'Sounds like a racist to me': Tuberville buried by congressman for remarks on military

[turbinetree]

By David Edwards
Published September 28, 2023 12:01PM ET

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) "sounds like a racist" after he declared the Department of Defense was not an equal-opportunity employer.

During an interview with Bloomberg this week, Tuberville explained why he had voted against confirming Air Force Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown Jr. as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"I heard some things that he talked, about race and things that he wanted to mix into the military," Tuberville said of the Black officer. "Let me tell you something: Our military is not an equal-opportunity employer."

https://www.rawstory.com/sounds-like-a-racist-to-me-tuberville-buried-by-dem-congressman-for-bigoted-remarks/

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"So to me, this senator is very soft on national security," Moulton said. "He's very weak on patriotism."

"And you know, maybe we're not supposed to say this, but he sounds like a racist to me," he added. "Hard to imagine this guy from Alabama being a racist, but that's certainly what it sounds like to this Marine."

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. This Marine too.

[ananda]

41. This non-Marine too.

Walks like a.... talks like a....

[CrispyQ]

2. "And you know, maybe we're not supposed to say this, but he sounds like a racist to me."

It's past time to start saying it, so thank you, Rep Moulton!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Racist remarks come from a racist.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Of course Tommy Tuberville IS A RACIST

He’s told us so and has shown us so.


We just have to start publicly stating it out loud.

[BComplex]

5. I love the way he worded that!

"Hard to imagine this guy from Alabama being a racist, but that's certainly what it sounds like to this Marine."
No shit!

And yes, Tuberville IS soft on national security, and weak on patriotism.

[Recycle_Guru]

12. awesomely quotable

[LiberalArkie]

22. He can't be expected to know anything, he is a coach.

[Caliman73]

6. Great way of putting it.

I love that... "sounds like a racist to me". It avoids the whole debate of "you don't know what is in his mind..." argument that the right loves to put out when you say that someone "Is a Racist".

it SOUNDS like a racist. You just said something that someone we would call a racist would say... you need to respond to it.

Similar to, I didn't call you a Nazi, I am just point out that A LOT of people who say they are Nazis or support the Nazis, LOVE the things you say and support you because you sound like one of them.

It makes people have to look at their ACTIONS and WORDS rather than hiding behind the , "he called me a Nazi/Racist/Misogynist etc..."

We know logically or we infer... that if you have a lifetime of say, calling Black people "ni**er", discriminating against Black people, using other slurs, etc... you are likely a racist. But, because we do not have the ability to read someone's mind, we cannot with 100% certainty, say they are at their essence, racist. Again, framing it on "From what you say, the people that support you, what you do...etc, it looks A LOT like what a racist would do, say, associate with, etc..

Good job Rep Moulton!

[Marcuse]

7. "Our military is not an equal-opportunity employer."

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. What else would you expect

out of a pig but a grunt? Or a dumb football coach from South Alabummer, which as I remind you, is a shit school.

[misanthrope]

14. Tuberville isn't "from South Alabama"

He is a native Arkansan who attended college at Southern State College in Magnolia, Arkansas. He went on to coach at Hermitage High School, the University of Miami (Florida), Texas A&M University, the University of Mississippi, Auburn University in east-central Alabama near the Georgia state line, Texas Tech University, and the University of Cincinnati.


He never lived in southern Alabama, nor is he affiliated with the University of South Alabama.

[JoseBalow]

17. He currently resides in a Florida beachfront mansion

NOT in the state he represents

Tuberville’s office says his primary residence is an Auburn house that records show is owned by his wife and son. But campaign finance reports and his signature on property documents indicate that his home is actually a $3 million, 4,000-square-foot beach house he has lived in for nearly two decades in Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., located in the Florida Panhandle about 90 miles south of Dothan.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/tuberville-faces-difficult-new-questions-lives-rcna99417

[Jilly_in_VA]

18. He was their football coach.

Nuff said.

[misanthrope]

24. Tommy Tuberville never coached at the University of South Alabama

It is a matter of record.

[paleotn]

31. Ummm, I don't think that's what the commenter meant.

FROM South Alabummer doesn't mean coach OF South Alabama. Now you get an F for reading comprehension. No worries though. I get them all the time.

[Jilly_in_VA]

37. Well it's what *I* meant

and I'm sticking to it. Besides, he's the senator FROM Alabummer, and a very junior one at that. Living in FloriDUH doesn't excuse him. And South Alabummer is a shit school, as everybody in the Sun Belt (except those from Southern Missishitty like Bret Favre) knows!

[paleotn]

42. See! Now I get an F for reading comprehension.

[multigraincracker]

23. Well he does have a BS degree

in high school phys ed.
wonder what his GPA was?

[lastlib]

29. I'll bet he made the top half of his class......

possible.

It's notable that in his college and professional life, they didn't let him play with subatomic particles.....

[paleotn]

28. Pig Nuts Arkansas or south Alabama. I'm really not seeing the distinction.

But, I'll give you an A for facts, even if they are irrelevant.

[gratuitous]

9. Hey! Sen. Tuberville doesn't have a racist bone in his body

It's his brain (bone-free, presumably) that thinks nobody could possibly be better-qualified for anything than any random White man. That passes as a #sciencefact in the Senator's world.

But don't just take my word for it; witness the thundering silence with which Senate Republicans have responded to their colleague's remarks.

[Jilly_in_VA]

19. What brain? n/t

[lastlib]

30. Brain (bone-free)? IDK....

he sounds/acts like a bonehead to me.....

[Warpy]

10. Maybe Tuberville needs to move his Klanner self to Russia

but even they are pressing brown and black men into service since the white guys keep getting slaughtered because Putin loyalists in charge of the military don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Go on, Tuberville, I double dog dare ya.

[moondust]

11. Agree. n/t

[Seinan Sensei]

13. Tub the tater-head is racist. And sexist, too.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. did this fool ever serve in the military.

[usonian]

16. Not in OUR armed forces, however ...

[sprinkleeninow]

39. Lookin' dobre comrade!

[4lbs]

20. I'd like to hear from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin,

Lt. General Nadja West, US Army

Major General Marcia Anderson, US Army

Major General Fred Gorden, US Army

General Charles Brown Jr., of the USAF,

Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the US Navy,

and a host of others on this matter.


Those are all technically part of the DoD. Only the US Coast Guard is not.

[djacq]

21. 24 Years, USAF Retired MSgt

As an African American, I'm living proof and a witness that our military is an equal-opportunity employer.

Tube-ville is talking out of his ass.

[alfredo]

25. Before the 60's African Americans didn't get a fair shake.

When I was assigned to Kagnew Station in east Africa. The first African American was serving his first tour. The radio station only played country, no rock, no soul, no jazz.

Because of our mission it was feared that blacks would side with fellow Africans. The base didn’t include blacks in orientation. The presenter was not kind to the locals.

https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Do-You-Betrayed-African/dp/0060780932 There’s a whole chapter dealing with us young soldiers stationed in Asmara

[paleotn]

33. Before the 60's, a black person could easily get lynched in most of the south.

By my time in the Navy, early 80's, the US military was the most integrated part of American society. Still is in many respects.

[alfredo]

26. Before the 60's African Americans didn't get a fair shake.

When I was assigned to Kagnew Station in east Africa. The first African American was serving his first tour. The radio station only played country, no rock, no soul, no jazz.

Because of our mission it was feared that blacks would side with fellow Africans. The base didn’t include blacks in orientation. The presenter was not kind to the locals.

https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Do-You-Betrayed-African/dp/0060780932 There’s a whole chapter dealing with us young soldiers stationed in Asmara

[maxrandb]

36. In 1993, African Americans assigned to PRECOMUNIT KEARSARGE in Pascagoula, MS

Were advised of places they could not go in Pascagoula.

There were also several businesses off-limits, including a barbershop that refused to cut AA hair.

This was, again, 1993!

[alfredo]

43. That's near an Army base.

My sister lived there with her husband. The county was dry, so my sis ran a small bootlegging enterprise.

I did my basic in Ft Jackson. They were hostile toward African Americans and anyone that fraternized with them.

[aggiesal]

27. Tuberville is Irony Deficient ...

The military along with all other public government agency, are all equal-opportunity employers.

He took too many hits to his head when he played football as a safety for the Muleriders.

[paleotn]

32. What a dumb piece of excrement. He embodies what's wrong with so many things...

Power conference, FBS athletics, modern republicanism and evilgelical religion all rolled into one stinking piece of shit.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. How did this idiot coach college football?

You deal with quite a few minorities at that level.

[LoisB]

35. "sounds like a racist"? "When they show you who they are, believe them the first time".

Tuberville IS a racist pig (apology to pigs).

[sprinkleeninow]

38. Say it! Say it loud and often! eom

[edisdead]

40. And to this squid!

[Skittles]

44. WTF

TUBERVILLE NEVER SPENT ONE FUCKING DAY IN A MILITARY UNIFORM, HE NEEDS TO SIT DOWN AND STFU

[Demovictory9]

45. Tuberville is an ass