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Don Lemon To CNN Panel: How Bad Is ‘N*ggerhead’ Story For Perry Campaign?

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This past Sunday the Washington Post published a lengthy report on a family camping site rented by Texas Governor Rick Perry that went by the name N*ggerhead Rock. The article goes in great detail asking legitimate questions surrounding the camp, and includes contains a denunciation by Perry, but also seems to find the embattled GOP candidate guilty by association for what is suggested to be tolerance of the offensive name.

Last night CNN’s Don Lemon very carefully reported on the story then asked fellow panelists if the Perry campaign can recover from even being associated from this story.

Lemon introduced this story with the same surgical tact that a bomb defuser might approach an unmarked package left in a Times Square subway stop. In fairness to all involved in this story, the WaPo story was built around numerous anonymous sources and it’s still too early in this story’s life cycle to truly understand its scale and potential political impact. This could blow up and kill a career, or could be a dud. Only more facts will reveal from which fire this smoke appears to be emanating.

RELATED – Herman Cain Responds To Rick Perry And The ‘N*ggerhead’ Hunting Camp Controversy

LZ Granderson, who is considered by many to have a left-of-center point of view, did not demur in his assessment, saying that this was a “huge” problem before openly wondering how Rick Perry could theoretically stand across a stage from Barack Obama with this story hanging over his head. On the other hand, Will Cain, who self-identifies as conservative, refused to opine how this story might resolve itself until all of the facts came in. He did agree, however, that this word is so powerful that, if true, it would be hard to imagine how anyone’s political career could recover.

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  • Anonymous

    Its a none story for his campaign, as this is a GOP/TP primary election. It might even do him some good as they oppose anything their opponents (liberals, etc) are for. 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    This will likely help Tollbooth with the Teapublican base and hurt him with the general electorate.

  • Anonymous

    I like this question better: “How Bad is ‘The Dead Economy’ Story for the OBAMO Campaign?”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    If the media and the electorate were predisposed to do some real background study, they would find that every single element of Tollbooth’s legislative agenda for the year has been frozen now. Note:

    The Minority Voter Disenfranchisement Act
    (Voter ID Law)
    Unapproved by DOJ under VRA and the subject of lawsuits. STAYED.

    Making Congress Whiter Act
    (Redistricting)
    Rejected by the DOJ under the VRA and the subject of several lawsuits. STAYED.

    Stated-Mandated Vaginal Penetration Act
    (Sonogram Prior to Abortion)
    The subject of several suits. Stayed, in very strong terms.

    Fire Teachers and Expand Classroom Size Act.
    (Education Funding Act)
    The subject of several suits. Injunction pending.

    This is unparalleled, even in Texas. A major, major failure for the bills’ chief sponsor, Tollbooth.

    This is the real problem, if only anyone cared to examine it.

  • Anonymous

    What about the part where he got rid of the Volunteered part of the Fire department?

  • Steve85

    i had a reply last week by a poster here, i think her name was michelle and i guess this goes to the majority on the right, how she was adamant on how wrong i was when i said that invited or uninvited the republican party is where the racists live.  she was not like “yeah, i know but i find it disgusting and i’m doing everything i can to stand up for equality.” 

    that’s the whole problem with the dim right.  just like at the debate when they just had there thumbs up their ass (which i hear perry really enjoyed) and let those asshats boo a soldier.

    and it can’t become more obvious after the simpsons say ‘you might not be racists, but racists sure love you guys.’ (that might be my interpretation)

    i agree that it will be a plus for him when it comes to the teajadists, especially with the one or two racists who really aren’t there, but the rest will rally behind him claiming he is being picked on like half-gov sarah and bachmann.

  • Pablo

    Oh, no. This is worse than Fast and Furious and Solyndra combined. You can tell because that’s what Don Lemon is talking about.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Your reading retention skills are suspect. The post is about Tollbooth and his racism.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    There is, of course, that as well.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is in deep trouble as this phony racial attack is rolled out .

    “Republicans are not the only ones who should sense blood in the water, though.  Democrats should realize by this time that the only way Obama might still be reelected would be for the Republican candidate to pose arm in arm with a Ku Klux Klansman in full sheet and hood regalia.  Even then it would merely be six bigots of one and half a dozen of the other, noting that Mr. Obama has posed on more than one occasion with the prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton and also attended a racist church for twenty years.  This is a perfect opportunity for somebody like Second Amendment supporter and cap and trade opponent Joe Manchin (D-WV) to step in to take Mr. Obama’s job from him in the Democratic primary.”

       http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/fundraising_falsehoods_should_end_obamas_presidential_aspirations.html

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Perhaps, you might consider that a better story, but it is not the story. I realize you like gratuitous bashing of the President, but it is not the immediate topic.

    I should note the economy is not technically dead. It is growing, albeit slowly, and it has continued to grow since shortly after President Obama rescued us from the W and Big D*ck joy ride to the bottom of the cliff.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Yes, that certainly sounds like Michelle-in-Utah. She cleans and presses white robes and hoods on a regular basis.

    You are right about the candidates not calling out the boo birds attacking a very brave soldier.

  • Dummy123

    Reverend Jeremiah Wright loves the JEWS and white people in general………is the fake story.

  • Anonymous

    If the recession were as deep and as severe as you ‘Bush-bashers’ like to declare it was, then why didn’t the recovery storm back with equal vigor? You know, like historical FACTS have proven to be the case. And since you ‘declared’ that OBAMO ‘ended’ the recession in 2009, anything that happened since then is correctly on his watch.

    You can rationalize all you want as you swaddle your beloved OBAMO in your choice of pink blanket; the people whose votes he’ll need to be re-elected have correctly declared him to be an abject FAILURE.

    And, no, Katie Couric isn’t around to stem the tide.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I love the Amerikan Tinker. More diversions than French highway crew. Manchin. Rich. I see him getting the nomination. We do have an interesting field set up, however:

    Chief gun control advocate: Blimpie.
    Chief open borders advocate: Tollbooth.
    Chief advocate for the terrorists: Dr. Doom.
    Chief advocate for national healthcare: Willard.
    Chief advocate for Chilean social security in the US: the Godfather of Krappy Pizza.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    BTW: Wasn’t the Half-Baked Alaskan suppose to announce her decision before the end of September? Is it not October? Has she punted on second down again?

  • Anonymous

    I truly think it’s time for a cleansing.  This is about the stupidest attempt at sliming ever.  Only the democrats would be capable of such absolute crap.  

    It indicates that you have no morals, scruples or common sense.  None – and Steve and flush are two of the dumbest.

    Now, let’s see if we can slime someone else who used to go to a place called “lover’s lane” when a teen so they must have had lots of lovers.

    Just freaking dumb.  

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Poor, poor Half-Baked Alaskan. That mean old Ka-a-a-a-a-atie Kouric!

  • Anonymous

    well lets send out our finest to find out if someone ever bought those little “black baby”candies that had the horrid name years ago!  Surely they should not have bought them and refused to enter any store that sold them.  

    That’s about how logical this whole thing is.  

  • Anonymous

    Would you explain ” Tollbooth” for those who came in late and don’t have a program ?

  • Anonymous

    Nothing on the Koch Bloomberg story guys?

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html

    Remember Wall St Billionaires all got their money through hard honest work!!!

  • Anonymous

    We get a “n-word” story from a guy who uses the “n-word”?  Really?

    Race baiters one and all; Obama has done more damage to race relations than ever and furthermore, he calls his wife MICHAEL instead of MICHELLE and the media is silent.  He is a reader, not a leader.

    Colby, you really should edit this article, it is filled with errors (grammatical, wording, etc.).  I know you wanted to get another “n-head” story out there, but you really should read before you publish.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not sure if your claiming the economy did storm back and the left is lying about it, or if it didn’t and they’re saying it did. The actual reason why there has been a very slow recovery is because the banking industry took all the money we gave them and held it instead of loaning it out.
    Remember how right after Obama was elected Fox news started yelling about him taking over the banks, and the republican congress immediately began railing against banking reform? That’s your answer right there.

  • Anonymous

    What part of the country do you live in where they sold candy that was little black babies?

  • Anonymous

    I bet Perry will win for sure now.  The Tea Party love this kind of stuff.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “ In fairness to all involved in this story, theWaPo story was built around numerous anonymous sources ”

    Anonymous sources who apparently enjoyed the camp, as guests of Perry, but never left the camp upset about the name, or demanded the sign be removed, or complained publicly.

    Instead, they waited until he was no longer a Democrat, but a Republican presidential candidate, to *anonymously* voice their objections. 

    Yea, right.

  • Anonymous

    It defiantly is a plus with racist voters.  That’s the only good I see in it.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    And, it is a very good substantive answer. Thank you.

    I find the Teapublican notion that President Obama failed to do all he could somewhat perplexing. At the end of 2008, the economy was very, very bleak, and it appeared that the US banking system was near collapse. As President Obama’s term began, he engaged in some triage and some field surgery which saved the life of the economy and our banking system. The Teapublicans were whining about the need for some reconstructive surgery right there in that field hospital. By the time we got our “patient” stable and evacuated to a hospital, the Teapublicans basically said, “You have a pulse, you’re discharged. No funds for any fancy-schamnzy reconstruction.” The wonder is not that we are well into a modest recovery but that we’re in a recovery at all.

  • Valkyrie101

    He didn’t end a recession, but we averted a meltdown.

  • L_Salazar

    Perry was a Democrat when he went to this camp!  

    That is where “Racism” lives today!

  • Anonymous

    Does it surprise me that a phony like you would attempt to change the subject? NO.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Or, Brazil nuts. Or, the firework we now call Texas Chasers. Isn’t the entire point that Familia Perry ought to have moved on? Evolved a bit? 

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Almost any “Dime Store” in Texas. Licorice gun drops they were.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Feel free to do so. If any correction is required, I will oblige.

  • Valkyrie101

    This will all raise Bachman’s hopes that maybe Perry will drop out. Perry is having one of those Mr. Burns moments with a three-eyed fish.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed, they do. I suspect Tollbooth is truly toast, however. 

  • Dummy123

    Can you name a community organizer with 20 years of black theology that doesn’t support gay marriage?

  • Anonymous

    And which party did Perry belong to when this decades-old story of proof took place?

  • OSux

    Chief America haters: Barry and Moochelle.
    Chief plagerizer: Hair Plugs

  • Anonymous

    he didn’t move on?  

    Seriously, this is just about the lamest attempt at “guilt by association”.  You know it, I know it and yet you persist.  The big question then might be WHY?

    Desperation, stupidity, the need to dust off the race card and paint it all sparkly new again?

    If anyone ever sang “Swanee River” – they surely were racist.  

  • Anonymous

    they are still sold everywhere.  

  • Anonymous

    It only raises the hopes of democrats valk.  Sane people understand that “desperate times call for desperate measures”.  

  • OSux

    I always knew Valerie is dumb but I didn’t know she is this stupid.

  • OSux

    I’m sure Don just finished doing his 4 part segment on gay media members.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    In other words, you have nothing substantive to contribute?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Actually, the guilt by association seems to be more a factor for your Godfather of Krappy Pizza. Teapublicans eating their own. Well, it has to be better than that Krappy Pizza.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Exactly. The post CRA/VRA Democrats did not tolerate it and Tollbooth needed a new home.

  • Anonymous

    If a rock named N*ggerhead that was painted over in the 1980s is that toxically racist then Niggerhead Mountain, which had it’s name changed last year, must be worse by an exponential magnitude! Based on this new “Perry Precident” of racism CA should be re-inhabitable sometime around 2040. That is, if the people who cry racism are happy with just a renaming and do not think the mountain should also be painted over, blown up, or strip mined.

    Also, seeing as how Perry did not own the land where the rock was, but just stayed there on vacations, anyone who has ever visited CA prior to 2010 is just as racist as Perry, and anyone who has ever lived in CA pre- 2010 is much more racist than Perry.

    The amount of racism in CA based on N*ggerhead Mountain really helps us understand why the state votes Democrat so solidly. Those black hating Liberals have been flocking to N*ggerhead Mountain!

  • Anonymous

    If a rock named N*ggerhead that was painted over in the 1980s is that toxically racist then Niggerhead Mountain, which had it’s name changed last year, must be worse by an exponential magnitude! Based on this new “Perry Precident” of racism CA should be re-inhabitable sometime around 2040. That is, if the people who cry racism are happy with just a renaming and do not think the mountain should also be painted over, blown up, or strip mined.

    Also, seeing as how Perry did not own the land where the rock was, but just stayed there on vacations, anyone who has ever visited CA prior to 2010 is just as racist as Perry, and anyone who has ever lived in CA pre- 2010 is much more racist than Perry.

    The amount of racism in CA based on N*ggerhead Mountain really helps us understand why the state votes Democrat so solidly. Those black hating Liberals have been flocking to N*ggerhead Mountain!

  • Anonymous

    Three times now – THREE TIMES – mediaite is taking the chance to smear Rick Perry with this ridiculous and farcically bereft story. The pathetic nature of this decades-old non-story being perpetuated without the salient details is so stark as to be risible — except it is so sad and pathetic. Why is it this site is incapable of looking at just some of the basic facts that would render this story below that of a curiosity? Because clearly mediate wants to play gutter character assasination politics, plain and simple, rather than ask basic questions behind this story.

    If this is such a disturbing event why did it take 30 years for anyone to come to light?
    Why is there no mention that the derivation came is from the name used for the 1,000+ acre parcel where the camp is located? 
    Why is there no focus on the fact that Perry did not erect the sign, nor did he own the property where it was placed?
    Why is the fact that Perry was Democrat at the time of the supposed insurrection glossed over but he is classified as a racist Republican now? 
    Why is there no curiosity who the nameless sources were, when they had to be democrat guests of a democrat Perry at the time, and they took no stand at the time they originally visited? 

    This is an embarassing stance for this site to take — or maybe that is, it SHOULD be embarassing.

  • Norbit

    Perry should answer for this when Tawana Sharpton answers for the death/riots of Crown Heights, “Jewish Diamond Merchants” and “White Interlopers”! (Tawana was a Dem candidate remember.)

    So what this shows, is that once again, we see the VILE RACISM OF THE LEFT CELEBRATED; while anachronisms from Perry’s past affiliations are attacked!

    This is part of the 50-year “GOP is Racist” smear conjured by the Democrats and their willing lapdogs in the mainstream media.
    It’s the CANARD responsible for the “brainwashing” Cain was talking about.

    If anyone can reasonably dispute this, let’s see it!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    In this instance, I’ll excuse your utter ignorance, Tumbleweed. And, this is not information that even the best Googling Monkey can ingest without reflection and analysis. With your further limitation of being an Italian unable to grasp the grassroots of the USA, I can’t fault your ignorance. But, there was a very real migration between the parties beginning with Brown v. Board, greatly accelerated by the CRA and the VRA and at long last formalized in the Nixon and Raygun Southern Strategy. The racists were largely purged from the Democratic party and welcomed, indeed embraced by the Republican party in Texas and throughout the South. In large part, that is the basis for the party solidity we now have with both the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democratic party was no longer split along Northern-Southern lines, and the Republican party unified under the banner of Segregation Forever. Tollbooth left the Democratic party not because of ideological shifts, but because his brand of racism made him an outcast.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’ll excuse Tumbleweed’s ignorance, but not yours. You should know better. You’re obviously just lying.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Indeed, one would have to be very, very desperate to embrace Tollbooth. Obviously, most Americans aren’t as desperate and fearful as you. And, more’s the better.

  • Anonymous

    What part did you live in when they sold them to you? What are they called? List which states sell the black baby candies.

  • Anonymous

    I could have guessed Texas.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I’m sure there is ample evidence the Dems asks Perry to leave because of a rock painted at the entrance of a property his family was leasing. Why did it take his Democrat guests at the ranch 30 years to “come forward” anonymously?

  • Pablo

    If you can’t follow along, Kook, stfu.

  • Pablo

    The banking industry gave most of it back.

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/TARP-Funds-Returned-Spending-Reigned-In/

    try again.

  • Valkyrie101

    So the economy was not on the brink of total meltdown and collapse at the end of 2008? That is not what the chief Bush economists said. They warned of catostrophic meltdown without the bailouts. And Obama as the President elect, supported President Bush on those. Thereafter, things have been reasonably stable. That is a good thing.

  • Valkyrie101

    Most liberals that I know consider Perry to be a favorable candidate. We do not wish his demise. Far from it.

  • Roger_Fails

    Uh, sorry to put you back on track here, gramps, but Sharpton has no relevance to the question of whether Perry is qualified to be president. The Washington Post didn’t make this story up and Perry hasn’t denied the core facts, so your tired rant about media bias is — as usual — just noise.

    For decades Republicans have been quietly appealing to redneck racists for votes. And we all remember the mobs that showed up at Palin rallies in 2008 carrying signs featuring Obama as a monkey and not of our country. Even last year, large numbers of Republicans believed he was born in Kenya.

    Sorry, gramps. If the white hood fits, wear it.

  • Anonymous

    wow, we’re not sure if this is even true, or has any relevance and it might not have either.  But let’s go ahead and discuss this on national cable news.

    Where’s Wolf Blitzer and some journalistic integrity when you need it.

  • Anonymous

    Listen, I’m not trying to deflect here. I know that’s the favorite tactic of a lot of posters here, to get out of dealing with the issue at hand. I acknowledge the newsworthiness of this story. There’s something I have to call out though. How can Don Lemon sit there and cover this story after the comments he made implying that blacks are homophobic and that gay whites would shun him because he is black? What’s worse is that, by his own admission, the reality of his coming out did not support many of the ignorant assumptions he had previously held. Of course that acknowldgement just sort of slipped out in response to an interview question most people have probably not even read, whereas his demonizing of the black and homosexual white communities were a regular part of his media rounds upon coming out.

  • Anonymous

    Mind explaining how this is an “appeal for redneck racist votes” when it is WaPo trying to make this into a racist issue, and that the timeframe of the story is back when Perry and his guests at the ranch were in fact Democrats at the time?

  • Pablo

    Change the subject from what you yourself said was a “none [sic] issue”? By mentioning issues that really are issues as a matter of comparing their importance?

    Ahhhh… Capiche!

  • OSux

    Sharpton is VERY relevant.  Obama receives awards at Sharpton’s headquarters and invites Sharpton to the White House.  That is far more relevant than what is on a rock. Obama’s divisiveness and racism was one of the main reason for the Black Panthers preventing white people from voting and is the main reason for the current flash mobs of black people assaulting white people.

  • Miljanamandich

    Reagan was not a Southerner. He left the Democrat Party. Was he a racist also?

  • Anonymous

    You are drunk with stupidity…the economy is sinking…Kodak is close to bankruptcy you idiot.

  • Anonymous

    Oh shut up…we are close to a depression.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    It sounds like you’ve been hunting over at N*ggerland, since you seem to be defending it to no end!!

  • Roger_Fails

    Sharpton has ZERO RELEVANCE to this story, despite your best efforts to inject him. In fact, you’re only hurting Perry’s defense by having to go so far afield to make his case. It smells of desperation.

    Go back to redstate or foxnews where this kind of drivel is not only tolerated but celebrated.

  • Exgoper

    Since Bachmann’s war chest is almost dry, it remains to be seen if she can hang on much longer. There’s talk that she may have to drop out before Iowa even caucuses. But it is a tantalizing scenario: if Tweedledumb goes, can Tweedledumber stick around long enough to scoop up his supporters? (And I do mean “scoop up.”)

  • Exgoper

    Since Bachmann’s war chest is almost dry, it remains to be seen if she can hang on much longer. There’s talk that she may have to drop out before Iowa even caucuses. But it is a tantalizing scenario: if Tweedledumb goes, can Tweedledumber stick around long enough to scoop up his supporters? (And I do mean “scoop up.”)

  • Anonymous

    Hey, what’s the problemo. It’s jus a little case of, “Boy’s will be boy’s.” I’d gladly join that sportsman’s club if I lived there. Besides it’s a cool Name to. Get over it. I did.

    Vote for Rick.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The story could go 2 ways:

    First - Rick Perry is a stronger candidate among the racists in the Republicon Party who love the fact he went hunting at a place called N*ggerland!!

    Second – The few Republicons left in the Party who still have class and aren’t racial driven, may have some serious problems with Perry and move on to someone else, but since they are the minority, it probably wouldn’t make that much of a difference!!

    I truly hope this doesn’t hurt Perry’s chance on getting the nomination, because I would love to have to Perry explain why he went there to hunt in a national election!! 

    And if you guys thought Perry bombed in the last debate, just wait to the next one when all the candidates will ask him about this!! Lol!! Unfortunately, Perry is toast!!

  • Anonymous

    Ahhh…the old ‘Jobs Saved’ straw man. ‘Things would have been worse if…”

    You Leftist children need real bullets in your guns.

    Oh, I forgot…you don’t like guns, do you? **cough** Fast & Furious **cough**

  • Anonymous

    No where near most of it. The point is that they never lent it out in the first place which is the reason why we gave it to them in the first place. Credit is what keeps the gears of our economy turning, when it froze up so did business.
    So no I don’t need to try again. I’ll just stick with the facts.

  • Valkyrie101

    So your position is that the economy was not melting down at the end of 2008? Where were you living then, the south pole? But you hate Obama so much you really do not care what the facts are.

  • Valkyrie101

    Bachman considers Perrry her chief tea party rival. If Perry drops out, that can only help Bachmann. But it may also mean that other candidates, eg Huck, will jump in.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    My friend, Kodak was once a wondrous company with cutting edge products. It can’t even seem to make a decent knock-off now. It simply wasn’t prepared for the digital age. It would be failing even in the most robust economy. While we’re not recessionary, we’re not robust. A good lesson here for us if we as a nation wish to remain competitive in a global economy, huh? Education. Training. Vision. 

  • Anonymous

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

  • Anonymous

    Well, I DO recall a certain VP ‘declare’ that the summer of 2010 was ‘Recovery Summer.’ And I do recall the administration declaring that unemployment would zoom to 8% (!!!!) if ‘their’ ‘stimulus’ plan weren’t enacted. Of course, the unemployment rate zoomed well PAST 8% WITH IT!

    History shows that the deeper the fall, the steeper the recovery. That this didn’t occur now..and won’t as long as OBAMO is around…falls squarely on the failure of Keynesian Thought. The whole ‘We Didn’t Spend Enough’ drumbeat by the haughty and imbecilic ‘Doctor’ Krugman is utterly retarded.

  • TbagsRstupid

    Tell that to Herb

    That is very insensitive. And since Governor Perry has been going there
    for years to hunt, I think that shows a lack of sensitivity for a long
    time of not taking that word off of that rock and rename the place. It’s
    just a basic case of insensitivity.”

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/herman-cain-responds-to-rick-perry-and-the-%e2%80%98nggerhead%e2%80%99-hunting-camp-controversy/

  • TbagsRstupid

    That his favorite fallback

    Notice its a merging of 2 names from a story 25 years ago

  • Anonymous

    Is there a picture of this rock or just the testimony of one guy that will give his name (who has never mentioned it before now and was just ”kinda” bothered by it) and six others who will, coincidentally, remain anonymous?

  • TbagsRstupid

    take a look at his past posts about watermelon, bananas, all look alike

    Probably never heard of this word, but now thinks its cover

  • Pablo

    So the economy was not on the brink of total meltdown and collapse at
    the end of 2008? That is not what the chief Bush economists said. They
    warned of catostrophic meltdown without the bailouts.

    So, you mean to say that Bush averted a meltdown, right?

  • TbagsRstupid

    what does kodak have to do with the economy?
    unless you are someone who takes pictures, then drops off the film when going to get your flu shot at Walgreens

  • TbagsRstupid

    is the state still on fire?

  • Anonymous

    Exactly who is defending the name? I’ve not read a thing from anyone defending it, but many asking how Perry’s efforts to eradicate the name are interpreted as somehow being racist.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    No. I wouldn’t vote for any far-right Conservative!! I don’t agree with them!!

  • Anonymous

    So why would I, as a Conservative, vote for a far-left Liberal like Obama? You just proved my point that it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with politics.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Be careful what you wish for!! Unlike Fox News, newspapers have standards and usually fact check their stories!! I would also like to see a picture of the rock, but I believe the story for many reasons, one of them is what Perry said when he responded!! Though, the rock was probably, just recently, blown-up into a million pieces so Republicons could start saying it never existed!!

  • Anonymous

    Keep railing against Obama, don’t let the real world slip in there and mess up your worldview. Whatever you may think of Obama’s handling of the economy, he tried. Your plan is to vote in the party who decided in the midst of a global economic meltdown to push the politics to 11 and obstruct everything the administration tried to do.
    You like to talk about history, find another time in it where the opposition party refused to work with the president 100% of the time. Democrats may not have liked Bush, but they came together and worked with him on some policy. Same with the Republican party and Clinton, and good god did they hate him. Go back and check it out, this just did not happen until now.
    But ignore all that and just keep on cheer leading. Keep ignoring the people in the back pulling the strings on all of them and carry on making up funny names for the president.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I agree, I wouldn’t expect you to vote for a Liberal, but I think you misunderstood my original comment!! Due to this N*ggerhead controversy, some may like Perry more and some may be turned off by it!!

  • Anonymous

    If you wouldn’t expect me to vote for a Liberal why are you so quick to toss the race card out? I would guess that maybe 5% of the opposition to Obama is about race. For the rest of us it is 100% political. 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    There are already contradictions in Perry’s story!! Instead of condemning the name, some people here just try to attack Liberals instead of being embarrassed that Perry went hunting there!!

    Sometimes silence on the issue is just the same as defending it!! Republicons cry all the time they want Muslims to condemn the radicals instead of remaining silent!! The same could be said of Republicons on this issue!!

    How many Republicons here are condemning Perry because he went hunting at a place called N*ggerhead??

  • Anonymous

    Do you even know why you are outraged? The only contradiction is whether it was Perry, or his father who painted over the sign.  The point is they recognized the offensiveness of the sign and they took action to remove it.  That is condemnation on their part, which you should be applauding instead of attempting to use in racist smear attempt.  There is no silence on this issue – unless you count the three decades it took for this story to come out, back when it was a group of DEMOCRATS who went to the location.

  • Anonymous

    Moron, I am stating many companies are in trouble…and to top it off, many people in this country are out of work…over 9 percent. NO RECOVERY!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Lol!! 5% of the opposition is about race concerning Obama?? I commend you (2012Freedom) for admitting that it’s out there… but I think that number is much higher than 5%!!

  • Valkyrie101

    Back to Pablo,

    Yep, that is completely correct. But it was a coalition of republicans and democrats that made that possible. If the democracts had taken a hard-line “we must make the president fail” approach, like the republicans of today, then that meltdown would have occurred. The President elect’s support of the bailout helped it to get approved by Congress. So let’s give credit for both sides on that one.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Hey Lemon, it’s a fraud story.
    The chickens are home man…

  • Valkyrie101

    Were they anatomically correct?

  • http://twitter.com/E_Joyce E_Joyce

    Ah, you’re one of those.  How about reading. Solyndra was a Bush initiative in 2007. http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/09/13/317594/timeline-bush-administration-solyndra-loan-guarantee/

  • http://twitter.com/E_Joyce E_Joyce

    Again people who don’t listen or read. Except whatever the propaganda machines, aka Fox News and Rush, punch out for you to digest.  President told the country right after being sworn in, that the economy and the dearth of jobs would not be turned around easily nor quickly.  And you know that’s the reality. So the meme you are touting is baseless.  But you go ahead and buy into that.

  • Anonymous

    How old are you?  The same licorice babies are still sold – obviously the name is different but any candy store still has them.  What the hell is with your “where do you live b.s.”?

  • Anonymous

    I’ve never even been to Texas so your “guess” is nuts!

  • Anonymous

    You are desperate and it’s fun to watch the asinine depths you plumb for rebuttal.  Keep going – dig your way to China.  

  • Valkyrie101

    In fact Perry is the ideal GOP candidate. Either he or Bachmann. Mitt is too formidable with his magic underwear.

  • Gconditt3

    And I guess you think that when “W” stated “Mission Accomplished” that war was over to? Silly rabbit tricks are for kids!

  • Anonymous

    Like most BS in the news that’s exactly what this is. Want proof?
    http://BiggestCoverUp.blogspot.com/

  • Anonymous

    Hit don’t make no diffrance.  We’re talkin “conservative” here!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    Fox does fact check. but they only go as far as our voice mail.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    Fox does fact check. but they only go as far as our voice mail.

  • Norbit

    It’s the bald-faced hypocrisy of the left-wing media, and the fact they never raised these issues when Tawana ran for the nomoination.

  • Norbit

    So far afield?  This rock was from ’83, and the Smear-Paper, Washington Post had 24 anonymous testimonies.

    The biggest racists in the country today are the filthy White-Haters on the left!

  • Norbit

    Just answer in two words, they can’t deny the Bald-Faced Double-Standard and Hypocrisy…TAWANA SHARPTON!

  • Hagen619dj

    Are you for real?  The banking industry today is holding on to it and won’t loan money.  Where do you get your information?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah,… only report the hate from “Fox” and avoid everything “not’ Obama!

  • Anonymous

    NO liberal wants Bachmann or Perry to back out!

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