WASHINGTON — Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) made another controversial remark last week, telling constituents that Democrats want Hispanics to be dependent on government — and claiming that African Americans already are.

“The Democratic Party promises groups of people everything,” Walsh, a conservative freshman from suburban Chicago, said during a Schaumburg, Ill., speech caught on video provided by CREDO SuperPAC, an anti-tea party group. “They want the Hispanic vote, they want Hispanics to be dependent on government, just like they got African Americans dependent on government. That’s their game.”

Walsh goes on to say that civil rights activist Jesse Jackson “would be out of work if [African Americans] weren’t dependent on government.”

Walsh was elected in 2010, part of a wave of tea party-backed candidates elected to the House of Representatives that year. His district in the northern Chicago suburbs is a key target for Democrats this year. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is putting its weight behind his opponent, Tammy Duckworth, as part of a “Red to Blue” effort to take back the House, the DCCC chairman, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) said in March.

h/t: HuffPost Politics

via MMFA: Limbaugh On “ Persecution Of Blacks In America“ : “What Persecution Would That Be?“ 

Rush Limbaugh is dismissing the notion that racial minorities face persecution.

Limbaugh was discussing a campaign stop Mitt Romney made on May 24 at a West Philadelphia charter school. A Washington Post blog entry reported that during the event, Romney “received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts.”

Limbaugh read from the post on his radio show and talked extensively about the meaning of the episode. After reading the line about the “persecution of blacks in America,” Limbaugh said, “What persecution would that be? Persecution of blacks in America. What are we talking — affirmative action? What is this persecution that’s going on?”

Over the last few weeks, Bryan Fischer has been growing increasingly vocal about his views that President Obama hates both the Constitution and the United States of America because he thinks it is “one big, giant Ku Klux Klan meeting” and is therefore intentionally trying to destroy the country.

From the 05.24.2012 edition of AFR’s Focal Point:

FISCHER: So in Eric Holder’s world, and he’s been very straightforward about this, he’s never going to prosecute someone if the victim is white, he’s just not going to do it. Because in his world, by definition, whites can only be perpetrators. It’s impossible, in their worldview, for a white to be a victim, they can only be perpetrators and blacks can never be perpetrators, they can only be victims. So unless the template for the crime is a white person committing a crime against a black person, they’re just completely uninterested. They are not interested in justice, they are interested in racism and pressing their view of race.

h/t: Kyle Mantyla at RWW

The ghost of Alabama’s segregationist former Gov. George Wallace brought trouble to the conservative stronghold of Orange County, Calif., this month and an anti-Muslim Republican is paying a political price for it.

It started last week when people complained about letters a local businessman sent out in support of Deborah Pauly, a local councilwoman and a leader in the Orange County GOP who drew nationwide attention last year when she helped lead an angry protest against Muslims with chants like “terrorists go home.” Pauly is now running for a seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.

The letters, it turns out, weren’t like most other pitches for support that flood mailboxes each election year. They appeared on old letterhead from one of Wallace’s failed campaigns for president. The Los Angeles Times reported they carried an embossed portrait of the former Alabama governor and the slogan, “Wallace for President, Stand up for America.”

According to the Orange County Register, the letters were sent to 7,900 voters by businessman Robert Walters, 70, who identified himself as Wallace’s presidential campaign chairman in 1967. Wallace ran as an American Independent Party candidate in the 1968 race for president.

Both newspapers said Walters praised Pauly’s protests against Muslims in the letter and wrote: “We need Deborah Pauly and her brand of hard core limited government, fiscally-conservative positions on the County Board of Supervisors.”

Pauly is perhaps best known for the protest last year of the southern California fundraiser that featured Muslim speakers. Protesters shouted chants describing Muslims as perverts and terrorists, saying followers of the religion had blood on their hands. The protest, which drew about 100 people, was condemned by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

But Pauly has been at the center of other recent uproars, too. Last year, the Register reported, she defended a fellow Orange County Republican who sent out an email depicting President Obama as a chimpanzee.

In 2010, according to the L.A. Times, she also drew criticism after posting a message on her Facebook page that compared applauding the president’s health care reform plan to “applauding a mugging or a rape.”

The “terrorists go home” chant was featured in Current TV’s documentary series Vanguard, an episode that focused on the rise of Islamophobia.

h/t: Nick R. Martin at TPM

FLASHBACK: Beck on his radio show: Why Is Media Showing U.K. Riot Footage, But Not Black Teens Attacking White People In WI?

Today on Fox News’ The Five, host Bob Beckel asserted that co-host Eric Bolling has frequently attacked President Obama, to which Bolling responded: “Barack Obama ‘s never been attacked by Eric Bolling. Eric Bolling attacks Barack Obama’s ideology, his politics, and his turning America into a socialist state.” 

From the 05.23.2012 edition of FNC’s The Five:

Bolling Hyped Conspiracy Theories That Questioned Obama’s Birth Certificate: 

From the 04.27.2011 edition of FBN’s Follow The Money with Eric Bolling:

Bolling Falsely Claimed That Obama Had Been A Drug Dealer:

From the 05.10.2012 edition of FNC’s Hannity:

On Twitter, Bolling later apologized for that remark.

Bolling Said That Obama Was “Chugging 40’s” In Europe Instead Of Responding To The Tornados In Joplin, Missouri:

From the 05.23.2011 edition of FBN’s Follow The Money with Eric Bolling:

Bolling Said That Obama Was Hosting “Hoodlums” In The “Hizzouse” After Learning Obama Was Meeting With The Gabonese President:

From the 06.10.2011 edition of FBN’s Follow The Money with Eric Bolling:

H/T: MMFA

On his Fox Business show, Lou Dobbs suggested that the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated a hate group, constitutes Obama’s base. Dobbs quoted criticisms of Obama by the NBPP and then said: “I mean, what is going on here? This president is starting to get, at the very least, friction, if not outright attacks coming from his base.”

Fox News political analyst Juan Williams responded by noting that the NBPP is a “fringe-group.”

During the segment, Dobbs also falsely claimed that “Holder says [the NBPP] can’t be prosecuted for intimidating white voters,” a reference to a phony scandal relentlessly hyped by Fox News.

In fact, it was the Bush administration, not the Obama administration, that decided not to prosecute the NBPP criminally for an incident in which an NBPP member carried a nightstick outside a Philadelphia polling place. The Bush administration chose to file a civil case in the matter instead.

From the 05.21.2012 edition of FBN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight:

h/t: MMFA

That would be Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association. The AFA is a known hate group and Fischer himself has made comments such as: - “The homosexual agenda represents the single greatest modern threat to freedom of religion and conscience.” - “The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in our Constitution.” - “Ladies and gentlemen, they [gay people] are Nazis (see video at :24). Do not be under any illusions about what homosexual activists will do with your freedoms and your religion if they have the opportunity. They’ll do the same thing to you that the Nazis did to their opponents in Nazi Germany.”

Blacks who have left the Obama Plantation: Booker, Ford, Davis, Powell, West. Plus Rendell. Getting real ugly out there.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) May 22, 2012

h/t: Scottie Thomaston at Daily Kos

Iowa Congressman Steve King (R) used a town hall meeting yesterday to compare immigrants to dogs, saying that the United States should be selective when admitting them by choosing the “pick of the litter.” Video of the comments, uploaded by progressive consulting firm American Bridge, was first published in Salon. 

Jefferson Parish, La. - A source tells Fox 8 a child psychologist for the Jefferson Parish School System resigned, after making controversial comments online.

55-year-old Mark Traina made the racially charged remarks on Twitter.

The Southern Poverty Law Center alerted the U.S. Department of Education about the comments Monday and the school system launched its own investigation.

h/t: fox8live.com

Mark Traina, a school psychologist in Louisiana, has been using his twitter account to spew racially-charged accusations about “young black thugs,” and now the Souther Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is highlighting his comments in a civil rights complaint againstthe Jefferson Parish School Board. The complaint alleges that black students and disabled students are sent to “alternative” schools at a significantly higher rate than white students.

But Traina’s opinions go even further than personal hatred for black youth. On his twitter account, he also goes into his politics (“Can President Obama win re-election if almost two-thirds of whites are opposed to him?” he writes). He also voiced strong support for Alabama’s segregationist Governor George Wallace.

UPDATE, via New Orleans’ Fox affiliate WVUE twitter: 

JP school psychologist Mark Traina resigns amid controversy overalleged racist remarks on twitter.

— News Desk (@WVUEFOX8) May 22, 2012

H/T: Annie-Rose Strasser at Think Progress Justice

It was near midnight on April 14 when the Chevy Cavalier carrying Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami rolled to a stop at a red light in Norfolk, Va. As the pair waited, one of a crowd of teenagers on the sidewalk threw a rock at the passenger seat window, prompting Forster to get out of the car and confront the aggressor.

That’s when the beating began.

Forster later said the crowd swarmed, taking turns punching and kicking him in the ribs and face. When Rostami got out to help, the attackers moved on to her, pulling her hair and dealing one blow after another. Police eventually arrived, the crowd dispersed, and the victims were left shaken and bruised, but not gravely injured. Local authorities wrote it off as an all-too-routine assault in a city whose violent crime rate is well above the state average. Even the Norfolk newspaper where the victims worked, the Virginian-Pilot, skipped the story, which the editor deemed un-newsworthy. That was before Bill O’Reilly found out about it.

The Fox News host turned the incident into national news by adding one detail: The attackers were black, and the victims were white.

If you’ve spent much time consuming conservative media lately, you’ve probably learned about a slow-burning “race war” going on in America today. Sewing together disparate data points and compelling anecdotes like the attack in Norfolk, conservative bloggers and opinion-makers are driving the narrative with increasing frequency. Their message: Black-on-white violence is spiking — and the mainstream media is trying to cover it up.

This notion isn’t necessarily new to the right, which has long complained about stifling political correctness in the media and the rising tide of “reverse racism.” But the race war narrative has gained renewed traction during the Obama years, as various factors — from liberals’ efforts to paint the Tea Party as racist, to the widely-covered Trayvon Martin shooting — have left conservatives feeling unfairly maligned, and combative.

But while Norfolk may be the most high-profile chapter yet in the “race war,” it’s hardly the only one conservatives have highlighted. Over the past four years, the Drudge Report has run dozens of headlines chronicling acts of violence against white victims — often by black youths.

stfuconservatives:

talludora submitted:

I didn’t attend this wedding but I got the story from a close friend. I will try to keep it brief. At the reception, the groom had a group of Black friends who brought their own non-alcoholic drinks, which wasn’t against the rules. Alcoholic drinks were. The venue’s planner began to spazz about -those- black people and their alcohol. No, she didn’t check with the people herself to see if they had alcohol. Instead,  she complained to any non-brown ear that would listen before the cops were called and she had them removed. ALL of the black people at the reception were forced to leave. All of them but the one who wasn’t in the room at the time.

Now comes the reasonable outrage. The groom threatened to call her boss on Monday. She gave him the number. He promised to call. She then snatched the number back and kicked the entire 100 person wedding party out of the venue. No idea what the reasoning behind that was. No rules were actually broken. No laws either. The police told the coordinator as much. Both times. Because the police were called a second time. They ended up assisting with the removal of 100 people and all wedding related food, drink, decorations and clothes….because no laws were broken.

So. There is a story of racism alive and well. This happened in Hopewell, Virginia at the historical Beacon Theater. Host weddings there! …As long as you keep your Black friends at home. (And Hispanic friends. The woman mistook the former for the latter)

I had to share this story. I didn’t know who else would… understand. Thanks for running this awesome tumblr.