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7/2/2012

Jim Hoft vs. Charles Johnson: A Surprising Victor in This One!

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 8:56 pm



Jim Hoft has a post titled Arkansas Dem Congressional Candidate Gene Jeffress Talks N*gger Babies at Campaign Stop (Video)

Actually, it’s not OK because he’s a Democrat. It’s OK because he’s quoting a racist and denouncing the quote as racist. Look for yourself. Here’s the video:

The perenially dishonest Charles Johnson gets this one right:

I already knew what I was going to see before I watched this clip, and I wasn’t mistaken — State Senator Gene Jeffress said the words “n_gger babies” because he was quoting and calling out a racist woman who used that phrase in a rant against the Affordable Care Act.

For Hoft to imply in any way that this politician is being racist, when he is denouncing racism, is very unfair.

Not Hoft’s best effort.

Thanks to e-mailer “Nica.”

50 Responses to “Jim Hoft vs. Charles Johnson: A Surprising Victor in This One!”

  1. I don’t like writing posts like this. But this is so outrageous, I can’t pass it up.

    Patterico (feda6b)

  2. Good post, Patrick.

    You don’t have to worry about Charles’s history. Just call them like you see them and let the chips fall where they may. I think Charles’s credibility has long since passed the point of no return, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong 100% of the time.

    Dustin (330eed)

  3. you wouldn’t even believe how long I can go without ever referencing *n*gger babies* even once

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  4. oh crap

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  5. ok starting now

    happyfeet (3c92a1)

  6. Hoft does go overboard at times, ahem.

    Patricia (e1d89d)

  7. These days chuckles is only right, when democrats are right. Its like the old saying about broken clocks.

    Which probably makes little sense to people who have never owned an analogue clock or watch…

    in other news, maybe big updates on my site in the Kimberlin saga.

    Aaron "Worthing" Walker (23789b)

  8. Is there a goal, Aaron? A realizable one?

    nk (875f57)

  9. Patterico,

    Get out of this.

    nk (875f57)

  10. Hoft does go overboard at times, ahem.

    Yeah, I noticed that about a year ago on some story or another.

    crosspatch (6adcc9)

  11. Kudos to you Pat for calling this one out.

    He’s been doing that stuff for a very long time. Which is why I rarely, if ever, link to him.

    I even caught the guy linking to the old “White Council” in Mo. (where he lives…) they’re call Council of Conservative Citizens. I mentioned it and he moved to a previous post.

    He’s a snake.

    pat in michigan (7b58f8)

  12. Patterico,

    Get out of this.

    Get out of what?

    And how?

    Patterico (feda6b)

  13. Hoft can strike before thinking.

    Harrison (975823)

  14. Sometimes he comes across as being a little too tightly wound.

    Gazzer (ff3da6)

  15. Opposition to Obamacare and Obama is racist. That is an article of faith among Democrats. Jeffress told a story in the video above to prove it.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  16. You’re right, Patterico. Hoft is still touting this one at the top of his screen two days later. I like Gateway Pundit, but this post is, as you say, not his best work.

    Pastorius (d12f6c)

  17. I don’t know a good how. This is trench warfare, with no positive objective, where both sides only stand to suffer casualties. It can be hoped that the authorities will get their hands on some SWATters and start unraveling the thread back to Kimberlin, Rauhauser and Rynert. But that depends on a mistake on their part.

    nk (875f57)

  18. Any evidence the woman exists outside of the imagination of a disturbed Democrat’s mind?

    Rob Crawford (c55962)

  19. Right, Rob, it fits the template that the DEms have constructed,

    narciso (ee31f1)

  20. nk, are you sure you’re posting these comments to the right thread?

    aphrael (af01a5)

  21. I think nk was responding to Aaron, who posted a link in this thread for whatever reason.

    Anyway, nk, as I indicate in the new thread on this topic, I am tired of the story and don’t have MUCH else original to say. Sure, I have a few things, but I don’t feel hugely impelled to say them now or soon.

    Patterico (feda6b)

  22. Maybe I’m just cynical, but I think the whole thing is racist because Jeffrees is lying. You can see it in his face. No one ever complained TO HIM about n****r babies, and he sure as hell didn’t whip back with that “well I think that’s racist” nonsense.

    It looks more like he’s trying to make up the story as hes going along. So, if he’s not actually quoting someone, then he is pushing the idea that opposition to Obama is racism, and using the most notoriously heinous racial slur to spread the lie.

    You know this never happened. Unless the woman he’s talking about the n****r babies is his crazy aunt Ruth, I would be willing to bet all of my weed that he’s making this story up.

    So if no one actually said it to him, then he’s quoting no one, and thus using racist speech.

    Ghost (6f9de7)

  23. Jeffress is acting like a typical white person. Ask Obama.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  24. Pass it up next time. Don’t ever give these low life scumbags credit for anything. Defend conservatives like Jim Hoft no matter what they say or do. Always. Defend Rush next time he needs support. Defend Sarah Palin the next time these degenerate amoral asswipes go after her again. Never, ever, think being reasonable will gain you any favors with any of these stupid, unprincipled, evil people. They hate you. Do you get that yet? They not only want you dead, they want you to die a slow painful death. They hate you, they hate your ancestors, they hate your children and your children’s children. They hate your dog.

    What will it take before you understand that simple fact? Don’t go after another conservative again. Be a man.

    Jaynie59 (058ebb)

  25. Moby

    JD (2c0b70)

  26. Jaynie is clearly a moby, JD.

    Only a deeply insecure person would equate manhood with loyalty to an entire ideology. Such crappy persona management.

    Dustin (330eed)

  27. I would equate manhood with loyalty to an entire ideology, Dustin. Jaynie59 is obviously a Bronie.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  28. “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican” – Ronald Reagan

    spointer (77ac66)

  29. R.I.P. Andy Griffith

    Icy (ed07f1)

  30. Ronald Reagan never met a Bronie.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  31. jaynie59 nails it.

    DEATH THREAT!11!1!

    hehheh (77adf0)

  32. I’d rather hang with Hoft than you, Patterico. He doesn’t attack his own, then ask for their support.

    Nospam (c02c31)

  33. This thread sure drew out some asshats.

    JD (c4b0dd)

  34. Chris Matthews would be proud of Gene Jeffress.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  35. Shorter Jaynie:
    Never clean your own house. Just point out how messy the other house is.

    I think it’s funny that the defense of Jeffress says he was quoting a racist; he was quoting no one. He made it up. He said it happened at another town hall where “a lady sitting right where this young lady is sitting right here” said she didn’t want to help n****r babies, which he bravely points out sounds like racism. It. Is. Bull. Shlt.

    Ghost (6f9de7)

  36. Wow. Asshats, indeed. I haven’t read Gateway Pundit for a long time.

    Separately, State Reps and Senators are not our bestest and brightest. That guy’s nothing more than a preacher, telling stories like that and getting elected.

    carlitos (49ef9f)

  37. I noticed this right away, that Jeffress was making up a story… but without proof, corroboration and without someone at a town hall meeting who must have heard the racist diatribe as described by Jefferes

    This reminds me of when Breitbart offered $100,000 for proof of racist comments…
    Hoft should have said put up proof or shut up.
    Playing the clip without context was very very wrong.
    Playing the whole context and then saying “prove it” is the way to do it.
    Don’t do it again.

    Kudos to Patrick

    steveg (7c66bf)

  38. Exactly, Steve. In this day and age of everyone recording everything, no one trumpeted the “racist tea partier hates n****r babies!” horn?

    Bullshlt. Absolute bullshlt. This guy just wanted an excuse to say the n word in public and feel like a hero.

    Ghost (8c5e17)

  39. It’s OK because he’s quoting a racist and denouncing the quote as racist.

    Well, on the one hand I guess it’s noon in LGF-land so the blinking 12:00 is correct.

    On the other… is there any actual evidence that Jeffress actually was quoting someone and not just making it up? As you note, he is a Democrat.

    malclave (4f3ec1)

  40. I stopped reading Gateway Pundit after I ralised that Hoft was more interested in telling stores than in telling the truth.

    Some people may say “my side can do no wrong” but that’s not how I want to operate. If my side is wrong and I support it, that makes me wrong too.

    scrubone (4f0412)

  41. How many times does a Seth Allen have to bite you on the ass until you people get it? Huh? How many times?

    They HATE you. Don’t ever side with them for any reason at any time. And for God’s sake don’t EVER take the side of a lying scumbag like Charles Johnson over a good man like Jim Hoft.

    What the HELL is wrong with you people? Grow a set of balls, find a spine somewhere, and stop being the beta male dickless wonders they’ve programmed you to be. Stop falling for their narrative. Stop playing the fool. They’re laughing at you.

    Don’t ever attack another conservative again. If you can’t find the balls to support them, shut up. The internet will get along just fine without your latest attempt to belch out how “reasonable” you are to people who hate your guts.

    Jaynie59 (058ebb)

  42. Well it’s more judicious than to cast doubt on Jeffries statement, than to attack Hoft,

    narciso (ee31f1)

  43. Jaynie is a blithering idiot. Moby.

    JD (dfaa6e)

  44. Grow a set of balls, find a spine somewhere

    Telling the truth is not always easy. The truth doesn’t neatly line up with who my friends are or what my party’s policy lines are.

    I think your moby canard of dumbly taking a side and ignoring truth when it agrees with the other side is moral cowardice.

    Dustin (330eed)

  45. Jaynie59, Emperor of the Internet, must be obeyed.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  46. Is Jaynie59 conducting a lynching?

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  47. Yes, jaynie. They hate us. So let’s be no better than them. Let’s just continue the lies like the left does.

    You definitely can’t convert people with truth. That’s why the media isn’t afraid to report on things like fast and furious.

    Why don’t we just go back to the days of excusing conservatives wrong doings? The good old days of Bush with huge expansions of federal power.

    Ghost (6f9de7)

  48. He is not quoting anybody that was heard by others. Is this a straw-woman?

    pat (0833d4)

  49. I took Gateway Pundit off my blog visit list a long time ago because Jim is very prone to this sort of thing. LGF of course is a cult/hatesite. I think psychologists will study what happened with Charles as some new flavor of psychosis before all is said and done.

    Voluble (3f1737)


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