They should really do one of those Dirty Jobs shows about dealing with C-SPAN callers. [Videogum]
THE SOUND OF YOUNG AMERICA 4:40 pm October 8, 2010
9,000-Year-Old Woman Not Racist Against Coloreds, She Tells C-SPAN
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I think medicare's done enough for *you* already, old lady.
It's clearly hospice time for the teabagger generation.
And people thought death panels were a bad idea.
(non-snark)
That was an impressive and very professional host of that program.
He didn't think the "colored man" comment referred to him.
I found him to be very clean and articulate.
(also non-snark) I agree. He earned his pay and then some in that one minute.
Sure, if Rick Sanchez could pull that off, people might think of him as a very good Hispanic anchor. Instead of, you know, a jew hating former anchor.
But, will he ever give this lady a simple "thank you" for that? Nooooo.
He would have been angry, but he knew that he had already had sex with the woman's daughter and granddaughter. So, karma, I guess.
Wow, his eyes were blinking furiously,and wasn't that a smidgeon of a snarl playing around his mouth? He was fantastic!
You can almost hear him think "mutherfucking racist bitch" from here. Mans got more poise than I'd ever have. I'd be like " don't worry to much about it dear, you'll be worm food soon."
I dunno if we've done enough for "you people," but I've sure done a lot for "that one." h/t WALNUTS
And I'm NOT A RACIST, you dirty n****r!
We can haz death panels now?
That was probably the most amount of emotion I've seen a Washington Journal host express. It takes a lot of not racist talk from a 9000 year-old lady to make them even move an eyebrow. God love 'em.
"I'm X years old" = "I literally have no way to back up my argument"
My chronological is 93 but my mental age is 21/2 and shrinking.
Old people seem to revert to toddlers after a certain age, whereupon they have to preface everything by holding up their fingers and saying "I'm this many old!"
This person was old enough to have voted throughout the entire civil rights era, and I can bet none of the people she voted for actually supported the movement. Aside from LBJ, of course (because isn't it just so tragic what happened to that papist mick that was his boss?)
Three cheers for post-racial America!
There ought to be "Pre-Racial America" bumper stickers and posters, with the same image as this one: http://tinyurl.com/288urcq
Someone tell Benincasa to quit pranking C-SPAN hosts and start writing for Wonkette again.
Nevermind.
I pray for the day will all the teabaggers come to their senses and all together say "well that seems reasonable, nevermind"
Opus: Penguin lust is not immoral and wicked, and anybody that thinks so is just an old prude. It's beautiful! And natural! And I for one fully support penguin lust!
Donahue: Great, but today's topic is "nun beating."
Good lord, man! I can't support that!
I only hope her home health care aide was watching this, so she'll know just how grateful she should be.
WIN!
Esspecially since her nurses are likely one of them colloreds.
By "free medicine" she meant "crack," right?
Free medicine, free basing, free everything!
She must think government assistance is a 'coloreds only' program.
She forgot to start her comment with "Megadittos…"
"Ma'am it's not always about race — and a few nice men in berets will be by your house to explain that in a little more detail."
Here, here! Is it too much to ask that the coloreds thank the white man for all that he has done for them?
Let's start with the Native Americans. Hey Tonto, think you can muster a "thank you" for the free blankets?
hey at least they were able to stay warm, while dying from smallpox…and don't forget the nice beads, also!
The poor old racist dear, she actually sounded gentle and a little nervous. I bet she charged up her Rascal, snuck past the guard at the nursing home, and rode to the pay phone at the 7-11 to make her call. And then had to whisper into the phone lest anyone overhear and call the nursing home. No doubt she really doesn't consider herself racist. It's just that she's been senile since the 1940s or whenever it was that people stopped saying "the coloreds."
The line of meth dealers at any 7-11 pay phone would be way too long, she probably used her Jitterbug old-fucks cell phone.
When will "you people" see the pony in slavery? hengh? hengh?
No kidding. They got an all-expenses paid ride from Niger to Charleston — a lovely city! — and then job training, lodging, food, religious education, and sexual liberty so long as they were the beneficiaries of massa's libertine desires. All that in exchange for building the plantation, following the plough, picking a little cotton for a few hours every day. How ungrateful can Those People be?
…and don't forget Jim Crow, that was awfully 'white' of us!
"Since then, we have given them welfare, the Cosbys, BET, Oprah, crack, guns, AIDS, and nice gated communities like Compton, Inglewood.."
The good news is by 2012, many of these old racist shitbags will have passed on to great klan rally in the sky.
They all have racist spawn, allowing gub'mint medicare to pay their racist parents' nursing home bills.
That's where Nickelodeon's FEMA Camp Cruiseline comes in. Where all the little fatties are indoctrinated with education and science (Marxism).
"You don't have to tell me how we whupped you coloreds in the slavery. I was there. But we fed you. Even after. Really, what the fuck do you expect?"
A 90 year old from south Florida – the other people who live there call her "the young'un."
That guy needs a day off. Let's see if Larry Willmore will take a shift for him. He'd tear that old, racist prune a new one.
Shut up you old hag before i take all the butterscotch candy from the dish
And no more rice pudding, because it obviously gives you the "horribles."
Larry Kings mother was just drunk dialing.
I just love watching the Golden Girls blooper reel.
What a perfect vignette of the blithe, offensive ignorance at the heart of the Tea Party movement.
No, you haven't. According to my grandmother, she clearly remembers marching somewhere down south asking for civil rights and a unicorn. A fucking unicorn. Where is it? That was, like, half a century ago. She didn't ask for a black president. She knew that'd be ridiculous because white people would still be all racist in the future but she really wanted that unicorn. She's still waiting, white America. Don't let my grandma down!
I suppose it's too much to hope the DNC will take the first 45 seconds of this clip and run it, repeatedly, everywhere, between now and November 2.
That would count as RNC campaign spending.
The woman was actually an actor from Philadelphia, hired by the RNC. The casting call said "decrepit, senile old hag."
Another reminder that every douchebag who ever donned a white hood had a mother.
After McCain snatched the microphone out of the old bitch's hand in '08, you'd think they wouldn't let her near anything she could speak her tiny mind into, again.
It's about damn time that colored man got the bellyachers and a mewl he was promised.
BAhahaha….you can almost see him thinking, "jebus fucking christ on a stick I wish I could get a real job so I didn't have to put up with these fucking morAns!"
On an unrelated note. Jack Stuef managed to post an entire story (just a video as he decided to just phone it in today) without backhandedly critisizing Obama. Amazing self control there Jack. I guess hearing the old bag call this black guy a "colored" was good enough for ya huh?!
Considering how old the caller's tele-vision machine probably is, I'm surprised she even sees color.
You give somebody an all-expenses-paid cruise from Niger to Charleston — a lovely town, by the way! — free job training, whatever they want to eat out of the compost bin, a nice place to sleep, all the overseer cock they can accommodate, and in return all you ask for is a few hours a day following the plough, picking cotton, serving meals at the big house, etc. Is it too much to ask that they at least be grateful for all we White People have done for the coloreds?
I don't think so. Look at that uppity one in the "White" House — no respect at all!
In America you'll get food to eat
Won't have to run through the jungle
And scuff up your feet
You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It's great to be an American
Ain't no lions or tigers ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Ev'rybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard little wog sail away with me
Sail away … sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay…
You forgot to mention guaranteed employment for life and cradle-to-grave medical care.
Plus free daycare until the picanninies are old enough to sell down the river What a paradise it was!
Old white folk speak: Wee kidnapped you and taught ya how to work the fields and live in the ghettos and feel detached from yer ancestors. where's ma thank yoo?
Right. If his eyebrows could burrow any further, they would have been in his chin.
Goddamn, if this doesn't make me pine for the days when everyone will have a videophone-gadget-device and we can see the old biddy's face as she calls in to lay down her wisdom, picture-in-picture style.
The one arch of the eyebrow at the end really said it all. Well done, C-SPAN man.
You see that face? That is the face of a man who is being more patient with the entire universe than he previously thought possible.
She was a little less off topic than this lady (NSFW) http://www.buzzfeed.com/normallyodd/interview-gon…
O, Canada…
Is guy that is all calm with no negro accent unless he wanted to have one like Wayne Brady gonna hafta choke a bitch?
Completely OT, Steuf looks like the girl from Scooby Doo….Thelma.
And she was calling in for the Republicans? Didn't see that one coming.
Master class in gracefully handling racist bullshit without batting an eyelash begins in 3….2….1….
In her mind, "colored" is the politically correct term for "n*****".
I wish my 82 year old mother said "colored" … she doesn't even use it in public – I can't go anywhere with her.
I feel your pain, Tim… god rest her soul, I could never to get mine to stop referring to anyone darker than the average golfer as "shines"…. If she'd have seen Boner on the tv it would have gone like: "WHUD THAT SHINE DO TO HIS HAIR?!!!" (She didn't wear her hearing aid so thought we were deaf, too.)
For my Aunt Ruby — and don't THAT name say down-home? — the right word was "nigra."
"I'm 90 years old and I just want to ask to colored man…"
It looked to a very quick moment that the ultra-cool CSPAN guy was going to do a double take and start ripping her but then he realized that having "Washington Journal" on your resume is not a guaranteed path to your next gig on TV.
Which is a shame since it would have made great TV.
The 'Silent Generation' has finally spoken!!!
and we missed nothing in the interim….
Damn, she made that being colored sound so good!!! There for a sec, I almost wished I had been born into that coddled life… then I realized that she was just an old fucking loon.
I saw anger, but the self control and poise he showed was incredible. I don't think I could have made it through this without completely going off on this woman. I don't know how he did it.
Not even an eye-roll. My eyes would have been spinning like windmills. Possibly in two different directions at once.
Just think, in 60 years the millennial teabaggers will be calling in doing the same thing, except they will be covered in tattoos; face, neck, arms, everything. And there will be video. I am glad I will not live to see this.
Look, you really can't blame her. There was a colored fella, right there on the TV, and a phone number, and everything after that was pretty much just Fate.
Really! She used to call the police when she saw colored folk on television. She's come a long way.
He wanted it.
"What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny?' 'Make yourself at home?' 'Marry my daughter?' You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know . . . morons."
Meanwhile in Rockridge..
The Presidents a N*Bong*er…
Somebody strap that woman down in her Stannah stairlift and flip that sucker's switch to puree.
ok, the host was calm under pressure & awkwardness, but it would have been great if he stopped and said "ma'am, actually your use of 'colored' is considered offensive in this day and age" or something similar. Maybe the old biddy would have learned something. I mean even if she's 90 the terms "Negro" and "colored" were pretty archaic by what, 1975, so she would have been 55.
I wonder what's her stance on "orientals" ?
or Injuns?
the host kept his cool. bravo to him. At least the caller didn't blame everything on the Jews. Maybe if she had another 20 seconds. Seriously – the linkage to Taibbi's article in Rolling Stone on the white brain seems even more dead on now.
That was Rush "to eat" Limbaugh disguising his voice!
As Ron Burgundy would say: "Stay classy, Florida!"
"Cracka-ass crackah," as Chris Rock so eloquently put it.
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