Friday’s Asshat of the Day
We all know that the teabaggers have taken over the GOP. Some of them are just batshit crazy (Angle, Paul, O’Whack-a-Mole). But some of them are just outright dangerous.
Take today’s Asshat of the Day. Jim Russell, who is challenging Democratic incumbent Nita Lowey in NY is a conservative Christian author and activist who doesn’t like inter-racial marriage, sees a link between race and IQ, and said that parents should “teach their kids ‘appropriate ethnic boundaries’ for marriage and socializing.”
Jim Russell, who’s challenging Lowey in a repeat after trying to take her on in 2008, made the statements in an essay called “The Western Contribution to World History,” which was published in a 2001 – 2002 edition of the Occidental Quarterly, and had also been featured on infamous former politician and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s website. It’s since been taken down from there.
Interesting that a Klansman is running for Congress against one of the House’s Jewish members. It seems as though his comments have been deleted from Grand Cyclops Duke’s website and the Occidental Quarterly, whose board members have been dubbed a Who’s Who of the Radical Right by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Here’s a sample of Russell’s writings:
* “Kevin MacDonald’s work on religion, and particularly Judaism, as a group evolutionary strategy, is essential for a thorough understanding of our current predicament.”
* “While liberals and universalists constantly yammer about “bringing us all together”, and how “diversity is our strength,” it may be suggested that the biological function of human language and culture is just the opposite, that is, to keep discrete groups apart.”
So my question to Boehner, Barber, Cantor, and the rest of the GOP leadership – why do you tolerate people like this in your party? Why have you not condemned this guy? Why are you allowing him to carry the GOP banner?
Jim Russell, our Asshat of the Day.
Again, lies from MJ. This guy may be an asshat, but he isn’t a Klansman, and you have no proof that he is.
Par for the course.
Must have touched a nerve (or uncovered something hanging in anon’s closet or hope chest) for that response.
Let’s see, Russell publishes things in a website run by a Klansman, Russell publishes things in a white supremacist magazine, hmmm, smells like Klan to me.
And anon, what is this hard on you have for me?
MJ, you are a truth-twisting liar, plain and simple. You lied about Carter and the draft. Now you lie about a guy being a Klansman. And you think you’re invincible because no one challenges you.
Using your logic, let’s see … You write for a website run by a heterosexual male. You work for a government agency run by a heterosexual male. Therefore – aha! – you are a heterosexual male!
See how $&#@ing stupid that is?
Your pals here had better keep a close eye on your writings before you get really sloppy and get your ass sued.
Guess I did hit a nerve with anon. Sorry sport. Sorry you’re such a fucktard. I haven’t written anything here that is a lie. You don’t like my opinion or what I write, then move on. Plain and simple. Go play in someone else’s sandbox.
And you have no idea who I work for, whether it’s a he or a she, whether they’re staight or gay, whether they’re black, white, brown or polka-dot.
anon – you’re a loser. Now just go away. Go far, far away.
Robert.
Byrd.
End of discussion.
Funny how OJ and his ilk always bring up Byrd. Don’t have anything else?
David Duke. Strom Thurmond. Jesse Helms.
Could one of our learned readers enlighten us to the difference between a white supremacist, a neo-nazi, and a klansman?
Neo-nazi’s like to play dress up. Klansman and white supremacist love Kentucky Fried chicken and want Sarah Palin to run for President. Those are the big difference.
White supremacist – a Republican who lives in the suburbs.
Neo-Nazi – a Republican who lives in the Mountain West.
Klansman – a Republican who lives in the South.
It’s kind of like the Western cougar and the Florida panther – same species, different range.
Anon wins!
wanna see a Republican, neo-nazi, KKK, white supremist all rolled into one?? – look up AZ Senator Russell Pearce…
or try Steven King….either will do
that ought to solve the dilemma for ya
Moderate Republican – extinct.