Bad Deeds for 12-26-2011

 

Fox News Guest’s Ugly Racist Remark About President Obama – Fox News continued its pattern of directing attacks with racist undertones at President Barack Obama on Thursday night when Brent Bozell of the conservative Media Research Center said that “you might want to say” that the President is a “skinny, ghetto crackhead.”

A few months ago, Fox’s Eric Bolling came under fire for his racially charged criticisms of Obama, including his claims that Obama was “chugging 40′s in IRE while tornadoes ravage MO” (which he latertried to amend), and that Obama was hosting “hoodlum[s] in the hizzouse” when he welcomed Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba and rapper Common to the White House.

Bozell is also on the record for saying that former President Jimmy Carter is “like that proverbial college freshman who spouts neo-Marxist pablum after one too many hits on the bong.”

 

Ron Paul Walks Out Of Interview After Facing Questions About Racist Content In Newsletter – Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-TX) newsletters from the 1980s and 1990s, published under his name, included content claiming that African-Americans are trying to give white people HIV, suggested that Washington, DC is “anti-white and proud of it,” provided instructions on how to murder African-Americans, and warned of “malicious gay(s)” who spread HIV.

Wednesday, Paul walked out of an interview after CNN’s Gloria Borger pressed him on his role in publishing the racist content

 

Indiana’s Republican Sec. of State Charged With Voter Fraud; Removed From Office – Indiana’s Republican Sec. of State Charlie White has been found not eligible to have been a candidate on the ballot in the November 2010 election. A Marion County Circuit judge has ordered him removed from office and replaced by his Democratic challenger Vop Isili, the second highest vote getter in that election. White still faces seven criminal felony charges, including three of them for voter fraud, related to the fact that he did not live at the address where he was registered to vote in the 2010 election. As he was not a properly registered Indiana voter, he was not eligible to be a candidate on the ballot, Rosenberg has ruled. Moreover, at the time of his election, White was a member of the Fishers Town Council — a town in which he no longer lived since separating from his wife and moving out of her house, where he remained registered to vote, several years earlier. Democrats charge he retained his registration at the house so that he could continue to collect his salary as a Council Member.

Since divorcing his wife White had remarried and purchased a condominium in a different town, but claimed the reason he stayed registered at his former wife’s house was because he had hoped to move back some day.

 

Galveston County’s Republican Redistricting Plan Lacks Basic Information Needed for Approval – The U.S. Department of Justice said Galveston County’s proposals to redraw the boundaries for county commissioners, justices of the peace and constables are wanting. On Monday, the chief of the voting section of the department’s Civil Rights Division sent a letter to the county asking for clarification and supporting documents.

“Our analysis indicates that the information sent is insufficient to enable us to determine that the proposed changes have neither the purpose nor will have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race, color or membership in a language minority group,” the justice department letter reads.

In August, a divided commissioners court approved a map for county commissioners precincts that drastically reshaped precincts 1 and 3. Another map reduced the number of precincts for justices of the peace and constables from eight to five. (Republican Commissioners voted for the new maps without criteria; Democratic commissioners voted against them.)

T. Christian Herren Jr., the chief of the voting section of the justice department’s Civil Rights Division, asked for a copy of the criteria the commissioners court approved for the redistricting process or explain why it doesn’t have a criteria.

The county, at the recommendation of its redistricting attorneys, chose not to adopt criteria for the process.

Democratic Commissioner Stephen Holmes, who voted against the redistricting maps, maintained early on that, without setting criteria, the county risked running afoul of the justice department.

“We never adopted criteria, even something simple, which to me was one of the most important steps by the court to take,” Holmes said.

 

Failed Tea Party Politician Posts Facebook Page Calling For Obama Assassination – California libertarian and Tea Party darling Jules Manson called for the assassination of President Barack Obama and his children. The Ron Paul supporter posted on his Facebook page, “Assassinate the (expletive deleted by examiner editors) n****r and his monkey children.” Manson ran for and lost a seat on the City of Carson’s City Council last March.

Regards,

Jim