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"Jim Russell makes my head hurt," @MissEliseBrown tweets. Imagine how the New York Republican Party feels.
Russell's their candidate challenging Democratic incumbent Rep. Nita Lowey in New York's 18th district -- in bucolic, urbane Westchester County. In 2001, he wrote an essay titled "The Western Contribution to World History," which was published in a white supremacist journal called "The Occidental Quarterly."
"It has been demonstrated that finches, raised by foster parents of a different species of finch, will later exhibit a life-long sexual attraction toward the alien species," Russell wrote. "One wonders how a child's sexual imprinting mechanism is affected by forcible racial integration and near continual exposure to media stimuli promoting interracial contact."
We thought we could have a little fun with that, as you'll see in the clip above. And for the record, the New York Republican Party says it stands by their other candidate with a history of passing around racist stuff, Carl Paladino. In its statement, the party makes no mention of Jim Russell.
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I visited the site www.thethingsrepublicanshate.com and I can't decide if this guy is for real or is this whole website a parody.
Well, there goes, Evolution, right out the Window.
Wow...really? I mean really...That's not only racist, that is just plain stupid.
I'm worried about people developing sexual attraction towards whatever species he is.
Good one!
I don't think there is much danger in that.
I get the feeling that in his family, they stick so closely to their own kind they all have webbed toes and way too many X chromosomes.
There is nothing I am prouder of than the fact that my personal extended family is made up of all different types of, um, finches.
Diverse race, religion, and even politics (yes there are stanch republicans in the family) all make up a family I wouldn't have any other way.
People like Jim Russell just do not know what they are missing in their racist worlds.
Well my children were raised in a household with finches, and apart from an occasional craving for thistle seed, I've seen no inclinations of sexual attraction toward them. ;)
I think I'd be more worried about my kids getting too much exposure to this guy's ilk and end up with brains the size of a thistle seed.
But seriously, anyone with bigoted racial/ethnic beliefs should take a lesson from the other animals, because the only thing that sets humans apart from everyone else is their predisposition to hatred. Without it, life is a beautiful thing no matter how it plays out.
O.K. now crawl back under the rock and evolve , Dumb Ass !! Where do they find these loosers?
I KNEW it!! The White Supremacists of the 70's have morphed into the Teabaggers of today. Talk about the wolves in sheep's clothing!!! If these nasties leave a paper trail of hatred, why doesn't the FBI have them under surveillance?
There are no words satisfactory enough to describe this person, other than...Hitler's grandson? Could be...
I wonder if finches are brought by a same sex bird couple if they become attracted to their same sex. can't believe he didn't cover that one!
So if I find my son making out with my car, I'll know he's been watching too much Transformers.
This stuff is for the birds.
The irony of it all is that were this maniac to actually be successful in getting on the ballot, he could actually win. How? Only because of the current outrage against incumbents. I am totally convinced that people are that stupid. I sincerely hope that I am wrong.
jack625, "this maniac" is on the ballot as the Republican contender in Westchester County. Rachel reported that the local Republican party folks are trying to get him off the ballot.
They don't like when racists do not disguise their racism.
The tea bagger in CA had to purge his website to be in the tea party.
Same with those that claim they just disagree with same sex marriage and just LOVE LOVE LOVE the gay folk. Are you being honest? Oh, no it has nothing to do with any prejudice, it's just better for the country and kids, nobody is hurt by it.
Their STRONG disagreement has no consequences, they insist.
Their disagreement has nothing to do with the negative consequences of those they just LOVE LOVE LOVE.
They just disagree, so stop trying to get them to agree.
The disagreement and voting to keep a definition as traditional has no consequences and the relegating of "them" to "outsiders" does not cause suicide, bashing, taunting of children that have a non traditional family, the fear of losing a job, the unfair taxation.
It's just a definition and the tradition depends how far you want to go back and where. The tradition was basically a father selling his daughter. Traditions have changed.
I call out those that insist their just "protecting" tradition and the direction of the country. News: the country is changing, young people are less likely to care if someone is "different", be it a different race or different religion, a different sexual orientation. Your voting to exclude people from a SCOTUS deemed civil right of marriage is unconstitutional. Your voting to ban people from a civil right is fanning flames of hate. Laws will not change everyone's minds. See the white supremacists that are not disguising themselves? You can tell your children whatever you want, just let the rest of us have a life that is not having to justify ourselves, protect ourselves or hide ourselves because you disagree.
I have been called names by a pack of young men, had my car disabled leaving me stranded and struck by a bottle by people that "just disagrees".
Oh I have all the same rights, do I?
Racism is in the past. Is it now?
The sky is blue, no it's not. Yes it is.
When I snap my fingers, you will awaken, refreshed and see the truth. SNAP!
Oh yeah, the sky IS blue.
Sorry for the rant, I couldn't help it. Off to do something else now...
This just kind of shows the reality of what we are facing. There is a mind set out there that just does not accept diversity. They are not comfortable with other races, religions, sexual orientations.
It reminds me of Hitler and Dr. Mengele were searching for the "good aryan genes" and eradicating the "others".
Is this what "good ole days" people yearn for, where people knew "their place". I'm talking women, non Christian, non white?
Even if you showed some people the sky is blue, they will argue it's not either.
The question is, how do we get people to stop arguing and look for themselves? The sky really is blue.
NY-18 is my congressional district. Finally, a candidate to really throw my support behind!
(kidding, folks)
He could be on to somethin'. I like a little creamer in my coffee.
Just how are these people getting into Politics? I need to know. really, I need to know.
These nuts are getting into politics because there are a lot of angry people out there, and because they are too intellectually lazy to find out the reasons for their anger, they just want to lash out at anyone they consider to be in authority. I'm not entirely convinced that these people even really agree with much of anything these nuts have to say, or their viewpoints. Instead, it reminds me of the kind of irrrational rage that rioters display. For some reason, whenever a riot breaks out, it seems that the rioters destroy their own neighborhoods, rather than those they blame for their anger. Why the heck is that? Well, I see the Tea Party mania in the same light. They are backing people that will cause incredible destruction and suffering to the people who vote for them, but the voters just don't seem to care. They're angry, and they're going to make their anger known. Of course, within a few months of the election, when the clowns they elect actually start trying to fulfill the manifest destiny of their loony ideas, those same voters will wake up with a tremendous hangover and wonder why they did what they did. They'll be waking up in Vegas next to that 50-year old hooker and wondering how drunk they must have been the night before.
OK, I am getting vision of Monte Python's angry mob. And SNL's satire on the whole thing.
Pity it has to come to this.
Thank you Uffdaguy.
I can picture an angry mob weighing Harry Reid on a huge scale, and determining that if he weighs less than a duck, then he must be a witch!
So his concern is that if white children are exposed to black children, when the white kids get older, they'll find black people attractive.
How horrifying? Racists don't even stay consistent. If black people are so awful, wouldn't the white kids exposed to them want to avoid them? And if black people are so attractive, why all the hate? Get with the lovin'!
Wow! This is person that needs to be tracked and monitored - seriously scary - And really - we need to ID and track who ever votes for thoughts like that - As dangerous to our society - our national security - as Islamic extremists
I am worried about that too... Although it is a given that the woman choosing to procreate with this one would certainly need to be blind AND deaf.
I always wanted to bag me a black broad. Damn you public schools!
I would love to hear the members of the Fox News Circus try to explain away the comments of this moron.
Finches? Alien species? Anyone who sees the sense in all this could have been lured with a Hershey bar.
Lordy Lordy Lordy, doesn't this bozo realize that there is only one race? The Human Race! Or does this idiot think (a process too difficult for him to do) that space aliens have taken over the airwaves?
~ Wow, I'm saddened that you folks are so un-American as to attack another persons beliefs so viciously !!! . . . . how about not being so prejudicial. Your setting a bad precidence and you are a horrible example of American tolerance, with all your hateful remarks, don't U see that ???
In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
KELLI2L, while this individual is free to believe as he does, when he is running for public office, and espouses such drivel in a published forum, I believe it is important to call out his hate speech and ensure that all who may condier supporting his candidacy for public office are aware of his beliefs.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism. And why the smeg should we tolerate intolerance?
Prejudicial is to lead to prejudice, prejudice is to form an opinion about another with no informational basis. That doesn't apply here as people were making comments on things Jim Russell has stated in writing.
As he is allowed to state his opinions, we are allowed to state ours. That's very American.
A++++ enjoyed the laugh
project much? ATTACKING someone's beliefs?
The latest craze in victimhood, MY BELIEFS are being ATTACKED, rescue me...
sheesh........