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Why, one of your heroes let you down?
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Re: Woody Allen v Bill Cosby.
This is a great example of how White Supremacy destroys white people too.
With the exception of the step daughter he married Woody Allen only fucked with white children. Same with Roman Polanski, Rob Lowe, Gary Glitter, Don Johnson and most other white pedos.
John Mark Carr even made the false confession of killing Jon Benet Ramsy so that he could get out of a life sentence for fucking with young girls in Thailand. He knew he'd get white man justice and protection in America and now he's out free walking the streets of California.
For the most part we would rather sit back and watch our children get raped rather than admit we are not superior and have a community full of dysfunction and deviance. Ultimately this will be our undoing.
This is a great example of how White Supremacy destroys white people too.
With the exception of the step daughter he married Woody Allen only fucked with white children. Same with Roman Polanski, Rob Lowe, Gary Glitter, Don Johnson and most other white pedos.
John Mark Carr even made the false confession of killing Jon Benet Ramsy so that he could get out of a life sentence for fucking with young girls in Thailand. He knew he'd get white man justice and protection in America and now he's out free walking the streets of California.
For the most part we would rather sit back and watch our children get raped rather than admit we are not superior and have a community full of dysfunction and deviance. Ultimately this will be our undoing.
Rape allegations hurt Bill Cosby but sail past Bill Clinton
Rape allegations hurt Bill Cosby but sail past Bill Clinton
By Joan Vennochi
Globe Columnist
November 21, 2014
Bill Cosby’s career as a beloved comedian is in shambles in the wake of decades-old accusations of rape and sexual assault. In the past week alone — as more and more women come forward with allegations — NBC has called off a proposed new Cosby comedy, Netflix has canceled a 77th Cosby birthday celebration, and the cable network TV Land has pulled reruns of “The Cosby Show.”
Yet, amid this media uproar, Bill Clinton’s career as revered statesman soars.
Clinton — who has himself faced down a number of accusations of sexual assault and harassment over the past quarter-century — has spent the week courting an admiring press at the 10th anniversary celebration of his presidential library.
During festivities in Little Rock, Ark. last weekend, Clinton confided his bucket list to Politico’s Mike Allen. Among his wishes: “I would like to ride a horse across the Gobi Desert to the place where people think Genghis Khan is buried in Mongolia.” The former president also urged the current one not to act like a lame-duck even if he is one: “I never bought this whole lame-duck deal. I just didn’t. I think it’s a mind-set.”
The “taboo subject” in Little Rock, reported the Washington Post, was Hillary Clinton’s shadow campaign — not some musty, old sexual assault allegations against her husband.
“Media hunts down Bill Cosby, celebrates Bill Clinton,”observed Breitbart.com, offering up thumbnail reminders of those now decades-old incidents involving the ex-president:
Juanita Broaddrick, a Clinton campaign volunteer from the early Arkansas days, accused Clinton in 1998 of raping her when he was attorney general. Clinton eventually settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed in 1994 by Paula Jones, relating to incidents she said happened when he was governor of Arkansas and she was a low-level state employee. Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer who worked on Clinton’s 1992 campaign, accused him of groping her in the White House in 1993.
Then, of course, there was Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. While consensual, the details showcased the huge power differential between a president and a White House intern, and the deniability Clinton believed it gave him. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” he famously declared.
Power — who has it, who doesn’t, and how it can for years insulate the holder of it — is the common thread between Cosby, Clinton, and their accusers. Asked why she didn’t go to police, one of Cosby’s accusers said she didn’t think anyone would take the word of a 19-year-old woman over a celebrity father figure like Cosby. As she put it, “Mr. America; Mr. Jello, as I called him.”
If Cosby is paying the price today for long-ago alleged transgressions, you can argue that Clinton paid a price for his at the height of his power; his political enemies made sure of that. Yet, as my colleague Jeff Jacoby has — along with other conservative commentators — pointed out over the years, liberals and feminists ardently defend Clinton, arguing that his public policies were more important than his personal principles. Meanwhile, the Clinton spin machine did its best to portray his accusers as “nuts or sluts,” employing the classic defense lawyer strategy against women who dare to hold men accountable for their actions.
Lewinsky, who has been trying to rehabilitate herself, is still a punch line. But Clinton needs no redemption. His favorability ratings are high, and according to national polling, he and George H.W. Bush are the most popular living ex-presidents. Unlike Obama, Democrats want Clinton on the campaign trail.
In fact, the former president is so well-regarded, it feels petty to even bring up those tawdry accusations from the past.
The right will argue it’s all about ideology. Liberals like Clinton get a break that conservatives do not. According to Breitbart.com, race also factors in. There is more sympathy for a white southerner like Clinton than a black comic like Cosby.
Maybe we expect more from a sitcom fantasy figure like Cosby’s Dr. Huxtable than we do from real-life politicians.
Or maybe, while Bill is off the hook, Hillary isn’t. The next two years will certainly tell us whether his long-ago activities are the shadow campaign issue for his wife.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...ill-clinton/YTIsUoXS2uxrW1mW2JSuRM/story.html
Rape allegations hurt Bill Cosby but sail past Bill Clinton
By Joan Vennochi
Globe Columnist
November 21, 2014
Bill Cosby’s career as a beloved comedian is in shambles in the wake of decades-old accusations of rape and sexual assault. In the past week alone — as more and more women come forward with allegations — NBC has called off a proposed new Cosby comedy, Netflix has canceled a 77th Cosby birthday celebration, and the cable network TV Land has pulled reruns of “The Cosby Show.”
Yet, amid this media uproar, Bill Clinton’s career as revered statesman soars.
Clinton — who has himself faced down a number of accusations of sexual assault and harassment over the past quarter-century — has spent the week courting an admiring press at the 10th anniversary celebration of his presidential library.
During festivities in Little Rock, Ark. last weekend, Clinton confided his bucket list to Politico’s Mike Allen. Among his wishes: “I would like to ride a horse across the Gobi Desert to the place where people think Genghis Khan is buried in Mongolia.” The former president also urged the current one not to act like a lame-duck even if he is one: “I never bought this whole lame-duck deal. I just didn’t. I think it’s a mind-set.”
The “taboo subject” in Little Rock, reported the Washington Post, was Hillary Clinton’s shadow campaign — not some musty, old sexual assault allegations against her husband.
“Media hunts down Bill Cosby, celebrates Bill Clinton,”observed Breitbart.com, offering up thumbnail reminders of those now decades-old incidents involving the ex-president:
Juanita Broaddrick, a Clinton campaign volunteer from the early Arkansas days, accused Clinton in 1998 of raping her when he was attorney general. Clinton eventually settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed in 1994 by Paula Jones, relating to incidents she said happened when he was governor of Arkansas and she was a low-level state employee. Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer who worked on Clinton’s 1992 campaign, accused him of groping her in the White House in 1993.
Then, of course, there was Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. While consensual, the details showcased the huge power differential between a president and a White House intern, and the deniability Clinton believed it gave him. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky,” he famously declared.
Power — who has it, who doesn’t, and how it can for years insulate the holder of it — is the common thread between Cosby, Clinton, and their accusers. Asked why she didn’t go to police, one of Cosby’s accusers said she didn’t think anyone would take the word of a 19-year-old woman over a celebrity father figure like Cosby. As she put it, “Mr. America; Mr. Jello, as I called him.”
If Cosby is paying the price today for long-ago alleged transgressions, you can argue that Clinton paid a price for his at the height of his power; his political enemies made sure of that. Yet, as my colleague Jeff Jacoby has — along with other conservative commentators — pointed out over the years, liberals and feminists ardently defend Clinton, arguing that his public policies were more important than his personal principles. Meanwhile, the Clinton spin machine did its best to portray his accusers as “nuts or sluts,” employing the classic defense lawyer strategy against women who dare to hold men accountable for their actions.
Lewinsky, who has been trying to rehabilitate herself, is still a punch line. But Clinton needs no redemption. His favorability ratings are high, and according to national polling, he and George H.W. Bush are the most popular living ex-presidents. Unlike Obama, Democrats want Clinton on the campaign trail.
In fact, the former president is so well-regarded, it feels petty to even bring up those tawdry accusations from the past.
The right will argue it’s all about ideology. Liberals like Clinton get a break that conservatives do not. According to Breitbart.com, race also factors in. There is more sympathy for a white southerner like Clinton than a black comic like Cosby.
Maybe we expect more from a sitcom fantasy figure like Cosby’s Dr. Huxtable than we do from real-life politicians.
Or maybe, while Bill is off the hook, Hillary isn’t. The next two years will certainly tell us whether his long-ago activities are the shadow campaign issue for his wife.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...ill-clinton/YTIsUoXS2uxrW1mW2JSuRM/story.html
If a cracker think the playing field in America is a level ground for black men then he also thinks poverty, crime and drug infested neighborhoods are the result of us not trying or being lazy.
source: Politico
George W. Bush suspended from Texas Air National Guard, Aug. 1, 1972
On this day in 1972, George W. Bush, the nation’s 43rd president, was permanently suspended from flying with the Texas Air National Guard for having missed an annual medical examination.
The matter spawned a political controversy in both the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns. Reporters probed not only how and why Bush had lost his flight status but also how he came to be a member of the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War and whether he had in fact fulfilled the requirements of his military service contract.
Bush defended his military record by contending that he satisfactorily completed all of his military obligations.
National Air Guard regulations require pilots to pass an annual physical in order to remain in flight status during the three months prior to a pilot’s birthday, in Bush’s case, July 6. Because Bush did not take the exam during this time frame, his commander suspended his flight status. The decision to do so was confirmed by Col. Bobby Hodges on Sept. 5, 1972, and re-confirmed by a National Guard Bureau order on Sept. 29 of that year.
As a presidential candidate in 2000, Bush said he wanted wait to take the physical until it could be done by his own private doctor. However, Air Guard regulations require that the physical be performed by an Air Force doctor. Moreover, flight surgeons conducted Bush’s two previous physical exams.
According to his military records, Bush never flew again as an Air National Guard pilot after April 1972. He received an honorable discharge from the Air National Guard in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School.
Some opponents of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq subsequently equated Bush’s stint in the Texas Air National Guard and his Harvard deferment as evidence that he had maneuvered to escape the draft during the Vietnam War.
SOURCE: WWW.HISTORY.COM
George W. Bush suspended from Texas Air National Guard, Aug. 1, 1972
Bush defended his military record by contending that he satisfactorily completed all of his military obligations.
National Air Guard regulations require pilots to pass an annual physical in order to remain in flight status during the three months prior to a pilot’s birthday, in Bush’s case, July 6. Because Bush did not take the exam during this time frame, his commander suspended his flight status. The decision to do so was confirmed by Col. Bobby Hodges on Sept. 5, 1972, and re-confirmed by a National Guard Bureau order on Sept. 29 of that year.
As a presidential candidate in 2000, Bush said he wanted wait to take the physical until it could be done by his own private doctor. However, Air Guard regulations require that the physical be performed by an Air Force doctor. Moreover, flight surgeons conducted Bush’s two previous physical exams.
According to his military records, Bush never flew again as an Air National Guard pilot after April 1972. He received an honorable discharge from the Air National Guard in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School.
Some opponents of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq subsequently equated Bush’s stint in the Texas Air National Guard and his Harvard deferment as evidence that he had maneuvered to escape the draft during the Vietnam War.
SOURCE: WWW.HISTORY.COM
Re: Bush Daughters vs. Obama Daughters
source: ABC news
Bush Daughters Cited on Alcohol Charges
June 1, 2001
Texas police cited both of President Bush's 19-year-old twin daughters on misdemeanor alcohol charges Thursday for a night out at an Austin restaurant earlier this week.
Jenna and Barbara Bush both face misdemeanor charges. Jenna, who less than a month ago pleaded "no contest" to possession of alcohol charges, was cited for showing another person's identification to buy drinks. Barbara, along with a 20-year-old friend who was with them, was cited for possession of alcohol.
The charges stem from an incident Tuesday night, when Austin police were called to a Tex-Mexican restaurant in south Austin. The manager had called to report that minors were trying to buy alcohol.
The legal drinking age in Texas is 21.
The president was trying to keep the embarrassing family incident private. Bush has told his daughters that he loves them, and reminded them he and first lady Laura Bush would work hard to keep the teenage girls out of the public eye.
But with the very public incident this week, the family is quoted as saying advice from parent to child is going to remain private.
Under repeated questioning on Thursday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to elaborate on the president's conversations with his daughters.
"I think the American people agree with the president that it is his purview, even as president of the United States to have private moments with his family," Fleischer said. "That includes his two 19-year-old daughters. And like any parent raising a child, they expect the right to talk privately with their children no matter what position they hold in life."
President Calls Jenna
A senior administration official confirmed Wednesday that the president, traveling in California, had called Jenna to talk about the incident. The official would not characterize the call but published reports described him as "not happy."
In late April, Jenna pleaded no contest to a charge of possessing alcohol under age at an Austin nightclub.
She was ordered to pay $51.25 in court costs, serve eight hours of community service and attend six hours of alcohol awareness classes.
If Jenna is convicted, both this incident and the earlier incident would remain on her permanent record. If convicted of alcohol offenses two more times under Texas law, Jenna faces fines up to $2,000 and possible jail time.
Barbara attends Yale University. Jenna studies at the University of Texas in Austin.
source: ABC news
Bush Daughters Cited on Alcohol Charges
June 1, 2001
Texas police cited both of President Bush's 19-year-old twin daughters on misdemeanor alcohol charges Thursday for a night out at an Austin restaurant earlier this week.
Jenna and Barbara Bush both face misdemeanor charges. Jenna, who less than a month ago pleaded "no contest" to possession of alcohol charges, was cited for showing another person's identification to buy drinks. Barbara, along with a 20-year-old friend who was with them, was cited for possession of alcohol.
The charges stem from an incident Tuesday night, when Austin police were called to a Tex-Mexican restaurant in south Austin. The manager had called to report that minors were trying to buy alcohol.
The legal drinking age in Texas is 21.
The president was trying to keep the embarrassing family incident private. Bush has told his daughters that he loves them, and reminded them he and first lady Laura Bush would work hard to keep the teenage girls out of the public eye.
But with the very public incident this week, the family is quoted as saying advice from parent to child is going to remain private.
Under repeated questioning on Thursday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to elaborate on the president's conversations with his daughters.
"I think the American people agree with the president that it is his purview, even as president of the United States to have private moments with his family," Fleischer said. "That includes his two 19-year-old daughters. And like any parent raising a child, they expect the right to talk privately with their children no matter what position they hold in life."
President Calls Jenna
A senior administration official confirmed Wednesday that the president, traveling in California, had called Jenna to talk about the incident. The official would not characterize the call but published reports described him as "not happy."
In late April, Jenna pleaded no contest to a charge of possessing alcohol under age at an Austin nightclub.
She was ordered to pay $51.25 in court costs, serve eight hours of community service and attend six hours of alcohol awareness classes.
If Jenna is convicted, both this incident and the earlier incident would remain on her permanent record. If convicted of alcohol offenses two more times under Texas law, Jenna faces fines up to $2,000 and possible jail time.
Barbara attends Yale University. Jenna studies at the University of Texas in Austin.
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Re: Bush Daughters vs. Obama Daughters
GOP aide quits after criticizing Obama daughters
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/...zes-obama-daughters-113228.html#ixzz3KfFF0Hlh
The Real Class-less Pig:
Elisabeth Lauten
source: ABC news
Bush Daughters Cited on Alcohol Charges
June 1, 2001
Texas police cited both of President Bush's 19-year-old twin daughters on misdemeanor alcohol charges Thursday for a night out at an Austin restaurant earlier this week.
Jenna and Barbara Bush both face misdemeanor charges. Jenna, who less than a month ago pleaded "no contest" to possession of alcohol charges, was cited for showing another person's identification to buy drinks. Barbara, along with a 20-year-old friend who was with them, was cited for possession of alcohol.
The charges stem from an incident Tuesday night, when Austin police were called to a Tex-Mexican restaurant in south Austin. The manager had called to report that minors were trying to buy alcohol.
The legal drinking age in Texas is 21.
The president was trying to keep the embarrassing family incident private. Bush has told his daughters that he loves them, and reminded them he and first lady Laura Bush would work hard to keep the teenage girls out of the public eye.
But with the very public incident this week, the family is quoted as saying advice from parent to child is going to remain private.
Under repeated questioning on Thursday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer refused to elaborate on the president's conversations with his daughters.
"I think the American people agree with the president that it
is his purview, even as president of the United States to have
private moments with his family," Fleischer said. "That includes
his two 19-year-old daughters. And like any parent raising a
child, they expect the right to talk privately with their
children no matter what position they hold in life."
President Calls Jenna
A senior administration official confirmed Wednesday that the president, traveling in California, had called Jenna to talk about the incident. The official would not characterize the call but published reports described him as "not happy."
In late April, Jenna pleaded no contest to a charge of possessing alcohol under age at an Austin nightclub.
She was ordered to pay $51.25 in court costs, serve eight hours of community service and attend six hours of alcohol awareness classes.
If Jenna is convicted, both this incident and the earlier incident would remain on her permanent record. If convicted of alcohol offenses two more times under Texas law, Jenna faces fines up to $2,000 and possible jail time.
Barbara attends Yale University. Jenna studies at the University of Texas in Austin.
GOP aide quits after criticizing Obama daughters
By Kendall Breitman
p o l I t I c o
December 1, 2014
Elizabeth Lauten, the Republican congressional aide who faced backlash after sharply criticizing the first daughters, has resigned, according to a report on NBC on Monday.
Lauten told NBC News that “she is ‘resigning today’ following her comments about Sasha and Malia Obama,” according to a tweet from an NBC News Capitol Hill producer.
Reports of the resignation came after Sean Spicer, the RNC’s communications director, took to Twitter early Monday morning to comment on a recent Facebook post made by Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R-Tenn.).
“Children, especially the first daughters, are off limits,” Spicer tweeted before labeling the comments “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”
Reports of the resignation came after Sean Spicer, the RNC’s communications director, took to Twitter early Monday morning to comment on a recent Facebook post made by Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R-Tenn.).
“Children, especially the first daughters, are off limits,” Spicer tweeted before labeling the comments “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”
Over the weekend, a Facebook post made by Lauten after the White House’s annual turkey pardoning ceremony surfaced where the aide sharply criticizes the Obama girls.
The post read,
It continued,
She later issued on apology over Facebook that claimed she “reacted to an article and…quickly judged the two young ladies in a way that [she] would never have wanted to be judged…as a teenager.” Lauten claimed that after “many hours of prayer” and speaking with her parents she saw that her words were “hurtful” and apologized to anyone she had “hurt and offended.”
Her comments have created a media firestorm and even sparked a Facebook page and online petition asking for Lauten’s firing.
But while Spicer felt Lauten’s comments were unfair, he had similar criticism for the media.
“The mainstream media’s coverage of this story is appalling,” Spicer said. “In over 20 years in politics I have never seen 1 of the countless inappropriate comments by Democrats ever covered to a faction of this.”
Fincher’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment on Monday.
Lauren French contributed to this story.
p o l I t I c o
December 1, 2014
Elizabeth Lauten, the Republican congressional aide who faced backlash after sharply criticizing the first daughters, has resigned, according to a report on NBC on Monday.
Lauten told NBC News that “she is ‘resigning today’ following her comments about Sasha and Malia Obama,” according to a tweet from an NBC News Capitol Hill producer.
Reports of the resignation came after Sean Spicer, the RNC’s communications director, took to Twitter early Monday morning to comment on a recent Facebook post made by Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R-Tenn.).
“Children, especially the first daughters, are off limits,” Spicer tweeted before labeling the comments “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”
Reports of the resignation came after Sean Spicer, the RNC’s communications director, took to Twitter early Monday morning to comment on a recent Facebook post made by Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R-Tenn.).
“Children, especially the first daughters, are off limits,” Spicer tweeted before labeling the comments “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”
Over the weekend, a Facebook post made by Lauten after the White House’s annual turkey pardoning ceremony surfaced where the aide sharply criticizes the Obama girls.
The post read,
“Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful
teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family,<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"> try showing a
little class. At least respect the part you play. Then again
your mother and father don’t respect their positions very
much, or the nation for that matter, so I’m guessing you’re
coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department.”</span>
teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family,<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"> try showing a
little class. At least respect the part you play. Then again
your mother and father don’t respect their positions very
much, or the nation for that matter, so I’m guessing you’re
coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department.”</span>
It continued,
“Nevertheless, stretch yourself. Rise to the occasion.
<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like
you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.</span> And certainly
don’t make faces during televised public events.”
<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like
you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.</span> And certainly
don’t make faces during televised public events.”
She later issued on apology over Facebook that claimed she “reacted to an article and…quickly judged the two young ladies in a way that [she] would never have wanted to be judged…as a teenager.” Lauten claimed that after “many hours of prayer” and speaking with her parents she saw that her words were “hurtful” and apologized to anyone she had “hurt and offended.”
Her comments have created a media firestorm and even sparked a Facebook page and online petition asking for Lauten’s firing.
But while Spicer felt Lauten’s comments were unfair, he had similar criticism for the media.
“The mainstream media’s coverage of this story is appalling,” Spicer said. “In over 20 years in politics I have never seen 1 of the countless inappropriate comments by Democrats ever covered to a faction of this.”
Fincher’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment on Monday.
Lauren French contributed to this story.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/...zes-obama-daughters-113228.html#ixzz3KfFF0Hlh
The Real Class-less Pig:
Elisabeth Lauten
Re: Bush Daughters vs. Obama Daughters
source: The Smoking Gun
GOP Staffer Who Attacked Obama Girls Was Arrested During Her Own "Awful Teen Years"
The Republican congressional aide who castigated the Obama daughters for their lack of “class” and dressing as if they were angling for a “spot at a bar” was once arrested for larceny during her own “awful teen years,” court records show.
In a November 27 Facebook post, Elizabeth Lauten criticized Sasha and Malia Obama for looking bored while their father pardoned a pair of turkeys the day before Thanksgiving. While noting that, “I get you’re both in those awful teen years,” Lauten, 31, counseled the teens to “try showing a little class. At least respect the part you play.”
In her “Dear Sasha and Malia” note, Lauten remarked that the president and First Lady Michelle Obama “don’t respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter, so I’m guessing you’re coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department.” Lauten concluded by urging the girls to “Rise to the occasion. Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar. And certainly don’t make faces during televised public events.”
Until her resignation this morning, Lauten served as communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher, a Tennessee Republican. In the face of criticism about her attack on the Obama daughters, Lauten said that “many hours of prayer” helped her realize that her Facebook screed was “hurtful.”
Lauten, pictured above, was arrested in December 2000 for misdemeanor larceny, according to court records. Lauten, then 17, was collared for stealing from a Belk department store in her North Carolina hometown.
Since Lauten was just another teenager caught shoplifting at the mall, it appears unlikely that she was publicly pilloried for her lack of class, nor were her parents criticized as poor role models.
GOP aide quits after criticizing Obama daughters
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/...zes-obama-daughters-113228.html#ixzz3KfFF0HlhBy Kendall Breitman
p o l I t I c o
December 1, 2014
Elizabeth Lauten, the Republican congressional aide who faced backlash after sharply criticizing the first daughters, has resigned, according to a report on NBC on Monday.
Lauten told NBC News that “she is ‘resigning today’ following her comments about Sasha and Malia Obama,” according to a tweet from an NBC News Capitol Hill producer.
Reports of the resignation came after Sean Spicer, the RNC’s communications director, took to Twitter early Monday morning to comment on a recent Facebook post made by Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R-Tenn.).
“Children, especially the first daughters, are off limits,” Spicer tweeted before labeling the comments “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”
Reports of the resignation came after Sean Spicer, the RNC’s communications director, took to Twitter early Monday morning to comment on a recent Facebook post made by Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher (R-Tenn.).
“Children, especially the first daughters, are off limits,” Spicer tweeted before labeling the comments “inappropriate” and “insensitive.”
Over the weekend, a Facebook post made by Lauten after the White House’s annual turkey pardoning ceremony surfaced where the aide sharply criticizes the Obama girls.
The post read,
“Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful
teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a
little class. At least respect the part you play. Then again
your mother and father don’t respect their positions very
much, or the nation for that matter, so I’m guessing you’re
coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department.”
It continued,
“Nevertheless, stretch yourself. Rise to the occasion.
Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like
you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar. And certainly
don’t make faces during televised public events.”
She later issued on apology over Facebook that claimed she “reacted to an article and…quickly judged the two young ladies in a way that [she] would never have wanted to be judged…as a teenager.” Lauten claimed that after “many hours of prayer” and speaking with her parents she saw that her words were “hurtful” and apologized to anyone she had “hurt and offended.”
Her comments have created a media firestorm and even sparked a Facebook page and online petition asking for Lauten’s firing.
But while Spicer felt Lauten’s comments were unfair, he had similar criticism for the media.
“The mainstream media’s coverage of this story is appalling,” Spicer said. “In over 20 years in politics I have never seen 1 of the countless inappropriate comments by Democrats ever covered to a faction of this.”
Fincher’s office didn’t respond to requests for comment on Monday.
Lauren French contributed to this story.
The Real Class-less Pig:
Elisabeth Lauten
source: The Smoking Gun
GOP Staffer Who Attacked Obama Girls Was Arrested During Her Own "Awful Teen Years"
The Republican congressional aide who castigated the Obama daughters for their lack of “class” and dressing as if they were angling for a “spot at a bar” was once arrested for larceny during her own “awful teen years,” court records show.
In a November 27 Facebook post, Elizabeth Lauten criticized Sasha and Malia Obama for looking bored while their father pardoned a pair of turkeys the day before Thanksgiving. While noting that, “I get you’re both in those awful teen years,” Lauten, 31, counseled the teens to “try showing a little class. At least respect the part you play.”
In her “Dear Sasha and Malia” note, Lauten remarked that the president and First Lady Michelle Obama “don’t respect their positions very much, or the nation for that matter, so I’m guessing you’re coming up a little short in the ‘good role model’ department.” Lauten concluded by urging the girls to “Rise to the occasion. Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar. And certainly don’t make faces during televised public events.”
Until her resignation this morning, Lauten served as communications director for Rep. Steven Fincher, a Tennessee Republican. In the face of criticism about her attack on the Obama daughters, Lauten said that “many hours of prayer” helped her realize that her Facebook screed was “hurtful.”
Lauten, pictured above, was arrested in December 2000 for misdemeanor larceny, according to court records. Lauten, then 17, was collared for stealing from a Belk department store in her North Carolina hometown.
Since Lauten was just another teenager caught shoplifting at the mall, it appears unlikely that she was publicly pilloried for her lack of class, nor were her parents criticized as poor role models.
Dr. King said whites got free land.
Black folks never got their 40 acres and a mule!
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Black folks never got their 40 acres and a mule!
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Ya know something? when someone lives in shit long enough they don't even know they are surround by shit. Especially when you are born in it.
Think about it.
RepubliKlan Family Values
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Is this the video where he plagiarizes Archibald Carey, or the one where he cheats on his wife or the one where he attends indoctrination classes in communism? Please do tell....
If you do not worship and pray to MLK you are wrong? Only through God's grace through MLK will you enter Heaven.
If you do not worship and pray to MLK you are wrong? Only through God's grace through MLK will you enter Heaven.
I finally took the time to watch this documentary. Very interesting, but it doesn't speak on what happened to Haitians that escaped the revolution by fleeing to America.
The went to New Orleans and became American racists.
So how exactly does that relate to white privilege in America?
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Because they exported their racist ways to the US where it was welcomed along with the white privilege in America.
Re: Bush Daughters vs. Obama Daughters
those two girls look like gotdam Royalty.
That mother is doing an excellent JOB B!!!
those two girls look like gotdam Royalty.
That mother is doing an excellent JOB B!!!
The humanizing of white criminals
The humanizing of white criminals
http://news.yahoo.com/video/one-last-hug-siblings-jail-052120206.html
The humanizing of white criminals
http://news.yahoo.com/video/one-last-hug-siblings-jail-052120206.html
"White" Privilege of ‘Arrest Without Incident’
by Charles M. Blow | January 4, 2015 | http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/opinion/charles-blow-privilege-of-arrest-without-incident.html?_r=0
The "Shooter"
The day after Christmas, a shooter terrorized the streets of a Chattanooga, Tenn., neighborhood. According to the local newspaper, the shooter was “wearing body armor” and “firing multiple shots out her window at people and cars.” One witness told the paper that the shooter was “holding a gun out of the window as if it were a cigarette.”
There’s more:
“Officers found two people who said they were at a stop sign when a woman pulled up in a dark-colored sedan and fired shots into their vehicle, hitting and disabling the radiator. Then more calls reported a woman pointing a firearm at people as she passed them in her car, and that she fired at another vehicle in the same area.”
When police officers came upon the shooter, the shooter led them on a chase. The shooter even pointed the gun at a police officer.
Surely this was not going to end well. We’ve all seen in recent months what came of people who did far less. Surely in this case officers would have been justified in using whatever force they saw fit. Right?
According to the paper, the shooter was “taken into custody without incident or injury.”
Who was this shooter anyway? Julia Shields, a 45-year-old white woman.
Take a moment and consider this. Take a long moment. It is a good thing that officers took her in “without incident or injury,” of course, but can we imagine that result being universally the case if a shooter looks different? Would this episode have ended this way if the shooter had been male, or black, or both?
It’s an unanswerable question, but nevertheless one that deserves pondering. Every case is different. Police officers are human beings making split-second decisions — often informed by fears — about when to use force and the degree of that force.
But that truth is also the trap. How and why are our fears constructed and activated? The American mind has been poisoned, from this country’s birth, against minority populations. People of color, particularly African-American men, have been caught up in a twister of macroaggressions and micro ones. No amount of ignoring can alleviate it; no amount of achieving can ameliorate it.
And in a few seconds, or fractions of a second, before the conscious mind can catch up to the racing heart, decisions are made that can’t be unmade. Dead is forever.
It’s hard to read stories like this and not believe that there is a double standard in the use of force by the police. Everyone needs to be treated as though his or her life matters. More suspected criminals need to be detained and tried in a court of law and not sentenced on the street to a rain of bullets.
It is no wonder that whites and blacks have such divergent views of treatment by the police. As The Washington Post noted recently about a poll it conducted with ABC News, only about two in 10 blacks “say they are confident that the police treat whites and blacks equally, whether or not they have committed a crime.” In contrast, six in 10 whites “have confidence that police treat both equally.”
Michael Brown was unarmed. (Some witnesses in Ferguson, Mo., say he had his hands up. Others say he charged an officer.)
Eric Garner was unarmed on a Staten Island street.
Tamir Rice was 12 years old, walking around a Cleveland park and holding a toy gun that uses nonlethal plastic pellets, but he didn’t shoot at anyone.
John Crawford was in an Ohio Walmart, holding, but not shooting, an air rifle he had picked up from a store shelf.
The police say Antonio Martin had a gun and pointed it at a police officer in Berkeley, Mo., but didn’t fire it.
And last Tuesday, the police say, a handgun was “revealed” during a New Jersey traffic stop of a car Jerame C. Reid was in.
But none had the privilege of being “arrested without incident or injury.” They were all black, all killed by police officers. Brown was shot through the head. Garner was grabbed around the neck in a chokehold, tossed to the ground and held there, even as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe; it was all caught on video. Rice was shot within two seconds of the police officers’ arrival on the scene. Crawford, Martin and Reid were also cut down by police bullets.
In the cases that have been heard so far by grand juries, the grand juries have refused to indict the officers.
Maybe one could argue that in some of those cases the officers were within their rights to respond with lethal force. Maybe. But shouldn’t the use of force have equal application? Shouldn’t it be color- and gender-blind? Shouldn’t more people, in equal measures, be taken in and not taken out?
Why weren’t these black men, any of them, the recipients of the same use of force — or lack thereof — as Julia Shields?
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5 reasons “white pride” is always racist
History tells us "whiteness" has always been a construct used to exclude certain groups from equal rights
The Ku Klux Klan is currently sponsoring a Harrison, Ark., billboard that sends the following message: “It’s not racist to love your people. www.WhitePrideRadio.com.” The message is featured next to an adorable photo of a kitten and a puppy. On the White Pride Radio website, the group further clarifies their mission: “A lot of people recognize that there is an ongoing program of genocide against white people. There are websites, newsletters, videos, and radio shows, but too many talk about family without including the family. It has always been our mission to not just promote the white family, but to make them a part of this cause of white Christian revival.
”Oddly enough, this isn’t the first time that a Harrison billboard has gone viral. Following similar signs in Alabama and Eugene, Ore., a message went up that read: “Anti-racism is code for anti-white.” If that doesn’t clear it up for you, let’s put it bluntly: White pride is always racism, always. Here’s why.
1) Whiteness is an artificial sociological construct which has been used throughout history to exclude certain groups of people from the rights guaranteed others and to justify bigoted attitudes.
As Nell Irvin Painter explains in The History of White People, the notion of “white culture” is a myth. “Our culture was founded in 1789 right about the same moment that Blumenbach was inventing Caucasians—this moment of racialization,” she told Salon in an interview from 2010. “Some people say race is in our national DNA so that we just can’t get away from it. I don’t know if we ever will.”
While the institution of slavery made it difficult to keep accurate genealogical records for African-American families, the American slave trade sold into servitude West Africans from among the tribes of Sierra Leone, Senegambia, and the Gold Coast, as well as other areas along the coast. White Americans, however, are not a single ethnic group or a distinct number of ethnicities; they are an amalgamation of everyone who benefits from white privilege, and its boundaries are always shifting.
Before the Civil War, this distinction often made the difference between whether you were a full citizen or a slave with three-fifths congressional representation; afterward, as Edward J. Blum discussed in Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898, the paradigm of “whiteness” was used to forge a new sense of national unity for the American people as a way of healing sectional, regional, and class strife.
2) Throughout American history, many groups considered white today (e.g., Germans, Irish) were viewed as non-white.
In a similar vein, it’s important to note that the term “white” has not always meant the same thing. Although WASPs have always benefited from that term in this country, virtually every other European nationality has been considered lesser at some point, from Eastern Europeans (like Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians) and Southern Europeans (like Italians, Greeks, and Spaniards) to long-standing victims of Western persecution (like the Irish and the Jews).
During World War I, a particularly virulent strain of anti-German prejudice swept the nation. When Millard Fillmore sought a second term as president in 1856, he did so as the candidate of the Know Nothing Party which was based primarily in anti-Catholic (and specifically anti-Irish) prejudice, netting 22 percent of the popular vote in the process. Yet as time has gone on, even the Irish and theJews have gradually been accepted as “white” by the majority of the American population. That is because the parameters of whiteness, being socially constructed, are malleable in accordance with the zeitgeist of a given time. They exist not to create culture, but to exclude certain ethnic groups and establish social boundaries.
3) It is sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan, which by virtue of its history is a racist organization with a white supremacist agenda.
It’s easy to forget that the KKK was once a politically powerful organization. During Reconstruction (the 12-year period immediately following the Civil War), the KKK was used by Southern whites to subjugate the recently emancipated black slaves and thus reestablish white supremacy for a century. For a long time they were viewed with a romantic tinge by many Americans, including D. W. Griffith in his landmark epic motion picture The Birth of a Nation when it was released in 1915.
At their peak, the KKK even held up the Democratic National Convention in 1924 to 103 ballots (making it the longest major party national convention in American history) in order to stop the party from nominating Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, who despite his strong record was despised because of his Irish Catholic background (the KKK succeeded in blocking Smith’s nomination that year but failed to do so again in 1928).
Finally, the KKK saw a surge in support during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, with many Southern conservatives rallying behind the burning cross and white hood as a last stand against racial egalitarianism in their region.
4) In terms of where “white pride” is still alive and well, it is in the American prison community. The Aryan Brotherhood and other outright white supremacist gangs remain an ongoing menace in America.
While overt white supremacism has been relegated to the fringes of electoral politics, it remains a potent force in one realm of American life: namely, our prison community. Although the United States only contains 5 percent of the world population, it houses 25 percent of its prisoners, with nearly 1.6 million Americans living behind bars as of December 31, 2013, the largest prison community in the world.
Inside this nation within a nation, white supremacist gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood have killed law enforcement officials and used other tactics to gain control over large segments of the incarcerated population. What’s more, because of the massive racial disparity in who winds up going to prison, African Americans and Hispanics are far more likely to be targeted by law enforcement and convicted of a given crime as whites; consequently, they make up a disproportionate percentage of the penal community. These white supremacist gangs are constantly warring with various black and Hispanic gangs, creating an environment in which the racial divisions that often simmer under the surface of ordinary American life become violent and sociologically defining realities. Within this context, the term “white pride” suddenly becomes very relevant and ominous.
5) The billboard is a symptom of white minority politics.
Unfortunately, the overt racial politicization that dominates prison society is already appearing in mainstream American politics. Coining this phenomenon “the birth of white minority politics,” former Republican political adviser John Avlon talked to hundreds of Tea Partiers and kept his thumb on the pulse of the radical right-wing surge that occurred immediately after Barack Obama’s election in 2008. “I think there is an anxiety underneath this that President Obama represents the rise of a multicultural elite and the rise of a non-white majority in America,” he observed, adding that “if you talk to many of these protestors in the field, one of the dates that keeps coming up is 2050, which is the date the U.S. census estimates that there will be a non-white majority in the United States.”
A survey by the University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Sexuality in 2010 also found that Tea Partiers were more likely to hold a wide variety of racially prejudiced opinions, while the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2013 officially reported an all-time high in the growth of white supremacist and/or militant right-wing activity following Obama’s election. A more recent academic study from the MacIver Institute also found that “the longer you are in the Tea Party, the more racist you become.” And in case the wealth of scholarly data isn’t enough to persuade you of an overlap between establishment right-wing politics and the white supremacy movement, the recent news about Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) ought to do the trick.
While it’s tempting to dismiss the KKK’s Arkansas billboard as an ugly anomaly, the long history of racism in America—combined with its more recent flare-ups—should send up red flags for citizens everywhere. Despite the initial assumption many held that Obama’s election signaled the rise of a post-racial America, we continue to labor under many of the false assumptions that defined our nation’s past, the idea that “white pride” is a legitimate cause being one of them.
5 reasons “white pride” is always racist
History tells us "whiteness" has always been a construct used to exclude certain groups from equal rights
The Ku Klux Klan is currently sponsoring a Harrison, Ark., billboard that sends the following message: “It’s not racist to love your people. www.WhitePrideRadio.com.” The message is featured next to an adorable photo of a kitten and a puppy. On the White Pride Radio website, the group further clarifies their mission: “A lot of people recognize that there is an ongoing program of genocide against white people. There are websites, newsletters, videos, and radio shows, but too many talk about family without including the family. It has always been our mission to not just promote the white family, but to make them a part of this cause of white Christian revival.
”Oddly enough, this isn’t the first time that a Harrison billboard has gone viral. Following similar signs in Alabama and Eugene, Ore., a message went up that read: “Anti-racism is code for anti-white.” If that doesn’t clear it up for you, let’s put it bluntly: White pride is always racism, always. Here’s why.
1) Whiteness is an artificial sociological construct which has been used throughout history to exclude certain groups of people from the rights guaranteed others and to justify bigoted attitudes.
As Nell Irvin Painter explains in The History of White People, the notion of “white culture” is a myth. “Our culture was founded in 1789 right about the same moment that Blumenbach was inventing Caucasians—this moment of racialization,” she told Salon in an interview from 2010. “Some people say race is in our national DNA so that we just can’t get away from it. I don’t know if we ever will.”
While the institution of slavery made it difficult to keep accurate genealogical records for African-American families, the American slave trade sold into servitude West Africans from among the tribes of Sierra Leone, Senegambia, and the Gold Coast, as well as other areas along the coast. White Americans, however, are not a single ethnic group or a distinct number of ethnicities; they are an amalgamation of everyone who benefits from white privilege, and its boundaries are always shifting.
Before the Civil War, this distinction often made the difference between whether you were a full citizen or a slave with three-fifths congressional representation; afterward, as Edward J. Blum discussed in Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898, the paradigm of “whiteness” was used to forge a new sense of national unity for the American people as a way of healing sectional, regional, and class strife.
2) Throughout American history, many groups considered white today (e.g., Germans, Irish) were viewed as non-white.
In a similar vein, it’s important to note that the term “white” has not always meant the same thing. Although WASPs have always benefited from that term in this country, virtually every other European nationality has been considered lesser at some point, from Eastern Europeans (like Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians) and Southern Europeans (like Italians, Greeks, and Spaniards) to long-standing victims of Western persecution (like the Irish and the Jews).
During World War I, a particularly virulent strain of anti-German prejudice swept the nation. When Millard Fillmore sought a second term as president in 1856, he did so as the candidate of the Know Nothing Party which was based primarily in anti-Catholic (and specifically anti-Irish) prejudice, netting 22 percent of the popular vote in the process. Yet as time has gone on, even the Irish and theJews have gradually been accepted as “white” by the majority of the American population. That is because the parameters of whiteness, being socially constructed, are malleable in accordance with the zeitgeist of a given time. They exist not to create culture, but to exclude certain ethnic groups and establish social boundaries.
3) It is sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan, which by virtue of its history is a racist organization with a white supremacist agenda.
It’s easy to forget that the KKK was once a politically powerful organization. During Reconstruction (the 12-year period immediately following the Civil War), the KKK was used by Southern whites to subjugate the recently emancipated black slaves and thus reestablish white supremacy for a century. For a long time they were viewed with a romantic tinge by many Americans, including D. W. Griffith in his landmark epic motion picture The Birth of a Nation when it was released in 1915.
At their peak, the KKK even held up the Democratic National Convention in 1924 to 103 ballots (making it the longest major party national convention in American history) in order to stop the party from nominating Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, who despite his strong record was despised because of his Irish Catholic background (the KKK succeeded in blocking Smith’s nomination that year but failed to do so again in 1928).
Finally, the KKK saw a surge in support during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, with many Southern conservatives rallying behind the burning cross and white hood as a last stand against racial egalitarianism in their region.
4) In terms of where “white pride” is still alive and well, it is in the American prison community. The Aryan Brotherhood and other outright white supremacist gangs remain an ongoing menace in America.
While overt white supremacism has been relegated to the fringes of electoral politics, it remains a potent force in one realm of American life: namely, our prison community. Although the United States only contains 5 percent of the world population, it houses 25 percent of its prisoners, with nearly 1.6 million Americans living behind bars as of December 31, 2013, the largest prison community in the world.
Inside this nation within a nation, white supremacist gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood have killed law enforcement officials and used other tactics to gain control over large segments of the incarcerated population. What’s more, because of the massive racial disparity in who winds up going to prison, African Americans and Hispanics are far more likely to be targeted by law enforcement and convicted of a given crime as whites; consequently, they make up a disproportionate percentage of the penal community. These white supremacist gangs are constantly warring with various black and Hispanic gangs, creating an environment in which the racial divisions that often simmer under the surface of ordinary American life become violent and sociologically defining realities. Within this context, the term “white pride” suddenly becomes very relevant and ominous.
5) The billboard is a symptom of white minority politics.
Unfortunately, the overt racial politicization that dominates prison society is already appearing in mainstream American politics. Coining this phenomenon “the birth of white minority politics,” former Republican political adviser John Avlon talked to hundreds of Tea Partiers and kept his thumb on the pulse of the radical right-wing surge that occurred immediately after Barack Obama’s election in 2008. “I think there is an anxiety underneath this that President Obama represents the rise of a multicultural elite and the rise of a non-white majority in America,” he observed, adding that “if you talk to many of these protestors in the field, one of the dates that keeps coming up is 2050, which is the date the U.S. census estimates that there will be a non-white majority in the United States.”
A survey by the University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, & Sexuality in 2010 also found that Tea Partiers were more likely to hold a wide variety of racially prejudiced opinions, while the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2013 officially reported an all-time high in the growth of white supremacist and/or militant right-wing activity following Obama’s election. A more recent academic study from the MacIver Institute also found that “the longer you are in the Tea Party, the more racist you become.” And in case the wealth of scholarly data isn’t enough to persuade you of an overlap between establishment right-wing politics and the white supremacy movement, the recent news about Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) ought to do the trick.
While it’s tempting to dismiss the KKK’s Arkansas billboard as an ugly anomaly, the long history of racism in America—combined with its more recent flare-ups—should send up red flags for citizens everywhere. Despite the initial assumption many held that Obama’s election signaled the rise of a post-racial America, we continue to labor under many of the false assumptions that defined our nation’s past, the idea that “white pride” is a legitimate cause being one of them.