N.J. GOP club accused of racism (Philly Inquirer story about disgusting anti-Obama "joke")

[highplainsdem]

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20080709_N_J__GOP_club_accused_of_racism.html

Posted on Wed, Jul. 9, 2008

N.J. GOP club accused of racism
By Cynthia Burton

Inquirer Staff Writer

A banner slogan on the Pemberton Republican Club's Web site that said, "Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole," disappeared yesterday after local Democrats alleged racist campaign tactics.

The Web master, Ed Kuck, a recently elected Republican County committeeman, said he had seen the slogan on an Internet site and copied it onto the club's Web page about a month ago as "a joke."

He removed it yesterday from the site, http://homewebs.net/pem , after a community person told him it would offend people, he said.

"I found out it was inappropriate, and I took it down," Kuck said, adding: "I just want to apologize to anybody who was offended, because that wasn't our intention at all."

Pemberton Councilwoman Diane Stinney said a Republican friend had called to tell her about the ad, saying: "I just want you to know I'm very disappointed with our Republican page."

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Much more at the link. This is outrageous, especially since a Republican county committeeman was the one who thought it was "a joke." And it was there a month before anyone complained?

I just checked the link for that GOP club's site, and -- surprise -- it's no longer there. This is the Google cache:

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:4fXqjUKORpsJ:homewebs.net/pem/+pemberton+republican+club&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. yeah, it's gone. Good!

[PM7nj]

2. Pemberton... LOL

[Maccagirl]

3. "That wasn't our intention at all..."..

Another non-apology apology. I get so sick of people getting away whith this crap.

[blogslut]

4. It's a revision of an Ann Coulter quote

From a 2005 column entitled: Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole

Good old repubs. Not only are they racists, they're unoriginal racists.

[MrSlayer]

5. It's certainly stupid but I don't see why this is considered racist.

The statement is saying that Obama is so obsessed with his love for and jealousy over America that he will brutally murder it. Kind of weird considering how the RW has the idea that he hates America. I don't see how it's racist though. Is it just because O.J. is black and Nicole was white? He didn't kill her because she was white, so it really makes no sense. The whole thing is mindless, racist or not. Those people are idiots.

[highplainsdem]

6. Kick.