Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee

[sabra]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- The chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party wants a Republican legislative aide fired for sending out a "reprehensible" e-mail depicting President Obama as two cartoonish white eyes peering from a black background.

Obama's image is in the last square of a collage containing portraits of the previous 43 U.S. presidents. Copies of the e-mail were posted on the Internet on Monday.

Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."

According to The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, a note on the e-mail said it was paid for by the Tennessee Republican Party, but GOP officials denied that they produced it. Black chairs the Senate Republican Caucus.

"I want people to know that the communication was sent without my knowledge, and that ... this does not reflect my beliefs or my values or my opinions, and I won't tolerate those kind of communications coming from my office," Black told CNN affiliate WKRN-TV in Nashville.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/tennessee.email/

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[Blue_Tires]

1. good luck with that diversity voter campaign push, GOP....

[asjr]

2. The Republican parties of TN and SC

have a contest going on to see which one can be the sleaziest.

[NashVegas]

3. Black Is Supposed to Be On CNN at 1:30 Central

According to the Tennessean. That's about 15 minutes away.

You should see the local comments:

http://tennessean.com/article/20090616/NEWS0201/906160323/GOP+aide+rebuked+for+racist+e-mail

[Rebubula]

4. Keep...

...on digging the hole.

Morons.

[pretzel4gore]

5. we'll be more po'ed then Mr Obama is, just watch

that's the sad part of all this reactionarky racist contempt for a guy who'll literally kill us to protect the righwing nazipooh leadership

[sutz12]

6. Typical RW justification...

It wasn't wrong to send it out. It was just wrong to "send it to the wrong group of people."

:wtf:

[George II]

7. It was sent to "the wrong list of people"...so who is on the "RIGHT" list????

[Plucketeer]

8. That's silly!

The right list would be the RIGHT list! :rofl:

[edbermac]

9. Them?

Just a hunch...

[Xipe Totec]

10. They're under covers n/t

[David__77]

11. I find headlines like this diminutive.

"Hackles?" It's like "brouhaha" or some such nonsense. Why not just say "anger?" It's one the media-linguistic devices I do not like.

[Lautremont]

12. You'll love this, then:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/87_killed_in_violent

[David__77]

17. Kerfuffle! That's the other word I was trying to think of!

After "brouhaha" I was trying to think of that other word I hate, and that was it! If Democrats complain about something, on Fox News, it's called a "kerfuffle."

[Blue For You]

13. What in the name of hell ails these people?

Hatred. That horrible picture sums up the GOP to a T. Even though I'm not shocked at anything they do, I'm still shocked.

[jimmil]

14. GOP?

I think a better acronym would be KKK. I don't see any difference between the two.

[damntexdem]

15. Why, I'm not a racist -- I just sent it to the wrong group of people:

nonracists.

[chelsea0011]

16. Jeesh. What's next?