Randi Rhodes: Birther Demands 'Wounded Black Americans' Beyond What the KKK Wanted
By Tim Graham | April 30, 2011 | 05:30
There are different layers of liberal outrage over the demand to see Barack Obama's birth certificate, and leftist radio host Randi Rhodes took it to ridiculous lengths on Thursday. Somehow, these demands "wounded" black Americans in a way the Ku Klux Klan "never aspired to," even if this metaphorical wounding is a much lighter sentence than the death sentences the Klan handed out:
Now that we're done with the birther thing, and we have insulted an entire population of the American people - we have just absolutely wounded, you know, African Americans...we have wounded black Americans...we have wounded the President, we have wounded his family...we've wounded an entire population of the United States of America in a way that I don't think the Ku Klux Klan ever even aspired to, okay.
People are so devastated by what Donald Trump did, and the things that he said, and the racism of the Tea Party, and they've been frustrated for a very long time with whites who refused to accept or acknowledge that the Tea Party had been acting in a racist manner, that they were using covert and overt racism, they were using, uh, you know, things that were right in your face and the basketball reference...and all the other, you know."
Later, Rhodes argued that the Paul Ryan budget and Medicare reform plan passed because the masses are easily distracted by their own racism: "Every Republican except for three have already voted for it [revamping Medicare], and they're on record as wanting to destroy Medicare, thinking 'They [the people] are so stupid' -- because they were able to play the race card, that those people also didn't care about those Medicare -- and that was a bridge too far. Racism, sure!"
She added: "People are so desperate for leadership in the Republican Party that they will listen to Sarah Palin, Donald Chump, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, any goofy m-f that comes down the pike -- they'll give them their ear! And they'll stand up and scream and shout at the rain...and they have no idea how they're being duped! But in the process, people are being wounded!"
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Emotional Reasoning at Its Finest
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 6:16am.
People are being wounded -- by words? If that's the case, then Randi is just as guilty as those she accuses, or doesn't she think that calling people "mf"ers is wounding? Live in that glass house all you want to, but just don't throw stones.
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sound and fury signifying nothing
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 6:18am.
All this caterwauling by the obama protectorate is not having any great effect on the country because at this point the country has real worries to deal with. Unless there is a miracle turnaround in the economy by 2012 the voter standing in the booth will only be thinking one thing.... do I want four more years of this.
Tell me again
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:09am.
Why Air America didn't work?? This Harpy is a pure genius.
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who is he?
Submitted by Wayneman311 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:12am.
Didn't this guy play guitar with Ozzy and pass away a long time ago???? Man is he ugly.
Wayneman311
Submitted by the struggler on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:38am.
I think it's the dude that played one of the villians in Conan The Barbarian.Looks like he shaved off his handle-bar mustache.
It's really pretty racist to
Submitted by forest on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:36am.
It's really pretty racist to minimize the Klan like this. I know she wants to whitewash Democrat Party history, but dismissing the actions of the Klan as less seriosu than birtherism? Totally racist. Maybe she was drunk again.
This is starting to get boring.
Submitted by NeoKong on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 7:40am.
Racism racism racism. Is that all they got...? Zzzzzzzzzzzz........
""People are so desperate for
Submitted by dscott on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 8:59am.
""People are so desperate for leadership in the Republican Party that they will listen to Sarah Palin, Donald Chump, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, any goofy m-f that comes down the pike -- they'll give them their ear! And they'll stand up and scream and shout at the rain...and they have no idea how they're being duped! But in the process, people are being wounded!"
Liberals dripping with victimhood, awwww, nobody wants our leadership. The public is so stupid to listen to Sarah Palin. The only wounded people here are the liberal elites smarting from rejection of their insipid policies and rigid narrow minded ideology.
Sorry Randi, no one wants a whiner, especially in a leadership position like the POTUS. Obama got exactly what he feared the most, transparency. Careful what you ask for because you just might get it. Now how about those grades, etc.? Will the most transparent regime in history live up to it's rhetoric or was that just sales talk to dupe people into voting for an idea that you liberals really don't believe in?
Randi Rhodes?
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:44am.
Sounds like a porn star to me.
Might As Well Be -
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:48pm.
misterbee241
porn star would be a step up
This Stupid Bitch
Submitted by dennyf on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 8:48am.
This stupid bitch has been fired from every show she's ever been on. Why is Newsbusters waisting their time promoting anything she says, ignore her, and once again she'll go away. Please, she was fired from her last job and disappeared for awhile, I used to listen to her hatred once in awhile and wanted to grab her by the throat and choke her, she is so repulsive. And she keeps getting jobs. Go figure.
one too many...
Submitted by wizardjr on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:57am.
She's done one too many face plants on the way home from the bar, apparently sufferning serious accumlated head injury.
Or...
Maybe she's just effing stupid.
Both?
Submitted by Blorg on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:18am.
I vote for both.
another racer
Submitted by scarletandgold on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:06am.
another puke heard from claiming racisim...this dirty lil disgusting blob of tissue is nothing more than a racer....in a blink of an eye she reduced herself to the mental defect she is..say no to racers!
No Doubt
Submitted by Caringwhiteguy on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:33am.
Randi is a RACER!
reelection
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:05pm.
No doubt. She knows that the only way for the Messiah to win reelection is to convince a majority that they will be called racist if they do not vote for him.
WTF?!
Submitted by Djinn1975 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 11:11am.
It seems we've gone through a time warp, I'm just not sure if it's to before the Civil War or the 60's. Democrats represent an overwhelming majority and lay claim to the responsibility of racist organizations, i.e. the KKK. The demand for race cards must be astronomical. I have never seen so many racist accusations or generalizations, nor have I seen them more frequent. The aim is crystal clear, propaganda for 2012, vote BHO or you're a racist. So be it, I can't wait to see the percentage of racist revealed in 2012.
Yeah; Everyone is Wounded Randi!!!!
Submitted by Bourbeau on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:37pm.
I've had to provide documentation of birth, marriage, and citizenship so many times just living a normal life, I should be permanently hospitalized from all the wounds. I don't give two cents worth where this President was born, but here's the deal. He created the suspicion with his unyielding desire to withhold information of all kinds - birth, military service, scholastic, etc. - that's a fact! And he was able to position himself to run for the most prestigious elected position in the country. If the framers set the requirements for president where they did, and Mr. Obama and handlers decided they'd rather create an air of uncertainty about his meeting those requirements, then it's too damn bad whose feelings are hurt - produce the damn certificate. And by the way, I don't think you have any basis for speaking for the entire black population; most of them don't know you, don't care to know you, and don't think you add an ounce of value to their lives. In short, stop feeling sorry for them, they can handle whatever comes their way just fine without your condescending sympathy.
A Joke
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:46pm.
This talentless loudmouth hurts the left. Even the movers and shakers on the left know she's stupid and rambles along with every talking point that happens to fall into her brain while she speaks. This is a joke, and you'll never see the lefty MSM publish this, any more than they absolutely have to.
Let them speak, so we know them for the wackos that they are.
A gift from Barry ...
Submitted by wizardjr on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:57pm.
I hear the TOTUS is sending Randi one of his bicycle helmets to wear when she's drinking so when she takes the inevitable face plant her bean won't take any more hard knocks. Although the brain lesions from all the booze has probably made that moot.
I just hope we get to see
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:11pm.
I just hope we get to see Barry's high-school and college transcripts now. I know for a fact that Harvard University will go out of its way to get a black person to graduate from their college; it is their own way of dealing with white-guilt.
I would like to know more about Obama's slippery father too. Did he have sex with an underage woman? Was Barry's mom 17 when Barry was conceived? Also, what was a 25 year old African doing with such a young and impressionable woman?
It's all very strange.
You know your a liberal if....
Submitted by Slyrr on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 10:57am.
Yeah, I guess asking to see someone's birth certificate is a LOT worse than lynching them or shooting them....
Yeesh. Liberal PC thugs like this woman have probably got their underpants wadded up in such a knot over race, that:
1) They won't buy 'white corn' tortilla chips because they're afraid people would think they favor whites
2) If they saw someone shopping for clothes, and that person said, 'I like this jacket, but I don't like the black one - have you got one in blue?' They'd storm over to that person, shaking their fists, and screaming 'What's wrong with the black one?'
3) They refuse to serve fried chicken or watermelon at any picnics because they're scared of offending anyone
4) They are uncomfortable when they see white bedsheets on any bed, and won't allow any in their own homes
5) Wear wide brimmed hats, scarves and sunglasses when travelling through any southern states, lest anyone recognize them
6) Won't read the book versions in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, because the text often refer to the Nazgul as 'Black Riders'.
7) Are uncomfortable when speaking about the African country of 'Nigeria' and its inhabitants as 'Nigerians' for fear of mis-pronouncing the words
8) Dislike saltine 'crackers'
Feel free to add anything else to this list that our liberal friends probably engage in, due to their living in daily terror of being called 'insensitive'....
Pearls Before Swine
Submitted by 26CX on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:04am.
Today's Pearls Before Swine carries Racer thinking to new levels...
Will it ever end...?
Submitted by desert3030 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:03pm.
The Liberals, even thought it took Republicans to force a civil rights bill, never move on. In most, or many many cases it has been four generations since the civil war and slavery. In my case four for sure.
Now why is it thrown my face daily from the media I need to change and even to the point of paying reptributions? We are rapidly approaching two hundred years, it has to end some time. In my particaluar case, as well as our family the only link is I am white, and second generation. Three generations of veterans, both males and females have served.
I am lost, now what am I suppose to be guilty of?
Randi Rhodes - My mental image
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:38pm.
I can't look at an image of Randi Rhodes without immediately visualizing her as Linda Blair in the Omen, spewing vomit across the room the way Rhodes spews hate. Any real fan of Rhodes must be entirely unable to think for themselves.
Rhodes race baiting via the birthers is simply more of her mindless venom to distribute her hate. No merit, no honor, no value, only destructive hate.
Three points against Ms.
Submitted by ant on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:30pm.
Three points against Ms. Rhodes.
1) She speaks like someone who doesn't really know any blacks.
2) Liberals have taken us to a place where the people of a Nation that won 2 World Wars, survived the depression, survived a Civil War, etc. are now "wounded" by words that were not even directed at them.
3) The "wounding" the Country would (or is) suffer from a President with a Constitutional crisis and a foreign allegiance or contempt for this Country is far, far worse than a little race-mongering, hurt-feelings, hissy fit.
How do they explain Herman Cain and Rep. Allen West?
Submitted by Nightfly on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 7:35pm.
The Dems' race card would not work if Herman Cain or Rep. Allen West were either running for POTUS or on the ticket as VP. The Dem's strategy would be rendered ineffective.
I'm wounded.
Submitted by Slimeballcomics on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 8:30pm.
I'm wounded just reading this. What a joke. Is Randi Rhodes black? Then that should settle it!
wow
Submitted by scarletandgold on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 8:34pm.
where would black americans be without the protection and care of progressives like that retarded skank...i pray to god that black americans wake up and realize what chumps they have allowed themselves to become following creeps like this margaret sanger afterbirth...
The Race Card, Victim Politics, and Fake Outrage
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 9:38pm.
Trifecta! A liberal 3-for-1! So, one for each of her listeners.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
The be fair, Randy....Black Americans were only
Submitted by thescoots on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 7:13am.
"half-wounded" by birthers.....since technically, Obama is only "half-black".....Always gotta do the math, you know.......Ridiculous? You bet!