House Democrat: If we don’t censure Joe Wilson, the KKK will ride through the countryside
posted at 3:25 pm on September 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
Via the Blog Prof. Nothing new here — remember, James Clyburn already compared town-hall protesters to goons who attacked civil-rights marchers — but between this and Howard Kurtz’s argument this morning that it’s racist to shout at Obama about the Constitution, I think the “post-racial presidency” can be safely pronounced dead and buried. It was always a fraud, of course, starting with the racial insinuations directed at the Clintons by Team Barry, on through the general election when accusations about McCain’s alleged racism would slip oh so innocently from The One’s lips (ask Mark Salter about that), and right up to the present day, when a guy who never seems to stop talking somehow can’t be bothered to speak up when his pals on the left pinch off poisonous loaves like this. Even so, the cynicism of it during the ObamaCare debate, as an Alinskyan tactic to demonize good-faith opponents of Obama’s agenda, is simply breathtaking. Take 10 minutes to read Jesse Walker’s critique at Reason of how the left demagogues “right-wing extremism” to serve its ends. It’s an essential gloss on this garbage.
Fun fact about Johnson: He’s the guy who upset Cynthia McKinney in the Democratic primary in 2006, with the full support of the blogosphere eager for a more credible, less radical congressman to represent that district. Here’s how much more credible he is.
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He reminds me of the sprinter from South Africa that won the womens championship last month.
Fuquay Steve on September 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM
For a sec there, at the end, I just knew he was about to break out in song: “No-baw-dy know da Trubble I seen, no-bawdy know buh Jeeee-suss…”.
ziggyville on September 15, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Would it be racist of me to say that Rep. Hank Johnson D-Georgia reminds me of Barny Fife? Except for the barritone voice he’s a dead ringer.
“Mr. President, regarding the Joe Wilson situation I call for this legislative body to nip it in the bud! NIP IT!”
rihar on September 15, 2009 at 4:36 PM
That’s some mighty fine trollin’ there, Lou.
Doorgunner on September 15, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Ladies and gents, I call your attention to this blog that constantly criticizes on our first black president, labels him a failure, bags on his incompetence, publishes vicious digs about him, is otherwise extremely disrespectful..
..and has yet to utter one word of apology.
Oh, wait, Clifford is an African American.
*..nevermind..*
VoyskaPVO on September 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Then choose your words more carefully !!!!! You can be more PC than that !! C’mon!!
He is an “uncle Tom”
….
Don’t mention it ! :-)
cableguy615 on September 15, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Congressman Johnson could be used in a horrifying anti-drug PSA: “This gaunt, jibberastic imbecile was brought to you by crack cocaine”.
Travis Bickle on September 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM
I don’t care if Obama’s Black (or half-Black) I don’t like him because he’s Red. (Does that make me a “Colorist”?)
itsacookbook on September 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doorgunner on September 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Liberals can call me “racist” til the cows come home.
I simply no longer care.
sdillard on September 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM
crr6 is a racist. Plain and simple.
According to crr6 and other liberal trolls: Blacks can’t be conservative or they’re “oreos” or are “fake.” Blacks can’t support other candidates than Democrats. Blacks are always poor. Blacks need crr6 and his “do-gooders” to have a decent life because they’re helpless. Blacks have no chance in America to succeed without the Democrat party, etc.
Categorizing people according to skin color and assigning them “proper” beliefs or other characteristics…because of their skin color.
THAT’S bigotry and racism, and the Democrats do nothing but engage in racism.
You’re a racist. Stop bringing your racial hate to this site and
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Joe Wilson was just following Obama’s advice, if you hear an untruth “call them out on it”. Oh wait, I guess that only applies to the libs.
MJZZZ on September 15, 2009 at 4:43 PM
If BO is a terrorist, because he associated with Bill Ayers 30 years after Ayers had committed his last terrorist act, isn’t Wilson a racist because he was mentored by racist pinhead Strom Thurmond?
Just askin’
Representative Johnson sounds as dumb talking about white sheets as Jeff Sessions did when he got his knicker in a twist about wise Latinas. Be fun to lock the both in a room for a few hours.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Wow! Is this guy really one of the house representatives? He can barely speak. How does someone like this get elected? Why do I even ask?
silvernana on September 15, 2009 at 4:43 PM
The school district in his congressional district was run so badly the feds had to take it over. What was the excuse given by the school board? Racism of course. So he represents his district very well as did McKiney before him. Crazy congressman representing crazy people.
angryed on September 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Who called ‘BO a terrorist”?
Doorgunner on September 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Sigh…..
angryed on September 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Unbelieveable.
Can anything good come from that district?
TexasDan on September 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
None taken. The bozo voters are in every state!
Elizabetty on September 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Except Utah!
Elizabetty on September 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I wonder if the KKK will use Martha Stewart sheets.
elderberry on September 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Racist.
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Look, these people know they’re going to lose. They know they’re on the wrong side of just about every issue, from health care to Cap’n'Trade. And they know they’re going down the drain starting with the 2010 elections.
They know this. They know they had their chance and they know they had all the marbles and they know they blew it and they know that when the pendulum swings back toward the center, they are done. toast. Stick a fork in them.
So, they’re resorting to this. Yes, it’s clearly pathetic. But like a prize fighter who just threw a bout-changing punch, you need to be able to recognize the look on the face of your opponent so you can step in and put them away.
And this is what that looks like.
pabarge on September 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Who is Robert Byrd (D)? Tell us, trolls.
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Sigh…..
angryed on September 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Why waste your precious CO2 on a pathetic troll like Bleeds Blew?
cableguy615 on September 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Racist. It’s the new Meow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujx_oO4vH8w&feature=related
Doorgunner on September 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Wait…it’s “dumb” for Johnson to assert that Wilson is the “poster child” for “folks wearing white sheets ridin’ around the countryside indimitatin’ people”?
And that’s the same level of “dumb” you see in reaction to the repeated assertion by Sotomayor that she’s preternaturally determined to make better decisions based on her race?
Your parents must be so proud.
TexasDan on September 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I’ll bet you and all the other fools that are spouting this idiocy that 90% of the people that are protesting 0bama would NOT be protesting were Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams or even JC Watts (who all happen to be much more ‘black’ than 0bama) were President.
It ain’t the melanin content of the skin… it is the marxist- destructionist ideology, stupid.
LegendHasIt on September 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I miss Cynthia McKinney.
mike_NC9 on September 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Why does everyone keep failing to mention that Obama is half-white?
If he was the same lineage, but had white skin, would it still be considered racist, since he’d be half-black?
MadisonConservative on September 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I bet you’re a typical white person.
TexasDan on September 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
It ain’t the melanin content of the skin… it is the marxist- destructionist id
eologiocy, stupid.LegendHasIt on September 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM
cableguy615 on September 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Bobby’s been pretty good on civil rights for a long time now. Or are the sins of our youth now held against us forever? ‘Cause I’ve got Republican candidate for governor in Virginia who hates working women, then.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Maybe the leftist trolls here can tell us all what policies of Obama’s we’d be actively supporting if it weren’t for his skin color.
Anytime, trolls. We’re waiting.
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM
So if I think obama is a liar I am racist??
kiss my white a$$
sonofdy on September 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Klan-member props? FAIL.
TMK on September 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
bb @ 4:43
The first dog’s a terrorist?!
Troll Feeder on September 15, 2009 at 4:58 PM
You mean, a U.S. Senator taking one line from a speech and turning that into a full fledged assault on the noble but oppressed White Race?
Damn right. Sessions and Johnson are both race-baiting tools.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Sure they are. He was considerably older than “youth” when he was in the KKK. Think about it – a Democrat Klan member – the only one in the Congress. NO GOP KKK members – the only one is a Democrat.
Squirm.
The Washington Post sure seems to think that’s more important than OBAMACORN’s advocacy of child prostitution.
Or is that racism, too?
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Isn’t he the guy that sings “Chocolate Rain”?
Wyznowski on September 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM
She gave that speech a number of times over the years. She obviously believed it. She’s a racist.
And you’re defending a racist. How’s that feel – Obamacrats supported the first open racist on the Supreme Court in many decades.
Sucks to be you.
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
If you are counting colors,
He’s the greenest president I’ve seen and I’ve voted since Nixon.
bluegrass on September 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Maybe… did he step away from the mic to breathe in?
TMK on September 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Name a single former member of the KKK serving as a Republican in Congress.
I’ll start the stopwatch…now.
MadisonConservative on September 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Johnson is a certified nut case but fits in well with the house majority.
rplat on September 15, 2009 at 5:03 PM
To this idiot, dissent = racism.
sonofdy on September 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
It`s just getting boring now, bordering on annoying. Call me racist, I don`t care. I know I`m not and I`ll never convince those who`d think I am.
I
AM
DONE!
ThePrez on September 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
I wonder if criticism of Clarence Thomas or Condi Rice is as racist as telling Obama not to stop violating the Constitution.
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Well, they`re not really black. They`re house slaves in the eyes of liberals.
ThePrez on September 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
I’m not sure what the point is. Byrd was once a member of the KKK. Based on his voting record, he changed.
You don’t have to be a Klansman to be a bigot.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM
I didn’t say that at all. Dissent to your heart’s content.
I have said, and will say again, that any (virtually) all-white movement rooted in intense, psychotic hatred of a powerful black man, raises suspicion.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
The only person in Congress who rode around in white sheets is a DEMOCRAT. Not a Republican. That’s the point.
Being a Republican doesn’t make you a bigot either, genius. Calling a dishonest Democrat president a liar is NOT racist. It has nothing to do with race.
It’s the ideology, stupid.
Good Lt on September 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
But you can get away with terrorizing and hanging black men by the neck until dead if you vote for food stamps later?
Wow. Leftists are some greedy sickos.
TMK on September 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Oh for Chrisake, these people are so crazy.
Terrye on September 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM
I have a confession to make.
I’m a racist.
I’m racing to save my nation before this silver-tongued devil can destroy it (or, more to the point, turn it into something I no longer recognize).
IndieDogg on September 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Nope, he just found a better way to repress ‘undesirables’, namely gov’t ‘assistance’. You know his nickname on Capital Hill is ‘Sheets’.
Phil-351 on September 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM
This is Cynthia McKinney’s opponent?! Uggh. I feel sick. I gave him a little money for his campaign. I didn’t remember his name though, so I guess that makes me a racist.
juliesa on September 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM
So just almost every one started by WHITE people are racist.
Okay I know what you are now. You are a racist prig ignored.
sonofdy on September 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM
+1000
cmsinaz on September 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM
I figure Wilson’s outburst has two possible victims: The dignity of the office of the President, and the dignity of the House of Representatives.
Wilson apologized to President Obama, and Obama accepted it. That closes the books on #1.
As far as #2 is concerned, the dignity of the House was a shambles before Wilson spoke, made so by many of its own members, mostly by Democrats. There being no dignity to offend, #2 is rendered moot.
Can we MoveOn now?
Socratease on September 15, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Exactly.
According to BleedsBlue, obvious racism on the part of a Supreme Court nominee isn’t worthy of discussion. Aaaand, obvious racism on the part of Democrat representatives is only “dumb”.
TexasDan on September 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM
No, there are plenty of all- or mostly white movements, organizations and clubs that aren’t racists. NASCAR, the NRA, innumerable garden clubs, the Republican Party. But, here’s the thing, none of them have as a central tenet of their existence visceral hatred of a black guy.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Too late bleeds blue, you are exposed as a racist
sonofdy on September 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Let’s all start using the N-word so we can move on to another smear. This one has gotten boring.
jimmy2shoes on September 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM
Nincompoops!
I feel so deliciously white trash! Let’s go to a tractor push or a hoot-nanny or something!
TMK on September 15, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Just goes to show you that neither age nor position can cure stupid. Hey! DumbA$$ Congressman – the KKK was, is and always will be a product of the Democrat Party.
Sporty1946 on September 15, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Tex (can I call you Tex? I just saw ZZ Top the other night and I’m feeling very close to the Lone Star State):
The obvious strategy among your ilk is to distort every discussion of race into one in which your opponent is an unhinged extremist, in order to hide the weaknesses and prejudices of your own arguments. Even admitting that there might be racism anywhere on earth is somehow tarring all upstanding citizens with the same unfair brush. That way, you don;t have to talk about a subject that clearly makes you uncomfortable, for whatever reason.
You also have a rather pathetic need to play the victim card, which is common among conservatives. I think the tendency towards conservatism and the tendency towards whining are genetically linked.
If Sotomayor was a racist you would have found more than a line in a speech — a dumb line but one clearly constructed to inspire the young Latinas who heard it rather than put down us oppressed white folk — to use against her.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
I was actually thinking numbnuts, but nincompoops works well also.
jimmy2shoes on September 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM
House just passed the Resolution…
Romeo13 on September 15, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Ha, That’s the best joke I’ve heard all year. You are an incredibly funny person. Forgot the sarcasm tag though. Some of the slower people around here might think you were serious!
Thanks for the laugh.
LegendHasIt on September 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM
EVERY post here is racist… Have any of you noticed that every other post is black and odd number ones are white … SEE, … Proof that this is a racist site. I think I will complain to somebody, maybe the NAACP or the DNC or somebody ….
Ghostbuster on September 15, 2009 at 5:41 PM
M
I KNEW you’d be on this thread, you pervert troll. You just can’t resist any opportunity to call conservatives racists.
As Self-Appointed Defender of Non-White Peoples, there’s no accusation or insult you won’t spew out. What is all this faux-anger hiding? What are you so defensive about? Why all the ‘reaction formation’, as the headshrinkers say?
What is crap6′s deep Darky secret?
Janos Hunyadi on September 15, 2009 at 5:43 PM
they always seem to forget that little tidbit, don’t they….hmmmmmm
cmsinaz on September 15, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Is he saying that if Joe Wilson is not censured then the Democrats will resurrect their former political allies, the KKK.
Remember, in 1924 at the Klanbake Convention in NYC, a small majority of the Democrat delegates voted to maintain their special relationship with the Klan.
Laurence on September 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM
‘We’ DID find racism–and an ignorance of the law–in what she did and wrote, troll. It wasn’t all that difficult
you and crr8 should hook up: A Marriage Made in the Ignorance Ghetto, with all the attendant angst, dishonesty, and verbal flatulence…..
Janos Hunyadi on September 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Stopwatch is still running. Waiting on you to tell me about the GOP Klansmen.
Additional question, while you’re cramping your brain: Do you consider LBJ a big civil rights guy?
MadisonConservative on September 15, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Geez! If I had to listen to one more sentence, my eyes would have rolled back into my head, and I would have gagged.
Hank, you’re full of it.
Ricohoc on September 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM
The only white sheet wearing hooded clansman I know of in the congress is a democrat. Senator KKK Bird. Grand Cleagle. Grand Dragon. So Dem biyatches, look no further than your own caucus to find the nearest cross burning night rider. Hank Johnson = colossal Douche Bag
Kuffar on September 15, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Funny.
Shambhala on September 15, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Didn’t the Ramones write a song about this?
stevil on September 15, 2009 at 6:02 PM
Well, then you should just love the Republican Party! After all, it was started and is rooted in the cause to free non-free black men, and all. American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation….any of that ring any bells for you, O Sycophant of the Party formed by Slave-Holders and Maintainers of the Democrat Plantation?
dmh0667 on September 15, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I recognize that, as has been pointed out roughly 2.6 million times, that Robert Byrd was a klansman. And the larger point is…that because one guy was a klansman 50 years ago all Democrats and no Republicans are racists?
The LBJ question is clearly a loaded one, so I’ll only say that while Republican saint Barry Goldwater was voting against civil rights legislation, LBJ was putting his presidency on the line for it — thus beginning the welcome demise of the Dixiecrat and the unwelcome transformation of the Republican Party from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Helms.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM
That was 150 years ago. If Lincoln were president today you’d call him a RINO and talk about a state’s right to allow slaves. The Republican Party left Lincoln in the dust when Nixon decided that racism was an acceptable campaign tactic in 1968.
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM
“Saddle up my horses” /snark
NumberTwo on September 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Oh… Shut the #@&% up Johnson. This tool has obviously suffered some kind of head trauma. What a freak. Way to vote Georgia… not surprised. Perfect example of what the Hell is wrong with this country. Somebody censure his @$$.
ronnyraygun on September 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM
And the only time you hear about the KKK anymore is when these weak little children bring it up. Grow a pair you little woos.
ronnyraygun on September 15, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Read a freakin’ book, ’cause you need one, you uneducated twit.
Ryan Gandy on September 15, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Goldwater was no ‘Republican saint’, genius.
He barely won the nomination and many of the RINOs publicly disavowed him or were openly neutral in 1964. By the next POTUS election he was shunted aside and not given much credit or acclaim until Reagan–but by then Goldwater had clearly become more libertarian than conservative.
Janos Hunyadi on September 15, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Bleeds Blue on September 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Keep bleeding @$$hole.
ronnyraygun on September 15, 2009 at 6:24 PM
You think “you lie” gets you called a racist…wait until the “pants on fire”…or the “hanging from a telephone wire”…
right2bright on September 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Two trolls trying to out troll each other…troll fight!!!
right2bright on September 15, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Yawn… Another d-bag DNC race-bot calls someone a racist. Every rational person I know immediately defenestrates any accusations and looks upon the accuser with well-deserved contempt. The argument is the definition of the phrase “stuck on stupid” and is a megaphone for those who are irrelevant. The race card is a little sign that says, “Hey, I’m stupid. Let’s never talk”.
Claypigeon on September 15, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Please don’t. I don’t want you to be tarred as getting chummy with people “of my ilk.” And it makes me want to scrape my skin with broken glass.
You must not be watching the same video I did, champ.
FWIW, I’m a white guy, and the guardian of my children is a black man. Square that circle if I’m a racist/uncomfortable with people of another color.
This thread is about a black congressman claiming that an outburst of “you lied” during the POTUS’ address to congress, was in fact a racist thing to do, and that if not adressed, will lead to the return of the KKK with Joe Wilson at its head.
I’m sure you addressed that head-on somewhere in the thread and I just missed it.
Sotomayor is indeed a racist, and if you had an ounce of credibility you’d admit that the Dems don’t give a damn about the racist tendencies of one of their own. Including your condemnation to Rep Johnson’s statements as, and I quote, “dumb.” That’s it? Really? Cool.
TexasDan on September 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM
It disturbs me greatly that people this dim-witted and racist can be elected to the Congress of the United States.
disa on September 15, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Something I rarely every haul out online: STFU! No, really!
bikermailman on September 15, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Does the racist card hold any value whatsoever these days or is it just as valuable a currency as the dollar?
larvcom on September 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM
(Reposting since it got buried at the end of page 2:)
Please don’t. I don’t want you to be tarred as getting chummy with people “of my ilk.” And it makes me want to scrape my skin with broken glass.
You must not be watching the same video I did, champ.
FWIW, I’m a white guy, and the guardian of my children is a black man. Square that circle if I’m a racist/uncomfortable with people of another color.
This thread is about a black congressman claiming that an outburst of “you lied” during the POTUS’ address to congress, was in fact a racist thing to do, and that if not adressed, will lead to the return of the KKK with Joe Wilson at its head.
I’m sure you addressed that head-on somewhere in the thread and I just missed it.
Sotomayor is indeed a racist, and if you had an ounce of credibility you’d admit that the Dems don’t give a damn about the racist tendencies of one of their own. Including your condemnation to Rep Johnson’s statements as, and I quote, “dumb.” That’s it? Really? Cool.
TexasDan on September 15, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Hank Johnson would make a good ANC man in South Africa. It is encouraging to know we have “clean, articulate, educated” representatives like good old Hank here at the helm of our country…right VP Biden?
He is an obvious poster boy…oops I mean child…I mean any way a poster type for affirmative action, pull the Dem lever even if it is a corpse running, which by the way he doesn’t look far from one. Is that shaving cream on his neck left over from his morning shave?
wepeople on September 15, 2009 at 6:57 PM
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