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You are here: Home / Politics / Republican Stupidity / Al Sharpton Takes Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) to Debt Ceiling School

Al Sharpton Takes Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) to Debt Ceiling School

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  July 6, 20118:52 pm| 37 Comments

This post is in: Republican Stupidity, Assholes, Our Failed Political Establishment

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Wipe that stupid off your face, Walsh

During his Twitter Town Hall, Obama said this: “You’re entitled to your own opinions, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” Watch as Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Liar) attempts to supplant cold-hard facts with lies:

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The President has no shame? Republicans have no soul.

As for Mr. Walsh? Here’s what he said about President Obama last month:

“Why was he elected?…He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. …If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn’t have gotten in the game this fast. This is what made him different. …That, combined with the fact that [the press]…were in love with him because he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate, liberal, the whole white guilt, all of that.”

Talk about shameless.

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[cross-posted at ABLC]
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  1. 1.

    jrg

    July 6, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    Obama could look like Kunta Kinte. It wouldn’t matter one bit if he’d have voted for the Iraq war. Walsh is a tool.

  2. 2.

    Jim C.

    July 6, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    He’s pretty much saying outloud what most of his redneck constituents are thinking. I predict a sharp rise in his polling numbers against whatever this anonymous idiotic backbencher was polling at before along with an explosion of fluffing articles about what a great and original (serious) thinker he is ala Paul Ryan because he finds a new way to say that Obama is black and that Entitlements need to be cut to fund tax cuts for rich people.

  3. 3.

    Spaghetti Lee

    July 6, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    Chicago’s suburbs elected a whole mess of Republican freshmen to congress last year, but this guy has so far been the douchiest. I think I might be redistricted out of Roskam’s district and into his next cycle, and if so it will be a pleasure to vote against him.

  4. 4.

    OzoneR

    July 6, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    but, but, but, the bully pulpit.

  5. 5.

    MikeJ

    July 6, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    Out to pasture
    Think it’s safe to say
    Time to open fire

  6. 6.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    July 6, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    …If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn’t have gotten in the game this fast.

    I mean, look how it took Bill Clinton 40 years to go from governor of nowhere to the presidency, amirite?

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    July 6, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    I mean, look how it took Bill Clinton 40 years to go from governor of nowhere to the presidency, amirite?

    Kennedy won because of protestant guilt.

    And of course the first person to ever run for president as a Republican had less experience than Obama.

  8. 8.

    Linnaeus

    July 6, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    He’s pretty much saying outloud what most of his redneck constituents are thinking. I predict a sharp rise in his polling numbers against whatever this anonymous idiotic backbencher was polling at before along with an explosion of fluffing articles about what a great and original (serious) thinker he is ala Paul Ryan because he finds a new way to say that Obama is black and that Entitlements need to be cut to fund tax cuts for rich people.

    I’m making records, my fans they can’t wait
    They write me letters, tell me I’m great

  9. 9.

    J. Michael Neal

    July 6, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    Because Bush Jr. had so much more political experience.

  10. 10.

    askew

    July 6, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    I hope MSNBC is keeping Sharpton in Cenk’s place permanently. The show is actually watchable with an intelligent host.

  11. 11.

    FlipYrWhig

    July 6, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @ Xecky: Not to mention a certain former mayor of Baked (with Meth) Alaska.

  12. 12.

    Turgidson

    July 6, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    What I learned from that trainwreck was that Walsh has an IQ slightly below freezing and actually believes that bullshit. What a fucking clown.

  13. 13.

    Jimperson Zibb (formerly Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    July 6, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    We really need to find a way to drive this element out of politics. I don’t know how, since it’s really up to the Republicans to clean up their own party, but, shit, there’s no way to run a country when one of the two political parties that have any shot at winning in a cult filled with racists and run by nihilists. This can’t go on forever; sooner or later this will end, but whether it ends well, with the fascists marginalized, or badly, with a big heap of smoking wreckage where the U.S. once stood, well, I just don’t know…

  14. 14.

    aisce

    July 6, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    @ ozoner

    you’re a bigger one-note spam monkey than mike kay or fred/derf. keep it up and you’ll give matoko_chan a run for her money.

  15. 15.

    Lysana

    July 6, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    Good gods, that just wasn’t fair. They sent that intellectual child in against Sharpton? The followup with Pat Buchanan was even funnier, though, especially when you consider how Pat wouldn’t let Al talk but shut up for the white dude.

  16. 16.

    Mark S.

    July 6, 2011 at 10:14 pm

    Black guys have always had such an advantage in this country.

    What a tool.

  17. 17.

    OzoneR

    July 6, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    you’re a bigger one-note spam monkey than mike kay or fred/derf. keep it up and you’ll give matoko_chan a run for her money.

    just pointing out the obvious

  18. 18.

    Suffern ACE

    July 6, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    Yep. Someday it’s going to sink in that McCain lost, not because voters forgot Obama’s race, but because the Maverick was erratic, then wet his pants and panicked in front of everyone. Pants wetting may work in this guys district and some states, but there is a lot to be said for poise.

  19. 19.

    kth

    July 6, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    So if a black guy wins who was a charismatic leader on the level of JFK and Reagan, had a superior ground operation, and made sound decisions at every juncture in the campaign, it was because he was black. Got it.

  20. 20.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    July 6, 2011 at 10:23 pm

    just pointing out the obvious

    So was he.

  21. 21.

    john

    July 6, 2011 at 10:36 pm

    Unfortunately, Walsh is my representative. Bean ran a horrible race. She was complacent and didn’t even run an ad until 2 weeks before the election. This is a guy who walked away from a mortgage when he couldn’t make the payments, and he is trying to lecture on fiscal responsibility.

    I would be happy to talk to Sharpton so he knows how people of this district think.

    BTW, he won, in a low Dem turnout year, by under 500 votes.

  22. 22.

    Montysano

    July 6, 2011 at 10:48 pm

    Wow, Sharpton was committing actual journalism:

    – ask a question;
    – demand an answer;
    – don’t be distracted by spin;
    – continue to demand an answer.

    At least that’s what I saw. Joe Walsh probably saw an Angry Black Man.

  23. 23.

    burnspbesq

    July 6, 2011 at 11:12 pm

    Jeez, am I the only person here who is old enough to remember why nothing Al Sharpton ever says should be accepted as true without independent verification?

  24. 24.

    craigie

    July 6, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    I thought he was elected because he wasn’t George Bush, and he wasn’t John McCain, and he wasn’t Sarah Palin. That’s three big qualifications right there.

  25. 25.

    Steve

    July 6, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    I mean, look how it took Bill Clinton 40 years to go from governor of nowhere to the presidency, amirite?

    Bill Clinton may have been governor of nowhere, but he was the longest-serving governor in the entire country by the time he was elected President. That example really doesn’t help your point.

  26. 26.

    Ben

    July 6, 2011 at 11:38 pm

    If you want to see Walsh out of Congress, you can donate to Raja Krishnamoorthi at his website here.

  27. 27.

    Cacti

    July 6, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    Dynamic young white guys have never had a shot at the Presidency.

    The historical ash heap is littered with the failed candidacies of guys like Teddy Roosevelt, JFK and Bill Clinton.

  28. 28.

    El Cid

    July 7, 2011 at 12:56 am

    In the 2004 Presidential nomination debates, Sharpton was willing to call out the Bush Jr. Triumvirate as the criminal assholes they were, more bluntly and effectively than any others up there — including Kucinich (though not necessarily for his lack of effort). That’s service enough.

    Those of you not needing to moan about Tavis Smiley’s bitterness after his State of Black America summer conferences ended re. Obama, check this out.

    Each summer when they came on, they inspired the hell out of me. And Sharpton was always one of the highlights.

    By the way, I think one big threat to the US business jet industry won’t be the Galtians suffering heart attacks by having their clients no longer get the same sort of free gift that an earlier decade of douchebags got to buy free Land Rovers and Hummers because we gave them $100K in tax breaks to do it.

    I think it will be the entry of Honda into the field. [Note: It will be a “US industry” because it’s being built in Greensboro NC at the airport.]

  29. 29.

    BruceFromOhio

    July 7, 2011 at 1:04 am

    …were in love with him because he pushed that magical button …

    There was a button for “Not John McCain” ?

    I hope there’s a similar button for “Not The Clown Car.”

  30. 30.

    Chris

    July 7, 2011 at 8:11 am

    “Why was he elected?…He was black, he was historic. And there’s nothing racist about this. …If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn’t have gotten in the game this fast. This is what made him different. …That, combined with the fact that [the press]…were in love with him because he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate, liberal, the whole white guilt, all of that.”

    The firm belief that white people are the real oppressed victims and that black people have it so easy because everyone loves them has been a hallmark of conservative campaigns, all the way back to when George Wallace claimed that the Civil Rights Act would enslave white people.

  31. 31.

    Chris

    July 7, 2011 at 8:14 am

    @ Jimperson,

    We really need to find a way to drive this element out of politics. I don’t know how, since it’s really up to the Republicans to clean up their own party, but, shit, there’s no way to run a country when one of the two political parties that have any shot at winning in a cult filled with racists and run by nihilists. This can’t go on forever; sooner or later this will end, but whether it ends well, with the fascists marginalized, or badly, with a big heap of smoking wreckage where the U.S. once stood, well, I just don’t know…

    Yeah, that’s kind of my feeling too.

    For the country to finally, definitively move its ass out of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, conservatism as it exists today needs to die as complete a death as monarchism and communism. That’s a fantasy in today’s world, but I agree: at some point down the line, either it needs to happen, or the country really will pay the price.

  32. 32.

    Ben Cisco

    July 7, 2011 at 8:25 am

    Bigotry, hatred, fear – all come from ignorance, a condition that can be corrected.
    __
    However, it requires that one 1) recognize there is a problem, and 2) be willing to take the steps to overcome it.
    __
    At this point, I’m not feeling particularly confident that the majority of GOP supporters are up to the challenge of taking EITHER step.
    __
    Fortunately, I don’t think we need most of them to do so, just SOME. And I think that what we see them doing right now, and the depths they appear to be willing to go to, MIGHT wake up enough of those who are sitting on the sidelines to beat this nonsense back. This would get us further down the road from the beginning of the end for the NeoConfederates, and closer to the END of the end.
    __
    At least, that’s what I’d like to see.

  33. 33.

    Jamie

    July 7, 2011 at 9:27 am

    And if Dubya was born as a poor black man he’d be running a barber shop by now. So where does that get us?

  34. 34.

    mellowjohn

    July 7, 2011 at 9:48 am

    ben @ #26 (and what the hell happened to the “reply” option?):

    or tammy duckworth, who announced yesterday. either one would be a vast improvement over joe walsh.

  35. 35.

    Tone In DC

    July 7, 2011 at 10:08 am

    ABL, thanks for this. And thanks for keeping your eye on the ball. Many folks seem unable to do that.

  36. 36.

    Bender

    July 7, 2011 at 10:59 am

    I’m sure the 12 people who saw this interview feel the same way you guys do. You can all ride the short bus together…but not a corporate jet!

    The Kind-of Reverend Al Sharpton is a Super-Genius — sure he has the blood of several innocent people on his hands, but what “Reverend” doesn’t?

    Look, the proof that Barack “Dick” Papandreou was qualified to be President is reflected in the fine job he’s done! He’s not a miserable failure at all!

    That’s why Balloon Juice can run post after post about the great unemployment news, the great economic news, the great foreign policy news, the end of secret detentions and interrogations of Al Qaeda operatives aboard prison ships… LOL! JK!

    And one more thing…CORPORATE JET! BOO!

  37. 37.

    RRob

    July 7, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    burnspbesq and Bender, are you suggesting that outside statistics don’t count because of Al Sharpton’s past? Because he’s not the only one reporting on the polls that suggest the Americans that the Republicans claim to represent are the minority on economic issues.

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