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Chris Hayes Panelist Calls Chris Christie ‘Less Obviously Racist’ Than Rest Of GOP Presidential Field

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On Sunday morning’s Up with Chris Hayes, talk turned to discontent with the GOP field, exemplified by the Tabasco-hot speculation about a Chris Christie run for president. Hayes hilariously evoked liberal PTSD over the 2004 nomination of Sen. John Kerry, while Colorlines.com publisher Rinku Sen weighed in that Christie might be seen, by the Republican establishment, as a candidate who can attract voters of color because he’s “less obviously racist than the rest of the Republican presidential field.”

Hayes begins the segment with a hilarious, canny observation, comparing this year’s Republican field with a 2004 Democratic slate that produced a nominee so wooden, you could almost see the Lincoln Logs that made up his skeleton.

“Nobody was that happy with the field on the Democratic side, and you were having a moments like, our savior will be Wesley Clark,” Hayes began. ”Everybody in the end ended up really working hard emotionally to psych themselves up for John Kerry,” he continued, then, making the sort of face you used to see on Fear Factor right before a contestant would eat yak testicles, said ”and it was like, okay, John Kerry, we will do this John Kerry. You are seeing that. Don’t you feel it’s like a haunting similarity there?”

Haunting is right. There are likely very few liberals who didn’t hear an audible, collective head-desk when Kerry’s nomination became a fait accompli. If liberals can take solace in anything these days, it’s the prospect that conservatives might soon be feeling a similar discomfort.

One unexamined subtext of Hayes’ observation is the difficulty of slaying the incumbent dragon in modern politics. George H.W. Bush rode the wave of Ronald Reagan‘s incumbency into the White House, and was unseated with a large dollop of help from Ross Perot. George W. Bush barely squeaked by Al Gore, with help form the Supreme Court, but also, many would argue, because Gore unwisely distanced himself from Bill Clinton. More and more, I believe the optics of incumbency, the act of looking presidential, plays a large part in modern elections.

Barack Obama understood this in 2008 when he spoke from a White House-evocative stage at the Democratic convention in Denver, or when he employed that much-derided faux-presidential seal. Most observers point to his handling of the economic collapse (going to Washington to lend a hand, while rival John McCain suspended his campaign) as the presidential-looking turning point that sealed the deal for him in the waning days of the 2008 campaign.

But Colorlines.com publisher Rinku Sen gets the award for best sound-byte, when, in an attempt to explain Christie’s appeal to the Republican establishment, said that his pushback against the hysteria surrounding the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” and his appointment of Muslim-American judge Sohail Mohammed made him ”less obviously racist than the rest of the (Republican presidential) field.”

The panel also cited a clip in which Lou Dobbs excoriates then-NJ Attorney General Chris Christie for saying that being in the United States illegally is not a crime, which Sen points out is correct. “The first entry is not a crime. The second and third entry is, but the first entry is not. And people don’t like that, but it’s in fact true,” she said.

While the construction of Sen’s point may have been overly broad (there’s a difference between being “racist,” and simply being willing to alienate certain blocs of voters), she identifies a very real problem with this year’s GOP field. When you have Rick Perry tanking, not for being “unelectable,” but for daring to ask the conservative base to have a heart where the children of undocumented immigrants are concerned, and when you look back at some of the intense race-baiting that occurred around immigration during the mid-terms, it’s an issue that conservatives should pay attention to, rather than charging at the “racist” red cape.

Former Obama Spokesman and current Senior Strategist for Priorities USA Action Bill Burton picked up on something that I also noticed at the CNN/Tea Party debate that further supports the notion that some conservatives don’t make a distinction between Hispanic voters and “illegals.” From a Sept. 24 memo to reporters:(emphasis mine)

During the last debates, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and others have taken turns bashing a Texas law — a version of the DREAM Act — that provides a chance at college for children of undocumented immigrants who were brought here by their parents. Rick Santorum even claimed the Texas law was “an attempt to attract illegal vote — I mean Latino — voters.” It’s a law that had the support of Democrats and Republicans because it was designed to provide a pathway to productivity for young people through education. As Republican consultant Mike Murphy noted during the tuition exchange, “Perry taking water on immigration. But careful GOP. Wanna win NV, CO, NM, FL? I hope so.”

There are many conservatives with reasonable positions on immigration (even Rick Perry had a few), but a significant enough portion of the base responds to this kind of hostility to make it worth a candidate’s while to tune their messages to it, at least during primaries. But with Hispanic voters making up an ever-larger percentage of the electorate, and considering the distaste most Americans (many or most conservatives included) have for this kind of thing, Rinku Sen’s point should not be dismissed.

In just a few short weeks, Up with Chris Hayes has established a loose, muffin-fueled vibe that has set it apart from other weekend political offerings, and has also made it a reliable source for good sound bytes. Rather than relying on amped-up, Crossfire-style theatrics for fireworks, Up extracts its notable quotables with a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere. It’s the difference between “Anything goes!” and, “Why shouldn’t anything go, right?”

Here’s the clip, from MSNBC:


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  • Free Man

    Sigh,… another rant from the in house MSDNC liberal cheerleader.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnzqJTKvx44 Christine Breese

    Hmmm….

  • Anonymous

    where do they find these freeloaders to put on TV?

  • 57 states

    when hope and change is now epic – fail , the race card is all that is left.

  • Anonymous

    Can’t we get through even one single day without throwing the word “racist” around?

  • Anonymous

    It is really telling that they aren’t on tv talking about all the good things Obama has done for the economy and for the healthcare industry and how easy it is going to be for him to beat a GOP contender based on his strong performance. Gee…I wonder why? The only thing they have is mud-slinging and race-baiting.

  • OSux

    They had a contest to find the dumbest AND ugliest person on the planet and Rinku won. Congratluations Rinku!!!

  • Bohratom

    Economy is in the dump so what do the Libs do. Play the race card over and over. Get used to it as it will be here till the 2012 election is over then of course will start up about a year before 2016.

  • Billy

    Wait…no criticism for the implication that Chris Christie is racist?

    A lady calls Chris Christie, and all the other Republican nominees racist, and the claim is treated as if it’s a serious point? 

  • Anonymous

    Oooh, Miss Rinku, she kinda cute. Hope she don’t be racist against the white folk. Bengali girls, they hot!

  • Anonymous

    What Is Chris Hayes’ Maiden Name ??  Maddow ?? 

  • Anonymous

    wow, no dog whistles tommy?

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    Mediaite, Why do you promote this UNWATCHABLE and irrelevant show? The host attempt to read a sophomorical script but stumbles every other line when reading the teleprompter and laughs at his own jokes. I was shocked to read he’s married. He’s a cross between unmarried Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper and Bill Maher. His guests are complete unknowns.

  • Anonymous

    Um, does the panelist realize Herman Cain is in the race?

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC = 24/7 smears, ridicule and race-card playing.

    But since they can’t defend Obama’s track record, what else can they do?

  • Y’Know It’s True

    Do you suppose Chris Hayes wife , Kate A Shaw (Associate Counsel to the President ) , previews his material before each weeks show ?

  • Anonymous

    chris christy = what you get when you combine “The Grass is Always Greener” with “Ignorance is Bliss”.

    If christy runs, he’ll go down in flames faster than “I coddle ILLEGALS”  perry once conservatives and other responsible Americans understand his position on key issues.

    Christy positions: PRO-AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS, PRO-ABORTION, PRO-MAN-MADE GLOBULL WARMING HOAX, PRO-GUN-CONTROL, DOESN’T WORRY ABOUT SHARIA LAW….

    No wonder the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist and their stooges in the lamestream socialist media want him to be the GOP candidate!!!

  • Anonymous

    Obama has divided the country like never before . He’s merely a rabble rouser , like Sharpton and Jackson .

    “Obama’s greatest magic trick?  Brainwashing the masses to believe that racism is a greater danger than radical Islam, and that Obama himself is in constant peril.  
    Opposing health care means you oppose Obama.  Oppose Obama and you are the enemy.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/the_cult_of_obama.html

  • Anonymous

    That would be possible for you and me.  But not for the editors at Mediaite.  If they gave up race-card playing, they might be forced to cover the state of the economy.  And that will never happen during the Obama administration.

  • lazzzlo

     More and more, I believe the optics of incumbency, the act of looking presidential, plays a large part in modern elections.

    Presidential optics certainly plays a part but not as large a part as you give credit, at least in this election cycle.  Voters are very unhappy, as evidenced by the 2010 elections.  People are looking for results, not empty gestures and presidential photo-ops.

    The bottom line for an incumbent is the ability to campaign directly off the highly visible results of your administration.  That what the independent/swing voters will judge.  The rest is just PR fluff, which does have its place, but is ultimately meaningless.

  • OSux

    Obviously they are getting paid by PMSNBC to promote their shows.  Unfortunately for them it is not working.

  • Michelle

    It continues to amaze me that liberals think it’s a winning strategy to call anyone who disagrees with Obama a racist.  But in their defense, they can’t run on his failed policies and record so I guess that’s all they have.

    The Dem’s worst nightmare is an informed voter.

  • Broadhorizons

    You made a typo. I’m sure you meant “Pub’s” instead of “Dem’s.”

    But we’ll keep working on it. Me & You.

  • Broadhorizons

    Cain is a non-option, from BOTH sides.

  • Broadhorizons

    Most non-whites are capable of smelling racism when it stinks. Threatened?

  • caconservative

    Aren’t they one and the same now?

  • Limpbaals

    I think you meant to Say Butterface Brisket Palin, she looks like someone took a bicycle pump to her lips and then they gave her transsexual surgery to make her face less masculine.  Haha, she was a manface until they took a hacksaw to her ugly mug, and now she looks like a Space Alien.

    Good Job Winner.

  • Anonymous

    Someone held a gun to your head and made you watch?

  • Stoogedude

    No, my God! I am sick and tired of people on my side (supposedly) calling Republicans racist! This has gone long and far enough.

    I wish those who call right-wingers racist would ask themselves if the right would be even slightly more kind to, say Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden as President. Of course not! It’s all politics! Half of the gripes the right has against Obama is just faux outrage designed to turn voters away from him! It would be exactly the same with a President Biden or President Gore.

    I saw a black pundit on CNN call Herman Cain racist for saying that black voters are brainwashed. I wanted to slam my head through Plexiglass! There is plenty of criticisms of the right that the left should never have to use the race card! Even if there wasn’t, using the race card just makes us look bad!

  • Anonymous

    Blah blah blah RACIST blah blah blah.  That’s all democrats have to say these days, when they’re not busy stinking up the Brooklyn Bridge or refusing to co-sponsor on Obama’s “jobs” bill.

  • Anonymous

    President OBAMO is the race-card president, everyone has correctly concluded.

  • Anonymous

    Poor Chris. he just can’t get rid of has Obama drool cup and knee pads.

    Here is this pure (-), marveling at Obama’s “Superpowers.”

    Superpowers? LOL

    Yep! This POS thinks Barry has Superpowers!

    http://www.breitbart.tv/fanboy-chris-hayes-gushes-over-obamas-super-powers/

  • Anonymous

    Well, when all but a couple of things a president has “accomplished” are viewed as detrimental to the country or just plain failures, the Obama  campaign media arm, MSNBC/NBC, won’t want to damage him any further.
    Race baiting is merely one of a few things they have left to promote him over his opposition.
    As reprehensible as this behavior is, they seem to embrace it as acceptable collateral damage in a means to their goal. Credibility and integrity may suffer, but it’s all worth it to them in their crusade toward their skewed perception of a “greater good”.
    Thankfully, my granddaughter insisted on cartoons, or I might have been tempted to watch to see what DNC talking points Chris Hayes was pushing. He’s a pretty good source to get the run down on what they’re thinking.

  • Sean68

    I think Tommy must agree with this woman’s casual character assassination. He highlights her comment but makes no value judgement. What evidence did this egregious woman present that Christie is in any way racist? Even accepting her idiotic premise–i.e., that opposition to illegal immigration or the ground zero mosqe is racist–they make the point that Christie is not, to my dismay, all that worked up about illegal immigration or the ground zero mosue (which as was pointed out, he defended it).

    I’m being a little bit disingenuous here. I’m actually encouraging the left to throw accusations of racism around like confetti. It only hurts obama. 

  • ceeza

    Once you nominate Romney there will be no doubt left..

  • Anonymous

    It is wise to know your competition, as distasteful as that may be at times.

  • CalFed

    Well what do you expect from Rinku…she has a BA in Victimhood…I mean Women’s Studies. Oh, and the publisher of “Colorlines.com”…so she is a professional racebaiter.

  • CalFed

    Well what do you expect from Rinku…she has a BA in Victimhood…I mean Women’s Studies. Oh, and the publisher of “Colorlines.com”…so she is a professional racebaiter.

  • Anonymous

    You’re absolutely right. They have very little left in the tool box and none of them are the right tool.
    You know that terrible feeling you get in your gut when you discover you’ve defended something that is wrong for years? It gnaws at you and occupies your every other thought and makes your quiet moments intolerable.
    Well….apparently they don’t possess that quality or they are soldiering on despite what haunts them. Maybe they just have such a strong ability for denial that overcomes logic and reason.
    I suspect it is one of these reasons that make it acceptable in their own mind to play the race-card.

  • Anonymous

    You’re absolutely right. They have very little left in the tool box and none of them are the right tool.
    You know that terrible feeling you get in your gut when you discover you’ve defended something that is wrong for years? It gnaws at you and occupies your every other thought and makes your quiet moments intolerable.
    Well….apparently they don’t possess that quality or they are soldiering on despite what haunts them. Maybe they just have such a strong ability for denial that overcomes logic and reason.
    I suspect it is one of these reasons that make it acceptable in their own mind to play the race-card.

  • Dishatin

    so much for true ‘news’…one more partisan politics talking head..at least carville and wife were partisan in opposite parties!  thanks for enlightening the viewership

  • Dishatin

    one more comment… i am sickened at the preoccupation of ‘race’ while our citizenry, ALL COLORS for God’s sake, have been raped and pilloried by banksters, pols, congress, global multinationals, ….
    all wealth sucked out of the USA…. leaving tens of millions of people impoverished and China and India enriched beyond their wildest dreams… and yet we remain stuck in the same muck while those who committed the worst financial crimes against the American worker, American tax payers, just plain people, not only have the criminals not been rounded up, tried in criminal court, and sentenced, our ‘government’ handed out over 3 trillions dollars to these monsters with still no regulation of the derivative market.

    Enough already yet with the same lame crap…stop fiddling and start saving whatever is left of our counrtry.
    Where is the nation’s Attorney General?  He sure has been absent and silent on the worst, most egregious looting of American in the nation’s history.

  • qwerty

    at least he’s not promoted as FAIR news…we all know it’s an opinion show…not like say greta van susteren who’s husband works for sarah palin

  • IndependentCitizen

    Since I’m an Independent, whereas I agree with some views about the Republican party and some views about the Democratic party, I really don’t know what to make of it. For now, I just have to see how the Republicans respond to this. But other than that, it is what it is, if that’s how she thinks of Christie.

  • Anonymous

    When it comes to republicans, that’s the best you can do is nominate the least racist among them.

  • Anonymous

    Yet, it’s still better than the five.
     

  • Anonymous

    So would you have voted for Obama had he been a far right Conservative? Why or why not?

  • Anonymous

    Wow! Just wow! I honestly have to say that was a really great post. You are one a very few Democrats that actually understand that it is all about politics and has nothing to do with race.

  • Anonymous

    Broad, you have already stated that you would not have voted for Obama had he been a far right Conservative. Why would you expect us, as Conservatives, to vote for him as a far left Liberal? If you would not have voted for him based on political differences would that have made you a racist?

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    The premise that all the GOP candidates are racist is disgusting.

  • Anonymous

    We NEED to focus on race.  So let’s focus on race.  You know…like how Obama has shamelessly let 17% of his kind go years without doing ANYTHING to help them find work.

    Isn’t it interesting that the despots in Africa do the same thing to their people too?  One has to wonder if this was one of the things he was taught in school while living over there.

  • Anonymous

    Rinku Sen could be a Bollywood babe, like Ria Sen, Reema Sen, Sushmita Sen, Nandana Sen, & Rituparna Sengupta. Hope this isn’t construed as racist.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    OK, so I’m noticing Mediaite always does this.

    They scream in their headlines that some random person that nobody pays attention to is saying something controversial (as Mediaite defines “controversial”).

    So the question to the reader is always present: Who is (‘Chris Hayes,’ or fill in random pundit) and why should we care at all?

    Seriously. MSNBC has been last in everything forever.

    Is there a reason we’re supposed to care what anybody on the MS-Obama News Network says at any given time?

  • Anonymous

    It’s to bad the ones that are racists are getting way more attention then the rest. Maybe the ones who arn’t should speak up against the ones who are.

  • Anonymous

    I wish it could be said that Renku Sen was ‘Less Obviously Ridiculous’ than the rest of the self-proclaimed ‘enlighted’ Left but she’s not.

  • Anonymous

    I think the point she was making was that Christie was the least willing to play up to the bigoted fears that the moron teabaggers have of brown people.

    And she is 100% right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Is this show an Onion parody of Red Eye or something? Or maybe a bad SNL sketch?

  • cdnhawk

    That Christie guy sounds like he has a lot of common sense…no room for him as a Republican candidate…I agree with you there 

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    No, she correctly pointed out that the Democrats are the ones calling people racists for dissenting from Obama’s agenda.

    You need to go look at what the definition of “typo” is again.

  • Anonymous

    Translation: He agrees with us a little more than the rest.

  • Anonymous

    Since when is wanting people to enter the country legally “bigoted”?

  • Jp7077

    I agree….I suspect alot of people on this site get their news from “comfortable” sources….if you don’t get your information from as  many outlets as possible….and than come to a conclusion on your own….you are sadly misinformed

  • Anonymous

    Race baiting is just as reprehensible as outright racism. It completely diminishes true racism. It does show the true colors of those that do it though, and I’ve come to believe that they only care about the people and issues when it suits them politically. If Cain gets any higher up the GOP food chain, just watch the attacks he gets from MSNBC. It will pale in comparison to anything Obama gets.

  • Anonymous

    I think they’d do best not to respond. Most Americans know it’s nonsense and response and diversion (division) is exactly what the Democrats want. Their biggest fear is actually having to confront the real issues that confront this country.

  • Anonymous

    “George W. Bush barely squeaked by Al Gore, with help form the Supreme Court”

    And Ralph Nader. Interesting how he is always left out of the discussion of the 2000 election by liberals.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4FIXQZ45KDYLOD4QPILHSNP5CQ CSC

    When everyone is a racist, is anyone a racist?

  • Anonymous

    Oh please, there isn’t a week goes by that FOX or The Blaze doesn’t highlight Brown on White crime to keep the fear and bigotry alive. A couple of their favorites are illegals drunk-driving and a Mexican having the nerve to wave a Mexican flag in America.
    And if that illegal kills an American…..PAYDIRT!!!!!

    Also, did you know Sharia Law was sweeping the nation?
    Ask a teabagger, he’ll tell ya.

    And Mosques are a breeding ground for terrorists so we really should ban building new ones.

    I also recall many prominent White citizens supporting the recently executed cop-killer but it wasn’t a problem because they weren’t a Black rapper invited to a Black White House.

    Open your eyes.

  • Anonymous

    Our eyes are open…to the absurdity on the left. Tell me BFD, would you have voted for Obama had he been a far right Conservative?

  • cdnhawk

    She came in second place…to you!

  • Anonymous

    It depends…..
    Does this hypothetical GOP Obama have a United States birth certificate?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • Anonymous

    What really is/was great is how after the 2000 election and the left’s demands to keep the recounts going and going and going (until they got the result they wanted) media organizations spent a ton of money and many months after the supreme court decision to recount the Florida votes using every liberal-leaning standard suggested and in the end came up with the same result – Bush won.  If Bore had won a few more states it might not have come down to Florida, but he didn’t, and it did – he lost, Bush won, its 11yrs later – get over it already!

  • Anonymous

    It’s bad enough they enter our country illegally but the worst is when they litter our deserts with heads, amirite?

  • Jp7077

    most non whites are capable of smelling racism where it doesn’t exist …..so what’s your point?

  • IndependentCitizen

    I totally agree with you. have a good night everyone!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Nope. Gotta keep it real. A nation founded on racism has to stick to its first principles.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Well, in fairness, that’s really not only ‘thing” (sic). For instance, there’s that idea Rosanne Barr has …

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Democrats can THINK? Will Rogers said he didn’t belong to an organized political party; he was a Democrat. Bob Hope heard a scary story about mindless brain sucking creatures wandering aimlessly around a cruise boat, and immediately said: You mean … Democrats?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh, come on now: you’re just jealous you didn’t get asked to compete.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Nominate this man ambassador to Iran!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Hard to tell – except maybe that most whites are incapable of smelling racism anywhere. Yeah: that’s the point. And in all fairness, God made his chosen people white so people could tell they had an excuse card from home from  ever seeing racism. Colbert: I don’t see color. I know I’m white because people tell me I’m white, and I believe them. 

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh, I just bet you’re an absolutely adorable 100% all American cutie pie Fabio in a pick-up truck. Are you in the movies, or on TV, and if so, would I recognize you? You just CANNOT deny your public, you big adorable Adonis – you’re just so testosteronish.

  • ATHF

    Go look up JourNoList. This is the exact kind of tactics that Ezra Klein and Chris Hayes talked about doing to republication party.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

  • Rex the Wonder God

    It’s Herb; Herb Cain. I know: Sarah Palin told me so.

    And he’s there because he can WIN! Oh yeah – BOO-YAH. Cain can win. No way in hell he’s just there to obfuscate for the RNC on the consistent position of the Republican party ever since St. Ronald Reagan took the party to Dixie and WHUPPED those Yankee carpetbaggers. Sure he spent his entire business career being the token shill for Big Food and getting black folks to buy Pillsbury pop-ups, Burger King Whoppers and Godfather’s Pizza as FOOD, GOOD food, good FOR y’all.

    Little person on my shoulder: There’s a very, uh, special place in Dante’s vision of the Inferno for the Herman Cain’s of this world.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Do I get three guesses? Really, I only need one: white person, right? 

    (How could you tell?)

    The tell-tale scent of Ode d’oblivious.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    The American Thinker, proper noun:

    Paper magazine, also online, with long-form propaganda posing as political commentary, frequently reliable as to the correct spelling of some commonly used words, mostly in invective; notable for it’s ironic employment of the word “Thinker” in its title, as well as the oxymoronic implications of it’s title over all, and frequent invocation of the pretentious and deliberately misleading term “journal” in self-description, plus the most humorless, witless and poorly drawn cartoons in the genre; permanent nesting grounds of the Great American Conspiracy Theorist.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Possibly true; but then, the Republican’s worst nightmare is universal sufferage.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    er … no doubt as to what? Did Mitt finally quit his flip-floppery, or did he just promise to? 

    You know – he’s made that promise before, many many times. And some those he MEANT.

    Sadly, he cannot help himself. It’s just Mitt being Mitt. Lovable, warm, earthy, hip, principled, modest, deep, consistent Mitt. 

    Forget the singularity: next stop – the Mittsistency!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Yeah, you can tell she’s a Dem, because …  … … ….

    … what.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Oh that was SO clever: Obamo. May I use that? My friends in opera circle will think I am oh so witty. Do you by any chance write professionally, or have your own blog? Please, please, please favor us with another piece of pith.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Where Democrat = naively hopeful, and Republican = moron, Independent does not mean what you think it means: it means idiot.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Yeah! It’s just MOST of them; plus the, you know, party itself.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Well, he actually didn’t live in Africa, or even go to school there; but he did live for a while in Indonesia – his mother forced him to, and his will power was too weak to resist; that and because and he was a little boy and she had sole custody of him – and he did go to school there while in Indonesia. So, yes, that could qualify him as an African despot, because obviously he would learn all about how to control a country as an African despot – in Indonesia – as an elementary school student. It’s practically required curriculum. 

    But – do I REALLY have to worry about this? After all, I know we have YOU to worry about it for us.

    By the way: I just LOVE your fake-out avatar name; it’s not at all lame, or pathetically obvious. Did you have it done? You just MUST tell us where.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Less Obviously Ridiculous than your avatar is misleading, you mean?

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Too deep. I need a rest now.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    I do so love Republican history. It’s the biggest reason I tend to stay away from novels – the doctor has ordered me onto a low-fantasy diet. But – I just HAVE to snack.

  • Anonymous

    Too true..too true. When you think about it, Mediaite exposes as many of the ridiculous race-baiters crying racist as some of the conservative sites.

  • Anonymous

    You’re WAY too excited. You need to down.

  • Anonymous

    lame

  • Ralph

    AL GORE INVENTED JOHN KERRY!

    Al Gore invented John Kerry… by endorsing Howard Dean.

  • PrezOworst

    Liberal universities

  • http://twitter.com/BadGenome Jeff Casey

    Where does Mediaite find these talentless hacks?

  • Anonymous

    Right…it was Al Gore who demanded a recount in a few select districts where the democrat voter fraud is well known and well established; Gore tried to cheat his way into the office of the President, but when all was said and done and the full state was recounted, Bush won fair and square.  There is no rewriting of history by the right; only the left who now supports assassination of american citizens while condemning water boarding of foreign extremists.  Only in lefty liberal lala land can this be the truth.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Who? And then, you know, prove it.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Who?

  • Go Navy

    BWAAAA….you feel the same way about the Rush haters?  LMFAO. Lemmings…so transparent, they’re fun!

  • Go Navy
  • Anonymous

    Because of the first sentence.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, the more I learn about him, the more I like him.  His business acumen is refreshing.  His ideas are fresh and energizing.  He learns from his mistakes.

    Perry and Romney continue to implode around each other.

  • Angelo R. Mozilo

    If you ain’t seen ColorLines.com yet I give it my most highest rec
    “8 New Albums for your Fall Music Playlist”  oooohhh

  • Anonymous

    Hey Mayhem! Someone has some how hijacked my picture (avatar) and my user name (12voltman1) to make it looked like I clicked on the “like” button of messages.When I go to a message board now and before I even read a message It says I liked the post (with my picture/avatar) on messages I do not agree with! This has happpened hundreds of time since last night alone. I have e-mailed and informed Discus.  They have not replied back to me yet. -12voltman

  • Anonymous

    Hey Lt! Someone has some how hijacked my picture (avatar) and my user name (12voltman1) to make it looked like I clicked on the “like” button of messages.When I go to a message board now and before I even read a message It says I liked the post (with my picture/avatar) on messages I do not agree with! This has happpened hundreds of time since last night alone. I have e-mailed and informed Discus.  They have not replied back to me yet. -12voltman

  • Anonymous

    Hey Mondays Opinion! Someone has some how hijacked my picture (avatar) and my user name (12voltman1) to make it looked like I clicked on the “like” button of messages.When I go to a message board now and before I even read a message It says I liked the post (with my picture/avatar) on messages I do not agree with! This has happpened hundreds of time since last night alone. I have e-mailed and informed Discus.  They have not replied back to me yet. -12voltman

  • Smit9298

    chris hayes makes me want to throw up!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Would that be Herman Cain? 

    Did your head just explode?

  • Anonymous

    Seen the polls lately? Apparently he’s quite popular with Republicans, knucklehead.

  • Anonymous

    Or maybe they’ve just lost their minds?

  • http://twitter.com/MarkH76248 Mark H

    Of course you mean his “beard”. The man is gayer than his sister Rachel Madcow

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