KKK plans to show up at tonight’s debate.
By on Sep 26th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
KKK plans to show up at tonight’s debate.
The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to appear at the University of Mississippi for tonight’s debate, the university’s student newspaper reports. The emperor confirmed to the Daily Mississippian that KKK members and officers would be on site, but would not demonstrate publicly:
The Mississippi White Knights will have officers and Klansmen on hand for the presidential debate on September 26, 2008. Our people will be in Oxford and on the campus ‘invisible.’ That means our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.
The author of the article, a senior at Ole Miss, told the Wall Street Journal, “Everybody thinks it’s pretty chilling.”
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Gee, Who do you think they'll be supporting?
September 26th, 2008 at 6:40 pm.
Can I be sick yet...?
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September 26th, 2008 at 6:40 pmSo they'll get to watch Obama kick the living shit out of McCain...
September 26th, 2008 at 6:41 pmDo these bassakwards inbred idiots ever get tired of showing hop rediculous they are??oh wait did there parents never done learned them no common sence or humanity..... ofcourse not what was I thinking
MCAIN/PALIN
four more years of BuSh
September 26th, 2008 at 6:41 pmNo big deal. The KKK are everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I don't approve of them. It's just that racism is still here. Funny thing is that the KKK thinks of itself as a Christian organization. We are all the same in God's eyes but for some reason they can't model themselves after the very God that they claim to worship.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:45 pmSo, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.
Maybe the white guys gritting their teeth and hissing "n____r" whenever Obama speaks . . .
September 26th, 2008 at 6:46 pmWhat kind of human failure is a member of the KKK in the year 2008? If ever a group of people deserved to be sitting in Gitmo it's these sheet-wearing a-holes.
Just saying . . .
September 26th, 2008 at 6:46 pmThat idiots of the KKK showing up and later, presumably voting for McSame, if they can read the ballot, demonstrates how many otherwise intelligent whites would vote for McSame over Obama. McSame is demonstrably suffering some kind of mental problem, loves living on the edge (gambling, multiple plane crashes, women)is wrong headed on the middle east, doesn't know squat about business or the economy, but he's white and Obama isn't.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:47 pmZooey - you're correct. The Democrats kicked the living shit out of the KKK two years ago during the general election in my precinct. I live in southeast Pennsylvania and I hate to say that the KKK is alive and well. I'll never understand bigotry.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pmProbably led by Ted Nugent and the rest of the FoxNews crew. God Bless America.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:49 pmCats,
We chased 'em out of Idaho. We still have ignorant fools, like everywhere else, but at least they're not organized. :-D
September 26th, 2008 at 6:50 pmAs John "Let the Eagle Soar" Ashcroft said, we can use this as cover to do the things we've been wanting to do.
Round 'em up, lock 'em up.
Can't think of a better way to deal with the KKK than letting them spend a good long time in prison, any prison. Can you imagine how popular a Klansman would be in prison?
When it comes to the KKK and neoNazis, I have a really hard time with Free Speech.
Now, let me go donate to the ACLU. They are better people than I am.
PEACE
September 26th, 2008 at 6:51 pmThe KKK are part of the homegrown mercenaries that work the border between the US and Mexico, their goal of course, is to keep out people of color. If you saw these as sholes on the street, you wouldn't suspect anything. As soon as they open their mouth, then you know that they are homegrown terrorists.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:51 pmWonder why their little club doesn't show it's ugly head here in Seattle?
Hope they enjoy the butt kicking that McGonnaDieSoon is going to get.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:53 pmZ - they still march in PA. About 3 years ago, they tried to hold a march in Valley Forge National Park but something happened to prevent the march. There were only about 10 of them, which is 10 too many.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pmRush Limbaugh will be the big tubby one.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:55 pmThe KKK will say they support Obama because they know
September 26th, 2008 at 6:56 pmthat everyone will go the other way. (south park)
Speaking of tonight's debate, here's a little bit of deja vu from McNumbNuts' 2000 campaign for his party's nomination. Some things never change . . . once a grandstander, always a grandstander.
With new polls showing his campaign dead in the water among California Republicans, Arizona Sen. John McCain has pulled out of a long-scheduled debate with Texas Gov. George Bush, set for Thursday in Los Angeles. . . . Top campaign officials attributed McCain’s decision to Bush’s earlier reluctance to appear at the debate. “We had agreed to do this debate a long time ago, and Gov. Bush said he wasn’t going to do it,” McCain spokesman Howard Opinsky said yesterday. “We aren’t going to hold our schedule together forever.”
. . .Still, just last week, the McCain campaign was openly derisive of Bush’s reluctance to commit to a California debate — and promised its own candidate would be there. “John McCain believes it’s important for the people of California to see and hear the candidates talk about the issues,” McCain communications director Dan Schnur told The Chronicle last week. “Thirty- three million Californians are worth that attention . . . and we’ll be there, either way.”
“Clearly, this is more double-talk from the McCain campaign,” said Alixe Mattingly, a spokeswoman for Bush. “Pulling out of this debate at the last minute is an indication that they’re pulling out of California, where McCain’s antagonistic message clearly isn’t working.”. . . “From a distance, it seems like the ‘Straight Talk Express’ is careening off the exit ramp in California,” said Leslie Goodman, a Republican communications consultant and Bush backer, in a reference to McCain’s campaign bus. “They claimed they’d make California a priority because it was win or die, and now they don’t care enough to debate.”
September 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pmMaybe they will be the ones with Rebel flag pins (made in China) and holding McDepends/Flailin signs.
Or maybe you would have to take off their shoes to see which ones have 6 toes and look for the name of their first cousin/wife tattoed over their heart.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pmWe all know people who won't vote for Obama because he is black. They're not so much different than the KKK folks.
September 26th, 2008 at 6:58 pm"That means our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.
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they do camouflage
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the "emperor"?
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September 26th, 2008 at 7:04 pmTrent Lott will be at the debate. Shame they won't let him wear his tutu and white pointed hat.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:07 pmsatirev Says:
The KKK is irrelevant past history held onto by a group of unsophisticated racist, bigoted pigs. I don’t believe this is worthy of the elevated level of repartee of the regulars on TP.
Have at it trolls! I think we all have better things to do.
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well it was either this
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September 26th, 2008 at 7:08 pmSo, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.
And you'll just have to guess how many "klansmen" are undercover FBI, and Secret Service.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:10 pmWonder why they had to have this published in the paper? A lot of people will be there. It sounds like an intimidation tactic to me.
Evil lurks everywhere. :(
September 26th, 2008 at 7:11 pmThey are such brave people! They've given up hiding behind robes and dunce caps and now will hide in plain view! Cowards.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:11 pmAnd perhaps we should put an electronic monitor on David Duke, just to be on the safe side...
September 26th, 2008 at 7:12 pmbigeugene Says:
They are such brave people! They’ve given up hiding behind robes and dunce caps and now will hide in plain view! Cowards.
Youfrogot inbred, ignorant, thumb sucking, mouth breathing, deliverence mimmicing, corn holeing hicks.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:18 pmAnyone care to wager if Fox will air McCain political ads during breaks in the debate?
Anyone?
September 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pmWhy bother guessing who's KKK or not? If they aren't dressed up or carrying signs, how does that make tonight any different from any other day when they are walking the UMiss campus?
September 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pmChristians? Those Kooky Klucks Klansmen aren't even the same race as Jesus was!
September 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pmSilly me, I thought this world had moved further up on the food chain.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pmMost Klansmen (and women) appear as ordinary people when they aren't wearing their robes, burning crosses, or demonstrating. These people who will be at the debate incognito are around us all the time. No reason why the debate should be any different.
However, normally they don't advertise they are going to be somewhere. That is an intimidation tactic designed to strike fear in the hearts of those they don't like (non-white, Catholics, Jews, atheists -- a large portion of Americans). Yet there is nothing to fear unless they band together and become visible. Alone, they are cowards.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:24 pmScaryBrownHusseinChick (ThinkOutsideTheBush) Says
September 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Christians? Those Kooky Klucks Klansmen aren’t even the same race as Jesus was!
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The KKK is about as "Christian" as the 9-11 hijackers were "Muslim".
September 26th, 2008 at 7:25 pmThe KKK? Haven't they heard? Obama's not black - he's Arab! I heard it on Limbaugh!
September 26th, 2008 at 7:26 pmGreat more repugs.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:27 pmOh, that's always a good sign.
Why am I not surprised, especially considering this is in Mississippi?
September 26th, 2008 at 7:28 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
The KKK is about as “Christian” as the 9-11 hijackers were “Muslim”.
I'd like to give 'em a Kick in the Klandestine Knuts!
September 26th, 2008 at 7:31 pmPut on your steel-toed boots, and I'll meet ya at Ole Miss!
#33 ScaryBrownHusseinChick,
They hate the race Jesus was born into...
... Remember, Jesus was not born a Christian but instead a Jew.
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September 26th, 2008 at 7:32 pm"That means our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen."
September 26th, 2008 at 7:34 pmOhh scary! Spot the Klansmen!
I'm going to guess it's the ones who appear comically impotent with misdirected rage. Do these guys really think they strike fear anymore? They are scary only in that they are dangerously dumb. Like a drunk driver.
Perhaps they won't be in "regalia or demonstrating" because all the "emperor" could muster was six guys in a pick-up truck.
I'm so sick of the repugs talkingheads. I'm glad we have Olbermann and Maddow.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:35 pmI remember reading a similar statement about the Neo- Conservatives around 2002 or so. I seem to recall the tone of article/interview was that they were ancient history and no longer had any influence within the Republican party. The interviewee was a republican of course.
What a grift that was. I wouldn't be too quick to underestimate these lunatics.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:38 pmSo the KKK members are going to be sitting politely in the audience like everyone else? Oooh scary.
And doesn't their announcement just remind us who they are voting for, making voting for John McCain seem even worse?
Maybe we'll be lucky and they will actually listen to what Obama has to say and possibly learn something. Maybe having KKK members trapped in an auditorium listening to Obama is not such a bad thing after all.
September 26th, 2008 at 7:45 pmspeaking of lunatics...
heeeeeerrrrreeesssss CHUCK!
September 26th, 2008 at 7:56 pmChuckySchmucky Says:
Robert Byrd is going to be at the debate?
Cool.
Anybody else from the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow and, today, the party of affirmative racism going to be there?
OOOOWWWW! Another KKKer heard from! Why don't you just go in the kitchen and give your mom/sister a nice big kiss, K?
September 26th, 2008 at 7:57 pmThank you.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:02 pmThis was the first I'd heard of Trent Lott's plans to attend.
bigeugene Says:
They are such brave people! They’ve given up hiding behind robes and dunce caps and now will hide in plain view! Cowards.
bigeugene, that is exactly what my first thought was. Come on you chicken sh!t bastards, put on your uniform you disgraceful human beings. These are the first people that call out anti-war people for being chicken sh!t. Well, here is your chance, on a national stage, to show you aren't chicken sh!t. But of course, you are.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:23 pmAnyone hoping for an "O Brother Where Art Thou" scene where the KKK is carried out on a pole?
September 26th, 2008 at 8:30 pmChuckySchmucky Says:
Robert Byrd is going to be at the debate?
Cool.
Anybody else from the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow and, today, the party of affirmative racism going to be there?
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September 26th, 2008 at 8:31 pmKlansmen, Republicans, McCain supporters - what's the difference???
September 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pmschmucky,
It’s embarrassing enough that the drunk, killer blowhard is the senior member on the House side.
Would that be Boehner?
But your love for Flailin and McDepends is understandable. LIV's have been supporting the Repugs and NeoCon Racists for a loing time now.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:38 pmSpeaking of knees and Masters... how was your weekend getaway with Mark Foley and Larry Craig, Chuck? Toe tappin, bent over the knee slappin' good ole times for ya' young patriot?
I mean if you're going to go there, lets keep it recent.
Shall we snookems?
September 26th, 2008 at 8:39 pmschmuckadoodle's right - Ted K. should've just cheated on his wife and the mother of his kids with a beer heiress, and used her daddy's money to buy a career in crooked politics.
u sik stupid phuk - don't ever meet me in a dark alley.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:39 pmThey want to be there to personally present McDepends with an application for membership into their little "club".......
September 26th, 2008 at 8:45 pmChuckySchmucky Says:
off your meds again,
eh?
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priceless.
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September 26th, 2008 at 8:45 pmChuckySchmucky Says:
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Oh, and didn’t mean to demote the drunk killer to the House (sorry, Teddy — forgot that killing women merits elevation to the higher house).
September 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
If that were true , wouldn't Joke Stupidborough be a Senator now instead of a (moronic and boring) morning talk show host , dipshit ?
September 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pmSo, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen
What... are they ashamed to show up in their dresses?
Obama, please stay safe.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:55 pmChucky
September 26th, 2008 at 9:05 pmYou're damn right about Byrd. He's like a walking time capsule. He comes from a time when the Democratic Party was chock full o' racists.
But then LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, and he predicted that the Democrats were going to lose the South. He was correct. Guess which party those disgruntled voters flocked to?
Thus was born the GOP's southern strategy. I'd be happy to kick Byrd out of the party, but there's no way the GOP could survive without those voters.
ChuckySchmucky Says:
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Another ignorant punk heard from.
This is positively HILARIOUS — a Klansman at the top of his party and he can make that statement with a straight face!
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You are a liar a fool and a PUNK
PRICELESS!
I love it — more evidence, as if any were needed — of the serious derangement of the leftist!
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The only evidence here is how stupid, worthless, and without a clue YOU rightwingnuts are and that has been obvious to anyone paying attention for a LOOOOONG time.
Oh, and didn’t mean to demote the drunk killer to the House (sorry, Teddy — forgot that killing women merits elevation to the higher house).
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Or when the killer is a WOMAN like say Laura Bush she becomes the First lady. You are such a putrid piece of garbage. Do the world a favor and give yourself a vascectomy with a pair of rusty wirecutters. Then clean your mommys basement before you go out to play with the other special children. Make sure you look both ways before crossing the street someone as stupid as you can easily become a speedbump and dont forget that little chore with the rusty wirecutters
September 27th, 2008 at 7:43 amChucky you are a liar a fool, and an ignorant racist piece of garbage. Byrd hasnt been in the Klan for several decades and has appologized for EVER being a member many times. Meanwhile it is YOUR sick, depraved and racist party that ADMITTED using the racist Southern Strategy. It is par for the course for you truly disgusting racist punks to project YOUR sick racism on decent people. You are an ignorant punk
September 27th, 2008 at 7:47 amWait, I'm confused...aren't the Republicans and the KKK the same??
September 27th, 2008 at 12:32 pmKKK plans to show up at tonight’s debate.
What, you mean Haley Barbour, Trent Lott, the lieutenant governor, and state attorney general are going to be there? How nice.
September 27th, 2008 at 10:25 pmChuckles (aka Mr Pee), write, telephone, or email the KKK and ask them if they prefer Republicans or Democrats. Ask them if they prefer conservatives or liberals. Ask them if they prefer McCain or Obama. Careful, you might get your head blown off with the last one!
September 27th, 2008 at 10:30 pmOh, something tells me that even without the sheets, it won't be hard to guess who a lot of the klansmen are.
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