They're leaving the pods: "Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot"

[Faygo Kid]

In the process of looking up other things, I found today more crazed foaming at the mouth (see Michael Reagan's latest) than ever before. This, however, is beyond the pale. Actually, they all are today. This is just an example. Karl is thrashing about, apparently. Look at this crap. Now the Right says every barfly is a credible source. Corroboration? We don't need no stinkin' corroboration. Geez:

Jimmy Carter has been called everything from a humanitarian, to a crack pot, to the ultimate pacifist. But a look into his past reveals a shoe that fits better than all of these.

It's a story told to me by an acquaintance from Watertown, NY, a place situated way upstate, well north of Syracuse. The acquaintance had heard it from two barflies who were there the night in 1975 that Jimmy Carter passed through town in his first New York appearance during the "250-day 1975 portion of the presidential campaign," as Carter had called it.

The story goes that after giving a speech at the Holiday Inn, Carter stopped by the Rebel Room Tavern, a bar that once existed near the old Woolworth building and catered to southern servicemen based near by. Not knowing that an employee from the local paper was present, Carter joked around with the locals and, as two of those locals related the story to my friend, "every other word out of his mouth was 'nigger' or 'kike.'" But styling itself after The New York Times, the paper didn't print undignified information about candidates it was friendly toward, and the potentially damaging tidbit never made it into print.

At least that's how the story goes.

Corroborating it isn't easy. One of the barflies is long dead, the other long lost. . .

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin060106.php3?printer_friendly

[RagingInMiami]

1. That was Billy Carter

You know, White People all look alike.

[Skip Intro]

2. sheesh - one remaing barfly who overheard something 30yrs ago at a bar

that doesn't exist anymore.

ooooooookay -

"They're leaving the pods"
:rofl:

[LittleClarkie]

3. What is that? Third hand? Sic the Mythbusters on it.

Sounds like the way urban legends are handed down.

My best friend's brother's hairstylist knew someone who once saw Jimmy Carter waving his winkie out a second story window of the Empire State Building.

[Faygo Kid]

5. My third cousin twice removed saw Jimmy have a sex change operation.

Honest. It must be true! Somebody said so.

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. grasping for straws much?

Unsubstantiated testimony from barflies 30 years ago that are unavailable for comment. Now *thats* what I call journalism :sarcasm:

[RoyGBiv]

6. Ohforchristsake ...

I heard this story from some guy who heard it from this other guy who heard it from his neighbor's aunt's hairdresser's third cousin, twice removed, whispered across a table with the radio blaring in the middle of a thunderstorm.

National Enquirer has better sources.

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. You know who else is a racist?

Clenis!

[Ringo84]

8. Unbelievable

They will say ANYTHING to slime that great man. ANYTHING.

This, folks, is the RW smear machine on its highest setting. How do these people sleep at night? And they say that we'll do and say anything to get elected.
Ringo

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Tweety will devote his entire show to this tomorrow

This might be bigger than his planned blockbuster story about Bill Clinton having a wart removed from his penis.

[Faygo Kid]

10. Tweety compensates for his penis.

[LeftyMom]

11. So working toward peace and a resolution of the I/P conflict

means he's an anti-semite. After all, there's nothing more anti-semetic than working to stop the fighting and keep little Israeli kids from getting blown up as they take the bus to school. :eyes:

Turns out the whole thing is a plug for a petition beign circulated by Move America Forward, a group set up by some local right wing hate radio nut jobs around here to legitimize thier pro-war protests other publicity stunts.

[rosesaylavee]

12. I think we see another Faux News Journalist

in the making... ain't it grand.

[gordianot]

13. RW Neo Con Propaganda. Rove and Himmler would approve.

Create an enemy where you do not have an enemy. I'm still not sure why these wingnuts have it in for Carter? At his age and place in life Carter can ignore this innuendo. He must be making them uncomfortable.

[Faygo Kid]

26. Bingo. You win the ceegar.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and that is what Jimmy Carter is doing. Definitely not a Bushbot comfort zone.

[Faygo Kid]

14. OK, folks, found her blog. Not just Carter - Clinton, too is racist.

She says she is a "comic." Ha ha! Ha ha! Have you ever laughed so hard? Here is an example of her humor, and her blog address. Go get her, DUers.

http://www.juliagorin.com/blog.html

In supplement to today’s article “Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot,” it should be noted that Carter wasn’t the only recent president who overcompensated for his racist, Southern-Democrat past and was at one time comfortable using the N-word. Bill Clinton carried that torch. . .

[gordianot]

15. She could become the next Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin.

Who wants to bet she could become a regular on Faux, MSNBC, or CNN?

[tinfoil tiaras]

16. It's impossible for RWers to be comics

Its physically impossible for them to be funny. Unless your kind of funny is "Hey John Kerry! Did you eat a bowl of STUPID today!?!? HUR HUR HUR!!!!!" If you can prove me wrong, do so, name one RW comic that's as funny as Stewart and Colbert combined.

[Faygo Kid]

18. How about Mr. Nucular?

Actually, W. was funny but disgusting a few years ago. Then frightening. Now we need to figure out to survive and fight back. Not very funny. Sorry.

[VOX]

20. Precisely! How funny can a right-wing "comic" be?????

Try to look at Dennis Miller for more than three minutes without hurling. And he is by no stretch a comedian in my book, anyway.

Comedy -- **funny** stuff -- has traditionally come from an outsider's position. Think Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Woody Allen, the original Saturday Night Live cast, etc., etc.

There is no such thing as a funny right-winger. :grr:

[Faygo Kid]

25. Icky kitties.

I have an old feisty one, too.

[WCGreen]

24. Well Georgie Porgie is from the ol South, at least that's what

the good ole boy says....

Maybe he a racist too....

[VOX]

17. This is swiftboat-type bullshit fomented by Move America Backward...

If you're a right-winger, why bother with the truth???? :grr: Just make shit up, fling it out there, and stand back while:
1) Your victim ignores you, which in right-wing-ese "translates" to "must be some truth in those rumors"; OR
2) Your victim fights back, which in right-wing-ese also "translates" to "must be some truth in those rumors."

Either way, your victim sustains damage via the lapdog media. I wish someone would bring the hammer down on these reactionary assholes and their goddamned ruthlessness. :mad:

[Faygo Kid]

22. Yep, you're right. FReepers found this, and the enlightened souls love it

After all, are there any warm hearted cuddly folks less racist than the FReepers? Take a deep breath, and here you go:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641829/posts

[muntrv]

19. BTW, Sean Hannity also associated with racists.

There was a caller named Hal from North Bergen, NJ who used to call in his radio show and Bob Grant's and make disparaging remarks about blacks. According to "The Nation" magazine, he was a member of a local neo-nazi gang. Hannity, according to the article, had a close relationship with Hal.

[NinetySix]

21. Sorry -- does anyone really say "Kike?"

Especially a man from Georgia; I mean, isn't he just as likely to go off about the "Moolies?" Not that Southerners are above a bit of racism, but typically they use epithets they've heard of to express it.

[Faygo Kid]

23. "Morloks," "Romulans," are more likely.

Klingons eating Gaaack. I can't think of a bigger waste of time and emotional energy than to hate based on a "suspect classification" (see Constitution and Supreme Court interpretation thereof). Worse waste of time than "American Idol."

[NinetySix]

28. The only people I hate are intolerant people.

I can't fucking stand those sons of bitches.

[rucky]

27. I wonder how many "n-words" he's built houses for in Georgia?

probably hundreds.

[KittyWampus]

31. Fun Fact, Carter was raised among black children. He, more then Clinton,

was the first 'black president'.

[WePurrsevere]

29. There are a couple DUers that are from Watertown... maybe they could check

a few things and see what they come up with (we're not quite close enough and being fairly new don't know the area yet).

I simply can't imagine Jimmy Carter being foolish enough to say somthing like that in the mid-1970's in NY state. Even if he thought he was surrounded by Southerners he'd be very aware of the fact that the press is always nearby.

[napi21]

30. Carter may be a lot of things, but he's NOT racist!

If anyone wants to catagorize Presidents, Carter would be "The most honest" one we've ever had, and probably will maintain that title forever!

Anyone who believes the RACIST title applied to him is simply not living in reality!

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[The empressof all]

33. Locking

Thirty years ago Jimmy Carter told me I'd lock this thread.....Sheeeeeeesh