Funny how you don't hear about this disgusting comment on Fox News:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/14/2009-06-14_pol_gorilla_is_related_to_first_lady.html

A prominent South Carolina Republican killed his Facebook page Sunday after being caught likening the First Lady to an escaped gorilla.

Commenting on a report posted to Facebook about a gorilla escape at a zoo in Columbia, S.C., Friday, longtime GOP activist Rusty DePass wrote, "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless."

Busted by South Carolina political blogger Will Folks on his FITNEWS blog, DePass told WIS-TV in Columbia, "I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest."

Then he added, "The comment was hers, not mine," claiming Michelle Obama made a recent remark about humans descending from apes. The Daily News could find no such comment.

"'Humor' like this is nothing new for South Carolina Republicans - even as the party claims to be focusing on 'outreach' efforts to minorities," said Folks, a former gubernatorial spokesman and widely read blogger. "The fact that Palmetto [State] Republicans don't get that this is a serious problem for them baffles us."

Columbia's mayor called on DePass to apologize properly. "The comment is reprehensible. There's nothing funny about it," said Democratic Mayor Bob Coble. "What he needs to do is simply apologize in a straightforward manner."

DePass, former chairman of the Richland County GOP, was an early backer of George W. Bush and co-chairman of Rudy Giuliani's 2008 campaign in Richland County, the state's largest.

"Most of us, of course, particularly in South Carolina, never gave a damn about New Yorkers, but somehow the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, made those people Americans again," he wrote in a 2007 Op-Ed endorsing Giuliani.

Eric Davis, the current chairman of the Richland County Republicans, said his predecessor should get a pass. "Everyone says stupid things they regret later. I think the world should move on," he said.

http://www.brownstoner.com/forum/profile_post_images/asshat_conventi_2.jpg

So no one but Vinnie find this remark disturbing?

Amazing.

I find it extremely disturbing, and his lame, qualified "apology" disgusting. Eric Davis can also go stick poop up his nose with his "people should just move on."

Aren't we ALL related to the monkey?........ :cool:

Aren't we ALL related to the monkey?........ :cool:


Only if you subscribe to that evolution theory stuff.

I'll admit that's disgusting. And he should be absolutely ashamed of himself and I could never condone anyone saying things like that about anybody. But I don't recall anybody here in an uproar over these:

http://politicalpartypooper.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/bush-chimp.jpg

http://www.seedsofdoubt.com/zendaba/images/bush-chimp-again.jpg

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/podvin/images/BushChimpWithRocket.jpg

And that's only 3 of the about 106,000 images that come up when you google 'Bush Chimp'. And according to the good people over at DU, if you parade yourself around during a campaign, then you're fair game. Of course, they were only talking about the Palin girls.

ummm....there's a HUGE difference.

To me, an insult is an insult. Look at the things that Sarah Palin has been called on this site alone. I don't think ANY of it is right....about Sarah Palin, about Michelle Obama, about Bristol Palin, etc. This could just keep going forever and ever...you called George Bush this...well YOU called Hillary Clinton that....well YOU called Michelle Obama this....


...what does it accomplish? It's all disgusting.

Growing up in the deep South - African-Americans were frequently depicted by whites in their cartoons or jokes as recent, direct desendents from apes and therefore less than human. Because they were less human than whites, it was acceptable to make them slaves, deny them an education, medical care, and legal rights. Most would like to think that over the last 145 years, society has grown past such perceptions and beliefs - but after a telephone conversation with my mother, I know such attitudes or beliefs are just as deeply held now as 40 years ago.

Cartoons depicting a white man as a monkey (such as these of George W) are not saying he is more animal and less human - only that he may have the intelligence of a monkey.

I find it extremely disturbing, and his lame, qualified "apology" disgusting. Eric Davis can also go stick poop up his nose with his "people should just move on."
Just call Ray Knight...he'll go over and pop this guy on the nose with a nice knuckle sandwich. :O

The photo - shows the usual presidential photographs of the past 40+ president until the one of Obama.

But it is okay - she appologized for emailing the photo to the "wrong group of people".

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Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in TennesseeStory Highlights
E-mail shows U.S. presidents; Obama depicted as white eyes on black background

updated 7 minutes agoNext Article in Politics »


(CNN) -- The chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party wants a Republican legislative aide fired for sending out a "reprehensible" e-mail depicting President Obama as two cartoonish white eyes peering from a black background.


Sherri Goforth, a Tennessee state senator's aide, said she mistakenly sent the image "to the wrong list of people."

Obama's image is in the last square of a collage containing portraits of the previous 43 U.S. presidents. The e-mail, which was sent to other GOP staff members, was posted on the Internet Monday.

Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."

According to the Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, a note on the e-mail said it was paid for by the Tennessee Republican Party, but GOP officials denied they produced it. Black leads the Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus.

There was no comment from the White House as of Tuesday afternoon.

Black rebuked Goforth but didn't dismiss her.

"I want to be sure that everyone understands that the communication was sent without my knowledge," Black said Tuesday afternoon. "It absolutely does not represent the beliefs or opinions of my office. I want to be very clear about that."

"Ms. Goforth did get a verbal reprimand as well as a very strongly worded reprimand, written, that was put in her file that if this should ever occur again, that she would be terminated," Black said.

"This is an employee who has had a stellar record," Black said. She added that Goforth has worked in state government for more than 20 years, and has had a clean record.

"We followed policy. And that's what you do when someone breaks the rules, you follow policy," she said.

A phone message left for Goforth by CNN was not answered.

"Is this indicative of what Senate Republicans think about our commander-in-chief?" asked state Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester in a statement posted on the party's Web site.

"I am calling on Sen. Black to reject this racist smear and fire this staffer who, on state government time, on state government computers, using a state government e-mail account, launched this bigoted attack on our president," Forrester said. "Keeping her on the staff would send the message that this type of behavior is condoned by the Senate Republican Caucus."

"This e-mail is reprehensible, insults the office of the president, and is embarrassing to all Tennesseans regardless of political party," Forrester said.

Goforth told Christian Grantham of the Web site Nashville Is Talking that she had received a letter of reprimand from her superiors but will remain on the job.

Grantham said Goforth told him she felt "very bad about accidentally sending it to the wrong list" of people. "I inadvertently hit the wrong button," Grantham quoted Goforth as saying. "I'm very sick about it, and it's one of those things I can't change or take back."

Forrester, in his Web posting, said, "Ms. Goforth does not seem to understand what she did wrong. She has apologized for 'sending [the e-mail] to the wrong list of people.' I believe that any list of people would have recognized this e-mail as offensive and hateful."

State Rep. Johnny Shaw, D-Bolivar, a member of the black and Democratic caucuses, said Goforth should be dismissed.

"I don't think a reprimand is enough. I think this lady needs to go. I don't think she should be a part of the people who represent the state of Tennessee," Shaw said.

He said Goforth and Black, as well as Republican Lt. Gov. and Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, should make public apologies for the incident.

"I am appalled. It's despicable. It's disgusting. It should not have happened, but it does happen," Shaw said. "It is the president of our country that we're talking about."

Several other black Democratic lawmakers agreed Goforth should quit.

"The last thing we need in the state of Tennessee is to send out the impression and the image that we are still stuck in some backwater mentality and culture that feels it's OK to depict the president of the United States in that fashion," state Rep. John Deberry Jr., D-Memphis, told CNN Radio.

Forrester added: "Unfortunately, Sherri Goforth's e-mail joins the list of shameful episodes by Tennessee Republicans, from the infamous 'Birds of a Feather' direct-mail piece that featured black crows with the heads of Barack Obama and [African-American] Rep. Nathan Vaughn, to the "Barack the Magic Negro" song that former Tennessee GOP Party Chairman Chip Saltsman sent to RNC members during his failed campaign for RNC chair."

here's the pic...i'd love to see how some of my fellow Republicans spin this one...jesus christ...

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/06/16/tennessee.email/art.tennessee.email.wkrn.jpg

While I believe every politician is going to be subject to jokes and character depictions (I do believe family members who are not actual politicians are off limits unless they push themselves out into the public spotlight), there is a such thing as crossing a line. In this case, it was long jumping way over the line.

It just means that racism is alive and flourishing in the United States of America.

While there are those who truly oppose his poltiical agenda, sadly there are a lot of Americans whose opposition to Obama has less to do with his politics and more to do with the color of his skin.

Racism never died and may not die for a long time, if ever. It's all a question of how we (society as a whole) deal with it, educate ourselves, learn the concept of individual accountability and move forward.

omg. That article about Goforth actually made me sick to my stomach. And the fact that she apologized for sending it to "the wrong list of people". :eek: Are you f**king kidding me?!?!? Does she not see how wrong and sick and racist this is?!

I want to vomit.

Many people seem to think that because we have a bi-racial President, humor, comments, illustrations that were clearly considered racist and biogoted 15-20 years ago are now completely acceptable.

Phil, Fox DID report it.

Sorry to disappoint you.

It just means that racism is alive and flourishing in the United States of America.

While there are those who truly oppose his poltiical agenda, sadly there are a lot of Americans whose opposition to Obama has less to do with his politics and more to do with the color of his skin.

Unfortunately, it works both ways. There are people who voted FOR Obama simply because of his skin color. And that's not right either.

Phil, Fox DID report it.

Sorry to disappoint you.



I'm not disappointed; I'm dubious. I just did a search at Foxnews.com for "rusty depass" and nothing came up. I then tried "compares Michelle Obama to gorilla" and the story about the animal escaping the zoo came up, but still nothing about the comment.

If they did mention it, they've certainly buried it since.

OTOH, I tried "Letterman insults Palin" and well over 40 pieces come up.