Joe Scarborough Calls For Dismissal Of New Young Republican Chairman Audra Shay
Joe Scarborough Calls For Dismissal Of New Young Republican Chairman Audra Shay
Earlier this week, 38-year old Tennessee resident Audra Shay won an election to take over the Young Republicans National Federation. Shay’s candidacy had been supported by Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA).
Shay won the post despite the fact that she had come under heavy criticism for approving of a racist comment made by a friend on Facebook. When her friend Eric commented, “obama bin lauden is the new terrorist….muslim is on there side …..need to take this country back from all these mad coons…….and illegals,” Shay responded: “You tell em Eric! lol [laughing out loud].”
When asked about the controversy by Bill Maher last night on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said Shay needs to be “immediately” dismissed:
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, LOL. I hope LOL stands for something other than what I’ve been taught that LOL stands for. I mean, that’s obviously something that the National Republican Party should step in on immediately and relieve her of her responsibilities. That’s inexcusable. [crowd applause] And that’s the sort of thing, if somebody writes it, she needs to be relieved at once.
The flap over the racist comments seemed to help Shay get elected. The Indianapolis Star reported that many young Republicans flocked to Shay’s side to defend her against what they viewed as “just political mudslinging.”
Shay offered this reasoning in her defense: “An individual posted two comments on my Facebook wall, the first comment arguing against big government, and the second filled with racially charged comments. … I responded supporting the individual’s first post. … I was not aware of the racial comments until sometime later, when a third individual brought it to my attention.”
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Shay offered this reasoning in her defense: “An individual posted two comments on my Facebook wall, the first comment arguing against big government, and the second filled with racially charged comments. … I responded supporting the individual’s first post. … I was not aware of the racial comments until sometime later, when a third individual brought it to my attention.”
Man, that’s weak.
That’s some seriously weak shit.
And besides… since when is 38 years old “young”?.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:22 pmShorter Audra:
“So what am I supposed to do? … read every word in a comment that I’m replying to? Get real.”
July 18th, 2009 at 12:23 pmOh please! Now Joe is condenming this? The only reason Joe is calling for her dissmissal is because of the publicity. Trust me, if this was keep under wraps, Joe would be praising her. Remember the ‘Mucaca’ moment. It took days for MSM to report on it after it was all over You-Tube. Thing about MSM and their Big Business buddies, is they will try to shield Repugs no matter what. Look at the ‘C Street’ Scandal. Only Rachel has brought it up in length. Nobody else will touch it.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:24 pmralph@1, To Repugs, anyone under fifty is young. Repugs consist of old, white bigots. This woman would have been a champion of the Republican cause, IF she didn’t get busted for this.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:26 pmP.D.
I’m with you. Joe was little or no redeeming qualities. Why don’t we ask the intern he was having an affair with? That’s right, we can’t – may she rest in peace.
How much air time did this story get?
July 18th, 2009 at 12:27 pmOh, damn. Good point. I forgot who we’re talking about here. Thanks.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:28 pmOver fifty or stupid, just ask Meghan.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:28 pmWas that third individual Tom from MySpace…
July 18th, 2009 at 12:29 pmShe’s 38? I was wondering about that leathery looking face…Tanning Salon much…
July 18th, 2009 at 12:31 pmIt’s pretty funny Jindal supported her candidacy. Jindal’s so clueless he doesn’t know how dark his skin is and what these racist republicans say about him behind his back. If he thinks her nomination is so good, I suggest he try stoping at a truck stop in Texas in the middle of the night to get something to eat and see what reception he get.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:35 pmdbadass@9, Yeah, maybe she suntans with Bohner? Or Ensign. She would be right at home with those hypocrits.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:38 pmDoes anyone know WHERE in Tennessee she is or what she does for a living? I live in Nashville and would love to blast email her — what a fool.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:39 pmOh, she was responding to the FIRST comment, and NOT the racist one. Sure. That’s some fancy tap dancin’, like doing the River Dance in dog poo.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:39 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Oh, sorry, my corgi says I shouldn’t insult dog poo that way.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:40 pmGotta love that nude head-and-shoulders shot of Audra, though, huh? Republicans do like them some cheesecake.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:42 pmJoe is not only up set with Ms. Shay’s comment but she looks alot like Joe’s secretary that was murdered and he had ordered the investigation dropped. Yes one might ask if Joe see’s dead people or how he’s a champion for Equal Rights? Let’s see Joe is a KKK member so the Equal Rights is out. Joe got away with murder and he can trick the voters into voting for him back in office. Joe knows there’s big money as he was once a Congressman and stole. Now it’s time to slide back in and get backing to stealing from the taxpayers and laughing all the way to the bank. Look Goldman Sachs was so good at stealing billions from the US Treasury they did it twice and it worked.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:42 pmNormal Republic Fascist Party Member response, “It was someone elses fault.”
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
July 18th, 2009 at 12:44 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
So does it follow that you gotta get yourself some armadillo this night?
July 18th, 2009 at 12:53 pmLaugh about it, shout about it
When you’ve got to choose
Ev’ry way you look at it,
You lose.
Coo-coo, ca-choo…..Mrs. Robinson
July 18th, 2009 at 12:54 pm#1. Right on, Ralph, that is weak.
She’s LOL at comments about big government? Seriously.
Oh, maybe she means Lots o’ Luck, and hoping that when and if the rePublicritters get their hooks in the executive again, they’ll get the Shrub & Beloved Ronnie version of smaller government again; put party hacks into as many civil service postitions as they can possibly convert to appointments (and then weasel them into professional civil service just before the next great turfing out).
July 18th, 2009 at 12:55 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
That is some funny shit okie dokie…
July 18th, 2009 at 12:56 pmShe looks like mAnn Coultergeist’s younger sister! She should be a spokesmodel for Rethuglican values—Yeah, The Faux Noise model of beauty…young-ish, blond, and not too smart.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:00 pmThe Daily Beast covered Shays response to the racist comment, and she supported it. Now, she lies about it. Typical.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pmLooks like Ann Coulter has some competition.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:04 pmAs for Scarborough…fuçk him.
Yo Joe Scarborough! Might help if you call for your friend and colleague Uncle Pat Buchanan to be dismissed too. His statements are far more egregious than Shay’s.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:04 pmThanks, dbadass @#24
And it’s funny how life imitates art, isn’t it?
July 18th, 2009 at 1:07 pmHow can anyone mistake a cougar for an armadillo?
July 18th, 2009 at 1:15 pmdbadass says:
She’s 38? I was wondering about that leathery looking face…Tanning Salon much…
July 18th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Seriously, she’s too young to have skin like that. Stay out of tanning beds.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:20 pmThis dope responsed EIGHT MINUTES AFTER with her “You tell em Eric! lol [laughing out loud].” ; what kind of bullshit is she trying to sell here ?
It took you 8 minutes to respond , yet you didn’t realize the entire content of what you were responding to , though there were less than 30 words in that loser racist’s post ?
Yeah , you go with that ………….
July 18th, 2009 at 1:20 pmralph the wonder locust says:
And besides… since when is 38 years old “young”?.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
ralph, don’t make me come over there…
July 18th, 2009 at 1:25 pmSorry, Zoo. You don’t look a day over 26.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:29 pmAwww ralph, I can never stay mad at you…
July 18th, 2009 at 1:30 pmralph the wonder locust says:
And besides… since when is 38 years old “young”?.
21 years ago.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pmIt’s not suprising a tennessee republican is racist. You know she agreed with that racist comment 100%.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pmNot only is she a racist, but shes a lousy liar. She said she was responding to the first post, BS. These repugs are so used to lying and having their supporters believe their BS.They forget that 80% of the country doesnt support them. They hate libs for calling them out on their BS lies.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pmSorry, Zoo. You don’t look a day over 26.
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July 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pmand the skin of a newborn non-lateterm abortion child…
Yeah, Zooey…It all depends on your perspective. I used to think 38 was old….now, not so much!
July 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pmA newly discovered Facebook thread from June 30 shows Shay’s Obama Derangement Syndrome in full bluster, when she reacted with extreme displeasure with Obama’s cautious stance on the Honduran crisis.
“This is an outrage and I CAN NOT believe this nation has him as our leader! It makes me sick!” She posted a few minutes later: “My disdain for Obama is directly proportionate for his disdain of this country.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-10/the-gops-young-hatemonger/2/
Seems as if gender is completely immaterial when dealing with the moronic GOP and their imbecilic supporters……….
July 18th, 2009 at 1:33 pmJoe S. occasionally makes noises in the right direction, but on the whole — he’s still a right-wing shill. Still waiting for the day some plucky reporter grills Joe about Lori Klausutis.
Just saying . . .
July 18th, 2009 at 1:33 pmAccording to the new dictionary of rethugs, which I’m working on now.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:36 pmRethugs define young as:
-having an affair in your mid 40’s,then becoming holier than though in your 70’s (see Henry Hyde)
-someone who uses a tanning bed to cover up his ethical bareness(see Bohener,John)
-the golden girls
tony and lido
That woman and her fellow repiggies are white supremacists through and through.
They see Obama as a racial abomination, and many of them regularly claim that it goes against the Bible.
Some of the anti-abortion noise machines have actually said that an abortion is okay if the fetus is mixed-race.
Why would some of you even vote for repiggies for any local offices? No matter how civilized or rational they may try to appear, the fact that they are repiggies
should tell you that they buy into this racist crap and support it without question.
Please stop voting for these repiggies for anything.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:40 pmLet’s see if I’ve got this right. Joe wants the Republican National Committee to step in and remove Shay of her rightfully won election? Who will they get to do it? Katherine Harris?
Come on guys. You’re just ticked because she’s a woman. Give her two years and she may quit.
Besides the YRs are the future of the party. You can’t expect Republicans to abandon racism cold turkey.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:45 pmOy. Over on the Frago thread we just had a real wing-ding show up.
Too stupid to even take seriously.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:46 pmShay is just another GOPer making excuses. They are always making excuses and never offering apologies. However, they do expect apologies from the Democrats and Liberals.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:47 pmdbadass says:
and the skin of a newborn non-lateterm abortion child…
July 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
You sweet talker…
July 18th, 2009 at 1:48 pmLet’s see, there is Shay, Coulter, Ingram, Liz Cheney, Hasselbach, and the woman on the Fox morning show, just to name a few, that have blond hair. Yikes… these stupid women are giving blonds a bad reputation.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pmThe flap over the racist comments seemed to help Shay get elected. The Indianapolis Star reported that many young Republicans flocked to Shay’s side to defend her against what they viewed as “just political mudslinging.”
I was trying to give the Repub’s some credit. I was thinking we, as a country, were beyond this outright racist drivel and they were just whining because they lost big in the elections and the Dem’s were in control.
They proved me wrong again.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:55 pmWhen Shay first realized there was a controversy, she took down the thread on Facebook and defriended the person who complained about the racist post.
From John Avlon’s reporting at the Daily Beast:
“Shay was silent on this exchange, but soon word started spreading throughout the Young Republican circuit, open to GOP members under 40. Significantly, Shay then “de-friended” Wallender and Conner—in the world of Facebook, that means cutting off relations—after calling her out, but kept Piker as a “friend” (subsequently, it appears their profiles are no longer linked).”
Wallender and Conner has complained on the thread about the coon comment. Pike made the coon comment.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:57 pmThese vote up and vote down buttons are useless. It looks like everyone has “vote down” points. What’s the purpose?
July 18th, 2009 at 2:05 pmA Tennessee Republican. Any bets she ascended into the lofty heights of GNOPerland based on comments she made during the Harold Ford “call me” racist ad campaign?
And 38 is not young (sorry Zooey, but you know I’m a year senior to you) but I guess the racist MILF image appeals to the base they’re courting.
PEACE
July 18th, 2009 at 2:09 pm…the first comment arguing against big government…
July 18th, 2009 at 2:11 pmShay responded: “You tell em Eric! lol [laughing out loud].”
Bzzzt! Sorry, for the serious subject of gov’t spending, that is an inappropriate response. Shay was agreeing with the commenter’s racist second post.
This is just another incident that shows the Republicans are trying to re-institutionalize racism and make it acceptable again.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:11 pmIt does look that way, but a positive integer represents votes up. A negative integer represents votes down.
A negaive vote can be counteracted by a positive vote, and once the balance reaches -10, the comment is considered “Voted Down” and it gets shunned behind a screen. You still have the opportunity to view the comment if you wish, but those of us who don’t can just skip on by.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:12 pmDr. Matt… thanks for the explanation.
Shay looks a great deal older than 38. What’s with the bags under her eyes? Not getting enough sleep or maybe spending too much energy on hate and racism. That will make someone look old.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:16 pmHer comments and reaction are perfectly in line with the attitudes and biases of many (if not most) of her party affiliates. From a reich-wing point of view, she’s totally mainstream and a credit to her race, uh, party.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:18 pmRalph – I like that -10 feature. It’s one way to dump those stupid troll comments.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:18 pmRalph-thanks to the link to the Frago thread.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:23 pmShould keep that one for the books.
tony and lido
spencers mom says:
And 38 is not young…
July 18th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
That’s it, Mom. It’s on!!
:-D
July 18th, 2009 at 2:24 pmThey say you’re as old as you feel.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:31 pmI’ll be 104 in November.
tony and lido
dietrich,
I’ll be 28 in November. :)
July 18th, 2009 at 2:49 pmZooey Zooey pants on fire! And I may be older but I’m both spry and spunky!
PEACE
July 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pmCan all the girls between 30 and 150 please proceed to this side of the room? Thank you. Okay from here I will just be subdividing until I find the one that fits this slipper…
July 18th, 2009 at 3:01 pmHere’s a video clip of the exchange
July 18th, 2009 at 3:10 pmspencers mom says:
Zooey Zooey pants on fire! And I may be older but I’m both spry and spunky!
PEACE
July 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
But I only feel 28!!
July 18th, 2009 at 3:24 pmZooey says:
But I only feel 28!!
I can’t remember the last time I felt someone that was 28.
July 18th, 2009 at 3:29 pmI can…
July 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pmYou were there?
July 18th, 2009 at 3:41 pmI’m spry, but spunky… not so much.
July 18th, 2009 at 3:45 pmI don’t have any problems at all believing Shay has problems with Facebook if she chugs the same bottled water as Miss South Carolina, Miss California and the way under the radar Miss Arizona after spraying on her blush outlines.
Women who pay thousands of dollars in a month for makeup and spray tans, but spend little on food and consider ice cubes a solid meal are the definition of morons.
People all over the world starve because it is out of their own control, but these beauty twats starve their minds on purpose.
July 18th, 2009 at 5:02 pmThe Republican Party has unquestionably become the Party of Overt Racism and Sedition. This is, no doubt due to the deep seated racial hatred that they have always harbored which has oozed to the foremost part of their diseased minds since a man of color, Barack Obama, has been elected President.
In the view of each of them, from the most backwards dumbass hinterlands cracker to the best educated southern gentleman holder of high office, there is no civilized restriction on their behavior. They see no reason to subscribe to American values of equality. They feel no need to put up a front of social decency. Their most finely developed skill is a sort of self-hypnosis by which they can accept their own hypocrisy as a proper perc of cleaving to their Good Book while never living up to a word in it.
These unthinking authoritarians have no use for the Constitution which is the United States, and in their efforts to destroy it are engaged in treason as well.
July 18th, 2009 at 5:10 pmThe mere fact that this story is covered by progressives makes it impossible for a Republican offical to remove someone from party leadership. Can you imagine what Rush would say, kowtowing to the liberal media elite.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pmI’m sure that when “internet cop” Amanda Carpenter breaks this and the Atwater CA Councilman Gary Frago embarrassment, during her segment on the O’Reilly Factor, the MSM can’t ignore it for long!
Huh?
What do you mean O’Reilly/Carpenter won’t bring up this embarrassing stuff perpetrated by Republicans?
Really?
Complete shills for the far-right?
Pretend journalists, too?
Please don’t make fun of the Shay womans appearance. As far as transgendered operations go–I would say it would probably be considered a success!
(snarking accomplished!)
July 18th, 2009 at 9:14 pmGuys, Guys. Let us take Shay at her word.
She comments on items without reading them.
Should fit right in with Palin and Jindal.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:30 pmJoe Scarborough is, was and always will be a lying sac of wingnut hypocrisy. Only fools and bigots listen to these lunatics.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:08 pmLeadership, in part, is about setting the tone regarding what is and is not acceptable. Shay has set the bar fairly low with her obnoxious tone and delivering/embracing disgraceful messages to her peer group.
Unfortunately, this was a predictable outcome of the bigotry and hate-mongering perpetuated by the McCain/Palin ticket and the RNC during the 2008 campaign. These racist and right-wing extremist nut-jobs feel that the GOP mainstream has their backs.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:49 amThe Republican party has to stop tolerating racism if it wants to shake the stigma, but Shays explanation is very plausible.
If she was responding to the racist comment, she should be relieved. If she was responding to the other comment, she should not.
Writing a response to one comment and finding another comment posted by the time yours posts happens here every day.
Her explanation seemed swift and plausible.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:45 amHer explanation seemed swift and plausible
July 19th, 2009 at 7:56 am
This kind of thing exposes the seething racists and functions to heighten the awareness required by men and women everywhere struggling to be free.
“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
July 19th, 2009 at 8:22 amSCARBOUGH SHOULD BE DISMISSED.YES ,DISMISSED FROM TV AND POLTICS.JOE IS A HAS BEEN CONGRESSMAN ,TRIED TO WRITE A BOOK.LOTS OF HYPE,DIDNT WORK ITS OFF NEW YORK BEST SELLER LIST IN 2 WEEKS,SORT OF FUNNY IT MADED IT ON LIST,BUT JOES,S BUDDIES GOT BOOK ON LIST,PEOPEL SAW IT,REJECTED IT AND MOVED ON.JOE S. IS A BIG WIND BAG ON CNBS,WHICH HAS NO FOLLOWONG,400,OOO OR LESS A DAY.TODAY SHOW FOR EXPAMOPLE WAS 11 MILLION HEHHE JOE S . GO BAC KTO FL.SWAMPS AND STAY TYHER YOU ARE A HAS BEEN AND THERE ARE 1000,S LIKE YOU DREAMERS BUT NOT ACTUAL GOOD MEN.YOU ARE A JERK. WISH YUO HAD THE GUTS TO RESPOND BUT YOU ARE A CHICKEN S— JERK BYE,JIM
July 19th, 2009 at 9:13 amMaybe so, but you’ve never posted a response to something here and then found another comment had posted in the meantime?
I suggest it’s the reason that we each started our last posts by reposting the comment we are taking about. So people know which comment your addressing.
If she had said something more definitive like: “yeah, government is too big’ or ‘yeah, we do need to take the country’, there would be more information to know her intent.
I don’t know how facebook works, but is it possible that she did not refresh the screen between comment one and comment two (as it happens here at TP)?
If they come only when the screen is refreshed it makes the explanation very plausible.
Despite that plausibility, there is still a problem in that the objectionable commenter is a ‘friend’ on her network.
What is not covered in the TP thread is the rebukes from the other posters on the site:
July 19th, 2009 at 10:37 am
For Joe’s further education: LOL does have a secondary meaning within the RNC – “lots of loonies.” I believe it’s their new motto.
July 19th, 2009 at 10:49 ambackup says:
July 19th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Facebook gives you a red flag, which lets you know some activity has taken place.
You can’t save this one, b-cup.
July 19th, 2009 at 4:08 pmThey see no reason to subscribe to American values of equality. Equal Rights is out. Joe got away with murder and he can trick the voters into voting for him back in office. Joe knows there’s big money as he was once a Congressman and stole.sohbetThey feel no need to put up a front of social decency.youtube
July 20th, 2009 at 6:50 pm