State Senator Jake Knotts of South Carolina has become America’s least popular meme after calling Indian-American gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley a “raghead” on some Internet radio show for “pub politicians.” According to the Associated Press, Knotts said, “we have one [raghead] in the White House, we don’t need one in the governor’s mansion.” Does he really believe that alleged marriage bomber Nikki Haley would turn said mansion into a training camp for fellow muslin sextremists? No, of course not! It was just a funny joke, ha.
Ha?
“If it had been recorded, the public would be able to hear firsthand that my ‘raghead’ comments about Obama and Haley were intended in jest,” Knotts said in his statement. “Bear in mind that this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It’s like local political version of Saturday Night Live, which is actually where the joke came from.”
Your Wonkette was not able to find this raggedy-raghead SNL sketch on Google, YouTube, Hulu, or any other Internet teevee channel, so perhaps it is a special pay-per-view thing? We did come across a Jake Knotts info-page, though, and learned many interesting things!
- His hobbies include boxing, restoring/building hot rods, and “weapon proficiency shooting practice.”
- He belongs to the Masons, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the NRA, among other groups.
- He has a daughter named Nikki (what a coincidence!)
- He enjoys shag music. (BONUS: watch this couple dance to shag in some parking lots.)
- In 1996, he invented the quote, “If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!,” because the way everyone else says it is too mellifluous.
- “I still believe Ms. Haley is pretending to be someone she is not,” Knotts said upon issuing an apology or whatever, for his bigotry. Eh, he’s probably just frustrated that he can’t “make it” with her because he is rooting for her opponent, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, whose flags have Confederate rainbows instead of crescent moons.
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I hear the nym “Raghead Jake” sticking here. Like Tailgunner Joe.
“It’s like local political version of Saturday Night Live,” only it’s hilarious and racist
I think that it’s pretty amazing that he looks *exactly* like I pictured him. I must be psychic.
Mississippi Burning just called. They want their stock villian back.
“…restoring/building hot rods, and “weapon proficiency shooting practice.”” = jacking off dudes.
My bad, I had her pegged for a “dothead.”
“In 1996, he invented the quote, “If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!,”
What a coincidence, in 2010 I invented the quote’ “And keep your eye on the sparrow. When the going gets narrow.”
The correct term is towelhead. Raghead is just tacky
Jake Knotts is a raghead.
So, I can expect a gun cleaning accident as well as an imminent cornonary. That thought makes my day.
Oh, but you know I only wish this gentlemen and his fat piehole dead in jest. Of course.
Sorry, Senator Jake, it’s not gonna work. There’s no way you’re gonna make me feel sympathetic towards a Republican candidate in South Carolina.
“I still believe Ms. Haley is pretending to be someone she is not,”
She’s a politician. Kinda par for the course, no? Sorta like how you are pretending to be a member of the human race.
Here’s Jake and the missus at the 2006 South Carolina Bail Bondsman Ball.
In next week’s news, State Senator Jake Knotts of South Carolina has been arrested for DUI after leaving a Raghead bar.
[re=591371]Hoplight[/re]: Or at least that he suffers brain damage and becomes retarded (SATIRE!)
Huh, I must have missed it when telling racist jokes was perfectly inoffensive.
He’s exactly as I pictured.
[re=591374]ph7[/re]: I’m thinking they’ve had issues pushing away from the dessert bar.
Oh, who am I kidding? They pull a chair UP to the dessert bar!
Comeon ! At least he didn’t call them sand niggers
I’d make a joke about robes and hoods, bu there’s only so much damage one can do comparing a motherfucker to a mound of soft serve.
[re=591372]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Considering her rather lax attitudes towards marital fidelity, there is one very simple way Nikki could make me feel sympathetic towards her, ifyouknowwhatImean.
My favorite Jake Knotts movie is “The Incredible Mr. Limpdick.”
So, when he says he still thinks she is pretending to be something she is not, he is saying “she is pretending not to be a raghead,” no?
[re=591377]actor212[/re]: Wanda Sykes etc etc.
Knotts explained, “A slut is a bitch who fucks everybody. A raghead is a bitch who fucks everybody but me.”
[re=591370]thefrontpage[/re]: that or a shit head
So…if Nikki is feeling peevish, does this mean she’s on the raghead?
Interesting. One of my hobbies is boxing.
I would like to box him.
[re=591374]ph7[/re]: Oh, man, let’s leave his wife out of this. She likely suffers enough as it is.
“Freewheeling, anything goes internet radio show.”
Code for buttsecks in the barn.
[re=591390]Prommie[/re]: Or 110% faithful.
By SNL he meant Amos and Andy…
[re=591399]magic titty[/re]: By “boxing” he means getting fisted by a dude wearing a heavy rubber glove.
But he’s also in lots more than just this page! Apparently, according to his offical bio on the SC Senate webpage, his occupation is “Full-time Legislator/Retired Law Enforcement and Deputy Coroner” Does that mean you can shoot the darkies, then call it “suicide”?
This bozo gives me a Newell rapture. Poop! Poop – poop be do – poop. He’s given the whole Palmetto State a “where are sum leaves I gotta wipe this sheeit offen mah shoe” moment.
Poop, also.
[re=591399]magic titty[/re]: Pine box him.
[re=591374]ph7[/re]: You should be banned posting that picture. Last time I thought I saw that I had to spend six days on Thorazine.
I’ve always believed the appropriate punishment for an ethnic slur is a good ‘ol down home beatdown performed by a large group of those offended. And then this fat fuckstick could be termed a raghead himself, because he need a big bandage wrapped around his fat fucking head.
[re=591378]JMP[/re]: You see, it’s not offensive because it’s true, she is of Indian descent. And “raghead” is just a funny way of pointing out that essential truth. Now if she was really a white, real American then calling her a “raghead” would be offensive because it would be so inaccurate. I mean, why are all the browns so easily offended by this sort of thing? They’re the ones who are brown!
Hey, maybe he just means that she wears a bad hairpiece, as in “Rand Paul is a raghead.”
SO, when’s Jake’s called on insulting terminology, he can noetheless say, “I still think Rand Paul is pretending he’s something that he’s not – a person with dark, curly hair.”
Who’s the one “raghead” already in the White House?
[re=591364]Mr Blifil[/re]: Clearly the fat fuck can’t even get his racial slurs correct.
It’s dudes like this that make me pray my daughters will grow up to be lesbians.
Those bail bondsmen and their guest state senator were really partying it up on the money the brown people had to pay them to get out of jail.
“Man is the only animal that laughs and has state legislatures.”
(Samuel Butler, d. 1902)
[re=591380]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Yeah, fat.
[re=591374]ph7[/re]:
Land manatees! I thought they were extinct!
but I need to do more research. In the great state of SC, Andre is not a redneck name. Unfortunately, that’s where my family lives. Andre for a white cracker. I’ve never come across it. Just who is this Lt Governor?
He has a cute tummy. I want to poke it.
[re=591402]rocktonsammy[/re]: WORD NERD ALERT: If it’s on the Internet, it’s not a radio show. Saying that is as ridickalus as saying “cable broadcast.”
[re=591373]Darkness[/re]: what is she pretending to be, exactly? In other words she’s not White and I thought she was! Guess he hasn’t been this disappointed since Hoover (J Edgar). The vicissitudes of passing in the South…
Just checked Jake Knotts website to send him a little message and noticed his security word, to prevent spam is PRANK… Coincidence or is he just such a joker?
The painting behind Mr. Knotts appears to be that of a tree growing out of a book (the bible, I presume).
This explains everything.
Just go shag yourself, Knotts
I was in Charleston a few weeks back, and one of the hamburger joints was advertising their “Angus Beef” on the big movable type sign, only someone (or Maybe God) had removed the “G,” so it was “Anus Beef.” I thought it was a typo, but given the state of the South Carolina politics, maybe it was truth in advertising. So much beef from so many assholes.
Finally, a fat white guy in politics!
Newt, you’ve lost weight.
# His hobbies include boxing, restoring/building hot rods, and “weapon proficiency shooting practice.”
# He belongs to the Masons, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the NRA, among other groups.
With credentials such as those, he’s got my vote.
But really, “raghead”? What’s wrong with the more traditional, non-denominational “wog”?
Give him 15 minutes alone with Nikki Haley and he’ll be singing a different tune.
It seems this was recorded. And TPM has listened to it. Josh Marshall reports So Carolina Totally Loses Its Mind. From the link:
…But now the audio has surfaced. And the whole thing turns out to have been much more over the top and nutty than first reported.
Not only did state Sen. Jake Knotts refer to Haley as a “f#!king raghead” he also went on a tear about her being a Sikh pretending to be Christian and part of some wild conspiracy theory Haley being a stalking horse for turban-wearing foreigners trying to undermine South Carolina’s God-fearing culture.
According to the Free Times, Knotts claimed Haley’s father is sending letters to Indian saying that his daughter is the first Sikh in the United States running for high office and that “we’re at war over there.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
I GUARANTEE you that this guy is fucking a fat chick that is not his wife.
[re=591452]Hagop[/re]: ”
I GUARANTEE you that this guy is fucking a fat chick that is not his wife.”
By the wife’s request.
[re=591444]thehelveticascenario[/re]: And with good posture, too!
Is he wearing a bra?
[re=591380]ManchuCandidate[/re]: [re=591360]Absolutely Fapulous[/re]: Every male in S.C. over the age of fifty looks like that. The clothes vary, though.
[re=591452]Hagop[/re]: except for the chick part
Ladies and gentlemen, the dream we all dream of:
Dickhead versus raghead in the world series of dumb
She’s an Indian-American. Dot, not feather.
So I guess Jake is on the rag.
I’m kind of bummed, to be honest. He was really good as Ralph Furley on Three’s Company.
Calling this shitpile a disgusting pig is an understatement and an insult to pigs.
What’s the problem? Everyone thought that joke was funny when he emailed it to every single state employee using his official South Carolina Senate email account.
If I know South Carolina like I think I know South Carolina, I guarantee you this guy gets reelected with a higher percentage of the vote than he has ever had before…
Is this an example of the librul turrists “fanning the flames”? Or was this fine gentleman just taken out of context?
[re=591451]qwerty42[/re]: But it’s all good – he was saying that stuff in jest – really. Just a joke.
Pot calls kettle non-pink.
We are sailing to Byzantium. In SC politics, nothing is what it seems. Republicans in South Carolina say that Knotts hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on Will Folks.
Someone has been promoting the “rag head” comment for less-than-obvious reasons, and Knotts may have known exactly what he was doing to remind SC voters that Nikki “ain’t one of us.” Oh, but it could have gotten just a little bit out of control.
Politically Nikki Haley is opposed to my beliefs in every way, but the more GOPers pile on her with this sexist racist bullshit, the more I’d really like to see her win.
Sheriff J.W. Pepper goes corporate!
Today, we are all crypto-ragheads.
I’m sorry but “mellifluous”? Obviously I’m a moron, cuz I’m the only one who had to look this up? So, ok, I’ve got the definition, but I was distracted, what are we talking about? Oh, yeah, South Carolina. Nevermind, I’ll go back to looking shit up. Let me know if something newsworty breaks.
Sikhs aren’t dotheads; only Hindus are dotheads. Ayrabs are ragheads (from the Middle English kheffiyah or rag), Sikhs are towelheads (because they wear a turban that looks like Joan Crawford coming out of the shower). Sikhs drive cabs, Hindus run convenience stores and cheap motels. These are American traditions that go back to the founding fathers; why can’t this doofus get it straight?
[re=591451]qwerty42[/re]: Wow. Mind-boggling. He thinks she is a Sikh version of the Manchurian candidate.
I keep having this nagging fear (okay, hope) that some seriously mean-spirited stuff will hit on election eve. Will Folks never offered his “evidence,” and I understand that photos exist. One cannot help but smile when these folks turn on one another.
Remember Rove’s SC smear campaign on McCain in 2000? Teh fun never stops in the Palmetto State.
Aw hell… newsworthy. Where the hell is the “edit” button? Whatever, I get points for spelling moron, cuz I’m always in doubt, is it Moran? or maybe Palin? I dunno… I give up.
[re=591492]Lazy Media[/re]: Sikhs own gas stations, too, and all men carry a knife, so they are always ready to carve up and eat christian babies.
“Where else but America, or possibly Canada, could a family move to from India, and six months later end up owning a chain of 130 wheel-balancing centers?”
Can we just kick a State out? Forcibly secede their ass? Are there any guns still at Fort Sumter? Maybe we could reverse the situation, and begin the War of Southern Expulsion with a firing FROM Fort Sumter this time.
In all fairness, he was great as the viscious strike-braker in “Matewan”.
Here’s the website of the show he was on: http://www.pubpoliticslive.com/
Video of last night’s episode is not yet up but hopefully soon. So we can all see how much his comments were in jest and whatnot.
[re=591446]Neilist[/re]: too close to Wop…. didn’t want people thinking he was insulting Italians… they are all in the Mafia and might give him an Italian Necktie or make him sleep with the fishes… (which he might actually prefer to sleeping with his wife)
[re=591370]thefrontpage[/re]: “Shaghead” actually, if you can read.
Know the difference between a joke and a bigoted outburst of rage? There isn’t one if you’re a Repiglican.
Maybe he was thinking of the SNL skit “The Bel Arabs”. Or maybe he’s just a fat, porcine rat fucker. That’s always a possibility.
[re=591374]ph7[/re]: The foto reminds me of the old Frank Zappa line:
“Know what people? I’m not black, but sometimes i wish i could say i wasn’t white.”
(There’s no way to delay
there’s trouble comin’ every day.)
[re=591374]ph7[/re]: Which one is the wife?
So, can we start taking bets on the “when he gets caught sucking/trying to sucking guys in a public toilet” yet?
[re=591531]yellowdogdem[/re]: The one with the lasso around its neck. Duh.
Jake Knotts! Joe Wilson! Nikki Haley! Mark Sanford! Andre Bauer! Lindsay “nothing to hide” Graham!
–Welcome to the new Florida–a state so embarrassing that only the illiterate there are happy:
they can’t read what everyone is saying about their state. Time to change their name from the Palmetto State.
Welcome to the Jerry Springer State, where the state dance is cringing.
That’s some nappy-headed ho macaca there.
Well, considering South Carolina, he’ll pick up more supporters than he’ll lose from that statement.
What’s really, really, really hilarious is that some of South Carolina’s, Georgia’s, and Alabama’s finest citizens are descended from ragheads.
Don’t believe me?
Well, Raghead Jake needs to know the origin of his insult.
It was a common term for a worker in a textile mill, usually a child laborer, who collected the lint. Here is a rag head from Georgia http://www.shorpy.com/node/7840
Here is a pair in South Carolina: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5755
Here are three in North Carolina: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5513
(By the way, a “cracker” is a similar insult based on class.) I hates it when rednecks can’t even keep their vituperation straight.
[re=591538]justthisonce[/re]: Do you think the whole Florida/South Carolina phenomenon is working its way North?
[re=591527]richardwb1[/re]: Blow your harmonica, son!
Knotts got the hots for that gay Bauer guy.
Just like SNL, eh? Hmm. I guess Knotts fills (and how!) the Belushi/Quaid/Farley/Sanz/Morgan/Thompson fat guy role.
[re=591492]Lazy Media[/re]: Thanks for the refresher.
[re=591410]weejee[/re]: I’m trotting out filthy cock jackal for this one.
[re=591527]richardwb1[/re]: “Blow that harmonica, son.”
Oh, and BTW, a BIIIG Thank You to Knotts for taking the racist crown off of Arizona’s head and returning it to the South where it so rightly belongs….
This is funny: Jake is a pig head.
[re=591541]Escape Goat Nation[/re]: Well, considering South Carolina, he’ll pick up more supporters than he’ll lose from that statement.
One would hope. I kind of think Florida went for Obama in the election due to the people finally getting fed up with being a national punchline.
[re=591544]What Fresh Hell is This?[/re]: Sorry, Jesus. Goddamit.
[re=591418]Roach[/re]: THis one:
a href=”http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/11/24/gal.bodinner1124.gi.jpg”>http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/11/24/gal.bodinner1124.gi.jpg
Rag, mama, rag
Make your mama sigh
She breaks just like a little girl
Oh, what pleasant company
As Dean Wormer once said, fat, drunk and stupid is a guaranteed way to be elected to office as a Republican in South Carolina.
ahhh damned fingers…[re=591418]Roach[/re]: Who’s the one “raghead” already in the White House?”
THIS ONE
They have the video but won’t post it…before the primary. Updates occurring here:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/pub-politics/statement-from-phil-bailey-and-wesley-donehue/116124148430432#!/notes.php?id=110176042360868
[re=591556]bitchincamaro[/re]: A great song and a great album can be quoted multiple times. Can’t remember if it’s “your harmonica” or “that harmonica” and too lazy to look on teh Google.
Ah, we ARE the Brain Police.
Probably she declined to have sex with him!
Ah, ha ha ha! Sikhs and Muslins–all those stupid monotheist religions are all the same!
“His hobbies include boxing, restoring/building hot rods …”
Clearly, his girth indicates that his hobbies include watchingboxing, watching other peoplerestoring/building hot rods …
Why do idiots think a racist insult is OK if they call it a “joke?”
“‘We’re at war over there,’ Knotts said. Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with ‘foreign countries.’”
Would some kind-hearted Christian soul please buy this deprived man a map? It is so very sad to me that Knotts cannot locate India on a map, because I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future.
For our children.
[re=591446]Neilist[/re]: WOG is British slang, not US.
[re=591538]justthisonce[/re]: Hey, you forgot Jim DeMint!
And how did Lauri find those YouTube clips? Did she google “shagging in parking lots”?
Hey, wait a minute… wasn’t this guy the slightly less racist candidate for governor in O Brother Where Art Thou?
[re=591360]Absolutely Fapulous[/re]: I pictured him with suspenders, in a khaki colored suit, wide tie at half mast, perspiration running down his shirt, fanning himself with a panama hat and chomping a cigar. Which turned out to be about right.
“In 1996, he invented the quote, ‘If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!,’ because the way everyone else says it is too mellifluous.”
Also because 1977 Sammy Davis Jr. + the Boy Scouts of America = Republican bigot fuckwit (and yes, I know that’s a triple redundancy).
Because you just never know…it was Sikh bodyguards who killed Indira Gandhi. And they have blown up a bunch of planes and trains. Mebbe all those gentlemen were just frisking Nikki for weapons. And “Sikh” does sound a lot like “Sheik.” Hat things, also.
She’s clearly giving it out for free and he’s just jealous.
Oh my.
“She’s a f#!king raghead,” Knotts said.
He later clarified his statement. He did not mean to use the F-word.
…
He says many of his supporters are black. [Some of his best friends, too, I'm sure.]
…
Neither [world class asshole Senate Republican Caucus political director Wesley]Donehue, [his Democratic counterpart, Phil] Bailey nor Brown challenged Knotts on his remark during or after the broadcast.
“I was floored,” Donehue said after the cameras were off.
“Senator Knotts took it a step too far,” Bailey said afterward. “I don’t agree with it … [but] it’s not my job to question Jakie Knotts.”
Not your job?!?!? Dude, you’re the fucking Democratic co-host of a show that just had Billy Bob Pigfuck going full racist. If calling him out isn’t your job, what the fuck is?
Knotts says he believed Haley has been set up by a network of Sikhs and was programmed to run for governor of South Carolina by outside influences in foreign countries. He claims she is hiding her religion and he wants the voters to know about it.
We need a good Christian to be our governor,” he said. “She’s hiding her religion. She ought to be proud of it. I’m proud of my god.”
Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban.
“We’re at war over there,” Knotts said.
Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with “foreign countries.”
I had tried to comment before, but the Intertubes ates it or hates it.
Some of the most illustrious SC families are raghead-derived. I hate it when rednecks can’t even get their insults right. Lewis Wicke Hines took many photos of ragheads in the 1910′s. (A child laborer working in a textile mill to gather up the lint, to scrape the looms, and otherwise to die young, was a rag head or lint head.)
No making fun of the Medes and Parthians… it’s unwise.
[re=591374]ph7[/re]: No way. Really? Because I hate to break it to Raghead Jake, but me and Haley totally banged that slut back at the Motel 6 in West Charleston.
If it wasn’t funny, it wasn’t a joke.
Jake Knotts: We’re Americans goddamit, we don’t need to learn no stinkin’ geography. Them ragheads should be learnin’ about us.
I used to correct people who couldn’t keep South Carolina and North Carolina straight. At this point, I am just deeply grateful when someone thinks I’m from North Carolina.
I believe he’s referring to the Chevy Chase-Richard Pryor SNL sketch from ’75.
Sons of Confederate Veterans are basically the Klan without bedsheets.
Sorry, but if you know South Ccrolina politics, this makes Jake the front runner for write-in candidates to be the next Governor. Seriously will someone call the Fat Police to come and get this man before the Sikhs take their tires back and refuse to sell him lottery tickets.
[re=591492]Lazy Media[/re]: Not so! The AP refutes thee thusly:
“Raghead is a derogatory term used for people of Middle Eastern or Indian descent.”
Definitions evovle over the years, etc. etc. I think Safire wrote a column about it.
Headragz $16.50
Stick and move, you fat fuck!
[re=591371]Hoplight[/re]: Surely you mean that you wish this gentlemen and his fat piehole dead with votes.
This is the first time I’ve seen the phrase ‘weapon proficiency’ used in a context other than Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. It’s one level of disturbing when a D&D nerd obsesses over the weapon proficiencies of their favorite elf, but it’s another thing entirely when we’re talking about a racist asshole and his actual, real-world guns.
[re=591640]chascates[/re]: I hate it when the full context brings on full 3D crazy rather then lukewarm nuance that could fall either way.
[re=591367]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]:
Unfortunately correct. Detroit/Dearborn/Hamtramck evidently not in SC. Then, he’d know the difference, but wouldn’t be able to buy a Slushee. Too bad. I’d love to pee in his cup. And I’m a totally different Semite than the ones he confuses this Sikh with.
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