(Sep 21, 2009): "Rachel Maddow Rep. Roy Blunt (RacistDisgrace-MO) blesses the Values Voters Summit" (via Firedoglake)

[CGP]

Rachel Maddow Rep. Roy Blunt (RacistDisgrace-MO) blesses the Values Voters Summit. See the entire segment here:

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[NativeSun]

YouTube - Rachel Maddow Rep. Roy Blount (RacistDisgrace-MO) blesses the Values Voters Summit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPKggiDq7_o)

Roy Blunt probably had more people in the audience there watching him give that blessing than Rachel Maddow had watching her segment about Roy Blunt.

[CGP]

Roy Blunt probably had more people in the audience there watching him give that blessing than Rachel Maddow had watching her segment about Roy Blunt.

I doubt it. But that's not really the main issue is it.

How about commenting on what he actually said?

It wasn't exactly funny. It was ridiculous, stupid & totally inappropriate.

[mavfin]

I doubt it. But that's not really the main issue is it.

How about commenting on what he actually said?

It wasn't exactly funny. It was ridiculous, stupid & totally inappropriate.

Actually, his joke made sense. You could call it racist toward Obama, except that he told the same joke in 2006, and no one noticed. The joke predates Obama, and is actually a pretty good comment on politics inside the Beltway. Other people mold issues before you get to touch them, and you have to play it from there. I've seen him tell this joke in person myself, and it was in 2006 in Springfield, Missouri at something he stood up and had a few words to say, along with other local political figures.

Anyone calling it racist is oversensitive, since it was told by this same man before Obama was President.

That said, Roy Blunt is not my favorite, even if he is the Rep from my district. But calling him racist for this joke when he's told it before Obama was ever President is asinine.

[Ikasu]

Roy Blunt was a birther.

[mavfin]

Roy Blunt was a birther.

That I haven't seen. Source? (If you tell me DailyKos or the like, I'll laugh at you.)

[CGP]

Actually, his joke made sense. You could call it racist toward Obama, except that he told the same joke in 2006, and no one noticed. The joke predates Obama, and is actually a pretty good comment on politics inside the Beltway. Other people mold issues before you get to touch them, and you have to play it from there. I've seen him tell this joke in person myself, and it was in 2006 in Springfield, Missouri at something he stood up and had a few words to say, along with other local political figures.

Anyone calling it racist is oversensitive, since it was told by this same man before Obama was President.

That said, Roy Blunt is not my favorite, even if he is the Rep from my district. But calling him racist for this joke when he's told it before Obama was ever President is asinine.

Still, it shows very poor judgement to re-tell this joke in the current context.

Given all the heat about issues of "race", to tell a political joke about monkeys and link that to the current president, and to tell such a joke at a VALUES summit, is completely tactless.

[Ikasu]

That I haven't seen. Source? (If you tell me DailyKos or the like, I'll laugh at you.)

Roy Blunt still seeking Obama's birth certificate - Kansas City Star (http://voices.kansascity.com/node/5258)


What I don't know is why the President can't produce a birth certificate. I don't know anybody else that can't produce one. And I think that's a legitimate question. No health records, no birth certificate

[mavfin]

Roy Blunt still seeking Obama's birth certificate - Kansas City Star (http://voices.kansascity.com/node/5258)

Fair enough, I did not know that. As I noted he's not exactly my favorite. Fact remains, he told the joke before Obama was the President, so I'm not buying the racist stuff in this instance.

[mavfin]

Still, it shows very poor judgement to re-tell this joke in the current context.

Given all the heat about issues of "race", to tell a political joke about monkeys and link that to the current president, and to tell such a joke at a VALUES summit, is completely tactless.

Do people really have to search for every possible slight in people's words? Are we really that shallow?

As I said, I maintain that he's used this joke for a while, before Obama ever came on the scene as President, so calling it racist now is just, as I said above, looking for slights that don't necessarily exist.

[Ikasu]

Do people really have to search for every possible slight in people's words? Are we really that shallow?

As I said, I maintain that he's used this joke for a while, before Obama ever came on the scene as President, so calling it racist now is just, as I said above, looking for slights that don't necessarily exist.

Not shallow, just overly politically correct.

[PowerPro]

I'll quote myself from another thread...


Play the Ball Where the Monkey Drops It: Why We Suffer and How We Can Hope

Amazon.com: Play the Ball Where the Monkey Drops It: Why We Suffer and How We Can Hope (9780688171421): Gregory K. Jones: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Play-Ball-Where-Monkey-Drops/dp/0688171427/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253566914&sr=1-1#)


Looks to me like this is where Blunt got the joke from originally. The author, Gregory K. Jones, wrote this in 2001.



Is anyone willing to suggest that the author is a racist? Or can we just acknowledge that sometimes things are what they seem on the surface and there aren't nefarious intentions?

[greenleaf]

Blunt's joke was clearly based on the story that inspired the title of the book published in 2001, with the line about Washington being the only addition. None of the reviewers of the book found the book or the title to be racist.
Unfounded accusations of racism are not helping Obama or the country.
Please, is the word "monkey" is to be forbidden? How about the word "cracker"? Let's make a list of all the words that are to be banned.

[kyforhillary]

This is just plain stupid. That is not a racist joke. Enough already with the racism.

[try_to_be_honest]

The Obama administration along with the nuts in Congres AND their coherts in the media are following the EXACT path that Rush Limbaugh predicted months ago...............when things start going down, PULL OUT THE RACE CARD!!It's sickening that at every turn in this country, the race card is hiding in the background waiting to be yanked out.Of course, our media will play up this race issue to the hilt just like they played up a man such as Barack Obama when they knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the him.How do you explain the disdain for Reid, Pelosi and Schumer? It's not race nor gender. It's their politics. Raising the race card will only backfire.

[NativeSun]

Blunt's joke was clearly based on the story that inspired the title of the book published in 2001, with the line about Washington being the only addition. None of the reviewers of the book found the book or the title to be racist.
Unfounded accusations of racism are not helping Obama or the country.
Please, is the word "monkey" is to be forbidden? How about the word "cracker"? Let's make a list of all the words that are to be banned.

Does this mean I can't eat at Cracker Barrel anymore? And isn't there a childrens game called monkeys in a barrel? Oh the calamity!!! Well, whatever the idiots at MSNBC want, we must adhere to. Afterall, they do know better than the rest of us.

[foxyladi]

Roy Blunt probably had more people in the audience there watching him give that blessing than Rachel Maddow had watching her segment about Roy Blunt.

probably so:rotfl::rotfl: