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Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Defends Republican Official’s Obama Chimp Email

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Who knew the Dilbert guy, Scott Adams, was such a controversial figure? The cartoonist behind the hapless office drone (but not the one who inspired Office Space. That was Mike Judge‘s Milton) has found himself in hot water of late, first for comparing women to “children and the mentally handicapped,” and now, for defending Marilyn Davenport, the Republican official who sent emails depicting President Obama as the offspring of chimpanzees.

Ironically, Adams’ defense of Davenport is embedded in a lengthy manifesto about the deleterious PR effects of sticky internet rumors:

The same thing is happening today with a Republican official who emailed some friends a humorous photo of President Obama’s face on a chimp and a punch line about his birth certificate. If your only context is what the Internet says about this story, you assume it’s a typical racist act by a Republican who is already guilty by association. But if I add the context that Googling “George Bush monkey” gives you over 3 million hits, and most of them are jokes where President Bush’s face is transposed on a monkey, you see what’s really going on. Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda at the expense of a woman who was probably so non-racist that the photo in question didn’t set off her alarms as being a career-ending risk.

Even though Adams isn’t the guy behind Office Space, and has some strange ideas about how to deal with angry ladies, he deserves to have this explained to him.

Here’s the thing. President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. President Obama is a black man, so picturing him as a chimpanzee does evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. Scott Adams can Google President Bush until Dilbert’s tie straightens out, and he’s never going to find a legitimate analog to this insult.

Also, this isn’t Davenport’s first brush with racial email hijinks. According to former California Republican Party Chairman Michael Schroder, Davenport defended Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose when he sent out this knee-slapper, a photo depicting a watermelon patch on the South Lawn of The White House:




While none of this necessarily makes Davenport a racist (she could just be extremely clueless about race), there’s more than enough probable cause here to absolve “Democrats and advocates of civil rights” of being wolf-crying opportunists.

Speaking of stereotypes, though, what did Adams mean by “typical racist act by a Republican?” He’s either promoting, or acknowledging, a stereotype about white conservatives, which compounds his failure to recognize the same in Davenport’s email.

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  • The Lantern of Truth

    To Tommy , there’s no story that doesn’t deserve to be told again and again .
    Try something new .

    Barack Obama is using Jean Paul Ludwig’s SS # .
    Al Sharpton was in Obama’s amnesty meeting yesterday .
    Tony Rezko hidden away in a county jail , still not sentenced .
    Obama dermagoguing budget like Huey Long .
    Obama’s 2008 campaign under investigation .

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Character Assissination from the everybody on the right is racist crowd…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    “wolf-crying opportunists.”
    could that apply to you TC?

  • fenngibbon

    So the moral of the story is this:

    Tommy Christopher is a racist.

    Calling a white guy a monkey is all well and good, but heaven forfend that you call a black guy a monkey.

    Christopher thinks whether or not people can be treated in a degrading manner should be based on their race, and that’s racism, plain and simple.

    Mediaite, shame on you for employing an admitted, unapologetic racist.

  • Jerps

    I won’t defend that paragraph by Adams, but his larger point in his manifesto is well-taken.

  • jdubbellu

    wait tommy, aren’t all humans just evolved chimps? it’s funny you would see that as relating to blacks only, where I take it to mean a devolved HUMAN BEING. you should take a look at your own heart and see if there is some racism hiding in there…

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Some people will just never understand the difference between calling a White man a monkey and saying a Black man was descended from monkeys.

    They have no idea of context.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Some people will just never understand the difference between calling a White man a monkey and saying a Black man was descended from monkeys.

    Please explain in detail exactly what you mean by that statement…

  • jdubbellu

    oh I forgot, one time i photoshopped obama’s face on a picture of oprah’s dog while it was sitting on her lap. I thought it was a fitting portrayal. the dog had black fur, does that make me a racist? I guess I could have changed the dog to a blonde…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    jdubbellu said:
    oh I forgot, one time i photoshopped obama’s face on a picture of oprah’s dog while it was sitting on her lap. I thought it was a fitting portrayal. the dog had black fur, does that make me a racist? I guess I could have changed the dog to a blonde…

    I prefer redheads to Asian women… does that make me a racist?

  • jdubbellu

    skoorbekim said:
    I prefer redheads to Asian women… does that make me a racist?

    no, but I have to disagree with you on the asian women vs. redheads. lol

  • Tommy Christopher

    fenngibbon said:
    So the moral of the story is this:

    Tommy Christopher is a racist.

    Calling a white guy a monkey is all well and good, but heaven forfend that you call a black guy a monkey.

    Christopher thinks whether or not people can be treated in a degrading manner should be based on their race, and that’s racism, plain and simple.

    Mediaite, shame on you for employing an admitted, unapologetic racist.

    jdubbellu said:
    wait tommy, aren’t all humans just evolved chimps? it’s funny you would see that as relating to blacks only, where I take it to mean a devolved HUMAN BEING. you should take a look at your own heart and see if there is some racism hiding in there…

    Hey, geniuses, here’s what I wrote. Explain how it’s not true, or apologize.

    “Here’s the thing. President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. President Obama is a black man, so picturing him as a chimpanzee does evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. Scott Adams can Google President Bush until Dilbert’s tie straightens out, and he’s never going to find a legitimate analog to this insult.”

  • jdubbellu

    jdubbellu said:
    wait tommy, aren’t all humans just evolved chimps? it’s funny you would see that as relating to blacks only, where I take it to mean a devolved HUMAN BEING. you should take a look at your own heart and see if there is some racism hiding in there…

    and in before tommy says i’m arguing in bad faith (which might be his favorite reply here and on twitter)

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    jdubbellu said:
    no, but I have to disagree with you on the asian women vs. redheads. lol

    my wife is a redhead… I never know if she is watching…

  • jdubbellu

    Tommy Christopher said:
    Hey, geniuses, here’s what I wrote. Explain how it’s not true, or apologize.

    “Here’s the thing. President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. President Obama is a black man, so picturing him as a chimpanzee does evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. Scott Adams can Google President Bush until Dilbert’s tie straightens out, and he’s never going to find a legitimate analog to this insult.”

    your statement would only be true if blacks were the only people to ever be portrayed as a monkey and that is simply not the case. there are many examples of people of all races depicted as a monkey. like I said I see it as portraying a devolved HUMAN, you see it as a blacks only thing.

  • david r

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Some people will just never understand the difference between calling a White man a monkey and saying a Black man was descended from monkeys.

    They have no idea of context.

    A lot has changed since I was a kid. I remember separate drinking fountains and waiting rooms for blacks. And segregated schools. But a lot that still needs to be changed awaits justice. I think sometimes the benign idea of “context” actually hurts the cause. A black man ought to be free to be a conservative without being labeled an Uncle Tom. He should be accepted as someone to date your daughter, and if love takes its course, become your son-in-law. I think most liberals fall short of this, all the time patting their own backs for their enlightened views on race and telling anyone who will listen how much they like black people. A black man should be free to pursue all the money, all the power, all the women. Just like the rest of us. “Context” is half a loaf.

  • AikidoJoe

    So, because people, long dead, used something as a slur people that weren’t alive to be offended want the decedents of those people to live in a state of perpetual guilt and recognize the evil they are descended from. And look out! If you make a joke about someone that the liberals decide is a member of a “protected class” that would be perfectly acceptable against a person of a “non-protected class”, you need to have it explained to you that your ancestors were racist/homophobic pigs and that you need to feel guilty about it. Get a sense of humor people. It was a joke. I thought the pics of Bush were funny and I thought the Obama/chimp email was funny.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    When TC sees monkey he thinks black man…
    so when TC sees black man he thinks…
    Who’s the racist?

  • jdubbellu

    david r said:
    A lot has changed since I was a kid. I remember separate drinking fountains and waiting rooms for blacks. And segregated schools. But a lot that still needs to be changed awaits justice. I think sometimes the benign idea of “context” actually hurts the cause. A black man ought to be free to be a conservative without being labeled an Uncle Tom. He should be accepted as someone to date your daughter, and if love takes its course, become your son-in-law. I think most liberals fall short of this, all the time patting their own backs for their enlightened views on race and telling anyone who will listen how much they like black people. A black man should be free to pursue all the money, all the power, all the women. Just like the rest of us. “Context” is half a loaf.

    if i could give you a 1000 thumbs up, i would…

  • AikidoJoe

    skoorbekim said:
    When TC sees monkey he thinks black man…
    so when TC sees black man he thinks…
    Who’s the racist?

    Look out! Tommy is going to explain to you that your great-great-great-grandpa was a evil pig and that you should feel guilty about it.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Tommy, sometimes I wonder how you can tolerate the racist dregs on this site.

    I mean, I’m here too, but it’s not what I do for a living.

    If I had to hang out with these morons as part of my job I would kill myself.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    jdubbellu said:
    if i could give you a 1000 thumbs up, i would…

    Agreed .

  • The Lantern of Truth

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Tommy, sometimes I wonder how you can tolerate the racist dregs on this site. I mean, I’m here too, but it’s not what I do for a living. If I had to hang out with these morons as part of my job I would kill myself.

    BFD is the maggot who calls women ” whores ‘ and babies ” bastards ” , so be mindful of his delicate sensibilities .

  • The Lantern of Truth

    skoorbekim said:
    When TC sees monkey he thinks black man…so when TC sees black man he thinks…Who’s the racist?

    There’s a Tweetstorm on the horizon , right over Tommy’s head .

  • jdubbellu

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    I would kill myself.

    no one is stopping you…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    TC’s racist suppositon:
    Monkey is to black man as a zoo primate exhibit is to (please tell us TC, complete your racist supposition)…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Tommy, was it wrong hundreds of years ago to compare blacks to apes? If so, then why is it ok for you left wingers to compare white people to monkeys? How is it not just as wrong? You claim what makes it wrong now is the historical context, but aren’t you now justifying that by saying its ok to compare white people to monkeys?

  • jdubbellu

    Dronetek said:
    “President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement.”

    If Timothy Christopher knew his history, he would know that white people have been compared to ape and monkeys as a way to dehumanize them.

    http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/

    Educate yourself dumb ass.

    its obvious! republicans are racist towards the irish too!! wait, what?

    /sarcasm

  • Barack Must Go

    If a black man can’t take the chimp, then stay out of the White House, simple as that.

  • AikidoJoe

    Dronetek said:
    “President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement.”

    If Timothy Christopher knew his history, he would know that white people have been compared to ape and monkeys as a way to dehumanize them.

    http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/

    Educate yourself dumb ass.

    Muslims depict Jews as monkeys, too. But we’re getting sidetracked from the liberal narrative. Why don’t you guys feel guilty about stuff your great-great-great grandparents may, or may not, have done?

    http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=786

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Tommy, scientists constantly declare that mankind shares over 98% of the genetic material with chimps, so how is it “more dehumanizing” to compare a black to chimps than any other human? Are they implying blacks share 99% percent of genetic material, and therefore they are closer?

  • Barack Must Go

    I think MEDIAite ought send one of their crack pot reporters out to various zoos around the country to snag an exclusive on the chimpanzee’s point of view on this topic

  • Pablo

    Here’s the thing. President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. President Obama is a black man, so picturing him as a chimpanzee does evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement.

    What twaddle. Here’s the thing: Stereotypes do not fuel murder, rape or enslavement. Assholes fuel them, and they fuel stereotypes.

    If I didn’t know better, I’d swear this was written by a chimp.

  • Pablo

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Some people will just never understand the difference between calling a White man a monkey and saying a Black man was descended from monkeys.

    They have no idea of context.

    You’d think the Darwinists would get it, though. We he or was he not descended from lower primates?

  • Tommy Christopher

    Dronetek said:
    but aren’t you now justifying that by saying its ok to compare white people to monkeys?

    When did I ever say that? Quote, please.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Tommy Christopher said:
    When did I ever say that? Quote, please.

    Why did you censor my post about the Irish being compared to monkeys?

  • Tommy Christopher

    skoorbekim said:
    TC’s racist suppositon:
    Monkey is to black man as a zoo primate exhibit is to (please tell us TC, complete your racist supposition)…

    To all of the idiots who use this idiotic construction: it is not racist to recognize the use of a stereotype, and to call it out. I didn’t create the stereotype, racist murderers and rapists did. You know, the people you’re de facto defending by trying to deflect their actions onto me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Tommy Christopher said:
    When did I ever say that? Quote, please.

    You excuse calling white people monkeys and not black people because, “doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement.” You’re suggesting that what makes comparing Obama to a monkey bad is it’s HISTORICAL context. Yet, you’re fine with calling white people monkeys NOW. How do you not see the contradiction? 50 years from now will calling white people monkeys be bad, since people like you created a history of doing it?

    Not only that, but you’re premise is wrong to begin with because the Irish were commonly portrayed as monkeys and apes. Which is probably why you censored my post which backed up my claim.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    “President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement.”
    If Timothy Christopher knew his history, he would know that white people have been compared to ape and monkeys as a way to dehumanize them.
    http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Tommy Christopher said:
    To all of the idiots who use this idiotic construction: it is not racist to recognize the use of a stereotype.

    You make excuses for that stereotype when its used against the right color person though. Why cant you see how hypocritical you are?

    I contend its part of the brain disorder known as modern liberalism.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Tommy Christopher said:
    To all of the idiots who use this idiotic construction: it is not racist to recognize the use of a stereotype, and to call it out. I didn’t create the stereotype, racist murderers and rapists did. You know, the people you’re de facto defending by trying to deflect their actions onto me.

    You associate black peole with primates…
    “President Obama is a black man, so picturing him as a chimpanzee does evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes”… in your mind TC…

    Just like you equate pimps to black people… (need the quote?)

    You are the racist you pretend to battle… You are the Fisher King…

  • jdubbellu

    Dronetek said:
    Why did you censor my post about the Irish being compared to monkeys?

    it doesnt fit his narrative, good thing i quoted you.

  • jdubbellu

    Tommy Christopher said:
    To all of the idiots who use this idiotic construction.

    must have touched a nerve…

  • Pablo

    Tommy Christopher said:
    When did I ever say that? Quote, please.

    Here’s the thing. President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. President Obama is a black man, so picturing him as a chimpanzee does evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement.

  • The Tea Weasel®

    In progress now on the Mediate channel: The Chimp Dance – watch conservatives try to spin the use of racial code words into something other than the use of racial code words. Plot twists involve having to recast historical stereotypes while dancing around central issue. Some additional subplots include trying to prove that whites are in some way injured by use of their own words against them as racial slurs and revisiting the internet meme of how much George W. Bush did, in fact, look like a chimp. This show should be available in reruns well into 2017.

  • jdubbellu

    The Tea Weasel® said:
    racial code words

    got your tinfoil hat on? look out for those black helicopters too…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    jdubbellu said:
    got your tinfoil hat on? look out for those black helicopters too…

    They might be white helicopters in his world…

  • fenngibbon

    Tommy Christopher said:
    Hey, geniuses, here’s what I wrote. Explain how it’s not true, or apologize.

    “Here’s the thing. President Bush was a white dude, so calling him a chimp, while not very nice, doesn’t evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. President Obama is a black man, so picturing him as a chimpanzee does evoke dehumanizing racial stereotypes that have historically fueled murder, rape, and enslavement. Scott Adams can Google President Bush until Dilbert’s tie straightens out, and he’s never going to find a legitimate analog to this insult.”

    So you think it’s okay to be a racist so long as your motives are pure. Kind of like those antebellum Southerners who justified slavery on the grounds that blacks were mentally inferior and needed to be looked after.

    Your point was that whether or not it’s okay to make denigrating comments about a person depends on what race they are. That’s racism. Either you think white people are so inferior that it’s okay to compare them to monkeys, or you think blacks are so inferior to whites when it comes to withstanding the vicissitudes of life that you can’t make jokes about them the way you can with whites, but it’s racism either way.

    I realize now, after reading your Trump post, that you’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer (more like a wooden spoon), but hopefully, after 2 or 3 days of focusing all 6 of your working brain cells on this you might come to understand that.

  • CLTstraightguy

    Dronetek said:
    Tommy, was it wrong hundreds of years ago to compare blacks to apes? If so, then why is it ok for you left wingers to compare white people to monkeys? How is it not just as wrong? You claim what makes it wrong now is the historical context, but aren’t you now justifying that by saying its ok to compare white people to monkeys?

    What an awesome post.

  • fenngibbon

    The Tea Weasel® said:
    racial code words.

    I’ve been referring to various government officials, administrators, bureaucrats, etc. as chimps for over twenty years (and the rest were lemurs), and at least 99% of those assorted worthies were the same race as I am, so you can take your “racial code words” nonsense and shove it.

  • CLTstraightguy

    I heard a rumor from Washington that a Fatah has been placed on Scott now…
    It’s just a rumor…isn’t it?

    It’s funny in a sad way, Doonesberry can make every quip on the Right that it wants, but as soon as you quip about BHO, almost every Lib goes ape.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    CLTstraightguy said:
    almost every Lib goes ape.

    How would TC’s racist mind translate that?

  • OxyCon

    White people are baaaaaad! *yawn*

    Tommy, serious question, did you grow up around any Black people at school or in your neighborhood, because your sense of White guilt is way too overblown?

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    This is becoming almost as difficult to unravel as the accusation that posters with Obama in The Joker makeup was racist.

  • perceptorii

    Yes, it’s kinda bad that liberals spent a decade calling a man a “chimp”, a dehumanizing treatment. But at least they aren’t RACIST!

    Yes, it’s rather awful that today one liberal website is attacking a three year old boy for having Down’s Syndrome. But at least they aren’t RACIST!

    Yes, the death threats that union supporters made against Wisconsin Republicans and the Koch brothers (even in one case, the *wrong* Koch Brothers) were not very nice, but at least they weren’t RACIST!

    Yes, of course Marilyn Davenport was wrong to distribute those pictures in both cases. Yes, it’s racist, and it makes Davenport either a racist herself or else hopelessly unaware. And conservatives that defend her really ought to have their heads examined. But hatefulness takes on forms other than racism. These days people on both sides are getting attacked in ways that are absolutely vile, even outright evil. Not all of it is racist, but it is unconscionable nonetheless. Calling out racism is great, except when it’s done in such a way as to excuse other examples of hatred and violence.

    And let’s not pretend that even the racism only comes only from the right. Republicans currently don’t have any minorities that match Obama’s profile, so of course attacks on him get much more attention. But when the GOP has had African Americans in fairly prominent positions, yes, they got it too (Google “Condoleezza Rice Oliphant parrot” to find one such example). And yes, the liberals that defended such attacked also needed to have their heads examined.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Tommy this site is turning into a Fox Nation type cesspool. A shame, really.

  • jdubbellu

    ellie said:
    Tommy this site is turning into a Fox Nation type cesspool. A shame, really.

    you turned the gene pool into a cesspool.

  • Levin
  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Levin said:
    To skoorbekim and the rest in need of a history lesson:

    If that’s a history lesson you need some book learnin’…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeff-Jackie/100000824834645 Jeff Jackie

    After spending the last decade depicting Booosh as Chimpy McFlighsuit, the libs are now up in arms that their boy is characterized as a chimp. Too rich.

    Kinda like when they ripped Haliburton Booosh for rising gas prices, while remaining silent today.

    Hypocrites. All of them.

  • OxyCon

    ellie said:
    Tommy this site is turning into a Fox Nation type cesspool. A shame, really.

    Clearly you’d feel more welcome over at Wonkette.com with like minded “enlightened” liberals:
    http://wonkette.com/443395/greatest-living-american-a-childrens-treasury-of-trig-palin-crap-on-his-birthday

  • Cancon2

    ellie said:
    Tommy this site is turning into a Fox Nation type cesspool. A shame, really.

    Kos is open for you to suck on kool aid.

    Oh Tommy, this site has alternate viewpoints, “please help me”. I need my reinforcement quota everywhere on the net.

    An Insufferable whiner.

    Everything is race with these clowns in charge. Everything. It is all they have.

  • andthehorseyourodeinon

    Obama only trots out his WHITE heritage when he speaks to Veterans groups and underlines the fact that his grandfather, the white one was a WW ll vet. He will visit ireland this summer to herald his Irish roots, guess the guys name shamus kunte. This guy is shameless

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    The lengths the right will go to to defend their racism is utterly amazing. This thread better than anything I’ve ever seen goes to show just how insane the right wing brain is.

  • Barack Must Go

    Pablo said:
    What twaddle. Here’s the thing: Stereotypes do not fuel murder, rape or enslavement. Assholes fuel them, and they fuel stereotypes.

    If I didn’t know better, I’d swear this was written by a chimp.

    You can’t make this ______ up. But the MEDIAite crew keep doing so anyway.

  • The Dweller Ysul

    Yeah, and why can’t there be a white Hall of Fame?

  • Dildo Buggins

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    The lengths the right will go to to defend their racism is utterly amazing. This thread better than anything I’ve ever seen goes to show just how insane the right wing brain is.

    Well, its not racism to them. Its just some good old boys telling the truth (as they see it). Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was….

  • Levin

    The Dweller Ysul said:
    The Dweller Ysul says:

    Here you go: http://www.hhof.com/

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Hey Levin, while you are on that site why don’t you check out the name willie O’Ree? For that matter, hockey is the most diverse of the major sports with players participating from the widest range of nations.

  • Levin

    MartiniShark said:
    Hey Levin, while you are on that site why don’t you check out the name willie O’Ree? For that matter, hockey is the most diverse of the major sports with players participating from the widest range of nations.

    You got me there. I guess you’re right ,as long as you don’t include soccer, basketball, or football:

    from http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=4170750

    League (Year) Total Players Born Outside USA/Canada Countries of Birth*

    MLS (2011): 487 184 (38%) 57

    NBA (2010-2011): 434 87 (20%) 40

    NFL (2010): 2050 67 (3%) 27

    NHL (2010-2011): 764 193 (25%) 19

    MLB (2010): 1029 272 (26%) 18

    * Including USA & Canada

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    Sorry I was completely mistaken, because you are combining USA with Canada — Canada comprises roughly 50% of the NHL rosters. Hockey is a lilly white sport.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    The lengths the right will go to to defend their racism is utterly amazing. This thread better than anything I’ve ever seen goes to show just how insane the right wing brain is.

    You should see them defending a post about the Obama children, Uncle Bill Clinton and cigars. Repulsive.

  • Tedderman

    So Scott Adams defence of this reprehensible picture is that two wrongs make a right. Jeesh, this guy’s been spending way too much time with his coloring books.

  • Tedderman

    CLTstraightguy says:
    April 20, 2011 at 1:50 pm CLTstraightguy(Quote)
    6 4
    I heard a rumor from Washington that a Fatah has been placed on Scott now…

    I believe you meant a “Fatwah,” which is a legal opinion by a Muslim scholar or Religous leader. Though I have no idea why you’d think this as it makes no sense.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    tc
    you point out his use of stereotypes and it seems he might be using the same one when he says “democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media…” or maybe i’m inferring he is saying republicans are against civil rights.

  • CLTstraightguy

    perceptorii said:
    Yes, it’s kinda bad that liberals spent a decade calling a man a “chimp”, a dehumanizing treatment. But at least they aren’t RACIST!

    Yes, it’s rather awful that today one liberal website is attacking a three year old boy for having Down’s Syndrome. But at least they aren’t RACIST!

    Yes, the death threats that union supporters made against Wisconsin Republicans and the Koch brothers (even in one case, the *wrong* Koch Brothers) were not very nice, but at least they weren’t RACIST!

    Yes, of course Marilyn Davenport was wrong to distribute those pictures in both cases. Yes, it’s racist, and it makes Davenport either a racist herself or else hopelessly unaware. And conservatives that defend her really ought to have their heads examined. But hatefulness takes on forms other than racism. These days people on both sides are getting attacked in ways that are absolutely vile, even outright evil. Not all of it is racist, but it is unconscionable nonetheless. Calling out racism is great, except when it’s done in such a way as to excuse other examples of hatred and violence.

    And let’s not pretend that even the racism only comes only from the right. Republicans currently don’t have any minorities that match Obama’s profile, so of course attacks on him get much more attention. But when the GOP has had African Americans in fairly prominent positions, yes, they got it too (Google “Condoleezza Rice Oliphant parrot” to find one such example). And yes, the liberals that defended such attacked also needed to have their heads examined.

    LOL.

    You know what the problem is?
    People like you, that can call a White President a Bigot, Racist, Cracker and D**k Head, and say that is not racist, it’s just your opinion. HOWEVER when an African American President comes along, all criticism, negative remarks, slurs, over the top character statements, and just plain gauging a negative reaction to his leading and policies YOU CRY RACIST.

    You and people like you are pathetic.
    You use the Racist Card, like the homosexuals use the Hate Card.
    If people disagree with you or your thinking, they are racists, and bigots.

    It’s subtle, put it’s a power play on using a word to get what you want.

    Well I’ve got news for you and all your pals, Because we disagree with the Job the current President is doing, or poke fun at him and this current administration it has nothing to do with Race, it has everything to do with Character and the ability to lead!

    Crumb if it was a choice between Martin Luther King Jr, and Hillary I would’ve gone with MLK.
    By the way don’t even try to compare BHO or any most of the “Democrat Black Civil Leaders” of today because MLK (Using a Southern Colloquialism) they Aint!

  • X-3

    Tommy Christopher said:
    You know, the people you’re de facto defending by trying to deflect their actions onto me.

    Nice try but…..FAIL!

    You’re a 24k phony. You’ve been caught too many times. So, what are you Tommy, a marxist, communist, socialist, fascist, or one of those so-called “progressives?”

  • pinandpuller

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Some people will just never understand the difference between calling a White man a monkey and saying a Black man was descended from monkeys. They have no idea of context.

    How about a half-white man? Is that a transitional form?

  • pinandpuller

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Tommy, sometimes I wonder how you can tolerate the racist dregs on this site. I mean, I’m here too, but it’s not what I do for a living. If I had to hang out with these morons as part of my job I would kill myself.

    I guess that would make you the missing link.

  • pinandpuller

    andthehorseyourodeinon said:
    Obama only trots out his WHITE heritage when he speaks to Veterans groups and underlines the fact that his grandfather, the white one was a WW ll vet. He will visit ireland this summer to herald his Irish roots, guess the guys name shamus kunte. This guy is shameless

    Maybe that’s why he wasn’t invited to the royal wedding.

  • CLTstraightguy

    I believe you meant a “Fatwah,” which is a legal opinion by a Muslim scholar or Religous leader. Though I have no idea why you’d think this as it makes no sense.

    Really now, are you in this current administration?
    Let me see… have a post in Homeland Security?

    But in any case we are both wrong, no ‘h’ at the end, and it’s not a fat ah (Could be Arabic for large behind) my bad…
    Also your bad… Religous, has an i in it. Religious.

    An example below of the Fatwa, that may have been issued on Scott…

    Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or opinion on Islamic law, ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie because the book allegedly insulted Islam.

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