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It’s been such a fun week for the South Carolina GOP, with all the comedy about gorillas and aspirins! But now it must come to an end because the humorless nancies of the Far Left have demanded a more sincere apology from Rusty DePass, the Republican operative who explained his crack about “Michelle Obama’s ancestor” by pointing out that she believed in evolution or something.
That apparently didn’t go over so well, so he trucked on down to the local NAACP offices — really! — and issued another apology yesterday, in the presence of actual black people.
“My comment was offensive and a flippant remark made without thinking,” DePass said Wednesday. “It was wrong and foolish, and I deeply regret it and any pain it has produced.”
Since last week, 10 words DePass wrote on Facebook that called the gorilla one of Mrs. Obama’s ancestors has cost him his job as a commercial real estate agent, his reputation in politics and heaps of embarrassment for his family, friends and associates.
The lesson here is that, if you are a Republican, the only acceptable joke you can make about gorillas and women is this one.
DePass apologizes for offensive remark [The Post and Courier]
Since last week, 10 words DePass wrote on Facebook that called the gorilla one of Mrs. Obama’s ancestors has cost him his job as a commercial real estate agent, his reputation in politics and heaps of embarrassment for his family, friends and associates.
That seems like a good enough start.
Where is that marvelous gorilla?
Rusty went down to the headquarters of Niggers, Apes, Alligators, Coons and Possums to say that?
What a brave and repentant soul.
I’m just waiting for the GOP operative to joke about the prophet Mohammed being Barack Obama’s ancestor.
Actually, it wasn’t the 10 words it was the lifetime of ignorant racist thought leading up to them.
I’m sorry, that wasn’t funny. Guess I *am* a humorless nancy.
Ouch. Rush is gonna throw Rusty under the bus and run over him several times. Stay tuned!
Rusty DePass — is that some kind of drag name? Or is it some kind of poetical description of the GOP as a whole? Or a hole? Jeez, these political things get so confusing…
On the scale of non-human intelligence, Michelle is, indeed, a Gorilla…and Rusty is, at best, a cotton-topped Tamarin. Zing! Badda bing! (was that only funny to primatologists??)
IceCreamEmpress: I found that an interesting way to frame it as well. It was just ten words, I mean come on! You never hear about the words that he has said that WEREN’T racist. In fact, I would venture to say that less than 5% of his words are explicitly hateful.
Michelle should throw some poop at this jackass.
“heaps of embarrassment for his family, friends and associates” I kind of doubt that because I mean who was the message meant for: family, friends & associates, right?
Now if he would just die in agony - alone and friendless in a puddle of piss and vomit I would be willing to call it even.
If think if he said she was a “chickin’ eatin, jerry curl usin’, basketball playin’, crack smokin’ amazon queen” he would have been okay. But that “gorilla” comment was way over the top!
Where is that marvelous guano faucet?
IceCreamEmpress: Yep, Karma’s a bitch.
He went down to the NAACP offices because hey, one black person is exactly the same as any other.
magic titty: He went under the mistaken impression that it was a hunting preserve. Sadly, the orange camo was completely ineffective in hiding his red face.
Did he mention anything about our troops fighting in Iraq to preserve his right to make a jackass loser of himself by opening his mouth?
Texan Bulldoggette: No, they were embarrassed. I mean, it’s one thing to be a bigot. It’s together another for people to call you a bigot.
I brought Bonzo home one day and Nancy was sitting in the living room as we walked in. I said, “This is the gorilla that I spend my time with when I’m not with you.” Mommy said, “That’s not a gorilla, that’s a chimpanzee” but I told her that I had not been speaking to her.
I don’t suppose it’s occurred to any of these dim bulbs that if they just kept their fat yaps shut they wouldn’t have to spend the first 8 hours of every day apologizing for what they did yesterday.
The cracker don’t fall far from the box.
CivicHoliday: Not even.
The NAACP guys just thought it was Cosmo Kramer begging for an opening gig at one of their get-togethers. They asked him why he wasn’t in blackface, then everyone ate watermelon.
lizard scum: That would hurt. She’s got great arms for throwing.
Did you hear the one about the GOP operative who is attacked on the ‘tubes over a gorilla comment, beaten senseless, mocked repeatedly and left to rot? When he finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, his doctor leans over to hear him cry incoherently and to feebly comment, ‘This wouldn’t have happened on MySpace’
Another GOP asswipe.
Apologies left and right this week — the more media, the more thoughtless remarks? Nah, just the p.r. tactic du jour: spin me red-faced.
Serolf Divad: Shit man, I never even thought of that….with that dude’s family tree, he probably IS related to Muhammed (peace be upon him and such). Man….I am now desperately hoping that he is, just for the wingnut head explosions (and the attendant decline in Islamoterrorists wanting to blow up our country is a nice bonus).
“My comment was offensive and a flippant remark made without thinking,” DePass said Wednesday.
Made without thinking = you are a racist who didn’t think to keep it under wraps
DePass is a verbal hominidaephile! He will ape you with his mouth!
I’m watching 300 right now and it occurred to me how it was soooo much easier when legislators just turned around and cold fucking stabbed assholes for stepping out of line.
alzronnie: You are racist against Nancy Reagan!
Read the comments following the Post & Courier article. If South Carolina is part of the Union, is there a way to cure that?
You know, here in Minorityville, we eat Red-Faced Crackers as a delicacy. They go best with Bigotry Cheese, and a little slice of Shame.
Texan Bulldoggette: I believe the heaps of embarrassment caused were due to his apology, not the gorilla statement, with which they were OK, until he said it in the presence of literate niggers who then snitched.
I hope the NAACP made him wear one of those cilice things on his leg, like in The DaVinci Code.
shorter DePass: “I’m sorry that I hate niggers! My bad!”
Speaking of racist fucks, I heard Tom Tancredo’s BFF’s are killing mescans.
“DePass has since deleted his Facebook page.”
Says him. Google Cache, on the other hand, says “fuck you”.
slappypaddy: It is a drink favored by drag queens, a variant on the “rusty nail”
Take a look at the awesome comments on my home town’s (I’m so ashamed) newspaper, the Post & Courier. Many of them rival what Rusty spouted. Please, Wonketeers, go after the idiots posting there!
Hey, wait a minute, Republicans don’t apologize. Unless it is to Rush. The Liberal Media got it all wrong. Rusty Deep Ass did not go down to the NAACP office to apologize. We went down there in black face. And what he said was:
“I’d walk a million miles
For one of your smiles…”
He then pulled out a watermelon and ate it as he played “Camptown Races” on the banjo. I think the base will be pleased.
How do you even become a racist in this day and age? For God’s sake, didn’t he see any Spike Lee movies? Benetton ads? The Black Eyed Peas? Dora the Explorer?
SORRY I FORGOT NOT TO BE RACIST IN PUBLIC
WadISay: Or the way the Red Guards did it during the Cultural Revolution–before people confessed their crimes, apologized and were shot they were paraded before jeering townspeople wearing a sign describing the main crime: “Landlord”, “Deviationist” etc.
DePass would have looked good in his sincere blue shirt with a big sign around his neck “Racist Asshole” while he read his apology.
Somebody show that man his new position behind gloryhole #7 at Big Jakes Manbar and Buttsecksatorium and let’s just move on. Whimpering like his needs to be reserved for paying customers.
donner_froh: My first thought was the opening scene of Beckett, where the King of England (Peter O’Toole) is being dutifully flogged by Beckett’s (Richard Burton) Saxon monks. Good times.
I don’t see why anyone was upset by this joke. Now, if he had said that the gorilla had knocked her up at a Yankees game, they I could see him being forced to apologize.
This actually was a very thoughtful apology. I wish it received more media coverage.
The evolution excuse at first was just to lame to understand. What an idiot.
slappypaddy: And the anagram machine gives us: Pedursty Ass. Which doesn’t really mean anything, but it sounds dirty.
commiegirl: “Where is that marvelous gorilla?”
Anthrocon 2009 Pittsburg PA, July 4 weekend, that’s where. Let’s hope that Wonkette has the decency to cover the preeminent global Furry event of the year, especially after the derisory coverage they normally give the Furry Alternative Lifestyle. For shame Wonkette. If gays can marry, so can Furries. If Kenyans can be president, so can Furries.
S.Luggo: They did try to “cure” South Carolina’s membership in the Union, about 138 years ago.
Internally valid: Remember, “nappy-headed ‘hos” is only three words, and look where Don Imus ended up. Also.
I wish he would apologize to his simian ancestors.
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Operation Just Enough Rope:
1. Tell a racist joke to Republican officeholder at cocktail party
2. Watch while joke is retold on e-mail/Twitter
3. Be outraged, demand resignation
4. Repeat as necessary
y’all keep in mind: making post-ironic racist comments in order to trump the pilloried racist doesn’t make you witty. That’s just shit sitting on the tip of your frontal lobe you been waiting to say without getting flamed. Sorta like ol’ Rusty.
Paul Tardy:
Yeah, but Pittsburg? That’s a whole lotta lotta suck just to stand around taking pictures of people who had a troubled adolescence.
marciax3: Thank you, I’ve never read any of your comments EVAR but I can tell from your sober assessment of the underlying agendas hidden beneath our post-ironic contributions, as well as your evaluations as to what constitutes humor, along with your bona fides as a brain surgeon and expert on the morphology of the mind, that you are the very SOUL OF WIT. Therefore whom better to judge?
Please include your home email so that I may submit my comments for your prior review before posting. Again, thank you.
He has not lost enough…
Tommmcatt: I distinctly remember correcting your misspelling of PittsburgH before. For the record, the H on the end stands for “hot.” All the men there have 14-inch dicks, so nobody notices what the other scenery looks like.
CivicHoliday: I think I speak for all primatologists everywhere when I say your comment wasn’t funny to us either.
Lost his job? Hmmm. Looking for some sympathy…thought it was around here somewhere, maybe under the dirty socks? Nope, not there either. Oh, well.
Since last week, 10 words DePass wrote on Facebook that called the gorilla one of Mrs. Obama’s ancestors has cost him his job as a commercial real estate agent, his reputation in politics and heaps of embarrassment for his family, friends and associates.
I do so enjoy people reaping what they sow.
@Mr. Blifil: Wasn’t directed at you. If the shoe fits, wear it. If your laces ain’t untied, don’t even trip.
“…humorless nancies of the Far Left have demanded a more sincere apology…”
I think most commenters here would demand him to keep telling racist jokes until he ran out of them. He’s bound to have an extensive collection. Or we could waterboard him