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RNC Chief: Dean Joke Was 'Racist'
NewsMax.com ^ | Feb. 16, 2005

Posted on 02/16/2005 4:56:41 AM PST by paudio

Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman blasted newly-elected DNC chief Howard Dean on Tuesday for telling what he said was a "racist" joke to the Congressional Black Caucus.

"It's pretty offensive," Mehlman told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "It's pretty racist, if you ask me."

During a meeting with the CBC on Friday, Dean joked, "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here." Beyond being offensive to minorities, Dean's characterization of Republicans was just wrong, Mehlman said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dean; dnc; racism
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When will MSM pick up this story? Perhaps never. We need to think some way that will make them do it...
1 posted on 02/16/2005 4:56:41 AM PST by paudio
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To: paudio
Damn.

Next he'll be saying the Oscars are gay.

2 posted on 02/16/2005 5:00:41 AM PST by SquirrelKing (I caught you a delicious bass.)
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To: paudio

Same old story. If a prominant Republican had said this very same thing, well, you know.


3 posted on 02/16/2005 5:02:54 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote .....)
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To: SquirrelKing

I love it! Dean is a psycho. Only Dean could lead todays Demon Party.


4 posted on 02/16/2005 5:04:30 AM PST by Calusa ( ... Oh, sweet Gaia, I'm gonna heave!")
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To: paudio
"You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here."

Not if it were held in a hotel in Vermont, you glass-house-inhabiting, bike-path-worshipping megalomaniac.

5 posted on 02/16/2005 5:04:42 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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"You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here."..........Next he'll be saying the Oscars are gay. ---

LOL!

6 posted on 02/16/2005 5:04:46 AM PST by beyond the sea (Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote .....)
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To: paudio

What a jerkoff. Of course Condi Rice is a Republican so she can't be black....


7 posted on 02/16/2005 5:05:37 AM PST by freebilly (I am The Thread Killer! DO NOT REPLY!)
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To: paudio

Take heart folks. This might be just another feather, but a pound of feathers will out weigh 15 1/2 ozs of lead. Eventually all of these little double standard examples add up. The scales will tip. This will help. Be patient.


8 posted on 02/16/2005 5:05:49 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (In dealing with liberals remember When you wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and he loves it.)
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To: paudio

just shows what dems think of minorities


9 posted on 02/16/2005 5:05:51 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
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To: paudio

The RNC has always been sort of a cut above the DNC but Mehlman is taking us to their level by trying to make something out of that remark. I wish he hadn't. Dean is crude and rude - we don't have to be.


10 posted on 02/16/2005 5:06:41 AM PST by yoe
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To: paudio

Uh, I think The current Cabinet has more minorities and women
than any Democratic Cabinet ever did.


11 posted on 02/16/2005 5:07:15 AM PST by refermech
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To: paudio
Dean would fit right in with the Nation of Islam. A white Farrakan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 posted on 02/16/2005 5:08:00 AM PST by Coldwater Creek ('We voted like we prayed")
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To: paudio

As Yul Brynner's Ramses said about Moses in The Ten Commandments, "Let him rave on, that the whole world shall know he is mad"


13 posted on 02/16/2005 5:08:44 AM PST by NRA1995 ("Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan & Ah think yer gonna fin'lly understand")
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To: Calusa

Sounds like Dean is tauting himself as the first black DNC chief.


14 posted on 02/16/2005 5:09:11 AM PST by demkicker (I'm Ra th er sick of Dan)
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To: paudio

right.....lets see how many Black, Secretarys of State they have.....

The party of Sheets Byrd and the neo-plantation system has a right to talk????? Shame on these racists. If the blacks are not kept poor they cant buy their votes. They have ghettoized black neighborhoods and turned solid Black Families into the 'my babies daddy' syndrome.


15 posted on 02/16/2005 5:09:11 AM PST by Vaquero
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To: wideawake

Good shot, wideawake. I love it when a comeback is both angry and funny!!


16 posted on 02/16/2005 5:09:53 AM PST by speedy
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To: paudio

Imagine the outrage if Mehlman had said, "Do you think we Republicans could get so many people of color in a room? Only if the hotel staff was there."

There would be calls from all over for him to step down.


17 posted on 02/16/2005 5:11:56 AM PST by Piranha
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To: paudio

One of the real-life 7 dwarfs. Where do they get these cartoon characters? Go Dean Go!


18 posted on 02/16/2005 5:12:08 AM PST by PGalt
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To: paudio

Sounds like O'Reilly's Rapper Hubcap joke.


19 posted on 02/16/2005 5:12:14 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
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To: NRA1995

Yeah, well, you see how well it worked for Ramses.


20 posted on 02/16/2005 5:13:07 AM PST by Piranha
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