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Oh jesus. Ken is out of the office today, so the task befalls another editor to cover his ever-popular “racist minor-league GOP operative” beat. A buffoon out of South Carolina thought it would be a good idea to post some thing on Facebook comparing Michelle Obama to a gorilla, proving once again why Republicans should not have access to dangerous electronic devices such as computers, which they employ for the sole purpose of embarrassing themselves.
[...] Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about this morning’s escape of a Western Lowlands Gorilla from Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo.
Walker’s harmless update, however was followed by a highly-questionable comment from longtime SCGOP activist and former State Senate candidate, Rusty DePass.
“I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors — probably harmless,” DePass wrote.
And then FITSNews wrote about it and so did your DailyKos and a bunch of other people.
DePass later helpfully explained that he was just making an innocent joke about the First Lady’s remarks on evolution (which nobody can seem to track down), and he was sorry “if” he offended anyone.
Eight months after a decisive election and six months after President Obama’s swearing-in, it is still sort of astonishing to see just how enraged these various GOP operatives are at the notion that a black family is living in the White House. It still blows their minds that such a terrible thing could happen, in America, and that they would have to apologize for making sincerely good-humored racist jokes on the Internet.
SCGOP Activist Posts Remark Disparaging First Lady [FITSNews]
“Go, Speed Racist, GO!”
Strom Thurmond is rolling over in his daughter’s mother’s grave.
Why fuck up on Twitter when you can expose yourself as a racist on Facebook?
Oppressed white male is oppressed.
Palin/DePass 2012.
Hmmm, I thought his last name was Trombone…
There has also been an outcry from the Babboon Defense Society (BDS), who claim Michelle’s ancestry.
Perhaps the gorilla just had nice arms as well?
You damn liberals take everything out of context! He was just reaffirming his acceptance of evolution!
What?! No one can track down Michelle’s famous “My Gramma Was a Gorilla” speech? C’mon, people.
The bitterz are going crazy! That’s why they are shooting people like abortion doctors and Holocaust Museum security guards. Duh.
tonytonytony: It’s probably right next to the “whitey” speech in the dark caves of Hannity’s mind.
So the racist guy’s defense was that he doesn’t trust evolutionary science?
I want to hear what Sarah Palin has to say about it before I pass judgement on its acceptability.
From TPM:
Pat Buchanan much prefers the old bigotry to the fancy new PC stuff.
http://tiny.cc/sGLcX
Gee. Who could have seen that one coming.
What Rusty meant to say is, “If Willow Palin were a monkey, like the President and his family, it would be OK to point out that she is a member of the trashiest, sluttiest Springer-reject family in the United States.”
And where’s HER birth certificate, for that matter?
If I ever saw a gorilla that sexy, I’d totally hit it.
How could anyone stand to live in a place like SC? It would be so depressing if your neighbors thought like this. This guy works for the state AG’s office? Wouldn’t that be the office in charge of things like civil rights? SC seems like another world I wouldn’t even want to visit.
Was it a METCO gorilla?
/esoteric
One more time.
From TPM:
Pat Buchanan much prefers the old bigotry to the fancy new PC stuff.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/m3qqhk
Gee. Who could have seen that one coming.
If I gather, his ex post racisto argument is something like this exchange from a Christian-themed “Hell House” in King of the Hill:
MAN: Where’s grandpa?
(Enter a man in a gorilla suit.)
JUNIE: Ugh! That’s your grandpa?
MAN: Haven’t you heard? Our ancestors are monkeys!
WOMAN: Stop him! He’s eating the baby!
MAN: We can’t. It’s against the law to teach creationism.
Who else is up for some new Khmer/Mao style re-education (actually “education, since the bitters 1st time didn’t take) bootcamps for people this obviously in need. C’mon we’re all socialists, right. I am certain DePass would be more productive with a gun in his back+bowl of rice/day program.
Those “remarks on evolution” that only DePass seems to know about? Probably on the “whitey” tape.
Or possibly, a 9th-grade term paper the GOP dug up at part of opposition research, which means his next rebuttal will be “She got a B+ and a smiley face! She’s a elitist intellectual who only got that grade that because of affirmative action!”
Republicans have a magnificent history of hilarious primate jokes.
A South Carolian is just living up to South Carolina’s centuries-old task of causing endless division, hate and violence in this country, what else is new?
Strom Thurmond, is that you?
Also, KILL WHITEY! Also.
Who is Ann Coulter’s ancestor I wonder ?!!!?
Gorillionaire: Yes, my bestialic thoughts torment me. I didn’t realize gorillas had long slender legs (with toes to suck on) and a roundish hot asses…not to mention the ability to give me a lecture on intellectual property laws with an oface.
BTW, I don’t see how one could simply apologize for saying that shit. Personally, I think DePass should be forced to be Al Sharpton’s “house boy” for a year.
Everytime some GOP operative opens their mouth w/o thinking on the social media, it seems like 9 times out of 10 it’s something racist. Fascinating.
greywindz: A ball of spiders.
I thought this was going to be the same as this right-wing forward. But it turns out the picture in that is a chimpanzee, not a gorilla. Not that that would make much difference to these people. But I bet this guy’s defence will be “well, that’s what evolutionists believe, AM I RITE?”
Had it been a libtard Eastern Lowland Gorilla, S.C. authorities would have shot it with a bazooka.
BTW: Jim DeMint has asked DePass to speak at the Sotomayor confirmation hearings to discuss racism.
greywindz: A petrie dish.
They can’t stand the fact that an undeniably black girl is America’s first lady, and that any U.S. President, black or white, would want her in his bed. (Well, so that everybody knew about it.)
greywindz: A snake?
It leads you to believe that Sherman was probably a little too soft on South Carolina in 1865.
Y’know — I understand the Bible enough to have reasonable discussions about it with people who believe it’s true. It would behoove these idiots to at least be able to do the same thing with ideas they don’t believe but are sorta popular — like science, heterosexuality and hygiene.
The interwebs exposing racism since 1989
Ken has an office?
Uncle Al: Cape Clod: Ahem. Some of us live in the great state of South Carolina.
Also, did you know that evolution only occurs in black people? White people like Rusty DePass have not altered or adapted since they emerged parthenogenetically from God’s anus 6000 years ago.
Yimminies, Rusty “von Brunn” DePass is Chairman of the S.C. State Election Commission.
http://www.peoplefordepass.org/biograghy.htm
tonytonytony: No one can track down Michelle’s famous “My Gramma Was a Gorilla” speech?
I believe it’s right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
My terds are smarter…
Reconstruction didn’t last long enough.
Repubs: the gift that keeps on giving. They really should charge us for this kind of entertainment.
Mark Sanford: No offense intended. I’m really just curious. Do you have neighbors who think like this? If not, how do people like this get elected to statewide office in SC? I realize there are stupid people everywhere, but you gotta admit Michelle-monkey jokes are pretty out there. I’ve lived in my wacky little town of Takoma Park Maryland for 20 years, and have never run across anyone who would make a racist comment like that. They’d be shunned.
That Michelle. She is ALWAYS going on about the evolutionary links between us and our simian forebears. I hear she also likes to fuck niggers.
greywindz: She is a Morlock who “borrowed” the time machine.
Well, I remember comparing Bush and Cheney to Lizard People, and nobody ever got mad.
Uncle Al: Well, not everyone is as stupid and ignorant as ol’ Rusty, but there are a lot of them down here. It’s sort of like ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers,’ actually. You meet people and they seem friendly and nice, and they are within certain limitations, but you just know that on certain topics they will reveal themselves as horrible aliens intent on destroying civilization.
liquiddaddy: yeah maybe, but not their WIVES.
The Southern Strategy comes to its logical conclusion.
a black family is living in the White House
DONT U GET IT?? BLACK FAMILY IN A WHITE HOUSE! IT AINT RIGHT!
Uncle Al: If you live in America, you also have neighbors that think like this.
Uncle Al: All true, but they do have cheap hookers in Myrtle Beach, so there’s that.
Mark Sanford: Show off. You’re just throwing out anal parthenogenesis so you can get Comment of the Day. Still, +1 for the image of good ole Rusty as a big fat God turd.
I’m offended by the “probably harmless” part. Michelle’s ancestors would tear him apart.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Well, I figured maybe the commenter who did the anal abortion thing was onto a trend.
Don’t bring this up to conservatives or they’ll go nutz:
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/06/12/let-the-countdown-begin/#comment-212532
It’s time to resurrect that old egg in the frying pan PSA.
This is your brain.
This is your racist brain on the internet.
Any questions?
Michael Steele gets the social networking initiative he deserves.
Sad to see that South Carolina, with such a small comparative population, is easily outdistancing Texas as the most racist state in the nation, with the most rubes per capita. Texas cannot count the cop who tasered the grandma, because she was white and therefore without a drop of chimp blood in her ancestry.
“Ken is out of the office” = Ken wandered off into the Mojave with a knapsack full of peyote and was last seen trekking naked towards Ft. Irwin’s artillery range while screaming “If I don’t save the wee desert tortoise, who will?!”
Gorillas don’t exist! Athiest scum!
Uncle Al: Takoma Park wouldn’t be the place for people who would say this kind of thing outloud. Go closer to baltimore and you’ll probably find some progressive thinkers like this.
(I live in Takoma Park too. It’s much too earthy crunchy for this kind of foolishness)
greywindz: I was thinking of an Albino Rastafarian…maybe I am wrong…
Isn’t South Carolina the state that advertised in England about being gay tourist friendly? Somehow I doubt most gays would make a Michelle=Gorilla joke. However they would be saying Michelle=fabulous!
I haz a sad for white boyz.
Granted it seems to happen more often nowadays in the benighted South of our so-called country, but a few (4?) years ago, in supposedly enlightened Boston, an adolescent male gorilla escaped from the Franklin Park Zoo. A news photo of the animal near a bus stop sign prompted couple of superannuated honky radio jocks to comment he must be waiting for the METCO bus. METCO being the program that places inner-city children in predominantly white suburban schools. Which is a whole other kettle of fishiness…But still. Boston also just had a mini-Imus affair with a shock-talk jock saying vile things about Mexico and Mexicans. But he was only suspended for a few weeks, did a pseudo-grovel apology and is back on the air.
So does anyone know of a website that lists the companies and organizations that are paying sponsors of these idiots? National, local, whatever. Because I don’t want to have to listen to their crap in order to find out which companies to harass and/or boycott.
“Gorillas in Our Midst: The Rusty DePass Story”
At least when lab rats watch each other run into an electrified wire and get fried they eventually learn to avoid it; not so the GOP! Palin/Algernon 2012!
This guy is a rube. How could a gorilla be one of Michelle’s ancestors? How about the millions of years of evolution it takes to evolve into another species, huh? Not so smart now, eh Mr. Not Funny Diarrhea Club?
Mr Blifil: That Michelle. She is ALWAYS going on about the evolutionary links between us and our simian forebears. I hear she also likes to fuck niggers.
You never let me down. Comic brilliance in action, people. See it before it goes extinct.