give to you to make your racism go away? I’m a white guy with deep pockets.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Jeeze. Why can’t liberals stop talking about skin color. They need to get over their hyphenated american obsession.
jhffmn on August 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Well, that’s it, then. We’re all convinced here.
Let me see if I can sum it up: because I ignore your juvenile taunts about “fat old white man” (nothing racist there), then it becomes an historical fact that slavery lasted 400 years.
Geez, I at least expected you to try to lump South American and Caribbean slavery in to stretch it out a few decades, but all you’ve got is “fat old white man”?
Boy, AnninCA could run rings around you.
Oh, wait…she’s old and white…
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 4:00 PM
You’re still not answering my question: Are you old, fat and white? Come on, it’s a simple question.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Robertnyc went out for some Newports and a Colt45?
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Well, I’m done playing with the low-IQ troll and Mr. Scholar of the Black Diaspora.
400 years, huh?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 4:02 PM
HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD I HAVE TO GIVE TO YOU TO MAKE YOUR RACISM GO AWAY?
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:03 PM
LOL
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Are u leaving…again. Que the banjo music.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:05 PM
oops, cue.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Well what is your f@#king point? You use racism as a tool. It’s pathetic.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Just don’t go off the democrat plantation robert. They will throw you under the bus faster than those worthless welfare new yorkers spent their ‘free’ $200.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:08 PM
I’m a fat old white man: 265# 6″1″ honkie.
What does that gain anyone?
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 4:10 PM
It would explain a lot.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM
It’s obvious that robertnyc212 could never have graduated with a degree in accounting. I am betting Black Studies or something like that and now he is working as an account representative for some place – he’s just not smart enough to understand that it does not make him an accountant.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM
robertnyc was just confessing that he is nothing without racism in his toolbox.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Higher insurance premiums for the rest of us? *throws a DVD of Power 90x at davidk* Get it together homeslice.
CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Dude, you are confusing me with Afrolib a few pages back. try to keep up.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM
This was on HuffPo a couple days ago. The loons over there were having a field day with it. I made the mistake of suggesting the very same explanation as posted here by AllahPundit. Needless to say, it wasn’t pretty.
mfrantom on August 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM
So true that is why MLK was a registerd republican. Being a democrat was like being in the KKK!
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM
One wonders how many southern Republican’s grandparents were Democrats?
CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM
You both could be the same person – high ignorance level for you two.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM
I know. I understand what you’re saying, and I don’t want to stray too far off topic, but there is a world of difference between welfare assistance and welfare dependence.
However, it is a perfect example of how government run programs turn into monsters over time and why I am so vehemently opposed to Obamacare.
reaganaut on August 13, 2009 at 4:15 PM
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:13 PM
You’re confusing democrat with dixiecrat. Not the same. Dixiecrats are more likely republican.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:15 PM
One wonders how many of your ancestors were idiots.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:16 PM
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:14 PM
That’s crazy talk dp.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Yes, a difference that was purposeful. One set of programs were meant to assist white communities acheive economic independence, one set of programs was meant to compensate for the racist administration of the other programs. The problem wasn’t “government program.” The problem was racist distribution of federal resources. The suburbs and the middle class lifestyle enjoyed by generations of whites (and very gradually, non-whites) is an example of how effective the government is in manufacturing a middle class, quite literally.
CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Oh for heavens sakes, I can not believe people are this anal.
Terrye on August 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Native Americans owned every kind of slaves. They had white slaves too when they could get them. They made slaves of each other or anyone they conquered in battle that lived. Generally they would just pick up any likely looking child that was left behind after a raid. Sometimes they would adopt them, but often they were just slaves.
In some areas of the country, Native Americans were enslaved. On the pacific coast, the Spanish priests were in constant conflict over the way Spanish soldiers were treating the natives they took as slaves. Generally though, it was harder to keep Native Americans as slaves because it was easier for them to be rescued by their family.
Lily on August 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Has anyone ever confronted AC with why he wants racism so bad?
oakpack on August 13, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Just to be clear Reagannut, even if we conceede the distinction between welfare “dependence” and welfare “assistance” the point remains, federal welfare was necessary for the creation of the white middle class.
CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 4:20 PM
UUUUHHHHH NO I am not go read your history!
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Cmon robertnyc, name a dollar amount. What would it cost a fat white guy like me to make your racism go away?
Name it and claim it!
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I am sure my grandfather and father busting their ass had nothing to do with their eventually move into middle class – they never got any government anything at any time and made it there under their own efforts. Get out of your stupid liberal dream world were you can only get ahead if the government helps you out.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:23 PM
UUUUHHHHH NO I am not go read your history!
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:20 PM
“Into the late 20th century, the South changed from a Democratic monolith to a majority Republican sector of the country with GOP gains in state legislatures. This change, which became quite evident in 1972 with the electoral success of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, peaked with the elections of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and George H. W. Bush in 1988.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:26 PM
You’re 100% sure of the conditions underwhich your grandparents bought their home. You know if they got a FHA assisted loan? Lived in a community nearby an industrial plant? Since I’m assuming they were white we can assume your grandfather didn’t face racial discrimination in his attempt to find a job.
It doesn’t take away from their accomplishments to acknowledge that the government worked to create conditions that would allow white citizens to succeed during and after the war and did not do the same for others.
CrankyIndependent on August 13, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Answer my question. You have already established what you are, now we are haggling over price.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Like what, turd bucket?
I forgot to add that I’m 58yo, too.
But if you’re feeling frisky, Crank … .
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM
You are making an unfounded assumption because it fits your worldview. They bought their house with cash and did not work in a protected or subsidised industry.
You might be surprised that this will hold true for most people in the middle class – they were not subsidised to get there. It speaks volumes about liberals that they think it is impossible to get ahead without the government helping. You can try to pull people into the middle class anyway you want but they only way to get there and stay there is under your own power.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM
So the police escorted out both people who disrupted the event, and clearly it’s racist because the quiet protesters didn’t get expelled.
What a crock of crap. Too bad it’ll probably stick (and smell).
eforhan on August 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM
WIKI LMAO! When MLK started his civil rights movement before Nixon it was primarily dems! The southern dems were KKK members you know like Sen Byrd! It wasn’t until 1968 and Nixon run for pres and LBJ signing the Civil Rights bill there was an exodus to the republican. So when I said they were primarily dems I was correct! So thank for providing me the information that I was correct!
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM
That you’re another tired, fat, white man angry at the world (and specifically minorites) for your creeping irrelevance and impotence. Like Rush, et al.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Hold up a mirror. You vote for your own enslavement every time you punch the card for the democrats. I’d call you stupid and uninformed, but you already know that.
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:39 PM
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM
I respectfully disagree.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM
If creeping irrelevance is 10 millions daily listeners and millions of dollars in income- sign me up – I’ll be the head cracker.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Oh, that explains a lot.
Now, back to the original topic. Someone wanted to now if someone else was a fat, old, white guy. I admitted that I was. How does that affect the discussion? What does that gain anything?
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM
If Lyndon Johnson could see how well his plan to reenslave blacks in this country has worked out…
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Yeah sure, Rush looks like a happy camper. Guess that’s why he needs all that oxycotin.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:43 PM
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM
daesleeper, time to wake up.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Libtard 101 – change the argument.
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM
He is shamelessly stupid…
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM
That’s fine but, that’s history! It wasn’t until the civil rights bill was signed that they went over to the republican party! And what’s hysterical about that it was mostly republicans that supported the bill!
http://www.congresslink.org/civilrights/1964.htm
The Democratic leadership and Humphrey could not control the southern wing of the party. Many of Russell’s forces feared their southern constituents would vote them out of office if, as senators, they voted for equal rights for blacks. Election imperatives trumped loyalty to their party’s majority. The “southern bloc” held out hope that presidential candidate George Wallace, a segregationist from Alabama, would do well in the early presidential primaries. If Wallace seemed popular, Russell would argue that the nation as a whole did not support federal civil rights legislation and that the Senate should not pass an unwanted bill. Southern senators could not compromise. Only by forcing cloture could they demonstrate to their constituents that they had fought to the end even against hopeless odds. Russell also believed there was a growing backlash against the increasingly radical tactics of civil rights protestors. A filibuster that would postpone legislation as long as possible would give the backlash time to reach a critical mass.
The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. As it turned out, only one Republican senator would participate in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights in Congress than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:55 PM
He is shamelessly stupid…
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I agree. Rush is absurdly stupid but he somehow finds dumber folks to buy into his diatribes.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 5:05 PM
somebody call in the justice brothers.
Neo-Chase on August 13, 2009 at 5:07 PM
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 4:55 PM
early southern democrats = racist crackers
early and some current southern republicans = racist crackers with money
’nuff said
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Kudos to McCaskill. She’s learned from criticism. She tweeted a mea culpa for being “condescending” a few days back. Looks like she has become much more open & willing to listen to her constituents.
YehuditTX on August 13, 2009 at 5:11 PM
robertnyc212 = idiot
nuff said
dpierson on August 13, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Hey, bobnic. “Someone wanted to now if someone else was a fat, old, white guy. I admitted that I was. How does that affect the discussion? What does that gain anything?”
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Nice! Glad to see you helping rage the fire. We can do without the cracker adjective! I will give you there were racist in the south & north but not all are CRACKERS! I live in NYC as well and haqve been to mostly every state in the country as well as many countries. I have never seen more of a racist bunch than liberals…..Good intention pave the path to HELL!
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Don’t wander off the democrat plantation! They need your ignorant ass!
daesleeper on August 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Be careful about characterizing people as stupid. Who the hell are you to judge? Most of you folks do not even have a good command of the language let alone possess the intellectual horsepower to drive your points forward. Maybe you should just audit a course that would provide you with information about slavery throughout history. Did you know that the Cherokees had slaves? No shit!
LarryG on August 13, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Well down here in Alabama were I was born N raised……. Look I have lived in the perpetual “most racist state in the union” my whole life. I do not know anyone who is a racist. I’m not saying that their aren’t any, but as far as I can see it doesn’t exist. I am soooo sick of hearing the race card played.
Neo-Chase on August 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM
You sound like a good person and I’m sure we have more in common than we have in opposition. I admit, I have been ragging on a few in here out of guilty pleasure. Believe me I hold no politician or party above suspicion because it all comes down to money and power. And we the people are just an ends to the mean. I hope you didn’t take anything I said earlier personally (and that goes for the others I have been jousting with as well). On that note best of luck to you and safe travels.
robertnyc212 on August 13, 2009 at 5:23 PM
Here’s the question of the day. Where did the evil white man get all of his black slaves from????
Neo-Chase on August 13, 2009 at 5:26 PM
TY truce. I think all americans but maybe a select few want the same thing for our country. But, I many have become confused what our country represents to not only ourselves but, to others that either want to come here or admire us for what we have accomplished. I think many have awaken to the fact we have lost our common sense and lost a good part of our history through complacency. If we don;t get this under control now we will lose this country for ever and the founders great experiment will have been for naught!
One thing I have always remembered from my education is a quote from Ben Franklin after the constitutional convention.
A woman came up to him and asked him what have you given us? He said; “A Republic If You Can Keep It”
I also, had a professor say the pendulum alwaus swings back.
You sound like a nice person as well but, this is not a time in our history to feed the fire. i know these boards ae for venting but, let’s not fan the flames.
Best to you as well!
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM
WTF! Who brings a Rosa Parks poster to a town hall meeting? Illogical liberals (redundant I know) that’s who.
kregg on August 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Did I mention that I have money and power, too, turd bucket?
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Thomas Jefferson was a prolific breeder. Regular sex machine.
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Two fat black women who are under the impression that Rosa Parks has something to do with healthcare?
guntotinglibertarian on August 13, 2009 at 5:39 PM
I think it goes deeper than that….I believe they feel they’re entitled to HC on the tax payer dime as part of reparations as “O” does. Rosa was a woman that stood up to the white man as a defender of the blacks that would not be bullied by not moving from her seat. She was correct in her fight for equal rights. But, many blacks are disillusioned and illeducated on our history and what these people stood for in our history. I think their mindset was clouded by what the real issue is going on by the media and they have misplaced reality with their rights!
xler8bmw on August 13, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Anybody notice AC practically begging her to say it was racism?
MaCaskill was smart to NOT throw that kinda dumbass accusation.
No signs, then put it down. Keep flashin it, I would have definitely taken it from her hands.
He did right and the organizers were negligent in letting this incident incubate.
Sapwolf on August 13, 2009 at 6:56 PM
And WTF does healthcare have to do with Rosa Parks? Excuse me?
Sapwolf on August 13, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Latest troll batch is poor.
I’m longing for Pooptech.
Sapwolf on August 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Are we really supposed to give a dam# about the selective outrage from liberals concerning the tearing up of this poster when they have nothing to say about a black man being beaten down in the street by democratic activists.
Get back to us liberals when you actually have some credibility on moral standards and ethics.
Baxter Greene on August 13, 2009 at 7:07 PM
As robertnyc212 proves they are deliberately ignorant of history. This is especially so when history proves them wrong.
What makes me smile is the thought of him behind his keyboard so angry and miserable, that he has to come here to squeeze out some of his inner puss just so he can feel a little better about himself.
2010 is coming.
Hard Right on August 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Yep. Welcome to the big league; welcome to HotAir.
“I’ve got a degree from a four-year college.”
That was a good one.
davidk on August 13, 2009 at 7:35 PM
This is sooooooooo typical of certain segments of our communities. Some think the rules don’t apply to them. Others think their ethnicity gives their opinions absolute moral authority.
Add the two together and you get the typical ignorant Ochimpy supporter.
csdeven on August 13, 2009 at 7:40 PM
Was this BS staged?
Humphrey007 on August 13, 2009 at 7:47 PM
Well that was stupid. Freedom means freedom for everyone. Argue on merit not symbols. Besides what does Rosa Parks have to do with health care reform? That was someone’s personal property, and if the guy got his butt kicked for what he did, he would have deserved it.
I don’t care about liberal outrage. Right is right and wrong is wrong. Doesn’t matter who’s doing it.
Hog Wild on August 13, 2009 at 10:41 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiLZF–ehA
Constant Parrhesia on August 14, 2009 at 8:49 AM
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