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So an Arkansas state senator calls Chuck Schumer "that Jew," and in the course of explaining away the remark through a folksy defense of "traditional values" — apparently this gentleman thinks Andy Griffith was an antisemite or something — he defends himself by saying, "I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month." Yeah! Because when President Obama doesn’t have a Teleprompter in front of him, he starts talking like David Irving mixed with Mahmoud Ahmedinejad reading from The Turner Diaries. Rahm Emanuel will tell you all about that.
It’s telling how a Republican politician thinks he can get his people to ignore an antisemetic remark by dogwhistling something about Obama.
(h/t Kleefeld.)
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That was so charming. I was stunned to read it. I suppose this feeds into Jane’s observation that Arkansas politicians agree not to give incumbents any real opposition.
I hadn’t heard about this until Rachel Maddow tonight – but apparently he thinks he was making an apology (while slipping in the teleprompter thingy), y’know, put his foot in his mouth, slip-of-the-tongue, etc., I don’t reallly mean those things I say without thinking.
Except of course that kind of “slip,” especially when spoken, as it was, in an unrecorded, no-media-present gathering of like-minded persons, reveals exactly how people think.
I understand Schumer accepted the “apology”- gracious of him, but if it were me, I wouldn’t accept a non-apology apology like that. Of course, I couldn’t get elected dog-catcher for just that sort of reason, I guess. Still.
Every time something like this happens, I shake my head over folks who think that racism/bigotry is dead.
There are still lots of people like him out there, sadly.
Who believes this nonsense? If I don’t have a prepared statement in front of me, I’m not going to accidentally say something racist or antisemitic because, I’m not like that naturally. Hey, douche nozzle, you just admitted that you say stuff like that when no one is watching. That’s called your character!