Racism, hate bubble up yet again at Palin's rally in Vegas
By David Neiwert Saturday Oct 25, 2008 6:00am
In LasVegas, videographer Matt Toplikar captured footage of McCain/Palin supporters as they came out from a rally featuring an appearance by Sarah Palin.
One camouflage-capped fellow captures the spirit of the event:
Obama wins, I'm gonna move to Alaska.
... Haven't you ever heard that the United States is gonna be taken down from within? What better way to get taken down from within than haveing the President of the United States be the one that's going to do it?
It seems they became especially aggravated when they encountered anti-McCain protesters outside. The same Alaska-bound supporter started leading a chant in front of them:
Vote McCain, Not Hussein!
Then there's the Pam Atlas wannabee:
This country needs to wake up! Obama is dangerous! This man is a tyrant to this country. I mean, he has connections to Arabs! His education was paid for by Arabs! He's an abomination.
And of course, the obligatory racist:
Don't be afraid of me! Be afraid of Obama! Obama bin Laden, that's what you should be afraid of!
... Yes, I am a racist. If you consider me a racist, well [unintelligible]. Those Arabs are dirtbags. They're dirty people, they hate Americans, they hate my kids, they hate my grandkids. And people like him [points to another supporter], more power to them.
McCain and Palin have somewhat ratcheted back their rhetoric, but the fuse has been lit.
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If so, call me a racist too.
This is a very interesting short video. The videographer attended a Palin rally where her supporters were bad-mouthing Muslims and Arabs then they asked Palin about Muslims being allowed in the Republican Party. Here's what she said:
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com...
So he dislikes those with connections to Arabs. Did he ever see this: http://unitedcats.files.wordpress.com/2007/11...
Aren't Arabs white? They are a little toasty, but then so are Spainards, Greeks, Italians, Portugese, Cypriots and some of the Slavic people. These people blow my mind. (Racists, not the Europeans I am talking about.)
Not all Rednecks are racist. I would be considered by some/many to be a Redneck and I've already cast my vote (early) for Obama/Biden and so have many more just like me. Stereotypes are usually if not always wrong no matter who makes them. Rascist Idiots come from all cultures and classes, no one has the market cornered. I realize your statement is made flippantly and won't go so far as to say it offends me, but there are others who are more thinskinned than I. If we are going to get this country back on the right track "we" are going to have to put this negative stuff behind us and stop the lashing out at each other! Sorry to preach at you but I've had ENOUGH! I'm ready for a new day and change.
Well, that just sucked the joy out of my morning. What the hell is wrong with people? Maybe we should just become extinct like the dinosaurs.
Only in HIS mind.
This dispels the belief that Americans are superior. Oh contraire.
Quit living in the political and racial Dark Ages!
These people are helping to bring the phrase "ugly American" back into vogue. And that is NOT a good thing.
Was it ever out of vogue?
These Arab haters, that seem to know so much, probably don't even have passports. So where do they get this info? Inside the rallies?
Hannity.
Help me out here: How does moving to Alaska help you if Obama becomes president? *sigh*
Apparently Alaska is in such close proximity to Russia that they're practically the same.
Perhaps those folks in Alaska that Palin has ties to are planning on actually seceding if Obama wins?
I couldn't decide if the fellow didn't realize that Alaska is part of the US, or if he thinks that Sarah Palin is so powerful that she and her husband will be able to pull off that secession business.
I suspect that many Alaskans wanted to get as far from the contiguous states as possible.
But why stop there? Now that the Northwest Passage is open, the world could be his oyster.
and history weren't needed to get his criminal justice degree from the internet... What a dumbass! Did he forget that Palin is the Governor of the STATE OF ALASKA?
Sir, you are an idiot despite what you might think!
He couldn't get more anti-American if he tried.
Things are never so bad they can't get worse. Still a couple more weeks to sink lower. Just watch. Desperation and panic are really ugly.
I'm pretty sure he could.
so I really don't like that label. It suggests treason. My North-Georgia college educated(advanced degrees) neighbors called me that because I have Obama signs in my yard and I have Obama events at my house every chance I get. They think Obama is a Muslim and the Anti-Christ, they think Obama is going to destry this country from within because he fits the profile. These people don't go to church so where are they getting it?
I really think the major part of the population has been so dumbed down that it would take a year long boot camp for eveyone to be re-educated and to re-install American values and a sense of decency.
was the woman who said, "We're not stupid you know." Uh-huh!
You mean like Bush destroying everything he could find in this country? FEMA worked before Bush got ahold of them, NORAD worked before Bush got into office and allowed 4 planes to be hijacked with NORAD being ordered to stand down, we had a budget surplus before Bush got into office, our military wasn't broken before Bush got into office.
Bush has attacked and tried to destroy all of our civil liberties, our bill of rights and the common good that has always been America.
I mean really, who is more dangerous to America, someone with a spooky name or someone with a spooky history? The Republicans hate most all of America and just use her (and us) to make money! If it wasn't for the money they would have run out a long time ago!
I agree - when I read that about the country being taken down by the president, I was almost overwhelmed by the irony.
to bear in mind that our country's success is mitigated by the premise, Land of Opportunity, which is a euphemism for acquisition of wealth, hence capitalism predicated by greed.
Most Americans have that drive, right, wrong, or otherwise.
I agree with all that you wrote.
Thanks to the internet and ubiquitous availability of video these people will be McCain's legacy. Considering his life as a whole, that is a pretty fucking sad thing. And he deserves it.
A Piece of waste
.....because of injuries that he received as POW. Why is it, then, that in his political speeches he's been seen to lift both arms high?
Unfortunately, there will never be a shortage of these types of morons.
Let's just be happy that they will never, ever, be a political force that controls or run's this country again.
They will continue to exist (like repitles and amphibians), but social evolution is passing them bye.
Now we need to reprogram the idiots, so that the word "conservative" becomes the most evil, despised word in the American lexicon.
Kinda like what they did to the word "liberal" only this time it will be accurate and true.
Exactly when people hear the word "conservative" they get involuntary wet bowel movements. I'm calling Pavlov right now...
... if the lives of these people actually improve under an Obama administration? Is there any chance they'll snap out of it? Or is it more likely that many of them will just see it as the scary evil man trying to trick us into a false sense of security before destroying everything?
Since they haven't noticed how fu**ed up their lives have become under Bush and the republican's, I would have to say NO. Anybody who could still vote republican after living through the last eight years, is so cluelessly friggin' stupid and hopelessly ignorant - that nothing is going to change their minds.
It may be tough to accept, but about 30% of the American people are total freakin' morons, and evil (hate-filled) to boot!
We haven't heard of Ann Coulter for quite a while, but it seems her place in the limelight is taken by these surrogates.
Boy, I expect a housing boom in Alaska in a few days!!
I've noticed. Oddly it was right after she called Jews "imperfect xhristians", she seemed to drop off the radar. Funny, that.
That would be unfortunate because Alaska is one of those places I'd just rather see the gorgeous natural world and not some rednecks trailer...or house if he is lucky enough.
Is an extremist with the potential to carry out terrorist attacks against the United States.
I dont mind the racist, they'll just grumble, but the ones the McCain campaign have convinced that the Obama presidency equates turning the country into a communist state or will weaken the country for the terrorists are the dangerous ones.
How any black Hispanic or Asian person can belong to that party is beyond me- Republicans want the power of this country to be in the hands of Christian white men.
Yeah and in the sixties, this guy's father was spouting the nonsense that if Kennedy were elected, the pope would be running the country...definitely defective genes at work.
I live in a Chicago suburb apartment building and I have 2 Arab couples for neighbors. They are the nicest people and are the first to help if one of the neighbors needs a ride or help with anything. They don't push their religion on anyone and we don't try to convert them. I glad I have them for neighbors instead of idiots like these.
This country needs to wake up! Obama is dangerous! This man is a tyrant to this country. I mean, he has connections to Arabs! His education was paid for by Arabs! He's an abomination.
Has never batted an eye when it comes to Chimpy's education , which was paid for by the Nazis ..............
the nazis were white people.
...what kind of arsenal that guy has at home.
On second thought, maybe not.
The Reptiles, who after all are few, always want help from the Nits because they are many. They have whipped the Nits into a frenzy. Now should we be surprised that the Nits are poised to eat everyone alive?
It only takes about a minute of hearing someone speak to tell who the stupid, undeucated, uninformed and misinformed morons are.
A LOT of these people LOOK as stupid as they are too.
The leaders of a major political party encourage closeted racists to come out in the open, and then they fuel the inner bigots in the most ignorant among us. Palin comes out on stage, lights a match and throws it into the crowd.
If anyone needs a better reason to never vote Republican again, I sure can't think of one.
PEACE
I don't see how any minority could vote Republican.
I always wonder about Log Cabin Republicans. Why would you do it? I just don't get it.
My first thought after reading their comments was "Let's have a spelling contest"
Seriously, how do these people function from day to day? Do they have help getting the pants on the right way in the morning?
They must be fun at those six flags over jebus rallies on Sunday though. All you have to do is wave a cross at them and they start throwing money.
When I see these videos of the brownshirts I remember that I haven't cleaned my firearms lately and need more ammo.
I am very uneasy with all of this.
It's okay to call these people genetic mutants and morons, but they vote, and as you point out, when gathered in crowds of like-minded cretins, they can be very dangerous. And, many of them are probably NRA members and own guns.
I am not not fearful that Obama/Biden won't win the election - I'm sure they will (well, unless Kkkarl and Jeb conspire to steal this one, too). I am fearful of what will happen after the election, as I think there could be trouble either way, but more if Obama wins.
This may be just what Cheney and Bush had in mind after they knew Obama would be the Dem candidate - put McCain in as a weak candidate, stir up the racists, and incite violence.
What a great arrangement to allow them to call in the troops to "quell civil unrest", declare martial law, and makes themselves
dictators-in-chief. Keep the powder dry.....
They're so pissed now, how are they going to behave after an Obama victory (here's hoping against Diebold)?
Did we just get a glimpse of the next McVeigh in the crowd?
What is up with these crazy people?
Maybe it is the cumulative dumbing-down from a steady diet of Fox News.
Douchebags....
We are looking at a new wave of Tim McVeighs. There are many McCain supporters who, as we know think along those lines and for the most part always have. An Obama win will set some of them off. We have to be prepared for that. The irony is, the "terrorists" that the McCain/Palin supporters keep talking about are in fact, themselves.
to his dying day. How can that old man want the presidency so badly? He is a 72 yr old riddled with cancer. Shouldn't he be spending the time he has left with his children and seeking his wife's forgiveness? As for Palin, she needs to go back to Alaska where she is most comfortable and tend to her own dysfunctional brood. The US doesn't need either one of them.
I'm surprised no one's done an 'OBAMA BI(n la)DEN' sign yet.
and I'm scared silly that the explosion will happen, sooner rather than later.
After 8 years of slash and burn politics and nonstop war and economic deregulation that has lead to this final melt down and disintegration of the entire financial system these morons think Obama is the problem?
How do you keep from slapping these idiots ??
It's really really hard. Damn hard!
Instead, just carve a backward B in their face.
"What better way to get taken down from within than haveing the President of the United States be the one that's going to do it? "
I have news for you sir, this is what the last 8 years have been all about.
It's morons like this who voted for the WORST PRESIDENT EVER who are to blame for the current situation.
...Cheney and Bush et al have been the ones who've instilled the fear and anger, stolen our civil liberties, ruined our economy and financial system - and these fools blame Obama. Machiavelli would be proud.....
>>>Obama wins, I'm gonna move to Alaska.
Perfect solution! I hope there's a mass migration of troglodytes to Alaska, then they can secede and suffer the consequences of their idiocy.
We've been trying to get rid of quebec that way but they won't go unless Canada basically gives them everything and agrees to keep paying all their bills. It's like having a freeloading brother in law who won't get the fuck off your sofa.
Have we really been trying to "get rid of Quebec"? Think on that one.
No of course not. And I can even understand why some want to separate, even though I don't want them to I can understand it.
But there's an element there that seems to think they can walk away with everything and STILL get transfer payments and revenues and use the Canadian treasury and military etc. And that's just freaking ridiculous.
I understand Marge: it can be frustrating. Just let's not go all FUX. Half-truths help no one: look at the GOP. I have always felt the French were a valued part of Canada. Certainly we can work it out togther.
ROFLMAO! Damn Marge, that just about sums it up!
It is truly sad to see and hear the ignorance and backwards mentality of some people. We wonder why our educational standards have dropped? How many of these underachievers are teachers in our school systems? How many are "leaders" in our religious communities? Or elected "officials" in our small towns? These are the role models for their communities? I am dubiously excited to see MOST of America has pulled the veil from their eyes and sees beyond the look of a man, and sees past color or religion. I say dubious because I understand the votes have not all been cast, nor counted. My apprehension lies in the voting tools used across the U.S.
commentary on the division in our country...That the Congress, media and our schools and churches can not stamp out this evil ignorant vein that runs through our nation... That supposed 'good' people running for our highest offices stoop so low as to incite these 'Americans' to such levels of hatred to win!!!?
Beyond comprehension.
How can anyone profess to be prolife but condone hatred- support war--support ignorance and prejudice, covort with real terroists like Liddy and Pinochet or criminals who defraud the citizens like Follieri and Keating!!!
The mcpalin campaign is totally dysfunctional and guiltless liars. If something happens to the Democrat you can be assured that blood will be on Mccain and Palins hands!!! Shameless, desparate, despicable people...
They're not pro life they're pro LIE, pro fetus and anti-woman. As Carlin said "If you're preborn you're good, if you're preschool, you're fucked." Once they force the walking womb to give birth they couldn't care less about the resulting human being. At least until it's time to demand money for jebus or fresh bodies for war.
Heh, that's funny. It's the churches that stoke this hatred, along with the RNC.
They do know we torture people now. Maybe Bush was on to something.
I don't think they call it torture anymore. The new, improved terminology (Orwellian double-speak) is extreme interrogation techniques. So, McCain's ordeal of being "tortured" during his POW days seems diminished now, don't you think?
It's enhanced interrogation techniques, sorry to nit pick!
Thanks for the clarification. I don't want to be accused of "misleading" statments. McCain has the title for that. LOL
Never before have I heard such batshit craziness expressed with so much eloquence.
It's no wonder Sen. McCain is so proud of...uhhhhh...whatever it is he's so proud of.
If you want a bit more, read their comments section.
I don't think all Americans are stupid, but you surely do have a disproportionately high share of looney tunes in the population!!
I am embarrassed by and ashamed of these people. They certainly have a right to their opinions and they have a right to state them. I just wish they would suspend their willful ignorance and see how their attitudes are so destructive to this country. They claim they are patriotic, but they are so far from it, it would be laughable if it weren't so sad.
The way these people talk its like the country shares their views. Obama has not been funded by Arabs. Now GW Bush's past business failings have been funded by Arabs, and that is a fact you can check. This was the greatest country in the world until ass holes like this Red Neck opened his gaping hole of a mouth......
Wow.
Some people's ignorance has no bounds...or shame.
So...I guess I know where NOT to be spending my hard-earned vacation money.
I'm sending this article to the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
Join me, won't you?
Here's the address of their Contact Us page:
http://www.lvchamber.com/chamber/staff.html
I think they'd be VERY interested to see what represents their Fair City out in the world.
You've never catch me dead in Las Vegas. I can see how cheesy it is from TV.
for that assferret...WHEN Obama wins!
"I'm not one of them far right loons. I'm an intelligent guy. OK. I got a college degree.* In criminal justice.** I'm not stupid."
*From Clark County Night School of Cosmetology and Criminal Justice.
** Majored in Taser Maintenance. Minor degree in Non-Caucasian crowd control.
Hey, fella, if you need directions to Alaska, call me. I'll send you turn by turn instructions. Hell, I'll pay for some gas for you.
We're doomed.
George Bush has already done a pretty good job at dessimating the US. He seems to be working in cahoots with Al Queda. Bush has:
Not to mention Bush's utter destruction of the US Economy, thus sending the global economy into a tail spin.
I wish people like this would move to the furthest reaches of the frozen tundra. It is THEIR FAULT for voting for the WORST PRESIDENT EVER!!
this is MORE common in las vegas than you may know. i moved here last year from minneapolis. it's
been culture shock. the largest county in las vegas(almost the whole city) has a 48% high school
graduation rate. crime is very high here. auto accidents are very high in number. this city is the
haves and have NOTs. this city is segregated and dangerous. gated communities are protection strategy
since public services are lacking(NO state tax). property taxes collected have decreased/declined with
the ongoing foreclosure(s). there is minimal sense of community here...the city outside of the "strip"
has an identity crisis. i don't have an obama sticker on my car too many jerks. there are plenty of people
like this guy low knowledge and racists. fun place to visit but you don't want to live here.
...maybe we could just build a nice high wall around it with a couple feet of barbed wire on top, just for good measure!!
And then fill that wall with water.
It's pretty clear that the edumacation earmarks that were used to educate these idiots were wasted money.
But yeah, the Bush regime has destroyed the US from within, so I suppose this asshole is right in the sense that a busted clock is right twice a day.
I'm always amazed when I see people like this. None of them look like they make 200,000 plus a year, but would vote for people who will continue to make their lives dwindle. Most all these people would be much better off with Obama then they would with any repug necon. These will be the first people crying for help if by chance they lose their jobs or have a major health problem of lose their house. Its no wonder the rest of the world looks at us and think, what the fuck?
I guess they think, "someday, I could be rich and then my tax dollars will be going to minorities."
Guess what, it will never happen. It's like filling a sieve with sand: the more you put in, the quicker it comes out. It never gets filled.
Newsflash to jackasses like this guy: You will never, ever, ever fit in the circles of those for whom you vote. You are scum to them. They think less of you than they do of me, a black person. You abused your white priviledge by staying poor and working class. You will never attend their schools, your sons and daughters will never mix, unless Johnny Rich-Boy is stuffing crumpled singles into Tonya Working-Classes g-string, or Janey Rich-Girl's maid calls Joe the Plumber in to fix her bidet. Do you honestly think you son will ever marry Jenna or Barbara Bush, Megan McCain or any of the other blue-blooded spawn of the GOP? Do they think they would let you into the Country Club for anything other than maintenance work? Sure, their paths may cross if your kids get into a college where their kids are legacies, but though they may have the odd drunken fuck, your kid ain't joining their crowd.
Even if you win the Super Mega Jumbo Jackpot Power Ball, you will still be white trash to them and be even more hated for being tacky Nouveau Riche.
diamondmc, I still don't get why they vote against their intrests, other than delusion and racism.
And it's too late for them to snuff it now before the election, even if they wanted to. I don't think they care though.
The McCain campaign doesn't seem to care about winning the election but rather just getting racist votes. That's inexcusable.
What are we going to do about these racists after the election? Some will surely cross over into domestic terrorism, and perhaps they should be put on a watch-list. I believe very firmly that racism is taught and passed along primarily in families, and the only way to erase it is through education of children and a mixture of races working together to solve problems, preferably important ones.
Many Americans believe the government should not interfere in child-rearing, even if they abuse their children, no matter how much it harms them. Teaching children racist "values" is just as damaging. It is a communicable poison.
TODAY TEXT ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND ASK THEM IF THEY HAVE VOTED!
If they haven't gather them up and take them to early voting TODAY!
Then ask them to do the same thing.
People like this make me sick- a pure Jerry springer show reject
The first guy is pretty funny. He says he's a smart guy with a Poly-Sci degree. He's gonna show us. If that evil Obama wins he's moving to Alaska so he can be governed by President....um....Obama? I'd love to see his reaction after he moves and finds out that Alaska is a State.
Racism at times can be funny.
ALABAMA MAN!!!!
Daddy mommy's talkin again.
(SLAP)Bitch didn't I told you to shut up. Get me another beer.
ALABAMA MAN, batteries not included.
for a guy like this it's MUCH easier to hate than do some research and find out the truth. that's the
demographics of this hate culture club. this guy and people like him are empowered by the hate put
out by the RNC/surrogates/mccain&Palin. listen to the campaign differences in how they discuss their
opposition....very different. these people are black and white thinkers. little do they know how many
arabs are hard working/highly educated americans. these people relate to Palin NOT knowledgable NOT
curious......a christian right wing soldier. these people will VOTE for perceived social/cultural values.
the issues i'll bet many do NOT know the real issues that matter to their life/future. it's a culture the talk
radio and fox.....half truths/dramatics/out context quotes. they develop their own reality about liberals
instead of finding out the truth.
These people belong to a cult. No good trying to talk them down. Let them move to Alaska. Then sell the state to Canada.
; )
We'll take Alaska off your hands but only if you promise to take quebec. ;)
LOL!
A Westerner? I am one of those hated Ontarians. We Candians don't have to do this. My sister in a Westerner, my brother a "Newfie", and we love both. Our nation is cool, from sea to sea.
If Obama wins I'm moving to Alaska. If McCain wins I'm moving to Canada.
Maw, them hippie communist, terrists is out there . Whatdya spose we aughta dew bout it?
How pathetic.
The revolution is here. Funny thing is, we always thought it would come from the left.
from her about-to-be-ex-sister in law that are a mixture of religion and anti-Obama hate talk. She sent me one. I hope that the woman never has to help her children with anything harder than first grade work. The lady is illiterate, as well as filled with hate.
Most of these folks would be better served if they spent their time getting their GEDs instead of spreading hate.
and given they often complain that liberals use too many 'big words' when they talk, I suspect recieving an education is not high on right winger's 'to do' lists.
I hope this ignorant, obviously uneducated, moron goes to Alaska and takes many, many Reslugs with him. Good Riddance of such stupidity.