John Murtha: My constituents are RAAAACIST; Update: GOP opponent Bill Russell responds
Jack Murtha, the pork-stuffed corruptocrat infamous for libeling our troops, has now moved on to libeling voters in his own district.
He agrees with Barack Obama’s assessment that Pennsylvanians are nothing but a bunch of bitter, clingy, bigoted rednecks.
Why is this man still in office?
U.S. Rep. John Murtha said today he expects Democratic nominee Barack Obama to carry Pennsylvania in next month’s presidential election.
Mr. Murtha, a 17-term Democrat from Johnstown, told the Post-Gazette’s editorial writers he sees momentum building in Mr. Obama’s campaign across the state for the general election after he lost his party’s April primary to Hillary Clinton. He thinks Republican John McCain’s efforts have been stymied by the country’s economic crisis.
“I think Obama is going to win, but I don’t think it’s going to be a runaway,” he said. “I think he wins Pennsylvania.”
Mr. Murtha said it has taken time for the state’s voters embrace a black presidential candidate.
“There’s no question Western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” said Mr. Murtha, whose district stretches from Johnstown to Washington County. “The older population is more hesitant.”
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Update:
Lt. Col. (ret), Bill Russell the Republican nominee in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, responded today to new comments from Rep. Jack Murtha calling Western Pennsylvania “a racist area.”
According to an article posted on Post-Gazette.com, Murtha made the following statements to reporters regarding Barack Obama’s prospects in the upcoming presidential contest: “There’s no question Western Pennsylvania is a racist area.” Murtha would make similar comments to the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review saying, “Obama has got the problem of the racist issue in Western Pennsylvania.”
Russell responded saying, “Once again Mr. Murtha is using the prestige and platform of public office to make wild, reckless statements about the people he represents in Congress.” Adding, “Because the people of Western Pennsylvania aren’t embracing Barack Obama’s values and positions on issues like the right-to-life, taxes and the 2nd Amendment doesn’t makes us racist. That’s the cheapest of cheap shots.”
Russell said Murtha’s latest comments reveal a “strange, arrogant disconnect from the people who live and work in Western Pennsylvania. He forgets that this is a melting pot of hard-scrapping immigrants. My wife Kasia is a Polish immigrant; my neighbors in Johnstown trace their ancestry to all corners of the earth. He needs to apologize. He needs to set the record straight.”
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Wow. The campaign ad for Russell just writes itself.
Racist racist racist…. talk about a broken record. If you are not lock step with the democrats, you are racist…
democrats would vote for Hitler as long as he had a D after his name.
Hey Michelle Murtha says “I stand my comments that the HADITHA marines killed in cold blood”
Who would vote for this jerk. Please, do us a favor PA and get rid of him.
Actually, having lived in Western PA for 6 years, it is rather a redneck area. However these rednecks are blue collar, union-belonging DEMOCRATS.
Hypocrisy at its best. So much for the “tolerant” Democrats.
And yes, they are gun toting (hunting season = HUGE) herd.
“Murtha, an 18-term Democrat” Thats 36 years of crime. thats about 17 terms too many (1 for the benefit of the doubt?)
Oh great! Add these to the list:
Hesitant = racist
Elderly = racist
Another honor graduate of the Biden School of Charm.
Well, let’s hope at least one district in Western Pennsylvania is “diverse” enough to vote one old white guy out of office this year!
Murtha is a disgrace and needs to go.
CleanGuy, let me fix that for you:
Done. Just ask any liberal journalist or politician (like Robert Byrd).
Will this actually have any traction with the people in Murtha’s district?
Racist, hahahah
This old saw is so laughable that any effect it once had is completely diminsihed.
Who the hell cares what these foolish windbags call them.
A pacifist population is easy to lead. The Left has discovered most of us are complacent and pacifist in our daily walk. Easy marks for the Stalinist wolf.
Why is the Republican leadership so absent? It is a simple matter to rebut these Marxists with the truth of their plans to take our wealth and our liberty. Pound it home you morons!
What Republican leadership?
it’s really any word in the dictionary that’s racist. damn anglo-saxon language is meant to keep the black man down.
Murtha the merciless. This meat head is a walking, talking insult machine.
I should have said:
What an idiot. Enough said.
I know his district. Sadly, it doesn’t matter what he says or does. He has called US Marines murderers, and now his own constituents racists. But, he brings home the pork, and he will continue to be reelected in landslides as long as he chooses to run. He is the personification of the sad depths we have fallen to.
How in the heck do people like this ever get elected to public office in the first place? He is one of the dumbest people on the planet! And, isn’t he also corrupt?? Too bad we aren’t going to be voting in a Conservative President and a Conservative congress because people like Murtha would be toast. Sigh.
O/T but trying to spread the news about a Dem plan to end tax breaks for 401k’s and impose a 5% “contribution” for new government sponsored retirement accounts. Even Dem voters need to read this one.
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I know why.
Is there a nice way for me to express disdain toward a large amount of people?
When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.
The old man is an idiot. (Nothing against old men, mind you!)
Jesse Jackson, Murtha… boy, BO’s having a great couple days! LOL
Ask Murtha for tips. He does it all the time.
Why is the worthless piece of human debris still in office? He is not fit to be in any office, unless it has white padded walls.
Yeah, it is taking them awhile to embrace Obama after Obama insulted them. That must be a “bitter” pill to swallow…
“Seventeen terms of telling it like it isn’t.”
I’m Jack Murtha, and I approve this race card.
John Murtha when asked when he was going to give info on his defense earmarks replies
TOUGH Sh#t
Oink (#26): Heh. He ain’t the only one, and he ain’t so nice about it.
My first thought? Stupid people, lots and lots of stupid people.
If Murtha’s brains caught fire, the decision whether or not to urinate in his ear would cause me great stress.
Murtha seems to agree.
OT. This just in. BO says he will be 2-3 pts ahead if not for Foxnews.
He forgets he would not even be a candidate if not for the leg tingle MSM.
Anyone seen any polls on the Murtha race?
As a white person this offends me.It is time to find my racist card in the pile.
Can I file a complaint against Murtha?
I’m assuming there’s no new developments around the lawsuit filed by Marine Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt? (Slow wheels of the U.S. court system and all…)
The sad thing is that because they have overused this word, it has lost its meaning. Kinda like that little boy who cried wolf.
Who even listens to this fat ba**ard! I guess one of the requirements for his office is senility! Remarkable that he can still find his way to the Congressional building!
You cant do that unless you are liberal.
On October 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pm, TxSkirt said:
The sad thing is that because they have overused this word, it has lost its meaning.
That was part of the plan, it’s kinda like the way they treat history… now they can re-write the meaning as they see fit at the time.
CQ Quarterly is calling this an easly win in November for Murtha. They rate it safe for the dems.
Havent found any specific polls on this race. Research 2000 is doing polls on many of the Congressional Races the problem is Research 2000 is run by the DailyKos and has bias issues.
I wish I wasn’t just ‘white’. But I don’t know what to do—-I’ve decided to write in that I am Judeo-Christian Scottish-Irish American.
Oh crap. I think that’s worse. Did I just paint a big racist bullseye on meself?
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The ironic thing about all the people who see the prospect of a Hopenchange presidency as some sort of racial Pass/Fail test for America is this:
Does anyone believe for even one moment that if Hopenchange becomes president, black subculture will undergo a Saul on the road to Damascus-style conversion and start emphasizing things like freedom of choice, personal responsibility, the value of education and two-parent families, dropping race-based quotas in hiring and college admissions, and renunciation of race-hustlers like Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan, Wright, et al?
Anyone?
Or is it much more likely that they’ll just keep blaming whitey, “The Man,” “structural racism,” “capitalist oppression,” “the legacy of slavery” and so forth for everything that’s not right with their lives?
The donkey party has spent forty years experimenting with ways to turn racial minorities into self-pitying and resentful permanent wards of the state. And when Hopenchange doesn’t deliver Utopia by the end of January 2009, they’ll be quick to resort to the same, old, tired accusations of racism.
The sudden evaporation of the mirage that Hopenchange is going to change anything about how blacks see themselves in American society will be one of the first of many rude awakenings that the American people will experience if that man occupies the White House.
You can bank on it.
How pathetic is that? He smears our troops, has obvious disdain for our won constituents, yet the sheep will shuffle in on that Tuesday and give the guy another run? He’s been in ther long enough. PA, wake up!
Another instance of his ethical and behavioral douchebaggery: tear down others to save his own skin and/or to get ahead.
I’d like to see his poll numbers after insulting his own constituents. I guess if he represents racists then he is one, too.
I am a pacific islander. (who just happens to have white skin and blue eyes) Hey I was born on a pacific island!!! (this really throws government workers!!!)
freebiebabe, now you have gone and insulted me,too, by calling me a liberal.
Citizens arrest! Complaint filed.
Also, this reminds me of how the DNC prepared Obama for his debate.
I think the race will be a lot closer then CQ rates it.
However that is the problem with attacking a porker like Murtha. He simply only has to take millions of dollars in tax money and bring in home and simply bury the voters in pork to win re election.
You cant beat that kind of with a traditonal campaign you really have to out work him.
Murtha, did anyone tell you that you look like a fat squealing little piglet?
true that sonofdy. good on ya mate.
The bottom line: The only way anyone can prove they are not racist is to support Obama.
Sorry, that tactic is not working on me. Because frankly, my dear ( sir ), I don’t give a damn.
*Scuse the language. I’m getting mad. I’m getting REALLY MAD!
Save the Celts!!!
well, I’ve come out of the closet – I’m a racist!
Misscheryl, if you don’t vote for Obama you are a racist! Me too!
OMG! I’m a racist, and married to a Chinese-Hawaiian girl. My children aren’t pure Celt!
So ashamed!
Wait a minute? Are Celts pure?
So, in the end, the left hangs their hat on calling people “racist”. I’m so tired of hearing that crap…only been 4 decades and that’s the best the democraps can come up with? No wonder there’s racial problems in the country, the left can’t succeed without it.
It’s gotten to the point I would rather be called a racist than to support Obama.
Doesn’t matter Hangfire – you’re a racist.
I wonder how Obama supporters would respond if we said they were racist if they didn’t support McCain.
I’d support Thomas Sowell, or Walter Williams, or J.C. Watts, or Allan Keyes for president. Just not BO.
Or S.I. Hayakawa if he were still alive.
I’ll bet ol Jackass is a Squealer.
Ree, ree, ree, all the way home.
I’m not voting for Odummy, call me a racist. Then I say, prove it.
Most libs don’t know the meaning of a racism in the 1st place.
And don’t forget Michael Steele!! He is awesome!
I have a few drops of Native American blood in me dating back to the 1600’s. Can I claim anything? Part of a casino? Anything? Otherwise, I am just a Dutch-English-German-Norwegian-American. Phooey!
So, what are you considered if you’re a black person not voting for Obama?
BA – a racist of course.
You are all just racist. Racist people vote for mccain and not obama. You will all end up in racist hell. You should all be talking about the economy and you are racist for not doing racist so racist racist RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST RACIST PHHHEWWW I was channeling a democrat there for a second….
A confused racist.
Pick any number of terms used against Condi by the left.
Oh Sonofdy -you’re such a racist!
I have a drop of Native American blood in me, dating back to the 1600’s. I continually take great offense when I see the name, “Washington Redskins”. That is really racist. (kidding)! Otherwise, I am just a Dutch-English-German-Norwegian-American. Phooey.
smart American citizen!
If this keeps up, it will become a badge of honor.
sonofdy said:
“You will all end up in racist hell.”
Well, at east I will be able to find my way around on the subway…
Otherwise, I am just a
Dutch-English-German-Norwegian-American.Racist. I feel the demon democrat coming back…RRRAAACCCIIISSSTTT!!!!
I don’t like black jellybeans. Am I racist?
Should I go to racial rehab?
Discuss.
Another senile moment.
Sadly these seem to exist, see mel gibson. RAAACCCIIISSSTT!!!!
LOL sonofdy–my husband and mother in law are ‘African Americans’. Truly. They were South Africans, then became citizens of the USA.
I am a white middle aged racist who has been with the same conservative black woman for the last 2 years!!
Whew! I feel so much better now that the truth is out and I can freely admit to being a racist.
Go to Hell Murtha, God speed and blessings to William T Russell!
wighttrasch: were they boers or english?
On October 15th, 2008 at 4:38 pm, DerKrieger said:
O/T but trying to spread the news about a Dem plan to end tax breaks for 401k’s and impose a 5% “contribution” for new government sponsored retirement accounts. Even Dem voters need to read this one.
Forgot to mention–the inherent racism of being South African is inferred. Apartheid-practicing, Boer-sympathizing raaaacists!
I use it to scare Grandma.
What do they do to you in racial rehab? Do they give you a black doll and tell you to point to the parts that scare you?
“Hi, I’m TXGator, and I’m a racist. I’ve been tolerant for 11 straight days.”
Close to a majority of us has lost our freakin’ minds….it’s almost funny.
LOL!!! TXGator
Well im out of here, my racist butt has to exercise to get ready for next months racist pt test. The us racist army is really concerned about its racist memebers being able to run 2 miles in a racist way. racist pushups and racist situps as well. See you other racists at the
klan meetingtomorrow!!!Everyone on this thread is racist…except me. I can’t be racist if I am part minority…can I? I have this Indian ancestor who was actually at the first Thanksgiving table with the Pilgrims…That’s a fact. Because I am part Native-American, I am not racist, you racists! So stop offending me!
That is the funniest thing I have heard in a long time!!! Racist, but funny. I think that we have now diluted that word so it no longer has any power over us. Congratulations!
I didn’t know a shar-pei could run for office?
I’m so racist, I would only sleep with the lower half of Halle Berry.
OMG!!! It looks JUST like him!!
I keep getting frisked at the airports so I can’t be a racist.