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Hanged Raccoon May Symbolize… Barack Obama!

Now we know you left-wing liberals will pretend to be shocked by this image of a hanged raccoon in western New York, but c’mon, this is one hot ticket! The sign says, as best we can read it, “VOTE NO BLACK DC’S,” meaning, “Do not elect octoroon Bob Barr to the D.C. City Council.” Good advice! Oh and because we are Fair & Balanced, here is an unwatchable video of some Britons blowing up a Sarah Palin effigy. [YouTube]


4:46 PM on Sun November 2 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. What the hell does that sign mean…?

  2. smellyal8r says at 4:52 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Tsk tsk. There are much better ways to protest the manufacture of coonskin caps like Davy Crockett (DC) used to wear. I agree, fur is murder.

  3. slappypaddy says at 4:52 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    That ‘coon died for our sins.

  4. Speechless. This must be “real America.”

  5. user-of-owls says at 4:53 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Goddamn raccoon had it coming for stealing all my yard signs.

  6. BillyClubb says at 4:54 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Wha?! A Confederate flag (a.k.a. the Stars & Bars) in western New York? Somehow I doubt if a resident of New York state would plant that flag…

  7. user-of-owls says at 4:54 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Wait to this poor rube finds out New York was actually in the Union.

  8. Why do Democrats keep injecting race into this election?

  9. Why do Democrats keep injecting race into the election?

  10. 4tehlulz says at 4:55 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    “VOTE NO BLACK DC’S”

    Someone has never been to DC.

  11. user-of-owls says at 4:56 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    smellyal8r: Davy Crockett was black? And they still let him in the Alamo?

  12. JimNewell says at 4:56 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb: Ha ha… don’t you know that *every* state has unconscionably racist regions?

  13. ladymacbeth says at 4:57 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    not shocked, nauseated.

  14. Wow. You know, I was on the fence this whole time but now…
    after seeing a flagrant display of animal cruelty and a bunch of gibberish that is supposed to be a campaign slogan.
    Yeah, I’m definitely voting for McCain.
    Did this convince anyone else?
    I mean, really?
    Someone should carve a backwards ‘B’ on the racoon’s carcass just so we know that people really aren’t this retarded.
    Are they?

  15. 4tehlulz says at 4:58 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb: I blame The Dukes of Hazzard.

  16. WTF, this is in New York state? How did the bitters get here, so far from their homeland? They must have sleeper cells who have been breeding little bitters all these years and will finally take to the streets en masse to carry out an orgy of violence after BHO wins.

    Quick, liberals, man the ramparts of Westchester county! We cannot let them reach the lower Hudson!

  17. smellyal8r says at 4:59 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    user-of-owls: I don’t think we should inject race into the Battle of the Alamo.

    Nice yard sign comment, btw.

  18. SayItWithWookies says at 4:59 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    So after their ancestors lost the Civil War, they decided to move north and exact their revenge? If you poor bastards had stayed in the South, Lincoln’s Reconstruction woulda taught you to read, and you wouldn’t be so damn ignorant.

  19. StrangelyBrown says at 5:00 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    4tehlulz: Or the Duke University lacrosse team.

  20. user-of-owls says at 5:01 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    smellyal8r: Damn. There goes my beaner joke.

  21. smellyal8r says at 5:02 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jagorev: Well, Mrs. C does represent NY, so I don’t think those cells are so “sleepy”.

  22. Lazy Media says at 5:07 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb: That’s not the Stars and Bars, that’s the Confederate battle flag. The Stars and Bars is the current state flag of Georgia, minus the state seal in the middle of the blue union.

  23. Buffy and Hildegard says at 5:07 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Is it me or is that sign written in internet speak?

  24. To be fair, it’s probably less than 200 mi from western New York to West Virginia. It’s possible that Cletus and Scout pulled this off in the middle of a tri-state crystal meth-induced raccoon-killin spree.

  25. Darehead says at 5:12 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Doc let Barocky the Racoon down
    And Baroocky said, Doc its only a scratch
    And I’ll be better, I’ll be better doc as soon as I am able…
    So one day he walked back into that redneck NY town
    Booked himself a room in the local saloon….

  26. Lazy Media: I just checked Wikipedia, and holy crap, Georgia’s state flag featured the Confederate battle flag until 2001? Sherman clearly didn’t go far enough.

  27. Viva la Cynthia says at 5:14 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    So, I moved from Reddest Texas to Bluest New York, and I still have to put up with these fuckers and their confederate flags. In the south, they can pretend it means southern pride, but when I see confederate flags on pick-up trucks with New York license plates, there’s really no phony excuse for what that could symbolize.

  28. itgetter says at 5:15 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    As a resident of central NY state, I can tell you that you don’t need to go that far west to see something like this. In my town we had a charming Halloween display that included an Obama scarecrow being chased by the KKK.

  29. Lemming Caution says at 5:15 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jagorev: Keep telling yourself that, but New England has some of the most racist shit I’ve seen this side of Alabama. Jim is right - every region manages to sprout up its share of neo-confederates.

  30. HedonismBot says at 5:15 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Hard to be snarkful. That’s just disgusting.

  31. DangerousLiberal says at 5:15 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Western NY? Christ, when I lived in Albany county (southern Albany County, he he) I only had to go around the corner to see this sort of shit. The poem in honor of Dale Sr. was in the Getty station. Just like Georgia, with more snow.

  32. Viva la Cynthia says at 5:15 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb: I have seen them with mine own eyes in central NY. I can’t explain it, but they exist. To be fair, it is southern NY where I see them, but still…

  33. OzoneTom says at 5:16 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Gotta give ‘em credit for using the Confederate Battle Flag instead of the naval flag that most rednecks deploy to illustrate their ignorance.

    I don’t approve killing the raccoon though, as nasty as those animals might be (they maimed/killed a couple of my ducks a while back).

  34. nmmagayar says at 5:17 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Is “DC” supposed to mean “Democratic Congressmen”

  35. smellyal8r says at 5:18 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jagorev: Meddling with the state flag cost a perfectly good D governor, Roy Barnes, re-election. Sherman should have annexed it onto Florida.

  36. HuskyMescan says at 5:22 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Viva la Cynthia: No worries. Inbreeding prevention reform is on top of Barry’s presidential agenda.
    Testicular shock treatment is the best rehab for racists of that caliber who hang effigies.

  37. Panderfinder says at 5:22 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    ummm….I am FROM Western NY, and know of at least one mouth-breathing
    idiot who would get her ex-con husband to hang a squirrel and do something
    this stupid. But there are very few confederate flags around that part of
    the world, and the message is incoherent but not ungrammatical, so it
    can’t be them.

    please get here soon, Wednesday. it will be very nice to contact
    one’s former friends, the no-longer-in-the-closet racists, to say
    hello and ask how they are doing.

  38. Viva la Cynthia says at 5:22 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jagorev: There’s plenty o’ meth in upstate New York, so they wouldn’t have had to travel from out of state for this.

  39. Viva la Cynthia says at 5:23 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Viva la Cynthia: Um, southern central NY that was supposed to be.

  40. HedonismBot says at 5:23 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    And McPalin and PaCain are shocked, SHOCKED to learn some of their supporters are racist against that thar colored boy what be runnin’ agin em.

  41. Viva la Cynthia says at 5:24 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    nmmagayar: So, he’s telling black Democratic Congressmen to vote no? Vote no on what? This sign lacks the specificity I prefer in redneck communication.

  42. DoctorCulturae says at 5:25 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Peoples, peoples… teh racists am everwhere!

    I guess Pat Buchanan giggles at this too?

  43. DharmaDim says at 5:25 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    As another resident of upstate New York, I can vouch that this picture isn’t just a weird enclave. Drive fifteen or twenty minutes outside of Ithaca, down a dirt road or two, and Dueling Banjos rises in your subconscious as background music.

  44. Lazy Media says at 5:26 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jagorev: Yeah, and they changed it to something just godawful, which got the kickass Dem governor beat (he also pissed off the teachers) and now we have the original Confederate national flag, which doesn’t bother anybody, brought to us by that pinhead Sonny Perdue. Yay!

  45. OzoneTom says at 5:27 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    DangerousLiberal: I agree about their presence in nominally non-Federal states. I have lived in North Idaho for 14 years, but have run across many, many more bigoted racist white-supremicist-types in places like Ohio and Michigan I have visited for short times in recent years.

  46. DangerousLiberal: Snarking about neo-Confederates is well and good, but you do not dishonor the memory of Dale Sr! 02/18/01 NEVAR FORGET

  47. Lazy Media says at 5:29 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Now, let’, stop jumping to conclusions about these fine sons of the soil. The sign clear states “Vote black; no DC’s (dead coons).” That raccoon obviously died from an automobile collision, and they’re encouraging people to vote for Obama to preserve its habitat.

  48. smellyal8r says at 5:30 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Panderfinder: I am hoping to make some of those calls m’self on Wednesday. I’m a pretty progressive liberal homo and I’m stunned by the number of “friends” who are as racist as they are. I guess I’m most surprised as to why they are friends with me, if this is the way they really feel.

  49. Lazy Media: Yeah, I’m as liberal as they come, but that intermediate 2001-2003 flag looks like it was dreamed up by a committee consisting exclusively of left-wing college professors, Teamsters, Nancy Pelosi, and assorted metrosexuals. They might as well have added a hammer and sickle to it (to stand for the “future” section of the “Georgia’s history” tableau) while they were at it.

  50. smellyal8r says at 5:31 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Lazy Media: LOLZ

  51. Dr. Zoidberg says at 5:32 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    No snark…poor raccoon.

    Goddamn, I hate people.

  52. President Beeblebrox says at 5:32 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb: Rural New York State is a lot more hickish than one might think. It’s real New York, so to speak.

  53. Texan Bulldoggette says at 5:32 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Frankly I can’t believe these redneck bitters let that healthy-sized raccoon go uneaten. People who do this vile crap probably make moonshine in the bathtub & process fresh road kill off the hwy.

  54. DoctorCulturae says at 5:33 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    smellyal8r: Having long ago left the Hateland of America, those kinds of people are no longer “friends,” they are folk I used to know, i.e. “acquaintances.”

  55. Viva la Cynthia says at 5:35 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Lazy Media: AAaAaaaooooooooohhhhhhh, ok. That actually makes a lot more sense than pretty much any other explanation that could exist. Thanks for the clarification :)

  56. DoctorCulturae says at 5:35 pm, November 2nd, 2008
  57. Viva la Cynthia says at 5:35 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Texan Bulldoggette: Nah, when you’re cooking as much meth as they do, you don’t need food, road-killed or otherwise.

  58. smellyal8r says at 5:40 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jagorev: Well, true. The replacement flag was an abomination to God’s holy writ, but that’s what happens when you turn it over to a committee. The Simpsons had an episode where the kids wound up creating a new state flag (Live to Fart) that kinda summed up the Georgia process.

  59. Custerwolf says at 5:41 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Oh….NOW I get it.
    Good ole western New York. Where the local murders all go unsolved because the DNA is all the same and no one has any dental records.

  60. napalmnacey says at 5:42 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    It’s the Montauk Monster! (Going to go watch a Disney film or something now, just to wash away the “WAH!”)

  61. HuskyMescan says at 5:44 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Perfectly good kippered coon jerky gone to waste.

  62. travellabyrinth says at 5:44 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    itgetter: What town in CNY? Deerfield? Schenectedy?

  63. Looks like some Yankees getting in touch w/ their inner dumbasses…

  64. DangerousLiberal says at 5:47 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb: You ain’t from around those parts, are you? There’s two parts of NYS: metro NYC, and PennsylNYtucky.

  65. DangerousLiberal says at 5:48 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    user-of-owls: I hear that William Seward is spinning so rapidly in his own grave that he is generating enough power to light every house in Syracuse.

  66. Toomush Infermashun says at 5:50 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Texas Bulldoggette: They’re just tenderizing it….

  67. nmmagayar says at 5:54 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    that’s some scary shit

  68. Custerwolf says at 5:54 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Personally, I can’t resist a well-hung coon.

  69. OMFG you mean i am not the only person in the world that knows bob barr is black?!?!?!?!?!?!

  70. You coon-hound you!

  71. Raccoons are just possums with better publicity.

    And possums are just giant rats with hairless faces.

    And giant rats are just Young Republicans with opposable thumbs.

    So what’s the big deal with hanging a few?

    (Gesh. You people are sooooo sensitive.)

  72. PuffAdder says at 6:14 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb:

    Oh, ye of little faith. A close friend is from that part of the world, and in his words it’s full of “inbred racist losers who fuck their sisters.”

  73. Also, a 20 lb. raccoon can go through a 25 lb. bag of Purina Cat Chow in one sitting.

    The thieving little bastards.

    I say: Any raccoon who is voting for Obama gets no Cat Chow. Shirley Nagel and I are on the same page when it comes to that one.

  74. TexasCowGirl says at 6:15 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    President Beeblebrox: Well those terrorists sure were dumb flying those planes into fake New York.

    And I take it that these are not the fabeled Rednecks for Obama?

  75. liquiddaddy says at 6:15 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    If they start hanging unicorn plush toys, they’re dealing with me!

  76. user-of-owls says at 6:25 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Neilist: Not to mention the yard signs. Oh, wait.

  77. Keep it coming, my friends. Nothing better than to show your true colors to the world. It’s been lots of fun having the Republican Party around. I’m gonna miss it after its scheduled demise on Tuesday.

  78. voyetra8 says at 6:34 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Silly wonketteers. It’s an anagram for “Bad cock solvent.”

    Do I need to solve every internet mystery for you all?

  79. Custerwolf: I “laughed out loud” and then hated myself for it.

    Usually I’m comfortable enough with my lack of racism that I can laugh at racist jokes without guilt, but this election has changed that. It’s different now that I realize how many people take jokes like that seriously and want to assassinate the guy I just voted for. No snark here, just sadness.

  80. ronaldpagan says at 6:37 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    The guy who put up this little shrine to Real America will hang himself next to the raccoon on Tuesday night.

  81. I live smack in the middle of this shit. That picture could’ve been taken just down the street. Our only blessing is their mortality. Drunk + genetically stupid = short lifespan.

  82. DoctorCulturae says at 6:39 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Robobot: As Cornel West said the other night: These are signs of desperation for failed ideas and policies.

  83. Oh those wry, ironic New Yorkers with their delicious irreverence and witty take on current affairs!

  84. Custerwolf says at 6:42 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    PuffAdder: Sorry - but even here in the blue state of WA we have no dearth of sister-fucking, negro hating, fag pummeling, evolution-denyiing, jesus-freakin troglodytes. And they’re the fastest at replicating their ignorant genes. Where the fuck is Nature going with this practical joke?

  85. Beer4Prez says at 6:43 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Servo: True. However, Drunk + genetically stupid = more likely to procreate a half dozen times with that short lifespan

  86. War Eagle says at 6:45 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    I find this appalling for two reasons:
    1) Yankees flying the Confederate battle flag (do you ever see me flying the Maple Leaf or whatever they fly in Western New York?)
    2) Wasted food!

    I’m sure if I stopped and thought about it, I’d come up with several more.

  87. lampadadog says at 6:45 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Are we sure that’s a raccoon?

  88. SayItWithWookies says at 6:49 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    ronaldpagan: I hope someone films it, ’cause it’ll be pretty funny watching him try to find a stick strong enough to hang his sorry ass from.

    And good to see you around, by the way!

  89. why does my brain keep wanting this to be an LOL cat joke? Stupid brain.

  90. glamourdammerung says at 6:52 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Another reason I wish Sherman had been allowed to finish the good work.

  91. StephanieInCA says at 6:52 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    I hit a raccoon with my car once. In Indiana. It was eating another dead raccoon off the road, though, so I don’t feel especially bad about it.

  92. Mull_Man says at 6:56 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Hey - isn’t that CONfederate flag upsidedown?

  93. War Eagle says at 6:59 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    We call those “Republican pinatas.”

  94. godforbidowright says at 7:06 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Yeah…. We Brits arent as crazy as that video looks.
    Its Guy Fawkes Night in the UK in a day or two, which is otherwise known as Bonfire Night. People burn figures of “Guy Fawkes” on bonfires, because he was a muslim terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament 400 years ago or something. Anyway, it’s become a great excuse to burn stuff on a wooden piles, set off lots of fireworks n’ get drunk ever since!
    Guy Fawkes might of been a communist or something, but Sarah Palin is just as fun as an effigy, I mean, why not?

  95. Custerwolf says at 7:08 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Robobot: That makes me sit back in my chair a bit.
    I come from a multi-racial extended family - with a mix of African American, Korean, Indian (dot, not feathers), Italian, Irish (mostly drunken) -and some Hispanic thrown in via marriage, and as an adult I find it difficult to grasp that people are in fact actually racist. I always MUCH preferred animals to people, so I never considered it worth the bother of seperating them into differing factions. To me this election is both inspiring and depressing in its implications and I am afraid for Obama (literally), truth be told. I live in the hills, so I guess if everything goes to shit, I’ll just hunker down with my hounds and my side-by-side (and my happy raccoons)and wait it out.

  96. Scandalabra says at 7:10 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Now this Joe the Plumber asshole is on teevee questioning Barack’s “loyalty to America”. Who made this brainless fraud an authority on anything? John McCain. Joe the P/Sarah the P: poster children for the Republican War on Intelligence!

    Sorry, I guess I got a little testy.

  97. fuckinredneck says at 7:11 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    RANGER RICK NOOOOOOOOO

  98. 4tehlulz says at 7:13 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Scandalabra: It’s good to know that Joe the Fucktard is trying to nail down that skinhead demo for McCain.

  99. godforbidowright says at 7:14 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Custerwolf: Maybe that’s one thing which is really interesting about this election, all of America has to face the prospect of a black guy taking the highest office in the land, an any racism which is still lingering is sure to be seen now if ever. SO LONG AS THE NUTTERS DONT ACTUALLY KILL HIM - then hopefully it will be a good thing…. hopefully!

  100. Robobot: Robot, I’m with you 100%. This election has made me take hard-core racism much more seriously then I ever did. “Jokes” about the KKK, lynchings and assassination really aren’t funny, and they are all too common in our country.

  101. Scandalabra says at 7:17 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    As for Bitters in NY state: I have a shack in the Hudson Valley, just two hours north or the Big Apple–hours from Western NY–and there are enough McCain/Palin, Country First signs adorning the yards of my area to make your meds wear off by midday. Also lots of blank stares at Obama buttons by supermarket clerks. Hillary may be our Senator, but there are many rednecks in this state.

  102. Custerwolf says at 7:19 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Scandalabra: After Obama wins Joe’s popularity will surely plunge….yuk-yuk.

  103. Johnny Zhivago says at 7:24 pm, November 2nd, 2008
  104. Custerwolf says at 7:24 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    StephanieInCA: Driving home from work one night I hit a possum, so I pulled a U-ee to make sure it wasn’t still alive and suffering - and I ended up hitting another possum. I can’t tell you how fucked that made me feel.

  105. glamourdammerung says at 7:34 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Johnny Zhivago: They are cute, but they are also still little thieving shits.

  106. War Eagle says at 7:35 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    I was thirteen years old and in Philadelphia, Mississippi the summer that the three civil rights workers were killed there.

    A former student of my father found Emmett Till’s body in the Tallahatchie River in 1955.

    Things are bad (and some things are really pretty good), but in my memory things were incomprehensibly horrid. I have this little tickley sensation that I think is called “Hope”.

  107. Fellow Wonkateers, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Just wait until Hopey is elected, and even more of them are going to crawl out from under their slimy rocks, just like in all those zombie movies. It’s kind of yucky here in Washington State too. Someone offered to shoot me with buckshot and feed me to his pigs, just because I offered to dance in front of his house on election nite! Now is that a fair trade? I’m a decent dancer with a nice rack for a woman my age. But I may just do it anyhow, because I will be drunk by later on Tuesday eve.

  108. DoctorCulturae says at 7:40 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Scandalabra: I was in OH recently. As I was going through security at the airport on my way back to an elitist state the guard who checked my ticket and ID asked me how I was. She said unprovoked “well my husband is upset the way the country looks like it’s going to turn.” I waited until I was on the other side of security, looked back at her and said, “Good!’

  109. Incidentally, the other sign in that photo appears to be for Republican Congressman Randy Kuhl.

  110. Weeping Jesus says at 7:43 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Just playing “What If”: If Hillary had been nominated, how different would this all be? What would the bigots hang from their trees?

  111. cheeto_jeebus says at 7:48 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Surprised there are racists in the north? get out much?

    Is this surprise, sort of the inverse of Palin’s creepy “Pro-America parts of the country” ? and yep just as creepy in it’s own arrogant way.

    yeah, i know, fuck me very much.

  112. As Carl Sagan used to say, the universe is made up of several million bright shining muslin stars surrounded by billions and billions of bitter little pieces of space dust

  113. Platypus says at 7:48 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jagorev: Ha! Mississippi’s got them carpetbagger cowards in GA beat hands down. Not only did MS reject a new state flag, sans Confederate battle flag, by a two-to-one vote, they protected the old state flag by amending the state constitution to require another constitutional amendment to ever change it. Hooray for Dixie!

  114. DangerousLiberal says at 7:50 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    War Eagle: Wow, +1 for really bringing the totally Serious Shit tonight. No snark here. Just….wow.

  115. Custerwolf says at 7:53 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Weeping Jesus: themselves….?

  116. Monsieur Grumpe says at 7:58 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    You know, the retard who put up that display is probably pretty proud of himself. Let us hope he/she is sterile.

  117. DoctorCulturae says at 7:59 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Custerwolf: perfect fantasy

  118. Everyone needs to CTFO. That is a coonskin cap on a hat rack.

  119. Weeping Jesus: Tampons, possibly wire hangers.

    There is a drinking game for election night, right?

  120. agitpropster says at 8:07 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    godforbidowright: We Brits arent as crazy as that video looks. Does that include Arsenal supporters in Finsbury Park on any given Saturday?

  121. irisheyes says at 8:07 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Robobot: Oh, a drinking game for Election Night seems a bit redundant, don’t you think?

  122. Any way they can gerrymander this area across state lines into Murtha’s district?

  123. Ok, I’m hearing the Theme from Rocky and imagining that little critter swinging up to grab a branch, break it off and ram it up that asshole’s ass hole.

  124. Scandalabra: Awesome avatar.

  125. Monsieur Grumpe: Here’s hoping.

    But chances are they are drunk, bored and fertile. You know how that math adds up.

  126. Chief Grinning Eagle says at 8:46 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    It’s was really a dangerous terrorist in a fur coat. Good thing they stopped her.
    That’s what they want you think.

    Almost half of us will be convinced of this by Tuesday.

  127. MrsNateSilver says at 8:47 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Where is this photo from? I don’t see the usual source thing that you have under it…is it a still from You Tube?

  128. Think of all of the rivers of blood that have been spilled to plant a flag on one corner of such a tiny insignificant dot.

  129. schvitzatura says at 8:57 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    No Black Dutchess County’s?

    Fuck the “the reed covered lodge by the little-water place”…place.

  130. smellyal8r says at 8:59 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Man, Jim, some post, no? This is good old weekend Wonkette where we are able to crawl all over the map on one post (the only diff being we are still talking about the raccoon and haven’t ventured too far afield). Gotta tell ya, for a Sunday night, a million laffs. Hitting a raccoon eating another raccoon off the road, hitting two possums in one trip. Love it.

    Actually, these raccoon hanging freaks are the real “bitters” who cling to their guns and their religion because the world has become too complex. For a country that clamors for better education, we sure do resent “intellectuals”.

  131. messickc says at 9:03 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Hmm…. pity.

    That woulda made some fine gumbo.

  132. when I lived in Maryland, I used to leave the coons in my backyard all the leftover Chinese food from my occasional food indulgences. Contrary to popular belief, they were content and never raided my home in retaliation, even though they do have the ability to open doors and turn on water taps and shit like that http://www.projectwildlife.org/living-raccoons.htm. In fact they were some of the best neighbors I ever had. Enter snark here, cause I can’t.

  133. mush: ever seen a side-by-side of Bob Barr and Rev. Wright? Barr is totally passing.

  134. messickc says at 9:20 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    jilly: Do you have a ghetto boody to go with it? Gggrrrrrr……

  135. Moving along to a new topic, repub. pollster, and friend of Evil Doer Hannity, Frank Luntz says to BBC news today:

    “I cannot foresee a scenario that John McCain is elected the President of the United States.”

    Want to supersize your Hopey Fries?

  136. These people are going to choke on their meth come Wednesday morning.

  137. SayItWithWookies says at 9:22 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Bitter (with no apologies to the original author)

    Oh I wish I was in the land of varmints
    See a raccoon and swerve to harm it
    Look away, look away, look away,
    Bitter land.

    Oh down in the sticks where I was born
    We’ve got meth and homemade porn
    Look away, look away, look away,
    Bitter land

    Oh I won’t vote for Obama
    Tuesday — Tuesday –
    He’ll redistribute my welfare check
    So I’ll vote for Joe the Plumber
    Away — Away –
    I’m only getting dumber

    Oh I made it to the Hudson Valley
    Further than Bobby Lee could sally
    Look away, look away, look away,
    Bitter land.

    Oh I won’t vote for Obama
    Tuesday — Tuesday –
    He’ll redistribute my welfare check
    So I’ll vote for Joe the Plumber
    Away — Away –
    I’m only getting dumber
    Away — Away –
    I’m only getting dumber.

  138. the invisible woman says at 9:23 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye, I mean, an African American presidential candidate to a lynching-based assassination. Seriously, this is starting to scare me. The symbolic lynchings have gone from once a week to one every other day. And if Obama wins it’s going to get worse. Pretty soon somebody’s going to put on their white top hat, coat, and tails and actually kill somebody or at least try to behead somebody like the nazi top hat twins, who clearly did not know how hard it was to behead somebody.

    Also have you notice that only Obama and Palin get the effigies of themselves hung, mutilated, or exploded. John McCain and Joe Biden (the white guys for your slow pokes) have been left alone.

    It will fucking ruin my election day if Obama wins and then somebody kills him.

  139. messickc says at 9:23 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    BillyClubb: No. That’s the Confederate battle flag.

    This is Stars and Bars. The REAL flag of the confederacy.

  140. Snarkfest says at 9:24 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Well this’un here libruhl is’a gonna get myself armed ‘n loaded. ‘Specially loaded.

  141. messickc says at 9:25 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    SayItWithWookies: OMIGOD!! BEST.PARODY.EVAR!!! I am going to rip it of. K?Thx.Bye.

  142. Worlds End says at 9:28 pm, November 2nd, 2008
  143. Worlds End says at 9:29 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    bago: Sorry posted the wrong video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw

  144. the invisible woman: I can’t imagine someone lynching Joe Biden.

    Colossal waste of rope.

    If you wanted to murder Joe, you should lock him in an echo chamber.

    And as to lynching McCain: I suspect that not even Lady Day could get “Strange Fruit . . . In Depends” to work as a song.

  145. Delicious says at 9:34 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Murder fun! Murder fun in return!

  146. Custerwolf says at 9:38 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Worlds End: Very nice.

  147. schvitzatura says at 9:46 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    SayItWithWookies: Probably more unreconstructed Highland Scots Irish who always have a
    chip on their shoulder…they’re like the fucking Marburg virus with this battle flag meme.

  148. Munson Thurd says at 9:54 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Too bad some unsuccessful asphyxiophiliac raccoon had to go and ruin that feller’s witty roadside commentary. Bastards all around.

  149. donner_froh says at 9:57 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    cheeto_jeebus: Northern Michigan, especially the Upper Peninsula, is full of unapologetically racist rednecks who hate the coloreds in Detroit. In western Michigan they are a little more circumspect about it but no less committed to continued white supremacy.

  150. Witch Hazel says at 9:59 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    schvitzatura: Don’t be messing with Po’town, now!

  151. To: messickc: Hella no, my jus got big rack and can’dance. My old. My obnoxious. Put me out of your mind.

  152. Wookies: LOL!

    J05H: True. Here is your side-by-side comparison.

  153. dorothy parker blues says at 10:14 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    At this point in time, that Avenue Q song has suddenly become not at all funny.

  154. Scandalabra: Yes, NY state and even some parts of the city have some Bitters wandering around unleashed, looking for their next meth fix while proudly spending their precious quarters on the NY Post. The great terrorist/Argula farm that is California also has its fair share of weirdos, wackos and wingnuts as well.

  155. Er, Arugula.

  156. DoctorCulturae says at 10:29 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Worlds End: loverly.

  157. BillyClubb: I saw one in someone’s yard when I was driving through that general area. I was pretty shocked; I thought it was bad enough when I saw them in West Virginia, the state that seceeded from the CSA.

  158. DC’s = Demo Crats.

    New York elitists.

  159. sanantonerose says at 11:01 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    StephanieInCA: That raccoon wasn’t eating the other one, he was performing CPR.

  160. agitpropster says at 11:13 pm, November 2nd, 2008

    Alas, poor WALNUTS! Faustian pacts can be so fucking tricky that way, yo.

    I think he made a deal with the ghosts of Lester Maddox and Jesse Helms and when they rotated back to the Eternal Lake Of Fire Allah The Merciful replaced them with the ghosts of Medgar Evers and Leo Frank as a joke. The very next day he handed the microphone to the Confused Old Bigot “Arab” Lady and got the surprise of his life. Heh.

    Let’s just call this phenomenon Being Hoisted On Your Own Fucktards.

    See you at teh Victory Party, dawgs.

  161. Eh, in a few days, we’ll be a socialist paradise run by PETA types who’ll string up Joe, the Racoon Killer by his balls right by the flag of Kenya. Which as every real American knows is the hammer and sickle.

  162. Harold_Ignoramis says at 1:12 am, November 3rd, 2008

    That’s actually the pit road stop sign for the NASCAR #69 Raccoon car.

  163. Where in Western NY did this occur?

  164. Ok, so as best as I can tell the raccoon incident happened in the Southern Tier region of WNY, which is near Pennsyltucky. Assholes.

  165. gregsamsa says at 2:36 am, November 3rd, 2008

    Did someone set fire to the Paul Lynde alien from American Dad?

  166. Aquannissiwamissoo says at 4:50 am, November 3rd, 2008

    Czn939: Ken Layne, is that you ?

  167. Aquannissiwamissoo says at 5:09 am, November 3rd, 2008

    Jim Newell — where is this photo from ? Where did you get it?

    There is no source listed on it. I would like to know. Thanks.

  168. nyphotog says at 8:09 am, November 3rd, 2008

    @BillyClubb — sadly, you couldn’t be more wrong. The worst kind of redneck asshole is the Upstate New York redneck asshole who proudly proclaims the confederacy — where you know it has nothing to do with history and everything to do with white supremacy. I live Upstate, and there are plenty of them.

  169. Pelagius says at 8:34 am, November 3rd, 2008

    New York state had the highest rate of slavery outside of the south. Yet so many of them died to preserve the Union. Isn’t it ironic, doncha think?

  170. the invisible woman says at 9:12 am, November 3rd, 2008

    Pelagius: Yes. It’s ironic, and it’s totally fucked up.

  171. sealhugger says at 10:00 am, November 3rd, 2008

    This is so fucking sick. I can’t even think of a quip reply I’m so disgusted.

  172. mobile-home-refush says at 11:24 am, November 3rd, 2008

    Ain’t nothin wrong with republicans! I think we should all own a few! but please be responsible and have your republican spayed or neutered.

  173. you know what I just now realized?
    That the only terrorist nation (i.e. a rogue/illegitimate state) to ever attack us,
    was the SOUTH.
    The Confederate States of America.
    The same terrorist nation whose battle-flag is proudly planted in this patriot’s front yard.

  174. skyinator says at 4:50 pm, November 3rd, 2008

    Living in a red-stained county in Florida I see raccoons and wealthy white folks in equal numbers. I much prefer the raccoons - they are personable, entertaining, cunning and desperate to survive down here - much like the middle class.

  175. tocute2btrue says at 6:59 pm, November 3rd, 2008

    That DAM Coon don’t favor me a bit.
    I am a Handsome SOB and well Hung Already.
    Dam Granny is DEAD,I kent go to no dam Fueneral right now.
    She didn’t like me much anyway.

  176. wheelie: sweet! brothas by other mothas (but tha same daddy?)

  177. Mojopo: I used to keep a house right close to this spot for about twenty years or so and I was constantly surprized at the southern sounding accents and flags and so on. Then I found that around the Binghamton area was the largest KKK membership in the Northeast. The museum did a exhibiton with artifacts and photos of thousands of people at KKKevents in the 1920’s. Then I noticed that there was a major Union prison up around Elmira and probably many prisioners just stayed put after the war. And of course Mark Twain wrote his classic sitting up there looking at quite a different river than the Missisippi.
    Anyway I got a beautiful set of photos from a little town up that way from their huge Obama event. 257 of the whitest people you could ever meet gathering together playing music and raising money for Obama.
    Change is going to come.

  178. http://www.eveningtribune.com/news/x1772931692/Signs-pop-up-on-public-property-and-a-dead-raccoon-prompts-criticism

    Wow- my ex grew up in racist Hornell, NY and I grew up less than 10 miles away. Sigh, not surprised at all. See the article above. Also the idiots in rural western NY state that hang confederate flags do not, repeat, do not get the irony.

    “The home is owned by Thomas Campbell” of Hornell, NY

    http://www.eveningtribune.com/news/x1772931692/Signs-pop-up-on-public-property-and-a-dead-raccoon-prompts-criticism

  179. Fatherhood says at 3:40 pm, November 13th, 2008

    To all white men(the women fuck blacks and can be trusted)your country is being taken over !!! Are you just going to stand and do nothing ??? Mexicans are coming across the border by the thousands every day,you have to read spanish on the directions on everything you buy. All your jobs are in China !!!!Now !!!! You’ve elected this black(S.O.B.)who’s mother was a white whore, and who’s father was a drunk !!! The Fatherhood who created this great land are rolling over in their graves. Keep on sitting on your ass, watch TV, play your play station, and someday soon maybe you will be the slaves !!! What a great future for your children. It’s a good thing the Fatherhood did something besides sitting on their ass or you would not be here !!! Keep buying your Toyota’s, shopping at Walmart( China ), and your life and your childrens lives will not be as you now know it.The KKK and pussys likr them are all talk !!!! Stand up and be heard before it’s to late !!!!

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