Republican email with 'zombie' Obama (and a bullet hole in his forehead) triggers condemnation

[Turborama]

Source: AP

RICHMOND, Va. — A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up interest in Halloween parade political activities.

The montage, a banner on a mass email to Republicans in a Virginia county, mingles seasonal images including a jack-o-lantern, a disfigured U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a throng of flesh-hungry zombie Obama supporters.

The posterized image of a rotting, undead Obama with a bleeding, large-calibre hole an inch above his right eye prompted Democrats to cry foul and Virginia's Republican governor to denounce it as "shameful and offensive."

"This is a disgusting and violent portrayal of the president of the United States," said Democratic Party of Virginia spokesman Brian Coy.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20111031/obama-zombie-illustration-controversy-111031/

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Picture at the link.

[Marazinia]

1. Seems to me that a few years back

Much less than that could earn you a visit from the Secret Service.

http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc100405

[SkyDaddy7]

2. But that was a Republican POTUS...

The only REAL American Presidents are REPUBLICAN! :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[kestrel91316]

3. Bingo.

[russspeakeasy]

7. Skydaddy, are you serious ?????

I couldn't tell..:toast:

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Back during the Howard Dean campaign Dems learned to harness the internet

to rally Democratic support. Since then Republicans have mastered the art of email slander and internet rumor.

Think about it. When was the last time you received an email with an incredible false rumor that laid out a fantastic conspiracy theory about some republican? Your Republican friends get them every day. Every. Single. Day. And they believe them with their very heart and soul as they fwd them to everyone they know.

Anyone can go the Snopes and read the top discounted email rumors that just happen to be all against dems. That led conservatives to send out another conspiracy theory that Snopes is liberal.

[No Elephants]

11. +1 Bullseye.

[Botany]

5. "a light-hearted attempt to inject satire humour

This man needs a real a** k***ing

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Loudoun County Republican chairman Mark Sell said in an email response to The Associated Press that the graphic was "a light-hearted
attempt to inject satire humour into the Halloween holiday."

"Apparently, some individuals have interpreted an image of Barack Obama that appeared within the email as intending to portray the President
as a victim of a violent crime," Sell wrote. "Nothing could be further from the truth, and we deeply and sincerely apologize to the President and
anyone who viewed the image if that was the impression that was left."



Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20111031/obama-zombie-illustration-controversy-111031#ixzz1cTAFjN8h


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[Iliyah]

6. It only portrays

what majority of gopers want to happen. They call themselves God's choosen ones but in reality they are just evil as hell.

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. GOP's god is Satan. The stars on their elephant are upside down indicating Satanism.

[No Elephants]

12. Because without a photo of Obama shot in the head, Halloween would be too serious a holiday?

[xxqqqzme]

15. I KNEW the response would be

it was all in fun - a joke - a laugh. All their 'humor' is either violent or hate/hurtful

Is it any mystery why there are no rethug comedians?

[newspeak]

8. I see they got some sick puppies in the GOP

Of course, I'm not surprised--I understand that ted bundy was registering repugs while on his killing spree. Since some seem to have no morals at all, tearing up democratic registrations and outright cheating, lying, sick toons is just another day.

[panzerfaust]

23. You mean like this ...

RNC Facebook Photo.
You may recall that Loving vs Virginia was the civil rights case which led the "Warren Court" to find that the prohibition of interracial marriage (a popular law in the south) egregiously violates the Constitution of The United States of America.

In June 1958, two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter, a Negro woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were married in the District of Columbia pursuant to its laws. Shortly after their marriage, the Lovings returned to Virginia and established their marital abode in Caroline County. At the October Term, 1958, of the Circuit Court <388 U.S. 1, 3> of Caroline County, a grand jury issued an indictment charging the Lovings with violating Virginia's ban on interracial marriages. On January 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty to the charge and were sentenced to one year in jail; however, the trial judge suspended the sentence for a period of 25 years on the condition that the Lovings leave the State and not return to Virginia together for 25 years. He stated in an opinion that:

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix."

{
NB *** Feel the Christian Love ***

The Supreme Court found that ...
}

The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discriminations. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=388&invol=1

Or, he might have added, even by God.

[lbrtbell]

10. Meanwhile, Cheney is a real zombie

Go figure....

[No Elephants]

13. A battery charge away from a heartbeat.

[Neurotica]

14. Local GOP chair Mark Sell's right-wing connections

He is an activist with Public Advocate of the United States, an anti-gay organization run by Eugene Delgaudio (who happens to be a supervisor in Loudoun County).

http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/

He is also a member of the leadership team for Concerned Women for America of Virginia.

http://www.cwfa.org/state-detailsnew.asp?organization=va

[Dreamer Tatum]

16. Um, wasn't there a game recently where one could blow away Republicans?

And wasn't that game lauded by many here?

[alfredo]

17. No me.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Oh for fuck's sake.

Jobs. JOBS!

[Geoff R. Casavant]

19. I look at it this way -- suppose it was Bush?

I don't doubt that if it were a picture of a zombie-fied Bush, I would find it at least mildly amusing, and I expect a large share of DU posters would as well.

It's Halloween, a time for monsters. One of those monsters is a zombie. And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that the only way to stop a zombie is a good old-fashioned head shot.

This is a non-issue as far as I'm concerned.

[Neurotica]

20. Keep in mind that a local Republican committee sent this out, not an individual

there's no excuse in my book

[TomCADem]

21. If it was Bush, The Democrats Would Be Raked By The Media. Remember Max Cleeland?

He was Vietnam War hero, yet this did not stop the GOP from running commercials suggesting that he supported Osama bin Ladin and Saddam Hussien because he proposed oversight of Bush's war efforts.

[red dog 1]

22. "A light-hearted attempt to inject satire humor into the Halloween holiday"?

I hope the Secret Service comes down hard on Loudoun County Republican Chairman Mark Sell.

There has to be some law they can use to prosecute this asshole!