Neocon on Little Men, Ditch Diggers and "Rag Heads"

[Doug]

DOUG
Is there anyone so naive that he or she doesn't know the GOP is racist?

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(AP) Republican Sen. Conrad Burns, whose re-election campaign is pressing for tighter immigration controls, referred to his house painter as “a nice little Guatemalan man” and suggested that worker as well as employees of a roofing company he hired might be in the country illegally.

“The other day, the little fella who does our maintenance work around the house, he's from Guatemala, and I said, 'Could I see your green card?’” Burns said at a June meeting recorded by Democrats. “And Hugo says, 'No.' I said, 'Oh gosh.’”

...Burns' comments come on the heels of controversial remarks by Republican Sen. George Allen of Virginia, who called a Democratic staffer of Indian descent “Macaca.” Indian-American groups and others criticized Allen for his racially insensitive comments after a video was posted on the Internet.

A staffer for Allen's opponent, Democrat James Webb, caught that incident on tape. Likewise, Montana Democrats have been filming Burns as he campaigns across the state. In a video released by the Tester campaign this week, Burns is seen interrupting his own stump speech at a campaign event to take a cell phone call and then appears to speak to the painter.

“Hugo is a nice little Guatemalan man who is doing some painting for me ... in Virginia,” Burns told the audience, to laughter, after hanging up on the call. “No, he's terrific, love him.”

...In July, he confronted members of a firefighting team at the Billings airport and told them they had done a “piss-poor job,” according to a state report. The Hotshot crew had traveled 2,000 miles from Staunton, Va., to help dig fire lines for about a week around a 143-square-mile wildfire east of Billings.

The crew was awaiting flights home when Burns made his comments. The senator, who has a house in Billings, said he was expressing the frustration of ranchers who were critical of the way the fire was handled. He later apologized.

In 1999, Burns issued a written apology after referring to Arabs as “rag heads” during a speech while commenting on oil prices.
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Read the rest here.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Oh the GOP is the party of inclusion. They say so themselves. Anybody who believes the bible is the holy book because it says so has no problem believing what the GOP says about itself.

[Doug]

DOUG
And speaking of racism:

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Rush Limbaugh suggested that the competition in a new season of CBS' reality TV program Survivor, in which contestants are reportedly divided into competing "tribes" by ethnicity, "is not going to be fair if there's a lot of water events." In support of this assertion, he cited a March 2 HealthDay article reporting that "young blacks -- especially males -- are much more likely to drown in pools than whites...I mentioned the swimming comment only because it's not going to be fair if there is a lot of water competition in this. It just isn't. It is not a racial or racist comment at all."

...He also stated that "our early money" is on "the Hispanic tribe" -- which he said could include "a Cuban," "a Nicaraguan," or "a Mexican or two" -- provided they don't "start fighting for supremacy amongst themselves." Limbaugh added that Hispanics have "probably shown the most survival tactics," that they "have shown a remarkable ability to cross borders" and that they can "do it without water for a long time, they don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do."

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Read the rest here.

[Doug]

DOUG
More proof that the GOP is racist?

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Pat Buchanan's new book State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (Thomas Dunne Books) claims that the United States must keep "Americans of European descent" from becoming the "minority" in order to "survive."

And:
"Chicano chauvinists and Mexican agents have made clear their intent to take back through demography and culture what their ancestors lost through war."

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See more such comments from Buchanan here.

[Dardedar]

Finally, a tee vee show for the Heartland

CBS has its finger on the pulse of the Heartland. They heard Sen. Allen. They heard Sen. Burns. They heard GOP congressional candidate Tramm Hudson. They heard Rush. They heard the people of Coushatta, LA. And they responded by creating the perfect tee vee show for Red America.



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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

You know, if they didn't do this nasty stuff, they wouldn't have to be afraid of reprisals when/if "minorities" quit being minorities. Ditto they wouldn't have to fear women in power if they weren't treating them like crap while women aren't in power. Too bad that logic is too much for them (or else their greed is).

[Hogeye]

While I would judge Pat Buchanan's comments above as racist, I see a lot of factual statements referring to race erroneously deemed racist. E.g. Lindberg's comments that got him kicked out of America First, or more recently Andrew Young's comments that got him fired from Wal-Mart.