Michigan senatorial candidate Rep. Pete Hoekstra — pronounced “HOOKER,” in his terrorist Dutch inflection — went on the teevee yesterday to defend his comically racist ad about the evil lady in China or Vietnam (who cares) who, thanks to Sen. Debbie Stabenow, has stolen all of America’s jobs in Vietnamese or Chinese rice paddies. “There’s nothing in here that has a racial tint at all,” derpeth the clown. Hmm… so then why was the evil Asian lady’s image titled “yellowgirl” as it actually was on the hilarious companion racist website DebbieSpendItNow.com?
It could be that “yellowgirl” was referring to her shirt. That is a solid theory. Another: It was referring to her race. By now the image file appears to have been renamed “yellow-shirt,” however, so make your mean jokes about Pete Hoekstra’s racist internet files quickly before everyone forgets! Your Wonkette has named its image in this post “NiceLadyFromAsia.jpg,” though, as part of our contribution to the National Conversation about Race that doesn’t exist, thank god.
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I can't snark on this…patience and the belief in the basic goodness of humanity is draining out of me at an alarming rate.
You still have some left?
Yeah…a little. If not for the love of good woman, I'd probably be typing this from a sniper's position at the top of a tall tower.
I would be waving to you from my own tall tower.
The love of a good man and the love of some good dogs.
The dogs are growing increasingly alarmed at me, though, when I yell out in rage and bitterness.
Mine are beginning to back away slowly, crouching and growling. (Not really. They are really the light of my life. Plus my good man, of course.)
My dog, too. Snoozing peacefully on the couch (gave up that fight a long time ago), minding her own business until mommy starts yelling the F word at Newt, Romney and Co., and she slinks off the couch and up the stairs into her cave, my former closet.
Yeah, I can understand that.
7 point 6 2 mil imeter full me tal jack et
DB: I'm already in a world of shit
Observer: But DB…you have the love of a good woman!
DB: Oh yeah. Thanks!
Seems Hoekstra doesn't get "dog whistle" politics.
Only your racist base is supposed to hear it, dumbass.
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Damn libtards, first they make us change the title from "Yellow Peril…"
The one last job that yellow people took in Michigan?
Apparently Pete "Me love you 1%er long time… really long time" Hooker's.
I pray to the Gods of Irony that an asian person (preferably a cute one) takes this dick's seat in the next election. If it's possible to die of laughter, that just might do me in.
Erm… if I say that I find this woman attractive, and that I've always been a "rice-chaser," does that make me a racist? I can only use the Seinfeld Defense: "It's not racist if you like the race."
I think it's only dog-whistle racist if you start shouting 'me love you long time!', then claim that it was an homage to 'Full Metal Jacket'.
Hoekstra/Kubric 2012!
My guitar playing friends think nothing is hotter than a chick with a guitar.
My cycling friends think a chick on a bike is teh hott.
Within these two groups are subsets that have a strong preference for the Asian ladies.
If someone gives this girl a guitar, she'd better not be carrying that thing when she cycles past my assembled friends. Could get ugly.
My daughter is adopted from Asian. Once she hit adolescence and thoughts of Asian women being hot turned into ewww creeepy for me.
But punk rock girls – YEAH!
How about the Hard Nips?"
Sweet! The bass player rocks a Phamtom Guitarworks Teardrop hollowbody.
Me love her long time!
Psychologists have yet to explain this phenomenon.
My daughter calls it "yellow fever". Her asian friends think that's hilarious … but it might be like how blah people have an exclusive license to the N word.
As Strom Thurmond once noted: "My johnson is color blind and it is the bane of my existence."
Or was that David Cross……
Strom's wang was the bane to a lot of existences.
They would also have accepted 'lady chinky-eyes'.
Betty Davis eyes?
Sammy Davis eyes.
Sammy Davis eye
What he meant was "Yellah."
How high?
Or yerrow.
Chinese accent fail. Needs moar acting lessons.
So he's going with the full-on "liberals are the real racists for calling my ad racist just because it was racist" I see.
That is because he is a full-on asshat.
He's a West Michigan Dutchman. They're a Christian Reform sub-species all their own, like those critters that evolve on lonely plateaus. Just around the corner from DeVos and Van Andel, the <del>pyramid scheme</del> job creators at <s> Amway</s> <s>Quixtar</s> <s> Alticor</s> Amway, in-laws to the <s> mercenaries</s> private security contractors at <s> Blackwater</s> <s> Xe</s> Academi.
O.T.
Karen Handel is out at SGK.
Seems she got a pink slip.
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And she's not going away quietly. You go girl. Burn all your bridges.
And please find an island before you do.
Or was that a yellow card?
So the Komen foundation does approve of abortion if it's necessary to save the life of the nonprofit.
Well, it's not like there are any other organizations out there competing for your donation dollars.
She quit to spend more time making decisions for other people's families.
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hope it was in their branded color.
Meh, I'm still donating directly to PP. Cut out the middle judgmental asshole.
Srsly. As with many others, I had no idea what shitheels were at that organization. PP for the win (and the money.)
AHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a wonderful addition to her résumé. I'm sure employers will be clamoring — clamoring! I tells ya — to hire this expert on creating negative equity.
In Wingnuttia this will be seen as a badge of honor. I don't think she'll have any trouble finding a new job. Fox will probably pick her up as their expert on women's health issues.
"this expert on creating negative equity"
Sounds like a perfect candidate for the financial industry or real estate.
She'll join Ari Fishmonger's consulting firm.
Secretary of Health in the Santorum Administration
Gosh, I hope all her connections to the Dubya Gang will help her find another place where she can make an honest living.
I find your choice of words amusing.
I love the part how this "policy change" was clearly intended to "better serve women". Just not, you know, the ones who aren't already able to afford decent comprehensive women's health care.
Does this mean that Komen is no longer Handel's Messiah?
A Nelson Muntz HAHA to you bitch!
"Seems she got a pink slip."
Irony and schaedenfreude in one short sentence.
You mean a Pink™ slip.
I make love you, long,long, time Pete. Two Dollar?
Too bad Bruce Lee isn't around to kick this guy's ass.
Anybody got Jackie Chan's phone number?
I thought all Asians worked at waxing joints.
Racist assholes will be racist assholes. Nice that the GOP is so bereft of any kind of policy arguments that every minute they are running on fear. Fear of race, fear of the gheyz, fear of aliens, fear of Kenyans….good god, how do these people get out of bed in the morning? I'd be too scared to get up with all these boogeymen.
If only they were too scared to vote.
I think James McMurtry sums where we should direct our rage very nicely:
Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in
Should I hate 'em for having our jobs today
No I hate the men sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They've never known want, they'll never know need
Their shit don't stink and their kids won't bleed
Their kids won't bleed in their dirty little war
And we can't make it here anymore
Here's the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv0q3cW3x1s
(Yeah…I know we already knew where to direct our rage. But, it's still nice to have a tune to go with that rage.)
I was unfamiliar with this song. THANKS.
You're very welcome.
Thanks for posting that. Good protest song and makes the right points about who's to blame.
Just a wild guess, but that song doesn't get played very much on Top Country Hits USA radio, does it?
Yeah…I would pretty much guarantee it…unless they played it to mock it.
That's Larry's boy. His "I'm not from here, I just live here" is pretty wonderful song too.
Too right – and that's my new theme song. I will be moving to an island in Maine soon (I've always wanted to live on a small island off the coast of the united states – Sterling…we hardly knew ye) and there are two types of people who live there. The natives and those "from away"…fortunately, I'm marrying a lady who grew up there so even though I'm a "flatlandah, yessah", they still have to accept me.
To simulate the behavior of native Mainiacs, always refer to it as the “state of Maine.” The accent’s tougher.
Hey, DB, that sounds like the beginning of a great new phase in your life. Congrats.
Yeah…I'm simultaneously excited and terrified….but it'll be good.
From the information in your post, I can only deduce that you're marrying Delores Claiborne.
Better than Annie Wilkes, I'd say. That would be Misery.
I swear, ever fucking thing is made in China now!
Yeah I'm sure the YellowGirl tag was referring to the color of the shirt — at least it was after they saw the tag and decided she needed to be wearing something yellow.
Well, it is a good color for her. Yellows/oranges just wash me out.
You guys, you guys; this totally not racist.
If he wanted it to be racist, he would have titled the picture "yerrow girr." Duh!
DAMN YOU!
No, I was racist first! No me! No ME!
and it's because she is WEARING yellow not that she IS yellow.
The yellow color of her shirt is apparent and straightforward. By comparison, calling her "good at math girl" is a descriptor that cannot be ascertained from a photo.
Her mouth, however, suggests she's good at "sucky sucky long time"
Don't you mean Yerrow Guh?
Shorter Hoekstra: I'm not a racist. Some of my best friends are gooks, chinks, nips, and slopeheads.
Here in my congressional district you are all equally worthless.
But no slants? Racist!
The ghost of Vincent Chin, a yellow person who no longer lives in Michigan–because he was clubbed to death by racists who did no prison time–is not amused.
Me play funny
Me play joke
Me go pee pee
on your campaign.
If your implying she faked the bad accent on purpose, I'm with you. She sounded like she was from Encino. My theory: She sees this awful racist shit, but it's a payday she needs, so she has a little fun with it, and the crackers are too stupid to know what hit them.
Enough of this distraction! When is that lady going to get back to her real job? – I have dry cleaning I need to pick up this afternoon.
You have tickee?
When I was a kid, my mom used to take clothes to the Chinese hand laundry. I was so disappointed when she never brought home any hands.
Anyone else remember how in the first season of "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" the Yellow Ranger was Asian, and the Black Ranger was African-American? I bet that got awkward on the set.
Don't forget the vaginally endowed Pink Ranger
And the Green Ranger later changed his powers and became the White Power Ranger.
Which was weird considering he was Native American. A few years later they rectified that oversight and made him the Red(skin) Ranger.
FUN FACT: The original script actually did call for the Red Ranger to be Native American. This is a literally true thing. Power Rangers was either the most hilariously racist show ever; the most hilariously oblivious to its own unfortunate implications ever; or most likely, some combination of both of those things simultaneously.
Holy shit balls, that is hilarious. They sorta got their wish – if Wikipedia is to be believed, Austin St. John was part Native American. I didn't know for years that he was also part Japanese, and to this day (after like what? almost 20 years on the air?) he stands as the only Asian red ranger. Their newest season is even about kids who are the direct descendants of FUCKING SAMURAI and only one of the cast members is Asian – and she's Chinese.
I can't even fathom how you screw up that badly.
OT, but related.
Life cereal boxes show regular white people on their regular white cereal, but the brown sugar-added type features brown people. In our home, they are known as Suburban Life and Thug Life cereal.
Next up, Native American "Red Girl" talks about how Debbie Spenditnow wants to close all of America's casinos.
I wonder how the poor "yellow girl" feels about her sudden fame?
Hull rikey!
I'm sure she was mortified when she was handed the script, but in her defense, it is really hard to get work acting when you're not lily white and/or paper-bag-test-passing blackish.
Concededly true, but I am not prepared to accept "I needed the work" as an excuse for being a party to this kind of thing.
A better defense is "hey, from reading this script it's clear that Pete Hoekstra is a giant asshole, and my participation in this horror show will allow the world to see that."
You guys are assuming the ad was shot in America.
Damn Canadians.
That is a very good point. If that's the case then truly she is America's greatest hero for jumping on the grenade to expose this guy.
We salute you, "Yellow Girl."
Actually, she had a much better chance at booking this gig than a white girl would.
True fact!
For all we know she's the next Michelle Malkin.
I'm disappointed the Koch bros didn't step up and give the guy the bucks to hire Lucy Liu for this spot. The higher the Q factor, the more believable the ad.
You think she doesn't like it *now*, wait till she turns up on an internet page with captions about cheezburgel.
The 'yellow peril' here is less the threat from the Chinese economy and more about the streak on most politicians.
Is there a special "Too Little, Too Late" award for Hooker and Komen?
They should call the ad Ol' Yeller because of the dog whistle.
That's pronounced "YERROW GIRR" if I'm not mistaken.
"Derpeth the Clown" will now be associated not only with Hoekstra, but any time one of these oily brainfarts seeks to impart views/wisdom/talkingpoints.
Hoekstra himself was referred to as "Yellow Prick".
I am telling you people, the most delicious part will be revealed when she admits that she's a member of SAG. One of those leftist labor-loving lunatic liberals.
…doing spots for wingnut Hoekstra.
This is called "paying your dues." Tough line of work. At least its not porn.
Somewhat related, I caught part of the premiere episode of "Smash" last night. It was pretty good, kind of like a "Glee" for the Broadway set. Debra Messing is so adorable in those trendy nerd glasses.
I am a member of SAG I am betting she is non-union, that was a really crappy ad.
oh I am sure somebody could…they all know kung fu, right?
Little babies know king fu, they try it on those they meet. . .
And so industrious!
This would be the same Pete Hoekstra who voted to give China most favored nation trade status.
By the way…Chris Hayes did a really good job substantively debunking this ad on "The Rachel Maddow Show" last night, explaining how small the percentage of the national debt actually owned by China and Japan is.
Did he also explain that the debt held by China and jobs being outsourced that Hoekstra conflated in the ad have absolutely nothing to do with each other?
Sadly, no. He did, however, point out some of the deficit spending Hoekstra voted for as a member of the House.
Most of it's held by Americans, IIRC. Meaning that politicians are actually constantly saying that We Can't Let our Children Be Burdened With Debt… to themselves.
Well, most of it would be held by us, if the slimeball politicians wouldn't have kept emptying out the Social Security Trust Fund and leaving IOU's for dubya to make jokes about.
Right, but either way, it makes calls to slash education, child health care, job creation initiatives, etc. etc. etc. because of debt our children will owe to each other incredibly perverse. In addition to being pernicious and evil, I mean.
I was hoping someone would mention this. I appreciated Chris's approach and analysis. I was not suprised to learn this douchebag from MI also is another deficit loving war monger POS.
Debbie Spenditnow would be right to point out that it was mostly spend on the Dubya Wars, which were most enthusiastically promoted by guys like the one campaigning to replace her.
Whoa, hey! Don't go fucking up GOP memes with your so-called "facts"!
That reminds me. How do people in China name their kids?
They throw their silver ware down the steps.
Ching-Chong-Ding-Dang
Son of a…
YOU'RE DANNY DE VITO!!
Not racist? Yellow girl might as well have been screaming "Tooo biiiigggg, tooo biiiiggg!"
What I need to know is whether Yellow Girl is a SAG member. Also, I'd hit that.
And buh-bye karen handel, it's been fun.
Sometimes, I cannot believe we are in the 21st century.
If Eskimos have an unusually large number of words for snow, does the GOP have an unusually large number of words for dick?
Looking at her again, I'm beginning to feel that I might be willing to give her all of my money.
Completely Off Topic: Karen Handel, VP of Public Policy for Susan G. Komen just resigned. Good riddance.
http://www.chron.com/news/article/APNewsBreak-Kom…
Leadbelly did a tune called "Yellow Gal", there is some debate over the reference in that context.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHCod5tBehQ
Her real name is actually "Charlie".
And her last name is "Slope"?
Hop Sing.
Last name Sympathizer.
And she doesn't surf.
I still can't believe that Asian actress agreed to do this ad. Your move, Michelle Malkin!
"I can be a maid in Hollywood for ten dollars a week, or I can play one in the movies for a thousand a week."
~ Hattie McDaniel
This young lady could manufacture Nikes or iPods for a couple of bucks a day, or ride a bicycle in the film and perhaps make ten or twenty times that much. I know what I would do.
The commercial was shot in California, not China. And the woman has no trace of an accent. Her parents may be "100% Chinese," but this is an Asian-American actress performing.
Horizontal Pussie Galore!
'Ah, so', assho.
Also.
Wait, I thought it was a fact that all Chinese people are yellow. I better get to an optometrist.
Hispanics are still purple though, right?
Yes, but the blahs, for the most part, are really brah.
Sharrron Angle still can't tell them apart.
CPAC
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
CPAC RELEASES SCHEDULE OF EVENING ACTIVITIES
FOR CPAC CONFERENCE, FEB. 10-12, 2012
FRIDAY NIGHT
9-11 P.M.–Movie, Room 69, Hallway X, "La Cage Aux Folles." Participation encouraged!
11 p.m.–Midnight—Naked Chocolate Pudding Wrestling, Room 13, Hallway XX. The Original Naked Chocolate Pudding Wrestling Matches, Made Famous By CPAC, With Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter!
Midnight–3 a.m.–Special Penthouse Party, hosted by Larry Flynt. Featuring Naked Twister, Strip Poker, Live Male and Female Dancers, Edible Underwear Eating Contest, Whiskey Shot Contests, Beer Pong, and the Famous Special Orgy Room.
Oh, that reminds me — DC's Craigslist M4M personals should be heating up right about now, as they've done before previous CPACs.
In point of fact…
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/cas/283702…
Rep Hoekstra is an asshole. That is all.
Short, sweet and to the point.
What the hell is growing out of her back? Asian? I say Alien.
It must be a "coolie" hat that they thought was a bit much, what with the rice paddies, bike, stupid accent…
(They didn't want to be obvious or tacky!)
What the fuck is the matter with these people? Is being a mean, hateful shit smear a prerequisite to being a Republican or is it just that the Republican Party tends to attract mean, hateful ass wipes like this motherfucker? I just can't figure this shit out!
Yes. Sounds like a feedback loop.
too bad we couldn't put that feedback loop around their necks.
Anyone know what the chances of this jerk getting elected are? I'd like to think zero but you never know what the locals are like in his territory.
Stabenow is up by 10 in a state that hates its teabagger governor. Nuff said.
No, Pete, the reason for the huge deficits you supported enthusiastically during the Bush years, replacing the surpluses of the Clinton years, was not anything Debbie Stabenow supported. It was the Bush tax cuts and a more than trillion dollar war. Now people seem to have forgotten this unnecessary more than trillion dollar war, which is surprising because it cost more than a trillion dollars. But Republicans like you have somehow convinced everybody that spending money on more than trillion dollar wars is absolutely without cost, based perhaps on your historian buddy Newt telling you that spending huge sums on unnecessary wars motivated principally by the prospect of glory for the war-launchers, while passing all the burden of taxation onto the middle classes, exempting the rich and the clergy, was such a winning strategy for Louis XIV and progeny.
But in fact more than trillion dollar wars cost money – often a trillion dollars or more. And if you are also going to support a nearly trillion dollar Bush bank bailout (that was the natural end result of the policies of the president you supported with unseemly enthusiasm), as you did (and by "you" I mean more than a trillion dollar unnecessary war and nearly a trillion dollar Bush bank bailout supporting Pete Hoekstra, Republican, and cut taxes too, it will leave very little room for more than trillion dollar wars without borrowing money from someone. Now as people have pointed out on this thread, the more than trillion dollar war was financed mostly by internal borrowing, so we didn't really borrow from the Chinese for the more than trillion dollar war you suggest, to the degree you suggest. And of course that borrowing has nothing to do with outsourcing of the sort done by Bain Capitol, though any borrowing that took place from China did have a lot to do with passing a massive tax cut at the same time as embarking on the Bush-Hoekstra more than trillion dollar war.
I'm bad with numbers, did you say a trillion?
More.
No, it was the pretty Chinese lady.
So what you're saying is… it's because of MedicareandSocialSecurity???
Or are you trying to imply that it's because of the Department fo Education. This one's a toughie: I think you'll need to be less subtle.
It's all about the spending. We have to get that Socialist, Muslim, Usurper out of the White House to stop the spending.
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world since I lost my job to that yellow girl.
Wait–she's Lola?
In a dark yellow voice, she said…
I thought it was Michelle Malkin. My bad.
She looks happy. Malkin always looks like she just licked the mold in between Roger Aisles' fat folds.
I'd marry her.
Heck, of course you would. She's got a job.
I'm glad posts for this ad keep posting because half an hour after reading one I'm ready for another.
You're all ready to go at it again after just half an hour? Ooh, me like.
Uh it's 2 euro now over there, "No want yankee dollah no moah "
DON'T MENTION THE WAR!
At least she wasn't "highyellowgirl"
Pete Hoekstra – bad case of Yellow Fever.
Apropos of CPAC…
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/cas/283808…
They at least had one season where the Pink Ranger was actually the leader, and the female White Ranger of the Alien Rangers sub-season was leader. But that's it as far as woman leaders go.
Fuck this. Tom Baker was the best Doctor Who.
Yellow journalism at its finest, Jim!
It is Imperial Yellow.
All of you with the yellow fever gets lots of love. Where's the love for us with the ginger cravings?
Dem durn gingers dun tuk ar jerbs!
Sorry, we're busy discussing the racial and sexual politics of Power Rangers upthread.
Damn we're geeks here.
I've always had a ginger craving. Never had yellow fever until I dated a Korean girl. Now I have both. Does that make me a bad person?
I don't think that's true, based on the astonishingly high number of young Chinese women in the Bay Area named "Jennifer."
What's Komen's policy on paying people under investigation by the International War Crimes Tribunal?
Interesting.
Did not recall, but upon hearing it, uhhh…maybe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSjH1h7-m5E
As Louis sang it http://easylyrics.org/?artist=Louis+Armstrong&…
Waller/Razaf/Brooks original lyric.
http://www.perfessorbill.com/lyrics/lyblckbl.htm
Pops never sang a song the same way once. At the peak of his fame in the US he ruined sales of "Just a Gigolo" by changing the lyric to "He was just a jig I know." Radio stations wouldn't play it.
"Black and Blue" has heart-breaking words – it's a marvelous song. Ethel Waters' rendition remains the classic one for me. Extraordinary!
Okay, Pete is sorry….he's agreed to rename the character: "Yellow cakes"….Happy?…
Me no rikey lacist asshole.
Marty Feldman eyes.
Me thinkest we've found a chink in Sir Pete's armor.
Yeah, Pete Hoekstra a racist fucktard, but Chinese actless is oleo cookie.
Banana.
Wonder what the conservative response would have been if they called her 'That Michelle Malkin look-a-like'?!?
She's not as orange as Speaker John Boner.
Good lord, are those Godzilla spines growing out of her back?
Bb4s:
That's the one! I believe April 1, 1930 – NYC.
The lyrics I quoted are at 0:29. I couldn't find those lines printed on the Internets – but it's very clear what she is singing.
"SpendItNot" Hoekstra apparently had no problem in spending big on the Iraq War ($2.5 trillion and counting), unfunded Medicare drug benefits ($800 billion+ over 10 years), and the Bush tax cuts (for fine fellas like him), besides being a toadie for big business.
Hawt yellow girl
would have been acceptable also
I'd bang her, and so would Pete; if he could get it up.
Guaranteed to get a Republican's goat: A chinese person is LAUGHING AT YOU!
I call her Sexy Happytime Bicycle Zoom!
Now that this young lady has been identified,
http://news.yahoo.com/meet-actress-starred-racist…
does that make her a spotted Yellow Tail?
[Did I see "The Big Year" too many times?]
The Red Ranger has usually been the leader and main character, so of course he's almost always been white; and so far always male. There's been four non-white reds I can think of – three black, one Maori; and that's it.
I lost it. You win so many upfisties for this.
I hope you will be blogging or journaling what happens. I'd enjoy reading that.
Let us know where we can read it, if you do.
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