Now, if we just had a sane commentator on every channel in this country…
“We can’t tolerate this ignorance; not in the media, not on the campaign trail.” — Truer words, Ms. Brown. Truer words.
Mr. Landham, the Libertarian Party of Kentucky’s candidate for U.S. Senate, finds himself in hot water recently. IN comments made to the Courier-Journal on July 21, Landham proves himself to be a bigot of the first degree, at least when it comes to Arab Americans. Here’s how columnist Joseph Gerth, in his Time Warp, reported Sonny Landham’s comments:
He wants to release oil from the strategic oil reserve, drill in areas of the U.S. currently off-limits to the oil companies and then try to persuade OPEC to cut the price of oil. What if it doesn’t?
“We should go and bomb those camel-dung shovelers back into the sand,” Landham said. “I said ‘camel-dung shovelers.’ Make sure you put that in the newspaper.”
Wow. And that was only one of the epithets he used.
As if that weren’t enough, Landham went on air with The Weekly Filibuster, an Internet-based, political talk radio show, and clarified his stance on Arabs and Arab Americans. I’ll pull some excerpts from the transcript after the cut, for you (thanks to the Independent Political Report for publishing the entire transcript here):
On May 29, NPR’s All Things Considered considers the keffiyeh in the context of a Dunkin Donuts ad.
Turn up your speakers and listen here.
ABC Primetime ran a piece on how Muslims are treated in America… absolutely worth watching. They set up a bigoted, nasty character behind the counter of a bakery in Anywhere, America, and filmed the customers’ reactions when the actor refused to serve a Muslim woman–also in on the setup.
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