Jennifer Olsen, Montana GOP Official, Takes Heat For Alleged Racist Facebook Post

[jafar00]

Yeh, ok. I believe it was hackers. And the Pope resigned so he can say he gave up power and influence for lent.

The GOP and especially the Tea Party are an unsavoury lot, and this is just another example.

Anyway, there is not enough room in the box for a President. Obama would just end up with a watermelon and a nice box to carry it home in.

Jennifer Olsen, chairwoman of the Yellowstone County Republicans and a prominent tea party organizer in Montana, is facing scrutiny after being accused of posting a racist picture on her Facebook page earlier this month.
In a post admitting "disdain for the Olsen family," Montana blog Montanafesto put up a screenshot of the following picture of a cardboard box with a watermelon underneath it, alongside a caption calling it a "plot to kidnap" President Barack Obama. Montanafesto alleged it was a repost from Olsen's personal account forwarded by a source.


While Olsen later denied ownership of the picture, telling Billings Blog that it was "fabricated" and "absolutely not true," the accusation has forced state Republican Party officials to weigh in.
“In no way, shape, or form do the Yellowstone County Republicans condone nor accept the use of stereotypes by members in either their personal or political lives,” reads a statement from John Quandt, Yellowstone County Republican Central Committee vice chairman, according to the Billings Gazette. “The committee investigates any allegation made against a member and due to the sensitivity of the subject matter, we are approaching the situation methodically.”
Quandt went on to cast doubt on the authenticity of the post, arguing that none of Olsen's Facebook friends had been willing to go on the record to independently corroborate it. He also suggested that hackers may be to blame, if the picture appeared on Facebook at all.
Republican groups have taken heat for connecting Obama to racist imagery in the past. In 2008, a California women's GOP group sent its followers a newsletterclaiming that Obama's election would lead to food stamps becoming “Obama Bucks.” The article came accompanied by a crudely photoshopped image of Obama surrounded by a watermelon slice, fried chicken and Kool-Aid.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...p_ref=politics

[darin]

Are you REALLY so naive, or are you willfully ignorant, Jafaar? Think about the message you are sending...first, you are a terrorist appologist, and now you're honestly suggesting the Tea Party is chock-full of racists?

Double-You-Tee-Eff?

Pretty soon you'll be spouting off things like you invented the question mark; perhaps you have a penchant for buggery? Are you full general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament...?

[jafar00]

Are you REALLY so naive, or are you willfully ignorant, Jafaar? Think about the message you are sending...first, you are a terrorist appologist, and now you're honestly suggesting the Tea Party is chock-full of racists?

Double-You-Tee-Eff?

Pretty soon you'll be spouting off things like you invented the question mark; perhaps you have a penchant for buggery? Are you full general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament...?

Thank you for your insightful and well thought out reply.

Was that a typical GOP response?

[darin]

Thank you for your insightful and well thought out reply.

Was that a typical GOP response?

You are deflecting. Answer the questions. Do you REALLY think the Tea Party is chock-full of racists? If so, what leads you to that conclusion? </SPAN>

Secondary question: Do you REALLY think in today's media-market a sitting politician would EVER condone or promote such foolery?</SPAN>

Tertiary question: Why do you sometimes seem smart, and other times you put up completely foolish commentary? It's like several people using the same account.</SPAN>

[cadet]

One thing I have to say, is that picture is pretty dang funny.
(It's only racist if you don't understand humor)

[Abbey Marie]

The attempts on the left (and apparently now Muslims) to discredit the Tea Party march ever onward.

This one is too stupid to even contemplate.

[Marcus Aurelius]

interesting how Jahil can whine like a stuck pig when someone disparages all of Islam for what he calls the actions of a few, but then goes and disparages all of the GOP for the actions of a few.

Double standard much, douche bag?

[jimnyc]

The GOP and especially the Tea Party are an unsavoury lot, and this is just another example.

That's if you like your news spoon fed to you, anyway. Neither party is a group that represents racism or unsavory things. But while you're condemning parties based on individuals:

http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthre...-in-Black-face

[gabosaurus]

You are deflecting. Answer the questions. Do you REALLY think the Tea Party is chock-full of racists? If so, what leads you to that conclusion?

Yes. Look at all the anti-Obama actions and literature emanating from Tea Party sources.

Secondary question: Do you REALLY think in today's media-market a sitting politician would EVER condone or promote such foolery?

No, but that doesn't mean they don't do it.

Tertiary question: Why do you sometimes seem smart, and other times you put up completely foolish commentary? It's like several people using the same account.

Look inside yourself and answer the same question.

Are you REALLY so naive, or are you willfully ignorant, Jafaar? Think about the message you are sending...first, you are a terrorist appologist, and now you're honestly suggesting the Tea Party is chock-full of racists?

I don't see where Jafar has ever shown to be a "terrorist apologist" on this forum. It is just certain naive and willfully ignorant posters who persist in stating such. Or perhaps it is just donkey politics.



What is the difference between a Montana blog reporting an incident involving a GOP politician and any other blog reporting an incident involving a Dem official? Other than some single-minded yahoo believing only the latter.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/stat...a344cbd62.html

[Thunderknuckles]

Yes. Look at all the anti-Obama actions and literature emanating from Tea Party sources

Really Gabby, do you honestly believe that just because the Tea Party is anti-Obama that makes them racist? Bullsquatchy!
They'd be doing the same thing if it were a white liberal in office. Hell, they'd be doing the same thing if a white, establishment Republican was in the White House!
Remember, the Tea Party movement was born out of conservative resentment of the Republican Party during Bush's second term. This has nothing to do with racism at all.

[cadet]

The tea party can be defined quickly.
A bunch of country/suburban folk that tend to keep to themselves, aka the norm of america, who have finally reached the breaking point and need to do something about the gov't.

Not a bunch of racist A$$holes.

[DragonStryk72]

Yeh, ok. I believe it was hackers. And the Pope resigned so he can say he gave up power and influence for lent.

The GOP and especially the Tea Party are an unsavoury lot, and this is just another example.

Anyway, there is not enough room in the box for a President. Obama would just end up with a watermelon and a nice box to carry it home in.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...p_ref=politics

so now I'm a racist? what of my buddy ward, who is also a member of the tea party and black? what of my Latino friends who are a part of it? are they racists as well?

why am I unsavory for believing that big government is fundamentally eroding our liberties and country as a whole?

[jimnyc]

Yes. Look at all the anti-Obama actions and literature emanating from Tea Party sources.

So that makes it racist?

The fact that you CALL it racist, just because the tea party disagrees with the idiot in chief, is racist itself, IMO.

[Voted4Reagan]

Really Gabby, do you honestly believe that just because the Tea Party is anti-Obama that makes them racist? Bullsquatchy!
They'd be doing the same thing if it were a white liberal in office. Hell, they'd be doing the same thing if a white, establishment Republican was in the White House!
Remember, the Tea Party movement was born out of conservative resentment of the Republican Party during Bush's second term. This has nothing to do with racism at all.

The T.E.A. Party stands for:

TAXED
ENOUGH
ALREADY

It is composed of people from ALL PARTIES that feel Taxes are too high and need to be reformed.

But the Liberal media never mentions it... neither do people that work in schools such as teachers or office workers like Gabby.

[fj1200]

The attempts on the left (and apparently now Muslims) to discredit the Tea Party march ever onward.

Now if only TP members themselves wouldn't help them along.