Marilyn Davenport, Republican official in California, didn't think Obama as chimp e-mail was racist
Douglas Herron
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A California Republican party official who sent out an e-mail of President
Obama's face super-imposed onto a chimp says she's sorry, but insists she
wasn't trying to be racist.
Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the Orange County Republican
central committee, sent the e-mail on Friday. The "family photo" features
the commander-in-chief as a baby chimpanzee with two chimp parents.
Along with the offensive image was the tagline "Now you know why -- No
birth certificate."
The supposed gag refers to the belief by so-called "birthers," who insist
- even after the White House released a digitally scanned image of his
Hawaii birth certificate in 2008 - that Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and
is ineligible to be president.
Davenport admitted to passing it around to her "friends and
acquaintances," reported the Orange County Weekly.
The Tea Party activist then offered up a half-hearted apology.
"I'm sorry if my email offended anyone," she wrote, according to the OC
Weekly. "I simply found it amusing regarding the character of Obama and
all the questions surrounding his origin of birth."
Davenport wrote she hadn't considered that Obama is "half black."
"In fact, the thought never entered my mind until one or two other people
tried to make this about race," she wrote.
The GOP committeewoman then blamed the "media" for trying to make a big
deal out of the racist e-mail, insisting that the "average person knows
and agrees is much ado about nothing."
Davenport has since sought to hunt down the "cowardly" person who leaked
the e-mail, said Republican Party of Orange County chairman Scott Baugh,
who was one of the original people who received the "highly inappropriate"
Obama e-mail.
"It's a despicable message, it drips with racism and I think she should
step down from the committee," he said.
Davenport, however, has already refused to quit.
"I will NOT resign my central committee position over this matter," she
wrote to the OC Weekly.
"I have never seen anything like this before from an elected official,"
Michael Schroeder, former chairman of the California GOP Party, told CBS 2
News in Los Angeles. "It's stunning."
He noted that in 2009 the former Republican mayor of Los Alamitos, Dean
Grose, e-mailed a photo showing a watermelon patch in front of the White
House last year, Davenport defended him. She also backed former Newport
Beach City Councilman Dick Nichols for making an offensive remark about
Mexicans.
"She has managed to top both of those incidents by comparing African
Americans to monkeys," Schroeder told the OC Weekly on Saturday. "She has
disgraced herself and needs to resign."
In March 2010, Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker was fired
after forwarding a joke via e-mail equating First Lady Michelle Obama to
Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee sidekick.
Gray Ghost
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> 17
Wasn’t the left always referring to Bush as a chimp?
Sniff, sniff, what is that smell?
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He beat Cancer. He'll beat Obama (who is just like cancer)
Remember Desert One, Carter 0? Ain't it sad to wish that Obama had as much
ambition but being glad he doesn't knowing he doesn't have THAT much
competence?
Christopher Helms
wrote:
> Douglas Herron <dher...@sitekings.com> wrote innews:Xns9EE6793C...@209.197.15.222:
Just you not knowing what you're talking about. We've been smelling it
forever.
Kevin Cunningham
Ya, there is nothing racist about placing Obama's face on a monkey's
body....sure....and if you believe that one you are a racist tea
bagger.
Racists have been using that one for decades and denying the obvious.
And the obvious? They are filthy, rotten liars. That includes all
the tea baggers along with the few Klan members and American Nazis.
What is hilarious is the tea baggers scum call themselves Christian.
So when was Christ a racist?
max headroom
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Ya, there is nothing racist about placing Obama's face on a monkey's
body....sure....and if you believe that one you are a racist tea
bagger.
Racists have been using that one for decades and denying the obvious.
And the obvious? They are filthy, rotten liars. That includes all
the tea baggers along with the few Klan members and American Nazis.
What is hilarious is the tea baggers scum call themselves Christian.
So when was Christ a racist?
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Ya, there is nothing racist about placing George Bush's face on a monkey's
body....sure....and if you believe that one you are a racist commie.
Racists have been using that one for decades and denying the obvious.
And the obvious? They are filthy, rotten liars. That includes all
the liberals along with the few Klan members and American Nazis.
What is hilarious is the liberal scum call themselves Christian.
Boo Hoo Boner - Human Filth
> "Kevin Cunningham"<sms...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:8d9b14f9-f296-4d6d...@a10g2000vbz.googlegroups.com...
>
> Ya, there is nothing racist about placing Obama's face on a monkey's
> body....sure....and if you believe that one you are a racist tea
> bagger.
>
> Racists have been using that one for decades and denying the obvious.
> And the obvious? They are filthy, rotten liars. That includes all
> the tea baggers along with the few Klan members and American Nazis.
>
> What is hilarious is the tea baggers scum call themselves Christian.
> So when was Christ a racist?
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Ya, there is nothing racist about placing George Bush's face on a monkey's
> body....sure....and if you believe that one you are a racist commie.
Ever since the whites were brought over here from Africa as slaves they
have been portrayed as monkeys.
Gunner Asch
<sms...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>That includes all
>the tea baggers along with the few Klan members and American Nazis.
You do know that the Klan members have been Democrat for 150 yrs..right?
And Nazis are a form of socialism.
I have no idea about tea baggers, they of course are gay, so its assumed
that they too are Democrats/Leftist/Socialist/Marxist/Progressives
Kevin..you really ARE a ignorant piece of shit, arnt you.....
Im sure your parents put you out for adoption..or left you in a park
then went home and slit their wrists in penance for having created you.
Gunner
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it's not a partial victory for me when we agree that two plus two is
six. " Jonah Goldberg (modified)
Gray Ghost
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> On May 15, 2:04 pm, Gray Ghost <grey_ghost471-newsgro...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Douglas Herron <dher...@sitekings.com> wrote
innews:Xns9EE6793CB8B7AAC51E
> 3...@209.197.15.222:
When I want to hear what you have to say I’ll untie you, take out the ball
gag and shove a script up your ass.
Jeff M
e-mail a firing offense, so to speak, compared to some of the REALLY
harmful stuff politicians do? Mostly, she just made herself look like a
dope. No one was really hurt. Personally, I'm far more worried about
how thin everyone's skin is becoming than lame jokes relating to what
color it happens to be. Caveat Emptor. I say just let the voters take
it into consideration, now that they know a bit more about the kind of
people they are dealing with there.
Winston_Smith
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>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/04/17/2011-04-
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>racist.html
>
>A California Republican party official who sent out an e-mail of President
>Obama's face super-imposed onto a chimp says she's sorry, but insists she
>wasn't trying to be racist.
I can't be racist. Democrats did it for years.
Benny Fishhole
Correcto-mundo.
Sammy Bo
69ingch...@park.com wrote:
> republicans do it " ?
You mean, "Curious George?"
The Obama version currently on teleprompters everywhere is, "The
Rat In The Hat."
Ronnie Raygun And The Rayonets
"Winston_Smith" wrote in message
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Klaus Schadenfreude
When leftists do it- it's political; humor.
When the right does it, it's racist.
What's "it?" It doesn't matter.
RD Sandman
Where was all this reaction when Bush was referred to as the Chimp in
Charge?
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Sleep well tonight....RD (The Sandman)
If you woke up this morning....
Don't complain.
bobo fizmarkian
Was it wrong of Dems to compare Bush to various chimpanzees?
Or, was that correct, and appropriate? Or, harmless?
http://www.anvari.org/fun/World_Trade_Center/Bush_Monkey.html
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Bobo
Sage2
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One should not insult chimpanzees by elevating Obama to their
level. Obama is no such animal but the favorite pet of the liberal
leeches and thug unions, aptly named a " chump pansy " !