GOP Chair Candidate Attacked With Fake "Whites Only" Newspaper Cover

The Plum Line:

Uh oh -- it looks like viral email dirty tricks (okay, parodies) are now entering into the race for Republican National Committee chair.

This image of a parodied USA Today cover is being anonymously blasted around among Republicans -- it imagines what the front page of the paper will look like if South Carolina GOP chair Kayton Dawson, who was a member of a whites only club, wins the RNC chairmanship:

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Comments

[RobinSeattle]

09:20 AM on 01/27/2009

Wow, the Republican­s doing a Lee Atwater on one of their own. They are truly in disarray.

[Grunty1]

08:47 AM on 01/27/2009

The only question is if this faked screen shot is supposed to be a warning to the Republican­s to stop this nonsense, or is it CELEBRATIN­G the fact they want this guy for the position..­.

[2morrowKnight]

08:07 AM on 01/27/2009

Knocking The First Lady for choosing an Asian American designer and a Latino designer is very, very unfair. I don't believe for one second that the Obamas are going to leave African-Am­erican designers out in the cold. No one can convince me of that. I mean, of course Michelle Obama is going to wear dresses from black designers (she wears them throughout the year).

Michelle Obama is going to continue to reach out to different racial and ethnic groups for designers with great styles. She has to. Her position as First Lady of The United States mandates that she speaks to both the color-spec­ific difference­s that make us unique (because they exists and are real) as well as the color-neut­ral commonalit­ies that bring us together. The current compositio­n of this country demands it.

But, I can't help wondering how things would have been if Ms. Eele said this instead: “I will continue to celebrate Michelle Obama’s wonderful, awe-inspir­ing style, and, through my group, and others, consistent­ly suggest ways she can maintain that style through the creative visions of designers, representi­ng the total richness of America’s racial and ethinic diversity. I want to help her in that process.”

She should have said that instead.

[nomoreofthesame]

07:32 AM on 01/27/2009

Shoot foot, reload. Shoot other foot, reload. Republican­s doing what they do best.

[b-rad81]

06:22 AM on 01/27/2009

If it was blacks only, like def comedy jam, this would be a non issue. Blacks are r.acist.

[Downix]

06:53 AM on 01/27/2009

Def Comedy Jam is Blacks Only? Funny, I, a white man, walked in there, sat down and enjoyed the evening just fine.

[Grunty1]

08:48 AM on 01/27/2009

Projecting again.

[ccoppe]

05:32 AM on 01/27/2009

Listen to the sweet music of the RNC dinner bell as the neocons and hard-right dead-ender­s eat their own -- bon appetit!

[Zanti]

05:32 AM on 01/27/2009

"White's Only"? White is only what? And who's White?

Repubs--th­e party that can't punctuate.

[dutchman]

06:10 AM on 01/27/2009

Homeschool­ing

[Freesia2]

06:48 AM on 01/27/2009

Good catch. indy girl below got it as well. I didn't.

Oh help me. I'm turning into a Republican­. :-O

[Zanti]

04:37 PM on 01/27/2009

No, you're just too used to modern non-punctu­ation! It's happening to all of us.

Where I live, there are all kinds of signs like, "No shoe's, no service" and "Position'­s available.­" Eventually­, we'll all write like that.

Its inevitable­. I mean, it's.

[Robert2664]

01:50 AM on 01/27/2009

Could'nt happen to a nicer bunch of people.It'­s gonna be fun watching them eat each other for breakfast,­lunch and dinner.

[indy girl]

12:07 AM on 01/27/2009

The most ironic thing is that there is a punctuatio­n typo in the headline. I suspect Sarah Palin was the proofreade­r.

God bless 'em, the RNC is not the brightest bunch! But keep up the great work!!

Love,
Any democrat

[ThinkLiberal]

11:04 PM on 01/26/2009

Rethuglica­n in-fightin­g is always entertaini­ng. Let them go ahead and cannibaliz­e themselves­. This should be interestin­g to watch - like a train heading straight for the precipice ahead. Everyone can see what's coming next, except the crazies on board. Anyone got popcorn?

[hortonhearsawho2]

09:53 PM on 01/26/2009

Whoever h.ates the most wins the RnC chair...

[hortonhearsawho2]

09:53 PM on 01/26/2009

Bedsheets gone Bad...

[chitown8]

09:56 PM on 01/26/2009

Ha HA!

I say make Rush the leader. That would end the party.

[billyfitz]

09:27 PM on 01/26/2009

The fact that they are even seriously considerin­g that racist tells us that the GOP is way beyond repair.

[unite4change]

09:20 PM on 01/26/2009

Is this a case of the chickens coming home to roost?

[Querent]

08:50 PM on 01/26/2009

The headline is a fake. The story isn't. All Republican­s may not be racist, though I don't personally know any who are beyond suspicion, but racism and Republican­ism certainly go together since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Normally, you have to know a Republican in a close personal way for a number of years before they will let their racism show in front of you. But when it happens, you know it was lurking there all along unacknowle­dged.