Pic Of The Moment: So... Voter ID Laws Have Nothing To Do With Suppressing The Vote, Huh?

[EarlG]

'The Daily Show' Gets GOP Spokesman To Admit Voter ID Laws Are Racist - video link

NC GOP Official fired after bragging voter ID law would "kick democrats' butt."

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[irisblue]

1. true, true, so true

those bastards

[pkdu]

2. Wow , the stupid is strong in this one !.......... Nt

[SoapBox]

3. Gee...another old, angry, white guy from the South.

Is there no end to Haters like him?

[Fawke Em]

5. Thankfully, they're dying out.

You should see the lengths of our obituary pages.

[callous taoboy]

13. Not so fast...

Saw a young white woman with a bumper sticker on her truck that read: "Love your race." Confederate flag decal next to it.

[progressoid]

15. They're not just in the South.

[coldmountain]

56. Just mostly in the South where Obama got less than half the white votes he got in the rest of the US

[blue14u]

51. Nope... no end

in sight sadly!!

I saw Rachel do a segment on this guy...

Unbelievable!!!

[Fawke Em]

4. Not only does he admit the laws are racist, he also admits he is too.

[JoePhilly]

6. The GOP's ID speaks freely.

[louis-t]

7. Repugs feel the need to punish people for imagined sins.

Bunch of sick people.

[saynotoplutocrats]

8. N.C. can’t afford health care for working people

N.C.'s GOP Governor says we can’t afford health care for working people via the Medicaid expansion, but he is spending zillions of tax dollars on lawyers to defend unconstitutional voter suppression laws. We need to finally let those cross-burning hillbillies up in the mountains secede from the Union (like they have been trying to do for the past 150 years), so the rest of the state can go back to Democratic government.

[johnlucas]

58. No succeeding from the Union. These are our states.

The states are fine. It's the people running them that have to go.
It's time to stamp out the remnants of the Confederacy.
Those traitors got a soft pass in the Civil War's aftermath & the result is this ignorance that plagues the country to this day.
Once they're politically stamped out, you will see so much progress happen in this country you won't believe it!

Keep North Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, & the rest.
Toss those old bitter hateful Confederate descendants trying to roll back the clock on the progress this country has made in the past 150 years.

No need to break up the country. Just break off the Confederate people.
They're contaminating good states. Clean up the contamination.
John Lucas

[saynotoplutocrats]

68. How?

How?

[johnlucas]

69. Progressive people must spread into these so-called Red States & take political command

Southern state North Carolina's on the teeter-totter thanks to the influx of college students & the overrun from Virginia which overruns from D.C.

Flocks & flocks of progressive people must move into these "conservative" states & transform the body politic.
Once that happens elect more & more Progressive people into office until those Confederate mentalities are the minority.
Make it socially shameful to have those Confederate mentalities on the local & interpersonal level (Confederate nostalgics can't get dates for instance).
That's how you kill that beast politically.

There must also be some kind of economic plan to make it easier for Progressive people to take root in some of these backwater towns.
Job opportunities are scarce in certain rural areas so it makes it uninviting to want to move to some parts of the South.

Linking up with Chocolate Cities is one surefire way to get an edge in these regions.
Blacks still make up a great portion of The South & when things get better for Blacks they can have more power to change these communities.
That overrun from D.C. I mentioned earlier.
A combination of the Blacks & other Progressive people are starting to challenge the old Confederate status quo in these regions.
What will happen to Georgia once the Blacks of Atlanta have more influence in the rest of the state?
What happens when Progressives link to the chocolate powerstations of Savannah?

The metropolis has always been what offsets much of that rural political backwardsness but Progressives can't just stay in the big cities all the time.
Once insane policies like "Right To Work" are ended & "The Union" is restored, then the change can begin.
A collection of diverse people united is what's needed to reverse the political tide.

Further west add in Latino Cities to the Chocolate Cities.
That's how Texas will make its change.
John Lucas

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. The funniest part of the interview was...

...when Manvi looked at this guy after he made the comment in the picture and asked the man, "You do know we can hear you right?"

[Little Star]

19. I laughed my butt of at that!

[Hekate]

22. Tied with Manvi rolling his eyes when the guy said "one of his best friends" etc.

Thank you forever, Rachel, for bringing us this clip!

[HughBeaumont]

10. Burl Ives needs to come back from the dead & smack the SHIT out of this ham hock.

For stealing his look.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. This guy is Burl Lap, typical GOP shit bag.

[BlueJazz]

34. I thought for a second he was gonna' break into "The big rock candy mountain"

[Coyotl]

11. He is not and never was an Exec Comm member. That mistake was retracted.

See the Huffington Post piece.

[Indi Guy]

12. Here's the video on youtube...

[Turborama]

59. Thanks a lot for posting this.

Genius ending, too.

[Snake Plissken]

16. It was an honest mistake

he thought the rest of the world is as stupid as the people inside his tea bagger foxnews bubble.

How could he possible know there are actually people out there who made it past the 3rd grade?

[Coyotl]

20. Interesting point. Fox News creates these people in many ways = self-destruction bubble.

I had not before considered how Fox is helping destroy the right in America, but this guy could be poster boy for the harm the Fox propaganda network does to the Republican brand.

[liberal N proud]

17. Yelton resigned on Thursday, but was unrepentant in an interview with the Asheville, N.C., Citizen-T

Buncombe County, N.C., GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell told WRAL.com that Yelton's statements were "offensive, uninformed and unacceptable of any member within the Republican Party."

Mitchell said in a press release, "Let me make it very clear, Mr. Yelton's comments do not reflect the belief or feelings of Buncombe Republicans, nor do they mirror any core principle that our party is founded upon. This mentality will not be supported or propagated within our party."

Yelton resigned on Thursday, but was unrepentant in an interview with the Asheville, N.C., Citizen-Times. "There's nothing I said that I would take back. So be it," he said.

He also claimed that the interview was edited from a two-hour discussion, and that the quotes were "cut and pasted" together by a show he already believed leaned to the political left.

"I knew going in what was going to happen, and nothing happened that I was surprised at," said Yelton. "If you and I disagree and we never communicate, are we ever going to accomplish anything?"
http://www.today.com/entertainment/daily-show-interview-leads-gop-official-resigning-over-offensive-remarks-8C11463044?Gt1=43001

[Hekate]

25. That's Bunkum County! since 1820!

bunkum, buncombe
1. empty talk; nonsense
2. Chiefly US empty or insincere speechmaking by a politician to please voters or gain publicity
~~~after Buncombe, a county in North Carolina, alluded to in an inane speech by its Congressional representative Felix Walker (about 1820)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bunkum

[noiretextatique]

18. welcome to 'post-racial' america!

[Brigid]

21. I knew this incident would make Pic of the Moment!

[Plucketeer]

23. Looks like Archie Bunker

with facial hair!

[Art_from_Ark]

60. Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) actually played a character with facial hair

on an episode of Wild, Wild West. He played a very crooked undertaker. The resemblance is amazing.

[Plucketeer]

64. Just WOW!

[ZRT2209]

24. he - and all of them - are dying to say they ordered the Code Red. Are proud of it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. Not the brightest bulb

Though maybe the most honest. The Dixiecrat takeover of the Republican party seems complete.

[SoutherDem]

27. Sadly I bet many feel he was just speaking the truth,

they probably think he is a hero along with Cruz and Bachmann.

[VanillaRhapsody]

52. I am from down there...I GuaranDamnty you..... there are millions of them...

they talk like this all the time...I have heard everything he is saying hundreds of times...

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. I'd like to see this guy get skin dyed

I guess I shouldn't be advocating this but I'd really like to see how he'd deal with it, if there was a way to restrain him and apply some kind of dye that won't wash off, or wear off (at least for a long time). Force him to walk around in society and have to deal with what he is dishing out so casually.

[nyquil_man]

29. But one of his best friends...

is...

black.

[radicalliberal]

30. Well, what have we here?

The poster boy of the party of Jesse Helms and other unrepentant segregationists.

[yuiyoshida]

31. I would love to say something right now....

but not in polite company... この人は私に頭痛を与える Kono hito wa watashi ni zutsū o ataeru. Hontodesu.

[Art_from_Ark]

61. He really is a pain in the...

head, isn't he?

[yuiyoshida]

62. that and the nether regions as well.

[ErikJ]

32. 1 Voter fraud out of 60,000 votes?

I think it's even much less than that in Texas.

[Initech]

33. Has this asshole not heard of the 15th amendment?

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.[1]

I swear the kind of hate these psychos spew on a daily basis has to be a mental disorder.

[red dog 1]

37. Excellent point!

I wonder if the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has ever heard of the 15th Amendment?

If I'm not mistaken, they are the ones responsible for all the voter ID legislation in GOP dominated state legislatures.

[Initech]

40. I have a theory that the people who claim to "love" the constitution...

Like the teabaggers do, actually don't know a damn thing about it.

[mtnester]

35. When I watched this, I thought it was a spoof or a skit....and when it dawned on me it was real

I was speechless...simply stunned

[Bill USA]

36. this should be mentioned in comments all over the internet (many sites now allow links in comments)

recommended!

[red dog 1]

38. Thanks EarlG for another great post!

The only part of this that surprises me is that they actually fired his ass.

[enki23]

39. Imagine what the piece of shit says in private, among his own people.

[William769]

41. Kick & recommended.

[ReRe]

42. K&R

Call 'em out, EarlG!

Call a spade a spade. I think it's the biggest problem of the Democratic Party: The inability or lack of BRAVERY to stand up and call a spade a spade. Democrats have been cowards over the years, afraid to stand up and name the evil. Name and call out "bad" when we hear it and see it. Noooooooo. What we seem to do is stand up and call out the ones who ARE brave enough to call a spade a spade.

As evidenced when Debbie Wasserman-Shultz called out Alan Grayson for his burning cross "T"ea Party KKK photo. As even Martin Bashir did this afternoon on his MSNBC show! Look it... If you are a Democrat, and you have a brain and eyes in your head, you KNOW that Alan Grayson was right when he called out the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party for exactly what they have displayed for almost four years now: Blatant political racism against the President of the United States!

Republicans have gotten away with their hateful racist denigrating demoralizing speech and mindset towards the less fortunate ever since Ronald Reagan's second presidential campaign in 1984. And I think it is high time for Democrats to bring the Republicon propaganda to a screeching halt here and now. Stand up and call them out, Democrats!

Again, thank you EarlG!!!!!

[Cha]

43. Oh yelton yelton yelton! Why does the word

"greed" come to mind when I look at his pic?

thanks for highlighting this dumbass, EarlG

[kentuck]

44. I question whether it is good to give him more and more attention??

He's a bigot and he admits it. That means he is an idiot and doesn't deserve the attention he is getting. Why is it important to let people know that there are bigots in North Carolina, in the United States of America, in the South, and in the GOP??

I suppose it could be argued that the more exposure for such behavior, the better??

[Cha]

45. I just realized.. Yelton is the poster monster for VOTER ID LAW

SUPPRESSION!

[TeamPooka]

46. The sad part is it takes a Comedy Show on a Comedy Network to do the real work reporters should be

doing themselves.
Just sad for the state of the press and journalism in the USA.
They have a Constitutional amendment of their own and everything.
What a waste....

[rocktivity]

47. Are we going to have look at his face ALL WEEKEND?

Cruel and unusual punishment!


rocktivity

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

48. This absolutely blows my mind.

I'm a 59 year old white man from North Carolina who has lived in Virginia for years. I have always voted Democratic, twice for Obama. We're not all like this goober Yelton. However, I've know the specie all my life and they often believe they are being clever with their remarks but are just being plain stupid. I should live long enough to see their ilk disappear from this planet, probably won't though.

[backscatter712]

49. I hope the DOJ has a copy of that video.

On top of the ignant racism, this is a flat-out admission that he's implementing the Southern Strategy, straight out of Lee Atwater's notes.

[MADem]

50. If I gave a shit about that bigoted turd,

I'd tell him to back away from the buffet, go easy on the ribs and corn bread and mac-n-cheese, but since I don't think much of his sorry ass, he might as well eat up....hell, have seconds!

And don't sign up for the ACA either, the sorry jerk....

[blue14u]

53. Thanks for posting this

EarlG... We need to call everyone of them out..

There are more of us than them....

Go Vote every chance you get... We need our Democrats

to be strong!!!!

Go Grayson!!!!

[blkmusclmachine]

54. Keep people from voting: The Republican Strategy for "winning."

[IronLionZion]

55. Good that he got fired, but are they going to repeal the law?

Does anyone know the status on that?

[marble falls]

57. But its not racism, right? Thank goodness these Teabillies say whatever they want ....

I hope they never ever shut up. We need them all to identify themselves.

[Mosaic]

63. Good to see this vile racist lose his job

[ffr]

65. To give the guy credit, he was being honest.

The man says what he feels. You don't find that in many elected Republicons. They cloak their dark sides from public view, which is why we see the ugliness from their supporters.

[Initech]

66. You know what this guy sounds like?

[paparush]

67. Ah Asheville. Our tiny island of progressiveness...

floating in a sea of racist, gay-hating, gun-toting, Neanderthals.