Demolishing the Right Wing’s “Democrats are the Party of Racism” Meme

A little history
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This image and others like it are making the rounds within conservative and other Tea Party-affiliated social media.

Rightwing meme on race

In favor of accuracy, below is a fact-check on each of these points:

Who started the KKK?

Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate Lieutenant General and war criminal (Fort Pillow massacre). He held no political office during his lifetime, so there is no indication as to what party he belonged to.

Who supported the KKK?

Southern conservatives formerly with the Confederacy.

To make this point perfectly clear, the KKK-affiliated “White Citizens Councils” are now known as the “Council of Conservative Citizens,” and have not changed their racist views at all. Claiming they are associated at all with modern Democrats is pure fantasy.

Who created Jim Crow laws?

Southern conservatives known as “Dixiecrats”. (See “KKK” entry for further details.)

Who enforced them?

Southern governments and law enforcement under the guise of “States’ Rights” - which is still a favorite among the Tea Party Republicans.

Who arrested MLK?

Assuming this is directed toward his most famous arrest in Birmingham, Alabama in April 1963. The Commissioner of Public Safety who directed the arrest, the denial of King’s Constitutional rights during and after the arrest, as well as directing acts of violence toward African-American protestors was Eugene “Bull” Connor, a pro-segregationist “Dixiecrat” who ran for Governor several times in the 1940s-1950s. He also was responsible for the arrest of (former) progressive Democratic Vice President Henry Wallace on the charge of violating segregation laws.

Who opposed Civil Rights Legislation?
Who fought against the right of black Americans to vote?

Southern segregationist conservatives. Here’s the actual voting record, broken down by party and geographic region:

Congressional vote on Civil Rights Act - by party and region - Source: Wikipedia (click to enlarge)

As a result of this vote and the one for the Voting Rights Acts - both of which membership of the Republican Party TODAY are fighting tooth and nail to repeal - Harry Dent, Sr, Pat Buchanan and Lee Atwater orchestrated the Southern Strategy to get Southern conservatives into the fold of the Republican Party. With the election of Ronald Reagan, this takeover of the party succeeded.

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160 comments
1 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:03:48pm

I would add that the KKK still exists, and they’re not voting Democrat.

They’re into “small government” because they believe in conspiracies about international Zionism and multiculturalism…to say nothing of the intersection of white supremacy and sovereign citizen movements. They’re into “traditional Christian values” because they’ve built a theology in which Christianity is about white people being pure. Their policies on gender and sexuality are retrograde, because ultimately sex and childbirth is something done to further the white race. Their foreign policy is alternately isolationist or imperialist…because brown people are to be avoided or conquered, not handled as equals.

2 nines09  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:05:44pm

It’s a freaking cult. It really is. A cult of reality denying bigoted bastards with no business being in any office higher than Office Max.

3 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:07:50pm

The KKK actually has gone thru 3 distinct iterations.

The first was the original founded after the Civil War.

The second was a white nationalist, anti-immigrant group founded in the 1920s.

The third was the post WWII group established to fight the Civil Rights movement.

4 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:09:20pm

Face it, most people don’t know how to read history very well, and these yahoos on the right prefer to be spoon-fed theirs as propaganda.

5 Ian G.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:10:09pm

Nicely done, RadicalModerate.

6 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:11:39pm

re: #4 Justanotherhuman

Face it, most people don’t know how to read history very well, and these yahoos on the right prefer to be spoon-fed theirs as propaganda.

Youtube Video

7 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:12:12pm

It’s not even about fooling people. It’s about the barest minimum of deniability.

8 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:19:22pm

re: #7 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s not even about fooling people. It’s about the barest minimum of deniability.

THIS. It’s a distraction, nothing more.

9 dog philosopher  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:25:35pm

it’s just another DOO attack

Denial Of Obvious

10 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:26:35pm

The great thing about this pathetic attempt to shift blame for racism to the Democrats is that it’s really racist, in that it basically says that black people are all easily fooled and ignorant and don’t understand the true racist history of the Democratic party.

11 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:26:43pm

the Preplanned Oscar Selfie: Samsung’s Ad Strategy

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12 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:28:29pm

IDF captures Iranian ship

Liveleak Video
Advanced missile accidentally got into a humanitarian shipment of Iranian concrete

13 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:28:51pm
14 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:29:07pm

re: #10 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

I replied to your email, but haven’t heard back. Did they make it thru to you?

15 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:30:12pm

re: #12 Killgore Trout

IDF captures Iranian ship

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Advanced missile accidentally got into a humanitarian shipment of Iranian concrete

Just a mere paperwork SNAFU. Could’ve happened to anyone.

16 Gus  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:31:02pm
17 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:31:48pm

re: #13 NJDhockeyfan

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If that chart on the fellow’s monitor is the value of the ruble, I’d say it’s headed straight down the damned toilet.

18 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:32:17pm

re: #14 Kragar

I replied to your email, but haven’t heard back. Did they make it thru to you?

I’m still way behind on emails.

A friend of mine declared email bankruptcy once.

19 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:33:23pm

re: #18 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

I’m still way behind on emails.

A friend of mine declared email bankruptcy once.

Ok, just let me know when you’ve got some time to talk.

20 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:34:18pm

re: #17 Dr Lizardo

If that chart on the fellow’s monitor is the value of the ruble, I’d say it’s headed straight down the damned toilet.

If Putin invades the rest of Ukraine he will be flushing what left into the septic tank.

21 Dr. Matt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:35:20pm

Why are conservatives the only people adamantly defending the confederate rag and its “heritage”? Was the South once a hotbed of liberalism?

22 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:35:36pm

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

Just a mere paperwork SNAFU. Could’ve happened to anyone.

Tell me about it! I ordered some peanut butter from Tesco, and they sent me this.

Not peanut butter.

23 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:35:43pm

Yanukovych death watch…

24 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:36:40pm

oops…

25 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:37:25pm

Afternoon Lizardim from the wild north country. How go things in the war on derp?

26 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:37:49pm

re: #23 NJDhockeyfan

Yanukovych death watch…

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Heard shortly before the ‘stroke’: “You have failed me for the last time!”

27 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:37:55pm

re: #23 NJDhockeyfan

Yanukovych death watch…

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gee, last week’s rumor had him already dead of “cardiac issues”…

28 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:38:21pm

The job of reforming the GOP is a modern equivalent of the Herculean job of cleaning out the Augean stables.

Unfortunately, it appears work has not even started on the project.

29 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:38:46pm

re: #23 NJDhockeyfan

Yanukovych death watch…

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He knows where the bodies are buried, so he must join them.

He should have run in a different direction, if anyone would have had him.

30 Timothy Watson  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:40:12pm

And the Republican nominee for President in 1964 was Barry Goldwater, who voted against the Civil Rights Act.

Now the GOP is considering nominating a candidate in 2016 who thinks the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional, Rand Paul.

31 TedStriker  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:40:30pm

re: #22 Dr Lizardo

Tell me about it! I ordered some peanut butter from Tesco, and they sent me this.

Not peanut butter.

As Dan Aykroyd said in Spies Like Us, that thing will suck the paint off of your house and give your family a permanent orange afro.

32 Dr Lizardo  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:40:56pm

re: #26 Kragar

Heard shortly before the ‘stroke’: “You have failed me for the last time!”

Exclusive footage of Putin chilling at his dacha speaking to Yanukovych via video conference:

Youtube Video

33 Dr. Matt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:42:11pm

re: #31 TedStriker

As Dan Aykroyd said in Spies Like Us, that thing will suck the paint off of your house and give your family a permanent orange afro.

34 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:42:26pm

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

Just a mere paperwork SNAFU. Could’ve happened to anyone.

Some poor warehouse stock boy in Iran is going to get a strongly worded letter.

35 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:42:40pm

re: #32 Dr Lizardo

Exclusive footage of Putin chilling at his dacha speaking to Yanukovych via video conference:

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“This coffee tasted weird. Whats in it?”
“Polonium.”

36 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:47:04pm

re: #30 Timothy Watson

And the Republican nominee for President in 1964 was Barry Goldwater, who voted against the Civil Rights Act.

Now the GOP is considering nominating a candidate in 2016 who thinks the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional, Rand Paul.

One of the main objections to Obama’s Civil Rights nominee—as posted by DF from National Review—is that he had the audacity to defend the VRA in court.

Democrats are totally racist though, that’s why they have the vast majority of non-white support and non-white elected officials.

37 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:47:39pm
38 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:48:10pm

re: #36 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Democrats are totally racist though, that’s why they have the vast majority of non-white support and non-white elected officials.

Well, that is just because they just hand out stuff for free.
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39 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:48:26pm

re: #37 Kragar

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Wow. That’s just … wow.

40 Zamb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:49:36pm

re: #21 Dr. Matt

Well no it was a hotbed of conservatism, the only not racist ideology. They fought the civil war to free the slaves from the tyrant Lincoln who wanted them to not appreciate the value of a hard days labor. Anything else is liberal lamestream media spin.

41 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:51:28pm

re: #38 Kragar

Well, that is just because they just hand out stuff for free.
/

The fact that Asians support Democrats at a higher rate than any other minority really ought to make the GOP figure out their shit is whack.

However, the GOP displays a kind of further racism by just not giving a shit about Asians, and not even being aware that Asians don’t support them. Most GOP people I hear talking about Asians still praise them as a ‘model minority’ and think that they vote Republican.

42 TedStriker  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:52:02pm

re: #23 NJDhockeyfan

Yanukovych death watch…

re: #26 Kragar

Heard shortly before the ‘stroke’: “You have failed me for the last time!”

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

gee, last week’s rumor had him already dead of “cardiac issues”…

re: #29 wrenchwench

He knows where the bodies are buried, so he must join them.

He should have run in a different direction, if anyone would have had him.

If Yanukovych ends up dead from a “stroke” or “cardiac issues” while a “guest” of Putin, whoever does the autopsy might need a lead apron, if you know what I mean.

43 jaunte  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:53:39pm

re: #37 Kragar

“He has been on his knees in a program in San Antonio and praying at the bed of a man coming off a 20-year heroin addiction, being treated and transformed through God’s grace by the thousands in there. He’s seen this first hand. And so, we need to stop patronizing.”

This is almost Palin-level wordsalad.

44 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:54:43pm

re: #41 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

The fact that Asians support Democrats at a higher rate than any other minority really ought to make the GOP figure out their shit is whack.

However, the GOP displays a kind of further racism by just not giving a shit about Asians, and not even being aware that Asians don’t support them. Most GOP people I hear talking about Asians still praise them as a ‘model minority’ and think that they vote Republican.

Well, John Derbyshire has assured them in the past that Asians are good “winter people” like the Aryans, so its all good.

45 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:55:34pm

re: #42 TedStriker

If Yanukovych ends up dead from a “stroke” or “cardiac issues” while a “guest” of Putin, whoever does the autopsy might need a lead apron, if you know what I mean.

Snowden better be taking notes.

46 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:55:57pm

re: #43 jaunte

This is almost Palin-level wordsalad.

I heard he once heeled a dog and cured a ham as well.

47 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:56:25pm

re: #45 NJDhockeyfan

Snowden better be taking notes.

B-b-but they can’t kill him, he’s an international hero!

48 jaunte  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:56:53pm

re: #46 Kragar

I’m still trying to work out ‘thousands’ of what, and where ‘in there’ is.

49 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:57:23pm

To be fair, getting deposed is the kind of thing that can jolt your system and lead to heart problems, strokes, etc.

50 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:57:39pm

re: #43 jaunte

This is almost Palin-level wordsalad.

The next sentence:

I said to Paul, ‘The moment I see you getting on a bus from Selma to Montgomery with [Rep.] John Lewis (D-GA), our relationship is over. We need to stop assuming that we’ve gotta walk through the race store in order to appeal to Blacks.”

Yeah. Don’t get those Actual Civil RIghts Marcher cooties on you, Paul.

51 jaunte  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:58:14pm

re: #50 The Ghost of a Flea

Outreach!

52 GeneJockey  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:58:38pm

re: #49 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

To be fair, getting deposed is the kind of thing that can jolt your system and lead to heart problems, strokes, etc.

Indeed, it’s one of the leading causes of death among dictators.

53 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:58:52pm

re: #49 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

To be fair, getting deposed is the kind of thing that can jolt your system and lead to heart problems, strokes, etc.

Saddam Hussein was unavailable for comment.

54 GeneJockey  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:59:35pm

re: #53 thedopefishlives

Saddam Hussein was unavailable for comment.

He actually seemed pretty healthy, right up till the slack on the rope was gone.

55 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:00:41pm

walkin’ through the race store…

56 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:00:54pm

re: #54 GeneJockey

He actually seemed pretty healthy, right up till the slack on the rope was gone.

Yeah, he did alright for himself. For that matter, how many deposed dictators wound up with serious health problems afterward? Though I do agree with the basic premise that it is a very stressful thing, facing an angry mob beating down your door demanding your retirement (or death, whichever is more convenient).

57 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:01:09pm

re: #54 GeneJockey

He actually seemed pretty healthy, right up till the slack on the rope was gone.

Lol

58 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:01:51pm

re: #55 The Ghost of a Flea

walkin’ through the race store…

…gonna buy me some model minority kits.

Assemble and paint them myself.

59 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:02:52pm

re: #37 Kragar

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That’s the guy who was not visible to those of us who watched the live stream because they had to save that empty chair on the stage for my congressman, who never showed up. But it’s more important to have the invisible white man on stage than the black man who is getting you some great publicity at Raw Story!

60 TedStriker  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:05:55pm

re: #49 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

To be fair, getting deposed is the kind of thing that can jolt your system and lead to heart problems, strokes, etc.

Yanukovych had better beware of Russians bringing him drinks or carrying Bulgarian umbrellas.

61 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:06:01pm

re: #55 The Ghost of a Flea

walkin’ through the race store…

Is there a BOGO sale?

62 gwangung  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:07:30pm

re: #41 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

The fact that Asians support Democrats at a higher rate than any other minority really ought to make the GOP figure out their shit is whack.

However, the GOP displays a kind of further racism by just not giving a shit about Asians, and not even being aware that Asians don’t support them. Most GOP people I hear talking about Asians still praise them as a ‘model minority’ and think that they vote Republican.

I think I mentioned down stream that the Republicans has the Asian vote in the state of Washington on a platter in the early 90s, but didn’t lift a finger to gather them in.

63 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:07:38pm

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is there a BOGO sale?

stocking up on race cards.

64 gwangung  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:11:53pm

re: #50 The Ghost of a Flea

The next sentence:

Yeah. Don’t get those Actual Civil RIghts Marcher cooties on you, Paul.

This is sub room temperature IQ. You damn well better walk through the black store to get the black vote. You do the same thing for Italians, the Germans, the small business owners OR ANY OTHER GROUP WITH DEFINED INTERESTS.

That’s politics 101.

65 TedStriker  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:12:00pm

re: #63 The Ghost of a Flea

stocking up on race cards.

Does Hallmark or American Greetings make those?

///

66 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:12:09pm

Wasn’t that whole white supremacist, “master race” thing tried in Europe about 70 yrs ago and failed miserably? As I recall, they got the shit beat out of them.

It never works, in the end.

67 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:13:41pm

BTW, Happy World Book Day everyone!
Celebrate accordingly.

68 GeneJockey  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:14:02pm

re: #66 Justanotherhuman

Wasn’t that whole white supremacist, “master race” thing tried in Europe about 70 yrs ago and failed miserably? As I recall, they got the shit beat out of them.

It never works, in the end.

Nah. Hitler was too specific. Left out the Celts and the Slavs, for example.

69 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:14:21pm

Putin love in the Pages.

70 GeneJockey  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:14:44pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

BTW, Happy World Book Day everyone!
Celebrate accordingly.

What, buy a bunch of dumbed-down encyclopedias?

71 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:16:25pm

re: #68 GeneJockey

Nah. Hitler was too specific. Left out the Celts and the Slavs, for example.

He should’ve stuck with Irish stock. Nowadays, everybody thinks redheads are hawt and want to be one.

72 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:16:39pm
73 CuriousLurker  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:17:31pm

Speaking of wingnuts, do they actually think I’m going to engage with them when they tweet this kind of knuckle-dragging idiocy?

BARKAS, GET IT?? HURR!!11!

That one goes to a “patriots” blog that in turn excerpts from and links to some article on Geller’s blog about Islam not being a recognized religion in Italy (that’s true, it isn’t), which I guess Mr. George Lincoln Nutjob thinks is supposed to upset me, or scare me, or…?

America’s next—just you wait and see!!11! Us Real Americans™ living here in COSTA RICA are gonna fix things so you can’t steal any more of the rights Jesus gave us, because that’s what he would have wanted—it says so right here in my Bi…

Oh, and a wingnut politician from South Carolina started following me, for what reason I can’t even begin to imagine.

74 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:17:37pm

re: #71 thedopefishlives

He should’ve stuck with Irish stock. Nowadays, everybody thinks redheads are hawt and want to be one.

No gingers, damn it!

75 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:18:26pm

re: #13 NJDhockeyfan

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What kind of idiot calls their currency “Rubles” anyway?

76 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:18:50pm

re: #74 Justanotherhuman

No gingers, damn it!

The Mrs. Fish, myself, and our two kids all have red hair. We are the antithesis of everything Hitler fought for. I couldn’t be happier.

77 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:19:49pm

re: #76 thedopefishlives

The Mrs. Fish, myself, and our two kids all have red hair. We are the antithesis of everything Hitler fought for. I couldn’t be happier.

They didn’t call my dad “Red” for no reason.

78 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:20:23pm
79 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:20:59pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Putin love in the Pages.

You cannot kill derp that which is already dead herpaderp.

80 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:24:12pm
81 CuriousLurker  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:24:23pm

re: #76 thedopefishlives

re: #77 Justanotherhuman

My dad was a carrot-top as well, heh.

82 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:24:39pm

re: #15 NJDhockeyfan

Just a mere paperwork SNAFU. Could’ve happened to anyone.

Concrete SKU#1234
Missiles SKU#1235

83 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:25:56pm

re: #76 thedopefishlives

The Mrs. Fish, myself, and our two kids all have red hair. We are the antithesis of everything Hitler fought for. I couldn’t be happier.

When my brother married a redhead I asked him if they were going to have a bunch of redheaded babies. He said, ‘That’s not how genetics work.’ This is the astrophysicist, not the evolutionary biologist, so I said, ‘Huh?’. He said, ‘She dyes it.’

84 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:27:26pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

When my brother married a redhead I asked him if they were going to have a bunch of redheaded babies. He said, ‘That’s not how genetics work.’ This is the astrophysicist, not the evolutionary biologist, so I said, ‘Huh?’. He said, ‘She dyes it.’

Nobody in my immediate family has natural red hair, except my mother’s mother. Yet somehow, my beard comes in with a vivid fiery color. Mrs. Fish is a strawberry blonde. We wondered, at our wedding, if we would have ginger babies. Didn’t take too long to find the answer to that one.

85 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:27:55pm

Proposal for memorial in Norway to mark their mass shooting by Breivik

gizmodo.com

86 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:29:30pm

Embarrassing. Why not wipe the phone clean before you trade it in? Or remove the SIM card which will be replaced anyway when it undergoes reburbishing? If you sold your computer, wouldn’t you take the trouble to clean it of your personal information first?

Woman sues Sprint over posting of intimate photos from traded-in phone
A Sprint worker found two images of the woman engaged in sex and uploaded them to her Facebook page, causing her much embarrassment, the lawsuit says.

latimes.com

87 TedStriker  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:30:08pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Putin love in the Pages.

Uggghhhh….

88 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:30:17pm
89 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:30:19pm

re: #84 thedopefishlives

Nobody in my immediate family has natural red hair, except my mother’s mother. Yet somehow, my beard comes in with a vivid fiery color. Mrs. Fish is a strawberry blonde. We wondered, at our wedding, if we would have ginger babies. Didn’t take too long to find the answer to that one.

I have 30-some first cousins. One of them has red hair.

90 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:30:24pm

re: #86 Justanotherhuman

Embarrassing. Why not wipe the phone clean before you trade it in? Or remove the SIM card which will be replaced anyway when it undergoes reburbishing? If you sold your computer, wouldn’t you take the trouble to clean it of your personal information first?

Woman sues Sprint over posting of intimate photos from traded-in phone
A Sprint worker found two images of the woman engaged in sex and uploaded them to her Facebook page, causing her much embarrassment, the lawsuit says.

latimes.com

People who don’t understand technology.

91 piratedan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:32:28pm

so the idea of “minority outreach” in the GOP lexicon is apparently Blacks getting government handouts so they can ruin their cities (Detroit) and so Illegals can send their kids to school without paying taxes (Texas and Arizona)? Maybe we need a Rosetta Stone GOP edition because they use a lot of the same words, but the meaning is totally out of sync with reality…..

92 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:32:48pm

re: #89 wrenchwench

I have 30-some first cousins. One of them has red hair.

My mom dyes hers red because she always wanted to be a natural redhead like her mom. She was so happy when she saw my son.

93 makeitstop  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:32:51pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Putin love in the Pages.

I hope he’s getting paid by the word.
/

94 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:34:31pm

Libtards are the real racists!

95 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:35:04pm

re: #93 makeitstop

I hope he’s getting paid by the word.
/

Paid?

That was an act of love.

96 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:35:26pm
97 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:37:50pm

CPAC knows its audience:

98 Targetpractice  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:38:19pm

re: #96 darthstar

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Paul Ryan, spoken like a guy who never knew poverty.

99 RadicalModerate  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:41:37pm

re: #3 Kragar

The KKK actually has gone thru 3 distinct iterations.

The first was the original founded after the Civil War.

The second was a white nationalist, anti-immigrant group founded in the 1920s.

The third was the post WWII group established to fight the Civil Rights movement.

All three versions did have a history of violent racism.

Probably the biggest difference between the 1920s-1940s version of the Klan and the Civil Rights Era-present group is that during the World War II years, the KKK was virulently anti-Nazi, and Adolf Hitler actually banned the group from Germany during the days of the Third Reich. Of course, nowadays, the neo-Confederate KKK and white supremacist neo-Nazis are heavily intermingled with each other, and it is not uncommon for them to march together.

100 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:42:23pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Putin love in the Pages.

Ah, Scott the Freeper returns…

101 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:45:24pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Putin love in the Pages.

Someone actually updinged that garbage. Didn’t recognize the username tho.

102 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:48:14pm

re: #101 Lidane

Someone actually updinged that garbage. Didn’t recognize the username tho.

She’s been posting a ton of good Pages. Might be a courtesy ding, it was the first one.

103 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:48:49pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

She’s been posting a ton of good Pages. Might be a courtesy ding, it was the first one.

Could also be a mis-ding. Happens to lots of us from time to time.

104 kirkspencer  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:50:45pm

re: #69 wrenchwench

Putin love in the Pages.

eh, it’s just Mr. Gray trying to get more hits for his newsvine article. As is unfortunately typical of his editorials it’s full of opinion based on assumptions declaimed as fact.

105 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:54:03pm
106 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:54:05pm

Indeed…

107 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:58:28pm

re: #106 darthstar

The bottom one is the avian equivalent of breastfeeding. You don’t want to ban that in public, do you?

108 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:02:29pm

Gee, ya think?

109 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:02:34pm

re: #96 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Youtube Video

110 bratwurst  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:02:41pm

Heads up: people who lost their shit over Rachel Maddow’s documentary on the lead-up to the Iraq War last year are REALLY going to want to stay away from TV and parts of the internet tonight!

“Why We Did It”, an all-new Rachel Maddow documentary, premiering March 6th at 9 p.m. ET.

111 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:04:51pm


I hope it’s not fake, ‘cause it’s really cool.

112 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:06:02pm

What a dick.

113 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:06:10pm

re: #90 thedopefishlives

People who don’t understand technology.

And when they’re that ignorant, they sue. I’m sort of torn between having sympathy for someone stupid, and anger at whoever did it. But it is what it is. Once she surrendered the phone, it was no longer hers, but decency would have told the dick who did that it was not right.

114 GunstarGreen  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:15:21pm

CPAC: Because every REBRANDING! campaign needs its Mountain Dew Code Red.

115 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:19:21pm

Yeah, the dudebros think they’re so clever…

Gen Dempsey: ‘Two years’ to overcome Snowden leak

bbc.com

“It will take the US two years and possibly billions of dollars to overcome the harm done by Edward Snowden’s intelligence leaks, the top-ranking US military officer has said.

(snip)

“Gen Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told the House armed services committee on Thursday that a mitigation task force had been established to investigate the extent of Mr Snowden’s theft and to determine how to overcome it.

“We’re working our way through that which we believe he has exfiltrated,” Gen Dempsey said. “And we have, I think, a fairly significant amount of knowledge in that regard.”

116 Snarknado!  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:19:54pm

re: #112 NJDhockeyfan

“Russia cannot ignore the appeals for assistance…” (against the illegal government now in power in Ukraine, yada yada). What calls for assistance? As far as I know, none have been issued.

117 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:22:26pm
118 dog philosopher  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:27:06pm

dixiecrats - racism

wingnuts - ratsoism

119 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:27:42pm

Oh, there’s Steve Pearce! He was stuck dealing with the radiation leaks at WIPP. (The one with the shiny head.)


Nice of him to let CPAC know so they could have a memorial chair on stage today.

120 Snarknado!  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:29:19pm

re: #119 wrenchwench

Is that red thing an ipad or an etch-a-sketch?

121 CriticalDragon1177  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:29:33pm

RadicalModerate,

Another thing you might also want to point out, is that while its true that the South was controlled by the Democrats for a long time, and the South was strongly democrat during the Civil War, to try use this fact to argue that the democratic party today is a racist party is ridiculous. Both political parties have changed radically between now and the Civil War. In fact both the Democratic and Republican parties are really different than they were in 1950s or the 1960’s so to attack either party today on what most people in them supported over a century ago, or even fifty years ago, is pretty much fallacious.

122 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:31:59pm

re: #120 Snarknado!

Is that red thing an ipad or an etch-a-sketch?

If it were mine, I’d have some white knobs on there stat.

123 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:32:28pm

re: #121 CriticalDragon1177

RadicalModerate,

Another thing you might also want to point out, is that while its true that the South was controlled by the Democrats for a long time, and the South was strongly democrat during the Civil War, to try use this fact to argue that the democratic party today is a racist party is ridiculous. Both political parties have changed radically between now and the Civil War. In fact both the Democratic and Republican parties are really different than they were in 1950s or the 1960’s so to attack either party today on what most people in them supported over a century ago, or even fifty years ago, is pretty much fallacious.

Most people look at a list of the informal fallacies of argument and see things to avoid doing because it makes them look like fools.

Dedicated wingnuts see such a list as inspirational.

124 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:34:34pm
125 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:36:03pm

re: #121 CriticalDragon1177

It’s also worth noting that the 1860 election split the Democrats into two factions. There were the National (read: Northern) Democrats with their slate of candidates and the Constitutional (read: Southern) Democrats:

en.wikipedia.org

There were also two different Democratic platforms in 1860:

Northern — presidency.ucsb.edu

Southern — presidency.ucsb.edu

These dishonest RWNJ dipshits never mention any of this in their memes. They can’t. If they did, people would see they’re full of shit. It’s easier for them to just go with the HURR HURR DEMZ R TEH RACISTS garbage.

126 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:36:04pm

George Zimmerman is having a meltdown on twitter over this gun show thing.

127 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:36:29pm

re: #119 wrenchwench

Hahahaha I had not looked at our Sec. of Energy’s twitter page before:

128 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:36:59pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

Boo hoo. At least he’s still alive to have a meltdown.

What a prick.

129 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:40:13pm

re: #127 b.d.

Hahahaha I had not looked at our Sec. of Energy’s twitter page before:

[Embedded content]

That was apparently in reply to this:


He does have great hair!

130 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:40:38pm

re: #127 b.d.

It was in response to this:

buzzfeed.com

The U.S. Secretary Of Energy Looks Just Like The Bad Guy From “No Country For Old Men”

Stay in your cars.

131 RealityBasedSteve  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:41:15pm

re: #71 thedopefishlives

He should’ve stuck with Irish stock. Nowadays, everybody thinks redheads are hawt and want to be one.

Both of my ex’s are redheads, and when I go out looking for my next future ex, I’m sure she’ll also be a redhead.

RBS

132 GeneJockey  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:52:00pm

re: #131 RealityBasedSteve

Both of my ex’s are redheads, and when I go out looking for my next future ex, I’m sure she’ll also be a redhead.

RBS

I believe I have identified your problem.
//

133 wrenchwench  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:52:52pm
134 kirkspencer  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:53:51pm

re: #132 GeneJockey

I believe I have identified your problem.
//

Yes. He should be looking for brunettes. ///

136 CriticalDragon1177  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:07:30pm

re: #135 Pie-onist Overlord

You did a great job when you wrote those. Thanks for reminding us about them.

137 Good Morning  Fri, Mar 7, 2014 7:39:42am

“Nathan Bedford Forrest” He started the 1st Klan and also dissolved it.

2nd Klan was a Protestant anti-Immigrant and anti-Catholic organization. It was also anti-War and pro-Temperance, women’s rights, and Zionist. 2nd Klan was also very Northern. By the time 2nd Klan comes about around 1914 Jim Crow is settled law so it was not a big issue with them.

Hunt around Wikipedia for more Klan info.

I personally see not much similarity between political parties now and their earlier incarnations. Once upon a time the Democrats (Grover Cleveland) were the party of fiscal austerity in the face of a pensions crisis sparked by Republicans (Benjamin Harrison). The first civil rights attorney, Chester Arthur, was also a Republican President, so what.

138 margotdarby  Fri, Mar 7, 2014 7:57:34am

A real scream. The “correction” manages to be even flakier than the original graphic.

139 Flavia  Fri, Mar 7, 2014 11:15:05pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

When my brother married a redhead I asked him if they were going to have a bunch of redheaded babies. He said, ‘That’s not how genetics work.’ This is the astrophysicist, not the evolutionary biologist, so I said, ‘Huh?’. He said, ‘She dyes it.’

With all the red on both sides of my & my husband’s families, that was the one thing I was certain I was having, and our answer to the banal “Are you having a boy or a girl?” And we were wrong. Both times! Unless you count strawberry blond… (& yes, we’re Jews as well)

140 wrenchwench  Sat, Mar 8, 2014 11:28:02am

re: #138 margotdarby

A real scream. The “correction” manages to be even flakier than the original graphic.

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day.

141 JFKdemocrat  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 4:48:53pm

re: #2 nines09

And I would add the ONLY KKK member of Congress in the last 60 years has been a Democrat. US Senator Robert KKK Byrd.

142 JFKdemocrat  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 4:51:56pm

re: #124 NJDhockeyfan

You mean like “Left WINGnuts” ….hows that “Great Society” working out for America? Oh yeah, 7 TRILLION spent on poverty programs and more people impoverished today than 60 years ago, the only difference is today the impoverished don’t work and spend government money on drugs - FACT.

143 JFKdemocrat  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 5:03:44pm

re: #42 TedStriker

The FACT that you just lied about Asian supporting Democrats higher than any other minority, means you just make crap up and well like most Libs your a LIAR.

Gov Stats if you care (and you don’t) show that in 2012 - 27 percent of Asians voted Republican in the Presidential race and 43 percent voted Republican in the down ticket.

Answer this question - Why was MLK a Republican till the day he was shot???

Answer this question - Why did Conservatives overwhelmingly support Herman Cain over Romney?

Answer this question - Why did the Democrat party set out to destroy Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Allen West and any Black that is NOT a Democrat?

Paint it anyway makes you feel better about yourself, but the Black vote in country was bought and paid for with welfare programs, take them away and see how long your so called “Minority” vote last.

FYI - I am a member of neither party and never will be. Having said that childish name calling is the ONLY idea the Democrats have had since Truman that as worked and that has only worked to paint the other party as something they are NOT. I know many conservatives and not a single one of them is racist, they are just “leave me and my money” alone people, unless you consider that racist.

144 Charles Johnson  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:20:09pm

Dead thread wingnut hero on a last chance power drive.

145 Amory Blaine  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:20:20pm

Hhweeeee!!!!

146 jaunte  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:21:38pm

Asian-Americans Solidly Prefer Democrats
Sixty-one percent of young adult Asian-Americans identify as/lean Democratic

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Asian-Americans — who were a key part, if sometimes overlooked, of President Barack Obama’s 2012 electoral coalition — solidly back the Democratic Party, with 57% identifying as or leaning Democratic, compared with 28% identifying as or leaning Republican. Thirteen percent are “pure” independents. However, the data suggest that a substantial portion of Asian-Americans are not entirely wedded to either of the major political parties: 46% first describe themselves as independent or other, and only when asked if they “lean” Republican or Democratic does the Democratic Party garner its majority support within this group.

147 Kragar  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:22:09pm

re: #143 JFKdemocrat

Politics

As the leader of the SCLC, King maintained a policy of not publicly endorsing a U.S. political party or candidate: “I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either.”[33] In a 1958 interview, he expressed his view that neither party was perfect, saying, “I don’t think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses … And I’m not inextricably bound to either party.”[34]

King critiqued both parties’ performance on promoting racial equality:

Actually, the Negro has been betrayed by both the Republican and the Democratic party. The Democrats have betrayed him by capitulating to the whims and caprices of the Southern Dixiecrats. The Republicans have betrayed him by capitulating to the blatant hypocrisy of reactionary right wing northern Republicans. And this coalition of southern Dixiecrats and right wing reactionary northern Republicans defeats every bill and every move towards liberal legislation in the area of civil rights.[35]

Although King never publicly supported a political party or candidate for president, in a letter to a civil rights supporter in October 1956 he said that he was undecided as to whether he would vote for Adlai Stevenson or Dwight Eisenhower, but that “In the past I always voted the Democratic ticket.”[36] In his autobiography, King says that in 1960 he privately voted for Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy: “I felt that Kennedy would make the best president. I never came out with an endorsement. My father did, but I never made one.” King adds that he likely would have made an exception to his non-endorsement policy for a second Kennedy term, saying “Had President Kennedy lived, I would probably have endorsed him in 1964.”[37]

Conservatives will support any rabidly crazy nutball who panders to them.

148 Charles Johnson  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:23:10pm

Always the same stupid talking points. Isn’t there a point at which you realize what a tool you’re being?

149 Kragar  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:23:21pm

re: #143 JFKdemocrat

Question: Why do so many Black Republicans feel they have to go full metal wingnut to get any sort of support by their party?

150 Gus  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:24:35pm

re: #143 JFKdemocrat

The FACT that you just lied about Asian supporting Democrats higher than any other minority, means you just make crap up and well like most Libs your a LIAR.

Gov Stats if you care (and you don’t) show that in 2012 - 27 percent of Asians voted Republican in the Presidential race and 43 percent voted Republican in the down ticket.

Answer this question - Why was MLK a Republican till the day he was shot???

Answer this question - Why did Conservatives overwhelmingly support Herman Cain over Romney?

Answer this question - Why did the Democrat party set out to destroy Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Allen West and any Black that is NOT a Democrat?

Paint it anyway makes you feel better about yourself, but the Black vote in country was bought and paid for with welfare programs, take them away and see how long your so called “Minority” vote last.

FYI - I am a member of neither party and never will be. Having said that childish name calling is the ONLY idea the Democrats have had since Truman that as worked and that has only worked to paint the other party as something they are NOT. I know many conservatives and not a single one of them is racist, they are just “leave me and my money” alone people, unless you consider that racist.

Youtube Video

151 Amory Blaine  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:24:53pm

re: #148 Charles Johnson

So boring. Too much precious time to take down the paint by number derp.

152 TedStriker  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:25:15pm

re: #143 JFKdemocrat

Why are you quoting my #42 to rail on the main topic of the thread? That said, it’s not like you’re posting anything of real substance anyway, because pretty much every talking point you spewed has long been debunked (and is being debunked again as we speak in this dead thread).

153 jaunte  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:27:57pm

re: #152 TedStriker

I think he has your 42 confused with Obdi’s 41.

154 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:30:23pm

re: #152 TedStriker

Why are you quoting my #42 to rail on the main topic of the thread? That said, it’s not like you’re posting anything of real substance anyway, because pretty much every talking point you spewed has long been debunked (and is being debunked again as we speak in this dead thread).

So is he trying to “rebunk” those talking points? :D

155 jaunte  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:31:04pm

Why Do Asian Americans Identify as Democrats? - Princeton
google.com

156 palomino  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 8:53:15pm

re: #143 JFKdemocrat

The FACT that you just lied about Asian supporting Democrats higher than any other minority, means you just make crap up and well like most Libs your a LIAR.

Gov Stats if you care (and you don’t) show that in 2012 - 27 percent of Asians voted Republican in the Presidential race and 43 percent voted Republican in the down ticket.

Answer this question - Why was MLK a Republican till the day he was shot???

Answer this question - Why did Conservatives overwhelmingly support Herman Cain over Romney?

Answer this question - Why did the Democrat party set out to destroy Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Allen West and any Black that is NOT a Democrat?

Paint it anyway makes you feel better about yourself, but the Black vote in country was bought and paid for with welfare programs, take them away and see how long your so called “Minority” vote last.

FYI - I am a member of neither party and never will be. Having said that childish name calling is the ONLY idea the Democrats have had since Truman that as worked and that has only worked to paint the other party as something they are NOT. I know many conservatives and not a single one of them is racist, they are just “leave me and my money” alone people, unless you consider that racist.

Fuck you and fuck your racist smears. Blacks in America, whether poor and on welfare, middle class and not on welfare, or richer than Rockefeller and paying high taxes, ALL vote overwhelmingly Democrat.

You’re recycling the talking points of morbidly obese drug addled sex tourists…you know, Rush Limbaugh.

157 TedStriker  Mon, Mar 10, 2014 9:32:16pm

re: #156 palomino

BOOM goes the dynamite!

158 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Tue, Mar 11, 2014 4:27:10am

He’s right that I fucked up and should have said that Asians voted for Obama at higher rate than Hispanics, not of every minority, since obv. they didn’t vote at a higher percentage of blacks.

On the other hand, JFKdemocrat is a great name because JFK was shitty as hell on civil rights and pretty racist.

159 Pie-onist Overlord  Tue, Mar 11, 2014 4:36:22am

re: #143 JFKdemocrat

Answer this question - Why was MLK a Republican till the day he was shot???

Answer: MLK was a Democrat.

160 wrenchwench  Tue, Mar 11, 2014 9:13:01am

re: #140 wrenchwench

re: #138 margotdarby

A real scream. The “correction” manages to be even flakier than the original graphic.

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve read all day.

Sorry, margotdarby. JFKdemocrat ate your lunch.


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