Racism, thy platform is Fox News

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Why is it Fox News allows racism to run rampant on their airways? One of their commentators, Eric Bolling, talked about Maxine Waters recently.  When she called republican’s “demons”, he told her she needs to step back from the crack pipe.  He pulled back from it, but does it really matter? Not a fan of [...]

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Hannity to Huntsman: Are you SURE you’re anti-gay enough?

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

I just love this…  So yesterday John Huntsman go into the GOP 2012 Presidential race.  Sure, his message of “Let’s get out of Afghanistan” is going to be overshadowed by the impending announcement by the President tonight.  But you know what couldn’t stand?  Huntsman’s statement that he respected President Obama.  Republicans didn’t like that at [...]

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Add Vermont to the list!

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

As promised, Vermont’s Republican  Governor Jim Douglas vetoed civil marriage equality for all Vermont residents.  But this morning, the Vermont House and Senate have both voted to override the veto.  This means Vermont is the fourth state to guarantee equal protection to gays and lesbians.  No longer are gays and lesbians second-class citizens in Vermont.  [...]

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This is why Republicans are wrong (and racist) most of the time

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

There’s a story out about a leader of college Republicans who let a racial slur slip about Obama, and got fired.  Yeah, well, he should.  I mean racism has absolutely no place in 2008, honestly.  But you have to read the entire story and get to the very final paragraph when you get this guy’s [...]

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The “U” word

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Okay – it has finally occured.  On camera, a House Republican has called Obama “Uppity”.  You know, like “uppity negro”.  And as David Gergen says (I’m paraphrasing), “Uppity” translates racially as a black man who won’t stay in his place.

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