Adding to his reputation for extreme and offensive rhetoric, Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill. was caught on camera using racially-charged language to insult the African-American president.
"There's something different on the ground, and I think it's going to overtake us all again, think it's going to overtake the political class," Walsh said at a campaign barbecue on Sunday, referring to Tea Party activism. "I think it’s going to respectfully pick this president up and pat him on the head and say, son, son, son, Mr. President, you were never ready to be president, now go home and work for somebody and find out how the real world works."
The advocacy group ColorofChange criticized Walsh's "racially inflammatory remarks" as proof that the freshman Congressman was not fit to lead.
"Once again, Rep. Joe Walsh has decided to stoke racial fears about President Barack Obama in order to leverage support for his own campaign," Executive Director Rashad Robinson said in a statement. "Walsh's attempt to discredit President Obama's leadership succeeds only in demonstrating that he is unfit to lead."
In response, Walsh said his first reaction was to laugh.
“I don’t know who this group was and I would love to look them in the eyes and say, ‘Get a life,’” Walsh said during a local radio interview. "Every time anybody criticizes [Obama], the racist card is thrown out."
Walsh was at it again during a town hall meeting on Wednesday, when he declared that radical Muslims are "trying to kill Americans every week."
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Joe Walsh is an embarrassment to Congress and the people he represents.
with all the racial slur against our President they are looking to be not be in office again. I hate it when someone uses racial slur we should be pass that age long time ago.
Why does this man even speak publicly is a joke. Pay your goddamn child support DEADBEAT Joe.
Joe Walsh should be in jail, not making public speeches.
OBAMA 2012
If you can't speak publicly in a politically correct manner, then you have no business-- correct, in politics...
BULL CRAP this is America we can say anything we want. Like Our President lies to us all the time, and calling his appoint a murder because someone died because of not having insurance. But look at how many people have died under obamacare or not getting the treatment like they were before it took effect. People with sever cancer can not get the treatment like they did 6 months ago because of the death panel. Which is illegal, but you see how many people end up being put too sleep and never waking up (murder). Jack Kavorking went to jail for giving the people the equipment too kill themselves because they wanted too die because they had no quality of life. Being in sever pain all the time, can't take care of themselves, about too die and don't want too wait and a lot more reasons you or I could never understand. But obamacare doesn't give all the people the right to make that descension only women and kids because they what sit at home watching the kids play with them cleaning house take them places. Being a stay at home parent is not all that hard. about your commit you must not be an American because here in America we can say anything about anyone and any time we want just like Obama's lies about his opponent we can tell the truth about Obama which is worse than any lie he has said about Romney. But he will send his army after them for political favors in the future.
Yup, this is America, and we do have free speech. That means even illiterate, ignorant people have the right to put their ungrammatical, misspelled words on the public record. So go ahead, embarrass yourself.
see ya
they say there is no Racism lol well i hope they vote this fool out maybe then his wife wont have to track him down for her child support she can just wait for him in the un-employment office. These folks kill me talking loud not answering your questions but there must be a lot of crazy folk out there cause they keep electing these fools in
Another reason that the Tea Party is not taken seriously. They keep presenting themselves as a hate group. They have discussed some valid points and raised some serious concerns, but, when they keep talking, with such a vast air of stupid, they make themselves hard to be taken seriously.
they say there is no Racism lol why do we keep putting these loud mouth wana bees in office i say Vote this fool out and maybe then his wife will not have to hunt him down for child support she can just wait for him at the un-employment office hm wonder will he still be talking loud and saying Nothing
That's Mr. President to you, you scumbag deadbeat dad. You're typical of what the Tea party consists of-----religious fanatics, homophobes, racists and gun nuts. No patriots in that bunch, they wouldn't know a true patriot if one fell out of the sky and hit them in the head!
She want to shut him up before he can answer a question, every time he stars to say something about her that the reporter didn't like she starts talking about something and will not let him finish what he want to say without interrupting. But he has to shut up and let her speak. But when he ask a question she will not answer it.
Most Vets don't talk about their service in the military job. They will talk about the fun, places they have been and seen. But most will not come back and say I kill a 100 bad guys and saved my troops. The troops will but not the person that did it unless asked about it and they never tell you it all. When one is put up as a hero they usually say they were doing their job. They see so much horrible stuff that they don't want to remember or tell people about it because they don't want people to look at them a certain way. Why is someone a hero for doing the job they wanted to do and get paid to do it? I think a hero is when someone is walking down the street and a fire is in a house, they kick down the door putting their self in danger and try get the people out.
Were are the racial statements? If your talking about him calling Obama boy, boy, boy them were all racist if we have sons or talk to a young person calling them boy. If I remember a boy is any person with a penis. If you act like a child and are called a boy that's about your man hood not the color of your skin.
It's ignorant people such as this, who belong selling used cars, NOT in government.
Go wash your mouth out, you phony!
Joe Walsh is a moron! He actually meant to say "boy" but he didn't go that far. It is reprehensible how disrespectful these GOP "good ole boys" are to the President of the United States! But, if President Obama fights back he is accused of playing dirty. He could roll in mud 24/7 and NEVER be as dirty as these Republicans and Tea Party whackos are. They probably go to church every Sunday. What a bunch of phonies!!!!!
I cannot think of any adult man with normal self-esteem who would like to be called "son" by another man. Any man would know in his bones this is a demeaning comment. Given this nation's history in regards to African-Americans, it is definitely harking back to the idea that the "negro was not smart". Joe Walsh comes off as a pompous, arrogant wind bag with the depth of a dry lake. I would be rather embarrassed if I had voted for him.
it was demeaning and disrespectful considering he was addressing the President of the United States. When you think about it, the whole process has been demeaning. This President as had to go through process that no other President has had to go through that no previous President had to go through.