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Calling ‘Obama Witchdoctor’ Display Racist Infuriates Racist NJ Residents

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A Spring Lake, New Jersey men’s clothing store owner, Bill Skuby, created a racist window display featuring a photoshopped image of President Barack Obama, naked, sans a loin cloth, headdress, and a bone through his nose. The image is captioned “ObamaCare” with the “C” fashioned as a communist sickle, a symbol of the former Soviet Union. Standing beside the image is a bobble head doll of Barack Obama wearing a shirt that bears the word “hoax.”

Yesterday, NJ.com, “New Jersey’s largest website for local news, sports, entertainment, jobs, autos, real estate and information, powered by 12 New Jersey newspapers and the NJ.com staff,” published a news report, a blog post denouncing the display but supporting the store owner’s free speech rights, and an editorial opposing the display.

Most of the readers, based on the comments, are furious — at NJ.com, President Obama, Liberals, and anyone who thinks the image of the President of the United States, almost totally naked sans a loin cloth and bone through his nose is racist.

“Skuby, 66, a Spring Lake resident, saw nothing wrong with displaying his anti-Obama visual, which has been up since last week, for the world to see,” the NJ.com article reported:

“A lot of people feel the way I feel, but are just afraid to say it,” said Skuby, who said that public response on the street in front of his store ran “70 percent positive” in favor of the display’s anti-Obama sentiments. “It always comes down to the race card.”

Skuby felt that the proverbial “race card” was one that he could flip over in his favor because of his particular family circumstances.

“The middle one is my granddaughter,” said Skuby, holding up a photo of his now 17-year old biracial grandchild Brett, flanked by two other grandchildren who are white. “My son married a girl that had a biracial kid. She is every bit a part of our family as the other two in this picture. I’m not racist. And as long as my grandchild doesn’t think I’m a racist, I’m perfectly fine with all of this.”

“A lot of people” includes some NJ.com readers. Here are some of their comments, taken from the article, blog post, and editorial.

high unemployment and a growing deficit doesn’t mean he did good things. Its means the opposite incase you missed it. You my friend are the racist, because if people so happen to disagree with the Presidents failed policies, we automatically get called racist…that is pure garbage, as are you. Romney 2012. (link)

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That sign is not racist. Obama is of the ancestry of the Negro African witch doctors, and because of the greatest country that ever was, i.e. America, a Negro of the ancestry of the witch doctor had the opportunity to learn English, become civilized and go on to be a U.S. Senator and the President. But that does not give Obama or anyone else of African ancestry or any ancestry the authority to pass or sign unconstitutional legislation. Obama care is repugnant to the U.S. Constitution. (link)

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The racist is the President….have him get rid of Affirmative Action and I’ll consider him for President. Until then, Go Romney…..and as far as giving your opinion, go ahead, but please refrain from telling people where they should shop. NJ.com is a pathetic, and I mean pathetic excuse for a news outlet…with all due respect, go screw yourself NJ.com. (link)

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Accusations of racism are the first resort of scoundrels (link)

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Portraying a black man as a primitive witch doctor in a loin cloth with a bone through his nose is racist.

Says who Star Liberal??? Says who phony Liberals . Do Voodoo Tribes not exist? How about the African tribes with Plates in their lips? These are Tribes who have followed these customs for many many years. Who are you to determine its racsist. You have not elaborated in the article accept to call this racism without explaining why.

Would someone please post the name of the store so I can start my Christmas Shopping Early. I’m not kidding I will definitely stop by and support that store. Gays can scream out when they disagree with something. They try everything they can to ruin businesses but fail anyway. Blacks riot when they disagree with controversial police shootings without one fact coming forward.This is ok. This man has no confidence in this President like thousands and thousands of others and simply places the face of the President on a body of black person! Voodoo doctors are either dark Latin Americans or Black. They have many respectable followers who fear, respect, and have complete faith in them. It is you Star Liberal, and the rest of you phony liberals who consider it an insult. Please Tell us why then. (link)

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Only a worried black person would write something like this. American blacks are working hard for a one way Government airline ticket back to their African homelands. They were brought here by force against their will which they remind us of 24/7. Maybe the Lion Kings and Lion Queens can be urged to leave. (link)

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Why is it racist? And why does he have to be redneck? After all, Obama’s entire political campaign rides on his “blackness”. Only reason “minority” people came out to vote 4 years ago was because a BLACK man was running for office, where were they before??? Look at comments people left on Stacey Dash’s pages because she’s a black woman endorsing Romney! OMG the blasphemy!!! Obama made this about race, continues to make it about race, so I do not see what the issue is. Oh wait for it, here come the “well you’re a racist” comments…LMFAO!!! (link)

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I’m sure this has been said already on this artical, but I feel like saying it again because it is central to the topic.

The only reason people feel that this is racist is because obama is half Negro. If obama was half Italian or half Irish or half any other Caucasian mix, this would be laughed off, particularly by any of the different variations of Negros reading this and therefore would not be an issue. This is political satire or political dissent NOT racism.

BTW, the satire is spot on. obamacare is pure BS and obama is the Witch Doctor. (link)

Welcome to post-racial America.

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President Hands Howard Stern Live Interview After NY Times Melts Down Over Biden Brush-Off

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President Joe Biden gave an nearly-unannounced, last-minute, live exclusive interview Friday morning to Howard Stern, the SiriusXM radio host who for decades, from the mid-1990s to about 2015, was a top Trump friend, fan, and aficionado. But the impetus behind the President’s move appears to be a rare and unsigned statement from the The New York Times Company, defending the “paper of record” after months of anger from the public over what some say is its biased negative coverage of the Biden presidency and, especially, a Thursday report by Politico claiming Times Publisher A.G. Sulzberger is furious the President has refused to give the “Grey Lady” an in-person  interview.

“The Times’ desire for a sit-down interview with Biden by the newspaper’s White House team is no secret around the West Wing or within the D.C. bureau,” Politico reported. “Getting the president on the record with the paper of record is a top priority for publisher A.G. Sulzberger. So much so that last May, when Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at the newspaper’s midtown headquarters for an off-the-record meeting with around 40 Times journalists, Sulzberger devoted several minutes to asking her why Biden was still refusing to grant the paper — or any major newspaper — an interview.”

“In Sulzberger’s view,” Politico explained, “only an interview with a paper like the Times can verify that the 81-year-old Biden is still fit to hold the presidency.”

But it was this statement that made Politico’s scoop go viral.

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“’All these Biden people think that the problem is Peter Baker or whatever reporter they’re mad at that day,’ one Times journalist said. ‘It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.'”

Popular Information founder Judd Legum in March documented The New York Times’ (and other top papers’) obsession with Biden’s age after the Hur Report.

Thursday evening the Times put out a “scorching” statement, as Politico later reported, not on the newspaper’s website but on the company’s corporate website, not addressing the Politico piece directly but calling it “troubling” that President Biden “has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term.”

Media watchers and critics pushed back on the Times’ statement.

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“NYT issues an unprecedented statement slamming Biden for ‘actively and effectively avoid[ing] questions from independent journalists during his term’ and claiming it’s their ‘independence’ that Biden dislikes, when it’s actually that they’re dying to trip him up,” wrote media critic Dan Froomkin, editor of Press Watch.

Froomkin also pointed to a 2017 report from Poynter, a top journalism site published by The Poynter Institute, that pointed out the poor job the Times did of interviewing then-President Trump.

Others, including former Biden Deputy Secretary of State Brian McKeon, debunked the Times’ claim President Biden hasn’t given interviews to independent journalists by pointing to Biden’s interviews with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and a 20-minute sit-down interview with veteran journalist John Harwood for ProPublica.

Former Chicago Sun-Times editor Mark Jacob, now a media critics who publishes Stop the Presses, offered a more colorful take of Biden’s decision to go on Howard Stern.

The Times itself just last month reported on a “wide-ranging interview” President Biden gave to The New Yorker.

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CNN Smacks Down Trump Rant Courthouse So ‘Heavily Guarded’ MAGA Cannot Attend His Trial

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Donald Trump’s Friday morning claim Manhattan’s Criminal Courts Building is “heavily guarded” so his supporters cannot attend his trial was torched by a top CNN anchor. The ex-president, facing 34 felony charges in New York, had been urging his followers to show up and protest on the courthouse steps, but few have.

“I’m at the heavily guarded Courthouse. Security is that of Fort Knox, all so that MAGA will not be able to attend this trial, presided over by a highly conflicted pawn of the Democrat Party. It is a sight to behold! Getting ready to do my Courthouse presser. Two minutes!” Trump wrote Friday morning on his Truth Social account.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins supplied a different view.

“Again, the courthouse is open the public. The park outside, where a handful of his supporters have gathered on trials days, is easily accessible,” she wrote minutes after his post.

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Trump has tried to rile up his followers to come out and make a strong showing.

On Monday Trump urged his supporters to “rally behind MAGA” and “go out and peacefully protest” at courthouses across the country, while complaining that “people who truly LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to ‘Peacefully Protest,’ and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far away ‘holding areas,’ essentially denying them their Constitutional Rights.”

On Wednesday Trump claimed, “The Courthouse area in Lower Manhattan is in a COMPLETE LOCKDOWN mode, not for reasons of safety, but because they don’t want any of the thousands of MAGA supporters to be present. If they did the same thing at Columbia, and other locations, there would be no problem with the protesters!”

After detailing several of his false claims about security measures prohibiting his followers from being able to show their support and protest, CNN published a fact-check on Wednesday:

“Trump’s claims are all false. The police have not turned away ‘thousands of people’ from the courthouse during his trial; only a handful of Trump supporters have shown up to demonstrate near the building,” CNN reported.

“And while there are various security measures in place in the area, including some street closures enforced by police officers and barricades, it’s not true that ‘for blocks you can’t get near this courthouse.’ In reality, the designated protest zone for the trial is at a park directly across the street from the courthouse – and, in addition, people are permitted to drive right up to the front of the courthouse and walk into the building, which remains open to the public. If people show up early enough in the morning, they can even get into the trial courtroom itself or the overflow room that shows near-live video of the proceedings.”

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‘Assassination of Political Rivals as an Official Act’: AOC Warns Take Trump ‘Seriously’

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Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is responding to Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on Donald Trump’s claim he has “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution because he was a U.S. president, and she delivered a strong warning in response.

Trump’s attorney argued before the nation’s highest court that the ex-president could have ordered the assassination of a political rival and not face criminal prosecution unless he was first impeached by the House of Representatives and then convicted by the Senate.

But even then, Trump attorney John Sauer argued, if assassinating his political rival were done as an “official act,” he would be automatically immune from all prosecution.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, presenting the hypothetical, expressed, “there are some things that are so fundamentally evil that they have to be protected against.”

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“If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person, and he orders the military, or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?” she asked.

“It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act,” Trump attorney Sauer quickly replied.

Sauer later claimed that if a president ordered the U.S. military to wage a coup, he could also be immune from prosecution, again, if it were an “official act.”

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, a retired U.S. Naval War College professor and an expert on Russia, nuclear weapons, and national security affairs, was quick to poke a large hole in that hypothetical.

“If the president suspends the Senate, you can’t prosecute him because it’s not an official act until the Senate impeaches …. Uh oh,” he declared.

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted the Trump team.

“The assassination of political rivals as an official act,” the New York Democrat wrote.

“Understand what the Trump team is arguing for here. Take it seriously and at face value,” she said, issuing a warning: “This is not a game.”

Marc Elias, who has been an attorney to top Democrats and the Democratic National Committee, remarked, “I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act.’ I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.”

CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen, a former U.S. Ambassador and White House Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform under President Barack Obama, boiled it down: “Trump is seeking dictatorial powers.”

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