GOP governor candidate calls Obama a 'Sambo,' Pelosi a 'bimbo'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Former Del. Larry Faircloth, whose website says he's a "24 year veteran member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, where he served on the following committees: Judiciary, Finance, Rules, Special Investigations, Government Organization, Rule-Making, and Banking/Insurance."

Even the local teabaggers think he went to far. Like all Republicans, he aint apologizing and is stickin' to his conservative princ'puls:

Faircloth referred to Pelosi as a "bimbo."

"Is she not one?" Faircloth said in a Tuesday evening telephone interview. "I mean, a lot of people think she is a bimbo; that's why they replaced Congress with Republicans, and they removed her as speaker. I don't find that as anything different than a political poke at her."

He also referred to Obama as a "Sambo," a term many consider racist.

"It was meant to be a joke, and if they took it different, I told the people there that I apologized," Faircloth said.

He added, "We've been tiptoeing around the president."

http://www.dailymail.com/News/201105101280

http://www.faircloth4governor.com/index-2.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. It was meant to be a JOKE?

Oh fer crissakes.

I guess we don't have a sense of humor then.

I sometimes wonder just where these folks come from. I mean, really.

x(

[keroro gunsou]

51. fine,

if it's such a joke then he won't mind being addressed as honkey motherfucker white devil cracker-ass cracker then. i mean it's just a joke. moron.

[Keith Bee]

68. It's ALWAYS a joke, isn't it?

Kinda like when one of the lawyers on a TV drama asks an incredibly inflammatory question, and then, as opposing council rises to object, says, "Withdrawn!"

:puke:

[DFW]

2. I think it's the cheap hair dye

It seeps into the brain and turns you into into a worthless POS like this guy has become.

[sakabatou]

3. What a racist asshole

[RandySF]

5. Then he should be a shoe-in for election.

[sasha031]

8. agreed, that kind of poisonous rhetoric will gain him more points

[patricia92243]

29. Took the words out of my mouth!

[LuckyTheDog]

53. Wow.

OK, when the Tea Party accuses you of being racist and sexist... ummm... wow.

[LynneSin]

4. You know, you can not like someone and still find non-sexist/non-racist words to describe them

And yes, sometimes our country is way too politically correct but words like "Bimbo" and "Sambo" are clearly sexist/racist.

[Adsos Letter]

10. Unless racism is at the core of the speaker's dislike

in which case "We've been tiptoeing around the president."

[sufrommich]

18. And by "tiptoeing" he means not being able to refer to Obama

as "President Sambo".

[Adsos Letter]

20. Precisely.

[tblue37]

30. No, he is mad that he can't say the word he really, really, really wants to say--

or rather, he can't say it out loud in public.

[LynneSin]

35. It's weird when you're around someone who uses that word like it's salt

I went to a concert with a new friend about 5-6 years ago. That friend had others coming to the concert and both my friend and my friend's direct friends were all really nice people. But one of her friends brought some relative along, a women in her late 40s who looked like she had lived a hard life of heavy smoking & drinking. I guess she was going thru a divorce and this was a night we were to be cheering this woman up.

Since these were all new people I was meeting (and btw we're all white), I did my best to be nice & friendly with everyone. Friends of my friends can sometimes end up being friends of my own. But this woman, ugh, if I never see her again in my lifetime that would be good. She used the N-word like it was on sale 10 for a $1.

Now normally I'm the type of gal that will correct someone when they use politically incorrect words. Ask my nieces and nephews - they would never use the obviously bad phrases but some of the milder ones like 'That's Gay'. But I didn't know this woman and honestly, she looked like she'd kick the shit out of me too. But I did avoid that woman the rest of the night, I really have no desire to have a converation with someone who thinks it's ok to use that word.

What's funny is at the concert, I noticed that I wasn't the only one avoiding her - other than the person who invited her, the rest of us stayed away from her like the plague.

Nothing makes a person look uglier than using hateful racist.

[Maru Kitteh]

47. + a zillion. That's EXACTLY what he means.

[hobbit709]

12. True, unless you really are a sexist and racist.

At least we now know exactly what he is.

[whathehell]

16. +100

[Cobalt-60]

34. Then let me be the first

to call this *sshole an ignorant cracker.
I wouldn't want him to think I was on tip toes.

[Adsos Letter]

6. "We've been tiptoeing around the president."

time to get down to the real racist slurs, eh?

[slackmaster]

7. The real mythical Sambo was Caucasian

A Tamil.

[Leopolds Ghost]

9. Tamil are caucasian? I thought they are Dravidian. Afghans are caucasian n/t

[Taverner]

21. Are Tamils Caucasian?

Then again, nobody has ever been able to define 'Caucasian'

[Leopolds Ghost]

11. The fact this guy even knows the term "sambo" and what it means, says alot.

It has no meaning/use outside of hardcore racist circles. It's a relic of 19th century minstrel shows.

[Lochloosa]

19. Actually it was a major restaraunt chain till the early '80's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo's

Sambo's


Sambo's is a restaurant, formerly an American restaurant chain, started in 1957 by Sam Battistone and Newell Bohnett. Though the name was taken from portions of the names of its founders, the chain soon found itself associated with The Story of Little Black Sambo. Battistone and Bohnett capitalized on the coincidence by decorating the walls of the restaurants with scenes from the book, including a dark-skinned boy, tigers and a pale, magical unicycle-riding man called "The Treefriend." By the early 1960s, the illustrations depicted a light-skinned boy wearing a jeweled Indian-style turban with the tigers. A kids club, Sambo's Tiger Tamers (later called the Tiger Club), promoted the chain's family image.

[Adsos Letter]

24. We had a Sambo's in Napa when I was growing up.

And I actually remember that story of "Little Black Sambo and the Tigers"

[Leopolds Ghost]

59. I am mistaken, thanks for correcting me. Confusing the term Sambo with other terms, I guess.

That got used by the minstrel shows.

So on a scale of 1 to 10, how (racially) problematic was the original Sambo book?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

13. the local tea party asked him to apologize to the community, but

from the article:
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"His reply was a resounding NO," the email said. "He is afraid that if one of his opponents were to get a hold of this information, that it would damage his campaign. He doesn't want his reputation to be hurt. Terry told him with the National Media already trying to make the tea party out as a bunch of racists his 'joke' would do more damage to the reputation of the tea party."

[Maru Kitteh]

48. He's worried people will figure out that the Tea Party are a bunch of racists?

Worry no more - you racist asshat. We already knew that.

[Leopolds Ghost]

60. I don't think they all are.

Some of them are legitimately upset with the direction of the country. They just are completely mistaken about the solution.

[Tx4obama]

14. Another case of a GOPer showing America what & who their party is. n/t

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[Zebedeo]

36. and people say

that violent political rhetoric is only on the right.

"Shoot this motherfucker on sight and if he takes it differently then he doesn't have to die."

:yoiks:

[nonperson]

40. There comes a point when

There is no other viable alternative.

[Maru Kitteh]

49. bullshit.

As a matter of fact - shooting people for saying words you don't like is not only immoral, unethical and illegal as shit, it's also a colossally stupid idea - because it serves only to garner sympathy for offending speaker.

[Zebedeo]

56. +1

absolutely correct on all counts.

[nonperson]

64. But it was only meant as a joke!

IF people took it "different" I apologize. :)

It's the same tactic employed by this racist, misogynist piece of trash Faircloth and racist, misogynist pieces of trash everywhere:

Faircloth referred to Pelosi as a "bimbo."

"Is she not one?" Faircloth said in a Tuesday evening telephone interview. "I mean, a lot of people think she is a bimbo; that's why they replaced Congress with Republicans, and they removed her as speaker. I don't find that as anything different than a political poke at her."

He also referred to Obama as a "Sambo," a term many consider racist.

"It was meant to be a joke, and if they took it different, I told the people there that I apologized," Faircloth said.

He added, "We've been tiptoeing around the president."

What's wrong? Can't you take a joke? Or can you only take racist, misogynist jokes?

[sufrommich]

17. How do you mis-take "Sambo"? nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. Tell me again this is not racism.

[seabeyond]

23. to be sexist, well it is true, everyone says so. to be racist, a joke, lighten up.

that is about par for culture as a whole

[AlinPA]

25. We are going to see this kind of racist talk for the next 18 months. It's the only way the

republicans can energize their base and win primaries, especally in WV, VA, TN, MS, KY, GA, Al, KS, OK, TX, LA.

[ThomasE]

33. You forgot one State.

You forgot to mention Indiana, probably the most racist State in the "North".

[AlinPA]

37. Yes. A lot of PA is also racist, especially the southwest part.

[spanone]

26. tiptoe around this mofo

[toddwv]

27. "We've been tiptoeing around the president."?

If thinks that calling President Obama a terrorist, closet Muslim, Marxist, anti-American, Kenyan born etc is "tiptoeing around" then my guess is that this douchebag is just pissed that he can't wear his white hood in public.

[patricia92243]

31. He wants to say the n-word.

[geardaddy]

38. correction, he wants to say the n-word

and not be held responsible for saying the n-word.

[DainBramaged]

28. hey Larry, you're a fucking douchebag, no apologies asswipe

Your face should be on every Huggies baby butt wipes.....

[Beaverhausen]

32. from his website: AS GOVERNOR FAIRCLOTH WOULD APPEAL OBAMACARE.

http://www.faircloth4governor.com/index-1.html

shouldn't that say repeal?

[Wait Wut]

39. Hey, Faircloth, your daugher is a whore...

...and your son is a Liberal Commie.

What? Not funny? Where's your sense of humor?

Asshole.

[Quantess]

41. "We've been tiptoeing around the president." by not calling him a n-----

I'm not the only one here who can see that's what he means.

[lumberjack_jeff]

42. Okay Faircloth. Fair enough. What "joke", exactly, is "Sambo" a punchline to?

[HopeHoops]

43. "Little Black Sambo" was one of my favorite books when I was little. Racist? Not necessarily.

I liked it because Sambo out-witted the tigers. The butter thing was a little far fetched, but hey, I was like 4 at the time and such things were not beyond the realm of the possible. Eating all those pancakes? Now THAT seemed impossible!!!

But yeah, I'm sure he intended it as a racist term.

[Quantess]

44. He's mad that his childhood rhyme got changed to

eenie meenie miney moe
catch a tiger by his toe

[Ramulux]

45. If the media were worth a damn in this country

They would probably point out this strange resurgence in racist "jokes" by republican officials all over the country. It seems like there has been 4 or 5 stories like this in the last month alone.

But I guess it would be biased to point that out.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

46. for the record, this guy is running a distant third or fourth in the primary

but don't get the idea that he's some obscure nobody. he was a legislative bigshot for the GOP for decades

[Blue-Jay]

50. I'll give him credit. He actually said (out loud) what most conservatives think.

See, lurkers? This is why most of you are assholes.

[bluestate10]

52. So. What is new? That is the face of modern republicanism. nt

[blue neen]

54. Larry Faircloth is just plain UGLY, inside and out.

He's not a man, he's a sniveling slime. Anyone who has to make himself feel superior by calling others "Bimbo" and "Sambo" has a huge inferiority complex.

Mr. Faircloth just proved how inferior he really is.

Who is the Democrat running against him? I'd like to contribute to his/her campaign.

[MadMaddie]

55. So lets get this clear not referring to the President with racist

language is tiptoeing?

I am going to bet that one of these nuts will say the N word and then all of them will. Waiting for it..

[Quantess]

57. He seems to think that calling him "sambo" is tiptoeing...

Just wait until someobody calls him what they really want to call him. It'll sound like a chorus of people with tourette's syndrome.

[jbnow]

58. Tiptoeing republicans calling him social;ist, radical, dangerous,

naive, unAmerican, death panel provider whose election was reason for terrorists to dance on the street, a destroyer of the country, a pal around with terrorists guy and so on

It's like none of them will ever say a bad thing about him

[Quantess]

63. But they want to call him a n-----

it's so hard for them to not say it!

[Rex]

61. What a peice of shit, fall off a really high cliff!

And soon!

[BillyJack]

62. Most people under the age of forty don't understand "Sambo" ....thankfully eom

[nonperson]

65. Maybe most white people under the age of 40 don't understand "Sambo"

But every black person, the people this epithet is aimed at, certainly do understand it.

[maxrandb]

66. I'm sure that Hannity will devote an hour long TV show

to highlight this "truly vile" example of racism.

What...??? He won't?

On the other hand...Hannity and Limbaugh may just devote some time to this. It would be a perfect opportunity for them to repeatedly use the term "Sambo" to describe President Obama without consequence.

Wait for it!

[indepat]

67. Some tiptoeing this MFer is doing

:grr: