Conservatives Circulate Picture Of Obama With Bone Through His Nose
By Nicole Belle Thursday Jul 09, 2009 11:00am
You stay classy, GOP: (h/t Oliver Willis)
This was not widely reported in the "MSM," but last month the delightful Michelle Malkin ran a very important "Obamacare poster contest" on her blog, which soars o'er the muck of the internet like a million eagles screeching into the sunset.
The submissions Michelle received were just as insightful, nuanced and discerning as you might imagine, and obviously this is an excellent way to advance the health care debate in the United States, some fun Photoshopping. It beats a lame sketch about Hitler, right? [..]
And then this morning someone forwarded me this email, which as far as I know is unrelated to the Malkin contest BUT follows a similar vein AND has been "making the rounds," as the kids say, under the subject line Obamacare Healthcare is coming soon!
Today's Conservatives: Just when you think they can't sink any lower, they dredge yet another layer of slime out of the swamp.
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Nothing these neanderthals do surprises me.
we knew this was coming..those people are out there and Palin and her ilk have insighted them to spew [ along with the clintons veiled racism and the small minded bloggers] since last fall!
It is always the 'great unwashed' conservatives that puke and run...Hopefully this will be exposed in the MSM...The 'perpts' will not be shamed or embarrassed but others of us will be outraged! No need to waste time on hating them --they contaminate our atmosphere with their uneducated hate and fear..Little minds --and all that!!
That's so goddamned fucked up....I truly HATE these people.
They can't be reasoned with...
Un-American assholes, every last one!
exactly!
Good grief. Insane Christian Republinazis are all racist bags of shit.
Republicanazis really exist after all. here. now. They are not part of the past like we thought. They must not hold the nation hostage to their extreme ways.
with a brain in the head...
... thanks to the wonders of modern science, behold:
http://controls.ae.gatech.edu/awu/web/picture...
.
most have nerve clusters less than 1/4 that size, and can't be technically considered a "brain"...
which explains a lot.
Nooooo... really, nooooo waaaayyy. Pffftt.... Inconceivable!
Which again begs the question, why is Obama being all bipartisanshipy with these assholes who will hate his guts even if he manages to walk on water?
they will crucify him.
"being all bipartisanshipy" - Tyler Durden
Hmmm??
Why?
Inquiring minds REALLY want to get this.
Back in 2003 he was Mr. Big Man..."As soon as we have a Democrat in the White House, and a Democratically controlled Senate and House, THEN we can have single payer health care."
It looks to me like all bases are covered. We don't really need ANY Republicans and their hate-filled minions like Michelle Malkin to pass health care legislation that would truly cover all the American People.
So, then, WHY IS OBAMA BEING ALL BIPARTISANSHIPY???
So I suppose conservatives think this is "funny," but Letterman's joke about Palin's kid is reprehensible.
Sheesh!
This makes me sick.
Me too!!
That I know people who would laugh at this tells me I need to associate myself with a better class of losers.
same here.
Where's your Tattoo man, how come you ain't got a tattoo?
like they did for Carter we'll probably have Jeb Bush next time.
wow. I just can't believe the Republicans aren't finished.
Ain't no way in hell there will be another goddamned bush in OUR WH!
Fuuuuuuck THAT!
obviously they forgot.
I wouldn't worry about another Bush in the WH
Palin has a better chance at it Jebo.
I recently had a right-winger tell me in absolute seriousness that he hoped for a Jeb Bush/Palin ticket in 2012. He said he didn't care which one was president and which one was VP. Talk about sick. And Palin's ratings are still sky-high among Republicans and Libertarians. Crazy.
Seems crazy but they hate the same people! That's what counts to them - their mutual hate. They can't really sell wholesale hate without alienating a lot of moderate people, so they try to keep it under the table and sell crazy concepts instead. Crazy like the devil.
Agree completely.
The GOP...it's like High School without the education.
Excellent distillation of the GOP, L&P
Indeed.
Lord of the Flies
..without the discipline.
"The GOP...it's like High School without the education."
It's like a pre-1954 segregated high school without education.
A Confederate flag flies out front.
The principal is a fat guy with erectile problems who rants all day over the PA system.
The students carry guns and complain they can't find part-time fast food jobs because the Mexicans in the high school across the county line will flip burgers for less.
The angriest students, the ones who take shop class and auto repair, shave their heads and wear black shirts. They patrol the end zone of the football field to keep out "illegals".
The elected student council members have all taken purity pledges, but get together for circle jerks after school. They buy bootleg beer with kickback money paid under the table by the school's contractors.
Did you go to the same high school I did?
Actually our principal would dress in drag to participate in skits during some pep rallies.
And I graduated HS in 1990.
to reinforce his point?
and "which soars o'er the muck of the internet like a million eagles screeching into the sunset." I'd say it's more like a million BUZZARDS!
What a bunch of fucktards these GOPpers and Republikkkans are!! Even they ought to be embarrassed by this latest bull$hit!
Their ability to condemn only points outward
.
Indignant maybe, but never embarrassed.
They will say...well...it was emailed to the wrong people.
photoshop a picture of Malkin as a Kamikazi bombing Pearl Harbor? All "those people" are the same according to their philosophy.
screwing Bill O'Reilly's ass.
I don't know what's more disturbing. The fact that I came up with that image, or the fact that I shared the notion that I came up with that image.
My imagination takes to dark places sometimes.
Reach out to them in the spirit of bipartisanship?
Fuck that noise. Their song hasn't changed for over a century. You don't want to be in a global economy, go find a frackin' desert island.
time to send 'em packin.
A big part of the problem is that, since Republicans became viciously partisan and obstructionist in the 80s with Reagan (Repubs did change, for the worse, in the 80s), Democrats have been so nice and "bipartisan" that's they've been emulating Republican programs and rhetoric. Clinton copied the Republicans so well his policies were almost indistinguishable from Reagan's, and now Obama's doing it.
Their ability to fight is limited to bitch slapping and talking smack on occasion. That's all they got. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
identify the source?
Yep. Need a source to pin it on the Thuglicanazi party.
"to the wrong list."
to be idiots.
CONSERVATIVES?? They are Republicans. There is nothing, not one GD thing about this cult that is CONSERVATIVE. Wish people would get out of the habit of calling them that. Makes me crazy.
BTW.....Our President is a pretty good-looking guy; he looks pretty good in this pic. The GOP is descending into darkness, and I am determined NOT to.
The most disadvantaged amoung them realize that having health care as opposed to no insurance is a good thing.....a lot of them are waking up, and realize that the GOP does not have their best interest at heart, and never has. I live in the South, and to me, that's a very good sign.
As for the nasty pictures, etc.,
Like Walter said in the Big Lebowski......"twelve-year-olds, Dude."
At 11 years of age sporting her "Peace Sign" T-shirt!!! in Russia:
http://www.greenpacks.org/2009/07/09/malia-ob...
These are the best photos to be circulating around the world.
"Peace, love and understanding...."
Out of the mouths of babes....
about these pics...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/9/751767...
Not to be too contrarian or anything, but how is this any different from progressives circulating pictures of W as a monkey?
maybe you need to hang out at Freeperville, Stormfront, RedState or Hotair.
I'm sure any explanation to a person who has to ask would be a sucking time waste...
So pointing out hypocrisy on the part of the GOP is okay, but when we progressives hold ourselves to the same standard, it's a "sucking time waste," eh? Gee, I'm so glad you've cleared that up for me.
Hypocrisy is not equal to racism.
Besides...where racism is concerned...no one in here has ever accused the GOP of hypocrisy.
a self-proclaimed 'progressive' wouldn't be able to tell the difference between 'Racism' and 'Not Racism'
My fucking bad.
As for chilling out, no. I'll leave that up to you.
Would. "Would be able to tell," not "wouldn't."
Y'know, miss_kitty, you and I probably have completely congruent political views. It's a shame that you can't stop for a bit and listen to what I'm saying.
So yeah, I'll chill out for the both of us. It leads to lower blood pressure, after all.
A true progressive would never need such obvious racism broken down to them. If you honestly believe that the caricatures of the last two Presidents have equal meaning, you're either a racist in denial or a hopeless fool.
Yeah, so when did I say that all things were equal?
LeftandLeft, you're the worst of the worst. You're one of those clerics demanding ideological purity, and condemning anyone out of the fold. You might as well be in Iran.
I recognized the racism in later posts, as a clarification to (and those such as yourself) who(m) infer so much from a question. For shame, you fool.
...to then blaming me for pointing out your epic failure at devil's advocacy. Lol.
You're correct on one thing...I offer zero "wiggle room" regarding the tolerence of obvious race hatred. I'm kinda funny like that.
hahahahahaha!
xyzzy...let's review shall we?
You ask what the difference is when progressives circulated a pic of bush as a monkey, and then chastise everyone who disagrees with you as being ignorant and immature, and then you act exactly like that.
typical.
Comparing W. to a chimp had to do with unfortunate accidents of Bush's features (he really does look like a chimp sometimes) and the idea that he's as dumb as an ape. Nobody ever suggested that the comparison was because of some long-standing racist comparison between blueblood Connecticutians and chimpanzees.
This photo, by comparison, makes a direct assertion about how "civilized" Barack Obama is, or whether, due to his race, he is in some way primitive or a savage or something. The costume they have him wearing is distinctly ethnic.
It's not, in other words, as if they had him in a caveman outfit or the outfit of an Inquisitor or something. They are race-baiting.
Yeah, I get that point, Clavis. I agree that the photo is racist, and suggests a lot of really offensive inferences. It was also offensive to his supporters to suggest that W was subhuman; they're race-baiting, and our progressive side was class-baiting. I'm more than a little surprised about how "we" suddenly forget that and are thereby able to summon such righteous indignation. I mean, seriously? Nobody sees even the teeniest, tiniest little trace of hypocrisy here?
I say "we" in quotes because, apparently, I'm not enough of a movement purist for the commenters above. Just as a note to those folks: the wingnut crazies in the GOP eviscerated their party and their movement by demanding total ideological purity.
No racism in that.
I really don't see your point on this at all. W. looks like a chimp, much more (for example) than his dad does. And W. is a blueblood Connecticutian who was taught to pretend to be a good-ole-boy from Texas, so I don't even understand where you're coming from on this "class" thing. Were people attacking the upper class or the lower class when they compared Bush to a chimp? And is there a historical precedent that establishes that the Bush-as-chimp meme (or, indeed, Bush-as-moron memes in general) is at its root an attack on a group or class or an attempt to dehumanize or oppress spoiled rich people?
One problem we progressives and liberals tend to have is OVERcautiousness. It seems like your rush to categorize garden-variety insults as some kind of condemnable group behavior borne of some loathsome character flaw.
Bush isn't very smart, but he acted like he was the smartest guy in the room. He earned the enmity he received, believe me. Or haven't you been paying attention?
This is like the sixth grade.
I've looked at your previous posts.
You're brighter than this.
I did a little while ago.
it has nothing to do with how "bright" I am (which I will egoistically concede, given how many years I spent in grad school and in postgrad positions), and so much more to do with looking inward and honestly questioning oneself. I'm honestly shocked at how viciously progressives have attacked me for their own inferences from a flat question. My initial post was just a simple question, no more, no less. No statement about ideology. My point was really to just get the people here to recognize that there are shades of gray. I'm disappointed and saddened to find that the C'n'L commenters are really just the same as RedState readers. Maybe opposite, but that's really the same: in the politial world, 180 equals 360.
then you're a goddamn moran, xyzzy.
People asking questions aren't always ignorant of the answer, lNm. Perhaps this previous comment might be enlightening to you:
Your original question absolutely reeks of either outright ignorance, or you're playing devils advocate.
I'm goin with the first one.
Oh and save your high and mighty bullshit for someone else sparky.
Or, maybe, you could assume the second and answer as a rational adult.
I can get high and mighty on you if you want, liberalNmoderation. I've gone nowhere near that yet, though.
Ya know...xyzzy...you're full of shit.
Even IF you really were playing devils advocate on this topic, it's STILL fucked up, because the difference is so glaringly obvious, I can't see how ANYONE who isn't a fucking racist POS could even THINK there was even a slight similarity.
Now that I've answered your stupid question like an adult,
YOU can go FUCK yourself.
Thanks lib! My thoughts exactly...
and let me add, xyzzy, you're sounding like the concern troll you are. If you don't like this site, eff off! Nobody's making you stay... seriously.... you come off like an adolescent who's trying to get people to notice you. Time to act like an adult.
BTW, that depiction was not racist. It was "specieism."
As the resident monkey I condemned those images... and if someone sent one by email, I responded that it was completely irresponsible to associate Dubya with a higher primate.
Very insightful.
And funny as hell.
The difference is there is no history of blacks enslaving, lynching, and slaughtering whites while laughing at such pictures, while the reverse is true, therefore making the Obama picture not only tasteless but dangerous, since there are still people, some of them cops, who consider blacks inferior enough that their deaths make no difference to them.
"Not to be too contrarian or anything, but how is this any different from progressives circulating pictures of W as a monkey?"
I always thought the "Chimp" reference had to do with the cartoon character Curious George - or in Bush's case, Incurious George.
Whether or not this was the case, Bush's facial and, on occasion, bodily resemblance to a chimp was unmistakable.
Anyway, you don't seriously suggest that Bush-as-Chimp is racist, do you?
Nope.
Look, at the risk of belaboring this point, I get that the picture is racist. I just asked a question, that's all. People like liberalNmoderation are so polarized, however, that they read everything and the world into that question. I didn't say "you guys are wrong and you suck!", I just asked how things were different--I didn't say what I believed one way or another. I asked a question. Call it an exercise in people overinferring and overreacting, if you will.
My point was this: as angry as this picture has made "our" side, those monkey caricatures also inflamed the "other" side, and so far nobody has owned up to that. So, what, it's okay for us to belittle the other guy as a subhuman primate, but when wingnuts try to portray President Obama as the same thing, it's wrong? (No offense to natives, y'all. But that's what those guys think. Anyone who isn't white and republican is a subhuman primate, according to them.)
We can make any number of comparisons. Yes, racism is bad. No, parody is not. But nevertheless there is hypocrisy here, and I have yet to hear anyone own that.
I'm currently a democrat, but this kind of thinking is really making me think that yeah, I need to be an independent. I'm sick of this polarized made-up bullshit. So some crazy dingbat photoshops a picture of Obama - SO THE FUCK WHAT? Crazy extremists are crazy extremists, they're never going to change.
I agree with and love almost everything that Obama is doing, but the readers here are more and more giving me pause about associating myself with the democratic party. Thank god that Obama is in office, as he is a rational voice of moderation. Shit knows where the rabid people here will take the democratic party, though, if they can't even handle a mild touch of introspection. Y'all are on a fast track to being right where the GOP is now. Does nobody else remember the political climate in 2000, how the GOP ruled supreme and Karl fucking Rove talked about a "permanent republican majority?"
Keep thinking of yourselves as 100% "right" and anyone else as 100% wrong, just like those idiots did. You'll lose your congressional majorities in the next election, and you'll endanger the chances for reelection of the first truly great president I've known in my lifetime his second term.
There is a ton of BS on both sides.
regarding the polarization thingy...
One thing though...what do you think a black person would say about this image?
As a white person, I think the image of bush portrayed as a chimp to be hilarious. And the one depicting Obama as a "primitive African" to be very very offensive.
Maybe I am polarized, but I'm not so sure that's necessarily such a bad thing...to be the polar opposite of the right wingers is bad?
I for one am proud to 180 degrees from that.
And to further make my point xyzzy...consider the source...consider who is making these images...they're the same people who say things like THIS about The First Family. They're all racists, to their very cores.
It's indefensible. And these people will NEVER be in power again...not as long as I can still draw breath, I will fight with every means available to me.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/9/751767...
w's picture wasn't photoshopped
he is/was a monkey
Do not associate or even put us monkeys in the same category as Dubya, we are much higher primates.
making him an "ape" which are higher than monkeys. ;-)
Preferred calling him shrub.
Chimps just think they're better than everyone else. They're degenerate, disgusting and lazy.
That describes most progressive commenters, ThunderMonkey.
Mirrors aren't very fun, are they?
"If the shoe fits, wear it. Because if you can find a shoe that a monkey can wear, it would be a rare treat."
You're alright, ThunderMonkey.
declared racism over in America when Obama was elected. That makes all of this just good clean fun, and not even a soupçon of a racist overtone in there!!!
Obviously the bigots didn't get the memo.
plain and simple - it is patently obvious that these people just cannot stand to see a black man in the White House.
It makes me sick that, since Obama was elected, the country seems to be turning increasingly more and more polarized into "racist vs. non-racist" sides. It was bad enough that during the bush years the polarization was mainly "wealthy vs. not-wealthy". This new trend is frightening.
Let them all come out and put their prejudices on the table.
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2...
You're right...bigger issues to worry about.
But ignoring these hateful, heartless mother fuckers will only empower them.
leftandleft, you have a point.
the more the rightwing is exposed for the racists they are, the further they move from political viability on the national stage with a populace that is becoming more and more 'diverse' every year.
but--sticking my ass way out on the cold wind for a serious whippin--i wish obama would stick up for the left as much as the left sticks up for obama. i wish we weren't the first people he sells out when "compromising" with the GOP, when it comes to healthcare, the economy, foreign policy, bush crimes, etc.
No kidding, eh? I mean, maybe he gives us credit for doing our thing while he does his, but a LITTLE back scratching would be nice.
That's one reason why I do an Internet radio program.
I want to help destroy the rethug party.
Political Talk Fridays @Noon Eastern
http://www.mediabridges.org/Default.aspx?page...
Click on The Bridge.
is overtly racist.
That one of bush is FUNNY.
really, isn't this similar to the photoshopped pics of Palin with all sorts of folks' faces superimposed over baby Trig? Granted, I doubt if Obama will have the faux outrage that Palin displayed - but if we applaud one photoshopped image, how can we then decry another? Is this obviously racist & juvenile? Of course. It's the conservatives & they've never been anything but declasse. It's a tempest in a teapot and to overreact simply gives credence to their feeble antics.
No. And if it has to be explained why to you, I don't think you'll have the capacity to understand the diff.
pathetic!
If ya can't tell the difference Greytdog, then you got major issues.
That could be compared to putting a toothbrush mustache and a Nazi uniform on Bush, the difference of course is the obvious racial slur. I think it's time for President Obama to stop playing Mr. NiceGuy and start getting tough with the Reich-wingers. How far do the Republicans and their bigoted NeoCon cheerleaders have to go before someone starts slapping lawsuits on them? What's next...referring to the President as 'boy' or 'LeRoy'? Time for the White House to get tough and open a can of whoop-ass.
It's high time for this racist crap to stop. Obama is the frickin' president of the United States. This shit needs to stop immediately and I hope to hell there's some quick way of doing just that.
And so re post it here? Ack!! I can't believe you would do that!
by their own kind?
No. I think this falls under the "Why We Fight" catagory.
For all this talk about Obama stripping the rights of American citizens.. Nothing was more abusive than the Bush Administration's policies and actions in the name of improved security. And no where among the conservatives was there any opposition to "The Patriot Act" , the increase wiretapping, or pulling grandma out of a lineup of airline passengers. The republican policies of lax business and security regulations combined with patronage hiring practices of industry lobbyists helped to economically devastate this country. Where was the oversight? Where were the whistleblowers? Well, we all know how Bush Co treated whistleblowers. They were threaten while the Bernie Madoffs of the world enriched themselves. Where was all the GOP outrage? The old republican value of fiscal responsibility was never spoken until the Bush era was over. Surpluses turned into deficits in less than a decade and Fox "news" helped you whitewash the fiasco.
'Cus no one wants to see their shrunken head collections.
'Cus no one wants to see their shrunken head
collectionsconventions.'Cus no one wants to see their shrunken testicles
(sorry ladies)
I don't know about the other ladies here, but to me your comment was very appropriate. I do not want to see any under parts of any of them.
at the frat house..... soooooo funny....
Now we need a beer run
for this evening's sheep shagging party, duuuuuuuuuuuuude.
...given up on the African American vote with hopes of strengthening it's hold on the racist white vote as a residual effect. These are not isolated racial incidents, this is by design. Much more racism(and racial violence) to come.
I'm afraid you are exactly right. This isn't just something here and there, there's a trend. I do hope you are wrong about the violence but with some on the right pushing this "tea party" crap, I think we all know the core of that.
It's just what happens when you've horrified and disenfranchised every portion of your party that could be considered "diverse". The GOP has unartfully managed to whittle their support down to the evangelists and the klan. Naturally they'll cling tightly to what's left.
I fully agree with your last statement.
Again?
These conservative nutcases are really beginning to piss me off! Have they no shame?
Did the United Nations, or any other international body, declare the year 2009 as The Year Of The Nuts?
Just what one would expect from the Rushthugliklan Party.
Forget the God complex, Erik Erikson has a Moses complex!
"I come down off the mountain today for one reason and one reason only!"
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/07/09/the-...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAtRCJIqnk&fe...
in soliciting the rabid racist rightwingers. they must think they can use rove's new math to win elections with just the 23%ers backing them.
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rep...
The GOP has sunk to lows I, being from Texas, living through desegregation, integration, the Civil Rights marches, etc, had never witnessed or imagined. We are truly experiencing the unhinging of the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, and dishonest group of thugs this country has ever witnessed. With these degenerates, we shouldn't be wasting time with enemies overseas. These terrorists pose a much greater threat to our nation right here at home.
and I agree with you wholeheartedly...
I rather prefer racists who are upfront with their evil. I know where to send my mail.
What we're seeing now from the repub party is it's true ideaology. Racism, greed, and selfishness. Not only are they not hiding this, I have heard no one in the repub party condemming this kind of rhetoric and behavior.
This post is taken verbatim from a Comedy Central post which claims the poster came via e-mail and did not identify the source. Why did they not identify the source?
The post begins by talking about a Malkin poster contest, but indicated indirectly this piece of racist crap was not part of Malkin's blog.
Since then a commenter suggested a poster of Malkin bombing Pearl Harbor, although the Philippines, her ethnic home, was bombed by Japan the same day as Pearl Harbor and she wrote a book approving Japanese internment. Another comment was more graphic.
The headline implies the source is conservative. Many commenters have blamed Republicans. Nobody has seen the source at C&L.
The art is racist. But if you were not told the New Yorker cover during the campaign was satire, many would call it racist and of Republican origin.
Why did they not try and identify the source?
Ya, I'd like to know which 'conservatives' are supposedly to blame before proceeding. Let's get it right people.
poster artist. Does that make you feel better?
that racists lump all people together, so why not lump Malkin with all other orientals. Sorry if my point was not clear. See it now?
My point was that there is no direct connection to Malkin, much as I wish there was.
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approving Japanese internment, do her thoughts and ideas apply to those from our country who approved of invading Iraq without cause? At least the Japanese were at war with our country. Are you saying you approve of the internment of the Japanese then? I am not backing them up, just questioning the logic of this. BTW, how do you know they did not try to ID the source? And could not?
...sent me this permalink. Now I know why.
The GOP wonders why its base is shrinking down to its core 27%. I know why.
you deleted a comment i left stating how juvenile this post was and then you act in a juvenile manner. no friggin wonder this site is going downhill
..but maybe you needed to reword it or something.
I like to think that the site admins just try to keep things civil around here. Did you employ excessively violent imagery, CAPS or anything else in your previous post which could be intended to inflame..?
Under Bush they promoted a class war and now that we have a black president they are promoting a race war. These are hateful racist elite. They attacked Obama for being elite? Really?
They attack anyone for what they are.
Maybe their vision of the world is screwed. They think the rest of us are just like them.
This is right up there with the troglodyte who printed during the election T-shirts with a picture of Curious George that was supposed to be Obama.
Remember the guy who brought a stuffed Curious George doll to an anti Obama rally? what a sicko.
From a troll wingnut. Yawn. Are't you missing Glenn, or Sean or Bill or limpdick or something to teach you more insanity? Go away.
Obama still looks good with a bone through his nose and dressed up like a witch doctor. At least he isn't a bone-head like Bush was!
It seems they hurt their own in return.
It seems that everytime they try to hurt Obama in this manner, one of their own fall from grace. Has anyone noticed that? The conservatives are falling like dead flies! They are reaping what they sow.
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