Rusty Depass has a new cohort in the what the $#*& were they thinking-unimaginative racist club. No seriously, couldn’t all these folks get together and brainstorm some new innovative ways to articulate their bigotry. By now many of you have heard about the rocket scientist Walt Baker. Mr. Baker is now the FORMER CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association.
By former, we mean recently FORMER, on account of his utter complete stupidity:
This was a no-brainer. Mr. Hospitality forwarded an e-mail depicting Michelle Obama as a chimpanzee, perhaps inspired by Chip Saltsman, the former state Republican Party chairman who thought it would be funny to send around copies of a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro.” Commercial Appeal.
Apparently Tennessee tourism officials are also fielding complaints that Mr. Hospitality’s stupidity is costing them state tourism dollars.
While some may rush to dismiss people like Mr. Baker as relics of a bygone era, the Commercial Appeal summed it up best when they pointed out the significance of what Mr. Hospitality tried to play off as a joke.
The tactic is probably as old as conflict itself. Nazi Germany’s anti-Semitic propaganda portrayed Jews as rats. Our own demonization of the Japanese during World War II made them appear sub-human. SOURCE
I agree with them when they say that this is the desperate language of alienated losers.
