Monday, April 18, 2011

Mediaite-GOP Official: President Obama Is From the Planet of the Apes


(Story reported by Frances Martel for Mediaite)

Today’s installment of “heinous, unacceptable racism disguised as ‘jokes’” features a Republican official on Orange County, California, President Obama, and monkeys in photoshop. GOP official Marilyn Davenport is coming under fire for sending other Republican officials an email depicting President Obama as a chimpanzee, in the arms of chimpanzee “parents,” claiming, “Now you know why– no birth certificate! [sic].” Davenport is sticking to her guns, blaming the media for making too much of a fuss.

Among Davenport’s detractors (including, one would hope, “everyone else”), local news station KCAL caught up with former California Republican chairman Michael Schroder, who correctly posited: “no average person would send this out and feel comfortable with this, that this was just a joke.” Then again, Schroder also notes Davenport doesn’t come into this embarrassment with a clean slate– among the people in Orange County Republican politics she has defended are an official who sent an email with an illustration of the White House covered in watermelons and an official who opposed the installation of grass near beaches on the point that “grass attracts Mexicans.”

(Click here to read the full story on the Mediaite website.)

1 comment:

Glenn said...

It must be too much for Obama and too rude for GOP but heck, if I'd be Obama, I would definitely ignore this one which would just be saying like he doesn't have time to talk to other apes too for he's a busy President.

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