Joe Walsh defends "game" comments amidst growing criticism.

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Source: Chicago Tribune

By Katherine Skiba

Tribune reporter

7:18 p.m. CDT, June 1, 2012
WASHINGTON — After taking heat for racially charged remarks, Rep. Joe Walsh issued a statement Friday asserting he was “in no way critical of minorities,” but an opposition group that had videotaped and distributed his remarks stepped up its attack.

The war of words erupted after Walsh, speaking May 26 at the Schaumburg Central Library, said the Democratic Party wants the Hispanic vote and they “want Hispanics to be dependent on government just like they got African Americans dependent on government. That’s their game.”




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Couldn't find the whole clip, but here is a short bit of it. Later, he also said something about plantations.

This guy is a farking worm.

[onehandle]

1. I saw him play with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.

Never got a chance to see The Eagles though.









Heh...

[slackmaster]

2. I agree with him about the Rocky Mountain Way

It's better than the way we had.

[begin_within]

12. I wonder how life has been to him lately.

[patrice]

3. ODD!!! How many people I'm seeing around who MAKE A LIVING with GOVERNMENT jobs & HATE

government, regulations, and control of ANY kind.

[randome]

7. Laziest bastards on the planet, aren't they?

[patrice]

10. Not all of them. Just the ones who hate the hand that feeds them but will still take the money while

trying to deny the money to anyone else but their select FEW.

[freshwest]

13. A number of libertarians who get government contracts talk that way. They won't see the big picture.

They provide a service the government wants done, paid for by taxpayers. As soon as they get that 'private' contract, they brag about what big entrepreneurs they are, doing some job that only they can do because they are just 'smart.' The fact that they may have received benefits from public education or other advantages eludes them in equity.

They want all those people on the dole or doing the scut work to go away and don't want to pay taxes on any of it, because it was all their own genius that did the work. It's that 'producers' versus the 'parasites' argument. I consider them to be egotistical and offensive. It does no good to discuss the situation, as they simply see themselves as 'better' than common humanity.

They always vote GOP or Tea, because they demand to keep all the profits they 'created' from 'their' work. To them, the Democratic Party is the part of 'losers, welfare cheats' and 'nanny staters.' So how to reason with anyone like that?

[tanyev]

4. Good thing you finally settled your child support, Joe.

Wouldn't want your kids to be dependent on government, would you?

[Botany]

5. " ... to be dependent on government ..... "

Just like Walsh is dependent on the government for his pay check and health care." grr:

[toddwv]

6. A standard right-wing meme.

They ignore the fact that when you try and compare the number of minorities serving in Congress as members of a particular party, there really is no comparison.

This is the Republican Party's idea of how to win minorities. Disparage them, attack the organizations that serve them and then try and shame them into thinking that the Republicans really have their best interests at heart even while cutting programs that affect them.

[surrealAmerican]

19. He's not trying to "win minorities".

He's trying to appeal to the racism of his constituents. It disgusts me that this is an effective strategy for him and his fellow white, suburban republicans.

[Jake2413]

8. Joe Walsh is may Rep

And I had the pleasure of attending one of his townhalls. As a staunch Progressive it was very painful but my wife said I had to go. So I made her sit in the front row. After his quick remarks of 20 minutes he took questions. A small business owner got up and said she needed more customers and how was he going to help. He went on to chastise her that she needed lower taxes not sales. I got so frustrated because he is so wrong, from the front row I got up and walked out muttering to myself that this was "bullshit", a few people heard me and wanted to argue but I kept going. My poor wife had to get up and follow me as I embarrassed her.

[PatSeg]

11. There is something seriously wrong with the man

and it isn't just his politics. He seems to have no impulse control, strange things just blurt out of his mouth.

At a restaurant with constituents last year, he looked like a man who needed medication.

[liberalhistorian]

14. That's unbalanced.

I certainly hope that we can send him home for keeps.

And if it's the Illinois home for the bewildered that's OK too.

(apologies to Garrison Keiller)

[Judi Lynn]

15. Amazing! He didn't seem to be impressing the locals. Good for them. Thanks. n/t

[PatSeg]

17. Maybe they thought he was the entertainment

I can't imagine him serving a 2nd term in congress.

[alp227]

16. This kind of rhetoric is 'a genteel way of calling somebody a nigger.'

as Bob Herbert criticized the controversial book by Charles Murray, "The Bell Curve".

This "government dependence" talk is just a way to get voters CLUELESS about American civics to vote Republican. HELLO? Does Joe not realize that we ALL depend on government one way or another, whether:
- Tax credits for families
- Police, fire, and ambulance services
- The court system to uphold contracts
- Social Security/Medicare
- The public education system

It's so unbelievable how this mindless religion of individualism is so mainstream in this country.

[madrchsod]

18. he`s not going to be elected....