Who here thinks Fred Thompson made a racist comment

[Todd]

No.. 70 Virgins is a religious reference, so it was maybe bigoted and irrelevant, but not racist. Muslims are not all Arabs.

 

[doyle]

It was totally racist! Joking and laughing about killing Muslims is WRONG.

 

[Todd]

Wrong yes...Sorry not racist.

 

[adara7537]

I just discovered, though I am sure you guys knew, that McCain said " I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."

WTF?

Its disturbing that the BS about the newsletters is the topic of conversation, but yet this statement and the ones recently made are not. Especially since there is no mistake that these people said them.

 

[Goldwater Conservative]

For what it's worth, it was technically ethnocentrist, not racist. Same goes for what McCain said.

 

[constitutional]

Ignorance is bliss....

o rly?

I remember this one other thread....

 

[proximity]

The irony is, the only 2 up there that aren't racists are Paul and Giulani. Rudy is only about fear and profits though, which leaves only one decent human being on the stage.

 

[thrillhouse]

Well that's like McCain and his comment on "trading burkas".

Forget about the racism, we have candidates who PRO-MURDER, they just don't see it that way because the worth of an individiual life to these people is determined by where they were born geographically in the world.

I think that is even worse, it shows a true racist and someone without any cultural understanding/tolerance.

 

[american empire]

personally offended....but what the heck...are people asleep?

 

[srmpass98]

prove it, Islam doesnt condone killing ones self.... at all

Not at all. I meant rewards for heaven for leading a pious life.

 

[DAFTEK]

Not all Arabs are Muslim! But i think that Thomson's remark might not be as bad as McCain's thou in some peoples eyes because i believe that there is no mention of Virgins in the Quran, We all need to email CNN about this and see if they spin it

 

[Noleader]

Its only racist when most of the nation thinks it is :/

The issue here is lots of Americans do not like Arab folks thanks to the MSM and their blaming the whole region for 9/11. It was outright racist yet they will never be called on it because the public does not condemn all racism.

Americans with Japanese backgrounds faced the same thing in WWII and it took till Reagan to get the "Sorry."

 

[aerial]

Both McCain's and Thompson's comments were racist.

 

[Enzo]

The simple fact that any of them can stand up there and crack little jokes about war, foreign policy and national security, is a testament to just how little they care about this country, human life, and the safety of Americans.

 

[Beyond Good & Evil]

"You don't count the dead when God's on your side."
-Dylan

 

[Bib3773]

I forwarded all these comments through contact links for CNN and Fox news. I also e-mailed them to the Stern show that fortunately was saved. Maybe one of these people will at least prove they are willing ot show it all, otherwise I will send whatever proof i have to the Paul campaign to use against these media moguls. Not stern, but Fox and CNN. Doubt it does a bit of good but everything they have to open is work on them so its bound to wear on them eventually.

 

[SimpleName]

Not sure how racist Thompson's comment was, but it was a great way of getting scumbag voters anyway. McCain also did make a horrifying generalization that trading in Arab nations meant trading with Al Queda. It was MUCH worse than Thompson's comment. I love the dying smile on McCain's face when Ron Paul pounds him into the ground after the lame joke. Paul must hate the jokes the dopey candidates throw around at each other.

 

[VaderM5]

You guys have to see it from McCains point of view. If you want a 100 year war, you might as well turn it into a 100 year holy war.

 

[alexa doherty]

"If they took it one step further, I think the commanders should send them to see their 70 (He can't even get the number right) virgins they want to so bad"

I mean it's so unprofessional to say such a thing. Really, he insulted the Muslim religion. We want this man to be President who will have the responsibility to speak to foreign nations, many of whom are Muslim nations?

No, the term racism is used so much no that it has become worthless.

 

[VoluntaryMan]

The war in Iraq has always been a racist war. The American people at home and our soldiers overseas are encouraged to think in terms of racial steroetypes, stereotypes reinforced with hateful epithets such as "raghead, camel jockey, dessert monkey, dune coon, and sand n!gg3r," and my personal favorite, "islamofascists." Yet, somehow racial epithets and stereotypes are okay when applied to our "enemies" in the middle east. To the establishment that promotes and profits from this war, racism is not only acceptable when when applied to our "enemies" overseas, but it even ceases to be racism. "Kick their @$$ and take their gas!" Yeah, what the hell, they're only 'rabs, anyway, right? Who cares what they think?