And for everyone else: lay off Canuckistan. The vast majority of Canadians are not anything like this asshole–which, come to think of it, is probably his underlying beef.

Thanks, Citizen_X. Exactly so.

And on behalf of all of Canada, I apologize for the craven covert racism of R. B. Glennie, who doesn’t want to admit that “coon” IS a racist term…right here in Ontario as it is in Tennessee. Only there are fewer people here that use it, and fewer still who would defend an embittered asshat like Tammy Bruce for using it.

She can’t help it, it’s her nature.

Posted without further comment:

Top radio trash talker Tammy Bruce took her vocal derision of the First family to a new low today. Bruce hurled criticism after criticism at the First Lady in a rant that sounded like Bruce was unraveling on air. What triggered Bruce’s tirade? Oh, that would be the First Lady’s recent conversation with school children in which she shared that other kids had accused her of “talking white.”

“I wanted the A for myself, and I wanted to do it, and ooh, they said you sounded like a white person, I don’t know what that means, but uhh.” Huh?

Man, oh, man. That’s who he’s married to, what does that tell you? This is what we’ve got — you know what we’ve got? We’ve got trash in the White House. Trash is a, is a thing that is color blind, it can cross all eco — ecosocionomic kind of categories, you can work on Wall Street or work at the Wal-Mart. Trash are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy. “

Now, she can cover her ass all she wants with the “not a race thing”, but that’s clearly meant in the vein of “Why, some of my best friends are NEEgroes”

So to answer your question, yes, she has a long history of racist remarks, yes, her original post was racist and yes, her follow up remarks were clearly meant in that same vein.

If you read her subsequent posts, she acknowledges that “coon” is a racist term and pretty much, with a wink and a nod, admits she meant it that way.

just what does ‘pretty much, with a wink and a nod, admits she meant it that way’ mean, exactly?

What are the hidden winks and nods, and how are they an admission of acknowledgement of anything other than whatever you want them to mean?

With a picture you can make a claim of a dog whistle and point to it, and the dog-whistle claim is always the fallback for any race-baiter when a charge of racism appears ridiculous, but in the printed word, what does the ‘wink and a nod’ type of dog-whistle mean and just where is it so I can pick up on these sorts of things?

I read those subsequent comments and the wink and nod seems to be that this is all just silliness coming from people who love doing this sort of thing.

And does Tammy Bruce have a history of making racist statements or is this particular dog-whistle her first foray into the realm of wink and a nod sub-conscious mind-control? None of her commenters seems to have made the connection, so she obviously needs some work in the area if she wants to sally forth in this field, no?

That’s pretty a danged racist world-view.

You’re right. It is racist to equate the sitting black President of the United States with a coon.

You lost, elections have consequences, get over yourself.

Tammy Bruce posted a picture of a raccoon eating Cracker Jacks, and all EJ saw was a black man.

That’s pretty a danged racist world-view.

Yeah, we notice you whitewingers are playing it pretty hard. I expect to see the N word bandied about soon enough with some lame excuse like “but black people use it in their rap lyrics…”

A direct appeal to lynching, the only racist crime besides cross-burning that the denialists will cop to being racism, and every discussion on the topic of racism was still derailed by white people claiming they never heard of a racial component and it was just a joke and lynchings happened against whites too, like in the old west, it wasn’t really racist.

There is nothing and I mean nothing too overt to not cause a bunch of denialist hand-wrining up to and including a black man lynched with nigger scrawled on his chest. Absolutely nothing that won’t cause some idiot to fight for the death for the right for it to merely be the product of the most ignorant and privileged social raising ever.

I mean people try to defend blackface. After that, denying that a coon eating crackers isn’t racist is child’s play.

And furthermore, may I point out to the ignorant unwashed, you do not get brownie points for ignorance. If you are ignorant, you are soaking in unearned privilege of systemic and cultural racism. If you are not aware, you are part of the fucking problem. Ignorance is not more noble than overt racism. They are indeed merely two sides of the same rotten whole.

God I’m sick of that argument. Seriously, when else is ignorance a get out of jail free card?

But officer, I am unaware of any culture on firearms and had no idea that when I pointed the hollow end at her head, pulled back the slidey thing and then waggled the dangly bit that this would happen.

Well that wraps up this case, sorry to bother you sir, you may go about your day.

Also, you know who else might now about overt racism besides racists? Maybe the fucking targets of racism. I know, shock of shocks, but targets of hatred tend to keep track of the phrases used to dehumanize them as well as the tactics to deny that’s what happened.

Ugh, dishonest bigoted wastes of flesh.

So, to all you Good Knights defending Dame Tammy’s honor, I say;

“Go do your homework.”

Ah. Third grade.

Listen, lady…

If you are gonna flash the entire country, you had goddamned well better be gorgeous.

Ms. Bruce, please put it on, please put it all back on. I speak for all of us when I say that no one wants to see that.

A class act all the way!

And coupled with a hearty “who coulda guessed a raccoon woulda had any racial connotation”??? Oh my. Pure comedy gold.

Keep fucking that (fried?) chicken Bruce gang.

o/~ From the coonskin cap on the top of his head to the heel of his rawhide shoes o/~

Do you know NOTHING of American history, Commie bastard?