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  • ‘THE PRESIDENT IS A NAGGER.’ Hmm what could possibly go wrong with that statement , on an outdoor sign with easily changeable letters, in Kentucky? [WLWT-TV]


3:05 PM on Wed August 5 2009
By Ken Layne
2205 Views

  1. Mr Blifil says at 3:09 pm, August 5th, 2009

    I take it the sign writer is therefore a whigger.

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 3:09 pm, August 5th, 2009

    “No, I think he said he’s a Nearer.”

  3. DoctorCulturae says at 3:10 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Facepalm.

  4. Mr Blifil says at 3:10 pm, August 5th, 2009

    At Xmas time I imagine we’ll be hearing how Obama is an egg-nogger.

  5. josereyes.theroof says at 3:11 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Ad placed by Clayton Bigsby.

  6. AnnieGetYourFun says at 3:12 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Yes, I am sure that the gun store owner didn’t see that one coming at all. Wow. If the South Park episode hadn’t already happened, I would expect it to now.

  7. finallyhappy says at 3:13 pm, August 5th, 2009

    “He’s a black man. I didn’t vote for him but he is President” Damn, they are some smart down there in Kentucky.

  8. RoscoePColtraine says at 3:13 pm, August 5th, 2009

    ‘Nagger’ is a legitimate word, (verb) as in:
    Bird gotta fly,
    Fish gotta swim,
    Wife gotta nag.

    Obama is a nagger. He’s been nagging congress for health care. Don’t be so goddam dense.

  9. orange says at 3:15 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Hahahah. He nags a lot.

  10. Alex Trebeks Girl says at 3:15 pm, August 5th, 2009

    “This president has an issue with white culture”. - Dr. Democracy Glen Beck.

  11. nappyduggs says at 3:15 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Mr Blifil:

    Also that he is a jingle belly.

  12. freakishlystrong says at 3:15 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Shit, all that’s missing is the “GONG!” from Blazing Saddles..

  13. josereyes.theroof says at 3:15 pm, August 5th, 2009

    RoscoePColtraine: Don’t be so Got-damned literal, either.

  14. bureaucrap says at 3:17 pm, August 5th, 2009

    The owner *could* find a synonym for “nagger” that is not so potentially racially charged (say, e.g., whiner, or annoying) if he really wanted to. But you know he’s not going to. QED.

  15. I love that, in a racial dig that was already the opposite of subtle, our heroic vandal felt the need to remove any hint of ambiguity in the message.

  16. Mr Blifil says at 3:18 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Nagger? Please.

  17. Todd Mecklem says at 3:18 pm, August 5th, 2009

    I’m purty sure they meant FAGGERT. And he’s got a purty mouth, too.

  18. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 3:18 pm, August 5th, 2009

    The President is a what?

  19. RoscoePColtraine says at 3:19 pm, August 5th, 2009

    josereyes.theroof: I just saw the sign for what the poster was obviously saying. Don’t make me close my comments with [/snark] plz.

  20. Noodle Salad says at 3:19 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Good news - the owner got a security camera installed, so they can figure out which of the brave and witty vandals to invite to the Saturday night cross burn–er, prosecute. Yeah, that’s right.

  21. TheGryphon says at 3:20 pm, August 5th, 2009

    looks like someone already replaced the “i” that KKK gun shop guy put on his sign with an “a”. This wouldn’t have happened if we had elected that nice older white guy and his mistress, also.

  22. josereyes.theroof says at 3:20 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Mr Blifil: Great album.

  23. MargeSimpsonsBlackFriend says at 3:21 pm, August 5th, 2009
  24. american mutt says at 3:22 pm, August 5th, 2009

    I’m going to swing my fists in the air and close my eyes. If you’re face happens to hit my hands it’s your own damn fault.

  25. My choice. My Wonkette. says at 3:22 pm, August 5th, 2009

    DVDs for Gordon Brown, an ipod for the Queen. The president is a niggard.

  26. Manos: Hands of Fate says at 3:24 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Right, who knew that could that happen. Dude has the Stars and Bars handing outside his shop. That guy and Larry Craig should get together and trade excuses.

  27. honkyman says at 3:24 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Here’s to the land
    you’ve torn out the heart of
    Mississippi (and Alabama and Kentucky and South Carolina)
    find yourself
    another country to be part of

  28. snideinplainsight says at 3:25 pm, August 5th, 2009

    That looks like the kEnTucKy version of a teLePrompTor to me -

  29. OffTheRecord says at 3:26 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Heh. I know it is wrong, but completely insane signs placed in front of redneck businesses are one of the great joys of my life. After 24 years in Kentucky I have learned to love them. They are like little pockets of crazy scattered along the roadway to entertain you on your journey. Just, you know, read them really fast because if you slow down you might get shot.

  30. twowheeljunkie says at 3:28 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Nagging was not what I was thinking when I read the title.

    So sure the guy knew what he was doing.

  31. snideinplainsight says at 3:29 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Maybe he was pRomPtiD to write that -

  32. american mutt says at 3:29 pm, August 5th, 2009

    OffTheRecord: What the hell you doing in Kentucky?

  33. norbizness says at 3:31 pm, August 5th, 2009

    If somebody puts up a sign written in English in a shithole town comprised of illiterates, then was it ever REALLY put up?

    P.S. I am against giving stimulus money to Kentucky and points further south (including my own beloved Texas) because we’ll probably waste it all on guns anyway.

  34. Gayer Than Thou says at 3:32 pm, August 5th, 2009

    bureaucrap: Or, y’know, he could even have gone with “complainer,” which would actually have worked better in the sense that it would tie the whole statement back to the original assertion (”Obama complains”). That is, if he were aiming for political commentary and not racism.

  35. I think the saddest part of that article wasn’t the racial slur, but the fact that the store owner was actually upset that Obama has either said or said something close to that list. America is a fat, bullying nation filled with stupid cops…DOWN WITH THE TRUTH i guess.

  36. TricksyCoyote says at 3:33 pm, August 5th, 2009

    “He’s a black man. I didn’t vote for him but he’s the president,”

    I like how the token quoted racist is implying an if-then statement:

    IF a black man is elected president, THEN he is a n*gger.

    Because that’s so much better than “If a black man is black, then he is a…”

  37. hiphophitler says at 3:33 pm, August 5th, 2009

    As everyone in DC knows, the President is niggardly.

  38. Cape Clod says at 3:34 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Obviously this guy doesn’t know how to call a spade a spade.

  39. Hooray For Anything says at 3:37 pm, August 5th, 2009

    His attitude towards the cops shouldn’t be that much of a surprise considering Obama’s previous career as a member of Naggers With Attitude

  40. digibal235 says at 3:39 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Bunch of nagger lovers.

  41. Bill E Pilgrim says at 3:40 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Guy just wishes his penis was bagger.

  42. BadKitty says at 3:41 pm, August 5th, 2009

    OffTheRecord: There’s one outside the butcher shop about a block from my house. “No one beats our meat”. Sigh.

  43. hobospacejunkie says at 3:42 pm, August 5th, 2009

    I know it but I’m pretty sure I shouldn’t say it.

    Race war — it’s on!

  44. prizepig says at 3:47 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Next week: Obama is a gong banging porsche monkey.

  45. facehead says at 3:47 pm, August 5th, 2009

    He should try “The president is a loon.”

    How could that go wrong?

  46. Sussemilch says at 3:48 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Nagger: Sounds like a calendar/alarm service for Twitter

  47. RoscoePColtraine says at 3:49 pm, August 5th, 2009

    “The Adventures of Letter Man” has struck again.
    Ripping the ‘O’ off his chest, he changes “map” to “mop.”
    Etc.

  48. finallyhappy says at 3:50 pm, August 5th, 2009

    honkyman: Phil Ochs! Are you an ancient person like me?

  49. OffTheRecord says at 3:52 pm, August 5th, 2009

    american mutt: Well, I was born here so originally I didn’t have any say in the matter. Now I stay purely for the entertainment value. The level of pure political insanity in Kentucky rivals any state in the union. Plus, Louisville really isn’t bad, if you ignore the weather. And the fact that the city was actually flooded by shit yesterday. I blame Jim Bunning.

  50. StoneAge says at 3:52 pm, August 5th, 2009

    What? all I’m saying is that there’s no need for Obama to be so niggardly about the F-22.

    And Secretary Chu always finds a chink in the armor of global warming debunkers.

    Also, Judge Sotomayor sure keeps her bench spic and span.

  51. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 3:53 pm, August 5th, 2009

    There are very few times that I’m glad I’m from Tennessee. But this would be one.

  52. El Pinche says at 3:56 pm, August 5th, 2009

    It’s too bad, but we know Obama won’t go mad-naggerish on these assholes. He’s too cool.

    But you can’t blame the republican party, they’re not racist. They have Michael Steele as the head of the RNC which makes everything aiiight.

  53. At least he cares enough to express his opinion. What’s wrong with a little carism?

  54. TheNavOne says at 4:00 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Kentucky? Check. Gun Store? Check. Good to see all is right with the world.

  55. Whoever vandalized the sign must’ve also ruined the grammar. Police act stupidly.

  56. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 4:01 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: This was always my favorite song of theirs:

    Straight outta Chicago crazy motherfucker named Barack
    From the gang called Naggers With Attitudes
    When I’m called off I got a sawed off
    Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off
    You too boy if ya fuck with me
    The police are gonna hafta come and get me
    Off yo ass that’s how I’m goin out
    For the punk motherfuckers that’s showin out
    Naggers start to mumble, they wanna rumble
    Mix em and cook em in a pot like gumbo
    Goin off on a motherfucker like that
    with a gat that’s pointed at yo ass
    So give it up smooth
    Ain’t no tellin when I’m down for a jack move
    Here’s a murder rap to keep yo dancin
    with a crime record like Charles Manson
    AK-47 is the tool
    Don’t make me act the motherfuckin fool
    Me you can go toe to toe, no maybe
    I’m knockin niggaz out tha box, daily
    yo weekly, monthly and yearly
    until them dumb motherfuckers see clearly
    that I’m down with the capital C-P-T
    Boy you can’t fuck with me
    So when I’m in your neighborhood, you better duck
    Coz Barack is crazy as fuck
    As I leave, believe I’m stompin
    but when I come back, boy, I’m comin straight outta Chicago

    And you should hear MC Skip Gates verse.

  57. RoscoePColtraine says at 4:02 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Using racial slurs to make fun of racists. IRONY.

  58. S.Luggo says at 4:04 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Ha, ha. I never get tired of that charming, Southern sense of humor. Now, somone please put a call into William Tecumseh Sherman. There’s a certain state that needs a good torching.

  59. Barrelhse says at 4:05 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Such cunning linguists. They must be real proud of their little joke!!! Fucking retarded, inbred, mouth-breathing idiots.

  60. Monsieur Grumpe says at 4:09 pm, August 5th, 2009

    You got love having a neighbor with a sign like that. Every day you would dread coming home to see what new asinine thing he wrote while in his drunken stupor.

  61. Barrelhse says at 4:10 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Such cunning linguists. Why, I’ll bet they’re real proud of their little Joke! What a bunch of drooling mouth-breathers. It’s difficult to grasp the depth of ignorance displayed by the GOP, but it’s frightening nonetheless.

  62. Atheist Nun says at 4:11 pm, August 5th, 2009

    hobospacejunkie: Race war! Who knew Charlie Manson was really a prophet, and not just a racist, dirty hippy con-man? Who will lead the white people now that you’re locked up, Charlie?

    His next sign:
    Obama is President!
    Sale on Ben + Jerry’s Chunky Monkey, Black Raspberry, Dublin Mudslide, and Triple Chocolate Oh My God He’s Not White How Did That Happen?

  63. Rachel Ray Jihad says at 4:12 pm, August 5th, 2009

    “Nag” would have been sufficient, as in “The President is a nag.” “Nagger” just sounds awkward.

    Then again, he might not have gotten his point across when “kids” went and changed his sign in the middle of the night. It’s not a full-blown racial slur without the “-ger!”

  64. Simba B says at 4:49 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Just how old is that list of unfortunately misinterpreted domains, Mr. Ken Layne? Or dare you not tell us lest it reveal how old you are in Internet years?

  65. Carrie_Okie says at 4:50 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Yeah proof that as I suspected gun nutz are pussies. I mean if you are gonna be a cracka assed cracka, just own up to it. Cracka.

  66. Fly Over Girl says at 4:59 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Many people in Glencoe said that they believe local children were to blame.

    How cute! Even the kids are racists in Kentucky.

  67. Hooray For Anything says at 5:00 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Lionel Hutz Esq.: I was always a big fan of Eazy Ayers

  68. AnnieGetYourFun says at 5:08 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Remember those crazy crackers on that 4 wheeler before the election that were happily videotaped calling the President all kinds of racial slurs through their rotting gums, in addition to wondering how we could elect a Muslin while at war in eye-rack? I kinda miss those crazy fuckers.

  69. geminisunmars says at 5:51 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Alex Trebeks Girl: I think that should be “white Kulture”.

  70. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 5:52 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Hooray For Anything: Best Hard Core Politics Group Ever!

  71. Snarkalicious says at 6:18 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Jagger (as in cocaine). Bagger (as in Vance). Lagger (as in Boston). Gagger (as in dong).

  72. Uncle Glenny says at 6:58 pm, August 5th, 2009

    “Somebody had actually taken one of the letters out of one of the other words. I think it was in ‘complains,’ and put it in a place that made a word that we don’t advocate or condone at all.”

    ::: looks at sign and sees it says COMPLA NS :::

    education fail

  73. Barrelhse says at 7:09 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Carrie_Okie: jejeje!

  74. KY Jelly says at 7:27 pm, August 5th, 2009

    I’m a white edumucated yankee trapped in this pathetic commonwealth that thinks it is some kind of police state. run by ignorance, racism and politics so far to the right they can see themselves cumming. each day something new makes me so proud to be here. it’s not home, won’t be, can’t be… but its where I live, and why I have a gun and surveillance cameras on my property.

  75. KY Jelly says at 7:30 pm, August 5th, 2009

    oh, my wife is reminding me that we live 5 miles from this joint and they have the first ammendment behind them. uh huh. if only they could count that high.

  76. KY Jelly: The second amendment too.

  77. Marmel says at 9:17 pm, August 5th, 2009

    Dear, the South.

    Some of your people are making you look like jackasses again.

    If you get a chance, could you talk to this guy?

    You might want to do it after store hours because - shock - he owns a gun store.

    Thank you, South.

    http://marmel.com/2009/08/southwatch-kentucky-moron-intentionally-misspells-racial-slur/

  78. Alpha O. Mega says at 9:18 pm, August 5th, 2009

    The President is sure to break some campaign promises, because he’s a reneger.

  79. desertwind says at 9:22 pm, August 5th, 2009

    We’re all Naggers now.

    Heave away.

  80. Nobody noticed the owner of the gun store is named Roach?

  81. It’s actually the punch line to an old, old joke I heard while serving at Ft Bragg, NC:

    Guy comes into an attorney’s office and says:

    ‘I want me a DEE-vorce’

    Lawyer says:

    ‘Do you have grounds?’

    ‘Got me 42 acres out around Benson’

    ‘No, do you have a case?’

    ‘Nope, got me a real nice John Deere’

    (I guess I have to explain that ‘Case’ is a brand of tractor that has now been replaced by ‘Mahindra’. God Bless The Global Free Market!’)

    ‘That’s not what I mean. Do you have a reason to divorce your wife? Was she a nagger?’.

    ‘Nope, she wasn’t a nagger, but she damn sure run off with one!’

  82. LoweredPeninsula says at 5:23 am, August 6th, 2009

    Well, just so you all know, I’m one of those nagger-niggers, ’cause all I do is complain, but I’d have it no other way. Thank you racist, slack-jawed yokels of Kentucky for recognizing the accomplishments of us nagging niggers. You know, like winning presidential office and becoming Harvard professors. The closest any of you will ever come to sitting in the White House is sitting in the dining area of a White Castle stuffing your fat, toothless mouths full of greasy sliders, and I ain’t talking about the ones in Europe, either. Also.

    Oh, and can up folks up here in the Old Northwest build a wall along the Ohio River, already? You Southerner’s can keep Cincinnati, if you’d like.

  83. Robert Zimmerframe says at 10:30 pm, August 6th, 2009

    “The President is near”

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