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Palin Supporter Calls African American Sound Man An "Uppity Negro"
As I noted below, in his piece today about the abuse that Palin supporters heaped on reporters at a Florida rally yesterday, WaPo's Dana Milbank wrote that one supporter had hurled an unspecified racial epithet at an African American sound man before saying, "sit down, boy."
A reporter who was there tells me what that unspecified epithet was: "Uppity negro."
Late Update: I should have made it clearer that this happened at a rally where Palin was stoking anger by attacking Katie Couric and the "mainstream media."
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October 7, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Keep exposing this shit to the light of day. McCain-Palin are going to rue the day they took this disgusting tactic.
October 7, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Having been raised in the South and being familiar with our neighbors to our south, I could just about promise you that it wasn't "negro". It would have been "nigger".
We don't have polished racists that adhere to prounuciation guides.
October 7, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
...which is why the story is BS.
October 7, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Back from depression counseling?
October 7, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Been around all day...what've you been up to? Shutteling "the homeless" from Ohio back to Pennsylvania and Kentucky?
October 7, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heh. You know that was a lame retort.
October 7, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Whatever...that was funny as hell.You know you laughed.
October 7, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
It does sound like bs. How did the slur go from "sit down, boy" to "uppity negro"? This is a side issue to the real hate mongers yelling "terrorist" and "treason" at McCain-Palin rallies.
I'd say bonfires and hoods are not far off.
October 7, 2008 6:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
SFC would know. He's the one who said it.
October 7, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oooohhhh...another liberal media conspiracy. How original of you.
October 7, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The story isn't bs. Own your candidate's bullshit.
October 7, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
If it were true it would've been all over the place, here, TheKos, Huffington...it wouldn't have started out with the "boy" comment.
October 7, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boy you'll just bend your brain into a pretzel trying to defend this bullshit.
it's pathetic.
October 7, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh man, that's so weak it's beneath you.
October 7, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think my heart just raced a little. I imagine that comment may have been cleaned up; but even if not, the way Palin and McCain are spewing these arguments—there’s no telling how some of these biased I’ll even say racist supporters will react. Here’s hoping the crazies stay home…
October 7, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Beat me to it, 2larue. Pretty much guarantee it was ni**er.
October 7, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gov. Paterson on Palin: "She is in the candidate protection program now. She went to the debate but hasn't been seen since."
October 7, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Uppity Negro"??? what are these Ivy League Red Necks? I dont know what i'm more upset at Them using the phrase or it being used incorrectly. Considering that I myself am an "Uppity Nigga"... Get it right please. McCain/Palin = Joke.
October 7, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain should be asked in the debate tonight about the venom displayed during the campaign rallies of late. It could even just be about the shout of "terrorist" since we have that video. At a certain point, he needs directly to embrace or disavow the racist bile that his campaign is fomenting.
October 7, 2008 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Uppity Negro"???...sure sounds like a campaign plant and not a true southern redneck...
October 7, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. Same thing with the person who shouted "terrorist", possibly even the one who shouted "kill him."
All uppity Negros everywhere, are going to have one hell of a fantastic election night. That's all that really matters.
October 7, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
This sounds too stereotypical to have happened.
October 7, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm seriously doubting it was such a refined 'uppity negro, sit down boy' as opposed to an unabashed 'uppity n-bomb, sit your black a$$ down bwoi!!'
either way, a very classy crowd they got over there in McShame/Failin' '08 land!
October 7, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Absolutely... I must say this "Uppity Negro" doesnt know his place. You there "Sit down boy", we will not stand for this... Are you kidding me NOT WHAT you here in FL or a Klan oops i mean Palin Rally. McCain/Palin = Joke
October 7, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, and this "Palin supporter" was a planted McCain campaign worker told to yell something out for the press to hear and talk about...hence, getting off the topic of the economy!
And with TPM and the MSM talking about it, their plan is working!
October 7, 2008 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
'To what end, Joe? Seriously.
This isn't the kind of PR that gets votes. This is the kind of PR that gets a lot of voters running the other way.
October 7, 2008 4:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. If anything it would be an Obama campaign plant. Now THAT would be political jujitsu!
October 7, 2008 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd say the MSM should talk about it -- but should do so as it is, i.e., hate rallies. And they should fact check right away. If that's how it's reported, I'd be all welcome.
On the other hand, if the MSM is still obsessed with the notion of parity and just going "He said, she said" and feelin good about their "objectivity" then that makes me mad.
October 7, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
They've been pulling that crap since Saturday; stating that "both campaigns are getting down and dirty". Makes me sick that the press is so lazy as to blow-off reporting of blatant lying with this equivocation nonsense of "they all do it".
October 7, 2008 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
As far as I saw many newspaper headlines were like that yesterday. I was furious and keep writing to those editors to demand accuracy.
October 7, 2008 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy shit.
Well we know she has the Neanderthal vote wrapped all the way up, along with the KKK.
October 7, 2008 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Survey USA Wisconsin Poll:
Obama 52 McCain 42
http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=bce67076-6347-4d68-b902-f65d549f9c56
October 7, 2008 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheeseheads know sour milk when they smell it!
I think I figured out the real reason McSame pulled out of Michigan. By dissing MI, he hopes to drum up support in IN and OH:
Hey all you Hoosiers and Buckeyes! Spartans suck! Wolverines suck! Fuck Michigan! Vote for a good ol' white boy!
October 7, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what desperation sounds like.
October 7, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena- I agree... The humor is in how Milbank wrote it. Not what you hear from a Redneck in FL, trust me a brother that lives in GA and travels around the Southeast all the time...
October 7, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't get the point of the update or why it needed to be made clear.
The commenter was goaded by the situation?
Huh?
October 7, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
O I do trust you.
The "sit down,boy" was bad enough - that's a killing insult AFAIC. That's almost justifiable homicide.
Josh please - please fix this thing!
dammit to hell -
October 7, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg: Could you please get verification of this "Negro" part? Is this a direct quote or was this person relaying it to you being euphemistic?
October 7, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena,
True - but it won't stop those bastards from trying to get attention...ANY attention, good or bad. Some Republicans are very normal, calm, nice people - I'm actually friends with several. Others get off on toxic tactics like this, making their nastiness the core of voter attraction.
Believe it or not, some people are attracted to shit like that. Before I got into advertising, I was a freelance news writer...I attended many Republican rallies, fundraisers and even assisted a writer for the Sun-Times at the 1996 Republican Convention in San Diego...I saw hate like you wouldn't believe! They thrive on it and the more their supporters hear it, the more will come out of the woodwork and rally on.
I agree, this is NOT the PR that attracts average voters, but Republicans are only out to attract their base this late in the game.
October 7, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Darlin, I am not defending Republicans - good lord!
I'm just sayin - look, maybe Rick Davis thinks this is a plan - hell if I know.
But if he does, he's wrong. This is good PR for Obama.
Jesus - do you not see it that way? I mean shit like this assures high voter turnout.
October 7, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since everything they're doing is just concentrating their base into a smaller and more vicious and violent minority, I honestly think that's their plan.
Someone on an earlier thread says 'scorched earth' and I think that's right. If they can't run the country, they'll make sure there's no country left for Obama to run.
Kevin Drum called it a month ago - the end result of McCain's vicious campaign is going to be a nation and a political environment so toxic nothing can get done.
October 7, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Drum is dead wrong about the end result.
Watch - this is a small, vicious minority. We will have a huge majority and Obama will have loads of political capital.
Not the first time I've thought Drum was clutching those pearls so tight he was cutting off the oxygen to his brain.
;)
October 7, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
It would be interesting to know how other people feel about this, but I'm getting tired of, to say nothing of depressed by, the constant drip, drip, drip of stories about the soullessness of the McCain campaign.
Other people may be able to deal with them better than I, but I end up feeling helpless around a lot of the ugliness out there.
It might help if TPM put up more positive stuff that Obama is doing; clips of his adverts, news he's making that kind of stuff, as a kind of antidote to the dark side of the Republican Party. While the later will always be with us, the hope stuff, is what keep many of us going.
Anyone else feel the same way?
October 7, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who knew Obama supporters were so thin skinned.
Doubt it actually happened. Just like the supposed "real McCain" vacation memoir.
Obama supporters are starting to sound a bit like Tawana Brawley.
October 7, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ther you go...the voice of reason.
October 7, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
O nice racial reference, asshole. Tawana Brawley. That just exposed your racist core.
Of course no one is upset over a fully adult African American being called "boy" and "uppity".
Are you kidding?
Go away you bigot.
October 7, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I forgot to tell you, that reason stuff doesn't go over very well here.
October 7, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Reason"- like this quote from you a few threads back; "Liberalism is responsible for most of what's wrong with this country,..."
Good luck with that...
October 7, 2008 4:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Obama supporters are starting to sound a bit like Tawana Brawley."
It seems that Matthew Weaver, after wiping Larry Johnson's jizz off of his face and getting a new TPM account - decided to post here again. You smoldering piece of shit.
October 7, 2008 6:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nailed it!
October 7, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
before i get into this topic much respect to lilibet hagel wife of 1 of my favorite GOP Senator Chuck hagel,iam a big,big huge fan of chuck hagel and richard lugar the real mavericks,now back to this really whut mcbush and palin is tellin these uneducated racist imbred hicks in small town is don't vote for the uppity nigger that went to harvard and princeton university bkuz hes lookin down on u white trailer trash hockey moms or whateva,whut u think about that sfc wallace,fogu2,lalo35,matthew weavers and dumbass bil c?
October 7, 2008 4:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain should be referred to the Senate Ethics Committee for censuring . . .This is not 1860.
October 7, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Totally co-sign.
I guess this means he reverses himself yet again on the Confederate flag issue.
October 7, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
On a positive note. I early voted today in Atlanta and if the line is any indication of what voter turnout will be in the African American community, Obama has an outside chance. Over at Fivethirtyeight.com the models projected AA's to be 28% to 30% so far according to the AJC it's been at 41% of all early voting....
I swear when i arrived i didn't know if i was going to vote or attend a Civil Rights meeting, I kept expecting people to break out singing "We shall overcome." 8:45 this morning lines 300 to 400 deep.. Awesome...
October 7, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is great news in GA. Not just for Obama, but also for Martin in chasing Chambliss.
John
October 7, 2008 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe the press should at least consider not covering the Palin klan rallies.
October 7, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't be surprised to see you and ChicagoJoe get your wish on that.
The press starts getting roughed up and they will be pissed off even worse.
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The McLame Campaign is in total psychotic meltdown, IMO.
October 7, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
McShame and Failin should be wearing white sheets.
October 7, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm waiting for some dead-ender to put forth the theory that the guy hurling the slur was an Obama campaign plant.
October 7, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Already been put forth, although the person who did doesn't seem to be a dead-ender.
October 7, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I smell a No Quarter post.
October 7, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Blmack,
I don't believe that for a second! Obama's a very classy individual and would never, ever falter to tactics like that. Neither would Biden, who is also a very classy dude!
I don't blame McCain directly, I blame his campaign organizers for telling fellow workers to rile up the crowd by yelling stuff out...I've seen it happen with my own eyes! The same schmucks who hired college students to stand in front of all of the media cameras outside the buildings at the first Prez debate and the VP debate holding Obama smear signs...paid for with PIZZA!
October 7, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's all wish really really hard that McLame totally blows sky-high tonight.
October 7, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena,
Nah, I never thought you were defending Republicans. You see it as good PR for Obama, which in a lot of ways it is. I also see it as POTENTIALLY good PR for McCain as well in rallying someone of the hardcores who have been too shy in coming out of the woodwork.
I know my view is extreme, but I stand by that.
Still friends? :-)
October 7, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Silly.
Toujours. ;)
October 7, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
And I will say this - you could be right about bringing some more racists out of the woodwork to vote, but I really rather think that most voting racists are already lined up to vote against that mmmmmm on Nov. 4 - so at most he gets another several hundred, maybe?
Gee, then we'll know just who they are! LOL just kidding - I'm sure it's no secret.
October 7, 2008 4:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Uppity" in the black community has very NEGATIVE overtones. It is saying "boy, you don't know your place". It is very ugly. The GOP suggestion of implying that Obama is "arrogant" is the same thing as saying that Obama is a "Uppity Negro" in the eyes of African-Americans because Obama is NOT arrogant what so ever.
Obama's "cool" demeanor is more about being STEADY and calm rather than being arrogant.
October 7, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny old thing, a troll is - no matter where they start out in argument in this campaign, it always winds up in the same place.
This may in fact be the single best thing to break through the Southern Strategy with.
And it is breaking down - Va, N Carolina - November 4 could be one of the biggest watershed days in our history.
October 7, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
They certainly do get high quality folks at those Palin events!
"I say, my uppity negro friend! Please do sit down, old boy!"
October 7, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin's Seccessionist Group WAS SUPPORTED BY IRAN!!!
DIGG THIS!!!!!!!
http://digg.com/politics/The_Palins_Secessionist_Group_Was_Supported_By_Iran
October 7, 2008 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Believe it or not, the media adores Sarah Palin...not for who she is or what she (supposedly) stands for, but for the ratings she gives them. And more ratings = more exposure for her and McCain's campaign.
The MSM will never take its eye off of Sarah Palin. I wish they would, but wishful thinking that they would do that...sigghhh.
October 7, 2008 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I tried to post this earlier - ChicagoJoe, the press will only be in love with her as a story as long as the public is and there isn't enough there to keep anyone's interest for very damn long.
October 7, 2008 6:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
third attempt at posting this but the real tragedy wasn't that the Brawley fiasco occurred but that a situation existed which made it believable to so many people. So many absurd things had already occurred that it made one more seem very plausible. THAT'S the real tragedy of this campaign.
October 7, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like I said before, all it takes is for Obama to make McCain grit his yellow teeth just once...or show just a flicker of anger JUST ONCE and the post-debate pundits will be all over it!
Axelrod - pleeeeeeease make Barack do this!!
October 7, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
What do you people think the Republicans have meant when they kept calling Senator Obama: "an elitist". You know what that was code language for. There even has been an occasion or two where some local Republican official has dropped their guard, and actually referred to Senator Obama as;"uppity".
October 7, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. Along with the financial crises, this could be the nail in the McCoffin.
October 7, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are you guys "palling" around with the clansman SFCWallace?
October 7, 2008 5:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL! Well played...
October 7, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am a proud member of "Clan Wallace World Wide," my father carried the banner at the Norther California Highland Games on many occasions.
October 8, 2008 10:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
They keep pumping sedatives into McMadman so his blood won't squirt out his ears. He'll be outwardly calm tonight, like a lead cask holding nuclear waste. He'll look right into the camera and deny any and all niggative stuff being horsebacked by his klan; some cable channel will be simulatneously broadcasting his "Obama = O'Terra-ism" schklumpf. You won't see Brokaw ask this follow-up, "But Senator McCain, you have run several commercials accusing Senator Obama of the unthinkable and untrue! How can you possibly deny this?" Instead, you'll see Brokaw simper along, "Yes, it is too bad our political process is marred by the negative. You don't like that, do you Senator McCain?"
I keep hoping people will finally crawl out of the barrel of shit instead of standing there complaining about the smell. The polls show it could be happening, but I'm still paranoid about the stop-the-vote-steal-the-vote cheaters. Nov 4 can't get here soon enough.
October 7, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
SFC? Is that Latin for sugar in my tank.
October 7, 2008 5:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wonder if this will get people like Allen off the Tire Swing.
John
October 7, 2008 6:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Salon has a fact-based piece on Palin-Iran tie. The founder of AIP Joe Vogler, the raging anti-American and Todd-Sarah's political godfather, said, "My government is my worst enemy. I'm going to fight them with any means at hand."
"Vogler's greatest moment of glory was to be his 1993 appearance before the United Nations to denounce United States "tyranny" before the entire world and to demand Alaska's freedom. The Alaska secessionist had persuaded the government of Iran to sponsor his anti-American harangue.
That's right ... Iran. The Islamic dictatorship. The taker of American hostages. The rogue nation that McCain and Palin have excoriated Obama for suggesting we diplomatically engage. That Iran."
Palin's friend and AIP chairwoman Lynette Clark : "[Sarah] is Alaskan to the bone ... she sounds just like Joe Vogler."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/10/07/palins_unamerican/
October 7, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, they didn't call him a "downity Negro."
Isn't that the opposite? Or is it just Downy.
Are these to close to Downs syndrome. I hope not.
I did not mean any harm. Uppity and Negro are two neutral words. Downy, of course could also be in contrast to Kinky or Nappy. We'll get our people to call you people something more Mavericky next time. You betcha.
October 7, 2008 6:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
How quaint that sounds. "Uppity"? Yes indeed. Right to the top, please. Obama knows his place--and he's rising to take it, because most of us want a President we can look up to, not down on.
October 7, 2008 6:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
We all know it was "uppity nigger", dude.
This makes Bill Clinton (in South Carolina) look like Al Sharpton. After these past few days, any Black person voting for McCain needs their fucking head examined. Post haste.
Signed,
An Ivy League "Uppity Negro"
October 7, 2008 6:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lol! Georgia just got 2 points closer!
October 7, 2008 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why do yall think just because people from the south they are racist? Isnt that predjudice at its definition. Im from the south im not a redneck, my first girlfriend was black, ive never been to or even seen a Klan rally, I dont listen to country, I prefer Deathmetal and blues. Everyone here says Nigga and no one really cares. I Know lots of black people that have parents that dont let them talk to people that are white. This is just an attack.
October 8, 2008 9:26 AM | Reply | Permalink