[Rhodes22-list] Another of Gov. Palin's "Real Americans"

[Ben Cittadino]

Bill;

With all of the perjoratives that have been slung at the candidates (and
forum members) in this forum over the past weeks, you pick NOW to chime in
over my use of moron to refer to Sarah Palin? 

And you do it in a thread referring to the resignation of a woman who
herself acknowledged her error in publishing a racist handout? You brush it
off as a political cartoon? 

And how do you know Scott McClellan doesn't have some afflicted individual
in his family when you refer to him as a moron.

Tell you what, I'll give you Scott as a moron if you give me Sarah as a
moron. OK?

Ben C.

 

Bill Effros wrote:
> 
> Ben,
> 
> This was essentially a political cartoon.
> 
> Seems to me you called the mother of a Down Syndrome child a "moron" 
> recently.
> 
> Very offensive to the intellectually challenged.
> 
> There is great danger when the defenders of the first amendment scream 
> "RACIST!" at anyone who disagrees with them on any topic.
> 
> Thomas Nast would be saddened.
> 
> Bill Effros
> 
> 
> 
> Ben Cittadino wrote:
>> The following came over the AP Wire today.  I think the Dowd column and
>> Gen.
>> Powell were thinking of people like this when they criticized the tactics
>> of
>> the GOP this time around. Just my opinion. I could be wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> "SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - The president of a San Bernardino County
>> Republican club resigned after apologizing for distributing a newsletter
>> with a caricature of Barack Obama on a fake food stamp surrounded by
>> ribs,
>> watermelon and fried chicken.
>>
>> In a letter sent Wednesday to members of the Chaffey Community Republican
>> Women, Federated, Diane Fedele said she was sorry for showing "poor
>> judgment
>> and lack of insight and sensitivity."
>>
>> Officials with the state Republican Party have said the GOP club is not
>> directly responsible to the state party.
>>
>> In the October newsletter sent to about 200 members and associates,
>> Fedele
>> included an image she pulled from an e-mail making the rounds of the
>> Internet.
>>
>> The illustration showed a $10 "Obama Bucks" food stamp with the
>> Democratic
>> presidential candidate's head on a donkey, surrounded by the foods linked
>> to
>> negative stereotypes of blacks.
>>
>> Black members of the club as well as GOP lawmakers and state and national
>> party leaders condemned the newsletter as offensive and racist.
>>
>> Fedele denied racist intent but in her letter defended the message: "The
>> point, that has been lost in the subsequent discussion over images, was
>> that
>> Obama will 'take from the rich and give to the poor' and that we ALL
>> would
>> be buying food with his 'Obama Welfare Dollars.' An ideological
>> statement,
>> not a racial one."
>>
>> The Riverside Press-Enterprise said the cartoon was created by Tim
>> Kastelein, a 31-year-old Minnesota Democrat who said he made it in a
>> satirical attempt to make fun of right-wing pundits afraid of a
>> Democratic
>> presidential candidate."
>>
>>  
>> Ben C.
>>
>>
>>   
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