Seems like the frothing at the mouth liberals see cry racism at every turn yet it is the dems / liberals that want to carve out set asides based on race. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In this analogy the people acting the part of monkeys on the golf course are the democrats impeding the progress of the nation / game. For more on this please see Ann Coulters Book Demonic page 191.
all of these faggots running around sucking the dicks of the first company that throw them a check. none of them care about this country. i hate my faggot life
play it where the nigger monkey boy throws it.... 5 stars, that about sums it up.... too bad you didn't have the testicles to just say obama's name right after the anecdote ... screw that nigger
Like some one else said, "Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey."
For the slow witted reading these comments, he was making the point that no matter how crazy a situation one finds one's selves in, you just have to deal with what is available.
I raead about this in an article on Huffington Post but didn't realize until I watched the video there is a banner in the background with "Focus on the Family" written on it. So you me to tell me they are associated with this disgusting behavior?
Funn that everyone jumps on Jimmy Carter's ass when he brings up race being embedded here and then there are flagrant speeches like this. Gimme a break.
Well yes... unless that "monkey" is a cloth monkey-doll with the name "Obama" emblazoned on it, brandished at a "teabagger" rally. Then it's a bit more than just a monkey. That's the temporal context of Mr. Blunt's anecdote - in case you've failed to notice.
I read your column over at Huffington Post, Mr. Wilson. What a total dickhead you are to read racism into that joke.
The sign at the Tea Party had it right -- "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THIS SIGN SAYS, YOU'LL STILL CALL IT RACIST."
Go ahead and keep up the race-baiting. More and more people are going to get sick of it and just turn it off completely. It's just like anyone who says anything critical of Israel getting painted as an anti-semite. You need to get a life, really.
I give up...you guys win. This guy isn't racist, and the GOP is a tolerant, loving, generous Christian group of people. God bless their pointy little heads..
Another politician lining his pockets while our roads and bridges crumble. Cities all but in ruin and these retards sit on their ass and run their mouths.
catch-phrases this moron would be out of a job. Unless you ACTUALLY ARE a Majority Stockholder in one of the few major Health Insurance or Pharmaceutical Companies or your campaign (your job) is funded by them, you have NO BUSINESS being duped and distracted by this crap. What is important is NOT what professional spokesmen (including Limbaugh, O'Reiley, Beck etc) SAY but WHO PAYS THEM TO SAY IT. They are ALL VERY WELL PAID to do so. PLEASE think with your bank account - this is capitalism.
...parties) do NOT get elected or really paid by the US Gov't but by Lobbyists. All aspects of life considered to be "fundamental human rights" are provided by the gov't in US (when you call 911 the operator does not check if Rape is covered under your plan - "Socialism" & "Bad" OR good for you & your family). Right now garbage collection is "valued" more than basic health care for children. If everyone simply voted & protested for what is best for their families, instead of silly...
This is not complex; but it is very smart. This "summit" and all of the wild rhetoric form the right is intelligent, well designed sleight of hand. While we're all distracted and fired up arguing if this guy's racist or Obama's a socialist, they are lifting our wallets. It's a grift. Period. If a TRUE Public Option passes, the Insurance & Pharmaceutical Monopoly stands to lose billions of dollars - the US Government and its citizens would gain those billions - However, ALL politicians (both...
One of the most corrupt politicians of our era. You have to love a guy who stands in front of a Focus on the Family sign, yet has a well known affair with a tobacco lobbyist. That's family values!
I'm half black and white, this was definitely a backhanded racial dig at Obama. This is a man who has stood up at White supremicist meetings and made speeches.
Theres no credible case for twisting the story into something racist. In fact, Roy Blunt told the same story in 2006 at the Heritage Foundation (ahem, before Barack Obama was president, ahem) in a little bit more detail, noting that playing the ball where the monkey throws it is not a bad rule for life, to understand that you have to do exactly that and you have to deal with the circumstances you find.
satanrunspalin - So Blunt's story, about monkeys on a golf course in early 20th century India making playing by traditional rules difficult, is 100% exactly the same as the disgusting joke wrote - a joke that no doubt you're allowed to recite because you deem yourself part of the elite intelligentsia that understands so much more than common slobs like me. Where'd you hear it - from liberal acolyte Harry Byrd, a former KKK leader that gets a free pass from the same folks raging about Blunt?
Republican politicians have values alright. Like being paid off by corporate lobbies, opposing gay rights, thinking women are out of the home too much, accusing minorities of getting "special privileges" and cheating on their wives.
These are the same republican mucus stains bitches that got mad for the "Lipstick on a pig" comment. You can't have it both ways repub mucus jizz eaters. Fuck off racist
Using monkey to describe something a black person is involve with is racist.
This same republican dog would not make a jewish joke about the holocast if the pres was jewish. let say if he says washington politics is like walking to the gas chamber you see it coming but you can't avoid it. This republican swine dog would be booed out of congress. Repubs are racist dog no i should not say dog dog are way more honorable and loyal the are snort, mucus, puss, an abscess of hate and ignorance.
Hey TeaBaggers- Did you know the US Constitution a document which you guys think is so great had a provision making blacks 3/5ths human?
White people can falsely pretend there is no ugly history of racism, but for us whites who will admit there was we know you are lying. And if you are afraid to admit it then you are a racist with silent hatred.
If a joke is funny I will laugh at it. If a joke is intended to suppress I will crush it. White Republicans are lying selfish bastards.
@satanrunspalin If the 3/5 rule hadn't been instituted to prevent southern states from getting more representatives.... Slavery would of had a bigger voice in congress. It was not meant to demean slaves who couldn't vote but to restrict the influence of slave states in congress.
Facts are tricky things but I suspect you will not let them influence your ignorance.
But saying "In Washington you have to play the ball wherever the monkey throws it"(2:46) is. His enunciatiation of "eliminate the monkey problem" (2:24) is. His closing reminder that "you know the world is turned upside down when..." and "that's when you know things have changed in ways that you've never anticipated" is.
This man is a disgrace. He is running for the US Senate in MIssouri in 2010. Support his opponent.
blockygraphics - See, if Blunt said what YOU said, then I guess I'd be smart enough to see how he's racist. And by the way, call me cynical, but I'd be willing to wager based on your puerile tirade that you're actually a leftist hiding behind anonymity to continue to stoke the flames of passion (as opposed to analysis) in this forum.
wistfulwitness - so every human being in that room was a racist, kowtowing to their grand wizard Roy Blunt? I guess I am too pure, because I didn't associate a story about primates in a nation where very few blacks live as a racist condemnation of our president. I just don't get the connection. I thought he was making more of an observation about how rules are different in DC thanks to special interests and unethical politics - from all parties. And the only names he dropped were white men.
Hey mwcric- Here is a joke: "what do you call two black cops on motorcycles? Chocolate Chips".
Is that racist? I think only if hate were behind it. Otherwise, it is kind of cute.
But when a public figure uses a parable about monkeys changing the rules and people having to deal with it the subtext is clearly a racist allegory.
MWCRIC-what's the difference between a porch monkey and a yard monkey? The length of the chain. I know you won't find it funny cause you'll pretend you don't understand.
brucewilson - My "YOU ALL" comment was referring to all individuals in this thread that automatically draw negative conclusions when words like "monkey" are used, regardless of the context - particularly when used by someone with a different political viewpoint. Talk about stereotyping and passing judgement based on race: "Gee Blunt is a white male Republican and he told a story that used the word monkey, ergo he is a racist!" What's really funny is how I don't hear any dems EVER condemn Byrd.
I understand what you're saying; however, are you implying that any mention of primates at all, in any context by anyone at any time, is a clarion call of racism? So Curious George is racist? Are the Phoenix Suns a racist organization because they have a gorilla mascot? Is the auto care franchise Grease Monkey a racist franchise simply due to their name? I have a collection of Chinese and Taiwanese mechanical cymbal-playing monkeys - so am I racist, along with the Chinese?
Why do liberals always try to play the race card? Is that all you got? He was telling a funny story that actually happened with actual monkeys in near the jungle! Not "hypothetical" monkeys which he meant to be black people! What a lame attempt to stir people up! Get a life!
Why do White people like you accuse Black people of "playing the race card" every time we even mention race? Has it ever occured to you that people of color experience life differently than you? Please don't dismiss my truths. It must be nice over there in White privilege land.
djcateyez, you ask 'Why do White people accuse Black people of "playing the race card" every time we even mention race? Has it ever occured to you that people of color experience life differently than you?'
The answer to that is, nobody accuses anyone of playing the race card for simply mentioning race. But when racist motives are READ INTO the most inocuous statements, that is definitely playing the race card and it is in fact indicative of either racism or race-baiting.
Liberal morons read racism INTO conservative statements; meaning there was NO RACISM in the statement but that didn't stop the liberal morons from reading it into the statement.
And that's the problem. Just because you don't find it offensive does not mean that someone else doesn't. America has a history with relating African Americans with monkies and the Republican party has a recent history of racism. Stop dismissing the truths of non-White people just because they don't line up with your lilly White racism-free life. It is the real life experience of many Americans should be able to be addressed without being accused of race-baiting.
djcateyez says, "stop dismissing the truths of non-White people," but truth is the same truth for everyone; there is not one truth for whites and another truth for non-whites. He says "Americans should be able to be addressed without being accused of race-baiting." To that I say, then they should stop race-baiting! People perceiving insult where none is intended are at least as much, if not more of a problem than people who deliberately intend insult. "Let love be without hypocrisy." Romans 12:9
what is so sad about liberals is they cant take a joke without making it racial. Worse than that , that the blacks are being played for votes. I bet is was a WHITE liberal who first tried to stir the pot by citing this harmless joke as a racial joke. That same liberal as a child likely said the "catch a jigger by the toe" thing ( starte eenie meenie miney moe) but that ISNT racial! They call it hyposcrisy folks...
please tell me that Mr. Blunt regrets his remarks. That now he realizes that what he said SOUNDS VERY RACIST. PLEASE, this is so wrong and backward. FIX IT.
Bolla de pendejos! Thats exactly the way they want you you gringo vavosos! fighting with each other while your gold & silver is taken by the world bankers and America becomes a 3rd. world bunch of pendejos!
Try graduating from high school. Then move on to getting a college degree or two (assuming there's a college somewhere that'll accept you). That's the problem with konservatives and Rethugnicans... they're all as dumb as rocks.
This man is a disgrace. A disgrace to the country, the United States Congress and the Republican party.
He is running for the Senate in Missouri in 2010. His opponent is named Robin Carnahan. Do what is right by doing what you can to contribute to his defeat.
mwcric: Again, I am without any affiliation; I am an independent voter. But I think you are on to something with your "profit" comment. That is exactly how you should vote - with your wallet, and unless you actually own your own private jet, you have no business voting republican. Unless you are among the richest 3%, you have been duped into voting for meaningless words (religion, conservatism, values) - you would have owned a lot of snake-oil last century, at least your puppeteers own real oil.
Even if you own your own private jet are in the richest 3%, that's still no reason to vote for a Repugnican. All Repugnicans are immoral despicable evil lying slimeballs who only answer to their corporate K Street masters. There's simply no excuse voting for one of these wackos unless you're clinically insane.
mwcric: As you requested that someone without an agenda or grudge against the republicans to explain this to you, I thought I'd just point you in the right direction. Assuming you are being honest about not understanding, simply research the history of imagery, vocabulary, and even 19th century text books concerning African Americans. The monkey is the archetypal image for racism against this group -- it's the prototype. But, as you are old enough to know? some spelling, you already know that.
This disgusting bigot happens to be my Congressman, and I think he is a despicable scumbag, a vile piece of shit, a sickening hatemonger, and a wretched embarrassment. He seriously makes me want to VOMIT!!!!!!
What exactly is racist about this video? Seriously, can someone without an agenda or a grudge against Republicans please explain to me where ANYTHING even closely resembling racism exists in this?!? Sounds to me like the ones crying racism are the real hatemongers here; after all, it's YOU ALL that have drawn the conclusion that references to primates must be a veiled reference to minorities. You need to ask yourselves why that would be your first reaction. Because you profit from it, perhaps?
If you're so pure that you can't see that Blunt is alluding to Obama as a monkey here, then try this:
Google "obama monkey"
Pretty sickening, but it'll keep you busy all day checking it out. And then, please, adjust your perspective. We're not imagining this; those people were laughing because they knew he meant Obama.
This pretty much sums up the problem that the Republican Party has right now. About half the party is overrun by ignorant neo-Klansmen. Hard for them to clean house when half (or more) of their heavy-hitters are scumbags. Are there bad Democrats out there? Of course! But nowhere near what the RNC is facing. The racism we're seeing now--in 2009--is unreal.
Oh. My. God. What a pig. What a tasteless, smug, ... words really fail me.
I can't believe Peggy Noonan was sniffing about the "boorishness" of Obama doing a lot of TV interviews over the weekend, at the same time that this George Wallace wannabe was entertaining the "Values"(?!?) crowd. The Republican party just has no idea how ridiculous and repellent they look from the outside.
I know guys like Roy Blunt and they're all over Missouri, or Missourah, they look around before they use the "n" word, they have a low opinion of women, and they're total jerks. They're usually serial adulterers and drunks. Roy Blunt married a tobacco lobbyist and his son was a complete loser who messed this state up big time. I hope they keep going further and further right. Please...most Americans will reject you.
see...we`re the calculated too, unless we know how to handle this. indymedia at least, collects the data so that certain ppl stay known for their actions, whereas newspapers and other media tend to only reflect on current issues. would be usefull to fence those folks in where they are and to mark stuff, that when it goes out to the world in their name it can be categorized. europeans do that with berlusconi, so you know what ya have with him.
The same man making the same joke in 2006 long before Obama was elected President. Your ignorance continues to show every day especially with charges of racism over a rehashed joke. Change your address up to v=n00agrjdfTk and then go to the 2:25 mark.
Monkey as in "monkey see monkey do"? That's what it sounded like to me.. nothing racist here.. although the guy still might be a racist.. there was nothing racist in what he just said.. unless of course the monkeys he was referring to at the golf course were really black people. It didn't sound like it though.
Sad, but true -- Abe Lincoln wouldn't be welcomed in the party he helped found. The fact is: America is changing -- and these folks, God willing, are going to be left behind to choke on the dust of our forward progress.
Star Parker spoke at FRC & she like me is black (see other video links). So, either he needs sensititivy training for those who are "hypersensitive" or its like what "stix42k" refered to...he meant "monkey see monkey do" or something else. Hey, stop using the 'race-card' because you dislike Republicans...its dishonering to my ancestors whom lived & died under real racism & discredits & takes ones attention off of authentic case that happen everywhere (black, white, Republican & Democrat).
The implication of this joke is that this mindless congressman is an idiot and A MONKEY himself, who does not realize that he's indicting himself as a politician in Washington; or, unlike the more overt kkk member, joe wilson, he is just another of the pained white supremacists, who is cowardly hiding under the hood of a racist joke
When idiot Blunt referred back to his Monkey Joke as a way to not be intimidated from making that "sort of remark," he busted himself and ensured EVERYONE would then realize the joke was absolutely MEANT to be racist and he shouldn't have to apologize!
The quote of Roy concluding his remarks at the Value Voters Summit, where he tells the crowd not to be intimidated by accusations of racism, and then refers back to his monkey joke:
"Don't be intimidated out of this fight. President Carter said if you disagree with this president, it's somehow fundamentally racist in nature. That's not what this is about. And we can't be intimidated into believing that that's what this is about. You do have to play the ball where it's thrown in this case."
Why is "Focus on the Family" so full of hypocrites? They are the ones who always get caught doing the really sick shit. For instance, not just getting caught cheating on their spouse, but getting caught cheating on the spouse while wearing dirty diapers, or a wide stance in public bathrooms! HYPOCRITES - ALL OF THEM!
For once I wish Obama would try the GOP dogwhistle approach....
"I was eating lunch with Jerimiah Wright the other day and he said we need to rise up and smash these crackers! Otherwise you wind up with big chunks of Saltine in your chowder. and we both agreed that we need to stick it to Whitey! James Bulger has been on the run from the FBI for too long.
I don't see the racism in this. I call my son a little monkey all the time because monkeys are cute, curious and always getting into trouble. Is curious george racist? Also, the men he compared to trouble making monkeys are WHITE.
You may have missed over a century of racist attacks comparing African-Americans to monkeys. And the fact that the current US president is African-American.
Actually, I think the original book was definitely racist. But it was cute racism, and yup, monkeys are cute and curious ... and unable to properly think out the consequences of their actions or ever be in charge of anything. Reread the book and check out the subtext.
eachother around the globe. For them , now is the time, for their nonreflecting, overthefence bad attitude to unleash and roam freely. Everything can be said and be done in such times when it is hard and when there is war. Berlusconi>USA>palin>Bavaria>austrian fascists>catholic poles>proFranco/ J.M.Aznar@Fox>Germ.Nazis>Hungarian Antigay>ProKölln anti-islamic>/G.Wildeers>to AtlasShrugged on Youtube> and round and round it goes......
Wow!... Just Wow! I'm just .....amazed...It's almost as if the republicans are actively trying to alienate every non white male in the country. Every time they bate a Sotomayor, or start a vendetta on a Van Jones, or , holey crap, start telling monkey jokes to a lilly white audience of rich stuffed shirts?! Do they even know what percentage of the population find this highly offensive? Keep it up, regressives! Leading the way back to the 1950's!
Thank god 2008 election showed that the south is no longer needed to win elections. hopefully the voters of missouri have the disency to throw this guy out of office.
At one time it was the Democrats who had most of the racists, but now it's the Republicans & is the reason their strength is centered now in the South.
I'm from the South and as you can tell a conservative. But this doesn't mean I am inherently racist. I would argue that it is more of a cultural difference of family values and yes religion. But do I think the South is superior to any other part of the country? No. It's no different that liberals gravitating to the Northeast. We generally like to live amongst those with similar life expectancies. From my extensive travels throughout the US,
Of course it's not "inherent", who said it was? Ever see "South Pacific"? They have to be "carefully taught". As for the rest of you comment, a not even subtle paraphrasing of "Separate but equal"; the same sort of bullshit happy talk used to justify segregation i.e. "they're more comfortable with their own kind". You're so bloody transparent it's pitiable, your racism so much a part of your whole outlook that you can spew filth and think you are imparting sweet reason. How ugly.
I would say other areas have achieved less racial progress than the South. We interact with people of different races on a daily basis and have this fear of "racism" ingrained in our minds from birth. I would challenge you to visit one day and perhaps you would see some of the most hospitable people in the country. Yes life is a little slower, but 99% of us would just like for the racism charges to die. There will always be the 1% of crazies on both the right and left
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 won a higher percentage of Republican votes (about 4-to-1 in favor) than it did of Democrat votes (about 2-to-1 in favor). Al Gore's father, for example, was a Senator who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You need to learn as Republicans we don't want everyone on the wagon. We want every citizen to become a tax payer and help us pull the wagon together. I don't care what color you are.
You're leaving out the part where the Republican and Democratic parties generally switched places with regard to civil rights and race relations around '68, and the Republican party used the southern strategy in every election since then. Modern Republicans aren't progressives.
Regarding Limbaugh, I don't know whether you listen regularly, but while he is sometimes over-the-top for comedic provocation's sake, he's a very complex head case even in his more lucid moments.
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was sponsored by US Congressman L.C. Dyer, Republican of Missouri, in 1922. It was passed by the House of Representatives, majority Republican at the time. It was supported by President Warren G. Harding, Republican, as well as the NAACP. But it was defeated in the Senate by a filibuster from Democrats.
You are ridiculous, do the words "We have lost the South for a generation" ring a bell with you? If you're not simply being disingenuous, then you're laughably ignorant of very basic U.S. history. Are you truly so stupid as to think that the positions held by political parties are unchanged since 1865, let alone 1922? Here, a couple of clues, "Radical Republicans from the North East " and "an embittered South". Read some history, then come back when you have some idea what you're talking about.
You liberals have gone off the deep end now, resorting to charges of racism any time someone opens there mouth. Let me ask you about your double standard: Why no charges of racism when Obama sat in Rev Wright's pew for 20 years? What about Obama calling his grandmother a "typical white person?" What about calling the people of Pennsylvania "bitter" and "clinging to guns and religion?" The public is seeing you don't hold yourself to the same standard you project on others!
There were around 15 years of recorded sermons from Wright's church. Fox news harped on less than 30 seconds of CONTEXT-FREE footage because they had to - his sermons, especially when viewed with context, are great.
Wright is good and his comments, while controversial out of context, are sensible and sobering when presented in context. The rest of that post is you grasping at some year-old straws. I don't even like Obama much, it's just fun to knock down republican talking points.
If this is justification of Wright's sermons then let's apply the same standard to Rush Limbaugh or most of the conservative talkers. These site's take clips of Limbaugh and play them not even in context. And 90% of the people who watch these clips don't even understand the satirical tone behind Rush's show.
That reference to golf balls (whites) being thrown around by monkeys(blacks...right?) should be enough to enrage all white people about how they are being racially mistreated.
I agree that in general, people are too quick to jump on anyone who says "monkey" around black issues. Invoking monkeys can help build quick, simple, accessible metaphors and similes.
There is however a rich history of the terms "yard ape" and "porch monkey" and "jungle bunny" being used by racist conservatives. Everybody in politics knows better than to putz around with those terms. He has to play dumb to deny that this was racially tinged, and he really isn't doing himself any favors.
yah, the audience got the racial inference. You could hear some of them groan when he made the "joke" but that is who the GOP is appealing to today. People upset at change. all Change. Especially the idea of a black man as president.
Republican politicians use dog whistles and abstractions constantly.
Lee Atwater said:
You start out in 1954 by saying, Nigger, nigger, nigger. By 1968 you can't say nigger—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
All zoos must kill their primates and hence forth, the words money, ape, chimp, and baboon are forbidden while we have our half-black prezident in the White House.
Seems like the frothing at the mouth liberals see cry racism at every turn yet it is the dems / liberals that want to carve out set asides based on race. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In this analogy the people acting the part of monkeys on the golf course are the democrats impeding the progress of the nation / game. For more on this please see Ann Coulters Book Demonic page 191.
antoinepuliviski 7 months ago
all of these faggots running around sucking the dicks of the first company that throw them a check. none of them care about this country. i hate my faggot life
AdamSewell 1 year ago
Patently obvious that Blunt is a racist, Fascist idiot.
(But I'm sure all Teabaggers and Palinites love the vitriolic hatred and vile bile that he spews.)
SoINeedAName48 1 year ago
No matter what, nigger half breed monkeys don't belong on any golf course, even on a leash.
captne76 1 year ago
@captne76 so fucking true
nirvanasuperfan1 1 year ago
oh, just say it!
the mokey is obama, not those other guys
play it where the nigger monkey boy throws it.... 5 stars, that about sums it up.... too bad you didn't have the testicles to just say obama's name right after the anecdote ... screw that nigger
ron paul, all the way
rtardbox 2 years ago
I don't think Ron Paul would want people who call the President racist names on his side.
SSJ80SSJ 2 years ago 2
@SSJ80SSJ no he just wants you to smoke pot
go ron
nirvanasuperfan1 1 year ago
Where is the racism last time I check I was black and Al Franken was white. I tell silly liberals get over yourselves.
cogicson1988 2 years ago
roy blunt is ignorant and racist.guess what, i am from strafford missouri and i know roy and his boy.PERIOD.............
xXshiroxyXx 2 years ago
Jesus said to "Love Ye One Another"
So, yes I do love ALL PEOPLE.
1statone 2 years ago
@1statone what about the homos?
gay love is not christian
nirvanasuperfan1 1 year ago
I didn't hear the racism???? Is Al Frakin Black???
bigbutterup 2 years ago
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woodsie92 2 years ago
A lot of ignorant hicks in here. Racism to them is second nature. They don't get it.
tejaspics 2 years ago 2
Some White people will always have a hatred for black people no matter what.
This deep seeded hatred and disrespect for blacks has got to stop.
1statone 2 years ago
I sure am glad all blacks love all white people.LOL
bigbutterup 2 years ago
@1statone but why?
nirvanasuperfan1 1 year ago
For years White People have gotten away with calling black people monkeys.
Unfortunately some of them still see black people as ugly and 3/4's human.
1statone 2 years ago
How is his statement racist?
jaredfontaine2002 2 years ago
Like some one else said, "Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey."
For the slow witted reading these comments, he was making the point that no matter how crazy a situation one finds one's selves in, you just have to deal with what is available.
ses6239 2 years ago
This is a "racist" joke? Anyone who thinks that is a total dickhead.
PrincessSushiTushi 2 years ago
I raead about this in an article on Huffington Post but didn't realize until I watched the video there is a banner in the background with "Focus on the Family" written on it. So you me to tell me they are associated with this disgusting behavior?
mrschi03 2 years ago
Funn that everyone jumps on Jimmy Carter's ass when he brings up race being embedded here and then there are flagrant speeches like this. Gimme a break.
rise54321 2 years ago
Anyone that's not white will not be in this guy's club.
tejaspics 2 years ago
It's time to make these smug racist f*cks pay for their hate crimes.
prohiphop 2 years ago
I don't get how Delay gets on DWTS. Isn't he supposed to be in jail by now?
MrArtVandelay 2 years ago
Blunt, I wonder do you hate Jews too? Yeah I thought so.
MrArtVandelay 2 years ago
We HAD a monkey problem and his name was George W. Bush a.k.a. Curious George.
duckfetishgirl 2 years ago
Bunch of angry white depressed folks with tiny winnie.
cdmatester 2 years ago
Wow guys, sometimes a monkey is just a monkey.
adk5010 2 years ago 2
Well yes... unless that "monkey" is a cloth monkey-doll with the name "Obama" emblazoned on it, brandished at a "teabagger" rally. Then it's a bit more than just a monkey. That's the temporal context of Mr. Blunt's anecdote - in case you've failed to notice.
bruceewilson 2 years ago
I read your column over at Huffington Post, Mr. Wilson. What a total dickhead you are to read racism into that joke.
The sign at the Tea Party had it right -- "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THIS SIGN SAYS, YOU'LL STILL CALL IT RACIST."
Go ahead and keep up the race-baiting. More and more people are going to get sick of it and just turn it off completely. It's just like anyone who says anything critical of Israel getting painted as an anti-semite. You need to get a life, really.
PrincessSushiTushi 2 years ago 2
that is so true, and this jerk is a monkey.
MsAngel52 2 years ago
I give up...you guys win. This guy isn't racist, and the GOP is a tolerant, loving, generous Christian group of people. God bless their pointy little heads..
tejaspics 2 years ago
And you can quit with theold Jefferson Airplane jokes.
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This was some nigg* sh*t. See Nigg*s come in all colors, sizes, and titles.
taralbradley 2 years ago
Another politician lining his pockets while our roads and bridges crumble. Cities all but in ruin and these retards sit on their ass and run their mouths.
pk5787 2 years ago
catch-phrases this moron would be out of a job. Unless you ACTUALLY ARE a Majority Stockholder in one of the few major Health Insurance or Pharmaceutical Companies or your campaign (your job) is funded by them, you have NO BUSINESS being duped and distracted by this crap. What is important is NOT what professional spokesmen (including Limbaugh, O'Reiley, Beck etc) SAY but WHO PAYS THEM TO SAY IT. They are ALL VERY WELL PAID to do so. PLEASE think with your bank account - this is capitalism.
lunafran33 2 years ago
Yeah I'm sure the giant ZiCam lobby is a huge influence on Washington. Dumbass.
theunbubba 2 years ago
...parties) do NOT get elected or really paid by the US Gov't but by Lobbyists. All aspects of life considered to be "fundamental human rights" are provided by the gov't in US (when you call 911 the operator does not check if Rape is covered under your plan - "Socialism" & "Bad" OR good for you & your family). Right now garbage collection is "valued" more than basic health care for children. If everyone simply voted & protested for what is best for their families, instead of silly...
lunafran33 2 years ago
This is not complex; but it is very smart. This "summit" and all of the wild rhetoric form the right is intelligent, well designed sleight of hand. While we're all distracted and fired up arguing if this guy's racist or Obama's a socialist, they are lifting our wallets. It's a grift. Period. If a TRUE Public Option passes, the Insurance & Pharmaceutical Monopoly stands to lose billions of dollars - the US Government and its citizens would gain those billions - However, ALL politicians (both...
lunafran33 2 years ago
It's as if the village idiots have taken over the GOP.
tejaspics 2 years ago
His son was an idiot as Governor of Missouri!
snoopy64116 2 years ago
One of the most corrupt politicians of our era. You have to love a guy who stands in front of a Focus on the Family sign, yet has a well known affair with a tobacco lobbyist. That's family values!
ptownblazer 2 years ago
Come on liberals; gather round and make a big fuss out of nothing.
Is this the best you liberals have? Truly Pathetic.
Yereviltwin2 2 years ago
I'm half black and white, this was definitely a backhanded racial dig at Obama. This is a man who has stood up at White supremicist meetings and made speeches.
ojideagu 2 years ago
Theres no credible case for twisting the story into something racist. In fact, Roy Blunt told the same story in 2006 at the Heritage Foundation (ahem, before Barack Obama was president, ahem) in a little bit more detail, noting that playing the ball where the monkey throws it is not a bad rule for life, to understand that you have to do exactly that and you have to deal with the circumstances you find.
Horus515 2 years ago 2
satanrunspalin - So Blunt's story, about monkeys on a golf course in early 20th century India making playing by traditional rules difficult, is 100% exactly the same as the disgusting joke wrote - a joke that no doubt you're allowed to recite because you deem yourself part of the elite intelligentsia that understands so much more than common slobs like me. Where'd you hear it - from liberal acolyte Harry Byrd, a former KKK leader that gets a free pass from the same folks raging about Blunt?
mwcric 2 years ago
Republican politicians have values alright. Like being paid off by corporate lobbies, opposing gay rights, thinking women are out of the home too much, accusing minorities of getting "special privileges" and cheating on their wives.
A86 2 years ago
These are the same republican mucus stains bitches that got mad for the "Lipstick on a pig" comment. You can't have it both ways repub mucus jizz eaters. Fuck off racist
cfcfan1 2 years ago 4
@cfcfan1
Just keep in mind the only truth you can count on besides Death and Taxes...Republicans only tell lies. LOL!
WELTSORF 7 months ago
cheekylady doesn't have a clue. Pretty funny.
tejaspics 2 years ago
Using monkey to describe something a black person is involve with is racist.
This same republican dog would not make a jewish joke about the holocast if the pres was jewish. let say if he says washington politics is like walking to the gas chamber you see it coming but you can't avoid it. This republican swine dog would be booed out of congress. Repubs are racist dog no i should not say dog dog are way more honorable and loyal the are snort, mucus, puss, an abscess of hate and ignorance.
cfcfan1 2 years ago 2
Hey TeaBaggers- Did you know the US Constitution a document which you guys think is so great had a provision making blacks 3/5ths human?
White people can falsely pretend there is no ugly history of racism, but for us whites who will admit there was we know you are lying. And if you are afraid to admit it then you are a racist with silent hatred.
If a joke is funny I will laugh at it. If a joke is intended to suppress I will crush it. White Republicans are lying selfish bastards.
satanrunspalin 2 years ago
@satanrunspalin If the 3/5 rule hadn't been instituted to prevent southern states from getting more representatives.... Slavery would of had a bigger voice in congress. It was not meant to demean slaves who couldn't vote but to restrict the influence of slave states in congress.
Facts are tricky things but I suspect you will not let them influence your ignorance.
antoinepuliviski 7 months ago
@satanrunspalin P.S. Republican party started to end slavery. Idiot. Lincoln first republican President.
antoinepuliviski 7 months ago
Not any mention of primates is racist.
But saying "In Washington you have to play the ball wherever the monkey throws it"(2:46) is. His enunciatiation of "eliminate the monkey problem" (2:24) is. His closing reminder that "you know the world is turned upside down when..." and "that's when you know things have changed in ways that you've never anticipated" is.
This man is a disgrace. He is running for the US Senate in MIssouri in 2010. Support his opponent.
trm7891 2 years ago
blockygraphics - See, if Blunt said what YOU said, then I guess I'd be smart enough to see how he's racist. And by the way, call me cynical, but I'd be willing to wager based on your puerile tirade that you're actually a leftist hiding behind anonymity to continue to stoke the flames of passion (as opposed to analysis) in this forum.
mwcric 2 years ago
wistfulwitness - so every human being in that room was a racist, kowtowing to their grand wizard Roy Blunt? I guess I am too pure, because I didn't associate a story about primates in a nation where very few blacks live as a racist condemnation of our president. I just don't get the connection. I thought he was making more of an observation about how rules are different in DC thanks to special interests and unethical politics - from all parties. And the only names he dropped were white men.
mwcric 2 years ago
Hey mwcric- Here is a joke: "what do you call two black cops on motorcycles? Chocolate Chips".
Is that racist? I think only if hate were behind it. Otherwise, it is kind of cute.
But when a public figure uses a parable about monkeys changing the rules and people having to deal with it the subtext is clearly a racist allegory.
MWCRIC-what's the difference between a porch monkey and a yard monkey? The length of the chain. I know you won't find it funny cause you'll pretend you don't understand.
satanrunspalin 2 years ago
brucewilson - My "YOU ALL" comment was referring to all individuals in this thread that automatically draw negative conclusions when words like "monkey" are used, regardless of the context - particularly when used by someone with a different political viewpoint. Talk about stereotyping and passing judgement based on race: "Gee Blunt is a white male Republican and he told a story that used the word monkey, ergo he is a racist!" What's really funny is how I don't hear any dems EVER condemn Byrd.
mwcric 2 years ago
To lunafran33,
I understand what you're saying; however, are you implying that any mention of primates at all, in any context by anyone at any time, is a clarion call of racism? So Curious George is racist? Are the Phoenix Suns a racist organization because they have a gorilla mascot? Is the auto care franchise Grease Monkey a racist franchise simply due to their name? I have a collection of Chinese and Taiwanese mechanical cymbal-playing monkeys - so am I racist, along with the Chinese?
mwcric 2 years ago
Funny how all these GOP types don't get it. It's not okay to be racist.
tejaspics 2 years ago
Why do liberals always try to play the race card? Is that all you got? He was telling a funny story that actually happened with actual monkeys in near the jungle! Not "hypothetical" monkeys which he meant to be black people! What a lame attempt to stir people up! Get a life!
cheekylady27 2 years ago
Why do White people like you accuse Black people of "playing the race card" every time we even mention race? Has it ever occured to you that people of color experience life differently than you? Please don't dismiss my truths. It must be nice over there in White privilege land.
djcateyez 2 years ago
djcateyez, you ask 'Why do White people accuse Black people of "playing the race card" every time we even mention race? Has it ever occured to you that people of color experience life differently than you?'
The answer to that is, nobody accuses anyone of playing the race card for simply mentioning race. But when racist motives are READ INTO the most inocuous statements, that is definitely playing the race card and it is in fact indicative of either racism or race-baiting.
PrincessSushiTushi 2 years ago 2
You said it!
Liberal morons read racism INTO conservative statements; meaning there was NO RACISM in the statement but that didn't stop the liberal morons from reading it into the statement.
TedinLasVegas 2 years ago
And that's the problem. Just because you don't find it offensive does not mean that someone else doesn't. America has a history with relating African Americans with monkies and the Republican party has a recent history of racism. Stop dismissing the truths of non-White people just because they don't line up with your lilly White racism-free life. It is the real life experience of many Americans should be able to be addressed without being accused of race-baiting.
djcateyez 2 years ago
djcateyez says, "stop dismissing the truths of non-White people," but truth is the same truth for everyone; there is not one truth for whites and another truth for non-whites. He says "Americans should be able to be addressed without being accused of race-baiting." To that I say, then they should stop race-baiting! People perceiving insult where none is intended are at least as much, if not more of a problem than people who deliberately intend insult. "Let love be without hypocrisy." Romans 12:9
yorokobinootozure 2 years ago
wow. you're ignorant... You just don't get it. smdh
djcateyez 2 years ago
what is so sad about liberals is they cant take a joke without making it racial. Worse than that , that the blacks are being played for votes. I bet is was a WHITE liberal who first tried to stir the pot by citing this harmless joke as a racial joke. That same liberal as a child likely said the "catch a jigger by the toe" thing ( starte eenie meenie miney moe) but that ISNT racial! They call it hyposcrisy folks...
compassionrepublican 2 years ago
"Values"??? Sounds like subtle racist bullshit to me.
tejaspics 2 years ago 3
oh yes, and because hes from missouri he has hanged blacks too right libby?
You folks should look in the mirror for your racism. Thats where it really is.
compassionrepublican 2 years ago
WOW!! Really? Monkeys?
SugarShandy 2 years ago
please tell me that Mr. Blunt regrets his remarks. That now he realizes that what he said SOUNDS VERY RACIST. PLEASE, this is so wrong and backward. FIX IT.
BNSF9250 2 years ago
not killed... just removed from office.
MrAlQ 2 years ago
"Values" = KKK = GOP
tejaspics 2 years ago 2
funny joke given the guy looks like a monkey himself.
A representative of the lunatic evangelical xtian right in action.
qwertywxyz 2 years ago 3
Bolla de pendejos! Thats exactly the way they want you you gringo vavosos! fighting with each other while your gold & silver is taken by the world bankers and America becomes a 3rd. world bunch of pendejos!
1chichimec1 2 years ago
Well getting an education would be nice.
Try graduating from high school. Then move on to getting a college degree or two (assuming there's a college somewhere that'll accept you). That's the problem with konservatives and Rethugnicans... they're all as dumb as rocks.
IamaKinsey06 2 years ago
LOLOL you dumb jackass. I live in Joplin, MO. Blunt has an office just down Range Line in the mall. So that means YOU LIE.
Typical ignorant uneducated moronic loudmouth Repugnican slimeballs... you're all the same. Pathetic.
IamaKinsey06 2 years ago 4
This man is a disgrace. A disgrace to the country, the United States Congress and the Republican party.
He is running for the Senate in Missouri in 2010. His opponent is named Robin Carnahan. Do what is right by doing what you can to contribute to his defeat.
trm7891 2 years ago 3
mwcric: Again, I am without any affiliation; I am an independent voter. But I think you are on to something with your "profit" comment. That is exactly how you should vote - with your wallet, and unless you actually own your own private jet, you have no business voting republican. Unless you are among the richest 3%, you have been duped into voting for meaningless words (religion, conservatism, values) - you would have owned a lot of snake-oil last century, at least your puppeteers own real oil.
lunafran33 2 years ago 2
Even if you own your own private jet are in the richest 3%, that's still no reason to vote for a Repugnican. All Repugnicans are immoral despicable evil lying slimeballs who only answer to their corporate K Street masters. There's simply no excuse voting for one of these wackos unless you're clinically insane.
IamaKinsey06 2 years ago 2
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mwcric: As you requested that someone without an agenda or grudge against the republicans to explain this to you, I thought I'd just point you in the right direction. Assuming you are being honest about not understanding, simply research the history of imagery, vocabulary, and even 19th century text books concerning African Americans. The monkey is the archetypal image for racism against this group -- it's the prototype. But, as you are old enough to know? some spelling, you already know that.
lunafran33 2 years ago
This disgusting bigot happens to be my Congressman, and I think he is a despicable scumbag, a vile piece of shit, a sickening hatemonger, and a wretched embarrassment. He seriously makes me want to VOMIT!!!!!!
IamaKinsey06 2 years ago
What exactly is racist about this video? Seriously, can someone without an agenda or a grudge against Republicans please explain to me where ANYTHING even closely resembling racism exists in this?!? Sounds to me like the ones crying racism are the real hatemongers here; after all, it's YOU ALL that have drawn the conclusion that references to primates must be a veiled reference to minorities. You need to ask yourselves why that would be your first reaction. Because you profit from it, perhaps?
mwcric 2 years ago
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lunafran33 2 years ago
"it's YOU ALL" - I think there are a number of individuals commenting in this discussion thread: not a collective.
bruceewilson 2 years ago
>What exactly is racist about this video?
If you're so pure that you can't see that Blunt is alluding to Obama as a monkey here, then try this:
Google "obama monkey"
Pretty sickening, but it'll keep you busy all day checking it out. And then, please, adjust your perspective. We're not imagining this; those people were laughing because they knew he meant Obama.
wistfulwitness 2 years ago 3
This pretty much sums up the problem that the Republican Party has right now. About half the party is overrun by ignorant neo-Klansmen. Hard for them to clean house when half (or more) of their heavy-hitters are scumbags. Are there bad Democrats out there? Of course! But nowhere near what the RNC is facing. The racism we're seeing now--in 2009--is unreal.
angryseraph 2 years ago
Why should anyone be supprised. A bigoted story from a hypocrite SUPRISE!!
This is why evry time one of these state ask if I would be intersted in relocating my business to their state I kindly reply...
"I have brown skin and I will not subject my family nor my employees to jumans with class 9 intelligence, Thank You for your interest" CLICK!!
m530bc 2 years ago
obama is a monkey
merrimac291 2 years ago
in a perfect world this asshole would be hanging from a lamppost.
LLORT3 2 years ago 3
Lol. A monkey joke from an anti-gay Republican who is affiliated with the Council of Conservative Citizens, an openly White Supremacist organization.
Totally not racist. (sarcasm)
A86 2 years ago 3
god damn what a racist red neck
jaguarsrock8 2 years ago 4
Republicans & Conservatives NOTE:
1980's--Americans heard your text
21st Century-Americans hear your text AND your subtext
RNC=Treason in Real Time
sstrothe 2 years ago 3
Oh. My. God. What a pig. What a tasteless, smug, ... words really fail me.
I can't believe Peggy Noonan was sniffing about the "boorishness" of Obama doing a lot of TV interviews over the weekend, at the same time that this George Wallace wannabe was entertaining the "Values"(?!?) crowd. The Republican party just has no idea how ridiculous and repellent they look from the outside.
wistfulwitness 2 years ago 4
I know guys like Roy Blunt and they're all over Missouri, or Missourah, they look around before they use the "n" word, they have a low opinion of women, and they're total jerks. They're usually serial adulterers and drunks. Roy Blunt married a tobacco lobbyist and his son was a complete loser who messed this state up big time. I hope they keep going further and further right. Please...most Americans will reject you.
tikidevil 2 years ago 4
You don't sound especially liberal to me.
bruceewilson 2 years ago
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bocomo88 2 years ago
Oh god, you libs are so sensitve. It was only a joke. Get over yourselves...
Palin/Jeb Bush 2012!!
teagarden8650 2 years ago
calculated affront
see...we`re the calculated too, unless we know how to handle this. indymedia at least, collects the data so that certain ppl stay known for their actions, whereas newspapers and other media tend to only reflect on current issues. would be usefull to fence those folks in where they are and to mark stuff, that when it goes out to the world in their name it can be categorized. europeans do that with berlusconi, so you know what ya have with him.
Realizalize 2 years ago
And like the British who acted like Satanic racist pigs, the GOP of this tinge also act and contend as if they are the Satanic racist pigs.
Nejiboud 2 years ago
The same man making the same joke in 2006 long before Obama was elected President. Your ignorance continues to show every day especially with charges of racism over a rehashed joke. Change your address up to v=n00agrjdfTk and then go to the 2:25 mark.
missrnc08 2 years ago
Many things have changed since November 2006. For one thing, commercial concerns have begun selling "Obama" dolls that resemble monkeys.
Are you arguing that Roy Blunt is unaware and hence simply stupid or incompetent ?
bruceewilson 2 years ago
Monkey as in "monkey see monkey do"? That's what it sounded like to me.. nothing racist here.. although the guy still might be a racist.. there was nothing racist in what he just said.. unless of course the monkeys he was referring to at the golf course were really black people. It didn't sound like it though.
stix42k 2 years ago
the more attention they get for that behavior, the more they'll engage in it.
racistsforobama 2 years ago
Blunt is a fag
scttscoodoo 2 years ago
Oh please, don't compliment that ft tub of ugliness. We don't want that conservative wacko on our team!
IamaKinsey06 2 years ago
Sad, but true -- Abe Lincoln wouldn't be welcomed in the party he helped found. The fact is: America is changing -- and these folks, God willing, are going to be left behind to choke on the dust of our forward progress.
tobermil 2 years ago 2
"values"? as in White Power!!!???
tejaspics 2 years ago
Star Parker spoke at FRC & she like me is black (see other video links). So, either he needs sensititivy training for those who are "hypersensitive" or its like what "stix42k" refered to...he meant "monkey see monkey do" or something else. Hey, stop using the 'race-card' because you dislike Republicans...its dishonering to my ancestors whom lived & died under real racism & discredits & takes ones attention off of authentic case that happen everywhere (black, white, Republican & Democrat).
Alicenotinchains 2 years ago
Alice > you've got to be joking.
You don't hear the racism the GOP is spouting? well, maybe it's too subtle for your ears. Sad.
tejaspics 2 years ago
Yes, sir!
Jimmie Carter knows his kkk people well.
The implication of this joke is that this mindless congressman is an idiot and A MONKEY himself, who does not realize that he's indicting himself as a politician in Washington; or, unlike the more overt kkk member, joe wilson, he is just another of the pained white supremacists, who is cowardly hiding under the hood of a racist joke
nirbija 2 years ago 2
Roy must need to raise some money. It's the "Wilson" effect. You need money? Say something racist and the KKK lines up to donate.
cointoast 2 years ago
Good conclusion. lol
nirbija 2 years ago
Just another Republican racist folks, move along now that you've seen it, there's plenty more on here.
Hey, what's the difference between a republican and a southern racist?
There isn't one!
cointoast 2 years ago 2
Jesus H Christ, has the enitre GOP turned into Hee Haw rejects?
timm1720 2 years ago
BLUNT = RACIST
cowboyneok 2 years ago
When idiot Blunt referred back to his Monkey Joke as a way to not be intimidated from making that "sort of remark," he busted himself and ensured EVERYONE would then realize the joke was absolutely MEANT to be racist and he shouldn't have to apologize!
cowboyneok 2 years ago 3
The quote of Roy concluding his remarks at the Value Voters Summit, where he tells the crowd not to be intimidated by accusations of racism, and then refers back to his monkey joke:
"Don't be intimidated out of this fight. President Carter said if you disagree with this president, it's somehow fundamentally racist in nature. That's not what this is about. And we can't be intimidated into believing that that's what this is about. You do have to play the ball where it's thrown in this case."
cowboyneok 2 years ago
Why is "Focus on the Family" so full of hypocrites? They are the ones who always get caught doing the really sick shit. For instance, not just getting caught cheating on their spouse, but getting caught cheating on the spouse while wearing dirty diapers, or a wide stance in public bathrooms! HYPOCRITES - ALL OF THEM!
cowboyneok 2 years ago
For once I wish Obama would try the GOP dogwhistle approach....
"I was eating lunch with Jerimiah Wright the other day and he said we need to rise up and smash these crackers! Otherwise you wind up with big chunks of Saltine in your chowder. and we both agreed that we need to stick it to Whitey! James Bulger has been on the run from the FBI for too long.
qwertycattle 2 years ago
I don't see the racism in this. I call my son a little monkey all the time because monkeys are cute, curious and always getting into trouble. Is curious george racist? Also, the men he compared to trouble making monkeys are WHITE.
kelisw 2 years ago
You may have missed over a century of racist attacks comparing African-Americans to monkeys. And the fact that the current US president is African-American.
bruceewilson 2 years ago
That was what I was alluding to earlier...
Zlibservacratican 2 years ago
>Is curious george racist?
Actually, I think the original book was definitely racist. But it was cute racism, and yup, monkeys are cute and curious ... and unable to properly think out the consequences of their actions or ever be in charge of anything. Reread the book and check out the subtext.
wistfulwitness 2 years ago
I dont get the joke? Sounds like a terrible golf course, it will probably go bankrupt and require a government bailout with kind of management.
GTS4tw 2 years ago
so much about british weak sauce, socialists .
Realizalize 2 years ago
Who/what are "british weak sauce, socialists" ?
bruceewilson 2 years ago
They are copying and pasting
eachother around the globe. For them , now is the time, for their nonreflecting, overthefence bad attitude to unleash and roam freely. Everything can be said and be done in such times when it is hard and when there is war. Berlusconi>USA>palin>Bavaria>austrian fascists>catholic poles>proFranco/ J.M.Aznar@Fox>Germ.Nazis>Hungarian Antigay>ProKölln anti-islamic>/G.Wildeers>to AtlasShrugged on Youtube> and round and round it goes......
Realizalize 2 years ago
You couldn`t possibly, with that backround
in "nationnamecalling" mention french nor british(think NHS), with sense, could you?
-pls expect more low of low neoconservative neo fascism.
Realizalize 2 years ago
Wow!... Just Wow! I'm just .....amazed...It's almost as if the republicans are actively trying to alienate every non white male in the country. Every time they bate a Sotomayor, or start a vendetta on a Van Jones, or , holey crap, start telling monkey jokes to a lilly white audience of rich stuffed shirts?! Do they even know what percentage of the population find this highly offensive? Keep it up, regressives! Leading the way back to the 1950's!
stealth63 2 years ago 3
Make no mistake, whites hate racism these days more than blacks in the USA.
Most whites want racism, and racists to go away...and the republicans will learn that the hard way next election cycle.
theastrusmega 2 years ago
Thank god 2008 election showed that the south is no longer needed to win elections. hopefully the voters of missouri have the disency to throw this guy out of office.
volt9999 2 years ago 5
this is terrible. wow. where is this country going?
HotDogChiliePepper 2 years ago 3
I don't get it. So who is the monkey? Obama, Franken or Delay?
saper321 2 years ago
Palin and the gop,
and RL or GB at times.
Realizalize 2 years ago
When Lyndon Johnson pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill though he said it meant his Democratic Party had "lost the South for a generation".
How insightful he was.
Democrats in the South switched to the Republican Party or were defeated by Republicans & came to dominate
But now we're seeing a new generation in the South where most don't have the old biases
Barack carried Fla & Virginia...next to fall will be Georgia & Texas (we may even elect a Dem Sen in Texas in the next couple of months).
DillonX 2 years ago 5
If he'd made the "monkey joke" on a golf course, no one would have a problem.
But to throw it out to this group whose primary purpose to be there is to bash Barack, indicates his racial insensitivity.
But just because Blunt is a racist doesn't mean all Republicans are racists. MOST OF THEM ARE NOT!
DillonX 2 years ago
At one time it was the Democrats who had most of the racists, but now it's the Republicans & is the reason their strength is centered now in the South.
DillonX 2 years ago
I'm from the South and as you can tell a conservative. But this doesn't mean I am inherently racist. I would argue that it is more of a cultural difference of family values and yes religion. But do I think the South is superior to any other part of the country? No. It's no different that liberals gravitating to the Northeast. We generally like to live amongst those with similar life expectancies. From my extensive travels throughout the US,
missrnc08 2 years ago
"missrnc08 "
Of course it's not "inherent", who said it was? Ever see "South Pacific"? They have to be "carefully taught". As for the rest of you comment, a not even subtle paraphrasing of "Separate but equal"; the same sort of bullshit happy talk used to justify segregation i.e. "they're more comfortable with their own kind". You're so bloody transparent it's pitiable, your racism so much a part of your whole outlook that you can spew filth and think you are imparting sweet reason. How ugly.
XavierNinnis 2 years ago
I would say other areas have achieved less racial progress than the South. We interact with people of different races on a daily basis and have this fear of "racism" ingrained in our minds from birth. I would challenge you to visit one day and perhaps you would see some of the most hospitable people in the country. Yes life is a little slower, but 99% of us would just like for the racism charges to die. There will always be the 1% of crazies on both the right and left
missrnc08 2 years ago
I've heard the phrase "poor choice of words", but monkeys in Washington?
pipermen22 2 years ago
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 won a higher percentage of Republican votes (about 4-to-1 in favor) than it did of Democrat votes (about 2-to-1 in favor). Al Gore's father, for example, was a Senator who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You need to learn as Republicans we don't want everyone on the wagon. We want every citizen to become a tax payer and help us pull the wagon together. I don't care what color you are.
missrnc08 2 years ago
@missrnc08,
You're leaving out the part where the Republican and Democratic parties generally switched places with regard to civil rights and race relations around '68, and the Republican party used the southern strategy in every election since then. Modern Republicans aren't progressives.
Regarding Limbaugh, I don't know whether you listen regularly, but while he is sometimes over-the-top for comedic provocation's sake, he's a very complex head case even in his more lucid moments.
h4KK 2 years ago 4
The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill was sponsored by US Congressman L.C. Dyer, Republican of Missouri, in 1922. It was passed by the House of Representatives, majority Republican at the time. It was supported by President Warren G. Harding, Republican, as well as the NAACP. But it was defeated in the Senate by a filibuster from Democrats.
missrnc08 2 years ago
You are ridiculous, do the words "We have lost the South for a generation" ring a bell with you? If you're not simply being disingenuous, then you're laughably ignorant of very basic U.S. history. Are you truly so stupid as to think that the positions held by political parties are unchanged since 1865, let alone 1922? Here, a couple of clues, "Radical Republicans from the North East " and "an embittered South". Read some history, then come back when you have some idea what you're talking about.
XavierNinnis 2 years ago
You liberals have gone off the deep end now, resorting to charges of racism any time someone opens there mouth. Let me ask you about your double standard: Why no charges of racism when Obama sat in Rev Wright's pew for 20 years? What about Obama calling his grandmother a "typical white person?" What about calling the people of Pennsylvania "bitter" and "clinging to guns and religion?" The public is seeing you don't hold yourself to the same standard you project on others!
missrnc08 2 years ago
@missrnc08,
There were around 15 years of recorded sermons from Wright's church. Fox news harped on less than 30 seconds of CONTEXT-FREE footage because they had to - his sermons, especially when viewed with context, are great.
Wright is good and his comments, while controversial out of context, are sensible and sobering when presented in context. The rest of that post is you grasping at some year-old straws. I don't even like Obama much, it's just fun to knock down republican talking points.
h4KK 2 years ago
If this is justification of Wright's sermons then let's apply the same standard to Rush Limbaugh or most of the conservative talkers. These site's take clips of Limbaugh and play them not even in context. And 90% of the people who watch these clips don't even understand the satirical tone behind Rush's show.
missrnc08 2 years ago
That reference to golf balls (whites) being thrown around by monkeys(blacks...right?) should be enough to enrage all white people about how they are being racially mistreated.
66605 2 years ago
What a douchebag. Yeah, he represents the values we should aspire to. Republicans and their great morals and values, gagg
kerasea 2 years ago
Whenever I hear republicans talk about "values" it makes me want to throw up.
MrGovtCheese 2 years ago 2
I agree that in general, people are too quick to jump on anyone who says "monkey" around black issues. Invoking monkeys can help build quick, simple, accessible metaphors and similes.
There is however a rich history of the terms "yard ape" and "porch monkey" and "jungle bunny" being used by racist conservatives. Everybody in politics knows better than to putz around with those terms. He has to play dumb to deny that this was racially tinged, and he really isn't doing himself any favors.
h4KK 2 years ago 2
yah, the audience got the racial inference. You could hear some of them groan when he made the "joke" but that is who the GOP is appealing to today. People upset at change. all Change. Especially the idea of a black man as president.
copcorona 2 years ago 2
Why is it that whenever someone says monkey, people assume they are talking about blacks?
I think that is the bigger problem here rather than this man's joke.
Though he should be smart enough to know how it would be received, which is why it very well could have been racial.
HKBM45 2 years ago
@HKBM45,
Republican politicians use dog whistles and abstractions constantly.
Lee Atwater said:
You start out in 1954 by saying, Nigger, nigger, nigger. By 1968 you can't say nigger—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
h4KK 2 years ago
Followup/clarification to dog whistle point:
"Traditional Values" = wrong side of history
"Strong Foreign Policy" = no negotiations, support right-wing dictators
"Illegal Alien" = build Mexican fence, deport them
"Unlawful Enemy Combatant" = SUSPECTS detained and stripped of rights
"Welfare Queens" = poor blacks
"States Rights" (only when states favor republican views on civil rights, environment, etc)
"Intelligent Design" = creationism
"BIG GOVERNMENT" = corporate welfare is great
h4KK 2 years ago
Oh it's not about raciam tho. What a pig.
divinemsjudy 2 years ago
As a Missourian, I'm embaressed of this man
Fareslols 2 years ago 2
Yes, Blunt is a racist.
But does that mean EVERY Republican is a racist?
OF COURSE NOT!
DillonX 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Pretty darn close to ALL.
divinemsjudy 2 years ago
I think this was extremely funny. Only a radical left-wing nutjob would turn this into a race issue.
JimboVids 2 years ago
All zoos must kill their primates and hence forth, the words money, ape, chimp, and baboon are forbidden while we have our half-black prezident in the White House.
LiberalHuntingSeason 2 years ago
If you see racism in this joke, YOU are the racist.
sappyjohnson 2 years ago
He made a monkey joke. Monkey = Nigger, you know, because they look the same, get it?
He made a nigger joke during a time that we have a half-nigger king.
He's making monkey nigger jokes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CALL CNN, KEITH, and TYT!
LiberalHuntingSeason 2 years ago
This probably isn't intentionally racist, but it's a pretty clear example of who clueless these folks are to not understand context.
idlefritz 2 years ago