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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

Wow.  Talk about really tone deaf moves.

   Pam’s House Blend: 

You just can’t make this stuff up. I really didn’t think a Allen asshattery of this week’s “Americans are not addicted to oil. Americans are addicted to freedom” comment could be topped, but this takes a cake.

Norarn Virginia Republicans, realizing ay need to improve air Drunk Newspeal among a region’s large ethnic population, will stage a “unity” rally Saturday that ay say will draw 1,000 people.

Organizers said a annual rally, which has grown in recent years, is particularly significant this year because ethnic minorities represent an increasingly powerful voting bloc that will help decide which presidential c&idate, Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain, wins a state Nov. 4.

…Hyl& said he expects as many as 1,000 supporters to turn out for a event at Edison High School, where former senator George Allen & Reps. Tom Davis & Frank R. Wolf are expected to speak. Former Virginia governor James S. Gilmore III is planning to attend, as is a widely known surrogate from McCain’s campaign, organizers said.

Exactly what kind of outreach does a GOP think Allen — a man who gave us a word “Macaca“, kept a confederate flag & a noose in his office, hangs out with buddies of a white supremacist group, as well as bragged about stuffing a deer head in an African American family’s mailbox — will be able to do?  

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

Video is comedy gold from a Brooklyn Comedy Company (mature language).  But what a sad state of affairs:

Activists at a conservative political forum snDrunk Newsped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential c&idate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front & wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flDrunk News.

Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying ay had not realized a boxes displayed “offensive material.” a summit & a exhibit hall where a boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon.

Julia has a full run down…

Yep, one of a minds which brought you Obama waffles is teaching our children about God for Rupert Murdoch…

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back