C&L endorses Presente Action and PCCC's action called 'DenunciaRush' against anti-Latino Republican attacks on Sonia Sotomayor
By John Amato Monday Jul 13, 2009 6:00amI'm endorsing this move because the truth is the truth. Presente Action (a new Hispanic organization) and the PCCC are going to run ads in Florida called: DenunciaRush.com to highlight the anti-Latino sentiment that permeates the right wing Republican base, and how that bias is bubbling over with the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
Adam explains:
We've been pushing hard for health care reform recently, but another big thing is happening this week: The hearings to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as our first Latina Supreme Court Justice are starting today. And it's already ugly. First, congressional Republicans refused to denounce Rush Limbaugh's racist attacks on Sotomayor.
Then just yesterday, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee went on CBS and questioned the role of her "ethnic background" in her judicial work. Really? In 2009? Enough! It's time for Republicans to pay a political price for their blatant racism. That's why our friends at Presente Action are going on offense, running Spanish radio ads in key congressional districts -- starting in Florida. These ads will expose Republican racism for voters.
And Blue America's Alan Grayson is also getting big props for stepping up and bashing Limbaugh:
Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson -- also from Orlando -- did take on Limbaugh, despite representing a long-time Republican district. He said, "We have an African-American President and, soon, a Puerto Rican Supreme Court Justice. I'm proud of that. You're proud of that. And if Rush Limbaugh doesn't like it, that's just too bad." Grayson is a bold progressive in Congress. He successfully prosecuted Iraq war profiteers before defeating a House Republican last year and earning a reputation for grilling Wall Street execs this year. Grayson's outspokenness has made him a top Republican target in 2010. When you chip in to help air the radio ads, we've added a place where you can help Grayson's re-election as well. Please consider it.
You can also donate to Alan Grayson's campaign via Blue America here.
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a message to Rush:
preach on, brother Racist 450lb Heroin Addict. preach on.
Why do most official forms now ask if you're a non-hispanic white?
Isn't that like asking if you're a non-native-american-asian?
I would rather have 100 illegal Latino hard working socialist neighbors than 1 country club Republican.
Also, from the LA Times this am, the minuteman banana thugs are raising money to push a new ballot measure in CA that would make it illegal to give services of any kind to persons wihout a birth cert and kids born in the USA to illegal persons of any kind would not be residents of the country.
Shanda Forde wackjobs are going to protect us from us. Right.
Haa Haaa Haaaaa
You and me both!! Speaking as one who has worked in the public school system in Florida, I would rather work a thousand Latino children, than one child of country club repub parents.
I also just had a wood floor installed. The installer was a twenty-three-year-old Latino business owner. When he arrived, earlier than expected, he proudly presented me with his business card. He, and one helper, rip and tore, then sawed and cut, and worked a full eight hours, WITHOUT A BREAK, to finish the job in one day. When I filled out the evaluation sheet at the end, he was working as a sub-contractor for a local company, I checked EXCELLENT for every catagory.
Also, Alan Grayson is one amazing dude. If there is still anyone here who hasn't seen his YouTube Channel, you must. My favorite is the one where he totals the bush admin. for the millions of dollars MIA in Iraq. This guy rocks.
jhunter.......... Did you ever stop to think if that Latino Business owner was going to get the shit taxed out of him to support the huge government programs that Obama is pushing. Did you ask him what policies he supports? Small business owners like him are being shot down by this administration and condemned by the liberal policies of the left for working for money. Did you ask him if you could give 40% of your payment to the local shelter instead of him? As far as the article about Rush, in this case did he even bring up her race? Did he call her anything derogatory concerning her Latina heritage? No he did not! The hate is from the left …Rush was claiming the statements she made about being a better judge because of her race is racist and if that is what she believes that she is racist. It is just factual if that is how she feels.
Also I make about 50k and am hard working and I want to keep as much as I can. The rich ones nows are the Democrats. More Reps are hard working people that just want our Government to be smaller less intrusive.
I personally would not classify trolling as "hard work" although it seems you are a piss poor negotiator if you are only pulling $50K to shill for people earning orders of magnitude more than that.
Tool...
read articles of all kinds. Know all sides of the story.! I see you attack me personally, as the left always does, and you do not try to disagree with facts.
I don't recall seeing your name when Republicans wanted the Patriot Act that expanded government and intruding upon our lives.
Did you have a different callsign back then?
... BTW, during any of your "reading" excursions did you manage to read about when the biggest expansion of Federal expending happened?
You trolls were rather quiet about that during all 8 years of it. Funny how you find the "courage" to speak up now, eh?
Anyhow, playing the victim is so pathetic. I though you guys were supposed the "tough guys" parading around your "personal responsibility" high horse. Yet all I see is nothing but the panicked screams of a bunch of sissies desperate to pass on the buck.
Again, tool.
Oh, I see. And I'm sure that, when Alito noted the influence his ethnic background had on his judicial outlook, Rush condemned him as a racist.
Hmm?
I didn't think so.......
But nice of you to drop by and troll a bit!
I am sure if I, because my parents were Irish immigrants, said I was a better judge than her because of my heritage and Irish upbringing then I would and should be considered a racist. Why is it not for her?
If you were claiming to be a better judge "regarding the trials and tribulations of the sons of Irish immigrants." Then yes, you could say that and not be judged a racist.
Meaning does not emanate from words alone, but also context. But that sort of would get in the way of the massive strawman you were building there, wouldn't it?
that people take on this bag of wind! Go for it! The more the merrier!
You're next.
how much I hate these rethuglican sweinhund?? (And I don't like to hate)
Love to hate
You Conservative freaks are the undisputed heavyweight champions of hate.
Now we're getting lessons about tolerance and love from the wingnuts... it takes balls really (Or a complete lack of brain).
It's funny that you said that conservatives are champions of hate and you are the one calling them names.
the painkiller effect of Oxycontin is a result of its narcotic effects. Oxycontin is a time release semi-synthetic version of heroin. he's not a painkiller addict, he's a HEROIN addict.
But didn't cheney say that rush was more of a republican than Powell?
And both Poppy and Chimpy Bush love limpballs....he seems to be a close family friend.
LOL. The ad says Limbo is the leader of the rushthuglican party. Hahaha. I wish judge Sotomayor the best.
What a dick.
He's spouting off?
Senator Sessions is having his chance to tiptoe around his accusations of Judge Sotomayor right now. He still reminds me of the mouse in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
All they have to do is make Judge Sotomayor's mother cry and Sotomayor is a shoo in.
Nah, the mouse in the Tom and Jerry cartoons was cute and pretty damned intelligent. You've giving Jefferson Beauregard too much credit.
Yeah, I probably should send a note of apology to Jerry.
And just who in the hell is Sessions for criticizing Sotomayor when he obviously is a racist (sure this was covered by C&L)....
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/07/...
Who would you rather represent you in court, Jeff Sessions or Judge Sotomayor? Case closed.
...lecturing an overqualified minority woman judge on prejudice.
Yes, I pressed three shirts with the irony he gave us.
... that we are somehow stuck in a bad episode of the Twilight Zone?
When supinely bigoted old rich white men feel entitled enough to have the balls to call a hard working latina woman, who came from a poor background even, a "racist?" I don't think even Goebbels could have even thought about going "there."
Those poor oppressed southern white men psychologically and institutionally damaged by reverse racism. I think it's time to give them reparations.
Orin Hatch so far, I have written something worthy of being published and I would like everyone to know it. I still do not like Barack Obama or anything he has ever done or said.
You know fat boy is going to play the victim card when he hears about this, these guys will become just a bunch of angry socialist liberal racists attacking poor lil fat boys free speech rights, just watch.
Like all Repukes he will whine and cry about how he is being attacked but he does the same s!$^ every day; hypocrite.
Rush Lambaugh may broadcast from Palm Beach Country (one the top 10 wealthiest counties in the USA), but his audience is fly-over America. His type of hate-radio may play to the fearful white people with guns in states that have high immigrant non-voting populations from south of the border, but the large Hispanic community in Florida is well established by 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation voting Americans.
Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and many Central American Floridian Voters sided with Obama in 2008. Conservative Repub pols are starting to feel the pressure from the growing power of FL voting Hispanics. Repub Rep. John Mica, Daytona Beach, is on target to feel the pressure, as well as many Old South "Christian" Conservatives up and down Central Florida.
total bullshit.
for a lack of intellectual depth, racism and bigotry just too much to wrap my brain around.
It's comedy. Sad comedy.
Russ Feingold used the first part of his speech time to remind the world that the bush administration was a total fu*kup and got kicked in the pants several times by the Supreme Court. I still love ya, Russ.
MSNBC said the guy who was yelling was saying, What about the unborn.
on what a judge should do. Another totol rethug wanker.
The party that wipes their asses with the rule of law lecturing this woman, who is clearly more knowledgeable and skilled in jurisprudence than the entire Republican party.
I'm sure the Latino community is paying attention to this cavalcade of racist GOP hypocrites.
These clowns used The Constitution as toilet paper, and they're giving Sonia LECTURES on how a judge should act???
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Does it matter that Independents are split down the middle over this lady's nomination?
No, of course not. Just as long as the Demublican Party water carriers such as C&L have a say so.
The unimportant fights you wish to get into at C&L only show what a insignificant and corporate whore C&L has become.
and one's a douchebag?
Thanks for telling the whole story there.
I am sure at some point the light went off in GOP Troll central regarding the 50% of the "independents" in the senate (all 1 of them, wow!) opposing Sotomayor.
At least they are starting to move from their previous talking point, because if anyone should take a latino female from a poor background regarding her supposedly elitist and racist stands.... it should of course be rich entitled old white males.
I would love to be a fly in the room where these talking points originate.
LOL. How much are the Isrealis paying you?
Unimportant fight? Why, because you say so?
Here is your prize.
A loofa tub soak with Bill O'Liely and Flush Turdballs.
a troll (BuelahMan or whatever he/she calls him/herself) who tosses flame grenades and leaves. Shows how committed they are to their cause and how they're willing to back-up their statements.
Classless bullies.
palinesque?
Pulling a Palin.
village has lost its idiot..... shoo troll, back under ye' bridge! buh bye
That Buelahman is not Bluelahman. Two diff people.
So who's the Lalalalalaman?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFq5O2kabQo
Important issues like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbj5_bOZX_g
?
was it I, whom struck your nerve?I'll be preying for you. :)
Amended: Upon reflection, unless your a swift commentator, I retract my question... though my statement stands.
Ya know, you people all have one thing in common BuelahMan(?), and that is your staggering ignorance and bigotry and ability to quote, verbatim, Limbaugh talking points. Turn off your fucking radio and go soak up some sun.
This is a racially diverse country and should be represented as such in the Court. Get over it. Or move to Canada? I wouldn't miss you much.
Who are "you people"?
Are you implying marcella is anti-simian??
... Am I supposed to be offended, or not?
I just want to know who are "you people".
You should only be offended if she had said, "You primates..." since, technically, monkeys aren't people.
http://www.manilacathedral.org/NewsBulletins/...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfmQ6w7RW7k
... why she chose the term "people" implying human may be the reason for the confusion?
Exactly... Why are the primates being excluded and the thought that only humans or people can spout off talking points.
I have first-hand information that Glenn Beck is really an ape in a human suit.
... I don't think trolls belong to the Ape group. I don't think they even qualify to be in the baboon family.
And my source (another ape) may just be wrong. Baboons may be nasty bastards, but at least they'll warn you in advance.
I thought y'all might like to see what I look like:
http://www.photoshoppix.com/modules/coppermin...
Here you are.
Why do you bother commenting here? Call me another name and you're not welcome here anymore... I don't insult you.
About time to show the Reslugs leader and Lard-Ass King, in action, shooting off his bigoted, hateful mouth.
Whenever I hear Limpballs call someone like Michelle Obama or Sonia Sotomayor an "angry woman," I really wonder where he gets off on that? Every single time I hear his show (which fortunately is once in a blue moon...and only for a minute or two at a time), the jackass is spouting off, yelling and screaming, angry at Obama, liberals, Democrats, other repuglicans, almost anyone but himself. The jerk is constantly angry....it's a wonder he hasn't had a heart attack.
takes her oath of office.
^%$#@#$$%^$@(*&#@*_&(**$%(*&$#^!#%@!%!!!
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:)
I hope there are no ambulances standing by.
they are afraid of strong women. Tough limpy, get used to it
to be told how much of a bad boy they've been and get "beaten" for it.
Okay. I apologize. It's just that my brain takes me dark places sometimes.
Well, with his looks, crass attitude, bigoted remarks and sexist pig behaviour, among other things, why should we be surprised?
The mighty Lord Limpballs always reminds me of the fat, awkward boy back in school who grows up to hate the world because he couldn't get a girlfriend (or any friend)! " He always says to himself "It is always their fault, not mine".
As long as the Republicans keep attending the Fatboy Limp concerts, and cheer for him over and over again, they will forever be doomed to remain as an opposition party.
limpy was alot like Therman Merman
"Angry Woman" = She's smarter than me.
Rush is afraid of women. Period.
Lindsey Graham: As is everything, this is all about me and how cool I feel I am.
The repubs insisted the Dems denounce MoveOn. Now it's the Democrats turn to tell Republicans to denounce Rushbo>
It would be sweet, but don't think it'll ever happen!
All this racist talk is red herring. The real qustion on Sotomayor is her position on abortion. Is she or isn't she?
Here is some very smart talk from Femisex.com and Nancy Northup, president of Center for Reproductive Rights.
I strongly agreee with them that we focus our energy on the thing that really matters with Sotomayor--her position on abortion.
link:http://www.femisex.com/content/sotomayor%E2%80%99s-position-abortion-anyone%E2%80%99s-guess-tell-senate-make-her-talk
"Today, in a prequel to SotoMaybe’s upcoming confirmation hearings, FemiSex brings you a message from Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
It deals with the fact that we have NO good information on Sonya Sotomayor’s stand on abortion. Zip! We have no idea if she thinks Gonzales v. Carhart was wrongly decided. We have no idea is she is for or against parental consent laws. We have NO idea whatsoever on her position on abortions rights, other than, her rulings AGAINST abortions rights. (See our prior posts on SotoMayor for more on her prior rulings.)
And as Ms. Northup points out, the Senate is complicit in this act of unknowing when it comes to Supreme Court nominees and their stand on abortion rights. Time to end the Silence, says Northup. Have a listen:..."
Since the corporate media is run by the same monied interests who own our government, the only way the people are going to take back this country, is by using the media outlets themselves. By shining the YOUTUBE light on these corporate psycho's like Rush, people can see how disgusting they really are in their own environment.
Let the evil and ugliness of their essence destroy them.
That will work of course, until the Roberts Court rules 5-4 that public advertisements are illegal because they spread the truth, "and like sticks and stones (Judge Thomas' majority opinion), the truth hurts."
The government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and major social transformations to attain the system of constitutional government and its respect for the freedoms and individual rights, we hold as fundamental today." In conclusion ******* stated
"Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights."[7]
It was Justice Thurgood Marshall
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Did they take that picture right before he sneezed?
Warning: The first fifteen rows will get wet.
Wow. First they get rid of all the gay republicans, then they chase out the liberal republicans. Now they are chasing away the fastest growing demographic block in the country. Americans of Hispanic origins have good cause to distrust and fear Republicans. I think I hear the fat lady warming up for the Republicans final act!
I guess you are not allow to disagree with anyone anymore, or you will be call anti-something. Just because someone thinks she is not fit to do the job, doesn't mean you have a problem with her heritage.
WE LATINOS WILL NEVER LEARN...
IF WE NEW ANYTHING ABOUT POLITICS
OUR COUNTRIES WOULDN'T BE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
AND MOST OF US WOULDN'T BE HERE.
WE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH DISTROYING OUR COUNTRIES,
NOW WE WON'T STOP UTILL WE DISTROY THIS ONE.
WE GOT WHAT WE DESERVED IN LATIAMERICA.
NOW WE ARE GOING TO GET WHAT WE DESERVE IN USA:
MORE OF THE SAME...
STOP THINKING REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT.
STOP THINKING HISPANIC OR X-AMERICAN OR Y-AMERICAN
START THINKING WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, BECAUSE ONCE WE
LOSE THIS COUNTRY WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GO NEXT...CHINA?
GOOD LUCK!!!!
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