RNC Attendees Throw Nuts at Black Camerawoman, "This is how we feed animals"

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

I don't see why you can't accept the logic that in an audience of thousands of polarized, partisan Republicans, that at least a couple of them are going to be racist enough to do something as bigoted as this. After all, 30%+ of Republicans still believe Obama is a Muslim despite having no evidence to suggest such a thing. Among this Republican audience of knuckle-draggers, 56% of Tea Party identifiers, 50% of evangelicals and 41% of all Republicans believe Obama was born in another country. When you add in the "doubt" factor, the number of Republicans who engage in this bat-shat behavior grows to 65%.

Belief in both Obama-is-a-Muslim and Obama-was-born-in-Kenya are largely manifestations of ideological, not racist, opposition. I'll grant you there are exceptions, but very, very few.

Ts, ts, ts...
Are you seriously suggesting that if we had a white President with the exact same record as Obama, half of Republicans would believe he was born in Kenya and a third would believe he was a Muslim?
You're usually more intelligent than this.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

I don't see why you can't accept the logic that in an audience of thousands of polarized, partisan Republicans, that at least a couple of them are going to be racist enough to do something as bigoted as this. After all, 30%+ of Republicans still believe Obama is a Muslim despite having no evidence to suggest such a thing. Among this Republican audience of knuckle-draggers, 56% of Tea Party identifiers, 50% of evangelicals and 41% of all Republicans believe Obama was born in another country. When you add in the "doubt" factor, the number of Republicans who engage in this bat-shat behavior grows to 65%.

Belief in both Obama-is-a-Muslim and Obama-was-born-in-Kenya are largely manifestations of ideological, not racist, opposition. I'll grant you there are exceptions, but very, very few.

Ts, ts, ts...
Are you seriously suggesting that if we had a white President with the exact same record as Obama, half of Republicans would believe he was born in Kenya and a third would believe he was a Muslim?
You're usually more intelligent than this.

If we had a black or a white person who'd lived in America all their lives, it wouldn't exist...but if we had a white person who was half-(say) Serbian, and lived in Yugoslavia for part of their childhood, you would have conspiracy theories that that person was not born in the US by people ideologically opposed to them, even if they were white. Hell, if I run for President someday, I would probably be subjected to similar ones -- I was born ~2 years after my parents immigrated.

10% of the opposite party at most.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

As someone who has been at an RNC and knowing the type of supporter it attracts, my first reaction to the story is not that the action was about race, but about the mainstream media. CNN has had a bad reputation with the base since the Clinton years and conservative talk radio spends as much time bashing the MSM as is does Obama.

You might think so... but the "This is how we feed animals" remark clearly points to the opposite.