Funny Shit The Gadfly Couldn't Possibly Make Up Even After Ingesting a Handful of Magic Mushrooms . . .

The Gadfly wryly observes that there are simply times when the conservanut's own actions unilaterally write the comedy material with which comedians much superior to The Gadfly employ gleefully to mock them with.

Observe:

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — A panel at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Republican minority outreach exploded into controversy on Friday afternoon, after an audience member defended slavery as good for African-Americans.

The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.

After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation?”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/15/1729331/cpac-slavery-minority-outreach/

Keep in mind that this nasty little fracas occurred at a TeaBagger (Tea Party Patriots) sponsored session where the goal was to educate conservative activists on how to court more black voters to their cause.

 Doh! . . . . . (as The Gadfly awaits you the reader's guffawing to subside) . . . .  Yep - overt racism on full display at a conference aimed at getting more minority (specifically black) voters to support conservatism and it's policies.

The unfunny part of this episode though is that this does not shock The Gadfly in the least.  The Gadfly has recognized the seedy undercurrent of bigotry in the Tea Party movement from the day they appeared on the national scene, which not so coincidentally, coincides with the days shortly after America's first African American President was elected to the Presidency of this great nation.

But at least they are beginning to admit openly now what one of the core tenets of their movement is and The Gadfly for one hopes they keep doing so - for the more that mainstream America sees up close and personal what these assholes are truly all about, the quicker they can be made irrelevant and the rest of the country can get on with the business with doing what's best for the national interest as a whole.


----TFG