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Monday, October 19, 2009

Sen. Jim DeMint Like A Jew "Watching Our Nation's Pennies"

Rightardia hasn't figured out what state is more regressive: Tennessee or South Carolina. Tennessee seems to wins hands down for racism, but South Carolina has upped the ante with its anti-Semitism. Regardless, the right wing is just naturally politically incorrect.

Two South Carolina County Republican Party chairmen stepped up to rebut criticism of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in a newspaper editorial Sunday. But their defense of the senator might be overshadowed by their use of an anti-Semitic stereotype to praise DeMint.

After a Democratic state senator wrote in The State that DeMint didn't bring enough money back home, Bamberg County GOP Chairman Edwin Merwin and Orangeburg County GOP Chairman James Ulmer responded that he was just looking after the nation's pennies like a Jew would.

"There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves," Ulmer and Merwin wrote in a joint letter published by The Times and Democrat. "By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation's pennies and trying to preserve our country's wealth and our economy's viability to give all an opportunity to succeed."

"It's people like Ulmer and Merwin that make many folks fear for the future of the once Grand Ole Party," wrote the conservative Palmetto Scoop.

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/gopers-demint-like-a-jew_n_326295.html

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Why is Pat Buchanan Defending Hitler?

MSNBC conservative commentator and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has a history of insensitivity to issues surrounding the Holocaust. On the 70th anniversary of World War II, Buchanan posted a column on his own website that blames Poland for World War II.

Of interest the Russian government recently released documents that suggest Poland wanted to attack Russia. The Polish leadership’s had plans for the partition and subsequent annihilation of the Soviet Union, informs RIA Novosti news agency. Hitler seemed to be more interested in expanding German territory to include German speaking Poles than developing a more logical alliance with Poland to attack Russia. Of course, Hitler viewed Slavs as an inferior race, so perhaps such an alliance was impossible.

In a piece titled "Just how crazy is Pat Buchanan," Ethan Porter writes that Buchanan's latest comments reflect "revisionism that comes perilously close to denial:"

Despite his current position, as a friendly sparring partner with Rachel Maddow and in-house winger on MSNBC, the guy has been a very-thinly veiled fascist sympathizer for decades. And in his column this week, he all but removes that veil.

Buchanan wrote a column entitled "Did Hitler Want War?" Buchanan believes the answer to be no. Many historians would argue otherwise. The Russians had infiltrated the Gestapo and knew the exact date when the Nazis were going to attack.

Buchanan pins the blame for World War II on Poland, and Britain's guarantee of protection to it. As evidence, Buchanan points to a string of inexplicably dumb decisions made by Hitler . . .

Buchanan has the sort of history that has earned him an entire page on the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) website. The ADL goes so far as to describe Buchanan as one who "publicly espouses racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-immigrant views."

The site features a sampling of more than 2,000 of Buchanan's own words, but maybe more telling are the thoughts of the late conservative intellectual William Buckley, who was included in a Newsweek's article "Is Pat Buchanan Anti-Semitic:"

Buchanan also wrote that if the United States went to war, the fighting would be done by "kids with names like McAllister, Murphy, Gonzales, and Leroy Brown." Buckley, in his usual opaque writing style, argues that this amounts to charging Jews with starting a war they wouldn't fight in a genuine slur against them.

These are rough words coming from Buckley, who took great pains to distinguish between anti-Semitism and simply voicing criticism of Israel.

However, what may be most surprising is why Buchanan still has a job.

UPDATE II: Within an hour of our press release, MSNBC has removed Buchanan's column, "Did Hitler Want War," from their website.

David A. Harris, NJDC's President: "MSNBC took the responsible action and removed Pat Buchanan's column defending Adolf Hitler from their website, but no worthy news organization should employ and promote a commentator who engages in such vile fiction."

Buchanan, however, is to the center of the other conservative commentator on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, on many issues. Buchanan did , at least, admit there were no WMDs in Iraq. Many other conservative commentators still in denial that that the Iraq War was unnecessary.

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Monday, July 6, 2009

Republican Party of Duval County has racists and anti-semites at Tea Bagging event

July 5, 2009

Editor's Note: This is another of almost weekly racist incidents that has occured on the part of the Republican party since the inauguration of Barack Obama. Why can't the GOP get this overt racism under control?

(Jacksonville, Fla.) - Duval County Republican Executive Committee (DCREC) Chairman Lenny Curry issued the following statement today following the blog-generated controversy regarding the DCREC's role in the First Coast Tea Party held on July 2.

"The DCREC had no role in the planning, organization, agenda, invitees, or speakers at the Tea Party. The DCREC merely used its extensive e-mail list to help promote awareness and participation in the event as a service to its members. The DCREC's e-mail included a "paid for" disclaimer which is required by state law regarding political communications. That disclaimer accompanies all of our communications and did not concern sponsorship of the event in question mentioned in the e-mail.

The DCREC does not condone racism or anti-Semitism in any form or fashion. While these types of behavior occur in small numbers -- and which are present in all political parties and cross all socio-economic lines - they should not, will not, and are not tolerated by the DCREC.

Unfortunately a few agenda-driven bloggers have taken the actions of a few individuals holding controversial signs who were present at the Tea Party and construed them to represent the views and beliefs of myself, elected officials present at the Tea Party, the DCREC, Tea Party organizers, and the thousand or so honest, hard-working people who were in attendance at the Tea Party.

I believe Tea Party officials made the right choice in not bringing further attention to those few people in attendance holding inappropriate signs by forcing them to leave or to put their signs away. Refusing them entry into this event or calling them out for their ridiculous signs would have given them a larger platform than they deserve.

These are some of the pictures that were photographed during the event: