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A North Carolina county precinct GOP chair resigned on Thursday after an offensive interview that aired on "The Daily Show" Wednesday, in which he said "lazy black people" want "the government to give them everything."
"Yes, he has resigned," said Nathan West, a spokesman for the Buncombe County Republican Party. The party had asked for Don Yelton's resignation in direct response to the interview, West said.
The interview, conducted by correspondent Aasif Mandvi, was on the topic of North Carolina's new voter ID law, over which the Justice Department has sued the state. On "The Daily Show," Yelton argued that the law wasn't racist, though he added that he's "been called a bigot before."
He brushed off those suggestions, too, arguing that one of his best friends is black. "Now you have a black person using the term, "N this and n that, and it's OK for them to do it," Yelton said at one point.
That prompted Mandvi to respond, "You know that we can hear you, right?"
The Buncombe County GOP said in a statement that Yelton was "recently reprimanded and removed from his position as a precinct chair." He was re-elected to the position at the 2013 convention by a margin of two votes himself and his wife. The party also said that Yelton did not seek permission to give the interview.
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Here-s-The-Racist-Daily-Show-Interview-That-4924666.php
Grayson was right.
BumRushDaShow
(129,029 posts)But then many of us already knew this. All the rotten scum has been dredged out into the light.
malaise
(269,004 posts)and it has been encouraged by the entire ReTHUG party and their hacks on M$Greedia.
i haven't seen this level of public racism since the 1960s
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)It doesn't affect them in their neat little lives, so it doesn't exist in their minds.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)It is in their DNA as an organization and "moderate" essentially for them means not shouting crazy bigoted bile from the rooftops.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)But any editor with more than a sixth grade education would throw the manuscript across the room into the circular file.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)saying what the party thought .
Cause I'm not buying their excuse for firing him.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)He was so reticent about sharing them that he waited until he was on national TV to do so.
Of course, the conspiracy hypothesist in me wonders if the guy was a deep liberal mole.
malaise
(269,004 posts)where he bragged that the voter ID law would 'kick the Democrats' butt'.
They would not have fired him for the racist stuff because they all use it sometimes subtly.
Have they said a word about that confederate flag outside the WH yet?
joshcryer
(62,270 posts)HAHAHA.
You know why? Because the party would've shit on the very idea of one of their more racist fuckers going on ... The Daily Show.
Daily Show, truth in reporting since it's inception.
RandiFan1290
(6,235 posts)spicegal
(758 posts)These people just don't get how racist they really are, or how they sound, or the fact that since Obama became president they're just putting all that ugly racism right out there for the world to see. It's astonishing. They make no effort to hide their agenda. It's amazing that anyone votes for them anymore. The whole party is suffering from some bizarre group pathology.
Cha
(297,244 posts)mouth. Good on ya, Don Yelton-Dumbass
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Buncombe County -- isn't that where the word "bunk" came from, as in, "That's a load of bunk?"
You can't reason with these assholes. Grayson is absolutely right.
Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)Poor guy, he never saw it coming.