NH Official: "That N***** In The Whitehouse

[Boom_70]

Hope this is not a DB. Checked etc etc

Big controversy in Wolfeboro NH ( summer home of Mitt Romney)
The police commissioner was overheard in a local restaurant referring
to Obama with the N word.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2014/05/18/ddd9aa1e-dede-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html

 

[LongTimeListener]

As the chief says, Obama does meet and exceed the criteria.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Is the commish going to have to pay a fine and sell the police force?

 

[YankeeFan]

The Washington Post considered Kermit Gosnell, the most prolific serial killer in American history, to be a "local crime story".

But, someone, somewhere, referred to the President using the N-word and that's news?

 

[zagoshe]

Come on YF - you know the score, this is America, where whiny assholes are more concerned about being offended than being assaulted or murdered.....

I can't wait until the death penalty and a March on Washington are ordered after someone is in a bar and utters, "boy I am glad the Rams finally cut that F-word (rhymes with bag it)....."

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Come on YF - you know the score, this is America, where whiny assholes are more concerned about being offended than being assaulted or murdered.....

I can't wait until the death penalty and a March on Washington are ordered after someone is in a bar and utters, "boy I am glad the Rams finally cut that F-word (rhymes with bag it)....."

Spell it out, coward.

 

[zagoshe]

Come on YF - you know the score, this is America, where whiny assholes are more concerned about being offended than being assaulted or murdered.....

I can't wait until the death penalty and a March on Washington are ordered after someone is in a bar and utters, "boy I am glad the Rams finally cut that F-word (rhymes with bag it)....."

Spell it out, coward.

No way, we are a nation that has criminalized words and made people so scared that we have created special categories of words so bad, we must use an abbreviation.... "The N-Word!!!"" EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL

 

[Big Circus]

The Washington Post considered Kermit Gosnell, the most prolific serial killer in American history, to be a "local crime story".

But, someone, somewhere, referred to the President using the N-word and that's news?

Does the Post not attempt to be the paper of record for the D.C. political establishment? Remind me again where Barack Obama currently lives and works?

(That's mostly devil's advocate on my part. There are no doubt hundreds of retrograde assholes saying similar things about the president every day, including elected officials. Don't know why this one is national news.)

Also, did the Post actually use the "local news" explanation WRT Gosnell? I know it was discussed here in that way, but I wasn't aware that they'd actually said that.

 

[Boom_70]

Maybe the Wolfeboro PD will refuse to direct traffic until Copeland
resigns.

 

[YankeeFan]

Also, did the Post actually use the "local news" explanation WRT Gosnell? I know it was discussed here in that way, but I wasn't aware that they'd actually said that.

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/04/11/Post-Reporter-Gosnell-is-Just-a-Local-Crime-Story

 

[MisterCreosote]

Also, did the Post actually use the "local news" explanation WRT Gosnell? I know it was discussed here in that way, but I wasn't aware that they'd actually said that.

Believe it or not, it sure did. Yeesh.

When I described the case of abortion provider Kermit Gosnell on Twitter last month as a local crime story, I was clearly wrong. The egregious and horrifying crimes committed in the physician's West Philadelphia abortion clinic have become a matter of national attention.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/15/the-gosnell-case-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

All I'll say about the OP is there's a racist in every nook and cranny of this country. The fact that it's an elected official who then doubled down when called on it makes it pretty newsworthy. Let him own it.

“I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,” Copeland said in a subsequent e-mail to his fellow police commissioners, which he forwarded to O’Toole. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”

 

[Big Circus]

Thanks, YF and MC. Hadn't seen that. And it is cringeworthy.

 

[YankeeFan]

I think the guy should be drummed out of public office both for what he said, and for doubling down on it.

I just find it funny that the Washington Post is sending a reporter to knock on the guy's door.

Really? If Mitt Romney didn't own a house in this hamlet, no one would have ever heard of it.

I would venture that every hour of every day, someone, somewhere is referring to the President using the N-word. It's silly that the WaPo is treating this as national news.

 

[YankeeFan]

The only thing Bill left out was the N-word, but he's the most respected Democrat in the country:

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.

"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."

The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.

After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, "the only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-clinton-told-ted-kennedy-obama-coffee-years-game-change-article-1.197492#ixzz32Az82pG6

 

[Boom_70]

The only thing Bill left out was the N-word, but he's the most respected Democrat in the country:

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.

"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."

The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.

After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, "the only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-clinton-told-ted-kennedy-obama-coffee-years-game-change-article-1.197492#ixzz32Az82pG6

Harry Reid got close: WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid apologized on Saturday for saying the race of Barack Obama – whom he described as a "light skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one" – would help rather than hurt his eventual presidential bid.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Come on YF - you know the score, this is America, where whiny assholes are more concerned about being offended than being assaulted or murdered.....

I can't wait until the death penalty and a March on Washington are ordered after someone is in a bar and utters, "boy I am glad the Rams finally cut that F-word (rhymes with bag it)....."

Spell it out, coward.

No way, we are a nation that has criminalized words and made people so scared that we have created special categories of words so bad, we must use an abbreviation.... "The N-Word!!!"" EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL

But you're the Internet tough guy, unafraid of everything, ready to show everyone who is really the boss.

 

[Big Circus]

Come on YF - you know the score, this is America, where whiny assholes are more concerned about being offended than being assaulted or murdered.....

I can't wait until the death penalty and a March on Washington are ordered after someone is in a bar and utters, "boy I am glad the Rams finally cut that F-word (rhymes with bag it)....."

Spell it out, coward.

No way, we are a nation that has criminalized words and made people so scared that we have created special categories of words so bad, we must use an abbreviation.... "The N-Word!!!"" EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL

But you're the Internet tough guy, unafraid of everything, ready to show everyone who is really the boss.

How can anyone else hope to speak truth to power if zag isn't around to school the P.C. police by dropping racial slurs on message boards?

 

[The Big Ragu]

Come on YF - you know the score, this is America, where whiny assholes are more concerned about being offended than being assaulted or murdered.....

I can't wait until the death penalty and a March on Washington are ordered after someone is in a bar and utters, "boy I am glad the Rams finally cut that F-word (rhymes with bag it)....."

Spell it out, coward.

No way, we are a nation that has criminalized words and made people so scared that we have created special categories of words so bad, we must use an abbreviation.... "The N-Word!!!"" EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL

Words have consequences. They have always had consequences. You seem to have just woken up to a reality that has always existed.

His freedom to be an offensive, racist ass hasn't been "criminalized." He's not going to jail. He (nor you) shouldn't be surprised, however, when others are offended by someone calling a black man a ****** in this day and age.

There was nothing criminal about his racism. He does hold a public job, though, and one that requires judgment and an appearance of no bias. As disheartening as it is that ignorant, hateful assholes like him still exist, it is just as heartening that it has gotten the reaction it has. The fact that you don't understand why that reaction is a GOOD thing -- things have changed for the better -- says a ton about you.

The people in that town also have every right to boot him on his ass, and hopefully it happens. That isn't criminalizing his words. It is him learning that your words have consequences. In this case, hopefully they do.

 

[YankeeFan]

I like how he justified it by explaining that it wasn't racist. The President just happened to fit the definition of the word.

Where have I heard this before?

Oh yea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnO6ai0Ktro

My old mom told me, ‘Robert, you can’t go to heaven if you hate anybody.’ We practice that. There are white ******s. I’ve seen a lot of white ******s in my time

 

[outofplace]

The only thing Bill left out was the N-word, but he's the most respected Democrat in the country:

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.

"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."

The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.

After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, "the only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/bill-clinton-told-ted-kennedy-obama-coffee-years-game-change-article-1.197492#ixzz32Az82pG6

If the report is true, he didn't use the word. Like it or not, that makes a difference.

Also, this is a second-hand report. He did not confirm it and stand by the statement as the police commissioner in NH did.

Once again, SportsJournalists.com's Republican party cheerleaders are relying on failed comparisons for their latest attack on "the bad guys."