especially with women. (though I can't believe there are any stupid enough to vote republicanlibertarianteaparty with their draconian views).

I heard him sayin it

for your eyes and ears to enjoy

the fruit fell very close to the tree. What a racist jerk.

Chaplin reference, right?

you are correct, Sir!

women voting Republican all the time - especially these days with assholes like Akin around and can never come up with an answer that makes sense. My parents were Rs, but that was way back in the day when things were much different. It's truly mystifying. Although I'm convinced my mom voted for JFK.

play it and others will run with it.

Play it on Fox, or the major three broadcast networks, somewhat might pay attention. But that's not going to happen.

Were you being sarcastic?
I watch Sharpton every chance I get , and so do a lot of other ppl.

And what's up with fox news?

YOU watch him. And so do "a lot of other people." But are you aware how insignificant MSNBC's ratings are? Fox is considered "huge" by cable standards, and still only gets a few million people on a good night. Network "news," otoh, as much as we scoff and think no one watches it, reaches TENS OF MILLIONS of people every night. This is why MSNBC runs prison shows on the weekend...there is just no reason, financially, to spend money on real programming. Not enough people are watching. Al Sharpton is on MSNBC. I think they might finally be beating CNN, and I know they've don well, comparatively, during the debates, but they are still a very minor player in the cable news biz. They're getting stronger, I don't deny. But just because us political geeks watch them, MOST of America doesn't. There are still cables systems that consider MSNBC so "fringe" that they aren't even carried. Sad, but true.

So, my point is -- 1,000,000 people marched on Washington to protest Bush and the impending Iraq war. NO ONE covered it. It wasn't in the Corporate News' interest to tell us what was really happening. This is precisely why we won't hear much about Mitt's Sonnada scandal, or whatever it's called. And it's why it is unlikely MOST of America will never hear about Thompson's remarks, even while MSNBC junkies are given the impression it is being played 24/7. Sorry...it isn't.

It's about firing up their base, not Dems.

You honestly can sit here and tell me that independents and centrists watch faux news??

I hate to break it to you, but they don't!

...beyond MSNBC. I predict it will be similar to when Romney made the comment in Michigan about everyone knows that he was born and raised in MI and, "No one needs to see my birth certificate."

It's sensational, and it's on video. I'll be shocked if CNN and others don't pick it up.

She beats Faux news in the ratings...

when I'm home and not at some fucking doctor's appt.

Obviously, "no one" is not meant literally. Of course someone watches him, or he wouldn't be on the air.

I thought the anti-war march comparison would have made it pretty clear; the GOP-controlled media will make a big deal only out of that which will advance its agenda. MSNBC simply does not have the reach. If EVERY MSNBC program chose to report this story, and the other stations don't pick it, it won't have an impact. Al Sharpton can dance naked screaming from a rooftop, and the only thing they'd report is that crazy old Tawana Brawley guy from loony liberal MSNBC was dancing naked on a roof top -- the whys and wherefores won't matter, because the don't want them to matter.

Me? On the Freeper forum? Oh, yeah, that's me!

Sorry if you can't understand the very simple point I've now made at least twice: if the MAINSTREAM media outlets with tens of millions of viewers DAILY will not pick up the story and promote it (where is Sensata? Hmm?), how is a show with such relatively low ratings as Al Sharpton's stand a chance of changing the world? Simple question, and pointing it out sure as hell doesn't make me, who has been on DU for 9 years and nearly 25,000 posts, a Freeper. Sheesh.

If I insulted you or embarrassed you I apologize.
INdemo

Because Daddy is going to lose.

They'll give Reince and Tommy a pass for this

I only wish there was a hell so they would burn in it.

Re-Election Campaign!

And, as an antidote to Ugliness I give you ..

Ashley Judd..

are these people so fucking hateful? Is the perceived loss of white entitlement that painful? People have shown ugly faces this election season. I just want to explode!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's why Republicans hate Obama. Period!

Pair that with the response Chris Matthews got from the asshole who called the President a Communist.

The Republicans have played the race card from the second Obama declared his candidacy. And this is the corrupted fruit of their labors.

I know. Here it is the 21st century and a 19th century mentality is still so prevalent. SAD. SICK. DISGUSTING.

Man oh man.

The Pukes and Baggers just have such stench about them.

Must be all this stuff they pull out of their asses.

Obama is a the embodiment of the structural demographic changes that are occurring.

Ooooh, he made a funny. And it's almost up there with some of Frank Sow-lick's musings over at his cave.

Like there won't be any layoffs if he's not reelected.

After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to crack down on abusive lending products and companies. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama ended the War in Iraq and ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011 But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

In 2011, President Obama ordered special forces raid of secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden was killed and a trove of al-Qaeda documents was discovered. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama saved the auto industry. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.
President Obama repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

In March 2011, the USA joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, and Moammar Gaddafi was toppled. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act (2009), which prohibits credit card companies from raising rates without advance notification, mandates a grace period on interest rate increases, and strictly limits overdraft and other fees. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, giving women who are paid less than men for the same work the right to sue their employers after they find out about the discrimination, even if that discrimination happened years ago. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama signed Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2009), which expands existing hate crime protections to include crimes based on a victim’s sexual orientation, gender, or disability, in addition to race, color, religion, or national origin. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

President Obama signed 2009 Children’s Health Insurance Authorization Act, which allows the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to cover health care for 4 million more children, paid for by a tax increase on tobacco products. But what the GOP remembers is that our President is not white.

All they care about.....is that our President is not white....clear and simple.

Then they talk about what he's done and it's all fiction. They really believe he got into office and increased welfare for black people and that's what crashed the economy.

isn't cute or funny as ms. coulter would like to think, and I am sick and tired of the media, and yes, even the likes of bill maher coddling these thugs.

What is wrong with this country?

No, black Republicans are just nuts.

But I firmly believe, based on my contact with them, that a large majority of non-black Republicans are.

but all bigots are Republican.

An their leaders, Preibus and Romney, have been giving a wink and a nudge to the racist birthers every step of the way

What makes you think it's a wink... and not a big ol' hug?

Remember.... Mormons didn't allow blacks into the church until...what 1970-something?

Preibus and Romney are racists too. Even though "some of their friends are black"!

You don't have to wear a white hood and lynch people to be racist. Anyone promoting Obama as "the other" or somehow different from an American is essentially towing a racist line.

It may not be the ONLY thing they don't like about Obama, the color of his skin, but it is definitely the most prevalent. I'd say it's #1. #2 being he's liberal.

Thompson should go down in flames now even faster.

the Republicans have never respected Obama and never will. When he is speaking these assholes protest. I can't say anything good about the Republican Party. If Hitler was alive today they would run him for President.

Can you say Senator Tammy Baldwin?

You know, the universe where the President of the United States was actually born in Kenya? Cos Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii in this one and anyone else saying otherwise is suffering from some sort of delusion.

After hearing all these insane statements lately, I've concluded that many in the GOP live in a pre-1900 bizzaro-world where they apparently don't know about the existence of devices that can record what you say and play them back for others to listen to later.

Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.

So it's even earlier than 1900!

Ann Romney should be wearing a bustle!

if you're sending anyone anywhere, why not send you and your father back into those rancid caves your mothers crapped you out of when they were suffering from projectile diarrhea? If they aren't available, that's okay, the nearest horse or bull will work and would even be more appropriate.

no big surprise his kid would say this. from what i`ve read tommy`s brother is just as bad.

keep their beautiful daughters from hearing all the despicable, hateful things said about their Father and their Mother. It truly make my heart ache for them.

They are such a loving family. It makes me sick when I think about the daughters eventually learning the hateful, ignorant things that were said about their parents.

...no offense to weasels.

This just makes me sick. The Obama's deserve the same respect that all other first families have received in the past. If these idiots just settled down long enough to listen to his message instead of looking at the color of his skin they might change their minds as to who will make the better decision concerning social security, health care etc. When I see some of the black republicans speaking out against him and his policies I wonder just what planet they are from. Do they not know of the past racist hatred that existed, and it appears still does. How do they look the other way and continue to align themselves with the racist GOP?

and still pretend to be outraged when they're called on their racism

people... it's disturbing. We have gone backward in time. I saddens me that people from my state have become so ignorant.

but there are moments where they expose themselves. like Scott Brown was ok playing nice moderate until Warren became a threat then he got ugly and then he slipped up with the Scalia thing.

these people have to pretend to be moderate in order to win unlike mostly right wing areas . but these can be just as bad and often worse since they actually get power.

Get a clue!

Having grown up in an upper middle-class educated environment, I assure you there are plenty of racists. Why! In 1970, my prep-school reluctantly allowed 5 black boys in. Well, they were good athletes after all.....

...to send Tommy Thompson, and his nasty-ass, racist son back underneath the rock from which they came."

Why would someone say that if they weren't a racist? Humans are a sad being.
The punk rockers were right: the rich are a$$holes!

You raised a true shit off the old block

They have showed their true colors this election season.

And still another thanks, Adenoid_Hynkel.

When their ideals are said out loud they loose.

that nothing but blatant racism is so apparent in so many of these attacks against the President. I was born in the 70s and thought racism would finally die out with my generation. Dam I am stupid!!