« Library Pushes Homosexual Propaganda on Children | Main | Government Food »

Wow. I'm really offended. I love Watermelon, but this isn't going to be redistributed to me is it???

Wait, was that what she was bitching about???

AC

true story:

a few years ago on fourth of july, my black brother in law insisted we have a traditional fried chicken, colored greens (something our son made up), watermelon and the works...so we did. unbeknownst to us beforehand, old b-i-l had bought himself a great big steak and fired up the 'cue - i said, "HEY! what's with the steak?!? aren't you having what we're having?" he responded, "come on sis, you don't really think we eat that sh*t, do you?"

Personally I have never understood this fried-chicken and watermelon thing. To me anybody that likes fried chicken, mashed potatoes and watermelon simply knows good eating. There is nothing better than a chilled watermelon on a hot Summer day. It is one of the great things about life.

You know, had it been the other way around and a (d) Mayor sent something to Bush it would have never even made it to the news...no double standards.

I think it's FUNNY AS HELL!!! Has anyone checked the yard at the Whitehouse??

I will bet also if the history of this whole Fried chicken / watermellon thing was checked it came from the KKK starting Democrat party!

Coming from Kalifornistan, I think the former friend/rat missed the true meaning of the joke. The purpose was to show how Obama would bring illegal mexicans to washington to harvest this bounty of delicious American fruit, because God knows no American would stoop to such a level as to perform such a menial task. Also, part of the stimulus package specifically calls out for a subsistance garden on the grounds of the white house as a shining example of our glorious leader not acting as an elitist and sharing the pain of the economic crisis in which we are now faced with due to the last 8 years of fiscal irresponsibility. Besides that, it's green to grow a garden.

Oh yes! If this fool is dumb enough to quit his job over this he's an idiot. I would tell them and HER to sit on those watermelons...

and rotate!!

I am African American and I do think this "joke" was offensive.

Southern man, your clever attempt to make people think you are a racist conservative has clearly worked. Report back to the Democratic Underground for your Ben & Jerry's prize pack.

I am African American and I do think this "joke" was offensive.

You'll get over it. Man up.

MST

I am American and I find you being offended offensive. I demand an apology! How dare you be offended at everything? So far the list is getting pretty long: fried chicken, monkeys, watermelons, poverty, any number of words in several languages referring to the color Black, any mention of Africa as anything less than the greatest cultural center in the history of mankind, any suggestion that there is some kind of bell shaped curve in the intellectual and physical attributes that all humans share and that Blacks are not clustered at the far right percentile, etc.

There is one thing that is certainly apparent and that is that Blacks seem to have a serious genetic deficiency in the lack of a sense of humor. In case you haven't noticed, with the election of a Black president, 64 members in the congressional black congress, many mayors of several major cities, many prominent roles on TV and the Movies, many Black Millionares and one Billionare, a recent Black Secretary of State, a Black Chairman of the GOP, and a Black attorney General of the United States, Blacks are not the downtrodden minority anymore. It is time Blacks start to realize this and get the hell with the program. You are an American! You are not a hyphenated American. As such, laugh with the rest of us when something is funny.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Exactly SnowSnake!!!!

Are YOU rotating yet MST!?

The "Southern man" post referred to above was deleted. It was Fez, trolling obnoxiously.

Sorry, but I gotta go with this being inappropriate. I'll tell you why. There is SO MUCH legit stuff to hammer Obama with, going for a stupid racial "watermelon" joke just makes it look like "See? Whitey hates "O" 'cause he's black."

For a Mayor to do this just shows a serious lack of judgment. I don't think race jokes are all that funny anyhow, but now especially is not the time.

Barack Obama is leading this country to Marxist socialism faster than anyone expected. THAT is something to point out and (if desired) to be satirical about, not some stupid "negro" joke.

Nope, this was wrong.

This numbskull of a mayor does not get to collect $200 after passing 'Go'.

In today's political climate if you give your enemies that much rope to hang you with then you deserve scorn and ridicule that's heaped upon you. Aside the fact that it's just plain wrong. I agree w/ Montag. Frickin' boneheaded.

Matt

Political correctness is what got us here. Maybe we've had too damn much political correctness. The whole concept of a label on produce and toys being code words is getting stupid. The joke is as much about the stupidity of code words as it is about Blacks loving watermelons. Besides, what is wrong with Blacks liking watermelons? Should a Scott go crazy if somebody mentions plaid? Should a Norwegian go nuts if somebody has an axe or a spear or a horned helmet and God forbid a mention of lefsa or lutefisk? Should an Irishman go berserk and start screaming discrimination if somebody has a potato? Should an Italian start throwing dishes and yelling about profiling if somebody says something about pasta? Maybe Jews should go really insane if somebody mentions a bagel--especially if they are so insensitive as to mention cream cheese?

The race card is getting to be very, very old. I think an immediate attack on anybody who plays the race card with no holds barred is now called for.

If he resigned over this, he was too much of a wussie for the job anyway

Just in case you yokels wonder why your rump version of a formerly national party is going down the tubes, this is a great example. Your outrage at the idea that your fellow GOP racists can't spout off racist garbage is priceless.

By all means, keep it up. We've already seen how being anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-gay, and anti-Muslim has worked out for y'all.

So far the list is getting pretty long: . . . any suggestion that there is some kind of bell shaped curve in the intellectual and physical attributes that all humans share and that Blacks are not clustered at the far right percentile, etc.

There is one thing that is certainly apparent and that is that Blacks seem to have a serious genetic deficiency in the lack of a sense of humor.

Gee, I wonder why them nigras is offended at racist cavemen declaring that they're genetically inferior. Why, you'd think people like SnowSnake were bona fide white supremacists or something.

Some day the Republican party is going to have to publicly repudiate you people if it is to have any hope of survival.

Should a Scott go crazy if somebody mentions plaid?

OK I'm going crazy and I am offended! Not because you mentioned plaid but because my clan Tartan colors (MacLauchlan) are so danged ugly.

Posted by: SnowSnake at February 27, 2009 11:58 AM

Geek

If you could read, you would notice that I said Blacks fit on the bell shape curve with everybody else and are not clustered to the far right. There is no hint of a suggestion in what I wrote that they are physically or intellectually inferior. Which one of the big words confused you?

There is an apparent lack of a sense of humor. It is so pervasive that I do think it is possibly genetic.

Snow, possibly Geek doesn't understand what a bell shaped curve is or how is works or what it means.

I agree with what you wrote. I disregard the race card when it is played, I believe it is no longer valid.

1. Republican dickweed does something incredibly stupid.

2. Republican dickweed gets called out for it, and his stupidity is exposed to the entire world.

3. Republican dickweed resigns in shame.

Hey, works for me!

1. Republican dickweed does something incredibly stupid.

2. Republican dickweed gets called out for it, and his stupidity is exposed to the entire world.

3. Republican dickweed resigns in shame.

4. Republican dickweeds defend the "liberty" of being racist; look stupid and out of touch in the process.

Rinse and repeat!

Xanthippas

Look stupid to whom? Those who play the race card and have been successful playing the race card? There comes a time when surrendering to this blackmail and conspiracy is what would be stupid and out of touch. Why can 10% of the population terrorize 90% of the population by acting like sore pus-filled pimples that can't be touched?

You Liberals think that "blacks" have to be protected from "hate speach" and given other special considerations. THAT is true racism!

"Chris at February 27, 2009 1:00 PM" and Xanthippas at February 27, 2009 1:22 PM

1. Donkey dickweed does something incredibly stupid and/or illegal.

2. Donkey dickweed gets called out for it, and his/her stupidity is exposed to the entire world.

3. Donkey dickweed DOESN'T resign, but is instead protected and excused by his/her party and other dull-witted Liberals.

4. Donkey dickweed is often re-elected and promoted to do MORE harm to the United States.

Serious question to those of you who think the outrage here is the anger rather than the "joke":

Is there any hurtful racial stereotype that you would agree goes too far and into outright unfunny bigotry?

Snow, I'm a little offended you said potato and not whiskey for us drunken Irish bar brawlers.

Every time I see BHO in print or on tv, every time I hear his voice, I am deeply, horribly offended. It makes me sick. It causes me nightmares and indigestion. It damages my soul and fills me with grief that my country is being given over to its enemies and bankrupted... if I bitch and whine enough can I make him resign?
Or is being offended reserved for the liberal and racial elites only?

Matt, you have a point. I would distinguish “wrong” from “stupid.” In my opinion, it was stupid in a tactical political sense, but not wrong in a moral sense.

My point was that blacks need to toughen up and not have such “rabbit ears.” Let’s face it, they don’t seem really offended, but seem to feign outrage as a way of guilting others. (Evidence: they call each other n******r all the time; you don’t hear women calling each c****s all the time, because they really are offended by that, regardless of who says it.)

Just in case you yokels wonder why your rump version of a formerly national party is going down the tubes, this is a great example.

As Monica Lewinsky said, “One swallow doesn’t make the spring,” and one election does not the end of a party spell.

Besides which, I thought it was the Democrats who went in for the “rump” version of politics. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

3. Republican dickweed resigns in shame.

This raises an interesting question: what would it take to shame a Democrat? Is it even possible?

Let’s see, getting blow jobs while on the phone to Congressmen? Nope.

Perjuring themselves about said blow jobs? Nope.

Using their office to try to coerce women into sex, after supporting sexual harassment laws? Nope.

Getting sweetheart mortgages from lenders they’re supposed to oversee (Chris Dodd)? Nope.

Running fag prostitution rings from their basements (Barney Frank)? Nope.

Getting caught cornholing Congressional pages (Gerry Studds)? Nope.

On the same theme, getting caught cornholing underage interns (mayor of Portland)? Nope.

Smoking crack while in office (Marion Barry)? Nope.

Commandeering rescue helicopters to retrieve $90 K in bribe money from a freezer, while others are at risk of drowning (William Jefferson)? Nope.

Getting impeached as a Federal district court judge for corruption and perjury by a 413-3 margin by a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives (even Nancy Pelosi voted for impeachment), convicted by the Senate, and then getting elected to Congress as a Democrat (Alcee Hastings)? Nope.

Chiseling on taxes while supporting higher taxes for those who actually pay them (Geithner)? Nope.

Note that not one of these “worthies” resigned – not one. So I admit it – I’m stumped. What exactly would it take to shame a Democrat?

forked tongue

"Is there any hurtful racial stereotype that you would agree goes too far and into outright unfunny bigotry?"

Yes. I just can't imagine food or drink being one of them. I think outright lies are not okay--especially things that describe sexual and religious characteristics in a way that are not true. To give a few examples: History is replete with examples from the Jews killing Christian babies, Christians drinking blood, Blacks lusting after white women and raping etc. I think jokes about ovens are out of place for Jews, and there is no good reason to be talking about lynching and castration around Blacks--although they have kind of highjacked this atrocity for their own when it has been practiced more in total on other races by other races for as long as mankind has been mean.

There is a common sense about this as there is everything else. It is just that the American Black has gone too far in claiming offense at everything everytime to gain advantage. Even Jesse Jackson suggested castration for Obama. It is wrong--but it jumped to his mind. What we need is for people to save their outrage for real vicious things that are truly meant to hurt.

At very worst it was in bad taste, but it isn't worth resigning over. For mentally stable people (regardless of ethnicity,) even if they are offended by it, it's worth maybe an eye roll or a head shake at best before moving on with their life and forgetting about it.

Any black person whose whole life is ruined, (or even their whole day,) from the trauma of seeing this joke is likely emotionally unstable enough to warrant seeking serious mental help.

If the joke were making light of violence towards blacks, (or any ethnicity for that matter,) I would feel differently. As it is, the joke isn't worth the energy it would take to get offended over it.

Yes, the person who thinks that those nigras are genetically deficient in having a sense of humor is lecturing the rest of us on race.

I'm sure the rest of the people at your local Klan rally agree.

First of all, I am a female, so it would be difficult for me to "man up."

Secondly, I am not going to commit suicide over this cartoon, or even lose sleep over it, or conjure up the ghost of Johnny Cochran, but I do NOT find it funny (just as I don't find "Desperate Housewives" or "Family Guy" funny) and I have a right to my own opinion. I don't play the "race card" and never have.

This blog is amusing sometimes, but you people can't seem to stomach anyone disagreeing with you.

I'm sure the rest of the people at your local Klan rally agree.

We wouldn't know - no Democrats here.

You do know that the KKK was founded by Democrats specifically and solely to resist Republican Reconstruction policies, right? And to terrorize Republicans - white and black (all blacks were Republicans until the 60s - you knew that, right?) to enforce segregation, Jim Crow laws, and keep blacks disenfranchised. You did know all that, right?

Actually Geek Esq.,

I'm Catholic and my wife is Chinese, so if I were anywhere near a Klan rally, I would probably be swinging from a tree with a noose around my neck.

First of all, I am a female, so it would be difficult for me to "man up."

Fair enough. You're perfectly entitled to be offended. On the other hand, others are perfectly entitled to give offense. Nothing in the Constitution about a right never to be offended. White guys are insulted all the time, in social interactions, in TV shows, in commercials, everywhere. Look for this in the future, and imagine the outrage if similar comments were made with regard to blacks, or women. We're the butt of jokes all the time, and yet somehow we find the strength to carry on without bleating. It's a course of action I recommend.

Jay, I see where you're getting to, but I don't think it's "political correctness" or caving into a liberal agenda to say that some things are just wrong.

I can't speak for blacks to "toughen up". I've not had their experiences over the years. Sure, we need to lighten up on crying "racism" every time someone says anything we don't like. But the watermelon thing for a long, long time was used not as a joke, but to demean a race of people. After all, "nigger" is just a contraction of the latin "negro" meaning "black". But because of it's use as an epithet, we avoid it. The watermelon thing is in that vein.

Knowing that, to make watermelon jokes is pretty tasteless, impolite and wrong...esp. since there is PLENTY to legitimately criticize Obama about. His black-ness has NOTHING to do with his Marxism. Now...you want to have a photo of him with a hammer and sickle? I'll get behind that any day!

Again, I'm not PC. But I have a sense of what's right and wrong. No matter how hard I hammer Obama, unless his being black has something to do with his bone-head policies, I'm leaving that out of the discussion. We're better than that, or should be!

Jay,


Its a good point...I counted 4 instances last Superbowl in different commercials where an act of "jesting" violence (ha-ha) was initiated by a black guy against a white guy. (I'm not sure about the bowling ball dropped on the head... that was pretty funny actually; and if a white guy got it, that would make it 5 to 0).
But imagine sitting there and watching 4 instances of even gentle white-initiated violence committed against blacks.

Riots..Look out Reginald Denny.

BTW I can't say they were offended, but my 3 tough-guy Italian nephews were dangerously silent watching this stuff (except for the bowling ball).



Post-script: "African-American" suggests two loyalties. As we lurch along from one catastrophe to the next with BO at the helm, I strongly suspect we will come to know why as President of the United States, he has no apparent problem with "African" in the first position of the identifier.

The mayor has stated that he was unaware of the "blacks loves themselves some watermelon" meme. What I haven't heard is what the picture is supposed to mean devoid of this context. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The mayor has stated that he was unaware of the "blacks sho' loves themselves some watermelon" meme. What I haven't heard is what the picture is supposed to mean devoid of that context. Anyone have any ideas?

I don't believe in hate speech laws; I do however believe in being respectful. This is blatantly disrespectful to black people, by using "humor" which is based on racial stereotyping. This says a lot about the character of the man that sent it to his "friends" hopefully he will never run for office again.

I've not had their experiences over the years.

Frankly, I suspect that most of them haven’t had their experiences over the years either. Nurturing grievances from the slavery era, the Reconstruction era, or the post-Reconstruction era when Democrats/KKK ran wild is not productive, and in most cases no longer appropriate.

Why do I say that? Simple: the people who suffered through those times are geezers now. No one under 50 has any business bleating about that now, and even if they did, it would still not be appropriate. Time to get on with life. There’s a black man in the White House, there are black Supreme Court Justices, there’s been a black Secretary of State, there’s a black Attorney General. The time for excuses is over. Anyone – black or white – who fails now is responsible for his own failure: he’s presumably just not good enough. Period. Racism as an excuse for failure is dead. Dead as dog food.

(It’s much like the situation with people claiming their problems arose from their experiences in Vietnam. If they’re much under 60, they’re bullshit artists, because they weren’t there; it’s amazing how few pre-teens were drafted. But it’s ever so effective to blame one’s failurs on externalities that 40 year old bums commonly claim to be Vietnam vets. You can get trampled standing between a loser and his excuse. Enough.)

Here’s a case in point. Recently a black leader (I’ve forgotten who) characterized Obama as “rising up from poverty” to become President of the United States.”

Excuse me, but Obama wasn’t raised in poverty. His grandmother was a bank executive. Punahou is a very tony and very expensive private school in Honolulu (think the high school equivalent of Stanford). As luck would have it, I went to Punahou too, where as the son of a senior military officer I was definitely one of the poorest people in the place (and was made well aware of that). My parents had to scrape, and scrape hard, for me to go there (because many public high schools in Hawaii weren’t accredited). Unlike other students, the scions of the Dole (Dole pineapple) and Dillingham (department store chain) and other wealthy families, no sports car for me or the other military kids; we went to school on the bus. And, contra Obama, the only people who took shit about their race were haoles, i.e., whites. As one coach used to say, semi-jocularly, “If there’s two things I hate, it’s race prejudice and haoles.)

Knowing that, to make watermelon jokes is pretty tasteless, impolite and wrong...esp. since there is PLENTY to legitimately criticize Obama about.

I’ll give you two out of three: tasteless, impolite, but not wrong. Again, consider the humor directed at straight white males by any comedian, any TV show, any commercial, any black, any woman, any homosexual any ...anything. Tasteful? Polite? No. But also not wrong. We can’t dance, can’t jump, have small dicks, aren’t cool, can’t dress, can’t get our wives off, we’re the wretched refuse who are to blame for everything that’s not perfect in this world...sound familiar? The only group you can crap on now with impunity is straight white males. But do we bleat about that? No. We laugh it off – as we should. So where do the brothers come off being so precious?

If blacks had sense they’d embrace the stereotypes and make a joke of them, thereby defanging them. They’d insist on being called “niggers” and make great show of affinity for watermelon, and in so doing wear out the stereotype, and lay it to rest. By reacting volcanically to it, they ensure its continued existence.

I can't speak for blacks to "toughen up".

No need. I’ll do that. It's time for them to man up and perform. Put it this way: would a football or basketball coach accept their excuses?

How funny. Harmless watermelon joke. Lmao! Wait 'til the GOP rolls out the Nigger jokes! Ha ha. Sooo funny. Silly darkies. You get BET and Chris Rock and we get to say all the watermelon jokes we want! Political correctness has sapped all the FUN out of being racist!

Lord how ridiculously crazy do you have to be to not get this. But I guess this is an Ayn Rand-inspired protest for the oppressive Black History Month.

SMH

Maybe we should pick out a special fruit or vegetable for every ethnic group. Kind of like musical chairs. Everytime anybody says pumpkin one group screams discrimination, radishes another, squash another. I don't know if there are enough fruits and vegetables to go around. Probably we have to get into the nuts and grains. It seems only fair, doesn't it? Why should only one group have all the produce code words to themselves to be offended by.

Well...It was racist.

Wait 'till we get a Polish POTUS. The tasteless jokes will never cease....

Lord how ridiculously crazy do you have to be to not get this. But I guess this is an Ayn Rand-inspired protest for the oppressive Black History Month.

Just checking, but do you live in Hymietown? Ask Jesse Jackson to make sure.

I wish black folks would just get over it and go about their lives. Get a life black folks and quit being a victim all the time!

I'll bet that half you guys don't know what real racism is!

I'm white. I like fried chicken, watermellon, collard greens, black eyed peas, and everything else mentioned that is supposed to be offensive to African Americans. Am I a racist?

We are all racist because we didn't vote for that leftist jackass.

Jay & SnowSnake, me thinks thou doest protest too much.

Why are all you guys trying SO hard to defend this. Aside from it's being insulting, it has nothing to do with what that Marxist hack is doing to the country.

Also, to say "Well, THEY say nasty stuff about whites, so WE should be able to say..." Do we need to sink to a "Rev. Wright" level? Does that make it OK?

I'm sorry, but this is revealing the character of some people. Yes, the 'race' card is played WAY too much. Yes, it's abused. Yes, whites can be targets without the media raising an eyebrow. Yes, that's not fair. But just on a plain old human level, I try to be respectful of everyone.

If I disagree (politically) with someone who has a speech impediment, I'll wail away on their politics, but I won't make fun of the way they talk. That's not "political correctness", that's good manners.

If you're not offended by this picture, you are a racist. Sorry to inform you.

Matt, I'm afraid you've rather missed the point. I'm not defending this in particular, for which I have no brief, but defending the right to say and do things that offend our dusky brethren - as I defend their right to say and do things that offend us. Sometimes one simply has to put up with things that one does not like.

Equality means that judgment doesn't change under the exchange of variables. If you have to know who said/did something to know whether or not it's offensive, then you're biased.

It's that simple.

For example, feminists maintained that a woman who killed her sleeping allegedly abusive husband had a right to do so because she feared that he might someday kill her.

By that standard, he would have been perfectly justified in killing her first, if he divined that she might kill him in hisTher sleep. Implicitly the feminists assumed that the woman would be the victim, but under the exchange of variables test it's apparent that their principle would allow anyone to justify the murder of anyone else, quite apart from the sex of the murderer or victim ("I thought he/she would kill me at some later date"), a clearly unworkable proposition.

That's the point. There's nothing special about blacks, anymore than their is about whites. Sometimes they'll be the butt of jokes, whether nicely intended or not, funny or not. That's life.

1. Donkey dickweed does something incredibly stupid and/or illegal.

Like have hooker sex in a diaper?

Does this make you angry? http://www.pinoy.ca/eharmony/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/interracial-couples.jpg

This was meant to be racist and it was. However, I would not resign. I would claim that I stood by the author of the email for 20 years, prayed with him and he was my mentor. I would then claim it was my White Grandma who was racist.

If you're not offended by this picture, you are a racist. Sorry to inform you.

I'm not amused by it, but not offended either. If that makes me a racist, then I'm a racist. Now what?

I agree with Moonbattery: What's the sense of being anyone's friend if you can't call them a nigger?

Jay Guevara,
Your story about the sleeping feminist killing her husband sounds like the excuse to invade Iraq. "I thought he had WMDs and was going to use them against me (even though I had absolutely no proof of it)."

Berto:
yeah I can see your point. In Iraq you had a tyrant who: 1. Used chemical weapons on his own people.
2. Committed ethnic cleansing against the marsh Arabs because of religion
Planned to kill a former U.S President by a terrorist act in Kuwait.
Who couldn't trust him with Nuclear, biological or chemical weapons after a biological terrorist attack occurred on America?

OK, Jay. I get your point. Sure, we all have a right to say anything. I'm not arguing "can't", I'm arguing "should".

Now, to all the oh-so-pure liberals out there, get off your soap box. EVERYone has "racist" thoughts. What pisses me off about libs is their holiness. Again, I just don't think things like this joke are polite or helpful to the debate. But don't hand me how WE are the racists. Listen to Katt Williams or Chris Rock. Hell, Jesse "Heinie Town" Jackson for that matter.

EVERYone doesn't like someone. Stop yelling "racism" at the drop of a hat. And stop being Snow White. I bet you have a few skeletons, too.

Your story about the sleeping feminist killing her husband

Here we get to the heart of the liberal pathology: lack of reading/reasoning skills.

The story was about a woman killing her sleeping husband. She wasn't sleeping; he was. (How could a sleeping woman have killed her husband anyway?) Outside of getting the story backward, missing the point, and extending it to an unrelated topic, yours was an insightful comment.

I wish Ray Nagin would follow this guys example. But if democrats had to resign over racism, the party would cease to exist. We would most certainly have to get a new president, vp, and secretary of state.

"Just checking, but do you live in Hymietown? Ask Jesse Jackson to make sure."

What a strange and weird world one must live in to refer to Jesse Jackson whenever something pertaining to something racist or a black person is involved.

You must've went to Sylvia's and been surprised no one said "M-Fer! I want more iced tea!"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/26/2007-09-26_harlem_diners_shockingly_civil_bill_orei.html

I'm laughing but crying inside. Please leave the cocoon and stop listening to a man who flunked out of college (Rush Limbaugh).

Please leave the cocoon and stop listening to a man who flunked out of college (Al Gore).

What a strange and weird world one must live in to refer to Jesse Jackson whenever something pertaining to something racist or a black person is involved.

The point, which apparently needs to be spelled out for liberals, was that Jesse Jackson didn't obliquely hint at his racism, he came straight out with it, in words of one syllable. And yet he's a liberal icon.

You must've went to Sylvia's and been surprised no one said "M-Fer! I want more iced tea!"

Or, as those who finished high school would say, "You must've gone to Sylvia's..." I believe you brought educational attainments? And yes, I will take fries with that.

Please leave the cocoon and stop listening to a man who flunked out of college (Al Gore).

Actually he flunked out of law and divinity school. But he's a liberal, so he must be a genius.

Any service member caught sending something like this out would be charged and punished under the UCMJ. It is a negative action, and it SHOULD have consequences. This mayor has the right to say whatever he likes, as an American. He also has the right to suffer the consequences. He, and his defenders, are the ones who should "man up." Oh wait, he DID man up. It is others who are trying to turn him into a victim.

Any service member caught sending something like this out would be charged and punished under the UCMJ.

Frankly, DoubleD, that's kind of a silly argument. The mayor probably didn't salute when the governor visited, probably doesn't know the general orders either, and certainly would not expect to be court-martialied for adultery. And a serving officer who thought he could exercise his First Amendment rights by publicly criticizing the President and/or the Government - would be in for a rude shock.

Different situations are...different.

The UCMJ provisions against adultery are in some respects most apposite. They're there to discourage affairs involving service members that could undermine the morale and effectiveness of their units. Restricting free speech in the manner you describe has the same motivation. Neither is relevant in the civilian context.

"Or, as those who finished high school would say, "You must've gone to Sylvia's..." I believe you brought educational attainments? And yes, I will take fries with that."

Well conservatives sure have cornered the market on insufferable @$$holes. Sigh. And the most recent presidents from this group of "intellectuals" are Bush (a terrible student who got into an Ivy League school through legacy affirmative action) and Reagan (a B-list actor who quadrupled the nation debt)

The party of "Beavis and Butthead" continues.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/what-should-government-do-a-jindal-meditation/

We hate hispanics, blacks, gays, non-believers, the homeless, foreign things, France, etc., but we reserve the right to mock you if you calls us out on our racism/xenophobia. And we can always point to Al Gore and Jesse Jackson for amusement! Even when though this really doesn't have anything to do with the stupidity of sending a blatantly racist email to others. Then he didn't even have the guts to stand behind it. What a coward!

What happen to all the Pat Buchanans? The unabashedly racists fearmongers? That's all you got? Mocking the people offended by it? Bringing up Al Gore and Jesse Jackson? Really? Seriously?

I have never seen a group of people so obsessed with victimization in my life. So goes the internet brigade leading their pitchfork revolution from their cul-de-sac. When they're not going blind from jerking off on the internet, their up in arms over dem libruls and the evil gubmint!

Please take your camaflouge hat and cross the street when our paths cross.

Billy, thank you for your thoughtful and insightful comment.

By the way, Billy, which Ivy League university did you go to? And how (not whom) did you do?

It's not harmless. It was stupid. In this age anyone sending something like that over email deserves what they get.

Not every claim by the race-baiters is without merit.

It was stupid, but people have a right to be stupid, and lots of people exercise that right.

Race-baiters scour every social transaction for any pretext, however oblique and insubstantial, to level accusations of racism. Prominent race-baiters (Sharpton, Jackson, etc.) do this for their personal aggrandizement. Blacks who support them do so to provide an excuse for their personal and collective failures. Whites who support them do so out of fashion, guilt, and/or a pathetic desire to be accepted.

It's time we moved past hypersensitivity on racial issues. There's a black man in the White House. The era of racial victimization is over.