Never Forget

Barack Obama on middle America:

So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Nothing like a little bigotry to kick off campaign season.

It’s been a good stretch for Democrat bigotry; it kicked off with Saint Paul City Council prez Dave Thune worrying in public that  Republican delegates would puke all over Saint Paul if the bars stayed open (and “clarifying” that while he wasn’t trying to insult lobbyists, Republicans were a bunch of warmongers).

Back in ’04, the Dems were good enough to keep the most preening pieces of bigotry until after the campaign.

Ain’t technology grand?

11 thoughts on “Never Forget

  1. Barak Obama: One of the few people in America that can make McCain look good.
    What a maroon.

  2. Reading some of the comments, I was impressed with the number of clickable options you had to respond to them. Unfortunately, since I did actually read some of the comments, the one I really wanted to see was missing: “Flag as retarded”. 😉

  3. Hmm, stereotyping “folks” not from the coastal big cities as gun totin’, immigrant hatin’, no skillz havin’ Jeeebus freaks? I’m fairly certain that far to frequent SitD commenter ‘Angryclown’ has joined Obama’s advisory staff replacing Rev. Wright in the Resident Bigot Chair. I’d be absolutely certain if Barry had thrown in an Applebee’s reference.

  4. Suffice to say that twenty years sitting in a pew, listening to a racist spew, has had an impact.

  5. This would be a good time to revisit what the Washington Post thinks about traditional Chrsitians:

    “Unintelligent and easily lead”

    Kermit, not only that, but O’bama is making the Clintons look like Kissenger at times.

  6. Here’s media watch’s take on Weisskopf’s bigotry:

    In a February 6 Howard Kurtz story on reader protests, Weisskopf dug himself deeper. Weisskopf called it “an honest mistake, not born of any prejudice or malice for the religious right,” but then said he should have said that evangelicals were “relatively” poor and uneducated. According to Kurtz, “Weisskopf said he based the description on interviews with several experts, but didn’t attribute it to anyone because `I try not to have to attribute every point in the story if it appears to be universally accepted. You don’t have to say, it’s hot out today, according to the weatherman.'”

    In a letter to the editor published the same day in the Post, Timothy Crater of the National Association of Evangelicals argued: “If such generalizations had been made of blacks, Jews, or any other favored minority, one can easily imagine the journalistic hell into which Weisskopf’s career would slide.”

    In the February 7 Post, Ombudsman Joann Byrd wrote: “The most embarrassing mistakes in newspapers are invariably the ones the paper had abundant opportunity to catch. And this was one of those. As the story moved through the editing process, several able editors read it, and still the sentence, sitting out there with no support, did not jump out.”

    Weisskopf has a Baccalaureate from George Washington University, a Master of Fine arts from John Hopkins, and has received numerous awards for excellence in journalism. Doesn’t mean he’s not a bigot.

  7. The Wash Post even referenced something themselves (not good damage control there)…that the writer showed his bigotry and ingnorance towards orthodox Christians, but so did every level of editor that reviewed this before printing. The line didn’t stand out as unreasonable to one person at the Washington Post.

  8. “Suffice to say that twenty years sitting in a pew, listening to a racist spew, has had an impact.”

    Yes apparently Obama seems to be under the impression that listening to a racist pastor blame everything that’s wrong in your life and the lives of people who share your skin color is the fault of your government or people with a different skin color is typical of what EVERYONE’s church is like.

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