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Wednesday May 11, 2011
Candidate's 'joke' offends tea partiers by Ry Rivard Daily Mail Capitol Reporter CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The leaders of an Eastern Panhandle Tea Party group are claiming former state lawmaker and current GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Faircloth made a racist and sexist remark about President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Terry and Larrice Craver, the co-founders of We the People of Hampshire County, said the group hosted a candidate forum April 29 in Romney that three GOP candidates attended. "While Mr. Faircloth was giving his opening comments, he chose to tell a racist, sexist 'Joke,'" the couple said in a Monday email obtained by the Daily Mail. "This offended several people, some laughed, most gasped, and one man stood up and walked out and made the statement 'You're all nothing but a bunch of bigots' on his way out the door." The Cravers declined to retell the joke in a telephone interview Tuesday. Faircloth referred to Pelosi as a "bimbo." "Is she not one?" Faircloth said in a Tuesday evening telephone interview. "I mean, a lot of people think she is a bimbo; that's why they replaced Congress with Republicans, and they removed her as speaker. I don't find that as anything different than a political poke at her." He also referred to Obama as a "Sambo," a term many consider racist. "It was meant to be a joke, and if they took it different, I told the people there that I apologized," Faircloth said. He added, "We've been tiptoeing around the president." Faircloth said he had heard the joke earlier that day from a poll worker. The Cravers said they first asked Faircloth to make a public apology but he refused. Finally, they said they sent the email Monday to other tea party groups across the state. "I put it out there so other tea parties would know what's going on. I didn't put it out for publication; I was putting it out for their knowledge because it goes to the character of the candidate," Terry Craver said in an interview. In the email, the Cravers described an attempt to get Faircloth to apologize. "Terry told him that his joke offended several people at the forum," the email, which was written by Larrice Craver, said. - - - Ahh, the GOP...the party of inclusion. Good luck in 2012, 2016, 2020... |
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On 13/05/2011 2:31 PM, Harryk wrote:
Faircloth referred to Pelosi as a "bimbo." Yep, he was wrong. He gave her far too much credit. Not as bad as Guam is tipping over Hank Johnson though. That democrat is pretty hard to beat. Hank be a buffoon airhead. I wuld be embarased to live in Georgia 4th district. The video says it all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg Ask yourself, how did such an idiot get elected? He also referred to Obama as a "Sambo," a term many consider racist. I am still confused today, black or colored? Heck, seems like the acronyms change with political BS and rhetoric. What is good one day, isn't the next. Can't say anything without getting some idiot offended. Sambo is also was or is a restaurant is it not? The word as a race term, like WASP is a derived name. In teh case of Sambo, an African "zambo". Zambo in spanish means African-American. So other than the stupidity of this arguement, might I suggest it isn't really any more racist than WASP, honky, white bread, or some other slang blacks also use. People are just far too sensitive to this, idle minds looking for an excuse to attack others they don't agree with. Also a common fleabagger trait too. -- Take a look at ANY country, more debt is more problems. So why do we allow our governments more debt? Selfishness, greed, denial, ignorance? |
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On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:31:09 -0400, Harryk
wrote: Wednesday May 11, 2011 Candidate's 'joke' offends tea partiers by Ry Rivard Daily Mail Capitol Reporter CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The leaders of an Eastern Panhandle Tea Party group are claiming former state lawmaker and current GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Faircloth made a racist and sexist remark about President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Terry and Larrice Craver, the co-founders of We the People of Hampshire County, said the group hosted a candidate forum April 29 in Romney that three GOP candidates attended. "While Mr. Faircloth was giving his opening comments, he chose to tell a racist, sexist 'Joke,'" the couple said in a Monday email obtained by the Daily Mail. "This offended several people, some laughed, most gasped, and one man stood up and walked out and made the statement 'You're all nothing but a bunch of bigots' on his way out the door." The Cravers declined to retell the joke in a telephone interview Tuesday. Faircloth referred to Pelosi as a "bimbo." "Is she not one?" Faircloth said in a Tuesday evening telephone interview. "I mean, a lot of people think she is a bimbo; that's why they replaced Congress with Republicans, and they removed her as speaker. I don't find that as anything different than a political poke at her." He also referred to Obama as a "Sambo," a term many consider racist. "It was meant to be a joke, and if they took it different, I told the people there that I apologized," Faircloth said. He added, "We've been tiptoeing around the president." Faircloth said he had heard the joke earlier that day from a poll worker. The Cravers said they first asked Faircloth to make a public apology but he refused. Finally, they said they sent the email Monday to other tea party groups across the state. "I put it out there so other tea parties would know what's going on. I didn't put it out for publication; I was putting it out for their knowledge because it goes to the character of the candidate," Terry Craver said in an interview. In the email, the Cravers described an attempt to get Faircloth to apologize. "Terry told him that his joke offended several people at the forum," the email, which was written by Larrice Craver, said. - - - Ahh, the GOP...the party of inclusion. Good luck in 2012, 2016, 2020... Sambo? Bimbo? One thing I learned early on about sales is that by disparaging your competitors, you disparage yourself, since you're in the same business. Peddling fear and hate. That's nothing new for the GOP. |
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On 14/05/2011 2:22 PM, jps wrote:
On Fri, 13 May 2011 16:31:09 -0400, wrote: Wednesday May 11, 2011 Candidate's 'joke' offends tea partiers by Ry Rivard Daily Mail Capitol Reporter CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The leaders of an Eastern Panhandle Tea Party group are claiming former state lawmaker and current GOP gubernatorial candidate Larry Faircloth made a racist and sexist remark about President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Terry and Larrice Craver, the co-founders of We the People of Hampshire County, said the group hosted a candidate forum April 29 in Romney that three GOP candidates attended. "While Mr. Faircloth was giving his opening comments, he chose to tell a racist, sexist 'Joke,'" the couple said in a Monday email obtained by the Daily Mail. "This offended several people, some laughed, most gasped, and one man stood up and walked out and made the statement 'You're all nothing but a bunch of bigots' on his way out the door." The Cravers declined to retell the joke in a telephone interview Tuesday. Faircloth referred to Pelosi as a "bimbo." "Is she not one?" Faircloth said in a Tuesday evening telephone interview. "I mean, a lot of people think she is a bimbo; that's why they replaced Congress with Republicans, and they removed her as speaker. I don't find that as anything different than a political poke at her." He also referred to Obama as a "Sambo," a term many consider racist. "It was meant to be a joke, and if they took it different, I told the people there that I apologized," Faircloth said. He added, "We've been tiptoeing around the president." Faircloth said he had heard the joke earlier that day from a poll worker. The Cravers said they first asked Faircloth to make a public apology but he refused. Finally, they said they sent the email Monday to other tea party groups across the state. "I put it out there so other tea parties would know what's going on. I didn't put it out for publication; I was putting it out for their knowledge because it goes to the character of the candidate," Terry Craver said in an interview. In the email, the Cravers described an attempt to get Faircloth to apologize. "Terry told him that his joke offended several people at the forum," the email, which was written by Larrice Craver, said. - - - Ahh, the GOP...the party of inclusion. Good luck in 2012, 2016, 2020... Sambo? Bimbo? One thing I learned early on about sales is that by disparaging your competitors, you disparage yourself, since you're in the same business. Peddling fear and hate. That's nothing new for the GOP. Don't you man the democrats? -- Take a look at ANY country, more debt is more problems. So why do we allow our governments more debt? Selfishness, greed, denial, ignorance? |
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