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Alcee Hastings: Anyone who hunts moose “don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks”

Via Hot Air

From a man who’s no stranger to abject disgrace comes one of the purest examples of racial demagoguery we’ve seen from either side during this very long campaign, duly laughed at and applauded by the same group that worked so hard last week to get Palin disinvited from the anti-Iran rally. His party will love him for it, I assure you.

Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.”

“If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention,” Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida said at a panel about the shared agenda of Jewish and African-American Democrats Wednesday. Hastings, who is African-American, was explaining what he intended to tell his Jewish constituents about the presidential race. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through,” Hastings added as the room erupted in laughter and applause.

Also on the panel: Steve Cohen, who was himself viciously demagogued by a fellow “progressive” not long ago yet who apparently couldn’t open his mouth to say anything here except to muse very stupidly about Jesus’s political leanings. Which isn’t even the stupidest thing he’s had to say about Jesus this month.

So this joker has no idea, does he, that he has just mocked and offended the values of many people in this country, including Native Alaskans, many of whom indeed hunt moose as part of a subsistence lifestyle. So Natives hate Jews and blacks? Hunters are racists?

Is this Hastings’ sick way of supporting Biden by establishing a race to utter the most ludicrous, offensive, idiotic and absurd statements ever? Does the Democratic party have to work this hard to appear so stupid, or does it just come naturally?

I’m also kind of curious: Does Hastings buy his meat in a supermarket or is he a vegetarian?

Wednesday 24 September 2008 - Posted by fireweednectar | Politics | , , , , , , | 3 Comments

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  1. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through,”

    IGNORANT! I know many Jewish people and many blacks that “tote” hand guns and own firearms and also hunt. I know this from my personal experience through my business.

    For example here is some Org’s of Jewish gun owner ship.
    http://www.jpfo.org/

    And here’s another very interesting quote:

    “Throughout his life in America, from the 1950s to his death in 1992, my grandfather always owned guns for his personal protection and that of his family and business. I remember him saying that during the Detroit riots in the 1960s, the non-Jews were going to buy bullets to protect themselves and their families, while the Jews “Johnny-come-lately’s” when it came to self-defense– were only just buying their guns. Though he was a law-abiding, proud citizen, my grandfather found it necessary– as he went on his business deliveries and to his office in dangerous neighborhoods– to protect himself, and he carried his hidden gun at all times, in violation of Michigan law, which has no conceal and carry right without a bureacracy-induced permit.”
    http://www.gunowners.org/wv07.htm

    Comment by dtmf | Wednesday 24 September 2008 | Reply

  2. Wait I forgot to add this site and the accompanying link!
    http://www.gunownersalliance.com/
    “Rabbi Mermelstein has agreed to answer a limited amount of firearms-related questions for readers of the Gun Owners Alliance Web Pages. A life long gun owner, Rabbi Mermelstein had served in the US Army Infantry for three years during the closing years of the Vietnam era, attended rabbinical academies for nine years to earn his rabbinical ordination, and started his own company manufacturing ammunition for wholesale distribution throughout the country. He was the Handloading Editor for Petersen’s HANDGUNS, featured on the masthead of that publication for 3 ½ years. He is of course, an avid shooter and handloader. Additionally, Rabbi Mermelstein is has published a book on the history and evolution of small arms cartridges entitled, “Mermelstein’s Guide to Metallic Cartridge Evolution”.”

    Comment by dtmf | Wednesday 24 September 2008 | Reply

  3. “For those who may have forgotten, or perhaps never knew, Hastings used to be a federal judge. Then he was indicted for accepting a bribe of $150,000 in a criminal case, in return for agreeing to impose a lenient sentence and order the assets of two defendants charged with 21 counts of racketeering to be returned to them. The U.S. House of Representatives voted 413 to 3 to impeach him. He was convicted by the Senate a year later, by a vote of 69 to 26, and was impeached and removed from office. He is only the sixth federal judge to be impeached and removed from office in all of American history. Sounds like a credible guy.”

    Comment by DTMF | Saturday 27 September 2008 | Reply


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