Quite possibly the greatest political parody video ever made in the history of man.
Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has doesn’t understand why people are so upset about her anti-Obama “Don’t Re-Nig” bumper sticker at Stickatude.com.
<- Yes, Paula. Racist.
Poor Roger Friedman, of Forbes magazine had the brains and wherewithall to track this woman down - my guess is through her WHOIS information - and managed to spend a little time getting dirtied up by her ignorance.
I’ve cut and pasted the interview, but you should reallysupport the journalism and visit the whole thing here. There fact that he caught this woman with her guard down and her bigot up is astonishing and should be rewarded with multiple hits.
Exclusive: Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has a company called Stickatude.com. And they’re selling their own version of an anti-Obama bumper sticker that reads “Don’t Re-Nig 2012.”
Ms. Smith told me in a telephone conversation on Saturday afternoon that the bumper sticker has been in their inventory since June 2010, but just in the last few days it’s started selling. The price is $3. Ms. Smith insisted that the bumper sticker is not racist. I asked her about the “N” word, for which “nig” is the shortened version. “According to the dictionary [the N word] does not mean black. It means a low down, lazy, sorry, low down person. That’s what the N word means.”
In Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, the word is defined as “member of any dark skinned race. Taken to be offensive.” Dictionary.com says the word “is now probably the most offensive word in English. Its degree of offensiveness has increased markedly in recent years, although it has been used in a derogatory manner since at least the Revolutionary War. Definitions 1a, 1b, and 2 represent meanings that are deeply disparaging and are used when the speaker deliberately wishes to cause great offense.”
Ms. Smith — who has an affable disposition and a hearty laugh–said she thought the website was “dead” and up until recently none of her bumper stickers was selling at all. Another site, called Stumpy’s Stickers, was originally credited with selling the Obama sticker. Ms. Smith says however she doesn’t own that site and didn’t know anything about it. She said Stumpy’s Stickers could have linked to their site, but she didn’t sell them any that they could have re-sold. Where did Ms. Smith find the sticker in the first place? “We just found it on the internet, and thought it was cute. It’s been up there since he’s been president.”
How did I find Stickatude.com? Clicking on Stumpysstickers.com from a story posted to Yahoo! caused a redirect to Stickatude. Ms. Smith is the official registered owner of the internet address, www.stickatude.com.
The Smiths own a well known paint ball field in Hinesville — a town nearSavannah. Mrs. Smith said customers come from all over the world. Ms. Smith said she is not racist, she just wants Obama out of office. She tells me she doesn’t have a preferred replacement candidate. “And besides Obama is not even black. He’s got a mixture of race. It’s his choice of what his nationality is. I’m a mixed breed. I call myself a Heinz 57,” she says, referring to an ancestry that’s part of French, Scottish, and German.
“I just want someone that’s going to help the United States and not give it other countries all the time. And stop giving the immigrants the benefits that most Americans inside their own states can’t even get because they’re giving it others who don’t even live here as an American.
“I do find it amazing and entertaining that one of our stickers has become a racist thing,” Ms. Smith told me. I asked her if she thought the “N” Word was a bad word? “No,” she said, ” because I don’t use it. I have kids here around me that are black kids. I call them my own kids. I’ve helped black families…to guide them in the right direction. Paintball is one of these things. We like to laugh and have a good time. That’s our way of life.”
So there you go. Just an affable southern gal that doesn’t understand how this horrifyingly racist sticker could possibly be racist.
So, maybe we could show her a little hospitality and explain it to her?
You can writer her at MrsLocoPaintball@gmail.com and let her know how you feel. That’s the paintball field where she helps black kids. I’m sure it’s a safe environment to walk around and be a minority.
You won’t find the bumper sticker on her website at Stickatude anymore, but you could leave a comment there. Lots of other lovely bumper stickers attacking the president, if using one of the most vilified words in the english dictionary aren’t your speed.
Or, you could go to her Scentsy page on Facebook, and try to post something on her wall, That’s where she sells scented candles, ostensibly to mask the smell of whatever bile she spews out whilst showing affable disposition and a hearty laugh.
And finally. if you felt like it, you could probably call her at Low Country Paintball. Look up the number or the website. It’s not hard to find.
Lots of ways to explain exactly what’s wrong with the sticker, the term and her attitude. Don’t expect her to get it though, because even though the Obama sticker has been replaced with this:
She still maintains this:
See, I don’t know this woman. All I can guess is that she’s never had anybody in her life that was willing to say “Um, yeah. You are a bigot. Here’s why.” And maybe give her a chance to understand that.
It won’t be me, tho. I’m just distributing something (information) without any clue as to the repercussions of doing so. Maybe it will result in a deluge of E-mails, phone calls, faxes and the like.
But be kind. Smile when you make your point. Speak in small words with a big heart that explains things to her very, very slowly. Take the high road with the lady from Low Country Paintball.
I want to have an affable disposition about this, and share a hearty laugh when however many of you make your opinions known do just that.
Another day, another panderous, idiotic position. He’s the Gumby of ignorance, no matter which way you twist him… something stupid is going to come out.
Making the rounds of the Sunday news shows, Rick Santorum reaffirmed his criticism of President Barack Obama as “a snob” for supporting a platform of universal higher education.
The former Pennsylvania senator argued that Obama’s encouragement of students to go to college ignored both the reality and ambitions of those who wanted to pursue more technical careers. In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he sounded a more conspiratorial note. Two days after calling colleges “indoctrination mills,”Santorum suggested that the president’s encouragement of college degrees was a back-door effort at philosophical base building.
“Barack Obama is a person of the left,” he said. “He is someone who believes in big government. He believes in the values that are, unfortunately, the dominant values, and political values, and overly politicized values, and politically correct values that are on most college and university campuses.”
The appearances by the on-again off-again GOP frontrunner laid to rest any question as to whether he would back down from his criticism of Obama’s education policy (he clearly isn’t). But they also did very little to clarify the source of Santorum’s objection.
It’s unclear whether Obama ever said that every child in American “should” go to college. Nor is it evident that he has said he “wants everybody in America to go to college,” as Santorum claims he has. The president did say in a recent speech that “every child deserves a great school.” He also has said that “higher education can’t be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.” In August 2010, the president pledged to ”make sure we’ve got a world-class education system for everybody.”
You’ve heard of “No Child Left Behind?” This is “No Child Left A Chance.”
Santorum’s inferring that the President doesn’t appreciate what “regular Americans” can do. That by suggesting they should all have access to a higher-education, he’s somehow saying that “people who work with their hands” are somehow less important.
You know, people that do gritty, down to earth, regular person manual stuff. Like lawyer and Senator Rick Santorum does… n’t.
I am dying to watch this clown debate Obama, but we know he’s not going to get this far. So let’s just pick apart his weak argument, shall we?
College isn’t about just an education. It’s about helping a kid find out what their opportunities are - to shine a light on their talents, inspire them to figure out who they want to be when they become adults.
It’s letting them know there are more roads to travel than the one that leads in and out of whatever town, suburb, city or life they happen to have been born into.
I went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get a degree in journalism. In the process, I learned I wanted to do stand-up comedy, which brought me to writing, which brought me to writing for television.
That didn’t happen randomly - it happened because when I decided to be a writer (I understand that’s debatable if you know my work) I met people who knew how to turn that into a career. They gave me skills I still use today. More importantly, they gave me knowledgeable encouragement and the confidence that I could succeed.
And in every career, for every young adult, there’s a path like that, that can be found through a college, a community college, or some place of higher learning.
It’s also a place where a young adult can try, and fail, to figure out who they want to be. Journalism not working out for you? Switch to Law. Law sucks? Move to engineering. Not a good engineer? Learn to fix puppies. Whatever.
Or maybe decide “You know what? I want to be the best auto-mechanic in the rural Pennsylvania area.” And that’s fine.
But if that person had the potential to cure a disease or create the next Apple, it’s a crime he or she wasn’t exposed to the skills, tools and people who could offer that as an option.
Just like it Rick Santorum:
He obtained an undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a law degree degree from the Dickinson School of Law.
Now, does anybody think we’d be listening to this jackass if he stopped his college education at “My Mother’s Kitchen High School” No. He went to a Catholic High School, then to a public college, got an MBA, and then went to Dickenson, which touts this:
Law school is a time for embarking on a career and building friendships. An extensive assortment of student groups, along with student-sponsored activities and events, give students the opportunity to not only enhance their overall learning experience, but also to participate in the life of Penn State Law.
Hey, that sounds good, right? Learn. Make friends. Widen your world view.
This isn’t an “indoctrination mill” as Rick likes to call it. It’s being exposed to people who aren’t exactly like yourself. It’s easy to not like gays, or show disdain for “Blah” people when you live in a bubble and exist in a vat of vanilla ice cream.
Yet this “mill” was good enough for him. Then. But for your kids, now - he wants them to have all the opportunity of one of the Duggars.
Maybe Rick Santorum wants a world of undereducated Americans, people that can fix his cars and plumbing… maybe, worse, like Newt Gingrich, he wants an army of child labor to sweep the floors.
But the President isn’t saying everyone HAS to go to college, the President is saying everyone should have the opportunity to go. Just like he did, just like Romney did, just like Santorum did and just like I did.
That’s what this is about: Santorum maintains Obama is a snob because Obama has the gall to believe every kid deserves to know their options, see their potential and then make an informed decision about what they want to do with their life.
But since “informed” is the last thing Santorum is counting on for votes, what other position - regardless of how hypocritical it is in the face of his education and degree - could he possibly take?
Holier Than Thou. Electable-ier than… well, he’s really just flat out un-electable.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — White House candidate Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama’s Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney’s Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, “ground zero” in the 2012 nomination fight.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator known for his social conservative policies, said that Obama’s agenda is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology.”
Got that kids? It’s some phony ideal. A phony theology. Not based on the bible.
Let’s not even get into the whole “Church and State” thing, because Rick wants to be to America what the Ayotollah is in Iran.
But are you listening other, saner, different Christians? You can only be Christian if you’re Rick Santorum’s idea of a Christian. And the rest of you should start making plans for your general admission seats in Hell.
That’s you, Lutherans. Protestants. Jews. Mormons.
In fact, that’s about 77% of America that aren’t “Catholic.”
And as for you silly women with your silly body parts and your silly desire for contraception that’s not closing your slutty knees together using an aspirin, like they did back in the day you can pick out your hell chair as well.
So who could Santorum be speaking to that wouldn’t feel isolated? Catholic Men - a full 11.5% of the population. Narrow bandwidth, sweater-vest.
This man will NEVER be president.
This man will probably end up running a Chic-Fil-A and running it very poorly.
The longer this moron stays in the race - the more the GOP talks about things like lady parts - the better it is for Obama. So I’l all for it. Keep bloodying each other. Love it.
Still, today? Santorum. you can piss right off, you self-righteous strip of turd.
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11:29 update
Well, give a turd a chance and he’s still going to be a turd. Here comes the spin.
A more congenial Rick Santorum doubled down on several controversial, and religiously laden, remarks in an interview Sunday morning on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” where he defended his recent claims that prenatal testing results in abortions, that federally provided education was “anachronistic,” and that President Obama’s policies are not “based on the Bible.”
“I’ve repeatedly said I don’t question the president’s faith,” Santorum told host Bob Schieffer, denying what some have said was a signal that Santorum had challenged the legitimacy of Obama’s Christianity. “I’ve repeatedly said that I believe the president’s Christian — he says he’s Christian. But I am talking about his worldview, the way he addresses problems in this country, and they’re different than most people view it in America.”
In a speech to Tea Party conservatives on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, Santorum had dismissed Obama’s politics as being based in “some phony theology.”
An incredulous Bob Schieffer began his interview with Santorum Sunday by asking, “What in the world were you thinking?”
“I was talking about the radical environmentalists,” Santorum said, suggesting that they believe man should protect the earth, rather than “steward its resources.” “I think that is a phony ideal. I don’t believe that’s what we’re here to do … We’re not here to serve the earth. That is not the objective, man is the objective.”
Oh, shut the hell up you ridiculous throwback. No you weren’t. You were at a party with a bunch of similar minds and you pandered to the lowest common denominator. Then you got called on it and you’re backpedalling.
“I was talking about radical environmentalists.” Really? Where in the above comments should we have figured that out? Because you’re telling us now? What a weird little liar you are.
Earlier in the day on Saturday, Santorum had also said that health insurance plans shouldn’t be required to cover prenatal testing, because that testing results in more abortions, as well as contending that government-run public education was “anachronistic.”
Sure! And if a woman dies because of a complication, that’s okay, right? Again, remember this when you vote, women: To Rick Santorum, you are nothing but a tunnel to make more male babies. Now get back in the kitchen.
Ass.
This is not going to help him with “Electability.”
Or “Sane.”
Or even “human.”
Wow. Just… Wow.
Emphasis on “Tries.” I’d tell him not to quit his day job, but it’s not like the guy has ever had to really work. Maybe his Dad should have sung it for him?
What we’ve learned: Apparently they have not installed the singing chip in the MittBot 2012. Yes, they got rid of all the moderate programming, and they’ve dialed the aggression up…
…but we’re still missing talent, and we’re still missing electability.
Love that Obama sung and everybody went “Awwwww”
And Mitt sang and everybody went “Ewwwww”
Seriously. Ew.
- Steve
P.S. Sorry about the Conoco ad in front of it. It is also not worth the wait. :)
Yes. This guy has made a prediction.
Harry Potter will not take Florida.
Shocking, because I thought it was his $parkling personality and connection to the common man.
Seriously, this is news like Katherline Heigl’s new movie getting a 3% critic approval on Rotten Tomatoes… a big fat duh.
May the richest lunatic win.
WASHINGTON — Fresh off a triumphant victory in the South Carolina primary, former Speaker Newt Gingrich came to Florida with the wind at his back. What he may not have known was that he would be riding those winds into a wall of money. A newly feisty Mitt Romney, fighting for his political life, and his loyal super PAC unloaded on Gingrich in the Sunshine State with a massive spending binge that included wall-to-wall attack ads in a repeat of the assault that knocked Gingrich from the top of the polls in the run-up to the Iowa caucus.
The biggest spender in Florida — the most expensive state in the Republican primary to date — has been the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future. Run by a trio of former Romney advisers, the group has spent $10.7 million in the state. The vast majority of that — $9.9 million — has gone into a barrage of ads, on television and radio, and direct mail attacking Gingrich. That’s more than double what pro-Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future is spending in Florida.
This is the opposite of what happened in South Carolina, where Winning Our Future was able to match the spending of Restore Our Future and provide Gingrich with room to win.
Dig this quote from the lunatic in the sweater vest who walks like a man.
I was so outraged by the president of the United States for standing up and saying every child in America should go to college. Well who are you? Who are you to say that every child in America should [go to college]? I mean, the hubris of this president to think that he knows what’s best.
I have seven kids. Maybe they will all go to college. But if one of my kids wants to go and be an auto-mechanic, good for him. That’s a good paying job: using your hands, using your mind. This is the kind of snobbery that we see from those who think they know how to run our lives. Rise up America, defend your own freedoms. And overthrow these folks who think they know how to orchestrate every aspect of your lives.
Outraged? Really?
Then you’re probably the same ignorant hillbilly who wants to know “Who does Michelle Obama think she is” asking our kids to be healthy.
Yes, how dare the President want every child to be educated as best they can and to have every opportunity that can be afforded them? What a d*ck!
“Hubris.” “Snobbery.” What’s the matter, can’t say “Uppity?” Afraid it might come out “Blah?”
“Rise Up, America!” - Did you find that in KKK literature?
Nobody’s telling your child he or she can’t be an auto-mechanic. But if that auto-mechanic could have been a doctor, or a physicist, or found a cure for something… and never got the opportunity, that’s a bad thing.
(Unless that person is a woman, I guess, in which case, Santorum would expect her to stay at home and raise a litter.)
This man is poison.
This man is insane.
This man shouldn’t be allowed near anything with a big red button - be it the nuclear codes or the one at Staples that says “Easy.”
“Who are you to say every child in America should go to college?” Yes, America. ’Eff you and whatever dreams and opportunity you might have.
Rick Santorum might need his car fixed.
Hey, New Hampshire. South Carolina. Put this idiot out of our misery, will you?
I don’t have much to add to the discussion except forwarding both of these things, but it’s pretty interesting stuff none-the-less.
Super props to David Feldman for connecting dots.
WASHINGTON — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said he could “almost guarantee” that therecent Politico story about sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain came from information leaked by another GOP campaign.
The Politico report revealed that while Cain was head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, “at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group.”
When asked on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Monday morning if it was likely the scoop was provided by another Republican campaign, Huckabee agreed with the suspicion and questioned the legitimacy of the Politico report, saying, “Quite frankly, knowing some of the reporters involved — they’re not that good.”
Huckabee recalled similar tactics involved in his own 2008 presidential campaign and accused other campaigns of hiring investigators to dig through his trash and show up at his children’s elementary schools posing as federal inspectors.
“It’s insane — one of the fundamental things a candidate will spend money on is [opposition] research,” Huckabee told Ingraham.
The Cain campaign has since accused Politico of “dredging up thinly sourced allegations” and called some of the claims “unsubstantiated personal attacks.”
Former Bush adviser Karl Rove told Fox News that Cain needs to either say “yes or no” to the allegations.
My friend David Feldman dissects it as follows:
