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Tweet from RWNJ radio host: The part of GOP believing in goodness & decency is its "soft underbelly"
This tweet is more revealing of the sociopathic mentality of these RWNJs than I believe this idiot realized.
Tweet last night from Michael Berry, former Houston City Council member, now a RW radio talk show host:
Link to tweet
Romney represents the soft underbelly portion of the Republican party that believes in decency, kindness, and losing. That is the wing of the party that delightfully handed the White House to Obama & then helped him pass Obamacare.
A spokesman for the far right gleefully admitting that he views not just kindness but even simple decency as something negative, a failure in a leader.
Welcome to the insane RW jungle...which makes the actual jungle seem reasonable, even civilized, by comparison.
Some background on Berry from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berry_(radio_host) (That link shows up broken when posted, but it still takes you to the Wikipedia page about several people named Michael Berry. He's third on their current list, the talk show host born in 1970.)
Controversy
Referring to the Park51 Muslim community center proposed for construction near the Ground Zero site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York City, Berry stated on his May 26, 2010, KPRC program that if the center were to be completed, "I hope that someone blows it up".[18] The following day, he expressed partial regret, issuing a statement which said in part, "I apologize to you, my listeners, for insulting your intelligence and saying something so stupid. I do not apologize, however, for my opinion that that mosque should not be built."[19]
In 2012, Berry was accused of using racial slur on Twitter during First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at that year's 2012 Democratic National Convention when he tweeted that black people are shooting each other during the speech along with the hashtag "#knuckadeads," allegedly a substitute for "nigga."[20]
As Berry was set to receive the "Talk Personality of the Year" award during the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards, the Chicago Tribune reported on March 2, 2017 that Berry had a regular feature titled "Chicago Weekend Crime Report" that included snide remarks about Chicago homicide victims, including speculation of which body parts were shot and mockery of victims' names.[21] Nearly two weeks after that article, Berry apologized, stating: "I have to make better decisions with the words I use."[22]
In a 2015 article, the Houston Press ranked Berry the "most embarrassing" Houstonian for his Park51 remarks, among other comments deemed to be racist.[23]
Referring to the Park51 Muslim community center proposed for construction near the Ground Zero site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York City, Berry stated on his May 26, 2010, KPRC program that if the center were to be completed, "I hope that someone blows it up".[18] The following day, he expressed partial regret, issuing a statement which said in part, "I apologize to you, my listeners, for insulting your intelligence and saying something so stupid. I do not apologize, however, for my opinion that that mosque should not be built."[19]
In 2012, Berry was accused of using racial slur on Twitter during First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at that year's 2012 Democratic National Convention when he tweeted that black people are shooting each other during the speech along with the hashtag "#knuckadeads," allegedly a substitute for "nigga."[20]
As Berry was set to receive the "Talk Personality of the Year" award during the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards, the Chicago Tribune reported on March 2, 2017 that Berry had a regular feature titled "Chicago Weekend Crime Report" that included snide remarks about Chicago homicide victims, including speculation of which body parts were shot and mockery of victims' names.[21] Nearly two weeks after that article, Berry apologized, stating: "I have to make better decisions with the words I use."[22]
In a 2015 article, the Houston Press ranked Berry the "most embarrassing" Houstonian for his Park51 remarks, among other comments deemed to be racist.[23]
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