'Great white hope:' GOP rep. apologizes

The remaining rightwing racist extremists that make up the Republican Party make no attempt to hide their hatred of anyone who isn't a "real" American. They've made it clear that only rural white, evangelical Christians have the bona fides to be considered "real" Americans.

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Good grief, will the Left and its media lapdogs ever become human? Clearly, Lynn Jenkins meant no harm with her statement. Clearly, the Loony Left and its Corrupt Media lapdogs will stop at nothing to demonize anyone on the Right or in the Republican party.
Perhaps it is time for THE PEOPLE to stage a revolution against this country's media?

It's not surprising that the Repugs can't win elections anymore, the only group they cater to is angry old teabagging white guys.

That's the best race card you can trot out, Mark?

The DNC ought to be feeding you better talking points than this.

Kansas republican Lynn Jenkins might be cute on the outside, but she is oh-so ugly on the inside, similar to a church in Kansas which last November wrote on its marquee (like a movie theater marquee, only taller than the church itself) "Obama Muslim President a Sin." You can see a photo at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2008/11/kansas-church-marquee-obama-muslim-president-a-sin.html#more

Rep. Jenkins and her "great white hope" comment, and subsequent denial that neither the statement or she herself were racist, also remind me of how the news media took off on a story about the park service trying to rid the White House grounds of a family of raccoons, shortly after the Obamas moved in. The racist journalists were absolutely gleeful in their double entendres about "coons in the White House" and, of course, denied any intent of racism. You can read about this at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/02/raccoons-at-white-house-america-still-waits-for-postracism.html

Straight from the wires today, no feed, no dish... and I'm the one playing a race card? Wow.

what i can't understand is that there seems to be a double standard in this country. when a person of color succeeds, they are applauded. but when a white person succeeds, there is merely a nod. now i voted for barack, but i would have voted for mccain now, seeing what obama has done to this country. the 'great white hope' remark should have been reconsidered, i agree. but for the person to be branded a racist is ridiculous. white people have this guilt complex about race which should not be there at all. but since it is there, both people of color and 'sensitive' whites get all up in arms whenever an innocent remark is made. and i agree that barack should be stopped. and the next prime candidate will most likely be white. i don't think that barack will be the only minority candidate for a while. i, for one, am not a racist. i am just tired of straw men being created.

what i can't understand is that there seems to be a double standard in this country. when a person of color succeeds, they are applauded. but when a white person succeeds, there is merely a nod. now i voted for barack, but i would have voted for mccain now, seeing what obama has done to this country. the 'great white hope' remark should have been reconsidered, i agree. but for the person to be branded a racist is ridiculous. white people have this guilt complex about race which should not be there at all. but since it is there, both people of color and 'sensitive' whites get all up in arms whenever an innocent remark is made. and i agree that barack should be stopped. and the next prime candidate will most likely be white. i don't think that barack will be the only minority candidate for a while. i, for one, am not a racist. i am just tired of straw men being created.

Bruce and John, are you saying this was not a racist thing to say? You guys are unbelievable. Can't you admit it when someone in your party says or does something stupid? Or are you blind ideologues....

Rick,
What has Obama done to this country that you didn't know he was going to do when you voted for him? Please share.

What is surprising is that, this is not made up!
Someone so stupid or ignorant as to not know the racist implications of 'great white hope' has got herself elected to the House as a Republic.

John D, she demonized herself, with her own words.

Bruce, John D,others;
'Racist is as racist does'.

Yep time to replace the letter G with K, O with K, and P with K. It's made abundantly clear that the Republicans only want a "great white hope" from that "real" part of America.

Of course Jenkins is sorry! She has nothing against black people and in fact, she probably even knows a few of them, so she can't possibly be a racist!....not.

This is the kind of veiled racism that permeates the GOP and it's a big reason why they are hemorrhaging membership. All that's left of the 2009 GOP are the crazy base nuts, like this guy.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/21/idaho-deadly-weapon/

Of course Jenkins didn't mean anything by it.This certainly isn't a clear case of racism like when Obama called a cop's actions stupid. We all know that was racist through and through, (after alll the Dear Leder Glen Beck said so) but to call Jenkin's words racist? Why that's racism!

The DNC ought to be feeding you better talking points than this.

Posted by: Bruce | August 27, 2009 2:53 PM
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What's wrong Brucie? Did the RNC not give you any trumped up Rasmussen polls to counter this with? It's hard to defend one of your Wingnut heroes (like Jenkins here) when they go off the rails on a racist crazy train in public and actually say what they mean instead of using dog whistles, isn't it?

John D, she could NOT possibly have been clueless of what that kind of comment means. Clearly, she intended it, now that there is a man of color in the White House.

And she only gave the standard "IF I offended anyone" non-apology.

She disgraced herself. Can't say she disgraced her party. Not much left to be disgraced.

What is surprising is that, this is not made up!
Someone so stupid or ignorant as to not know the racist implications of 'great white hope' has got herself elected to the House as a Republic.

John D, she demonized herself, with her own words.

Bruce, John D,others;
'Racist is as racist does'.

Posted by: C.Morris✧ | August 27, 2009 3:20 PM
Nonsense- Racism is based on intent-this "great white hope" hope phrase is not by definition racist-and you would need more than just her comment to prove she was being racist.
But lets apply your logic…Next thing you know someone will get themselves elected president who is too stupid and ignorant to know the implications of words like “typical white person" "(they)cling to guns and religion". We might even elect a guy dumb enough to NOT know that attending Jeremiah Wright's INTENTIONALLY racist sermons for 20 years at best say you don't have a problem with the message.

And besides, the repugs thought they had their "Great White Hope". Mark Sanford.

OOPS!!!!

The GOP is just disgustingly out of touch and it's led and left now with a bunch of anti-intellectuals that seem to prefer our country to be run by an illegal plumber or a beauty queen that took 6 years to get a journalism degree. It's time the party abandoned the morons that want to teach our children the universe was created 6000 years ago. The conservative of today seems only conservative with three things, intelligence, reason and compassion. Opposition orientation is not a charter, or a policy position.

Watch as these cynical and manipulative rich people fool the public in to voting for Republicans by putting a pretty white woman up for election. Low information voters fall in line.

A posty on another site said it like this: "Now to be fair, there are virtually no non-white Republican members of congress, so in suggesting that the party's future hopes rest essentially on white talent Jenkins was arguably just stating the obvious."

Are you critics then saying that she

"is a typical white person."? -B.O.

"Acted stupidly." - B.O.

or even that:

"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied." -B.O.'s (former) Spiritual Czar

Perhaps if she was a "wise Latina woman the richness of her experiences would more often than not enable her to reach a better conclusion than a white woman."

Every white basketball player in recent history has been touted as the next "Great White Hope."

"America loves a tough white guy." - CBS sports Mike Freeman, notorious racist, on white baller Tyler Hansbrough

The double standard rule is clearly in effect.

Republicans don't mind racism or terrorism per se - as long as it suits THEIR goals. What they don't like is when someone else is doing it, and they're not gaining anything.
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/viper_militia/
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Any apology that contains the word "if" is not an apology.
"I'm sorry I said it. I was wrong." That's an apology.

This will only serve to help her within her own party.

Now she can claim the white supremest within her base without losing any of her other base.

lynn jenkins, young, aspiring - another wacked out right wing nut! i am continually amazed and amused that these right wing nut jobs keep coming out of the closet. before long, she'll be right up there with michele bachman for the moron award. who keeps electing these ignoramuses, anyway? i'm sure she doesn't see herself as racist. heck, neither do the morons who mocked Justice Sotomayor during hearings by saying she'll have to "splain it." these people - jenkins now included in the bag o' nuts - don't see themselves as racists. the kkk doesn't see itself as the bad guy, either. racism, sexism, bigotry and the sort - these things are not determined by perpetrators or third parties - whether such ignorant, threatening, primarily male behavior is racist, etc., is assessed by the victim - not the perpretrator or his friends. this time the rep from kansas showed what a man she really is! we'll probably see her with a gun strapped to her kneecap at future political events - because it's everyone's right to carry guns!

When will the republicans realize they have to dump the Bachmann, Jenkin types to rebuild the party? There is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588

Sharon McEachern: sheesh. What did your two references have to do with Lynn Jenkins? One was because it was church in the same state. Just for grins, what do you think the result would be if a Christian became President of a middle eastern country. D'ya think it might be a bit more physical?

How you think racdoons inhabiting the White House grounds have anything to do with Lynn Jenkins is, well, baffling.

Are you one of the people who contorts herself looking for racial insults when none were intended?

Rick

It's worse than I thought. When I went to the link Sharon McEachern is referencing, it turns out it her site. Lovely, Sharon McEachern is referencing herself as some kind of authority.

Rick

MR FACE, I am the wrong Rick, but I love such a juicy and easy target. Obama talked about "common sense" fixes to the health insurance system, not a government takeover. No where did Obama talk about a cap and trade system which would raise costs for everyone. He certainly didn't talk about an $800 billion payoff to his supporters. He did not talk about at least a $9 trillion deficit including $1.8 trillion this year.

He never talked about taking over GM and Chrysler nor did he talk about appointing an unknown number of Czars, but leave 57% of his appointments that require Senate confirmation unfilled.

Any questions, Mr Face?

Rick

I have a feeling she knew exactly what she was saying. I bet there wasn't a single african-american in the room when she said it, so she felt safe telling the crowd that the Republicans were going to get the Scary Black Man out of the White House.

I work around teenagers and here is their usual take on things: If it happened before she was born it did not happen so she could not know about it.

Rick,
How has your standard of living changed since Obama was Innaugurated?

Shoot, this "great white hope" ruckus is nothing more than typical political correctness mule manure being played up by both our mainstream media and left liberals. This is all so very childish.

Our expression "great white hope" is, today, mainstream Americana. Nothing racist about this. A word or an expression is only insulting or racist when wrapped within a context of hatred.

Lynn Jenkins did not wrap her words within hatred. Her context is clear and is free of any hatred.

Annoys me to no end all this political correctness mule manure. Annoys me more these people jumping up then screaming and hollering about a bunch of political correctness nonsense.

This red skin girl says to those mule manure people, "Sit down, shut-up and quit acting so childish."

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
Puma Politics

The very same angry old rich white guys (and women) who run the GOP, the one's who have been cultivating their followers to follow their base instincts such as race baiting, xenophobia, war mongering, promoting torture as US policy, and giving the wealthy continuous socialistic support, now want us to believe that they're really not racists at all, they're just misunderstood?!?!

Ha Ha Ha!
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The very same angry old rich white guys (and women) who run the GOP, the one's who have been cultivating their followers to follow their base instincts such as race baiting, xenophobia, war mongering, promoting torture as US policy, and giving the wealthy continuous socialistic support, now want us to believe that they're really not racists at all, they're just misunderstood?!?!

Ha Ha Ha!
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The Republican party is not only shrinking, it's having a very public mental meltdown.

(R)-John Cornyn thinks fact checking is pretext for domestic espionage. Which he's suddenly against. (R)-Chuck Grassley uses Ted Kennedy's medical condition as propaganda for his own false and nonsensical claims about "socialized medicine" killing old people -- and this is who Max Baucus is "negotiating" with to bring us his version of health care?!?!.

Rush Limbaugh pretends, out loud, to think Obama is like Hitler. Glenn Beck muses about poisoning Nancy Pelosi.

The Wingnut birthers are going strong, and the Wingnut teabaggers are trying to shut down healthcare reform by making town halls on the subject impossible.

Dick Morris and John Bolton agree: we should have left those two journalists to rot in North Korea, because Clinton going there to secure their release made the U.S. look weak, and now other countries will steal our lunch money at recess. And Lou Dobbs never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like, as long as it was about brown or black people, but after people got angry that he peddled false nonsense he says he's now reflexively going to oppose Obama on everything.

It's all so disgusting and pathetic that you just have to laugh at it. Between Cornyn, Grassley, Limbaugh and Beck, between Dobbs and Morris and Bolton, between birthers and "socialized" medicine but keep-your-hands-off-my-Medicare, the Wingnut stupid is overwhelming. It's become a tidal wave of Wingnut stupid. It's a giant Noah's Ark of Wingnut stupid, in which two examples of every kind of dumbarsery known to man have been loaded up to be set adrift on a sea of their own drool. It's the "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" gameshow of stupid -- loud, with big flashing lights, and on every damn day of the week.

It's the result of Wingnuts drinking conservative bong water and eating the paint chips flaking off Bill Buckley's lead-encrusted casket.

I'd be afraid for the future of our country, but I know that if these goon Teabagging Wingnuts ever actually armed themselves and tried to take over they'd all end up accidentally shooting themselves in the groin within the first ten minutes. Then they'd limp to D.C. to hold a Big Healthcare Industry Sponsored Astroturf rally demanding free government healthcare for crotch-related injuries.

Idiots, all of them...

From our VP - Foot in the Mouth Joe,

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." --Joe Biden

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." --Joe Biden on Barack Obama

From our Sec of State

"Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis."

From Senator Sheets Byrd,

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

Those tolerant democrats

Posted by: Okpulot Taha | August 27, 2009 6:05 PM

So many people confuse political correctness with common courtesy, good manners, and a proper upbringing.

How disgusting that an intelligent educated person using a common non racial phrase should be called a racist. It shows a sad trend in our culture when liberals can get away with sad attacks like this.

I remember just a year ago a lot of Democrats called Obama their great white hope. Again, I am saddened, that liberals have to project hatred on to good people for no other reason than making cheap political gain.

Here is the definition of Great White Hope for all of you.

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=great%20white%20hope

This is really not such a big deal. What else should she have said? She's a Republican so of course she's looking for a "Great White Hope" to lead the party. Who else are they gonna get? Alan Keyes? Please save the outrage for more deserving targets like Beck and the other nutjobs on Fox.

Everyone who disagrees with President Obama is a racist.
Everyone who disagrees with me is a racist.

chukmaty...You see no irony at all? LOL. A Republican saying that they need a "great white hope" is redundant. What other kind of hope do they have?

"America loves a tough white guy." - CBS sports Mike Freeman, notorious racist, on white baller Tyler Hansbrough

The double standard rule is clearly in effect.

Posted by: Thegreatwhitehype | August 27, 2009 4:08 PM

Actually, you are correct. Racism is alive in sports all the time.

Look at the NFL. When a good old, white, player like Brett Favre or Peyton Manning score, and they show excitement about scoring, the announcers will gleefully say. "Look at that excitement, joy of the game, just like when they were kids."

If a black player scores and so much as spikes the ball, the announcers say, "That's really uncalled for. He should act like he's been there before."

Just watch the NFL this year. Happens all the time.

Quickly dropping polls, HUGE deficits for as far as the eye can see, horrible policies the publich does not want . . . sounds like it's time to play a fluffy petty race card and see if we can get the sheeples to take their eye off, make that nose off, the stinky BO!!!!

"How disgusting that an intelligent educated person using a common non racial phrase should be called a racist."

Posted by: chukmaty | August 27, 2009 9:32 PM

The origin of the term "great white hope" is directly tied to the racial hatred of boxer jack Johnson, as mentioned in the story. While, over the years, it may have been used to describe other situations, its racial connotations cannot be dismissed. So, Jenkins is either racist or just quite ignorant and naive.

Ah yes, the non-apology apology that blames those who were offended for their correct perception of her offensive comments. What a putz.

"She apologizes if her words have offended anyone," Jenkins spokeswoman Mary Geiger told The Associated Press today. "That was not the intent in any way, shape or form."

From the further annals of Republican "Oh, shouldn't I have said that, was that offensive?" humor, I give you Rex Rammell:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32587963/ns/politics-more_politics/\

Yep, nothing says funny like hunting down the President of the United States like an animal.

At this point anyone that is even slightly concerned with this woman or her silly ramblings while our economy collapses is better off taking a nap.

That is exactly why I am no longer a republican.....intended or subconsciously might her remarks be.....seems to me that Republicans that remain intend to be WASP, hanging on to a past that no longer exists - they are still at 1779-singing that great old English song Yankee Doodle

Wow, I love the non-apology apology. "If I offended anyone... " pathetic. She basically blamed the people she offended for being offended! You can't make this stuff up. Tom, above, is right about the apology. Say you're wrong and apologize. This reminds me of Bill O'Reily when he described his visit to a Harlem restaurant and said no one was yelling, "Mo Fo" and they were all well-behaved. He couldn't even figure out how racist his commentary was! Repubs just don't get it. Time to branch out beyond old white guys or the Greedy Old Party will never come into the light again!

The republican party has evolved into the nazi, KKK, fascist party and it's various leaders are bold enough to come right out and make overt racist comments, offensive to most folks except them, of course.
Message to the right wing christians: do you remember when Cheney referred to you people as the " crazies in the basement" ? You are still Cheney's useful idiots.

Racism and sexism go hand in hand. Message to women's auxiliary of the rightwing nuts birthers-deathers-screamers brigade:
your leaders do not respect you because they do not see women as equals in any sense of the word. Doncha know racism and sexism go hand in hand..think about it.
Quit being patsies.

Nancy,

The Congresswoman probably lifted the apology from one of your own:

"I am sorry if anything I said caused any offense or pain to those who have such bitter memories of the Holocaust, the greatest moral tragedy of our time. Nothing, nothing should ever be said to demean or diminish that moral tragedy.

"I am also sorry if anything I said cast a negative light on our fine men and women in the military. ... I never ever intended any disrespect for them. Some may believe that my remarks crossed the line. To them I extend my heartfelt apology," Durbin said, choking on his words.

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Posted by: writerofwrongs | August 28, 2009 6:28 PM
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Okay. Cool. Now why don't you tell us what you really think?