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Kansas State Rep. Mike O’Neal Apologizes For ‘YoMama’ Email Comparing First Lady To The Grinch

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Kansas State Representative Mike O’Neal celebrates the Christmas season, it would appear, by forwarding “jokey” emails to his colleagues. MISTAKE #1!

The email, which included the subject line “Twins separated at birth?” contained a picture of Michelle Obama, her hair made messy by the wind, next to an image of the Grinch. “I’m sure you’ll join me,” the email read, “in wishing Mrs. YoMama a wonderful, long Hawaii Christmas vacation — at our expense, of course.”

“Sorry,” O’Neal wrote, “just had to forward this latest holiday message. I’ve had worse hair days, but this is pretty funny.”

You know, pretty much exactly the kind of email Jesus might’ve forwarded to his friends so that they, too, might delete it immediately, murmuring “What is it with this dude and these email forwards?” under their collective breath.

RELATED: GOP Rep. Sensenbrenner On Michelle Obama: ‘She Lectures Us On Eating Right While She Has A Large Posterior

O’Neal has since apologized for the email, saying he didn’t read through the entire thing before sending it along:

Cartoons are intended to be humorous. This one made me laugh — I’ve had bad hair days too. I forwarded it too quickly, missing the text included in the body of the mail. To those I have offended, I am sorry. That was not at all my intent.

Prior to his apology, however, O’Neal’s office had defended the email by noting that “political cartoons are a part of American culture,” adding that he had meant to poke fun at himself and draw attention to the First Lady’s spending habits:

It’s hard to see how Mike O’Neal poking fun at himself and forwarding a lighthearted political cartoon about the first lady’s extravagant spending of taxpayer funds during a time when many Americans are financially struggling is newsworthy.

Sorry if you’re offended or whatever. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

h/t The Kansas City Star, via Politico

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  • Anonymous

    Why am I not surprised? It’s always the GOP that doesn’t mind going racist to appease their friends.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Swann/100003281352784 Charles Swann

    If your apology is, “I’m sorry if I offended anyone,” just don’t bother.  Don’t apologize at all anyway.  Own your racism, dude.  It’s gotta be hard out there for people who hate black people to deal with a black president.  If making black jokes about her makes you feel better, go for it.  The people who support you will still support you.  That black stripper you’re screwing won’t stop screwing you over this.  That black transvestite caddy who blows you in the bathroom at the country club won’t be offended.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IKRA6LSFZZHXZBPZYOF4UGY4EU CynthiaK

    Grow up.

    Most young people don’t engage in forward emails; they’re too smart for such juvenile behavior.  Many of the forward emails I get are from my age group–60+.  

    Twitters another media made for bringing down stupid adults.

  • Anonymous

    2012 republican motto; YES WE KLAN!

    I see that the GOP southern strategy is still in play

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Right there with ya

  • Anonymous

    Agreed.

    That’s the funny thing about republicans…..they go out spouting racist and homophobic things then rush to their private corners to have homosexual sex with other races. Very funny lot.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Two Bumperstickers please.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Not all Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans are racists. But most racists are indeed Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    All liberals are homosexuals.  Gadfly is Exhibit A.

  • Anonymous

    I remember when Obama apologized for callig W unpatriotic, and I remember when the media demanded such an apology.

    oh wait a minute…never happened.  Democrats/liberals NEVER have to say “I’m sorry”…they can lie, cheat, steal, slander and the media will love them anyway, bat they eyelashes, sigh, and give them verbal bjs, but a conservative misstep/mistate anything — wham , bam thank you maam…forced apology.
    The double standard is just too damn funny.  News rooms?  media?  HA!~  Journalism is DEAD.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad Kansas Republicans didn’t pay more attention to losing those 2,100  Boeing jobs instead of falsely denigrating the First Lady – false because everyone knows the Grinch is Republican.

    http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2012/01/boeing-to-cut-wichita-facility-2160-jobs?et_cid=2406578&et_rid=54701083&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.manufacturing.net%2fnews%2f2012%2f01%2fboeing-to-cut-wichita-facility-2160-jobs 

  • Anonymous

    Not all Republicans are Racist but all Racist are Republicans!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Obama called W unpatriotic? Provide the exact quote!

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely poetic justice KS losing those jobs. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W2KZLPW36PGWPYD2C7Z6KDEUUE RobD

    How is the weather in Baggerland? You people have no shame.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W2KZLPW36PGWPYD2C7Z6KDEUUE RobD

    How is the weather in Beckistan Bagger? Why do you like to lie so shamelessly? Is that in your DNA?

  • http://twitter.com/Luv_Sin Sara Viana

    Rich Hil (tommy hilfiger son) Dealer Man http://www.Richhil.de.vu

  • Anonymous

    Tina, what world do you live in? When did Obama call W unpatriotic.? Could you once in your lifetime respond to an article without your typical partisan rhetoric?

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t know the Grinch was “racist.” 

  • john smith III

    are you f_ing serious? All of the lies that emanate from the right wing media? The YEARS of LYING that accompanied the Iraq war and all 4500 of the unseen body bags! LIES that our boys and men paid for with blood. Lies propagated  by the mainstream media to sell a war that only Bush the Lesser and his pathetic court of fools wanted? Lies that we pay for every day with our fked up economy. Lies that put American Citizens on no-fly lists due to public dissent ?
    Apology to George the Lesser? I want an apology from Obama as to why George W(eak) and DICK Chaney are not paying for their war crimes . I’d accept a written apology from Condi, Rummy, and Gen. Powell along with their testimony.
    Your world seems to be one that is inhabited by fairy tales and boogey men.

  • Anonymous

    Most of us can live with  and around Gays without a problem, but only racists want to live around other racist. And there you have. BTW, conservatives suck more.

  • Anonymous

    TINA! STOP LYING ALREADY TO TRY TO MAKE YOUR POINTS. The PRESIDENT never claimed W was unpatriotic. What a lying sack of conservative crap.

  • Anonymous

    I hope he is doing all that flip flopping on something soft!  He may hurt himself.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Just another Republican forced to apologize for his statements!! When will it end??

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    Early on Sept. 16, Robert Gibbs was scanning the news when a story
    stopped him short: according to a new French book, Michelle Obama had
    told Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French first lady, that living in the
    White House was “hell.” It was a potential disaster — the equivalent of
    the $400 haircut, Mr. Gibbs feared, coming just weeks before election
    day and on the heels of a vacation in Spain that had drawn accusations
    of lavish spending.

    Mr. Gibbs asked her aides to find out if she had said anything even
    close (no, the answer came back), and then fought the story back for
    hours, having the book translated and convincing the Élysée Palace to
    issue a denial. By noon the potential crisis had been averted.

    But at Mr. Emanuel’s 7:30 a.m. staff meeting the next day, Ms.
    Jarrett announced that the first lady had concerns about the White
    House’s response to the book, according to several people present. All
    eyes turned to Mr. Gibbs, who started to steam.

    “Don’t go there, Robert, don’t do it,” Mr. Emanuel warned.

    “That’s not right, I’ve been killing myself on this, where’s this
    coming from?” Mr. Gibbs yelled, adding expletives. He interrogated Ms.
    Jarrett, whose calm only seemed to frustrate him more. The two went back
    and forth, Ms. Jarrett unruffled, Mr. Gibbs shaking with rage. Finally,
    several staff members said, the press secretary cursed the first lady —
    colleagues stared down at the table, shocked — and stormed out.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/us/politics/michelle-obamas-evolution-as-first-lady.html?_r=2&pagewanted=4&hp

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    . . . When the whole enterprise seemed to have fallen apart, following
    the election of Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican, the first
    lady was furious. Instead of letting her husband down easy, which top
    staff hoped she would do, she lit into him.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/the-obamas-book-jodi-kantor_n_1190100.html

  • http://www.songsforamerica.net/photogallery/funny%20middle%20finger/Funny_Finger_anyquestions.gif AliveStillKickin

    I didn’t know the Grinch was a Black Muslim Pig.

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    See if you can follow this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLmru6no4U

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    Remember when the leftist media called out Al Sharpton for his recent racist comment about the “extreme white wing”?

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    Does this count in your world?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLmru6no4U

  • Anonymous

    Hey AliveStillKickin:  You are a vile, crude and ignorant human being..!!

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    The book, written by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor, claims that the
    chief of staff refused to allow the president’s wife into high-level
    morning meetings, leading a brooding Mrs Obama to berate other senior
    advisers by email.

    She allegedly sent furious notes to Alyssa Mastromonaco, the
    president’s director of scheduling, and to Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago
    friend who now serves as one President Obama’s top advisors.

    Ms Jarrett was said to remove the First Lady’s name before circulating the emails widely within the West Wing.

    The then-press secretary Robert Gibbs was apparently often
    dispatched to placate Mrs Obama when limits were put on the amount she
    could spend on clothes or White House redecoration, as well as to
    explain why she could not take private holiday while on state visits.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/8999311/Michelle-Obama-raged-against-Rahm-Emmanuel-and-White-House-advisors.html

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should post your hear say information in the Globe.

  • Anonymous

    Another Repug class-act.

  • Anonymous

    Rep. in elected positions should have more class than Rush.

  • Anonymous

    thank you “alivefornow”, we need your type hanging around so we don’t forget how much Merika still hates everything about us. Black people I mean. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OJ766ICBQDKEJY34J252S7J5CE Pat Mulligan

    here they go again; display their racist insensitivities and then when public outcry is against them, apologize;  no one buys it; you have no class like the rest of your gop buddies……..get back under y0ur rock

  • “Extreme White Wing” -Sharpton

    If you’re comparing the “New York Times” with “The Globe”, then we share common ground.

  • Anonymous

    Is that why Obimbo plans to circumvent present immigration law to pander to illegal alien parasites in an attempt to garner the Latino vote?
    Why are we not surprised that your scumbag would sell us all out for four more years of his incompetence.

  • Anonymous

    Do the Obimbo’s remind your of a welfare family that has won the lotto?

  • Anonymous

    For those keeping track the total number of bigoted Republican politicians apologizing for racist remarks or emails is 37.

    But it’s not a trend.

  • http://www.songsforamerica.net/photogallery/funny%20middle%20finger/Funny_Finger_anyquestions.gif AliveStillKickin

    MO’s clothing hasn’t changed with all that money…Still 60s Salvation Army – ghetto fashion.
    She IS eatring better though.

  • Ben Dover

    Except for those gays who are Republicans….

  • Anonymous

    You’d think she’d at least throw Obimbo a chicken neck to suck on. That guy turns sideways and he looks like an exclamation point. Do you think she forces him to do….stop me…..OMG!

  • Anonymous

    Not if you consider the obvious.

  • Anonymous

    Every day there’s just more and more and more proof of the bigotry and hate of the lunatic right.. they are destroying the country, taking it backwards 50 yrs and brainwashing their knuckle dragging inbred halfwits to do their bidding, while doing nothing for the middle class in this country and using these morons to help them protect and expand corporate wealth and power.

    it is stunning to watch

  • http://www.songsforamerica.net/photogallery/funny%20middle%20finger/Funny_Finger_anyquestions.gif AliveStillKickin

    I am not ignorant!!
    LOL!!

  • http://twitter.com/Ganabra1967 lance lank

    oh my god you people need to get a life and stop feeding into hate   I mean everyone of you! lie after lie how do you people live with yourselves fraking  GOD help you all and if you don’t belive in God  oh  sorry  NOT  AT ALL !

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Or so you’ve “heard.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Why’d you scrunch gays in there?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Lighten up; he said “yomama” not kill all Jews and blacks.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Is a cutting sense of humor the same as hating black people? If that’s so then Obama spent 20 years in a church that said a whole lot more “fun” things about white people than “yomama.” Conclusion, this Rep off-color, Obama racist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Well I’d rather have corporate weath and power expanded rather than giving it over to check cashing, ID-challenged morons who crap it down a black hole of Xboxes and lottery tickets after buying a carton of Kools. One creates jobs, the other keeps people from working cuz they like not working.

  • Anonymous

    Why should he apologize?  The card told the truth!  Michelle is a skank and certainly no lady.  It will be so nice when America has a Real Lady as 1st Lady again, after 2012!  I bet the next 1st Lady doesn’t use taxpayer money to take five or six vacations a year, as in the past, only this one loves to act N*gger rich on other peoples money!

  • Anonymous

    Racist much? You’re late for your Klan meeting. Did you get your hood back from the dry cleaners?

  • Anonymous

    Right, that’s why he’s deported more illegals in three years than Bush did in eight. And what’s with the name calling cacon, your mama didn’t raise you right did she?

  • Anonymous

    Accociated Press: Friday, Jan.6, 2012.
    Do you have a mamma?

  • Anonymous

    You’re an idiot. 

  • Anonymous

    Associated Press: Jan.6, 2012.

    Your in denial!!

  • http://twitter.com/LadyWithThLight Denise de Maria

    NO! IT IS YOU, who is in denial!   

    you and your kind need to watch your thoughts, time is running out on our patience with your NOT acting [@ all] like the christians you claim to be!in other words, shit or get off the pot, WeaklingS;)   HA

  • http://twitter.com/LadyWithThLight Denise de Maria

    HA HA HA ! ! ! ! ! 

  • http://twitter.com/LadyWithThLight Denise de Maria

    Speak for yourself!    

    I am a man lover, but then again, since your NOT a man……..hummmmmm.   HA

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for making yourself look ignorant. l was going to point it out but, hell, you did it for me!

  • http://twitter.com/LadyWithThLight Denise de Maria

    …..’bat they eyelashes’!    HA 

    why am I not surprised you can’t produce an educated sentence!    

    your kind never says sorry for all the things you do or say!   this country is  a complete mess by you all, the only way we have an involvement is because we have allowed it to happen far to long!    

    butt……..that’s Over, get ready for the real world!   You kind has admitted, wanting to or not  - you just can’t run things.

    Now, it’s our turn.

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