By FITSNews || From the “It Wasn’t Even Funny The First Time” file, another white Southern male in a pseudo-prominent position is in hot water for comparing U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama to a primate.
Walt Baker, a the CEO for the Tennessee Hospitality Association, forwarded an email Thursday evening that compared Mrs. Obama to Cheeta, the monkey sidekick of Tarzan, “Lord of the Jungle.” By Saturday, the ensuing firestorm was the talk of Tennessee and had already cost Baker’s company, Mercatus Communications, its contract with the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Last summer – in a story that broke here on FITS - former South Carolina Republican Party activist Rusty DePass compared the First Lady to an escaped gorilla at a local zoo on Facebook. DePass apologized publicly, but was let go from his company anyway.
To watch the First Lady’s hilarious response to DePass’ comment, click here.
By Cooter Brown March 7, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Name callin’, while immature, iz a natural reesponce to th’ paternal follishness ov dese peoples in Warshingtun! Hoo cares whut dey says ’bout dis ladie! Hoo cares whut she says ‘biut otha folks?
By me March 8, 2010 at 5:31 am
I can see the resemblance to cheeta….
By Just saying March 8, 2010 at 6:04 am
http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/00/02/26/41/69214710_ph5.jpg
By Ynotfirst March 8, 2010 at 6:15 am
it’s plain mean and actually cruel to call people names…..
with that said, the GOP needs to take a hike on the trail.
By Houseguest March 8, 2010 at 8:18 am
The GOP can’t put two words together to come up with a decent plan for anything…but they can still find time for this. Way to go on the leadership.
By N. Sullivan March 8, 2010 at 8:34 am
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By me on March 8th, 2010 at 5:31 am
“I can see the resemblance to cheeta….”
I can see your resemblance to the KKK
By Another Opinion March 8, 2010 at 8:45 am
Good to see racism is alive and well in the U.S.
It would not matter if everyone in the U.S. looked the same. Everyone would still be divided over something. Just look at the Middle East, India, and Africa.
Mankind can achieve all sorts of unbelievable things, wondrous things like putting a man on the moon , but peace remains so very elusive. It’s saddening.
By Old Bike Dude March 8, 2010 at 8:46 am
And this guy runs the state’s HOSPITALITY industry.
By The Colonel March 8, 2010 at 9:03 am
N – according to Ynot, it’s not nice to call names.
If you really want to be offended or laugh (perspective) click on Just sayings link.
I’ve decided to give up on civility, that BS has gotten us nowhere. Heinlein was right.
By Cooter Brown March 8, 2010 at 9:08 am
Iz it worst t’ bee call’d a primate, a cheetah, o’ a racist?
Does da KKK hab t’ bee invoked ebery time a black iz called a name?
Mista WIllie, ye got a lot ov self-righteous yankee-markists (AKA Politickal Correck, knee-jerkin’, hypocritical haters)!
By They call me Mr. Sinister March 8, 2010 at 11:08 am
Well, if you listen to some scientists, we evolved from primates and how often have we heard someone tell a friend/relative you look just like a distant deceased relative?? Is it our fault the first lady looks like a distant relative???…
By John Doe March 8, 2010 at 11:19 am
Has anyone seen a picture of Walt Baker? I have. He’s your typical overweight, tomato-faced, no-upper-lip-having Southern goober.
By John Doe March 8, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Oh, Cooter. You know what the South really needs? Another General Sherman to do what he’s famous for–burnin’ the place down!
By Cooter Brown March 8, 2010 at 3:27 pm
I pray I lives t’ see da day when peckerwoods lik John Doe wood bring sum foolishness my way!
Sherman wahred gainst womens & chillins– if’n ye think we’ll stan fer invashun twice, ye lib in a dreem werld, son!
By madcock March 8, 2010 at 9:15 pm
She does look a little like a primate . . . aren’t all humans primates. It would be different if she was called a gorilla or monkey, ect.