Georgia's extra-repugnant Repugs......

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Georgia GOP candidate calls black MSNBC reporter ‘uppity.’»

Speaking to a Georgia morning news show last Thursday, GOP congressional candidate Rick Goddard criticized an MSNBC reporter’s sharp questioning of former House speaker Newt Gingrich at the Republican National Convention. Goddard called the African-American reporter, Ron Allen, “uppity“:

I’ll tell you one thing, I think we’re going to have a very, very strong, capable president in John McCain. Last night, Newt Gingrich disarmed a very uppity newscaster who tried to question him on the capabilities and leadership of Governor Palin. There’s simply no comparison between a governor and a community organizer.

Also last Thursday, another prominent Georgia political figure — Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R) — used the racial epithet in reference to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL). Watch the segment between Allen and Gingrich here.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/09/goddard-uppity/

[firedupdem]

1. This is a really sick country. Racism is alive and well n/t

[MadMaddie]

3. Always has been there but the public became

enamored with fancy cars, fancy homes, moving and shaking and making money that they ignored the obvious.

The Repugs are testing the water to see what they can get away with.

[annabanana]

2. Sometimes I forget that Georgia is kind of locked in a time-warp.

Then one of these stories surfaces and I think I'm back in 1955 or something..

[KathieG]

4. Sadly, it's like that here in north central Florida too