GOPers like some "Penny Pinching Jews"
By John Amato Tuesday Oct 20, 2009 3:00pmDo you want to know how Republicans really feels about "teh Jews" in the world?
Two South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen stepped up to rebut criticism of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in a newspaper editorial Sunday. But their defense of the senator might be overshadowed by their use of an anti-Semitic stereotype to praise him.
After a Democratic state senator wrote in The State that DeMint didn't bring enough money back home, Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer responded that he was just looking after the nation's pennies -- like a Jew would.
"There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves," Ulmer and Merwin wrote in a joint letter published by The Times and Democrat.
They later apologized, but those quotes say it all. Anti-Semitic stereotypes like that reveal their true colors, because these clowns probably took hours to come up with their defense of DeMint.
Ulmer said in his apology:
Ulmer, the Orangeburg County chairman, said the remark was "truly in admiration for a method of bettering one's lot in life" and he meant nothing derogatory.
Yeah, using racial sterotypes as a compliment is not derogatory at all. I was going to come up with a few new quotes for these GOPers, but I was too busy over cooking my pasta. And talking to my Don.
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i.e. "...using racial sterotypes as a compliment is not derogatory at all. I was going to come up with a few new quotes for these GOPers, but I was too busy over cooking my pasta. And talking to my Don."
Fugged about it.
;)
'That's Amore' too...
would overcook his pasta!
Hey John, you forgot going to confession, twirling your rosary beads, lighting a candle at Mass, and thumbing your nose at the nuns. Not to mention hijacking some trucks for cigarettes, burning down a restaurant for the insurance money, after killing the owner and taking it over while selling everything out the back door, oh and planning a few heists too. Have I left anything out? Oh, assault, don't forget to assault some minorities, maybe pistol-whip them, or have you and the guys in the crew stomp the life out of them, go dig some holes, put said corpses into the holes, and then pour lime over the bodies so that they decay. But then you're going to have to go dig them up two years later when your Uncle Vinny gives you the low-down that they're going to build apartments there. Now have I left anything out?
Racism is OVER! That's what all my white friends tell me anyway...
:D
Which is why he likes them! The kind of guy who thinks describing someone of another race as 'almost as good as a white man,' is a compliment.
Once again, they just don't get insanity. Don't they understand it's not just about them? Total fu*king idiots! Sane people are beyond that but apparently politics isn't.
This shit is systemic...this party has to be done.
an offensive comment there and before you know it you're talking real racism.
"He can run like a black guy."
"She does laundry like a Chinaman."
"He plans mass murder like a European."
Oops! Sorry! I meant no harm - I was just admiring the talents inherent in the various races, as documented in eugenics texts!
I was thinking the same thing.
I feel like I'm in a time warp....
I guess being an idiot is a pre-existing condition with these folk.
However, they DO have insurance for any half-witted comments they make.
It's called Fox News.
that you don't go beyond al dente! Now where's that vino..
is a jew hating bastard just wating to come out
and my friends wonder how i can stay a dem
wingnuts love of israel has nothing to do with them loving jews
so i would rather hang with people who are confused about israel, then those that think the return of their lord means my conversion or death
They just can't help themselves.
There is something about the "hate" thing where the haters can't just hate in silence - they HAVE to put a voice to the hate.
I guess it is a way to introduce themselves to other haters and push the non-haters away.
They actually hate the non-haters.
What a complete waste of time to expend so much energy for so negative an emotion. No small wonder most all haters are miserable.
I think all hate starts with self-loathing.
I personally hate hate.
Wow. even the apology is a putdown. "one's lot in life?"
better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Ulmer and Merwin didn't just say it, they wrote a joint letter proclaiming it for all to see!
LOL
We all must have been accidentally transported to the Disney universe.
(Wait for the payoff at the end.)
but the high point was that scene. Kinda like a 30 minute acid trip.
Thanks, Liberalicious :)
They’re in full blown hysteria mode now, baby. Pass that popcorn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJgK_KltMI&fe...
That's the attitude!
Never be rude to an Arab
Good one, old chap!
;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DHPAdt3d00&fe...
can get rich that way. It doesn't work if you're any other religion - roman catholic especially.
These guys can't even hide their racism very well, can they?
As praise goes, it sort of reminded me of the following insult
(not directed at ANYONE here):
"I remember someone telling me that you once blew a pile of dead cattle. But I stood up for you. I said I saw one move."
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...after eight plus years of being able to consider yourself Mastah of the Plantation, lords of all they surveyed, getting away with schoolyard contests as to who could come up with the most vile and insulting put down of liberals, blacks, women, people from Vermont, Catholics, Muslims, anyone who isn't Southern Baptist, anyone with a birth defect or mental handicap, poor people, or just about anyone not in their exclusive 'Have More' club, certain members of the right wing forgot that openly expressing such bigotry was generally frowned upon in polite and civilized company. It probably doesn't help that 'official' reality for the lsat eight years took preference over, well, y'know, ACTUAL reality. In their minds, the rightwing still rules the planet, there will never be any repercussions to their actions, and they can do whatever they damned well please...
So it's no surprise to me that bigotry is still alive and well and flourishing. And until they are held to account, repeatedly, unwaveringly, bigotry will remain alive and well. And flourishing...
Life's a piece of shit..
When you look at it.
Maggie Thatcher had that way with people
It's hard to figure which group of Americans the Republicans have yet to insult and distance themselves from. The entire middle class, African-Americans, immigrants, women, gays, Jews, moderates, Hispanics...the list continues to grow.
... because they are "penny wise and pound foolish."
I almost feel sorry for them, though, because they are so clueless and insensitive that they can't understand how other people hear what they say. Maybe, like homosexuality, it isn't a choice, but something you are born with.
I wonder if gene therapy would help.
Psychiatrists are elitists.
Send them all the rope that you can afford.
Rope
bomb bud, chronic, cali, "Oh
damn that bud l dog got was rope!"
Those are the only people that right-wingers care about. They don't think women should vote, blacks, latinos and asians, should all go back to where we came from. Gays can forget it, they almost unflinchingly demonize you. They are a joke.
I've been to four continents and out of all the people I have met white males, the wealthier the more hateful, are the most jealously hateful human beings on this earth. I don't know why or how they got that way but I pray that they open their eyes to our common humanity and change their depraved, warped views as soon as possible.
Gee, that sounds a little racist and sexist to me. You might want to look in the mirror and ask yourself why you really feel this way towards white males. Not all of us are Glenn Beck, you know.
that somebody has been working for white males. Now that I'm aging and wrinkled, I'm officially invisible, they don't have to impress me, and white males in groups talk about what's really on their minds and how they really feel, in my presence, without self-censorship.
It's about privilege, it's about buying poorer people for rock-bottom dollar, it is not pretty and no, sir, they are not going to change. Male or female, we are merchandise to them, and either we will whore or we will not.
Glenn Beck is the public face of a prevailing ethnic attitude.
And yeah, I'm part Jewish, pinch pennies till Abe Lincoln cusses me, and haven't gotten anywhere near wealthy. That requires theft or fraud, and white males are the acknowledged experts at it.
I read this post several times and could not find where Ulmer and Merwin used the phrase Penny Pinching Jews. That would have been much more offensive than referring to a wise old saying about taking care of pennies and letting the dollars taking care of themselves.
Why did you choose to put the phrase Penny Pinching Jews front-and-center in a headline when it wasn't part of the story? I think I'm offended.
Please respond.
"he was just looking after the nation's pennies -- like a Jew would."
You don't find that offensive? What the hell do you think they were referring to?
Tue, 10/20/2009 - 16:35 — dosido
better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
"Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer responded that he was just looking after the nation's pennies -- like a Jew would" (Text).
They just reversed the clause order of the bigoted phrase.
Being of Scottish decent (Celtic/Pictish) we share a similar stereotype. Every package of generic food more often than not, until recently, showed a Scotsman wearing his Tam O'Shanter. That would be like someone presuming Gregory Hines is a good tap dancer because he was black, not because he trained for years.
And pity the poor straight man who's a woman's hair stylist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYeQEq2GE1k
white your teeth can be
http://teddyinchina.blogspot.com/2008/11/darl...
but I'm still more offended by the phrase "Penny Pinching Jews." no?
I agree. John, your headline is misleading. Those quotation marks insinuate that that's the phrase that was used. Yes, it's stupid and offensive either way, but it's the difference between ignorance and malice.
have a love-hate relationship with Jews. Truth be told, right wingers can't stand them. They only keep Jews around and prop up the state of Israel because "Christians" need them for the end time prophecies to be fulfilled for Jesus' 2nd coming. To "Christians", Jews are a necessary incovenience.
shock there.
.
der ewige jude
I tried buying that from Amazon, and couldn't get it.
I understand they tried to get Fritz Lang the German-Jewish director (Metropolis, Spione, Doktor Mabuse der Spieler) to direct it, but he said no, escaped and came to America. I don't know what happened to h is wife Thea von Harbou, but she was a committed Communist, and would be a likely target for Nazis to eliminate.
http://www.archive.org/details/Der_Ewige_Jude
"m" and "scarlet street" are on here as well.
Thanks I saved the link.
I actually own a copy of M, but forgot that was by Lang and Von Harbou, because I'm so used to thinking of it as the Peter Lorre movie.
Man the language is rough in that thing for a film in the 30's.
And having hardened killers putting the madman on trial, and Lorre defense attorney (also a hardened criminal) asking the prosecutor how many people he had killed, and the he did so in cold blood, whereas Peter Lorre's killer did so from a strange compulsion.
That also seemed like a veiled slap at the legal death penalty.
And then the other crooks in the crowd saying if the law got him, they would likely give him a section 8, put him in a mental hospital, try to cure him, and then release him and they would be put through it all over again.
I always thought I'd prefer Lorre in Mad Love, but that was a bit of a Gallic pot-boiler.
all i remember is my surprise at how good an actor peter lorre actually was after viewing so many "b" grade horror movies and his face painted mr. motto series
I've only seen one Mr Moto series. It was a library copy and what was curious was Charles Middleton playing a good guy tragically killed, after playing so many classic bad guys like the Evil Emperor Ming of the planet Mongo in Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon Goes to Mars, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.
Middleton also played a crook in Republic Studios Daredevils of the Red Circle with Herman Brix, David Sharpe and Charles Quigley. He also played Pa Stark the bad guy in Ralph Byrd's Dick Tracy Returns. But then he plays a small supporting part in the Marx Brother's Duck Soup as the prosecutor in Chico's embezzlement trial. "Yeah, I have an uncle who lives in Taxes, Dollars Taxes."
But then Middleton turned around and played a larger sympathetic, but tragic part as Ken Colton in Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft's Batman, and strangely enough played a sympathetic lead in the Remake of another German director Frank Wisbar's Ferryman Maria, as a ghostly strangler Ferryman Douglas, killing those killers who caused him to be hanged for a crime he didn't commit in Strangler of the Swamp.
Me go sleep now...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Oops...my bad, that was John Carradine that was in Mr Moto's Last Warning, as well as House of Dracula, House of Frankenstein, Billy the Kid v Dracula, Blood of Dracula's Castle, Nocturna. Bluebeard, My Darling Clementine, Stagecoach...
Orangeberg? Bamberg? Aren't those....?
Wow.
Yeah, I don't remember ever hearing that "old saying".
How old is Ulmer? He sounds like a sophomore in high school.
Edgar G Ulmer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZFW3cEQQc&NR=1
Didn't they issue the standard Republican Party Official Apology
We apologize if we offended anyone because we are too stupid to know what was offensive about what we said or whether anyone is smart enough to get offended because none of our friends understand what all the fuss is about either.
Come on now... are they that out of touch? Awww heck, who am I kidding, of course they are!
Why even mention "Jews"? I've heard that expression my entire life and I've never heard "Jews" inserted like that. It's just weird.
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