He’s at it again. More Harry Reid racist comments; speaking to a mostly Hispanic crowd trying to drum up votes for his re-election bid in Nevada, Senator Harry Reid said, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” Harry seems to have that foot in mouth disease especially when it comes to matters of race.
Mr. Reid has stirred up the proverbial storm once again with insensitive remarks while trying to pander for votes. Last year if you’ll remember Reid stepped in it big time when he said that President Barack Obama didn’t have a “Niegro dialect.” As if the pasty white Reid would know what that was.
Now that he’s in the battle for his political life with Sharron Angle, Reid is pulling out all the stops. He’s an ardent supporter of Obama’s lawsuit against Arizona, he opposes building a fence on the US Mexican border and he basically has never seen an amnesty bill he didn’t like. Let’s pander to Hispanics, what do you say Harry?
Sharron Angle’s campaign put out this statement regarding Harry Reid’s racist comments:
“Reid has said he’ll do more if re-elected–apparently that means more insensitive racial comments, more gaffes, more lame attempts to distract from what he has done to destroy the Nevada economy. With that said, I suppose Nevadans should just be glad he didn’t say anything racist about Hispanic people’s skin tone or ‘dialect’ this time.”
It’s amazing to me how democrats automatically assume that all people of color or all minorities automatically fall into their camp. Aren’t they supposed to be the party with the open minds? Aren’t they supposed to be the most enlightened bunch around?
Harry Reid’s racist comments once again prove that they are anything but. Democrats are the first to scream race when they think they’ve been wronged (ala Rangel and Watethers) but they’re also the first to try and use race into guilting groups to vote for them as well.
August 11th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
Wake up, Nevadans! Send Harry ‘Punchy’ Reid to the nursing home before he starts drooling!
August 11th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
How is this a racist comment? I don’t get it.
He said, I don’t see how anyone of Hispanic origin could be a Republican. If that’s racist, well, maybe it’s racist a remark againt REPUBLICANS, but certainly not against Hispanics. I all for “racism” against the Republicans we got today, ’cause they really are evil.
Obviously the Right does not know what racism is. Let me show you what racism is:
“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?” –Rush Limbaugh
Now THAT’S racist.
Here is one from Newt:
“We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn…the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”
Now THAT’S racist.
I could go on, but why bother?
August 11th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
@Klo:
You want racism sweetpea? Evil Leftwingnuts wrote the book on it, and they always get a pass from sycophants like you.
Racism is Okay, As Long as the Target is a Black Conservative:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ETR1380&show_article=1
Black Radio Host Attacked for Supporting McCain:
http://www.essence.com/news_entertainment/news/articles/mccainsupporterclearsair
Democrat Robert Byrd was a Grand Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s preacher for 20 years, taught racism against “whitey” as part if his “Black Liberation Theology”.
I coould go on too, but why bother with an intellectually bankrupt individual like you?
Your proctologist called. He found your head.
August 11th, 2010 at 3:43 pm
So Klo, does this mean you would prefer “Hooked On Ebonics” to people speaking proper English?
August 11th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Harry’s right, Hispanics and other minorities should stick with the party that’s kept them stuck in the projects, hooked on drugs, and packing the jails for 50 years.
August 11th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
@Klo
I know it’s a waste of time to argue with you. But you know good and well if Glenn Beck, Rush, Michael Steele, Sarah Palin or any other Republican or Conservative said this the MSM would be having a hissy fit talking about how racist of a statement it was.
Libs always get a race pass.
August 11th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
[...] Harry Reid’s Latest Racist Gaffe Filed under: Communism/Socialism,Leftist moonbats,Politics — sfcmac @ 20:42 He’s at it again. More Harry Reid racist comments; speaking to a mostly Hispanic crowd trying to drum up votes for his re-election bid in Nevada, Senator Harry Reid said, “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican”. http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6992 [...]
August 11th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
I don’t know how anyone over 40 could be a democrat.
At least Republicans are a diverse group, and don’t have to pander and lie to garner votes.
August 12th, 2010 at 8:43 am
It’s a good slap on the face of unamerican and antiamerical animal folks who agress everyone with “democrats antiracism”,wow!
August 12th, 2010 at 9:31 am
KLO;
“How is this a racist comment? I don’t get it.”
Try it this way.
Theres no way you can truly be Latino if you dont vote democratic.
Hes basically demeaning a whole group of people by saying they are incapable of indivisual thought and must fall in line with the collective in order to recognized for their ethnicity.
Its the fcking epitome of racism you moron !
August 12th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Klo–
You gotta understand– a lot of those on the right don’t understand what racism is. That’s why so many of them are afraid to even ACKNOWLEDGE race in any context at all, at least in polite society. You get a lot of “Yeah, David- you’ve met David. You know, the guy who works in our office… the uh, the.. he’s got short hair… and, umm… he sits in the corner office and…no? Yeah, well… he’s like 120 lbs.. umm. I think he’s from California… You know who I mean… uh, he’s- he wears a lot of stripes and uh… short hair… did I say that already? umm…”
“Wait. The black guy?”
(blushing, looking around nervously) “Yeah.”
Of course, these same people will call you racist if you make any comment involving any sort of ethnicity. These often include condemning “racist” jokes and ethnic humor… (told by anyone…) They are equally itching to call people “reverse-racist”. Because they like to think that race doesn’t exist… (whether or not the REALLY think this deep down, I’ll leave aside…)
Shannon provides an excellent example of coming to the defense of so-called Hispanic victims of racism in a comment that is not racist in the least.
This might help illustrate what I’m talking about. Woodrow Wilson could have issued a statement saying something like “I don’t know how any woman could be a member of the National Association Against Women’s Suffrage“. And you can disagree with this statement– after all there were certainly some women in 1919 who felt their place was in the home… but can you say this is a sexist comment? No.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Damn. I meant to link to this, but without a preview button…
August 12th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Actually you could say that Harry is saying that the majority of Hispanics are too stupid to know what’s good for them.
Of course, elitist lefty jack@sses like him insult folks in just the same way so often it becomes hard to notice after a while.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
“Klo–
You gotta understand– a lot of those on the right don’t understand what racism is.”
Juxtaposed to you understanding the right at all.
whats even worse is that you expect that Klos gotta understandanything.
These reason it appears to you that we think it doesnt exist is only because were not dependent on it for half our agendas and talking points.
I’ll refer to Reids last statement as a confirmation of that.
I see a black man and I see a man.
You guys see a black man and you see a vote. But not til you’ve convinced him how his whole life and his ancestors has and will be a miserable waste as long as there are republicans around.
August 12th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Actually you could say that Harry is saying that the majority of Hispanics are too stupid to know what’s good for them.
Yeah, if you were too stupid to understand that he was insulting Republicans by saying they’re not good for Hispanics, which is what he was doing.
Of course, if you self-identify with Republicans, then you can’t possibly conceive of THEM as being bad for anyone, so you have to mentally twist what he was saying so that it becomes demeaning to Hispanics. Which is kind of funny and very revealing.
August 12th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
‘which is what he was doing.’
Yeah, and theres an Arab in lower Manhattan trying to build a mosque that says hes a bridge builder. Wanna buy it ?
You can defend Harry all you want but the fact is he famous for this kinda stupid sht as much as Biden is for his flubs.
If Palin had said ‘I don’t know how anyone of white heritage could not be a Republican.’
you guys would be shtting down each others legs. But Harry gets a pass.
Believe or not, like it or not, there are plenty of hispanics who in their right minds vote republican and actually occupy a good part of our public offices who are laughing their a$$es off at Harry right now.
“Of course, if you self-identify with Republicans, then you can’t possibly conceive of THEM as being bad for anyone, so you have to mentally twist what he was saying so that it becomes demeaning to Hispanics. Which is kind of funny and very revealing.”
You mean the way you self identify with Reid ? And as a result defend his idiocy stemming from your lemming like mentallity ?
Theres no “mental twist” (whatever the fck that means) going on here.
Just a clear understanding of a man groveling at the lowest levels by pandering to those democrat latinos in tow cuz he knows hes history.
Tell me, if you were a conservative Latino do you think Harry would of succeeded in bringing you to the left with that comment ?
August 12th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
“Yeah, if you were too stupid to understand that he was insulting Republicans by saying they’re not good for Hispanics, which is what he was doing.”
Yeah, right.
Reading between the lines what Harry is saying is that republicans like Brewer will not let your hispanic relatives south of the border cross illegaly and a$$ rape our country.
Yeah yeah yeah, I’ve the bullsht that this administration is apprehending more illegals now than ever. The only problem is that your not deporting them or doing anything about 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th time offenders.
Until they kill someone.
You morons have had 50 years to make life better for the poor oppressed minorities you say you care so much about.
Bullsht. Its been 50 years and the left has succesfully kept minorities at a level of dependence rendering them no choice half the time but to vote democratic.
If you actually had fixed this problem you’d have no one to pander to
All the right asks is that you get in line and wait your turn like everyone else. No republican has come out denying benefits to those here legally in need of assitance.
“But make no mistake” as Obama would say, just to get your attention.
The right is just as guilty for catering to corporate interests in cheap labor as the left has been in granting illegals free reign to passify a base of voters.
But, what you must take into consideration is that while those are the reasons each party has jerked us all off on the immigration issue there are in fact capitalist liberals who benefit from the cheap labor as well.
Sooo, you guys get a little more banf for your buck when it comes to laxed immigration enforcement
August 12th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
“Yeah, if y..blah blah blah.. good for Hispanics, which is what he was doing.”
No – he was saying that the majority of Hispanics were too stupid to know that they would be better off voting for him. Being a narcissistic, condescending pr;ck from the union of narcissistic condescending pr;cks, he didn’t notice the slight, ditto for you.
August 13th, 2010 at 5:46 am
@Me
That’s probably one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.