This weekend, we got to see why the OC has such labels.
Orange County might be a beautiful oceanfront locale, but it's also home to Holocaust deniers, vicious anti-gay bigots and freakish big-haired televangelists.
Here, one of our Republican politicians welcomed the inauguration of the first African American U.S. president in early 2009 by sending out an email that depicted a watermelon field in front of the White House.
That incident drew embarrassing international attention, but now another Orange County Republican has apparently topped the watermelon imagery with another racist attack on President Barack Obama.
The Weekly has obtained a copy of an email sent to fellow conservatives this week by Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party.Under the words, "Now you know why no birth certificate," there's an Obama family portrait showing them as apes.
"I simply found it amusing regarding the character of [President Barack] Obama and all the questions surrounding his origin of birth," Davenport wrote. "In no way did I even consider the fact he's half black when I sent out the email. In fact, the thought never entered my mind until one or two other people [Scott Baugh, Orange County GOP boss, and this writer] tried to make this about race . . . I received plenty of emails about George Bush that I didn't particularly like yet there was no 'cry' in the media about them . . . That being said, I will NOT resign my central committee position over this matter that the average person knows and agrees is much to do about nothing."
Well, you should resign and you may have no choice as the story goes on the news later tonight.
More to come on this
4 comments:
I saw this a few minutes ago and I'm absolutely disgusted, but not surprised, by this behavior. I've never thought of the OC as a race-friendly place.
I saw this too. Absolutely horrible.
"United we stand divided we fall". This is the message that the enemy is sending out to other countries. After seeing this pic I will be looking forward to the new planet of the apes movie. I hope the apes kill all repukes in the movie. Freedom of speech has its price. Alot of these haters forget that attacking our president you attack his followers. KILL THE BITCH!
People like Marilyn and the other verbal gaffers in Orange County drift further from reality daily. In Costa Mesa, there's a revolt against four city councilmen. The councilmen got "a taste of Wisconsin" and decided to cut half the city workforce. One worker jumped to his death the day that he received his notice. What did the Councilmen do? Party at one of their buddy's Irish bars on St. Patrick's Day!
Demography and stupidity like this is going to come crashing down hard on the local GOP here, and they are going to flip the freak out.
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