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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 07:49 AM Nov 2018

Neo-Nazi Group Targets Oprah, GA Gov. Candidate Stacey Abrams in Racist Robocalls

Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and Oprah Winfrey — who supports Abrams and knocked on voters' doors for her this week — were targeted in a racist robocall evidently funded by a neo-Nazi group on Friday. The voice on the robocall introduces herself as the “magical negro” Oprah, and calls Abrams a “poor man’s Aunt Jemima,” and a candidate “white women can be tricked into voting for, especially the fat ones.” The call claims it is paid for by TheRoadToPower.com, which previously funded racist robocalls against Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum.


You can hear the robocall here:
https://www.facebook.com/100012148204907/videos/619266061821662/

or here:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-group-targets-oprah-ga-gov-candidate-stacey-abrams-in-racist-robocalls?ref=home

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Neo-Nazi Group Targets Oprah, GA Gov. Candidate Stacey Abrams in Racist Robocalls (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2018 OP
one guy creates these robo calls, virulently racist guy living in another state Demovictory9 Nov 2018 #1
Racist AND a fat-shamer. What a guy! GoCubsGo Nov 2018 #2
The work of another "good person" I presume? gordianot Nov 2018 #3
This hate-full nutcase, Scott Rhodes, has been very busy. Hortensis Nov 2018 #4
I avoid all robo calls by not answering my phones. If it's important sinkingfeeling Nov 2018 #5
What dumbasses - this will backfire bigly jpak Nov 2018 #6
You would hope...but, there's really no undecideds in this race. Funtatlaguy Nov 2018 #7
America can be sooo proud spanone Nov 2018 #8
Kemp better get out there and disavow that group Ilsa Nov 2018 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Behind the Aegis Nov 2018 #10
And once again, the anti-Semitic component is left out of the discussion. Behind the Aegis Nov 2018 #11
Nazi punks fuck off! Initech Nov 2018 #12

gordianot

(15,238 posts)
3. The work of another "good person" I presume?
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 08:10 AM
Nov 2018

After all no one is being mailed bombs or being shot and your store fronts and windows have not been shattered.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. This hate-full nutcase, Scott Rhodes, has been very busy.
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 08:28 AM
Nov 2018

This longer Florida article details a bunch more that he's been up to in various states.

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/tag/road-to-power

The individual behind robocalls targeting Andrew Gillum previously has been involved in racist attacks against California U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and former President Barack Obama and harassed the family of murdered University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. ...

The robocalls feature a narrator — supposedly Gillum — speaking in a thick accent, espousing “I’s be the mayor of Tallahassee” and proposing houses be replaced with mud huts after hurricanes. The robocalls also make mention of Republican Ron DeSantis’ recent “monkey this up” gaffe, with the narrator saying “he ignorant.” ...

Rhodes’ group came out in favor of white nationalist Patrick Little’s U.S. Senate campaign in California by funding robocalls calling incumbent Feinstein a “traitorous Jew” and an “Israeli citizen pretending to be an American,” which earned the group international attention and condemnation.

Idaho newspaper The Spokesman-Review carefully chronicled Rhodes’ inflammatory rhetoric since his move to the state from California. Last December, police in Sandpoint, Idaho said Rhodes handed out flyers attacking city leaders, putting CDs with racist audio in cars at a local high school and had been mailing anonymous letters harassing minorities in town. And the Sandpoint Reader also reported Alexandria, Virginia police believed Rhodes had made harassing phone calls to Mayor Allison Silberberg and other city officials. ...

But so far, Rhodes has wallowed in the attention. When MSNBC host Joy Reid today called out the group for the Gillum robocalls, Rhodes on the alt-right social media channel Gab referenced a past Road to Power podcast where he’d called her by a racial slur.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
5. I avoid all robo calls by not answering my phones. If it's important
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 08:42 AM
Nov 2018

the caller will leave a message. Most robo calls are just a disconnect.

Response to Ilsa (Reply #9)

Behind the Aegis

(53,956 posts)
11. And once again, the anti-Semitic component is left out of the discussion.
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:10 PM
Nov 2018

The racist twaddle and anti-feminist drek need to be called out for the trash it is, but one cannot, must not ignore the anti-Semitic component. For fuck's sake, 11 Jews were just murdered ONE week ago because some immigrant hating POS decided the Jews were responsible for the "caravan".

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