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TiggerCast 150 : Power Peanut Dyke
11/22/09 22:51 Filed in: TiggerCasts 2
ShowNotes
- Psalm 109 verse 8
- Frank Schaffer & Patience With God
- Sarah Palin's "Not A Real American"
- Deluded crazy fringe people
- Trolling for Presidential assassins
- Paranoid and deluded
- The American Taliban - Super Conservative Evangelicals
- Speaking up in support for Obama
- TiggerCast 150!!
- Sulphur, hate and angry town hall protesters
- Health Care is a RIGHT not a privilege
- A free clinic of the uninsured
- Tigger gets a little confusing at this point
- Church and State - Why is this so hard to understand?
- Sarah Palin - PLEASE GO AWAY. PLEASSEEE!
- A question of Race
- When Society doesn't want one around...
- Invisible Minority
- A Special Audio dedication for Matthew and Eric
- The Pin-Up Poster Girl for The Religious Right
- Matthew does not like his Soy
- Trader Joe's Rocks!!!
- Gelson's vs Whole Foods
- The Bus is gross
- A very emotional weekend
- Holidays always bring lots of drama
- A sad story of an addict
- A surprise visitor
- Psychotherapy put to use
- Thanksgiving and drugs don't mix
- 4 hours and 4 days
- Text drama with your best friend
- Keeping depression at bay
- Ron is going to kill Tigger one day
- Maintaining positivity
- Tigger's views of suicide
- Thanksgiving vacation plans
- Tamra's Hog Heaven plans
- Tom of Thailand needs to be on TiggerCast
Music played on today's show:
1. Barrel of a Gun - Depeche Mode
2. Golden Path (Ewan Pearson Extended Mix)
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Can You Believe This!....Obama Bucks
10/17/08 00:00 Filed in: Blog
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Altered Obama photo in GOP club newsletter sparks outrage
Illustration shows the candidate's head on donkey's body on a bogus $10 bill that says 'Food Stamps.' Leader of the Upland women's group denies racism, but a state party official decries the image.
By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 17, 2008
A Republican women's club in San Bernardino County sent out a recent newsletter with a photo of Barack Obama surrounded by fried chicken, watermelon and ribs, sparking widespread outrage and rebuke from GOP leaders and Democrats.
The illustration shows the Democratic presidential candidate's head atop a donkey's body on a bogus $10 bill referred to as "Obama Bucks." Inscribed on the money are the words "United States Food Stamps" surrounded by stereotypical African American food.
The October newsletter went out to about 200 members of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated, based in Upland.
"I apologize to anyone who was offended because that was not my intent," said club President Diane Fedele. "It was poor judgment on my part. It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of Obama's statement that he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
The caption reads: "Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills. If elected, what bill would he be on ????? Food Stamps, what else!"
Fedele said the mailer merely parodied the statements Obama made during a debate last summer and wasn't racist.
"If I was racist, I would have looked at it through racist eyes," she said. "I am not racist, which is why it probably didn't register."
Club member Kristina Sandoval agreed.
"None of us are racists," she said.
The use of watermelon, ribs and fried chicken was innocent, she said.
"Everyone eats those foods, it's not a racial thing."
That's not how club member Acquanetta Warren -- a Fontana city councilwoman and an African American -- saw it.
"My daughter who is 16 was standing over my shoulder when I opened the e-mail, and her mouth dropped wide open," Warren said. "I actually turned the screen away and sent her to her room so she wouldn't see. I don't want to talk to anyone; I want a written apology so the public knows that this is not right and this is not representative of the way Republicans think."
She's known Fedele a long time and is shocked by the newsletter.
"When she didn't see a problem with this, I knew something was wrong," said Warren, who is also vice chairwoman of the California Republican Party for the Inland Empire. "This is an isolated, crazy thing. Our chairman is outraged. We just don't do this."
Indeed, Fedele drew a sharp reprimand from Ron Nehring, California Republican Party chairman.
"Any material that invokes issues related to race is absolutely unacceptable, tarnishes our party, diminishes the hard work of the tens of thousands of volunteers who are working hard every day for our candidates, and must be condemned," he said in a statement Thursday. "This material I've seen inspires nothing but divisiveness and hostility and has absolutely no place in this election, or any public discourse."
His statement also referred to an image on the Sacramento County GOP website this week showing Obama in a turban beside Osama bin Laden with the words: "The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little B.S." The site also exhorted members to "Waterboard Barack Obama."
"I called the chairman and said, 'You need to take that off your website,' and he took it off," said Hector Barajas, spokesman for the state GOP.
Fedele and the others at the Chaffey Community Republican club are volunteers and can't be fired. Aside from politics, they also do volunteer and charity work throughout the community.
Gary Ovitt, a county supervisor and chairman of the San Bernardino County Republican Party, is scheduled to meet with Fedele on Monday to discuss the incident.
"He is disgusted and appalled by it, and he believes it is blatantly racist and offensive no matter what the intent was," said Burt Southard, Ovitt's spokesman. "These are individual clubs. This one in particular may be one of the largest in the state and is one of the most active."
A spokesman for the Obama campaign in California, Gabriel Sanchez, declined to comment.
State Sen. Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) represents the area, and his wife, a Latina, is a member of the club.
"I thought it was unacceptable and a failed attempt at humor," Dutton said. "My wife isn't taking it personally because she knows the people involved. I called Diane and talked to her and told her it was inappropriate. She is a sweet lady without a mean bone in her body. But we all have to be more sensitive."
Democrats weren't as charitable.
"I think it's sad and unbelievable that they can't see how offensive this is," said Carol Robb, head of the San Bernardino County Democratic Party. "People are losing their homes, we are in financial chaos and the best they can do is a caricature of Obama on a donkey's body and food stamps. How out of touch with the 21st century can you get?"
david.kelly@latimes.com
TiggerCast 098 : I'll Love You If You're Gay.........BUT!
03/09/08 01:03 Filed in: TiggerCasts 2
ShowNotes:
- I inch closer to a new phone line (will I finally relent?) Thank you Matthew and Forrest for hooking me up
- Snowing like a bitch in Ohio?
- Snow seems like a pain in the ass to live in
- A tingle tangle of audio fun that will hex-tract you
- HIllary gains some much needed delegates - Thank you Ohio and Texas voters!
- What's up with Clinton-Obama one ticket? Could it happen?
- A very interesting presidential ticket it would be
- The power to the top....I'm feeling Hillary as a possible Vice President
- The Christian Right is not finding a new Ronald Reagan this time around
- I long for the days that GWB will not be my president
- Where is all the political accountability?
- MicroSoft? Tigger? What's up with that?
- Apple iMac keyboard is like typing on a thin mushy sponge
- AJ is off to Louisville (if he can get out of the blizzard)
- A new QSP recorded this weekend...special guest host, Matt*hew, The Power Gay
- Thank you Craig of The Royal Pains for your email you sent me
- What's going on with my sister? I need to stop filling in my mental blanks
- Slow down Speed Racer!
- The evolution of Front 242
- Go listen to Kiko's music dedication show!
- Same patterns of behavior resurface again...Family politics
- I'm not going to feel guilty because you can't accept my homosexuality
- The guilt is gone. The anger is gone. I'm tired of the emotional baggage
- Thank you Forrest and Kalvin for your great comments
- More than a bottles worth of carcinogenic emotional unresolved baggage
- How will I be a part of my nephews lives?
- Kalvin looks hot on his camping trip
- My mind is being numbed out by Reality TV
- Tigger needs a nature day
- Pancreatic cancer is pretty much a death sentence
- Being single sucks when come to paying federal taxes
- The Middle Class is being ripped apart
- What place is worst when it comes to terrorism? Afghanistan or Los Angeles?
- Inner city gangs are domestic terrorists
- 17 pills to go to bed
- Time to end this podcast
Music played on today's show:
1. You Mind Belongs To the State - Meat Beat Manifesto
2. Skin (Fur Coat Mix) - Front 242
3. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? - The Revolting Cocks
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