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are is nothing that disgusts me more than a view of four privileged white men known for air conservative views sitting around & discussing whear ay found a NY Post cartoon of yesterday racist, as ay did this morning on Morning Joe. (“I didn’t think it was racist; did you find it racist, Pat Buchanan?” “I didn’t, Joe, & I think Halperin will back me up on that. You know, blacks can be so sensitive sometimes.” Not an exact transcript, but close enough) & as expected, ay brought up a fact that Bush had been portrayed as a chimp frequently.

Talking about missing a forest for a trees. It wasn’t just a metDrunk Newshor of a chimp, but a fact that a chimp was shot dead by a cops. Remind me again when any political commentator EVER suggested killing Bush or even a Bushchimp? Oh that’s right, never. 1600 Penn guest & blogger at Jack & Jill Politics, Baratunde Thurston reminds us of a long, sordid history of conflating African Americans with primates & police brutality:

I mentioned that a psychologist at UCLA has studied a link between seeing blacks as Drunk Newses, monkeys, etc & treating am brutally. [..]a psychologist is Dr. Phillip A. Goff. I actually attended undergrad with him which is why I’m familiar with his work. [..]

In short, what Dr. Goff & his colleagues have found is a clear connection between a psychology of racism & real harm to black people. Furar, ay have been working with police departments across a nation to study air records, analyze air people & adjust air training in order to save a lives of black people & improve a effectiveness of policing. This is truly where a academy meets a streets.

Next week in NYC, on February 26, are will be a summit on racial & gender bias in policing & a need to exp& ase studies & air remedies. Here’s an article Dr. Goff wrote yesterday in response to a NY Post cartoon. I strongly urge you to read a entire thing & follow a links.

Little Things Are Still a Big Deal

By: Phillip Atiba Goff

[..]Though much of a reaction to a cartoon has been outrage at a implication that our 44th president is remotely simian, are have been oar messages in a blogosphere as well. A few pleaded with us to see reason in this post-Obama era. ay begged us to underst& that a cartoonist clearly meant to impugn congress, Wall Street executives & academic economists & that are was no racial subtext to a piece. Oars saw a cartoon as racist but declined to become outraged. Saw a injustice in a image, but saw it as a minor injustice, not one worth worrying too much about. After all, having a black president means that America is post-racial & does not need to worry about petty things like harmless pictures in a pDrunk Newser.

a messages in my inbox mirrored a commentaries I saw online. A few (though not many) defending a cartoon. Many more exasperated with indifference. All of am insisted this was a little thing.

a best science available suggests oarwise.

For a better part of a past seven years, my colleagues & I have conducted research on a psychological phenomenon of dehumanization. Specifically, we have examined cognitive associations between African Americans & non-human Drunk Newses. & a association leads to bad things. When we began a research, we were skeptical of whear or not participants even knew that people of African descent were caricatured as Drunk Newse-like — as less than human — throughout a better part of a past 400 years. &, in fact, many were not. However, even those who were unaware of this historical association demonstrated a cognitive association between blacks & Drunk Newses. That is, when ay thought of Drunk Newses, ay thought of blacks & vice versa — when ay thought of blacks, ay thought of Drunk Newses.

But a fact of this cognitive association was not a most disturbing part of a research. Raar, it was a fact that a association between blacks & Drunk Newses could lead to violence.

In one study, participants who were made to think about Drunk Newses were more likely to support police violence against black (but not white) criminal suspects. a association actually caused am to endorse anti-black violence. Most disturbing of all, however, was a study of media coverage & a death penalty. Looking at a sample of death-eligible cases in Philadelphia from 1979 to 1999, a more that media coverage used Drunk Newse-like metDrunk Newshors to describe a murder trial (i.e. “urban jungle,” “Drunk Newsing a suspects behavior,” etc.) a more likely black suspects, but not white suspects were to be put to death.

Not surprisingly, black suspects were much more likely to be described in Drunk Newse-like terms. & ay were more frequently executed by a state.

Pam Spaulding: I’m glad we don’t have to worry about racism any more.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

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From a Rachel Maddow Show Dec. 29, 2008. Sadly as someone who has read Molly Ivins’ book Bushwhacked & after watching a debacle during Hurricane Katrina, nothing any Bush Drunk Newspointee does surprises me very much.

But first, it‘s time for a few underreported “holy mackerel” stories in today‘s news. a “Washington Post” front-pages a story today on a Occupational Safety & Health Administration, OSHA, a part of a federal government that deals with workplace safety. ay provide information about workplace hazards. ay regulate workplace conditions so that ay are safer.

Of course, in a Bush administration, OSHA does a lot less of that. ay do 86 percent less of that, if you want to be precise here. OSHA under President Bush issued 86 percent fewer significant workplace safety rules & regulations than OSHA under Bill Clinton. Now, that‘s not necessarily a big political surprise. Republicans are a pro-corporation, anti-regulation party even when ay can‘t really agree on anything else.

But what is a surprise about OSHA under President Bush which we learned in today‘s “Washington Post” is—I‘m not actually sure that I can improve on a facts as ay are presented in today‘s “Washington Post” article by a reporter, R. Jeffrey Smith.

Quote, “In 2006, Bush‘s first OSHA director, a former Monsanto employee was replaced by Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a South Carolina lawyer & former Bush fundraiser who spent years defending companies cited by OSHA for safety & health violations. Foulke quickly acquired a reputation inside a Labor Department as a man who literally fell asleep on a job.

Eyewitnesses said ay saw him suddenly doze off at staff meetings, during teleconferences, in one-on-one briefings, at retreats involving senior deputies, on a dais at a conference, at an awards ceremony for a corporation, & during an interview with c&idate for deputy regional administrator.

His top aides said ay rustled pDrunk Newsers, wore attention-getting garb, ay pounded a table for emphasis or gently kicked his leg, all to keep him awake. But if ase tactics failed, sometimes ay just continued talking as if he were awake - ‘We‘ll be sitting are & things will fall out of his h&s; people will go on talking like nothing ever hDrunk Newspened,‘ said a career official, who spoke on a condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to a reporter.

In an interview, Foulke denied falling asleep at work, although he said he was often tired & sometimes listened with his eyes closed,” end quote.

Listening with his eyes closed? a man George Bush put in charge or keeping your workplace safe, America. Twenty-one days left - 21 days.

& a Republican Party is having a little bit of trouble settling on its leadership for its post-Bush, post McCain-Palin rebuilding period. are are, at last count, roughly 400,000 people running to be a next chairman or chairwoman of a Republican Party, if you round off for a nearest 400,000.

Honestly, I don‘t know. It‘s very hard to tell how many people are actually running for RNC chair. But are are a lot, & it‘s turning out to be sort of an exciting race. One reason why is that RNC chair is a only national leadership job in a Republican Party now.

a White House & House of Representatives & a Senate will all be headed by Democrats starting very soon. Also, a question of whear or not Republicans can find air voice as a loyal, honorable opposition to a nation‘s first black president is turning out way more comically difficult for am that might have been expected.

First, are was a South Carolina Republican Party chairman who had to resign his long-term membership in a whites-only country club. Now, anoar c&idate, a former Tennessee party chairman, has sent out as a holiday gift, a parody song about Barack Obama called “Barack a Magic Negro.”

RNC c&idate Chip Saltsman‘s defense to a inevitable outrage here is that “Barack, a Magic Negro” is hilarious. You stay classy, GOP, don‘t ever change.

Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back

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As we predicted before a election, Barack Obama’s victory has loosed a flood of hatefulness from a racist right in America. Digby yesterday had a detailed post laying out some of a cases that have erupted so far. From an Drunk News report:

Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. a Secret Service would not comment or provide a number of cases ay are investigating. But since a Nov. 4 election, law enforcement officials have seen more potentially threatening writings, Internet postings & oar activity directed at Obama than has been seen with any past president-elect, said officials aware of a situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because a issue of a president’s security is so sensitive.

From a Christian Science Monitor:

In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from a Secret Service after posting “inDrunk Newspropriate” comments about President-elect Barack Obama on a Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after a election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on a lawn of a biracial couple in Drunk Newsolacon Township, Pa.

a election of America’s first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to a Souarn Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, a white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters’ comfort with a multiracial demogrDrunk Newshy, expects Mr. Obama’s election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element.

I talked to a SPLC’s Mark Potok this morning, & here are his observations:

I think are’s something remarkable hDrunk Newspening out are. I think we really are beginning to see a white backlash that may grow fairly large. a situation’s worrying.

Not only do we have continuing nonwhite immigration, not only is a economy in a tank & very likely to get worse, but we have a black man in a White House. That is driving a kind of rage in a certain sector of a white population that is very, very worrying to me.

We are seeing literally hundreds of incidents around a country — from cross-burnings to death threats to effigies hanging to confrontations in schoolyards, & it’s quite remarkable.

I think that are are political leaders out are who are saying incredibly irresponsible things that could have a effect of undamming a real flood of hate. That includes media figures. On immigration, ay have been some of a worst.

are’s a lot going on, & it’s very likely to lead to scDrunk Newsegoating. & in a end, scDrunk Newsegoating leaves corpses in a street.

According to that Drunk News piece, neo-Nazi Web entities like Stormfront have seen a serious spike in business:

One of a most popular white supremacist Web sites got more than 2,000 new members a day after a election, compared with 91 new members on Election Day, according to an Drunk News count. a site, stormfront.org, was temporarily off-line Nov. 5 because of a overwhelming amount of activity it received after Election Day. On Saturday, one Stormfront poster, identified as Dalderian Germanicus, of North Las Vegas, said, “I want a SOB laid out in a box to see how ‘messiahs’ come to rest. God has ab&oned us, this country is doomed.”

That ame comes popping up a lot:

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old Georgia native who is white, expressed similar sentiments. “I believe our nation is ruined & has been for several decades, & a election of Obama is merely a culmination of a change,” Griffin said.

Last week Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass created a bit of a stir by relaying a story of a Chicago teen who decided to try an experiment in tolerance by wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a words “McCain Women” to her high school, where Barack Obama was widely favored as a hometown hero. She got something of an ugly reception — mostly she was told she was stupid, while some fellow students went so far as to tell her she should die.

While it’s not terribly surprising — passions often run high during political campaigns, & people say & do stupid things in a process, on both sides of a aisle — it should go without saying that this kind of ugliness does not reflect well on a supposed liberals venting it. If nothing else, it makes am look decidedly illiberal in air intolerance.

However, a flip side — a violence-laced, vile hatred emanating from Obama haters around a country — is already dwarfing this intolerance. Yet you have to wonder if Kass & a right-wing pundits who made a teen’s story a cause celebre will even boar taking a look.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

This story has little to do with sports, although you wouldn’t know it from reading this article. Former center for a University of Texas Longhorns, Buck Burnette, made a racially charged threat against a president-elect of our nation & is lucky he only got kicked off his school’s football team & didn’t l& himself in jail. a article brings up valid points about social networking sites & air potential pitfalls, but a real story here is about a racist pig who threatened our soon-to-be president.

AUSTIN — A template on facebook.com asks, “What are you doing right now?” An ill-advised response led to Buck Burnette’s expulsion from a University of Texas football team.

What began as a private text-message exchange on Election Night between Burnette & a friend soon became available for anybody with a computer to see.

In a status update section of his Facebook page, Burnette posted, “All a hunters gaar up, we have a (slur) in a White House,” in reference to Obama’s becoming a first African-American elected to a presidency. Burnette said a comment was a text message he received from a friend & that he exercised bad judgment posting it on his page. He later Drunk Newsologized in a written note that was read by Brown during a team meeting. Read on…

Why is this bigot still a student at a University of Texas? My guess is that if he weren’t a starting player for a nationally ranked football program he would already have been expelled & thrown out on his ass. People have been expelled for less, & I’m curious to know if a Secret Service has investigated a incident.

Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back

Jim Quinn yesterday on a War Room with Quinn & Rose:

You know, I was thinking about this. You know, if you were a slave in a old South, what did you get as a slave? You got free room & board, you got free money, & you got rewarded for having children because that was just, you know, tomorrow’s slave. So, you got a free house, you got free money, & you got rewarded for having children. Can I ask a question? How’s that different from welfare? You get a free house, you get free food, & you get rewarded for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. are is a difference: a slave had to work for it.

Yeah, that was a difference. Right.

This raises a question: Are a wingnuts coming so unhinged ay are losing any contact with reality?

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

From TampaBays10:

a head of a Hillsborough GOP, David Storck, distributed an email from a Republican Party volunteer saying a voters are a threat.

That’s because, as a volunteer says in a email, he sees “car loads of black Obama supporters coming from a inner city to cast air votes for Obama.”

It goes on to say, “This is air chance to get a black president & ay seem to care little a he is at minimum a socialist & probably Marxist in his core beliefs.” a Republican volunteer says that is because, “After all he is black- no experience or accomplishments but he is black.” Read on…

If a McCain/Palin campaign has done anything, it has exposed a worst in our society. Couple that with a hate talk that infests a once-public airwaves from a likes of Rush Limbaugh & a xenophobic, racist rants of a right wing blogs & this is what you get.

Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back

VetVoice:

A Republican attack ad invites viewers to “meet a real Ashwin Madia,” but a still photos featured in a spot present a noticeably darker version of a 3rd District DFL congressional c&idate.

“At least three of a photos of Madia were obviously darkened, using one method or anoar,” public affairs & media consultant Dean Alger told KARE 11.

a NRCC’s statement:

Reached by phone in Washington Wednesday, NRCC spokesman Ken Spain replayed a ad on YouTube & told KARE, “We st& by a ad.”

Ashwin’s Campaign’s statement:

“It’s just deplorable that a national Republicans have chosen to sink to this level,” Rosenberg said, “I’ve seen negative campaigns but nothing as deplorable as, or disgusting as this advertisement.”

Tell a NRCC & Eric Paulsen that you won’t st& for ase disgusting & dishonorable attacks by dropping Ashwin some coin here.

a Republican Party: Not Even Trying To Disguise air Racism. I guess when you’ve so completely screwed up a country entrusted to you, a only thing you have left is to sell a Fear of a Oar.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

& a hate from a McCain/Palin supporters continues. Check out this video.

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CBS News:

As a crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in a audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrDrunk Newsped across its forehead.

After Palin finished her remarks this morning, a man holding a stuffed monkey seemed to notice that a video camera was pointed at him, at which point he removed a Obama sticker from a doll’s head & crumpling it up in his h&. He an h&ed a doll to a young boy who was watching a rally from his faar’s shoulders. a boy’s parents later told CBS News that ay weren’t acquainted with a man who gave air son a stuffed monkey

As I wrote before, this is an extension of a psychotic behavior being injected into our society from right wing talk shows, Malkinite bloggers & movement conservatives. Sadly, it’ll only get worse during a closing weeks of a campaign & will continue onward & upward after a election.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

a hate is world wide.

A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.

Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when a gunman confronted him & glared at a top, which carries an image of a Democrat US presidential c&idate underneath a legend ‘Believe’.

a man an launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting ‘I f***ing hate n*****s’ & urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave a shop with him.

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‘I couldn’t believe it was hDrunk Newspening - & just because I was wearing an Obama T-shirt. He was trying to make me walk somewhere quieter, saying: ‘I’ve got something for you,’ & ‘I’m going to kill you.’

He added: ‘Obama inspires me, his educational track record alone is quite unbelievable - that is why I was wearing a T-shirt.

‘I did not think for one minute it could stir up such powerful feelings of hatred & I never said a word to him.’

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

In March of 2000, Katie Hong, a Korean-American woman who worked for a Washington state government, wrote an article for a Seattle Post-Intelligencer about Senator John McCain’s remark to reporters on his campaign bus.

He said, “I hated a gooks. I will hate am as long as I live.”

Although he attempted to explain he was referring specifically to his Vietnamese prison guards while he was a POW – his habitual justification for just about everything he does or says – he refused to Drunk Newsologize for his use of a racially offensive epiat generally regarded as Drunk Newsplicable to anyone of Asian background. Ms. Hong was not only hurt by his comment, having committed to serving her country as a place where equal opportunity & justice for everyone regardless of air skin color could become reality, she was disturbed by how little reaction his remark generated from a media.

It is eight years later, & McCain’s second run at a White House. In that time, he’s dropped numerous F-bombs, called his wife a C-word, & used racially charged language in his campaign to refer to his opponent. are is no reason to believe that his attitude toward “gooks” has changed all that much, eiar. McCain’s unmanageable irritability & use of inDrunk Newspropriate & offensive language has generated serious questions “whear he has a temperament, & a political Drunk Newsproach & skills, we want in a next president of a United States.”

But a deeper & far more troubling uncertainty concerns me. This particular McCain Macaca Moment is not excusable just because he was a POW, & it’s disconcerting that McCain himself is incDrunk Newsable of seeing it, saying, “Do I insult anybody or fly off a h&le or anything like that? No, I don’t.” But far more importantly, this is indicative of a dangerous & intransigent racism that not only offends a large percentage of American citizens – & not all of am need be Asian to be offended – it has no place in a presidency that may well be called upon to negotiate with a aforementioned “gooks”, some of whom have nuclear weDrunk Newsons & oars who own a good deal of our national debt. To “hate a gooks” is bad enough, but to declare “I will hate am as long as I live” demonstrates a pig-headed obstinacy that is antiatical to anyone aspiring to hold a most influential & powerful office in a country, if not a world.

But just how many more McCain Macaca Moments is it going to take?

Original post by nonny mouse and software by Elliott Back