The Everlasting Phelps

“I don’t think they were doing it, like, to be malicious or whatever. They were just in the moment where they weren’t really thinking right because they were so angry,” said student Jenny Sincere.

Well, I believe her.

It still exists.  It’s just not white people doing it anymore.

American Flag With President Obamas Image Sparks Outrage At Florida Democrats.

File this under “duh.”

An American flag with President Obama’s image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county’s Democrat headquarters long enough to enrage local veterans who called the altered banner “a disgrace.”

Take a look:

They honestly don’t understand why this is chilling.

It’s fascist.  There’s no other word.  It is a cult of personality.  It’s no different than Mussolini.

We elect Presidents.  We don’t elect God-Kings, which is what this is.  He’s a man.  A very flawed man.  He doesn’t belong on any national symbols.  Maybe, in 20-50 years, if his legacy stands the test of time, he may go on some money.  That’s it. His face doesn’t belong anywhere else.

Hurlbert said Tuesday’s incident was the first time anyone had complained about the flag, which she received as a gift two months ago.

“It leads me to believe that it’s not about the flag,” she told FoxNews.com. “Certain elements cannot accept Barack Obama as president.”

No.  You are completely and totally wrong.  We accept him as the President — and nothing else.  Not a god.  Not a messiah.  Not an icon.  Not a deified creature.  He’s a just a man doing a job.  He isn’t to be worshiped.

This whole “cannot accept Obama as president” is another bullshit “Republicans are racist” dog whistle.  Take your racism accusation, wrap it up in that shoddy cheap flag, and shove it straight up your ass.  These race pimps need to be called out on this bullshit.

This is completely and totally tone-deaf.  I really hope that they keep flying this flag, and fly it over every democrat office and rally.  Nothing would cement Obama’s defeat in November more solidly.

There are so many unforced errors here that it’s exacerbating.  I was already done after Cain’s “I won’t have any filthy Muslims in my administration” creed test.  Now, there’s this.

Here’s the rundown.  The Washington Post ran a hit piece on Perry that said that his parents rented a hunting lease that once had a rock naming it Niggerhead at the entrance, and that Perry says that as soon soon as his dad saw it in 1983-84 (hard to remember the exact year nearly three decades later) it was painted over.  Even later than that, Perry started using the lease and took lawmakers there.  Some of those lawmakers now allegedly claim, anonymously, two decades later, that they remember seeing it.  (Seeing it painted over but not completely hidden.)

The WaPo hit piece claims that Perry is racist because… some other people around there still call it Niggerhead.  Oooooookay.

Cain goes even further than that.

“My reaction is, that’s just very insensitive,” Cain told Fox. “[There] isn’t a more vile, negative word than the N-word, and for him to leave it there as long as he did, before I hear that they finally painted over it, is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country.”

My problem isn’t that Cain is calling Perry racist.  He isn’t.  Insensitive is a different charge.  My problem is that Cain is wrong.  He didn’t “leave it there.”  In fact, Amanpour corrects him on that.

That brings me to my first big complaint.  What the fuck is Cain doing giving an interview to Christaine Amanpour?  She’s not a journalist.  Hasn’t been for a long time.  She’s a liberal pundit hiding in a journalist suit.  She’s not there to “interview” you.  She’s there to either attack you, or use you as a means to attack other conservatives.  That’s it.  Don’t go on her show.  Plus she’s an idiot — and if she still has a better grasp of the facts than you, then that’s a Very Bad Sign.

Honestly, any time you are attacking another Republican and she’s defending that Republican, especially Rick Perry, you are way, way off the reservation.  Klaxons should have been sounding in your head.

The second complaint is, why hasn’t anyone noted that when all of this is supposedly happening, Rick Perry was a Democrat?  These visits where lawmakers supposedly saw this rock was when he was Ag Sec for Ann Richards, not GWB.  Those would have been Democrat lawmakers out there turning a blind eye to the Niggerhead rock.

The story I take from this is that you can have a hunting lease at a place called Niggerhead and take other lawmakers there with impunity, as long as you are a Democrat.  But if you change to the Republican Party, all of the sudden you are a Certified Racist™.

Man, those Democrats still get pissed when light-skinned folks try to pass as white.

So, the idea that one race is genetically superior to another is something that is genetically isolated to white people.

Got it.

Update: The video was apparently pulled down.  This is a shorter version, cued to the most idiotic part.

However, in open court today, after every considerate attempt to discuss the matter further, one of the speakers shot off a racial slur. “Chief Moolah” has its roots in a slang that was used against Italian immigrants and was later used by the same to defame or discredit African Americans. The speaker continued to use terms like “tribal” and his intent to make race an issue was obvious. “Nigger” is “Nigger,” spoken overtly or incognito.

Can we get the Commissioner a psychiatric evaluation, because Price is hearing voices in his head.