The Radical Right in 2008: Smacking them down
By David Neiwert Saturday Jan 03, 2009 5:00pmMark Potok at Hatewatch, the Southern Poverty Law Center's blog, has collected ten "truly extraordinary examples of asinine activities from the benighted denizens of the radical right" for 2008. It makes for some hilarious reading.
My two faves:
8. Worst International Travel Plan
Jerome Corsi — the insult-spewing WorldNetDaily “reporter” who helped lead the Swift Boat defamation of John Kerry and also wrote a fawning tome glorifying anti-immigrant vigilantes — had a plan. His new target was Barack Obama, and Corsi, who’d just been exposed on this blog for his appearance on a white supremacist radio show, decided in October to go to Kenya to track down “deep dark ties” between the Democratic presidential nominee and various Muslim politicians there, including the prime minister. Corsi apparently forgot that most people in Kenya, where Obama’s father was a well-known economist, thought quite a bit of the man who would be America’s first black president — and he also neglected to get a work permit. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when authorities snatched up Corsi, who likes to call Muslims “Boy-Bumpers” and “RAGHEADS,” and put him on the next plane back to the United States. Never one to be deterred by the facts, Corsi had also just published a book falsely claiming that Obama is secretly a Muslim.5. Least Sanitary Nativist Award
This one was very much a judgment call, what with the thousands of truly unpleasant immigrant-bashers who populate the land. But it was hard to resist the indefatigable “Buffalo” Rick Galeener, 58, the former professional singing cowboy who has pledged to defend America against corruption and all manner of other ills from south of the border — in part, apparently, by peeing in front of a Hispanic lady (and her 2-year-old son) who he’d earlier insulted as part of his endless demonstrations against Latino day laborers in Phoenix. In December, after months of fighting the charge, Galeener pleaded guilty to urinating in public (prosecutors had originally charged him with indecent exposure) and was fined $194, according to Phoenix New Times. The director of the day labor center Galeener loves to picket told New Times that it would have been different if Galeener had been Latino and arrested by Joe Arpaio, the local sheriff who is widely accused of racial profiling: “If any day laborer had done that in a white neighborhood, they’d probably be in Arpaio’s jail as a sexual predator.”
The best thing about the far right is that the vast majority of them are too hapless to actually cause any serious damage. Most of the time, their nastiness goes hand in hand with sheer ineptitude. This is a good thing.
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"The director of the day labor center Galeener loves to picket told New Times that it would have been different if Galeener had been Latino and arrested by Joe Arpaio, the local sheriff who is widely accused of racial profiling: “If any day laborer had done that in a white neighborhood, they’d probably be in Arpaio’s jail as a sexual predator.”
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I have no doubt whatsoever that a Latino doing the same thing in front of a (non-Latin) white would have been charged as a sex offender.
What about Rush's operation Chaos. That really worked out good for them. And his inept attempt to label McCain as too much in the middle, then turn around and back him 100%.
I guess Rush was too busy carrying water for the GOP to run the operation effectively.
Contra conflict 20 years later. Supposedly needs but $4M to finish the job--why hasn't the US funded and finished this?
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/stor...
Hate your fellow citizen, even though you don't know him or her.
Fuck your fellow citizen.
Hate him or her.
Believe in your representative.
Believe in your government, your war, your church.
As John Stuart Mill so famously observed, stupid people do tend to be conservatives.
...assclowns of the year. I'm amazed that they both got under my radar.
A secret Muslim? What would be the point, Corsi? You think he secretly falls to his knees five times a day facing Mecca and loudly prays to Allah?
Or do you believe that "Muslim" is a physical condition, like hemophilia or AIDS or diabetes that somehow Obama is feverishly trying to keep hidden from exposure in his public life? Is "Muslim" something that runs through the body like "tainted blood" and not a religious choice at all?
La-La Land has certainly opened the floodgates to let the conservatives out.
When you tatoo "F#@k SPLC" on the side of your noggin, you have pretty much.......uh...F#@ked your future.
i am not surprised that this white bastard
pissed in from of these unfortunate viewers,
the gop's favorite sport is a good ole
piss and scat THROWDOWN...larry craig tried
to introduce the public to this last year.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?s=cahill&submit=
Nice to see a woman (albeit a White Supremacist kook) "stand by her man"...
"2. Least Likely Multiculturalism Spokesperson Award
It was a nice article about a nice lady — Emilia Fanjul, the wife of sugar baron Jose “Pepe” Fanjul and the founder and chairperson of Glades Academy, a charter school in Florida explicitly designed to lift poor black and Latino kids out of poverty. But the story in Quest, a high-society New York magazine, ended with a note for those seeking more information to call Chloe Black. The shocker, first revealed on this blog, was that Chloe Black is a seasoned white supremacist — the former wife of Klan leader David Duke, the current wife of former Klan leader and Stormfront founder Don Black, and a recent attendee at numerous white supremacist functions. At first, Chloe Black refused to comment, but it wasn’t long before she told the Palm Beach Post, against all the evidence, that she was no white supremacist. Just a few months later, the Black family was at it again. This time, 19-year-old Derek Black, Don and Chloe’s son, had managed to get elected as a local Republican committeeman — but the GOP refused to seat him. When the Palm Beach Post caught up with him, Derek, who started up his own racist Stormfront page for kids at age 12, said that he was “not associated” with white supremacy. Like mother, like son."
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Wow, I lived in Palm Beach Co last year, and this is the first I've heard of this! I guess I slept (or was incarcerated) that day...
The Librul media missed it?
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deserve all the ills that come their way, they really do. These clowns earned a heaping portion of bad karma, I hope they get it.
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aww shit
One of the disturbed notions of these neocon rightwingers is that their rights are not your rights. Example: George Bush.
"The best thing about the far right is that the vast majority of them are too hapless to actually cause any serious damage. Most of the time, their nastiness goes hand in hand with sheer ineptitude. This is a good thing."
They couldn't find their own butt with both hands and a flashlight.
are up their asses, what do you expect?
it doesn't matter how dumb or corrupt they are the GOP has the talk radio monopoly and that is the reason why we are in this fucking mess in thee first place. as long as progressives/dems/leberals continue to ignore that fact, democracy and bipartisanship are impossible.
While I've heard of the SPLC, I'll admit I haven't followed them that closely before. Some pretty amazing stories here, and most of them "close to home", where they often cause the most damage. Site bookmarked, donations (to SPLC, not you personally--sorry...) hopefully forthcoming soon.
The far right is very dangerous .... just look at what has happened to this country and the world as a result of their stupidity. We need to take down Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, and Rove. Taken them down for treason and put them in a hole where they can no longer spew right wing hate and lies.
#3 was my favorite. Facing 55 years for talking shit? Locked up in Chicago? How many threats does HE get a day? Priceless!
The scariest thing about Reslugs is that they are stupid and tasteless pigs too.
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