SCGOP Activist Posts Remark Disparaging First Lady

By evolutionist09 on June 12th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

This remark should only be viewed as disparaging and racist if you are NOT a DARWINIAN. After all, according to Darwinan thought, we are all decended from apes. The potential insult here would only be that Mr. DePass is referring to a living ape as Michelle’s “ancestor”, inferring that her family has only recently joined the human family.

By GGIH on June 12th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

Truly horrible. Seriously, does he have Alzheimer’s or something else, like, physiologically wrong with his head?

By Mab on June 12th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

Matt — that’s the one I like to have ready:

“there is always the possibility that someone else is using a computer that was logged in”

There is ALWAYS that.

By Todd on June 12th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Rusty, Rusty, Rusty. You are smarter than that. It makes the entire state look bad when any prominent person would make such an impulsive comment trying to get a quick laugh. Say you’re sorry and move on.

By Bluetrooperone on June 12th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

A simple DNA test should be able to clear up all of this.

By Summertime on June 12th, 2009 at 3:29 pm

Actually Wes Wolfe’s take on the gorilla story was pretty racist too:

“Mike the Gorilla previously did a stint at the Philadelphia Zoo, where he was schooled by the more experienced apes in the rough-and-tumble Philly scene.”

Clearly, the implication is to compare the rampaging gorilla with the unfortunately large number of African-Americans incarcerated in America’s burgeoning penal system. It is an axiom of prison life, that inmates learn additional criminal skills while incarcerated.

This kind of bigoted clap-trap should have no place in our society.

By Pat Hendrix on June 12th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Can’t say I’m surprised. Ive heard remarks like these since the election, usually from mouthbreathing retards. The more things change…

By Gillon on June 12th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

No big surprise. Rusty DeAss represents that generation of Republicans who are Republicans mainly because of race.

By Jeremy on June 12th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

@ Col. Mustard and Freddie

I don’t get your beefs. DePass SAID IT! And he said it on Walker’s Facebook. That makes it legit to bring them both up. The only mention of Henry McMaster is the statement of fact (no made up BS, but the undeniable fact) that Walker works for McMaster.
It’s no different than stating “Microsoft CEO” or “Intel head of PR” or “Ford COO” or “White House Chief of Staff” or any other job title.

Get your panties out of a wad and quit your nit-picking on that stuff. I know the strategy, but you can’t take the spotlight off of a GLARINGLY racist statement from an individual who is UNDENIABLY involved with the GOP as a political activist.

Your whitewashing won’t work.

By GGIH on June 12th, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Now THAT was funny.

By walter david on June 12th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

R and GGIH,

How can y’all type with that white pointy hood on and the white sheet? Have y’all switched to that blanket with sleeves?

By Calhoun Fawls on June 13th, 2009 at 1:54 am

Walker can not control was was initially said on his facebook page. Apparently, he removed it. I am not a McMaster supporter, but pulling the AG into this is really a stretch.

As for facebook, I got fb friends I went to high school with and have not talked to in ten years. If they put some stupid remark up, I would not know it until I logged in at looked at my page. Pulling the comment down is all you can do.

Besides, I find it more interesting that for the third time this week Sic’s website has done a better job attacking from the Left than the Left in SC does. Wes, there’s your angle. Just give credit to ole Calhoun.

By SAL on June 13th, 2009 at 9:32 am

Rusty DePass’s comment is disgraceful, and of course, it will be picked up by the national media. Again, South Carolina will be seen as a state of backward, mindless racists. It is so disheartening. This state and its people are better than this, and it is long past time for us to stand up and repudiate such behavior and rhetoric. He has a right to say it, and we have a right to condemn him for it.

By John Darwin on June 13th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

A little girl wrote to Sarah Palin and asked;

‘How did the human race start?’

Sarah Palin answered, ‘God made Adam and Eve, they had children, and so was all mankind made.’

Two days later the girl wrote to Michelle Obama and asked the same question.

Michelle Obama answered,

‘Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.’

The confused girl went to her father and said,

‘Dad, how is it possible that Sarah Palin told me the Human race was created by God,
and Michelle Obama said they evolved from monkeys.’

The father answered, ‘Well, Dear, it is very simple, Sarah Palin told you about her ancestors and Michelle Obama told you about hers.’

By scooter on June 13th, 2009 at 1:38 pm

I am not surprised that another Republican got caught saying something so wrong. With leaders of that party like Rush, and Fox News, they say whatever nasty thing that comes to mind. The problem is seen when innocent people take these remarks to heart and kill people, or say stupid but hurtful things. The Repub. party needs to re-group and start being more repectful of others. But what a stupid, crude, hurtful thing to say. Why did he think it would be O.K. to say that to Trey?

By oh comeone on June 13th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

All of you claiming not to understand why this is racist are either very naive, very stupid, or racist yourselves. Also, read more: evolution does not claim apes are our ancestors.

By SLJAM on June 13th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

It’s ok to call GWB a chimp, Sarah Palin a slut, etc, but God forbid, anyone say anything about the Kenyan and his wife now living in the white house.

By smart Kid Grant on June 13th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

it was just on CNN, congratulations Sic Willie, you made the big time!

By S.o.G. on June 13th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

@ evolutionist09

I am what you refer to as a “Darwinian” (as you clearly are not, because you blithely repeated a common, completely wrong interpretation of human evolutionary theory that no “Darwinian” would actually say and is only repeated by the subset of creationists who are too stupid to actually understand the theory they are fighting) and I consider the comment racist.

Regardless of whether one accepts the theory that human beings evolved (not descended, they are two different things, but don’t worry: nobody expects a creationist to be able to make this distinction, any more than we would expect a chimpanzee to be able to) from a common ancestor of apes (not from apes, and we would expect even a creationist to be able to understand this distinction, because it really requires so very little of the ability for rational thinking that supposedly sets humans apart from apes), the comment was not in any way made to illustrate that theory but was clearly made with a racist intent.

By S.o.G. on June 13th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

@John Darwin:

Actually if someone wrote to Michelle Obama asking about the origin of the human species, I feel confident she would reply with a cogent & correct explanation of human evolutionary theory, not the completely incorrect one on which your little joke relies.

This is because every interview I’ve seen or biography that I’ve read indicates that she is both highly intelligent and extraordinarily well educated and therefore unlikely to be prone to the inability to understand the basic premises of evolutionary theory that you demonstrate.

I’m sure however that if you managed to train a chimpanzee to speak & read at a grade 7 level that it WOULD be prone to the same misunderstandings you demonstrate, which both intrigues & amuses me.

By JenHath on June 13th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

The silverback hath spoken.

By Betty M Koester on June 13th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

I doubt if DePass believes in evolution. That makes his remark not only unkind, but also unpatriotic. I wonder how he would feel if someone ade this comment about his wife, mother or daughter.
This is much more insulting than the inappropriate comment by Letterman about Palin’s daughter.

By Michael Bonavitch on June 13th, 2009 at 7:35 pm

I hope everyone now accepts the REAL reason for the hatred of President Obama by some Republicans.
Make all the excuses you can, silly comments about he is correct because of Darwin etc., but Depass talks like an old style KKK racist and is a prominent member of the Republican party.
This is why I left the Republican party with the last election, I am not a racist and will not be a member of a party that embraces racists.
Worst of all, no Southern gentleman attacks another man’s wife because he does not like her husband, where I come from that is sign of a true coward.

By AnnaParish on June 13th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

Once again, I am excruciatingly embarrassed to live in this state. And now I feel like I really need to stop convincing my educated, open-minded, rational, intelligent friends to stop leaving SC for states where they’re not subjected to this kind of politically-based racism. I’ve been an advocate for “people like us” staying here, otherwise we’d leave the state for the rednecks and racists. Now I want to move too. The fact that voters have tolerated this kind of hate speech from SC politicians for YEARS just baffles me.

By Fannie Warrior on June 13th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

Old & Racist Rusty,

He’s a racist a__ __ hole; and he needs to do more than apologize to the 1st Lady. She doesn’t deserve that type of comment; and he had no right to try to turn it around on the 1st Lady stating that she recently brought it up to the media that we’re all descendants of apes. She never made such a statement. It shows you that Rusty is from that type of generation who is quite jealous that Michelle Obama is the most beautiful 1st Lady this county has ever had; and he can’t stand it.

The last 43 1st Ladys have been white. He never made any comments about any of them. His comment stands clear – He’s a Racist Pig, who should keep in mind that “What Goes Around – Comes Around.”

By Kyle M on June 13th, 2009 at 9:51 pm

Looks like he hit the nail on the head. Like someone stated earlier, a simple DNA test would clear the air completely.

By JOE SACRAMENTO on June 13th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

I AM A REPUBLICAN BUT AFTER THIS COMMENT I WILL BE LEAVING THE PARTY TOU HAVE GONE TO THE PITTS

By Crooner on June 13th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

Hey Will:

Just saw this on channel 5 in Charleston. Congrats!

By gary shuler on June 14th, 2009 at 12:05 am

p.s. rush is a dumbass too!

By PapaHans on June 14th, 2009 at 2:28 am

Evolutionist 09 wrote some inaccurate, and typical, comment about human beings evolving from apes. Only right-wing believers in creationist nonsense labor under this profound delusion. No scientist, no evolutionist or biologist has ever made that assertion. Humans and apes have a common ancestor, millions of years ago. So the comment was fairly simply and casually racist, of an order of magnitude greater than anything you ever experience in the Yankee North. The South has a lot of great people; I know, I hitchhiked through their years ago and met some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. But there are some of the nastiest, ignorant and retrograde genetic accidents there as well. I’ve had guns pulled on me down South, mainly because I was from MN,(you know, the North, and particularly the First Minnesota Volunteers), and have heard the most casually savage and horrible denigrations of anyone not a white Southerner. It’s something, like the many excesses of various and sundry Christian sects, that has to be addressed by the offending parties themselves. Mr. DePass should be forced to resign, his statement is beyond the pale.

By annie on June 14th, 2009 at 9:48 am

It’s ashame how our so- called intelligent politicians donot understand the simple forms of life. One is that we all bleed the same color blood, and are all humans. Get a grip and move forward together. Racism should be out the window. Love eachother, work together, pray together, and enjoy life.

By ABCDE on June 14th, 2009 at 10:25 am

JOE SACRAMENTO – Would that be Mike or Ted?

By Bea on June 14th, 2009 at 11:30 am

all those people asking how this is racist…are you serious? why did he have to use Michelle’s name? why not his name…why didn’t he say this is probably one of my ancestors? Let’s not play that game and face that comment for what it was…
I can’t understand humanity sometimes….

By Jim on June 14th, 2009 at 3:13 pm

A DNA test would show that Rusty DePass evolved from pond scum.

By ghetto on June 14th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

To: evolutionist09

What kinda weak behind response is that? Regardless of whether or not one believes we are from apes Depass was clearly saying that she was less than human, hence an insult. Duh.

By bamabelle on June 14th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Coming from a state with a similar background, I’d have to say most of the comments on here from your state have been against what the old fart said which is good because that means what he said is not accepted by most of us. This is why the GOP didn’t win last year and probably won’t be winning anytime soon because they keep catering to the same misfits who are either dying out or died long time ago.

By Bilam on June 14th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

By evolutionist09 on June 12th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

This remark should only be viewed as disparaging and racist if you are NOT a DARWINIAN. After all, according to Darwinan thought, we are all decended from apes. The potential insult here would only be that Mr. DePass is referring to a living ape as Michelle’s “ancestor”, inferring that her family has only recently joined the human family.
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Why then didn’t say that the gorrilla was his (instead of Michelle’s ) ancestor?

By keith on June 14th, 2009 at 11:34 pm

What’s a RACIST!
Mr. Rusty DePass has made the KKK and the republican party very proud.
This is 2009, not 1950 any more….

By jjcomet on June 15th, 2009 at 9:24 am

When I read comments like the one from “evolutionist.” I wonder how these fu**nozzles ever made it past high school. Here’s a tip, boys – if you never studied a subject and the only thing you know about it is what you heard from Rush Limbaugh, it’s best to keep your mouth shut about it. Otherwise, you’re likely to reveal your stupidity in public – and that’s always an ugly sight.

By Miss T on June 15th, 2009 at 10:26 am

The GOP continues to shoot themselves in the foot. Just how many black Americans do you think will be attracted to such a party?

By FITSNews on June 15th, 2009 at 10:37 am

FYI, “y’all,” the hilarious Fits Makes News interview with Michelle Obama is up …

http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/06/15/fmn-interview-michelle-obama/

By Roshan on June 15th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

C’mon. Don’t be such hyper-liberals defending anything and everything. You guys remind me of flaming feminists. Remember how annoying they are?! Where is the sense of humour.

BTW: Thanks “mountainaires”. I knew there was something going on between Palin and Letterman, but thanks to you for publicizing the details so that the few who didn’t know them know now. How are you and Rusty any different!

By Anonymous on June 15th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

“. . . while we will defend DePass’ right to make such a comment, it’s insanely racist”

Tasteless? Yes. Racist? No.

Regardless of Michelle’s race and skin color, she does have an odd, animalistic, shaped face. I think it has something to do with her jaw-line. Some call it a horse face or a dog face while others, like DePass, seem to think her face resembles a gorilla. In any case, I can identify with DePass’s description of Michelle and his humor as related to her dog face. It has nothing to do race and everything to do with face.

By Doc Who on June 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Doesn’t this guy know who Michael Steel is?

By Dianne72 on June 16th, 2009 at 3:15 am

Michelle Shaniqua Obama looks more like a Sasquatch in a dress. She lacks grace, style, and good breeding. Her ghetto flair appeals to the lowest common denominator.

By Sistarella on June 17th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

Dianne72,

Did you attend school? Let me guess you are unhappy with yourself and your baby daddy that beats you and takes your money to spend on drugs. That’s sad you can even spell and you surely do not know what a ghetto is. lol!

You are just atmosphere, so you should not be heard…

By Steven on June 20th, 2009 at 1:09 pm

From the comments it is soooooo obvious the level of racism which exists with right wingers. The four cornerstones of republican thought: racism, greed, self-centerness and elitism, all of them demonstrated by your hateful, sinful statements. Also, for you simple minded, learn something about Darwinism before embarrassing yourselves. Apes and man descended from a common ancestor, not one from the other. Education is a wonderful thing, you should try it.

By OBAMA HATER on July 21st, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Michelle Obama looks like a buck tooth monkey, people you need to get glasse if you think this freak is even remotely good looking. And she walks like a freakin man..