Acceptance Of Hate

The "Obama is a Muslim" meme is still alive and Fox Nation is allowing racism to go unchecked on their website.

A South Carolina state senator used the racist term "rag-head" to describe President Barack Obama and Indian-American gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley Thursday evening on an online talk show, one of the show's hosts has confirmed.

"We already got one rag-head in the White House, we don't need a rag-head in the governor's mansion," Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington) said on Pub Politics Live in reference to the fellow Republican's campaign for governor.

The show, held weekly at the Flying Saucer bar in Columbia's Vista area, is hosted by Senate Republican Caucus worker Wesley Donehue and his Democratic counterpart, Phil Bailey. Bailey said Knotts unexpectedly appeared on the show Thursday evening, and was invited to stay.

"Rag-head" is a racist epithet which usually refers to Middle Easterners and Sikhs who traditionally wear turbans. Haley (R-Lexington) was raised by Sikh immigrants, but converted to Methodism when she was 24.

"Jake Knotts represents all that is wrong with South Carolina politics," Haley spokesman Tim Pearson responded after learning of the comment. "He's an embarrassment to our state and to the Republican Party. South Carolina is so much better than this, and the people of our state will make that quite clear next Tuesday."

And here comes the Palin defense

"My 'rag-head' comments about Obama and Haley were intended in jest," Knotts said in a statement. "Bear in mind that this is a freewheeling, anything-goes Internet radio show that is broadcast from a pub. It's like [the] local political version of Saturday Night Live, which is actually where the joke came from." A search of Saturday Night Live transcripts did not show any comments similar to Sen. Knotts' use of the slur.

Here's just a sampling of what the moderators of Fox Nation are allowing to be posted. A reminder, this website is continuously championed by Fox"News" as part of their "Fair and Balanced" team.

BOisstinko


B.O. is a RAGHEAD,all you have to do is look at his RAGHEAD name.Nough said.
Sunday, June 06, 2010 at 01:29 AM

speedbump
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Don't fall for the PC trap. It is everyones right to use whatever derogatory language they want. I grew up with these slurs of "Kraut", "Heine", "Fritz". I survived and so can a raghead.
Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 04:45 PM

Dog of War
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A raghead by any other name is still a raghead........
Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 03:38 PM

keonimana
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barack HUSSEIN obama.....1st & last black muslim potus...a dark chapter in American history...
Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 12:13 PM

winchester
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knotts said it right about time someone told it like it is if the rag heads dont like what he said then leave the country
Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 11:05 AM

BOB R USMC OathKeeper
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Lying Raghead is more proper. Semper Fi.
Saturday, June 05, 2010 at 04:18 AM

And there's plenty more.

Check out Fox Nation's Statement Of Purpose and you'll soon realize why this thread, and many others, completely run contrary to what they present themselves as.

Some Thoughts For Your Morning

- Conservatives believe that everything in the world should be neatly compartmentalized, that everything has to be able to fall into a commercialized graphic so that we can utilize it in how we live our day to day lives. Their approach to our enemies is a great example of this. So, when John Brennan put our fight against our enemies into context, conservatives were simply unable to accept the reality laid bare before them since it completely destroyed their neatly arranged marketing set.

- I seems that there's more "evidence" that Nikki Haley - candidate for governor of South Carolina - did have an affair. I'm wondering when her apologists will make enough noise that she will get a full hour of attention from Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck on Fox"News" in order to do some serious damage control. You know it's coming.

- While I am completely in favor of immigration reform and laws that crack down on businesses that hire illegals and literally use them as near slave labor, I'm wondering why conservatives are treating this as vindication for Arizona's over-reaching law.

- With Republicans aching to regain control of The House Of Representatives, there are several bloggers ( myself included ) that feel if they do they will do nothing but try to bring about articles of impeachment. Don't expect them to make any headway, and progress ( because that's the root word for progressive, you know ) for this country - it's all about doing their best to destroy Obama.

- It seems that Sue Lowden isn't distancing herself from comments made by fellow Tea Bagger Rand Paul. In this respect, conservatives are much like an ostrich - just hide your face from the problem and it doesn't exist.

Jesus Will Help Her, Or Something

And while it's not beyond the pale for a conservative Republican to have an extra-marital affair and lie about it, the accuser's statements really don't shine a great light of credibility on him either.

A political blogger and former aide to Gov. Mark Sanford claims to have had a past romantic relationship with Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Haley, who is married and has two children, "emphatically" denied the claim Monday morning.

"Several years ago, prior to my marriage, I had an inappropriate physical relationship with Nikki," Will Folks announced Monday morning on his political blog, FITSNews. Folks said political opponents of Haley and himself were leaking evidence of the affair to the press, and claimed the story would've come out this week no matter what.

"I will not be discussing the details of that relationship, nor will I be granting any additional interviews about it to members of the media beyond what I have already been compelled to confirm," Folks continued. The blogger gave no proof of the relationship, which he claims took place when he worked for Haley in 2007.

This, of course, gives Sarah Palin the perfect opportunity to shelter Haley as she has just recently endorsed her.

Palin ( or her ghost-writer ) took to the hallowed confines of Facebook to discuss the "convenience" of Folk's claims and the fact that he is unwilling to expound on them. For once, and only once, I find myself in an agreement of sorts with Palin. After all, if he's got the goods on Haley I say let them out. But would it really matter if she had cheated on her husband? I'm sure that this will be good for a few news cycles on O'Reilly and Hannity for Palin to talk about "god", "faith", and those nasty liberals.

But here's the catch - what if it's true?