Our header slogan this season is one we had in years’ past: “We don’t take holidays!” This is why we can’t. Now, we are officially of the mindset that Tennessee Republicans have some mad issues. We have had Gov. Don Sundquist speaking before the Council of Conservative Citizens while he was Governor a few years back. We have the racist ad against Henry Ford in his losing bid for a Senate seat in 2006. We have them early on in last year’s presidential campaign putting out a press release using Barack’s middle name as an insult, trying to tie him to anti-Semitism (and using that picture of Obama in Somali dress). It was them who later did a commercial going after Michelle Obama for the “first time in my life I am proud of my country” line. Then in November of last year Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall speaking before the Council of Conservative Citizens and almost speaking before another racist group in DC until the heat was put on him. Oh, let’s not forget how the year started – GOP State head Chip Saltsman passing around around on a CD that “Barack the Magic Negro” song first made famous by Rush Limbaugh’s program, and a song titled “Star Spanglish Banner,” that disparages Latinos.State Senator Diane Black’s emailing a picture around depicting all 44 presidents – President Obama portrayed with two floating eyes in front of a black background. Well, we guess we can end the year as it began, with a racist Tennessee politican talking out of his ass, and this one is so stupid we can’t even picture anyone seeing this one coming! He is Arlington, TN mayor Russell Wiseman, and our headline is referring to some dumb crap he put on his Facebook page. We will let prominent Tennesse anti-racist activist Tim Wise’s own Facebook posting about him say it for us: “This man is a complete idiot. The people who elected him are complete idiots. If you think like he does, you are a complete idiot. And no, I do not think it is wrong to call people names when they are complete idiots. In fact, the unwillingness of the left to attack and politically destroy people like this is why they (are) always are more influential than we are, no matter who is President. It is time to stop “tolerating” assholes like this. It is time for folks to start camping out on his doorstep and making life miserable for his family. No peace for bigots, period.”
The Commercial Appeal
In the opinion of Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman, President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night on the war in Afghanistan was deliberately timed to block the Christian message of the “Peanuts” television Christmas special.
Wiseman made the statements on his Facebook page, where he declared Obama to be a Muslim. Only people on Wiseman’s “friend’s list” had access to the post. He has more than 1,600 friends on Facebook.
“Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….”
“A Charlie Brown Christmas,” which first aired in 1965, has become an endearing program for many because of its emphasis on the “real meaning of Christmas,” including Linus’ memorable reading from the Gospel of Luke of Jesus’ birth.
In Wiseman’s extensive thread that attacked the president, his supporters and Muslims, he stated “…you obama people need to move to a muslim country…oh wait, that’s America….pitiful.”
At another point he said, “you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different……..”
When contacted Thursday, Wiseman declined to comment about his Facebook posts.
“It’s ridiculous for someone to send my Facebook post,” Wiseman said. “You guys are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.”
As the popularity of social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook has increased, some organizations, such as some NFL teams, have banned the use of posting comments online because of inflammatory and embarrassing remarks that invariably make it into the public domain.
To avoid online controversies, Ellyn Angelotti, a faculty member at the Poynter Institute, said that everyone, not just public officials, must to be careful of what they post on the Internet.
“A lot of people think Facebook is private so only a limited number of people can see their post,” Angelotti said. “But the reality is that it can be made public.
“You’ve got to be careful. The same social rules that apply in real life should be applied to the virtual life.”
Wiseman said his post received more than 70 comments.
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