The elderly women at the McCain rally was LOL funny

[GrizzlyMan]

The one who said he's "an Arab".

McCain shakes head.....reaches for mic.

"He's not?" puzzled old woman asks in disbelief wondering where she is and what is happening. It was as if someone told her there was no Santa Claus.

I laughed out loud. Maybe in the top 10 funniest moments of the general.

[stolivodka]

1. It's funny until you realize that her faction is still in power.

Then it's kinda scary. :(

[Skidmore]

2. There's nothing funny about fear and ignorance, especially when it

manifests itself as bigotry.

[GrizzlyMan]

4. But that's the point

Here is this old woman with bad hair and preconceived notions and the candidate she is supporting denies her a moment in front of a room full of people for the sole purpose of some petty attempt to gain some political points. Classic! Saved to my HD forever.

[stolivodka]

12. Yeah, she probably busts her old hump working for his campaign..

..and in her moment of glory, her hero shoots her down and makes her an example of every ignorant racist voter in America.

Afterward, she stumbles off to be interviewed by some guy on youtube so that a bunch of other people can laugh and make fun of her.

The only way it could have been better is if someone stuck a "kick me" sign on her back as she ambled off. :p

[Doremus]

14. Bad hair is an understatement. It literally looks like someone hacked at it with a lawn mower. n/t

[Sodan]

36. How about McCain's ignorance - "no, he's a decent family man" - not an Arab - omfg,

[gauguin57]

48. Yeah, really! Why isn't the Arab Anti-Descrimination Committee all over McCain's ass?

"Sir, are you saying a person of Arab descent can't be a "decent family man and citizen"?

[jazzjunkysue]

62. So, I guess we know what the codeword "Arab" or "Muslim" means, now.

Thanks, John. For clearing that up.

[Bluebear]

3. She's Gayle Quinnel, and she learned Obama is an Arab "at the liberry". VIDEO >>>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XmerZEyHE

[GrizzlyMan]

6. Thanks for the link

Batshit crazy and senile to boot. A barrel of laughs.

[Bluebear]

8. "And I look up people in the phone book and send them my letter!"

:crazy:

[Milspec]

34. Batshit crazy and senile to boot....

But a member of a VERY active voting group. Get out the vote people.

[MrSlayer]

17. I love when they beat around the bush.

Just say you don't want to vote for a black man and get it over with.

[Cali_Democrat]

20. I've been looking for that

Thank you.

[catgirl]

28. Great. Her 5 kids and 7 grandkids think the same way

How do we break the mold?

[Sparkly]

41. I couldn't even watch the whole thing...

Incredible. :mad:

[PA Democrat]

50. I wonder if Ms. Quinnel is sending out those letters to people

with her crazy smears against Obama using McCain campaign resources? I hope someone can track this down because if campaign funds are being used to spread this sort of hatred born of complete idiocy, it needs to be reported.

[PA Democrat]

54. Transcript of the interview here:

http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/933/

[Morning Dew]

57. She says "He's still got some Muslim in him"

like religion is inherited.

Can you spell kook?

[annabanana]

59. Ignorance and Want

'Spirit. are they yours?' Scrooge could say no more.

'They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the
writing be erased. Deny it.' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.
And abide the end.'

[Blue Diadem]

61. Thank you Bluebear. I thought she was some harmless little old lady, she's not.

It's so easy to see her age and think she was just told something she believed when in reality she is actively spreading lies, hate and fear. Sending letters filled with lies out to 400 people she chose from the phone book? What an awful hateful thing for her to do.

[ps1074]

5. She is not funny

She is a volunter at the McCain Headquarters in Burnsville. She is sending letters to voters claiming Obama is a muslim arab terrorist. I don't think this is funny.

[GrizzlyMan]

11. I hope she mails out a LOT of letters

I can only imagine how inarticulate and poorly written they will be. She may single handedly cost McCain dozens of votes.

And the MOMENT was funny.

[lamp_shade]

7. That is so sad. That poor old lady. Why do I feel this way? n/t

[Dinger]

18. Me Too

Felt sorry for her.

[Drunken Irishman]

19. I feel sad too.

I really feel bad for her.

Too bad she's ignorant and not open to seeing the truth.

[magdalena]

25. I feel bad for her as well.

It's difficult for me to excuse ignorance, but for the past 7 years Bushco has been drilling TERRA!TERRA!TERRA!, 9/11, FEAR MUSLIMS into the American psyche. McLame and Barbie have been encouraging the public to draw these ridiculous associations between domestic TERRA! and Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Theres some dim bulbs out there and its no wonder that some pugs actually believe Obama is some radical Muslim (which = Arab to these folks) terrorist. I'm glad McLame corrected this woman, but shame on him for feeding her this bullshit misinformation in the first place.

[lumpy]

60. It is sad that people can pass into their 70s in a continual

fog of ignorance. No use feeling sorry for her, she is quite happy living in a state of fear.

[cyndensco]

65. It is sad opinions like hers exist.

Is she worthy of your pity though? Perhaps if she was closeting herself because she was afraid, I'd feel sorry for her. She is so impassioned by her views, though, she is comfortable spouting them at a rally, forwarding hate mail to people listed in the phone book and proudly passing her viewpoint on to her children and grandchildren.

I see her as small-minded and bigoted. People like her, IMO, do not deserve pity. Perhaps I cannot feel sorry for her because I take her hatred personally.

[Vinca]

9. That woman looked like she was out on a pass from the hospital.

Actually, most of the rest of the crowd did, too.

[Bluebear]

10. So does their loser candidate :)

[GrizzlyMan]

13. I'm thinking it's more like a mental hospital.

[Vinca]

15. I was trying to be politically correct, but that's what I meant.

:crazy:

[mwb970]

32. I'm glad to hear you mention the appearance of the crowd members.

I didn't want to say anything, but in those scenes with the "Arab" woman and the portly guy who's afraid for his unborn child, I couldn't help but notice the, um, un-attractiveness of a high percentage of the audience members visible in the shot.

Considering the rabid right-wing nuttery of the attendees at these slimefests, I'm wondering if this is the "hateful thoughts produce an ugly face" phenomenon that we see in Mean Jean Schmidt and other virulently wingnutty individuals.

[sammytko]

46. I had a bad thought about the "portly" guy -

was he the one having the baby - quite a belly on him - bad, I know...

[riverwalker]

16. The new face of the Republican Party

Not gonna let them run from her. Gayle Quinnell is their albratross. Their poster girl. She is Sarah Palin + 30 years.
Rub their faces in it.

[fasttense]

21. I think she was scary.

Not until that moment did I realize these people actually believe all the lies. Not only do they believe it, they elaborate on the lies, making up more outrageous and bizarre "facts" to go along with McCain's and Palin's hate rhetoric.

If they honestly believe all this crap, they are more likely to act on it.

It is very scary that in today's world, where more information is at your finger tips then ever before, there are people who chose to believe lies and distortions rather than give up their bigotry and hate.

[stolivodka]

22. The problem with our information age...

...is that's its easier than ever before to automagically filter all the information you receive so that your limited worldview is never challenged by unwelcome "outside" ideas.

You can watch news shows that only report on your preferred dogma. You can visit websites that only espouse your preferred dogma. You can also visit message forums and have free and open discussions that are strictly monitored to ruthlessly censor anything that doesn't perfectly agree with your preferred dogma.

In many ways, our brave new world of custom information management has the potential to expand ignorance to previously impossible and unimaginable heights (or is that lows?).

[lamp_shade]

23. Library? Horseshit. She's the vulnerable type that Rush Limbaugh feeds on and preaches to. n/t

[JBoy]

40. Yes, I call bullshit on the library.

[progressivebydesign]

44. I'm quite certain that someone has donated or bought Corsi's book for local libraries.

I've seen tons of those garbage books in libraries during election season. It's quite possible she read it there.. OR used the internets there, cuz she doesn't own one of them computer thingies.

[Youphemism]

24. As pathetic as she was, she did Obama a favor...

Up until that point, the McCain camp had been able to hide behind the (admittedly sorry) pretense that they weren't hearing the crowd comments, or that it was just an isolated wacko.

Then she grabbed the microphone and spoke those words right into McCain's face. He was forced to respond in the moment. That's not his strong suit.

The result was, he denounced what she said in a way that was much stronger than anything his Rovian buddies would have scripted for him. He got booed by his own crowd, and upset a lot of the hard-line base that he's been struggling so hard to get.

On the other side of the coin, he probably didn't convince many people that he's honorable, given the ads and the attacks by Palin and others.

He's sitting in the middle of a schizophrenia sandwich. Yesterday he promised crowd members that he'd take the Ayers attack to the next debate. Today, he's talking about being respectful.

It hardly matters what he says tomorrow. Either way, he contradicts himself and looks "erratic."

[Lisa0825]

56. Exactly. That was my first thought when I saw the clip.

No denying it now. It's staring him in the face.

[terip64]

26. She reminded me of Lucy when she would play a redneck character...

Funny on some levels but talk about being scary! That shit is scary!

I think it was a plant. I really do. Everything they do is so scripted, not necessarily smart or part of a plan but definitely staged.

[Historic NY]

27. Lots people out there like her, believe everything in print or on internet.

they don't believe in checking the facts out just pass it along. I bet she would buy the bridge I got for sale.

[catgirl]

30. And she works at the McCain Headquarters

Don't they refute this stuff to their volunteers? Sheesh.

[Historic NY]

38. Ignorance is bliss.

[MaineDem]

29. Not funny at all

Why would you laugh at this?

[ibegurpard]

31. I felt pity for her

that she would actually be in such fear over something so completely ridiculous was very sad.

[Lisa0825]

55. Me too.

In addition to feeling pity that she would be in fear, I think she was ill. She reminded me of my mother when she was in her last stages of COPD. She had a hard time getting words out because she wasn't getting enough oxygen to her brain. And even lifting her arms to brush her hair made her out of breath. I often saw my mom with the same bedhead look that that lady had.

[against all enemies]

33. I have to give McCain credit, he came to his senses for a moment.

[Sodan]

35. huh? Can't an Arab be a "decent family man" ?

[jules1962]

39. There are a lot of people like her.

I work at a Nascar track (yeah, I know) and one elderly lady told one of my workers that she was scared because there were two men that looked scary to her. They worked for a clean-up company. Why did they look scary? One was black and one was Indian.My response was that they were here doing a job and if she is that scared of people of color then maybe she should go home and hide. This really pissed me off. I guess that she thought that an official would remove them. Wrong. Yes, it happened in the south, but good grief, don't these people ever learn? There is no excuse for such ignorance. Demographics and age are not an excuse either. My parents and grandparents were all born and raised in the south and they never had that kind of attitude with people that looked different. I wish these people would get a clue.:grr:

[against all enemies]

42. Yes, but only if he is an Arab. What don't you get?

[progressivebydesign]

45. he was told to tone it down, his campaign continued their assualt yesterday to include Michelle. n/t

[StreetKnowledge]

66. Which michelle are we talking here?

If its Michelle Obama, they should be smacked. She's gonna be one of the three best first ladies this century. (Right with Hillary Clinton and Lady Bird Johnson.)

If its Michelle Malkin, go ahead, flame away.

[Bucky]

52. Oh absolutely. McCain's own supporters are scaring him.

He's a smart guy who made a few too many compromises to grasp at the brass ring.

[underpants]

37. Their hiearchy of disinformation is out of control and turning on them

these people go to hear McCain say the things they hear (or think they hear) everyday on talkradio and Fox. Much like someone going to see a band to one song-their big hit. When he doesn't (he IS supposed to take the highroad) they get upset.

Vicious little circle they have created. Much like diluting confidence in the "the media" and then not being able to use the media effectively.

More here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=392221&mesg_id=392221

[livedemocarticordie]

43. the back of that head

... looked like SIDE SHOW BOB from the SIMPSONS.

She did Barack a great lovely favor. I don't know any white people who want to look that scary stupid and ignorant..but then the ones I know are pretty cool, fairly enlightened and read whcih apparently Palin and followers do not do...I would venture to say that alot of undecideds fell over the fence to Barack after staring at that freak show of a rally..... good job Ethel...

[dkofos]

47. Nothing funny about it at all. It is sad that Americans can be that freakin IGNORANT.

[Phred42]

49. Gramp has dug a deep hole for himself

and the country

[Bucky]

51. How out of touch with reality are you to think the Democrats would nominate an Arab terrorist?

You'd have to be Limbaugh-level out of touch.

[Overseas]

53. So you thought it funny. It made me depressed by what the RNC has done.

To see that Republican older woman obviously confused by all the right wing rhetoric and flaming hatred they were splashing around. She knows she's supposed to hate the guy. She's trying to pick one of the vile reasons she's gotten via email or on the phone from friends. Grabs the word Arab because it sounds foreign and baaad to her.

Thank you Steve Schmidt, Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove.

[firedupdem]

58. She's not funny. Idiot people like that teach that shit to their children

and grandchildren. I didn't think she was funny at all.

[jazzjunkysue]

63. She's a wonderful spokesperson for the GOP. I'm sure they're loving that footage.

She's gonna sway alot of independent voters with 401K's tanking. yep. She's a true inspiration.

Now we know why Barack refused to do these town halls. It gets real wierd real fast.

[BuyingThyme]

64. No it wasn't. It was fucking hilarious.

It was the outing of Savage, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin...

The world is laughing with us (and at us).

[CountAllVotes]

67. kick

for others that have not seen this disgusting racist freak!

:kick:

[applegrove]

68. Very sad at how the GOP informs their supporters. Very sad they do that to them.