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Sat Jul-11-09 05:19 PM
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The GOP's Young Hatemonger : More Racist Online Comments From Young Republican Candidate Found |
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The GOP's Young Hatemonger by John Avlon Audra Shay, accused of endorsing racism on Facebook, became head of the Young Republicans on Saturday. John Avlon uncovers new details about her disturbing online comments. Thirty-eight-year-old Audra Shay’s campaign to become the next chairman of the Young Republicans went from obscure to infamous over the past week, after The Daily Beast revealed details of posts of her Facebook account. Specifically, a thread where one of her friends posts that “Obama Bin Lauden is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side … need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals,” and Shay responds eight minutes later with: “You tell em Eric! lol.”
Following those revelations, several Young Republican colleagues urged Shay to remove herself from tomorrow’s election at the group’s convention in Indianapolis—a request Shay, the favorite going in to the vote, has pointedly refused. Instead, she said that she was responding to an earlier post from her friend, and labeled criticism against her “political attacks” which “proves that my opponents will stoop to the lowest levels to steal this election from the jaws of victory.”
Now, The Daily Beast has obtained more troubling details about her online musings—despite clear attempts by Shay to scrub her social-networking pages clean. Specifically:
* In October 2008, in the wake of news that an effigy of Sarah Palin was being hung outside an affluent Hollywood home as an offensive Halloween decoration, Shay replied, returning to the “LOL” style that she employed after the “coons” comment: “What no ‘Obama in a noose? Come on now, its just freedome of speech, no one in Atlanta would take that wrong! Lol.”
She picked up the thread again the next morning with a clarification and a new insight. “Apparently I could not spell last night. I am wondering if the guys with the Palin noose would care if we had a bunch of homosexuals in a noose.”
* Posting and endorsing a conspiracy-theory video that attempts to prove that Obama believes he can only “ensure his own salvation” and “fate” if he helps African Americans above whites, complete with Barnum-esque captions (“LISTEN AS HE ATTACKS WHITE PEOPLE”).
* Numerous posts in which Shay says that President Obama is “anti-American” and has “disdain of this country.”
Collectively her comments are products of an increasingly common GOP mind-set I call Obama Derangement Syndrome, the right-wingers’ version of a virulent strain of obsessive presidential hatred that many liberals exhibited during the Bush years. Symptoms include comparing the president to Hitler and ascribing to him every evil and unconstitutional intention imaginable. It is accompanied by the belief that such a partisan fever is patriotic.
A friend of Shay’s named Derick Moss soon weighed in, writing: “Here's what I am getting tired of: If you call Obama a socialist, terrorist, anti-American, whatever, then you're kinda calling me that, too, cause I voted for him and support him (for the most part). Or, you can claim that I didn't really know what I voted for, and in doing so you're kinda saying I'm ignorant and questioning my intelligence…”
Three minutes later, in response to Moss’ suggestion for rational discourse, Shay replied: “I think that you are ignorant if you believe this man is anything but anti american. He freely rights about Marxist philosophies. I never called him a terrorist, but if his policies are socialist (which they are) then what would you call him? His actions speak very loudly and his actions are very anti american. You just can not get past it. You might not like it but the truth is what it is.”
read more here http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-10/the-gops-young-hatemonger/
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:21 PM
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1. she's neither young or smart |
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Sat Jul-11-09 08:57 PM
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16. I was thinking the same thing! 38 years old and in YOUNG Republicans?? |
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Good grief!
But come to think of it, for Republicans 38 is somewhat embryonic. I guess when you compare it to the 70+ year olds they usually put front and center.
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:21 PM
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2. Awww. Isn't it cute? She spells just like a Freeper, too! |
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Her family must be oh, so proud!
:sarcasm:
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:23 PM
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4. "Her family must be oh, so proud!" - Actually, I assume they are... |
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Being a worthless racist piece of shit doesn't come from nowhere, after all.
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:21 PM
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3. Obviously that's yet more undeniable proof that black folks are racist. |
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Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 05:22 PM by BlooInBloo
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Sat Jul-11-09 07:43 PM
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14. Yes, and 'reverse racism' is the biggest problem facing the nation. eom |
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:23 PM
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5. In Ms. Shay's case, 38 is the new 14. |
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:24 PM
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6. Further proof that two "rights" can't make a sentence. - n/t |
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Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 05:25 PM by lapfog_1
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:36 PM
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7. So the next generation of |
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Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 05:45 PM by AsahinaKimi
Michelle Bachmann's or Sarah Palin's ? Yeh.. I bet she will get far in the GOP. All she needs is one fund raising dinner party and a Sleazy Republican Senator to sit next to her, put his hand on her thigh, and shes in! Limbaugh would go nuts over her. So would Michael Savage! She's one step away from a spot on FOX and FRIENDS. The face of things to come...
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Sat Jul-11-09 05:43 PM
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8. Do this people even know what Marxist philosophies are about? |
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or what socialism is? Are they just regurcitating opinions from Joe the Plummer's Conservative Academy.
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Sat Jul-11-09 06:16 PM
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9. The one at my work thinks Marxism is a form of government...I shit you not. |
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"Oh so it's not an instrument of political and social analysis that anyone can use regardless of political background?" says I...
Crickets?
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Sun Jul-12-09 05:18 PM
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21. It's whatever one happens to dislike, obviously. (nt) |
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Sat Jul-11-09 06:19 PM
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10. She is no longer a candidate, she won! |
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Sat Jul-11-09 07:07 PM
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11. She'll fit well with Michael Steele, the Newtster, Palin and the rest... |
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Sat Jul-11-09 07:34 PM
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12. isn't she a little old to be a "Young republican"? |
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I mean, Joe Biden was a veteran Senator by the time he was 38. I don't get when middle-aged qualifies as young to a Republican, unless they're continuing on their MILF fantasies, started with Palin.
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Sat Jul-11-09 07:38 PM
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13. I bet when they celebrate everyone is wearing a white hood |
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and carries a torch...what stupid fuckers; repukes are disgusting.
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Sat Jul-11-09 07:45 PM
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15. I'm 41 and a Marxist - Can I run for the leadership of the "Young" Dems? |
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Or do I have to wait unitil I'm 50?
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Sat Jul-11-09 09:28 PM
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17. It's been 6 months, when do those Marxist Obama policies start? |
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or dare I say she was w r o n g
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Sun Jul-12-09 04:08 PM
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18. No wonder their party is so full of old people |
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if 38 is a "young republican"...
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Sun Jul-12-09 04:20 PM
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19. 38 is young? Who knew. And has she heard of the hyphen? Guess not. nt |
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Sun Jul-12-09 05:13 PM
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20. How is she considered young? She's 38, and looks 48! Also, she is a racist idiot. |
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Sun Jul-12-09 05:34 PM
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22. 38 IS young for a Republican. n/t |
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