George Allen is a conservative’s conservative.

Oh, and what George Allen said is about as conservative as what Mike Pence said on Fox News last night:

“we’re trying to score a victory for the Republican people”

Some choice for us Virginians,”the Macaca guy” or a walking tape recorder who hasn’t had an original idea since he left Richmond city council.

They were both reasonably decent Governors but boy did they fade once they left office.

Can’t Warner have both offices?

pin the tail on the honkey

Everything will be OK, as George explained it wasn’t a black thing…..really. He believed the reporter was gay and was just making friendly conversation asking if he was a pitcher or a catcher.

George Allen needs to stay retarded, oops retired, we’ve got enough problems in Washington as it is.

So, according to Tommy, he didn’t mean anything derogatory, but since he was also FALSELY labeled a racist, he can be convicted. Got it!!

Many people can relate to an explanation like this. I recall, several months ago, that I nearly asked Ed Schultz the same questionat the White House when struggling for small talk. Schultz has the build of a former athlete, after all, and the only other thing I could think to ask was “What the hell are you doing here?”

BEST thing I’ve read all day! Thanks Tommy!

George Allen is the definition of nepotism.

I find Allen refreshing, genuine. I hope we see a great deal of Allen in the forthcoming campaign. I hope we hear even more.

Hey did MEDIAite’s Glenn Beck’s rectum cam break or something?

Be careful Barack Must Go or Tommy will delete your comment. He has some aversion to colons and rectums.

Is it having the name “George” that keeps drawing the feet into the mouth with this generation?

Good thing he didn’t call him “white boy” or “honky”-we would all be seriously confused!

same2u said:
George Allen is a conservative’s conservative.

Just like anthony weiner is the progressive’s progressive, right? Or alan grayson? keith olbermann? Better change names and make another idiotic comment.

“white boy”–in reference to grown men– is an example of a racially disparaging term that’s gone mainstream.

Joseph Glackin said:
Is it having the name “George” that keeps drawing the feet into the mouth with this generation?

Like George Miller? George Soros?

Liberal Tormentor said:
So, according to Tommy, he didn’t mean anything derogatory, but since he was also FALSELY labeled a racist, he can be convicted. Got it!!

I have no idea what Allen meant. His explanation sounded reasonable to me, but so did Melvin’s umbrage. Being the “Macaca guy” doesn’t help Allen get the benefit of the doubt.

Schultz did play football…

The “Southern Strategy” quip is a non sequitur in terms of modern politics… unless you are accusing the Republican party of racism (which never happens in the media///)…

WASHINGTON — At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the president.

Tommy, my point was that the whole Macaca incident was a liberal media smear. Honestly, I had NO idea what the word even meant at the time, but him being conservative, means he was being racist. Liberals, on the other hand, are always given the benefit of the doubt, when they something questionable. Why is that?

Good white people are compelled by respect for humanity to call out their fellow whites whenever there’s even a possibility that they’re being racist. Well done.

Liberal Tormentor said:
Tommy, my point was that the whole Macaca incident was a liberal media smear. Honestly, I had NO idea what the word even meant at the time, but him being conservative, means he was being racist. Liberals, on the other hand, are always given the benefit of the doubt, when they something questionable. Why is that?

Because they hide behind “good intentions…”

Liberal Tormentor said:
Tommy, my point was that the whole Macaca incident was a liberal media smear. Honestly, I had NO idea what the word even meant at the time, but him being conservative, means he was being racist. Liberals, on the other hand, are always given the benefit of the doubt, when they something questionable. Why is that?

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Juarez,
In other George Soros news;

Two George Soros Events Aim to Remake the Financial Order and the Media — So Where’s the Reporting?

And who will be headlining………Nancy Pelosi:

That “change the world” conference includes two commissioners from the FCC, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Bernie Sanders, four Democratic representatives, the head of Columbia University, and assorted left-wing journalist types, from Salon’s Glenn Greenwald to disgraced former MSNBC host David Shuster, who now works for a Soros-funded investigative operation.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/04/06/george-soros-events-weekend-aim-remake-financial-order-media-wheres-reporting/

But I can totally see why this story is more important. I’m sure the liberal media wouldn’t have reported it if John Boehner was headlining a Koch event. Eh Tommy?

Liberal Tormentor said:
Tommy, my point was that the whole Macaca incident was a liberal media smear. Honestly, I had NO idea what the word even meant at the time, but him being conservative, means he was being racist. Liberals, on the other hand, are always given the benefit of the doubt, when they something questionable. Why is that?

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,”

Sean68 said:
Good white people are compelled by respect for humanity to call out their fellow whites whenever there’s even a possibility that they’re being racist. Well done.

So you can’t ask a black person if they played football?
I need to find a Liberal translator to walk me through the non-offensive talk of the Left…

“But I can totally see why this story is more important. I’m sure the liberal media wouldn’t have reported it if John Boehner was headlining a Koch event. Eh Tommy?”

ROFLMFAO!

“the Macaca guy,”. Hey Tommy, maybe if you write it 7 more times it will stick. This piece sets an incredibly low standard, even for you. “the Macaca guy,” “the Macaca guy,”, “the Macaca guy,”, So what if he asked this guy what position he used to play? How can that be discriminatory or racist in even the slightest bit? Playing sports in racist and discriminatory? Allen was a college QB.

Once again, the only reason you’ve written this piece is so you could find a way to somehow call someone whose politics you don’t agree with, a “racist”. It’s what you do. Over & over. Grow up, kid.

Water is wet, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and Republicans are racist. Not much of a story here.

Juarez,
One of my personal faves is “a couple of years ago, he’d be fetching us coffee” – Bill Clinton

Tommy said:

Being the “Macaca guy” doesn’t help Allen get the benefit of the doubt.

Let me finish that statement for you Tommy…

“with liberal democrats”.

Most regular folks know that Allen is not a racist, but the racist smearing that was done when hehimself was running was all over the place, with all those white guys on msnbc throwing the race card harder and more regularly than anyone else. Seems your good buddies over there have rubbed off on your race-card throwing abilities.

The folks have woken up since then Tommy, and the ex-Governor and the ex-Senator does have the benefit of the doubt for most right and even-thinking folks.

lonestar77 said:
“the Macaca guy,”. Hey Tommy, maybe if you write it 7 more times it will stick. This piece sets an incredibly low standard, even for you. “the Macaca guy,” “the Macaca guy,”, “the Macaca guy,”, So what if he asked this guy what position he used to play? How can that be discriminatory or racist in even the slightest bit? Playing sports in racist and discriminatory? Allen was a college QB.

Once again, the only reason you’ve written this piece is so you could find a way to somehow call someone whose politics you don’t agree with, a “racist”. It’s what you do. Over & over. Grow up, kid.

WTF else would you call him? Who knows who George Allen even is besides Republican douchy types and people who are really into politics. He will forever until the day he dies be the Macaca guy. He definitely won’t ever be President, so maybe it’s good that he will be remembered for something.

I also remember he was the guy that had a noose in his office but oops that aint racist huh?

Color me Ignorant, it’s libs like you why the charge of racism has lost all meaning. You are the little libbies that cried racism. It’s more humerous than offensive now to be called a racist.

Kinda like how Obama has, “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted one” — Harry Reid

Liberal Tormentor said:
Juarez,
One of my personal faves is “a couple of years ago, he’d be fetching us coffee” – Bill Clinton

A timeless classic to be sure. Good one, I had forgotten it! MSM buried that in record time.

Liberal Tormentor said:
Tommy, my point was that the whole Macaca incident was a liberal media smear. Honestly, I had NO idea what the word even meant at the time, but him being conservative, means he was being racist. Liberals, on the other hand, are always given the benefit of the doubt, when they something questionable. Why is that?

I didn’t know what macaca meant, either, but if you’re familiar with the story, you know it’s a very specific regional slur to which Allen has a familial connection.This was no smear, it was Allen trying to sneak a dogwhistle past everyone. He got caught.

lonestar77 said:
Once again, the only reason you’ve written this piece is so you could find a way to somehow call someone whose politics you don’t agree with, a “racist”.

Where did I do that? When have I ever done that? Quote, please.

lonestar77 said:
“the Macaca guy,”. Hey Tommy, maybe if you write it 7 more times it will stick. This piece sets an incredibly low standard, even for you. “the Macaca guy,” “the Macaca guy,”, “the Macaca guy,”, So what if he asked this guy what position he used to play? How can that be discriminatory or racist in even the slightest bit? Playing sports in racist and discriminatory? Allen was a college QB.

Once again, the only reason you’ve written this piece is so you could find a way to somehow call someone whose politics you don’t agree with, a “racist”. It’s what you do. Over & over. Grow up, kid.

Speaking of football George Allen’s fmr. college teammates have quite another story to tell than you do.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/24/allen_football

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/959

Curses! Another lying republican on a message board foiled again by facts. You must get tired of it. Tee Hee.

Tommy Christopher said:
I didn’t know what macaca meant, either, but if you’re familiar with the story, you know it’s a very specific regional slur to which Allen has a familial connection.This was no smear, it was Allen trying to sneak a dogwhistle past everyone. He got caught.

Code words Mr. Olbermann?
Does Allen own a pick-up truck also?

Seriously you guys can complain about Tommy’s stories (since you always do), You have no juice on this one bros. George Allen is a racist and his own friends in college say so.

D

Tommy Christopher said:
Where did I do that? When have I ever done that? Quote, please.

Implied. ;)

skoorbekim said:
So you can’t ask a black person if they played football?
I need to find a Liberal translator to walk me through the non-offensive talk of the Left…

No, but if you ask him twice, even after he already told you he doesn’t play sports, and you’re the “macaca guy,” then yeah, you’re going to take a little grief for it. That’s not “liberal translation,” that’s common sense.

I wonder if google works for teagbaggers, must not.

Tommy Christopher said:
I didn’t know what macaca meant, either, but if you’re familiar with the story, you know it’s a very specific regional slur to which Allen has a familial connection.

You don’t know what ‘Macaca’ means or meant, but you are sure its a “very specific regional slur”. Ya – Okay.

Sounds like the left is very worried about losing that senate seat.

skoorbekim said:
Code words Mr. Olbermann?
Does Allen own a pick-up truck also?

It’s not a code word. It’s a real word, and it has a real meaning. Look it up.

I sure hope you refer to Harry Reid as Harry “The War Is Lost” Reid anytime he says anything about the troops. Another good one would be to refer to Pelosi as Nancy “We Must Pass The Bill To Learn What’s In The Bill” Pelosi anytime she is bitching about something the Republicans want to pass. Such consistency from you would be unexpected.

This purpose of this post is to imply that the only reason Republicans are running Allen is because Allen is a perceived racist, and we all know that white Virginians are racist, so whites will turn out big. ZOINKS!

Black and Gold Brad said:
You don’t know what ‘Macaca’ means or meant, but you are sure its a “very specific regional slur”. Ya – Okay.

Sounds like the left is very worried about losing that senate seat.

I said I *didn’t* know what it meant. Obviously, I know what it means now. You would, too, if you cared to find out what really happened there.

Or for Mediaite writers, honestly the writer of this piece had a pretty long history to choose from with George Allen’s run in’s with race. But for some reason chose not to write about them here, it would have given a larger context to the article, one that proves that Allen has a long history of this kind of thing. Seems lazy.

It’s not like he asked where his water melon and crack piper were…now is it?

Or maybe the writer of this article didn’t know about Allen’s college teammates claiming he used the N-word, or some of Allen’s coworkers who complained about a noose and the confederate flag hanging in his office. If the writer didn’t know this history I wonder why I read the articles on here.

Tommy Christopher said:
No, but if you ask him twice, even after he already told you he doesn’t play sports, and you’re the “macaca guy,” then yeah, you’re going to take a little grief for it. That’s not “liberal translation,” that’s common sense.

Connecting the racial dots…
Now you sound like Glenn Beck…

Color Me Badd said:
Or for Mediaite writers, honestly the writer of this piece had a pretty long history to choose from with George Allen’s run in’s with race. But for some reason chose not to write about them here, it would have given a larger context to the article, one that proves that Allen has a long history of this kind of thing. Seems lazy.

How ’bout you start your own blog.

Tim Kaine just formally announced he is gonna run for the senate seat against Governor Allen; that is why “macaca” is creeping back into the conversation.

Tommy admits above he didn’t know what the term meant early on either, my guess is that Allen didn’t eitehr – but then some lefty affilianted some family history to the term, and whack – that justified calling the Governor a racist, even though his history is completely otherwise.

it is how its done…..Tommy will be working for Kaine, simple, so smear Allen whenever/however possible. It is what lefties do now, smear, smear, smear, slander, slander, slander…ignore the issues, and smear, smear, smear.

Jaurez said:
How ’bout you start your own blog.

No I would rather complain about this one I will let Gordon Bloyer speak for me.

Liberal Tormentor said:
Color me Ignorant, it’s libs like you why the charge of racism has lost all meaning. You are the little libbies that cried racism. It’s more humerous than offensive now to be called a racist.

I bet you laugh all the time then Mormons are well known to be racist.

the Republicans seem to be rolling the “Southern Strategy” dice one more time

Tommy, if the Republicans are pure evil because of this “southern strategy™”, then what does that make Obama for doing this:

Obama carefully courts black votes with Sharpton
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Staff Writer

“Obama needs Al Sharpton as a certain kind of surrogate for black voters,” Neal said. “Symbolically, his willingness to speak at the convention is a subtle message to black voters that he is paying attention to their concerns

And who could forget this all-time classic:

In Appeal to Hispanics, Obama Promises to Push Immigration Reform
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies… – Obama”

If it weren’t for double standards…

George Allen is sort of the Republican version of someone like a Joe Biden or Barack Obama-they’re all idiots but Allen is shown to be what he really is by the press and the others are protected as if they’re disabled.

Tommy Christopher said:
I didn’t know what macaca meant, either, but if you’re familiar with the story, you know it’s a very specific regional slur to which Allen has a familial connection.This was no smear, it was Allen trying to sneak a dogwhistle past everyone. He got caught.

Ooohhhh. The dog whistle. That’s it. Uppity libs (dog whistle?) need to get it straight. Are poor, southern, racist, whites stupid and just lemmings of the GOP racists? Or are they sophisticated enough to pick up on all these code words and dog whistles? I sure hope my GOP racist dogwhistle/decoder ring comes in my box of Berry Berry Kix or I’ll never make through the 2012 election cycle.

Tommy Christopher said:
It’s not a code word. It’s a real word, and it has a real meaning. Look it up.

I looked up “Macaca” off-line in the American Heritage Dictionary of English Language and…
it is NOT a word…
macabre… yes
macaco… yes
but no macaca…

Tommy Christopher said:
I said I *didn’t* know what it meant. Obviously, I know what it means now. You would, too, if you cared to find out what really happened there.

Right Tommy. You said you **didn’t** know what Macaca meant, followed immediately by stating that it is a “very specific regional slur”.

So which is it? Either you do not know what it means, or you do know that it is a “very specific regional slur”.

TfT said:
Tommy admits above he didn’t know what the term meant early on either, my guess is that Allen didn’t eitehr – but then some lefty affilianted some family history to the term,

I’m not sure what you’re saying here, but no “lefty” made up the word “macaca,” or the fact that it is specific to the region in which Allen’s mother grew up.

AikidoJoe said:
Ooohhhh. The dog whistle. That’s it. Uppity libs (dog whistle?) need to get it straight. Are poor, southern, racist, whites stupid and just lemmings of the GOP racists? Or are they sophisticated enough to pick up on all these code words and dog whistles? I sure hope my GOP racist dogwhistle/decoder ring comes in my box of Berry Berry Kix or I’ll never make through the 2012 election cycle.

You have to love the idiocy of the right on full display in this short comment.

The writer uses a racist dogwhistle word in the first sentence! Awesome dude! I bet that uppity Obama just burns you huh? Blacks shouldn’t be so uppity and know there place right? Just like George Allen said to his college friend, the reason he chose to go the University of Virgina is because “n-words knew their place at Virginia”, e.g. uppity.

The word you just used! Tee Hee. Racist

Tommy Christopher said:
I’m not sure what you’re saying here, but no “lefty” made up the word “macaca,” or the fact that it is specific to the region in which Allen’s mother grew up.

Now his mother is a racist?
Or is it the whole region that is racist?

AikidoJoe said:
Ooohhhh. The dog whistle. That’s it. Uppity libs (dog whistle?) need to get it straight. Are poor, southern, racist, whites stupid and just lemmings of the GOP racists? Or are they sophisticated enough to pick up on all these code words and dog whistles? I sure hope my GOP racist dogwhistle/decoder ring comes in my box of Berry Berry Kix or I’ll never make through the 2012 election cycle.

Well, even the most knuckle-headed racist seems to know about 200 different ways to slur black people. Maybe that’s what makes it hard for them to learn other things.

Part of the race problem in this country is the blind spot that many otherwise decent white people have for racism. Many whites are so invested in denying racism, they won’t admit the possibility unless there’s a white sheet and an n-word involved, and even then, only maybe. That willful blindness causes resentment from the rest of us.

Right Tommy – by that logic you should have praised Sarah when she said Obama pals around with terrorists, after all, Obama and Ayers were good friends (and Ayers even admits he authored Obama’s book), but ya’ll said you can’t make those kind of associations…it’s just not right, its just not fair, unless of course, you are a republican, then smear, smear, smear, slander, slander, slander.

it is how it is, it is what the left does. It is the typical double standard that is played here, and everywhere else on the left.

So,something was specific to the region which makes Allen a racist, but Obama hanging out with Ayers, Wright, living in the same neighborhood with Farakhan, made no difference whatsoever.

Uh huh, we get it.

Shelton said he also remembers a disturbing deer hunting trip with Allen on land that was owned by the family of Billy Lanahan, a wide receiver on the team. After they had killed a deer, Shelton said he remembers Allen asking Lanahan where the local black residents lived. Shelton said Allen then drove the three of them to that neighborhood with the severed head of the deer. “He proceeded to take the doe’s head and stuff it into a mailbox,” Shelton said.

skoorbekim said:
Now his mother is a racist?
Or is it the whole region that is racist?

I never said either such thing.

TfT said:
So,something was specific to the region which makes Allen a racist

I never said that. What it does do, though, is debunk Allen’s claim that he made the word up.

Tommy Christopher said:
Part of the race problem in this country is the blind spot that many otherwise decent white people have for racism. Many whites are so invested in denying racism, they won’t admit the possibility unless there’s a white sheet and an n-word involved, and even then, only maybe. That willful blindness causes resentment from the rest of us.

Did you get that from AG Holder’s “Coward” speech?

Tommy Christopher said:
Part of the race problem in this country is the blind spot that many otherwise decent white people have for racism.

A larger problem in this country is the very old and tired canard of desperately attempting to paint your idealogical opponents as racists.

Tommy – is Bill Clinton or Harry Reid ‘racist’ for some of their utterances regarding Obama?

Or is my ‘dog whistle’ not in tune?

TC needs a blackboard for his racial conspiracy theories…

Tommy Christopher said:
Well, even the most knuckle-headed racist seems to know about 200 different ways to slur black people. Maybe that’s what makes it hard for them to learn other things.

Part of the race problem in this country is the blind spot that many otherwise decent white people have for racism. Many whites are so invested in denying racism, they won’t admit the possibility unless there’s a white sheet and an n-word involved, and even then, only maybe. That willful blindness causes resentment from the rest of us.

No. Part of the race problem in this country is we pretend that all non-liberal whites are racist by default. Lots of people resent that. Then those same uppity whites(dog whistle?) pretend that every other race has unicorn like benevolence to every other race. Only whites can be racist, right Tom?

Tommy Christopher said:
I didn’t know what macaca meant, either, but if you’re familiar with the story, you know it’s a very specific regional slur to which Allen has a familial connection.This was no smear, it was Allen trying to sneak a dogwhistle past everyone. He got caught.

“Sneak a dogwhistle past everyone”? Lol. Not much of a dogwhistle then is it? On the one hand White Virginians are supposedly stupid, racist rednecks, but then on the other hand, somehow they’re all educated enough to understand Creole slurs.

Since you’re now an expert on dogwhistles, maybe sometime you might feel free to comment on Obama using the anti-White (can’t trust Whitey to be specific) “Hoodwinked” and “Bamboozled” dogwhistles in front of mostly Black audiences.

One thing I do know about Liberals is they tend to claim the mantel of being the arbiters of decency, yet they sometimes conveniently look the other way when it fits their purposes instead of calling people they are loyal to out.

If it weren’t for double standards…

Black and Gold Brad said:
Or is my ‘dog whistle’ not in tune?

You have the 2010 GOP racist decoder ring, I bet. You’ll have to wait for the new one.

Tommy Christopher said:
Well, even the most knuckle-headed racist seems to know about 200 different ways to slur black people.

The man Allen addressed wasn’t Black though and the slur “macaque” is used exclusively by the French people of Congo against the native Congolese Blacks.

Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions TOmmy….”What it does do, though, is debunk Allen’s claim that he made the word up” .So, although you have never expounded on it as a subjechere on the board, I can assume that you believe that Obama and the rev. Wriight are soul mates, and that the good (bad) reverand did indeed influence Obama’s policies to lean more socialistic, like the good (Bad) rev preached???

You can’t separate one and not the other….you have to apply the same standard to both.

GDAmerica is where it’s at then, I guess.

OxyCon said:
“Sneak a dogwhistle past everyone”? Lol. Not much of a dogwhistle then is it? On the one hand White Virginians are supposedly stupid, racist rednecks, but then on the other hand, somehow they’re all educated enough to understand Creole slurs.

Since you’re now an expert on dogwhistles, maybe sometime you might feel free to comment on Obama using the anti-White (can’t trust Whitey to be specific) “Hoodwinked” and “Bamboozled” dogwhistles in front of mostly Black audiences.

One thing I do know about Liberals is they tend to claim the mantel of being the arbiters of decency, yet they sometimes conveniently look the other way when it fits their purposes instead of calling people they are loyal to out.

If it weren’t for double standards…

All blacks have unicorn like benevolence towards every other race. It’s impossible for any race to be racist, except for whites. Right, Tom?

Black and Gold Brad said:
A larger problem in this country is the very old and tired canard of desperately attempting to paint your idealogical opponents as racists.

Exactly! by the “one drop” rule, I’m Indian, and I’m not talking about the “Cowboys and Indians” Indian either, yet I get called a “White trash” racist damned near every day by Obama supporters simply because I oppose his radical upbringing, radical personal associations and his socialist “spread the wealth around” policies. And I admit that on a personal level, I cannot stand conceited people who get by their entire life on charisma alone. I’ve known too many people like that and they’re all frauds, every one.

I, for one, am now looking forward to Tommy’s next post regarding Harry “Negro Dialect” Reid, and Bill “Getting us Coffee” Clinton.

AikidoJoe said:
All blacks have unicorn like benevolence towards every other race. It’s impossible for any race to be racist, except for whites. Right, Tom?

You must address him as “Tommy” or you’ll get deleted.

Black and Gold Brad said:
I, for one, am now looking forward to Tommy’s next post regarding Harry “Negro Dialect” Reid, and Bill “Getting us Coffee” Clinton.

HAHAHAHA! We’ll be waiting a long time for that. Those are the “good” whites.

Chris Matthews sometimes forgets that Obama is a macaca.

writer said:
Chris Matthews

I think you mean Chris “Show us the Birth Certificate” Matthews.

TfT said:
Right Tommy – by that logic you should have praised Sarah when she said Obama pals around with terrorists, after all, Obama and Ayers were good friends (and Ayers even admits he authored Obama’s book),.

Ayers is trolling when he says that. Don’t fall for it.

Brad says:

A larger problem in this country is the very old and tired canard of desperately attempting to paint your idealogical opponents as racists.

When you’re right, you’re right, Brad.

writer said:
Chris Matthews sometimes forgets that Obama is a macaca.

Well according to the Liberal morality police, Chris Matthews is one of those Whites who are sometimes good and bad.

Tommy Christopher said:
Where did I do that? When have I ever done that? Quote, please.

You know what you do…all the time. You play your stupid little word games. Over & over. You don’t have the stones to actually put the words down though.

You mention “southern strategy”. From wiki: “In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the late-20th century Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism among Southern white voters and appealing to states’ rights.”

You link (twice) to articles about Allen being “homophobic” or something.

You write: “The problem is that Melvin, who is black, never played sports,” BTW, what the hell does the fact that he’s black have to do with anything? Why do you associate black people with sports. Of course, you provided a link to Jimmy the Greek but you could have just as easily linked to Norah O’Donnell saying Gingrich was a racist because he said Obama palyed too much basketball. WTF? If Allen asked a white dude what position he played, would you note that he was white? Of course not, it wouldn’t fit your race-baiting agenda.

Everybody knows what you’re getting at. At least have the stones to come out and say it instead of hiding behind silly little word games. Most people stopped doing that around the age of 13.

By looking at you, I doubt you were much of an athlete. Most people who were, have some sort of athletic look to them. There are a bunch of people that I’ve come across who I’ve asked if they played sports because they look like they did. Sports is an easy topic to discuss with others. On the other hand, there are plenty of people that I’ve come across that I would never ask that question to because you can tell that they’re about as coordinated as the guy who used to get his head dunked in the toilet in Jr. High. And, it doesn’t break across racial lines.

Grow up.

Here’s another Liberal double standard which you will not be hearing about in the Liberal media and the Leftist blogs.

“Death Panels” – Sarah Palin = Thoughtcrime. Time for Two minutes hate
“Death Traps” – Debbie Wasserman Schultz = ++Good!

Allen should have taken the Joe Biden approach, and complimented him for being clean and articulate.

Liberal Tormentor said:
Brad says:

A larger problem in this country is the very old and tired canard of desperately attempting to paint your idealogical opponents as racists.

When you’re right, you’re right, Brad.

Bullshit!!! He stereotyped the man and you know it!

now asking a black man about sports is racist wow

UNreasonable lib, I reallyi do live rent free in your head, don’t I?

Don’t you have a final exam in how to steal an election to study for?

AikidoJoe said:
All blacks have unicorn like benevolence towards every other race. It’s impossible for any race to be racist, except for whites.

Know what’s really hilarious about that? Malcolm X, who’s sole reason to exist was to spread anti-White hatred and convince Blacks that Whites were screwing them, was literally getting screwed by a White guy.

Oxy says:

Malcolm X, who’s sole reason to exist was to spread anti-White hatred and convince Blacks that Whites were screwing them,

Hm same could be said about BO’s mentor, the great jeremiah wright.

Liberal Tormentor said:
Oxy says:

Malcolm X, who’s sole reason to exist was to spread anti-White hatred and convince Blacks that Whites were screwing them,

Hm same could be said about BO’s mentor, the great jeremiah wright.

Yeah, that’s why Obama liked using the anti-White dogwhistles “Hoodwinked” and “Bamboozled” in front of Black audiences. It’s also partly how Obama caused many Blacks begin hating the Clintons. But the media let Obama get away with it. You watch, Tommy will totally avoid the issue like he has in the past when I questioned him about it. But it isn’t just him. No one in the Liberal media will touch it (except for a famous Liberal columnist from Arkansas whose name I can’t recall at the moment).

OxyCon said:
Yeah, that’s why Obama liked using the anti-White dogwhistles “Hoodwinked” and “Bamboozled” in front of Black audiences. It’s also partly how Obama caused many Blacks begin hating the Clintons. But the media let Obama get away with it. You watch, Tommy will totally avoid the issue like he has in the past when I questioned him about it. But it isn’t just him. No one in the Liberal media will touch it (except for a famous Liberal columnist from Arkansas whose name I can’t recall at the moment).

Now I remember, it was Gene Lyons who had the guts to call out Obama’s racist dogwhistling.

But did you catch Obama in South Carolina, warning African American audiences, “Don’t be hoodwinked, don’t be bamboozled” ? You can also Google those words and watch actor Denzel Washington deliver them in Spike Lee’s brilliant film “Malcolm X”: “You’ve been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok.” The irony of Obama’s borrowing the fictive words of Malcolm X, a black Muslim, to rebut a scurrilous e-mail campaign calling him a secret Islamist would be almost disabling, except for the greater one: All this was going on while Obama’s media acolytes were accusing the Clinton campaign of “playing the race card.” (A brilliant tactic to guarantee landslide defeat in South Carolina.)

TC, I guess your anti-Semitic if you don’t ask a Jew what sport he played?

TC, you forgot to remind us that it is also racism to call Barry by his full name.

Racism doesn’t depend on what’s said. It depends on who said it. Remarks that are ignored from Biden or Matthews will automatically put a sheet on any conservative saying the same things.

Exactly writer – for example, Harry Reid, dem leader, gets a pass for saying that hehimeself speaks with his “negro dialect when he wants to” and Biden “stand up Joe” gets a pass for saying that hehimself is clean and articular, but Allen said macaca once and now that Kaine has announced he is in the running for the VA senate seat Tommy will be working overtime to say “macaca, macaca, macaca”…it is what he does, he learns it from his friends, rachel, big ed, and the spitter (oh yeah, and his hero, Keith).

Liberal Tormentor said:
UNreasonable lib, I reallyi do live rent free in your head, don’t I?

Don’t you have a final exam in how to steal an election to study for?

Yeah, but first I have to finish a precedent study on the 2000 election.

lonestar77 said:
You know what you do…all the time. You play your stupid little word games. Over & over. You don’t have the stones to actually put the words down though.

You mention “southern strategy”. From wiki: “In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the late-20th century Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism among Southern white voters and appealing to states’ rights.”

You link (twice) to articles about Allen being “homophobic” or something.

No, the problem is, you obviously can’t read. Employing the Southern Strategy doesn’t make you a racist (as I’ve said over and over), it makes you an exploiter of racism. And as I’ve also said many times, racism is a spectrum disorder. It isn’t as simple as “Klansman or Saint.” I don’t know if George Allen is “a racist,” but he has a history of race-baiting and racially insensitive behavior. These are not “word games,” they are actual words. Trying to frame everything as a binary choice is a game, and you can find someone else to play it with you.

Tommy Christopher said:
No, the problem is, you obviously can’t read. Employing the Southern Strategy doesn’t make you a racist (as I’ve said over and over), it makes you an exploiter of racism. And as I’ve also said many times, racism is a spectrum disorder. It isn’t as simple as “Klansman or Saint.” I don’t know if George Allen is “a racist,” but he has a history of race-baiting and racially insensitive behavior. These are not “word games,” they are actual words. Trying to frame everything as a binary choice is a game, and you can find someone else to play it with you.

so does rush, al sharpton, jesse jackson, mike savage, obama, chris matthews , mark levin and on and on

Black and Gold Brad said:
I, for one, am now looking forward to Tommy’s next post regarding Harry “Negro Dialect” Reid, and Bill “Getting us Coffee” Clinton.

Why not look back, instead? I’ve written plenty about Clinton and Reid. Oh, right, because you’re arguing in bad faith, and don’t really care about the truth. Sorry.

I think it would have been a nice gesture if Barry had brought Bill a cup of coffee.

Why not update them then Tommy? Why did you post this non-story about Allen? So you could use the macaca slur? Honestly, admit that you did it because Kaine announced for Senate yesterday (or recently anyway) and you and yours will be campaigning for the democrat against the republican.

At least be honest about it; this is a non-story, except for the fact that Kaine has officially thrown his hat into the senate race, so you had to play the macaca card on kaine’s behalf.

At least that is my assumption, much like your assumed he knew what the word meant because of some family tie somewhere because some lefty said so.

Tommy Christopher said:
No, the problem is, you obviously can’t read. Employing the Southern Strategy doesn’t make you a racist (as I’ve said over and over), it makes you an exploiter of racism. And as I’ve also said many times, racism is a spectrum disorder. It isn’t as simple as “Klansman or Saint.” I don’t know if George Allen is “a racist,” but he has a history of race-baiting and racially insensitive behavior. These are not “word games,” they are actual words. Trying to frame everything as a binary choice is a game, and you can find someone else to play it with you.

I don’t know if you’re a racist buy you have a history of race baiting and playing what you perceive as stereotypes. You obviously think that all black people do is play some particular sport. Why don’t you look inside your own bigotry before calling someone else out.

George Allen (son of a former NFL head coach) asking an athletically built Black man what position he played = Ungood!

Barack Obama ripping the scabs off of racial wounds, rubbing salt on them and inciting racial hatred for his own political gain = ++good!

As a Liberal, you must ascribe the most heinous intentions to George Allen, while at the same time you look the other way when Obama tries to turn Blacks and Hispanics against Whites.

If it weren’t for double standards…

Southern Strategy
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the late-20th century Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism among Southern white voters.

… the Republicans seem to be rolling the “Southern Strategy” dice one more time… – Tommy Christopher

So, Tommy, in your mind, hurling an impromptu insult to a Democrat stalkerazzi during an extremely small political rally was some kind of effort by Allen to “exploit anti-African American racism among Southern white voters”? Seriously?

And Allen asking an athletically built Black reporter what sports position he played is an attempt by Allen to “exploit anti-African American racism among Southern white voters”? Really?

Look, be honest, what is really going on here is you Leftists are making a mountain out of a mole hill and trying to smear Allen as a racist as part of YOUR election strategy. Your charges are baseless, utterly ridiculous and without merit. Allen isn’t employing a “Southern Strategy”…you’re smearing his reputation and bearing false witness against him. Do you remember what that is from the days when you were a Christian, or has your conscience completely evaporated?

You owe Senator Allen an apology.

OxyCon said:
So, Tommy, in your mind, hurling an impromptu insult to a Democrat stalkerazzi during an extremely small political rally was some kind of effort by Allen to “exploit anti-African American racism among Southern white voters”? Seriously?

Where did I ever say that? Honestly, if you right-wingers spent half the time reading that you do making up things that I didn’t say, this would go a lot better.

I’ll probably do a longer column about the modern “Southern Strategy” soon, but yes, the tactic is alive and well, and will probably figure prominently in the 2012 race.

As for apologizing to Allen, I stand by every syllable. I’m not even sure what you think I should apologize for. I said I thought his explanation was reasonable.

lonestar77 said:
I don’t know if you’re a racist buy you have a history of race baiting and playing what you perceive as stereotypes. You obviously think that all black people do is play some particular sport. Why don’t you look inside your own bigotry before calling someone else out.

See, this is that same “reverse racism” sickness I talked about earlier. If someone calls out racism, THEY must be the racist because they recognized the stereotypes that racists established. It’s the same kind of logic that leads to the stereotypes in the first place.

Tommy Christopher said:
See, this is that same “reverse racism” sickness I talked about earlier. If someone calls out racism, THEY must be the racist because they recognized the stereotypes that racists established. It’s the same kind of logic that leads to the stereotypes in the first place.

You’d know. All you traffic in is stereotypes. You assume that Allen was being offensive because he asked a black dude what position he played. You people invent racism on a daily basis. Most of the time, clear thinking people have no clue what you’re talking about. Then, you explain it and it leaves everybody else wondering how you could possibly have thought what was said had any type of racial overtones. Don’t blame me if you automatically assume racial overtones when someone mentions sports. That’s on YOU.

Tommy Christopher said:
I’ll probably do a longer column about the modern “Southern Strategy” soon, but yes, the tactic is alive and well, and will probably figure prominently in the 2012 race.
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Good Luck…
This is not 1968…
You’ll get “hacked” to pieces…
Liberals need to realize what century we are in…

lonestar77 said:
You assume that Allen was being offensive because he asked a black dude what position he played.

When did I do that? Quote please. I have a quote that actually says the opposite, but then again, I actually read what I wrote. You “traffic” in assumptions.

Tommy Christopher said:
When did I do that? Quote please. I have a quote that actually says the opposite, but then again, I actually read what I wrote. You “traffic” in assumptions.

well then tommy do you give him the benefit of the doubt? because he is likely not to get it

cjd ohio 1 said:
well then tommy do you give him the benefit of the doubt? because he is likely not to get it

I don’t know what it’s really worth, but my first reaction to Allen’s apology was what I said in the article, sounds reasonable. The fact that he’d already asked the guy the same thing months earlier makes him guilty of phoniness, at worst.

On the other hand, I wasn’t there, and Melvin was, and he was offended. I don’t want to speculate, but there might have been contextual elements that cut one way or the other.

Tommy Christopher said:
I don’t know what it’s really worth, but my first reaction to Allen’s apology was what I said in the article, sounds reasonable. The fact that he’d already asked the guy the same thing months earlier makes him guilty of phoniness, at worst. On the other hand, I wasn’t there, and Melvin was, and he was offended. I don’t want to speculate, but there might have been contextual elements that cut one way or the other.

you put in the article that way i was just asking, hell i have ask people the (about things) months apart and i just forgot. either way just asked i dont know enough about the guy one way or the other

OxyCon said:
So, Tommy, in your mind, hurling an impromptu insult to a Democrat stalkerazzi during an extremely small political rally was some kind of effort by Allen to “exploit anti-African American racism among Southern white voters” (aka, the Southern strategy)? Seriously?

Tommy Christopher said:
Where did I ever say that?

You wrote an entire article based on bogus, trumped up charges of racism against someone you’re ideologically opposed to. Here’s a couple of the “Macaca” quips you used to attack Allen with:

But, then again, I’m not “the Macaca guy,”…
…rally behind, the “Macaca guy.”

And here is your quote about how the Republicans, through Allen are attempting to “exploit anti-African American racism among Southern white voters” (aka, the Southern strategy), based on the bona fides he supposedly earned by the “macaca” incident:

As I’ve said before, by running Allen against Tim Kaine for Senate, the Republicans seem to be rolling the “Southern Strategy” dice one more time, betting that by strongly linking Democratic candidate Tim Kaine to Barack Obama, and running a candidate like Allen, they can energize the kind of voters who might overlook, or even rally behind, the “Macaca guy.”

Doesn’t get any clearer then that, does it?

The whole gist of your article is “Damn that Macaca guy is up to his old racist tricks again, that’s probably why the Republicans chose him…to get all those racist, redneck White Virginians to vote for him”.

Also, keep in mind that every time I see you attempt to smear a Republican as a racist, or use the race card against them, I promise that I will be here challenging you about Obama’s revolting usage of race politics, so your double standard will be clear as day to everyone that reads your work. Maybe you should include some honest, non-biased reportage of that in the article you’re working on. Implying to one race that you can’t trust another race, and implying to one race that they should “punish” another race is un-American behavior, plain and simple, and Obama is guilty of that.

If Allen went around telling large crowds of Whites that Black leaders Bamboozle and Hoodwink them, so you can’t trust them, and if he also told them that illegal immigrants were their enemies, so they should “punish them”, I would have a huge problem with him. But that is what Obama is guilty of and none of you Liberals in the media are holding him to account for any of that, while at the same time you’re trumping up charges of racism and racial politics against Republicans.

If it wasn’t for double standards…

Facebook User said:
WOW!

Mr. Christopher!

On this week alone you have received a lot of unfair criticism and you have held your ground, because you are on the right side of the issue.

Kudos. I would like to see more of your work in the future. Really good work.

This better not be a sock puppet Tommy, LMAO!

OxyCon said:
You wrote an entire article based on bogus, trumped up charges of racism against someone you’re ideologically opposed to. Here’s a couple of the “Macaca” quips you used to attack Allen with

Wait, am I wrong that most people know Allen as “the macaca guy?” I don’t think I am. And your interpretation of my article is completely ass-backwards. Allen’s remark to Melvin may well have been innocent, probably was, but because of the macaca incident, he probably won’t get, nor can he reasonably claim, the benefit of the doubt.

As for the Southern Strategy, I never identified Allen’s “macaca” remark as an example of it, so your summation was incorrect.

Now, if you want to talk about Barack Obama and race, that’s a whole different subject, but you’re not even willing to call Allen out for saying “macaca,” why would I waste my time?

Tommy Christopher said:
Employing the Southern Strategy doesn’t make you a racist (as I’ve said over and over), it makes you an exploiter of racism.

Tommy,

While I very much appreciate what you’ve been saying here I have to disagree with this. I just don’t see how someone can make the decision to exploit racism without being a racist. In my opinion those who are not racist would never make the choice to participate in racism on any level … particularly to exploit it in others. Just the awareness alone of what one is doing makes it even worse … as many racists aren’t even aware of their racism. This kind of manipulation is unconscionable.

Tommy Christopher said:
Wait, am I wrong that most people know Allen as “the macaca guy?” I don’t think I am. And your interpretation of my article is completely ass-backwards. Allen’s remark to Melvin may well have been innocent, probably was, but because of the macaca incident, he probably won’t get, nor can he reasonably claim, the benefit of the doubt. As for the Southern Strategy, I never identified Allen’s “macaca” remark as an example of it, so your summation was incorrect. Now, if you want to talk about Barack Obama and race, that’s a whole different subject, but you’re not even willing to call Allen out for saying “macaca,” why would I waste my time?

sorry tommy, but do use loaded words or phrase to imply meaning,maybe not the meaning you want but that is the dangers of using them

you do use

Tommy Christopher said:
Wait, am I wrong that most people know Allen as “the macaca guy?” I don’t think I am

In your left-wing circles, that is true, but keep in mind that only 19% of Americans hold your political views and they know Allen as either Senator Allen or Governor Allen and have never heard of “macaca” or the DailyKos.

Tommy Christopher said:
And your interpretation of my article is completely ass-backwards.

Nice!

Tommy Christopher said:
Allen’s remark to Melvin may well have been innocent, probably was

Then your motivation for writing the article and interjecting the “macaca” remark and the “southern strategy”…was?

Tommy Christopher said:
As for the Southern Strategy, I never identified Allen’s “macaca” remark as an example of it, so your summation was incorrect.

I never said you did. But you clearly say “the Republicans seem to be rolling the ‘Southern Strategy’ dice” and that “voters who might overlook, or even rally behind, the “Macaca guy.”, implying that Allen’s “macaca” remark could be a good way to implement the “southern strategy”.

Tommy Christopher said:
Now, if you want to talk about Barack Obama and race, that’s a whole different subject, but you’re not even willing to call Allen out for saying “macaca,” why would I waste my time?

Attaching convenient preconditions out of thin air? Nice dodge! Why would you waste your time? Lol, I’m not going there. I honestly would like to find one decent Liberal who has the guts and the fairness to call out racial politics whoever is employing them, in the same manner in which HuffPo Liberal blogger Lee Stranahan called out the Leftist death threats in Wisconsin.

As for Allen calling an Indian guy a word which sounded like a slur used against Blacks in the Congo, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt because I can’t crawl inside his head and figure out his motive. He obviously didn’t appreciate seeing the same guy filming him at all his events and unwittingly spoke out.

If you never want to address Obama’s disgusting use of racial division for his own gain, that’s okay with me. Trust me on this, you aren’t the only Liberal who refuses to address it for purely partisan reasons. But just remember, that refusing to call Obama out on it is tacit approval of it and by not challenging him on it means he’s getting away with it and that he’s going to continue to racially divide this country, which is bad for all of us. You look like you’re old enough to have some recollection of the 60s race riots to never want to see them again.

And as I’ve said, when I see someone using racial politics against Republicans, I’m going to continue to bring up Obama’s use of racially divisive politics.

Tommy Christopher said:
I’m not sure what you’re saying here, but no “lefty” made up the word “macaca,” or the fact that it is specific to the region in which Allen’s mother grew up.

How do you know a “lefty” didn’t make up the word “macaca”? Heck, I’ll bet it was Robert Byrd. You remember Robert Byrd don’t you? You know the KKK (white sheet wearing), n-word hating, “lefty” democratic Senator? No, you’re right no “lefty” could ever make up a word like “macaca”. Go back to reading your copy of “The Communist’s Manifesto”.

Tommy Christopher said:
Well, even the most knuckle-headed racist seems to know about 200 different ways to slur black people. Maybe that’s what makes it hard for them to learn other things.

Part of the race problem in this country is the blind spot that many otherwise decent white people have for racism. Many whites are so invested in denying racism, they won’t admit the possibility unless there’s a white sheet and an n-word involved, and even then, only maybe. That willful blindness causes resentment from the rest of us.

Dang, you know 200 different ways to slur black people?!?! I don’t believe you. I think you only know 150 different ways to slur black people.

Dem4Ever said:
How do you know a “lefty” didn’t make up the word “macaca”? Heck, I’ll bet it was Robert Byrd. You remember Robert Byrd don’t you? You know the KKK (white sheet wearing), n-word hating, “lefty” democratic Senator? No, you’re right no “lefty” could ever make up a word like “macaca”. Go back to reading your copy of “The Communist’s Manifesto”.

Byrd said, in 2005, “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.”

Don’t we all love a story of awakening and redemption?

Ellen Carey Rowe said:
Byrd said, in 2005, “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.”

Don’t we all love a story of awakening and redemption?

Sure, maybe Robert Byrd made up the word “macaca” before 2005 when he suddenly “knew he was wrong”.

Dem4Ever said:
Sure, maybe Robert Byrd made up the word “macaca” before 2005 when he suddenly “knew he was wrong”.

So is that a yes or no for awakening and redemption?

Ellen Carey Rowe said:
So is that a yes or no for awakening and redemption?

You’re on the wrong thread. The subject you want to talk about resides elsewhere.

Dem4Ever said:
You’re on the wrong thread. The subject you want to talk about resides elsewhere.

You mean the thread where you think Obama became POTUS using a foreign passport?

Tommy is quick to point out what is perceived to be racism on the part of a white man, but turns a blind eye to that of a black man. Otherwise his other headline would have read Al ‘White Interloper!’ Sharpton.

Well done OxyCon.

The double standard on this board is pretty interesting, and very predictable.

I am looking forward to TC’s promised article on the GOP’s “Southern Strategy” in 2012…
along with every other historian who has ever broached the topic…

This Tommy Christopher should be working for Huffpo. What an idiot.

TfT said:
Right Tommy – by that logic you should have praised Sarah when she said Obama pals around with terrorists, after all, Obama and Ayers were good friends (and Ayers even admits he authored Obama’s book), but ya’ll said you can’t make those kind of associations…it’s just not right, its just not fair, unless of course, you are a republican, then smear, smear, smear, slander, slander, slander.

it is how it is, it is what the left does. It is the typical double standard that is played here, and everywhere else on the left.

So,something was specific to the region which makes Allen a racist, but Obama hanging out with Ayers, Wright, living in the same neighborhood with Farakhan, made no difference whatsoever.

Uh huh, we get it.

Hey you are right about Bill Ayers authoring Obama’s book at least. Stokey Carmichael edited it, Fred Hampton wrote the forward, and Eldridge Cleaver did the book to tape reading. Wow you got us!

Color Me Badd said:
Hey you are right about Bill Ayers authoring Obama’s book at least. Stokey Carmichael edited it, Fred Hampton wrote the forward, and Eldridge Cleaver did the book to tape reading. Wow you got us!

Did Frank Marshall Davis ghost write any books?
Someone like yourself probably owns one…

So Tommy… will you be referring to O’Donnell as Larry “Gay Slur” O’Donnell from now on???

Or how about “Truther” VanJones?

ellie said:
You mean the thread where you think Obama became POTUS using a foreign passport?

No, I mean the thread for wackos and ridiculous people.

Dem4Ever said:
No, I mean the thread for wackos and ridiculous people.

Ok. Well I’m not the one who thinks the State Dept. would allow Obama to become POTUS with no birth certificate and a foreign passport. I rather find that wacko and ridiculous.

ellie said:
Don’t we all love a story of awakening and redemption?

Only if you’re a Dem. Left gives no quarter. Did Allen apologize for the “macaca” incident? TC still calls him the “macaca” guy. The stench of hypocrisy reeks from the left.

George Allen needs to stop apologizing for every minor slip-up. Or else admit that he has no gonads.