Race Card!!

[Spurminator]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/15/obama-aides-chimichanga-comment-creates-a-stir/


(CNN) - A tweet that borrowed a line from a Washington Post opinion writer landed President Barack Obama's campaign manager in a Republican hot fryer Wednesday.

Jim Messina quoted the Washington Post's Dana Milbank directly via his twitter account.

"Line of the day from WAPO's Dana Milbank: "The chimichanga? It may be the only thing Republicans have left to offer Latinos."

Milbank ended his Wednesday column that analyzed the Republican Party's treatment of the Latino voting bloc with the line. He borrowed the reference from Sen. John McCain, who he quoted earlier in the story.

"Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke about the wonders of his state. 'The lettuce in your salad this month almost certainly came from Arizona,' McCain said. 'It's also believed that the chimichanga has its origin in Arizona,'" the piece read.

But Republicans quickly turned up the heat on the Messina tweet, arguing it was insensitive.

Jennifer Sevilla Korn, executive director of the conservative Hispanic Leadership Network accused Democrats of "name calling."

"The fact that the campaign manager of President Obama's reelection campaign thinks it's appropriate to disseminate insulting jokes about the Hispanic community is a perfect example of the kind of empty rhetoric that characterizes this White House's so-called outreach to Latinos," Sevilla wrote in a statement. "We demand that Mr. Messina immediately apologize and we ask that President Obama disavow his campaign manager's ridiculous statement."

[boutons_deux]

Repugs "sensitively" "defending" Latinos (or any ethnic group, other than their inbred bubba sub-human base),while Repugs burn Latino books out west?

GMAFB

[z0sa]

That's one of boutons' favorite cards.

[jack sommerset]

Racism has turned its ugly head once again with Barry's crew. Most people have accepted Barry is a racist so it should not surprise anyone his manager is one. One must find inner peace from within in order to combat these terrible feelings one has with others. It will only cause guilt and heartache. I forgive Barry and his racist followers but he shall not receive my vote.

God bless.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I guess get "feigned" over McCain's sarcasm :jack

[ElNono]

What's racist about chimichangas?

(not mexican, so I don't quite get where is the problem)

[George Gervin's Afro]

What's racist about chimichangas?

(not mexican, so I don't quite get where is the problem)

There's nothing wrong with it. It is just another petty complaint from the GOP..

[clambake]

chimichanga is one a those tiny hairless dogs, right?

[boutons_deux]

The Repugs are the party of bigots, racists, xenophobes, nativists.

You Repugs can deny it, but denying the truth and lying is what y'all do best.

[DarrinS]

I hate the race card, no matter who plays it.

This reminds me of when Don Griese got in trouble with ESPN because he said a Columbian NASCAR driver was "out having a taco".

GMAFB

[clambake]

don made a greasy remark.

[TeyshaBlue]

chimichanga is one a those tiny hairless dogs, right?

They aint hairless!



Pretty good eatin' too.

[Winehole23]

chimichanga is one a those tiny hairless dogs, right?a deep fried burrito, roughly

[scott]

The most racist part of stories like this is usually how privileged white pundits (of both R and D persuasion) sit around and make a big deal of it, as though us Latinos are incapable of context or humor.

[baseline bum]

They aint hairless!



Pretty good eatin' too.

You're Korean???

[TeyshaBlue]

Racist!

[TeyshaBlue]

No, I just have a herd of Chihuahuas. Gotta thin the herd on occasion.

[Oh, Gee!!]

now I'm hungry

[baseline bum]

Racist!

Sorry... so you're Vietnamese?

[mouse]

who on this planet isn't a racist?

[Oh, Gee!!]

the dalai lama?

[TeyshaBlue]

Sorry... so you're Vietnamese?

:ihit:lol

[mouse]

the dalai lama?


You have pics of him at a KKK Bar B Q?

[mavs>spurs]

if obama gets reelected and legalizes all the beaners im out this bitch, going back to europe

[johnsmith]

The most racist part of stories like this is usually how privileged white pundits and boutons (of both R and D persuasion) sit around and make a big deal of it, as though us Latinos are incapable of context or humor.

Fixed it for ya.

[Jacob1983]

Everyone is a racist on some level. Everyone stereotypes too. Don't lie and say "I never stereotype". You do because humans judge each other on their appearance.

[SAScrub]

What if the quote was, "The fried chicken? It may be the only thing Democrats have left to offer African Americans."?

[TeyshaBlue]

Chimichanga = a food whose origin is at least, nomially, Hispanic.
Fried Chicken = a food whose origin is not tied ethnically to particular race.

See where this is going?

[boutons_deux]

The Repugs are the party of bigots, racists, xenophobes, nativists.

You Repugs can deny it, but denying the truth and lying is what y'all do best.

PB knows the right very well and what they believe and want to read/hear when he writes books like the one MSNBC fired him for

Why MSNBC Dumped Pat Buchanan: His 10 Most Outrageous Statements

1. Wanted to close the borders to protect white dominance. As he wrote in his 2006 book State of Emergency: “If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.”

2. Blamed lower test scores on minorities. In his most recent book Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?, he blames minorities for dragging down the country’s test scores. “[T]he decline in academic test scores here at home and in international competition is likely to continue, as more and more of the children taking those tests will be African-American and Hispanic.

3. Claimed Jerry Sandusky’s atrocities are because of “Homosexual marriage.” Buchanan appeared on a right-wing radio show on November 15 to make some convoluted comparisons: “Let’s take this Penn State thing…these horrors, there’s an organization that marches in the gay pride parade in New York called—used to—called the North American Man Boy Love Association, which advocated voluntary sex along the lines of exactly what was going on at Penn State. Many of our political icons have marched in that parade right behind that NAMBLA float […] This is now, homosexual marriage is now the civil rights cause of the decade.”

4. Said the Jewish population in the United States dropped in the 90s because Jews aborted all their babies. Buchanan explains that the decline in the American Jewish population during the 1990s (a decline that a Brandeis study says never occurred), “is a result of the collective decision of Jews themselves. From Betty Friedan to Gloria Steinem in the 1970s to Ruth Bader Ginsburg today, Jewish women have led the battle for abortion rights. The community followed.”

5. Asserted Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people including 69 teens in Norway, “may have been right.” Buchanan called Breivik a coward, evil, and cold-blooded, and then proceeded to defend his twisted rationale for the killings: “As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right.”

6. Claimed that all great nations punish the gays. In a Human Events column, Buchanan attacked California’s 9th Circuit Judge Vaughn Walker after his ruling of Proposition 8 as unconstitutional as a “judicial tyrant,” before going on to explain that “through history, all the great religions have condemned homosexuality and all the great nations have proscribed or punished it. None ever placed homosexual liaisons on the same plane as traditional marriage, which is the bedrock institution of any healthy society.

7. Penned “The Affirmative Action Nobel.” That’s the title of Buchanan’s October 13, 2009 column on Townhall.com in which he claims that President Obama’s Nobel Prize was simply the result of affirmative action. And the column only got worse from there: “They have reinforced the impression that Obama is someone who is forever being given prizes — Ivy League scholarships, law review editorships, prime-time speaking slots at national conventions — he did not earn.”

8. Argued that Poland and the United Kingdom had it coming in World War II. Buchanan seems to suggest in a 2009 column that World War II—and all the atrocities that accompanied it—was really the fault of Poland and Britain, for refusing to engage in diplomacy with Germany. “Why did Warsaw not negotiate with Berlin, which was hinting at an offer of compensatory territory in Slovakia? Because the Poles had a war guarantee from Britain that, should Germany attack, Britainand her empire would come to Poland’s rescue.”

9. Dabbled in Holocaust denial. Pat Buchanan danced alarmingly close to denying key facts of the Holocaust. In a 1990 column for the New York Post, he defended convicted Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk (whom he later compared to Jesus Christ) against charges from Holocaust survivors that he was guilty of murder by accusing the survivors of misremembering all of it: “This so-called ‘Holocaust Survivor Syndrome’ involves ‘group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics.’ Reportedly, half of the 20,000 survivor testimonies in Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem are considered ‘unreliable,’ not to be used in trials[…]The problem is: Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.”

10. Argued Hitler was an individual of “great courage.” That’s just one of the quotes that the Anti-Defamation League attributes to Buchanan in their compendium of offensive remarks from Buchanan over the years. In 1977, he qualified his labeling of Hitler as racist and anti-semitic by adding that “he was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier in the Great War, a leader steeped in the history of Europe, who possessed oratorical powers that could awe even those who despised him[…]His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.”

http://thinkprogress.org/media/2012/02/17/427875/why-msnbc-dumped-pat-buchanan-his-10-most-outrageous-statements/

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The Repugs pander to the bigots, racists, xenophobes, nativists, and misogynists.