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- SaladCactusKing, on 08/02/2008, -11/+200John McCain Is a Racist!
Source: Some Guy. - tewstep, on 08/02/2008, -13/+164Ok. Being that I'm voting for Obama anyway, am I incorrect in reading that this article talks about racist jokes the author of the piece overheard? There's nothing on tape or directly documented (save the 2k 'gook' issue)?
If there's no direct proof other than hearsay that backs up this authors "I used to hear him" claims...I don't see much becoming of this. - merersu, on 08/01/2008, -109/+229This definitely explains why he hates Obama so much. Cause how dare some upstart Negro, better looking, more talented, and far more intelligent usurp the position he's been trying to win for over a decade! But what's really frightening is how he must treat his adopted daughter. Remember, that adoption wasn't his choice. His wife surprised him when she returned from one of her trips oversees. Wouldn't you have loved to have been a fly on that freakin wall?
- beaker37, on 08/02/2008, -6/+101I'm not saying that McCain isn't a racist... maybe he is, maybe he isn't. But what makes Doug Thompson so special that we should believe him? This is the same sort of crap that people have been pulling against Obama... people trying to discredit him by telling unverifiable stories about his past. If I worked for a news agency, I wouldn't touch this until I knew more, or at least until there were more people willing to go on the record and verify these claims.
- psylemon, on 08/02/2008, -17/+109nothing like sensationalist titles to bring in the diggs
- ZephyrNinety, on 08/02/2008, -21/+98Or maybe it's because Obama is his opponent.
- fzismyelvis, on 08/01/2008, -76/+150This man is not a nice guy. Never was and never will be. He will lead this nation to ruin if given the chance. Don't vote for this a$$h0le!!
- laudyms, on 08/01/2008, -59/+130With recorded quotes like these, he should never have been considered as a candidate.
- helloemptiness, on 08/02/2008, -28/+92John McCain is a racist
August 1, 2008 - 7:14am.
By DOUG THOMPSON
John McCain, a member of the House of Representatives in the mid-1980s, often held court at a table near the bar at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, telling jokes and matching hangers-on drink by drink.
As a Capitol Hill chief of staff, I often drank at Bullfeathers and was invited to join the throng at McCain's table one evening. A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know.
McCain loved to tell jokes about lesbians, blacks, Hispanics and the Vietnamese community that occupied a large section of Arlington County, Virginia, just south of the District of Columbia.
Of course, McCain didn't use polite language in the jokes: He used names like "fags" or "queers" or "dykes" or "*****" or "spics" or "wetbacks" or "gooks."
A typical McCain joke:
Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As she walks toward the door, the other watches her leave and says out loud: "God, I've love to eat her out."
Two men are standing near by and one turns to the other and says: "I'd like to do the same. Guess that makes me a dyke."
Or another:
Question: Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label?
Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer.
When he ran for the Senate, I attended a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where McCain outlined his campaign strategy:
I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to ***** my opponent to win I'll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won't give it a second thought.
This is the man the Republican Party thinks should be the next President of the United States. What else should we expect from a party that promotes racism, homophobia and discrimination against anyone with a different skin color, sexual orientation or ethnic origin?
So we shouldn't be surprised that McCain's campaign strategy seeks to raise racial fear about Barack Obama, the first African-American with a serious shot at the Presidency of the United States.
John McCain is a racist: Always has been, always will be. Those who served with him in the Navy say he treated black sailors with disrespect and scorn. His collection of off-color jokes are riddled with racist words and sentiments. Advisors have toned down the raunchy rhetoric of his early years in Congress but close aides say his attitudes have not changed.
McCain opposed making the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King a national holiday. During his 2000 campaign for President, he told reporters on his "Straight Talk Express: "I hated the gooks (North Vietnamese). I will hate them as long as I live."
Katie Hong of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who reported the remark, wrote:
It is offensive because by using a racial epithet that has historically been used to demean all Asians to describe his captors, McCain failed to make a distinction between his torturers and an entire racial group.
It is alarming because a major candidate for president publicly used a racial epithet, refused to apologize for doing so and remains a legitimate contender.
For his 2000 campaign for President, McCain hired Richard Quinn, founder and editor in chief of Southern Heritage Magazine, to serve as his spokesman in South Carolina.
Notes Salon.Com:
Quinn's articles have called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" and King a man "whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul." In another piece, Quinn said of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, "What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?" though he did condemn Duke's bigotry.
Irwin A. Tank, author of Gook: John McCain's Racism, notes a long and sordid history of racism from the presumptive GOP nominee, including:
* McCain's use of the anti-Asian slur "gook" publicly for 27 years before dropping the use for his current Presidential run;
* McCain's endorsement of George Wallace Jr., a frequent speaker at white supremacist events;
* His vote against establishing a holiday for Martin Luther King's birthday and then another vote to rescind the holiday.
* In answering a question about divorced fathers and child support, McCain called the children "tar babies."
The list goes on and on.
What else do you expect from a racist? - bluevillage, on 08/02/2008, -42/+101Important to have this eye-witness account. His other reported comments -- calling his wife the C-word and the rape joke -- start to fit into a pattern. As does opposing the MLK holiday for so long. He's a total hypocrite. I hope this piece gets some traction. Pass it around.
- stinkymonkey, on 08/02/2008, -8/+66Anyone have a video of him using any derogatory term?
- fadeout, on 08/02/2008, -10/+55What's really shocking here is that he tells the only racial jokes I've ever heard that aren't even remotely funny... where does he he get this stuff, mad magazine?
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -12/+57Not necessarily. Hell, my guess is he's flipping out for the same reason Hillary did. I mean, Obama basically just appears out of nowhere, and starts challenging the authority of "The Man." Not that I'm saying Obama is this superhero that everyone makes him out to be, but he's definitely going against the system. Hillary freaked out because she was convinced that the nomination was basically her birthright, and now McCain is in the same boat.
- Barackalypse, on 08/02/2008, -21/+62Why is it that these jokes make McCain a racist, yet in your minds Democratic Senator Robert Byrd isn't one, even though he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan? Buried for being asinine, come get me when you're got footage of him beating his black servants.
- ousthouse, on 08/02/2008, -9/+49The media isn't running with this story for the same reason they didn't run with Larry Sinclair's 'obama had sex with me in a lemo' story. Both are unsubstantiated. Both are most likely untrue. The media does have SOME journalistic integrity. THAT is why the media hasn't run with this.
- Ymeg, on 08/02/2008, -16/+49Oh, this is ***** stupid.
So you are racist for using "bad" words now? I though digg was a community that accepted simple air vibrations and neither good or bad.
If you want to call him a racist, find something that is not a joke and use it against him. There is plenty of crap he does... Let's not use ***** like this. - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -11/+40Does matter, if some Diggtard finds a blog with a no one trying to get attention who never knew Mccain and it says it on a Blog, IT MUST BE TRUE !!!
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -32/+59Wow, you know what I was invited to a dinner with McCain too and I saw him eat babies still alive while telling jokes about handicapped and lepers, he is a bad man.
Now I will write an article about this and everyone will believe me. - dupems, on 08/02/2008, -13/+38Where's the proof of any of this? You'd base your opinions off hearsay? I mean there's plenty of reasons not to like McCain, but promoting this garbage as evidence of racism is asinine. Even if this article could be corroborated, telling racist jokes does not make one racist. (If it did, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU would be racists) Buried as lame.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -2/+24"why is the media not running with this"
Did you check the source, I'm sure anyone outside of highschool has, and maybe thats a good tip off.
Especially since this is a blog, and checking the source, as most journalists do, they dont print it.
I mean seriously , EVEN HUFFINGTON didnt print this crap. - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -42/+64We have 2 pitiful choices for President this fall, but remember this--Obama is a black man who stood behind his racist preacher of 20 years only until he knew it would cost him the presidency.
- mattlohkamp, on 08/02/2008, -5/+25Dude, Cheney's daughter is gay, and he's not exactly in favor of gay rights, is he? This is the same thing. Hypocrisy is thicker then blood.
- vexingmodstwo, on 08/02/2008, -2/+21Among the list of complete ***** that Doug Thompson has written is a story in which he claimed that Nancy Reagan supported John Kerry for President back in 04.
Doug makes stuff up to drive up hits every once in a while and the lefties lap it up like it's buttermilk. - ricoboy24, on 08/02/2008, -48/+66McCain? Racist? Nothing new... (Don't forget he's sexist also)
- bumb1ebee, on 08/02/2008, -4/+22What a surprise! The Obamabots pull the race card again, this time based on some stupid jokes someone said that McCain said without any hard evidence or proof.
- eigenweasel, on 08/02/2008, -12/+30This is getting embarrassing.
Just because you like Politician A, you don't have to believe that Politician B is a terrible person.And if Politician B really *is* a terrible person, that doesn't preclude Politician A from being equally bad.
Don't be suckered by the children's menu trick of being 'allowed' to choose only A or B when neither is what you want or need. - johndavidjack, on 08/02/2008, -4/+20Hmmmm, I guess Obama's not racist at all, even though he went to a racist, unamerican church for 20 years, and only denounced it when it threatened his run for POTUS.
This ***** is hilarious. The hypocrisy on this site is mind blowing. - inactive, on 08/02/2008, -5/+21Doug Thompson has a hard on for Barack Obama.
- Manguskahn, on 08/02/2008, -0/+16My thoughts exactly. When I read the line under Capitol Hill Blue: "Because nobody's life, liberty, or property is safe while Congress is in session or the White House is occupied," I knew this site could very easily be spreading inaccurate or exaggerated bull.
- homah, on 08/02/2008, -6/+22Your comment doesn't make any sense.
- ousthouse, on 08/02/2008, -5/+21yeah - but these quotes WEREN'T recorded.
- homah, on 08/02/2008, -0/+15that's racist
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -2/+16I cant believe how many of you fell for it.
Factcheck.org
Thompson's "gut" has proven to be a unreliable guide in the past, however. He has admitted quoting trusted sources in the past who later turned out to be frauds -- twice.
* In 2003 Thompson confessed that he had been "conned big time" by a source who claimed to be a former CIA contract consultant named Terrance J. Wilkinson. Thompson quoted this "source" as claiming to be present at two White House meetings in which Bush ignored intelligence officials' doubts about reports of Iraq seeking uranium. Thompson said he had been relying on the same man for two decades and had "no doubt" about his credibility, only to discover that "someone has been running a con on me for 20 some years and I fell for it like a little old lady in a pigeon drop scheme." He erased a number of stories from the site that had been based on information from "Wilkinson" and deleted anonymous quotes given to him by "Wilkinson" from other stories.
Thompson said then: "It will be a long time (and perhaps never) before I trust someone else who comes forward and offers inside information. The next one who does had better be prepared to produce a birth certificate, a driver's license and his grandmother's maiden name."
* That was two years before the "piece of paper" quote attributed to three unnamed sources. But, far from demanding solid proof, Thompson continued to quote at least one more phony source until 2006, when a blogger started to question the existence of "George Harleigh." Thompson had for years quoted this supposed former Nixon and Bush appointee. But when no records of such a man could be found, Thompson admitted he had never even met him:
Doug Thompson (July 26, 2006): We would get quotes via email on current topics. He claimed to be a retired political science professor from Southern Illinois University and an appointee of both the Nixon and Bush administration. I was told he had been checked out. But he wasn't who he said he was and we used his phony name in stories.
This time Thompson says he revised or deleted 83 stories that had relied on information from "Harleigh" or quoted him. - vexingmodstwo, on 08/02/2008, -2/+16Oh, and btw... CapitolHillBlue is actually PROUD of being full of *****. Check out the FAQ page.
- Squidly, on 08/02/2008, -2/+16Because it's unsubstantiated.
- vexingmodstwo, on 08/02/2008, -4/+1820 year old jokes that every single one of you has told or heard before. Yeah, this is huge.
Yawn. Buried.
BTW... What's worse, jokes told while having a few beers or attending a RACIST church for 20 years and pretending you snoozed through the sermons? - rotundo, on 08/02/2008, -4/+17I don't know about the rest of the article, but he did refer to his captors as gooks repeatedly, that much is well documented. And no, he doesn't deserve a free pass. He can call them jerks, evil *****, inhuman slime, but by calling them out with a racial slur he's being racist by definition and disenfranchising a huge number of upstanding American citizens of Asian descent.
My grandfather was imprisoned and tortured by the Polish and I never heard him use a racial slur against the Polish. He blamed his captors alone, and not the nation or the ethnic group. If McCain doesn't get that, he's not fit to be president. - Tenlow, on 08/02/2008, -7/+20Guess who made the decision to adopt her?
- browwiw, on 08/02/2008, -7/+20The color that make's McCain's eyes burn. His wife adopted the child without his knowledge.
- Aorawn, on 08/02/2008, -14/+27Your logic is flawed, because if I hate you, it will be true regardless of whether I say so or not.
- inactive, on 08/02/2008, -12/+25Actually it IS funny.
That Obama is a PROOVEN backer of racists. - stood behind them for 20 years.
Mccain is called a racist by no names that heard or head someone say they heard - over 20 years ago.
He tried to get contributions from different regions and when Mccain found out they said something that MIGHT be construed as racist - he rejected their support IMMEDIATELY.
It just took 20 years and A FEW TIMES OF RACIST REMARKS DURING THE CAMPAIGN for Obama to reject racists. - TremorX, on 08/02/2008, -8/+21The Bible Belt.
- akchrs, on 08/02/2008, -5/+18http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_presiden ...
Quotes the Author of this and his website as
"The Web site that reported those words has a history of quoting phony sources and retracting bogus stories."
Maybe you liberals can come back when you can think up something better. - cotl, on 08/02/2008, -3/+15I'll believe it when there is some actual evidence, not just one persons allegiation. Doesn't anyone else remember that only a few months ago the accusations were that Michelle Obama was a racist because someone alleged that they heard her make racists remarks. It turned out that was all it was... an allegation and untrue.
Remember all the racist remarks the Clinton's supposedly made during and after their years in the White House?
Everyone on this board seems ready to jump all over McCain for this without some proof... were you just as outraged when the accusations were made against Ms. Obama or the Clintons? - Stormwern, on 08/02/2008, -4/+16"I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to ***** my opponent to win I'll do it."
The joint townhalls are a trap!! - swoopdog, on 08/02/2008, -3/+15buried for sensationalist title
this is why intellectual discourse is ruined in this country
everyone is a racist, sexist, xenophobe, ageist, zionist blah blah blah.
oh yes Obama is truly a victim - nuentendu, on 08/02/2008, -5/+17Exactly.
- joel8x, on 08/02/2008, -5/+17Seriously, are you even old enough to vote? What adult writes like that?
- OpNash, on 08/02/2008, -4/+16I saw an interview where Cindy McCain was describing how "tough" it had been to raise a brown child in such a traditionalist family.
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