D'Amato Calls Out "Racist Bullshit" on FOX
During a typical FOX News dog-pile on government services (where each panelist agrees that privatization will cure everything from lost socks to syphilis), GOP strategist Jack Burkman decided to just come out and say what he was really thinking, which is that black people aren’t worth a damn:
Most of these guys working in the Post Office should be driving cabs, and I think we should stop importing labor from Nigeria and Ethiopia. That’s the skill level. They’re only in there because of massive union protection.
Of course, he didn’t say, “Fuck colored people,” exactly, he performed the usual conservative gymnastics so that, at any given moment, it might sound like he was really just criticizing immigrants, labor unions, or the government as a whole. The only thing that surprises me about this kind of thinly-veiled racism is that the GOP is even bothering to put a veil on it anymore.
But Al D’Amato, who’s already given up any hope of earning the Tea Party’s affection, and who can remember a time when having a name like “D’Amato” would have kept you out of the country club, was having none of Burkman’s double talk:
You are a nasty racist… let me just tell you, that’s a bunch of bullshit, and you should be ashamed of yourself and have your mouth washed out… Shut up, I listened to your racist bullshit. It’s one thing to say that [the Postal Service] is hiring unskilled labor, that you can save money, that you can run it better, that it’s inefficient and ineffective. And I agree to all of those things, but for you to bring in this bullshit about “a bunch of Nigerians,” et cetera, that’s out of line, and you hurt the cause…
Bravo. All we need now is for the Blue Team to take a page from Al’s playbook and start calling out the Tea Party on their racist bullshit. In truth though, if they did, there would be little time to do any actual governing.
Sat., Sep. 18, 2010
Reader Comments (4)
Looks like Tamara Holder tried to call him out but got yelled down.
Yeah, I was surprised there were 2 people in the room who took issue with Burkman.
I would assume a knock like that would seriously halt his (the racist's) career in any professional TV-station. But after all this is FOX News, I see how my comment may seem a little off topic now. Oh well...
You can see the look on Burkman's face once D'Amato starts tearing into him. He's initially terrified, then seems to realize where he is, and that all he has to do is keep changing the subject and smiling like an idiot.