Crazy Quote of the Day

“It’s thousands of times bigger than Watergate because Watergate was only a little break-in by a couple of guys. By the time we pull ACORN out by its roots America’s going to understand just how big this is.” —Congressman Steve King (R-Wingnuttia)

Has there been another major conspiracy theory this transparently driven by race-baiting at any point in the last 60 years?

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  • IntoxiNation

    OK this is very weird timing. I read your post after just seeing this via twitter on the Weekly Standard claiming that the Senate HCR bill will be used to funnel money to ACORN. Talk about the right grasping for straws now.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Bob, ACORN is the victim of a high-tech lynching.

  • jhw22

    Well, there’s the “The Mexicans are going to start another war to get the southwest back” conspiracy that my family holds to. And there’s the religion-based conspiracy theory about Muslim’s infiltrating Congress as staffers. Funny thing is that the same players are in all of these conspiracy theories. Hmmm…Jennifer

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Jennifer, that’s the whole point: they’re all in it together!

  • roxsteady

    King is just another sheet wearing, cross burning, womb chasing, card carrying member of a party of Saltines! These douchebags would like nothing better than to put brown people like me and the President back in our places. Actually, since I’m a black female, I have a pretty good idea where Mr. King might want to put me. EEEEEU! Naturally, I’d just grind up some glass and put it into his food, killing him softly. Good times!

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    Well, Bob, if you had said in the last seventy years, I would have said Hitler’s race baiting conspiracy theory that the Jews had taken over the Capitalistic world was far bigger.But I will say that even though the hate against ACORN is racially motivated; I think that many people do not understand that for most white people, it’s more based on jealousy than actual racism. And it’s not the rich, white people who feel this jealousy. It’s common, everyday white people who feel like they can’t say anything or do anything without it being labeled as racism.There are two sides to every conflict, and whenever I meet someone that most liberals would label a racist, his story is usually that he is jealous because blacks get privileges that he doesn’t, get help that he doesn’t, get financial aid that he doesn’t, get jobs or promotions before him because they are colored and some sort of “quota” needs to be enforced.I’m not saying they are right for feeling that way, but I think you guys lose sight of what really drives tensions in this country sometimes. The story of why Black America feels the way it does has been told , is being told, and SHOULD be told repeatedly. But being white in America does not somehow make us guilty of the sins of our forefathers, and I think that, more than anything else, is what drives the jealousy of most white people.We have our own sins we are guilty of, but if this country actually had the balls to talk about the racial divide, I think you liberals would be surprised at what you would learn. Instead, we don’t talk about it, and we continue to use convenient labels whenever we are uncomfortable.I will probably be called a racist for saying that by someone here. But that will just further prove my point that they don’t have the balls to talk about reality.

  • mary from TN

    Watergate was ONLY a little break in by two guys??!!!!There was a whole lot more to Watergate than a freakin break in!I swear, they really need to make anybody who runs for Public Office take an Intelligence Test. Damn, they already put them through a Rigorous Ideology and Religious Test (in a big way).Where do these whack jobs come from? Or does every rock have a republican under it?

  • mary from TN

    “There are two sides to every conflict, and whenever I meet someone that most liberals would label a racist, his story is usually that he is jealous because blacks get privileges that he doesn’t, get help that he doesn’t, get financial aid that he doesn’t, get jobs or promotions before him because they are colored and some sort of “quota” needs to be enforced.”Political Party Pooper,The thing is, that they also believe that Mexicans get free health care, welfare and free housing.And all of it is propaganda driven lies. Being a minority myself, it is difficult to get ANY help from the government when you are low income or poor. There just isn’t any there. Especially since Bush took the funds that used to help people (which wasn’t very much anyway) and put that money into his Faith Based Office.It’s pathetic.