• May 26, 2012

Alabama Wingnut Candidate Thinks Liberals Will Shut Up Because He’s Black

by Jim Newell  

Here is Les Phillip, Republican congressional candidate from Alabama. He criticizes Barack Obama for befriending all sorts of terrorists instead of joining the Navy, like Les Phillip did. Phillip says he will stop Obama from destroying America, “and they’re not gonna call me a racist.” (Hilariously, he takes off his glasses while saying this, as if to reveal his race for the first time.)

Anyway, that sounds like a challenge. Les Phillip is racist. Les Phillip hates black people and thinks they are inferior to white people. Why does racist Les Phillip think that white skin is better than black skin? Has Les Phillip ever met a black person in his life? How many Klan meetings did Les Phillip attend last night to express his absolute, furious hatred of people with black skin?

[Andrew Sullivan]

{ 94 comments }

imissopus May 24, 2010 at 6:04 pm

Polite and very clean.

Extemporanus May 24, 2010 at 6:04 pm

Les Phillip is the black Alan Keyes.

Snarkalicious May 24, 2010 at 6:04 pm

Blah blah blah, Alan Keyes, blah blah.

Aflac Shrugged May 24, 2010 at 6:05 pm

If Les Phillip did not exist, surely Dave Chappelle would have invented him. Oh wait.

azw88 May 24, 2010 at 6:05 pm

ladies and gentlemen, I give you Rand Paul in blackface

subo May 24, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Les Phillip: I am, in fact, asking for you to vote for me because I am black.

CapnFatback May 24, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Wait . . . the one who fell in with left-wing radicals and the one who emigrated to America are both Obama, right? RIGHT?!

AbstinenceOnly Ed May 24, 2010 at 6:07 pm

that is literally a klansman who cut off a black guy’s face & is wearing it. what a ghoulish spectacle!

Buzz Feedback May 24, 2010 at 6:07 pm

They all look alike to me.

evan7257 May 24, 2010 at 6:07 pm

Antisemitic.

dogscantlookup May 24, 2010 at 6:10 pm

Les Phillip? that’s french for the Phillip! Where’s da burffcertiffikit?

CapnFatback May 24, 2010 at 6:10 pm

[re=584160]CapnFatback[/re]: Immigrate to, emigrate from, Rand McNally.

jus_wonderin May 24, 2010 at 6:11 pm

Les Phillip. He’s got the perfect name for a pol. Is he really AA? I want to see his papers!!

J May 24, 2010 at 6:13 pm

Who cares if he’s black or white – that’s a majorly fugly person.

Yes You Can Own A Piece of History May 24, 2010 at 6:13 pm

I wonder what book is on his lap?

rambone May 24, 2010 at 6:14 pm

[re=584153]imissopus[/re]: articulate too . . .

Way Cool Larry May 24, 2010 at 6:15 pm

yeeeeHAWWW!!!!

Hallux Valgus May 24, 2010 at 6:18 pm

“Vote for Les, because Michael Steele worked out so well.”

Joshua Norton May 24, 2010 at 6:18 pm

Negro, please.

yellowdogdem May 24, 2010 at 6:19 pm

What was that “eff you” smirk right at the end? Eww, creepy.

jus_wonderin May 24, 2010 at 6:19 pm

I must say one thing, from looking at that clip, his background is surely black.

Beck Licks Seer Stones May 24, 2010 at 6:20 pm

“One fell in with left-wing radicals, the other immigrated (sic) to America.”

You’re confusing the Birthers.

germansteel May 24, 2010 at 6:20 pm

The Republican Party is currently full up on its quota of black folk as members. When they kick Michael Steele out, they will have a vacancy and this guy can apply. Until then – back of the bus you go!!!

imissopus May 24, 2010 at 6:21 pm

[re=584173]rambone[/re]: Right, that too.

Radiotherapy May 24, 2010 at 6:21 pm

Needs more “cut taxes” and “Reagan”.

CapnFatback May 24, 2010 at 6:22 pm

[re=584159]subo[/re]: Vote Les Phillip: the softer shade of black.

Aflac Shrugged May 24, 2010 at 6:24 pm

I’m sure the Republican Party will get behind a black man running for Alabama’s 5th District any day now, so long as he’s willing to wait his turn behind the white guy who was a fucking Democrat this time last year.

Lascauxcaveman May 24, 2010 at 6:24 pm

Call him “racist?” No. “Uncle Tom?” Why, yes.

Troubledog May 24, 2010 at 6:25 pm

Who is the black guy on The Boondocks again? The guy that hates blacks? I forget his name. And does this man know Geezer Master Beaver?

j6n May 24, 2010 at 6:27 pm

He was in the Navy? So he’s pro- gay marriage?

rocktonsammy May 24, 2010 at 6:27 pm

Fingers crossed that he has a white wife.

SayItWithWookies May 24, 2010 at 6:30 pm

Nobody’s going to call him a racist because he’s black? Okay, so he’s asking for special treatment because of his race — got it.

Scarab May 24, 2010 at 6:31 pm

More Obama, Les Phillip.

dmac May 24, 2010 at 6:31 pm

The sign that dude’s holding says “Will code HTML for food.”

Someone downloaded a Photoshop and accidentally used it in his campaign commercial!

Troubledog May 24, 2010 at 6:31 pm

DOING IT WRONG BLAX MUST BE FUNNY AND ALL DENZEL-ISHUS

Look at your man. Now look at me. Now look at your man. Now back at me. You’re on a boat. I have two tickets to that thing you love. And the tickets are now diamonds. I’m on a horse.

Obligatory link because you also think it’s funny.

V572625694 May 24, 2010 at 6:31 pm

Ruh-roh: Al-5 is where the relatively few edumacated people in Alabama live, plus a few Yankees, although as recent
events at U-A Huntsville demonstrate conclusively, they still love guns and hate liberals. This guy might hit the sweet spot between white guilt and black solidarity.

Mr Blifil May 24, 2010 at 6:33 pm

He comes across as quite the angry black man. Hasn’t he learned that calling other people “racist-callers” is ITSELF racism?

Texan Bulldoggette May 24, 2010 at 6:34 pm

[re=584183]germansteel[/re]: Tut tut, my good man/woman. There’s still Ken Blackwell (dumb ass from OH), Ron Christie (Cheney’s black butt boy with a really annoying lazy eye who goes on MSNBC as the token black R) & Clarence Thomas (who did manage to bag the ugliest white woman walking the face of the earth). Alan Keyes is always implied in these types of posts.

majcmb May 24, 2010 at 6:34 pm

We don’t have to call you a racist. We’ll just call you an ignorant sell-out, an Uncle Tom, an MC Steele wannabe, a run-of-the-mill grifter, or even better

PalinsAfterbirth May 24, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Les is more… of a douchebag.

V572625694 May 24, 2010 at 6:38 pm

[re=584202]V572625694[/re]: Goddamn html and bad linky. I was talking about the faculty shooting at University of al-Abama Huntsville back in February.

Trinkett May 24, 2010 at 6:38 pm

Ugh. At least he can never be President.

Neilist May 24, 2010 at 6:39 pm

Les Phillips talks about his Navy Experience:

The rectum and the vaginal canal is where the majority of the drug would likely be taken up, through the membranes lining its walls. This method is often known within methamphetamine communities as a “butt rocket”, “potato thumping”, “turkey basting”, a “booty bump”, “keistering”, “plugging”, “shafting”, “bumming” and “shelving” (vaginal).

I’m Les Phillips. And I approve this message. In the Navyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy . . . . . .

Bernie Madeoff May 24, 2010 at 6:49 pm

Brother speaks OathKeeper.

DC Hates Me May 24, 2010 at 6:54 pm

Looks like Maurice Clemmons without the beard.

SouthernDem May 24, 2010 at 6:54 pm

Meh… he’s running a distant third in the Repub primary. If you’re going to post about Alabama crazies, at least stick to the ones who stand a shot at getting the nomination.

LittleTrabi May 24, 2010 at 6:57 pm

If he’s courting repubs, he really shouldn’t have a book on his lap. Unless it’s held up at such an angle that we can all see it’s The Good Book.

comicbookguy May 24, 2010 at 7:10 pm

“No one can call me racist.”

Well, that sinks his chances in Alabama.

weejee May 24, 2010 at 7:13 pm

[re=584213]Neilist[/re]: So you’re thinkin’ ol’ Les is familiar with ♫ ♫”Hi sailor, new in town?”♫ ♫

x111e7thst May 24, 2010 at 7:16 pm

He is a racist. He is also a dipshit.

[re=584213]Neilist[/re]: It’s also referred to as a torpedo. Which is appropriately nautical.

you didn't ask, but May 24, 2010 at 7:17 pm

Voice needs moar gravitas…His commercial is corny! This won’t work with the draft-dodging Repub leadership (Cheney et al) at all! Um, Obama took an oath to protect the country, too Doofuh (even though Roberts tried to mess him up!)

Day late and dollah short dude: Steele has spent all the novelty capital of the Black sell-out.

@Snarkalicious: You mean he has a gay daughter, too?

@ Troubledog: Uncle Ruckus!

Wonderman May 24, 2010 at 7:25 pm

Wo. Eben de black fokes hates Obamer. Glory be. I’d best be re-pondering the last nine y’ars acause I allus thot it was some stoopid white man and his stoopid white friends that crapped all over the country. My eyes are open now.

What Fresh Hell is This? May 24, 2010 at 7:36 pm

Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee just this afternoon. I’d say Wonkette has a little CSA fetish going on.

eclecticbrotha May 24, 2010 at 7:37 pm

[re=584163]evan7257[/re]: More like Antisemantic.

Rotundo May 24, 2010 at 7:39 pm

I just hadda check his site out. In the campaign pics, a sea of blotchy white faces so european that they couldn’t tan to save themselves. And with the exception of what appear to be his daughters and a couple of friends/relatives/shipmates, not one soul of african descent. Running as a repuke must get awfully lonely for this guy.

El Pinche May 24, 2010 at 7:52 pm

I’m Les Phillips, I’ll keep my place.

Eric Cheney May 24, 2010 at 7:54 pm

Clever disguise. I wasn’t sure if he was an idiot until he took the glasses off.

4tehlulz May 24, 2010 at 8:08 pm

Yeah, I’m sure that teabagger demo Les’s going for is going to vote for him.

RoscoePColtraine May 24, 2010 at 8:08 pm

Les is trying to appeal to whitey. Les lives in Alabama. I haz a sad for Les.

problemwithcaring May 24, 2010 at 8:09 pm

LOL@ “I took an oath to protect America from enemies both foreign and domestic.” You know who else took that oath, Les?

Lionel Hutz Esq. May 24, 2010 at 8:14 pm

I will only agree that he is not a racist if he announces that he worships White Jesus and not Black Muslim Jesus like Obama, who is known to hate white people.

Deelzebub May 24, 2010 at 8:15 pm

We shall dub thee Uncle Ruckus.

AKAM80TheWolf May 24, 2010 at 8:51 pm

Are those McCain starbursts by ol’ Black Les’ name?

Bearbloke May 24, 2010 at 8:53 pm

“Hey Y’all! The Candidate is a nig-” [BONG]

DemmeFatale May 24, 2010 at 8:54 pm

I’ll bet his family can’t stand him. (I can’t either.)

DustBowlBlues May 24, 2010 at 9:08 pm

He’s right. He isn’t a racist. He’s an Uncle Tom. Seriously–Isn’t it time the black community bring back this term? Has it ever been more apropos than with teabaggers and Michael Steele?

hotdog May 24, 2010 at 9:11 pm

It seems to me that he’s a racist. Does it to you?

Servo May 24, 2010 at 9:16 pm

Opportunist is a more accurate label. Oh, and Les, I don’t think they’ll let you into the RNC without your shine box.

DustBowlBlues May 24, 2010 at 9:16 pm

[re=584187]Radiotherapy[/re]: Needs to add, “and it’s all about the jobs, Katie.”

DustBowlBlues May 24, 2010 at 9:22 pm

[re=584204]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: And OK’s own J.C. Watt (or Watts? I always forget how many of them there are.) He still gets the occasional teevee gig when the cross-eyed guy isn’t available. Though I can’t imagine what could keep his busy.

Neilist May 24, 2010 at 9:32 pm

[re=584280]DustBowlBlues[/re]:

“Uncle Tom” is so negative. Can’t he be “Uncle Ben”?

I grew up with that rice. Until I got old enough to realize that it was tasteless asbestos millings fit only for feeding to The Dar . . .

:::Whoops:::

Never mind.

Neilist “Trip” Neilist
Inbreeding for Centuries
Memory Lane, Confederateville

steverino247 May 24, 2010 at 9:40 pm

Let me guess, he joined the Navy after 9/11 and has been searching for terrorists in a submarine ever since?

drpangloss May 24, 2010 at 9:58 pm

Even a black conservative will trot out the “Obama is a muslin racist terrist.” who knew?

El Pinche May 24, 2010 at 10:08 pm

I’m Les Phillips, vote for me. You won’t even know I’m here.

doxastic May 24, 2010 at 11:06 pm

This may be an Uncle Tom singularity.

Mr Blifil May 24, 2010 at 11:37 pm

OT: Big Breitbart now requires registration and will be “moderated.” This means some sad sack college freshman who will never be spontaneously kissed in this lifetime will be spending 12 hrs per day “monitoring” comments for the promise of some drink tickets and sandwich coupons. Breitbart was very much hoping to avoid this unnecessary expense, but bad apples had to ruin it all. I noticed today some pointed comments about the West Memphis cop killings, which were subsequently deleted by administrators, and within a few hours the new policy was being enforced. How conveeeeenient. Trucknutz wins the evening.

zhubajie May 24, 2010 at 11:54 pm

[re=584196]rocktonsammy[/re]: Filipina!

Snarkalicious May 24, 2010 at 11:57 pm

[re=584293]steverino247[/re]: Snorkel diving = not deep enough fur REAL MURKINZ!

obfuscator May 25, 2010 at 12:26 am

good luck with that, urkel.

June Cleaver 2.0 May 25, 2010 at 12:47 am

[re=584205]majcmb[/re]: “We don’t have to call you a racist. We’ll just call you an ignorant sell-out, an Uncle Tom, an MC Steele wannabe, a run-of-the-mill grifter, or even better.”

Words right out of my mouth. And one more word — ignoble.

iluvsummr May 25, 2010 at 1:15 am

Well, he is originally from Trinidad and immigrants who become naturalized citizens can be conservative as heck (until GOP state legislatures set them straight by trying to put them in their place).

obfuscator May 25, 2010 at 1:35 am

[re=584340]June Cleaver 2.0[/re]: “disingenous”? “reactionary”? “contrarian attention whore”?

Manamongst May 25, 2010 at 1:58 am

[re=584196]rocktonsammy[/re]: He’s probably more likely to hit the Alabama state lottery than to find a black woman to back up his Uncle Tom-ass Alan Keyes/Clarence Thomas wonder twins impression.

MMS May 25, 2010 at 6:42 am

NEEDS MOAR AESTHETIC.

will e coyote, supergenius May 25, 2010 at 7:55 am

The friends of Les Phillips? He has friends?!?

Baldar T Flagass May 25, 2010 at 8:16 am

[re=584257]problemwithcaring[/re]: “I took an oath to protect America from enemies both foreign and domestic.” You know who else took that oath, Les?

I give up. Was it Hitler or Obama?

libwakman May 25, 2010 at 9:03 am

My dear old departed Uncle Tom gave me some wise words to live by:
Les, Uncle Tom drawled.. If your black get back, but if your brown, hang around.

lomri May 25, 2010 at 9:22 am

I don’t know why these guys don’t just tattoo “I love guns” on their forehead.

Terry May 25, 2010 at 9:52 am

[re=584195]j6n[/re]:

No, just pro-temporary relationship until the ship reaches port again.

Dolmance May 25, 2010 at 9:54 am

Kind of makes you want to wriggle around in his skull.

magic titty May 25, 2010 at 10:07 am

Uncle Ruckus?

[re=584260]Deelzebub[/re]: Goddamnit.

Bowdoin May 25, 2010 at 11:34 am

He’s right, though. Certainly when Poppy propped up an incompetent Judas goat for the Supremes, nobody ever criticized Uncle Thomas because he played a southern plantation baron in blackface. Works every time.

JSDC007 May 25, 2010 at 12:09 pm

A black guy telling the KKK that he hates Obama as much as they do aint gonna win him any KKK friends.

problemwithcaring May 25, 2010 at 2:11 pm

[re=584366]Baldar T Flagass[/re]: The answer to your question is ALWAYS “both.”

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