Meet the Very, Very White Netroots Nation Staff
Go to this link to see the group my tipster describes as “whiter than an albino ghost at a KKK rally.” Here’s a couple of screenshots showing the entire lily-white staff:
I think each biography should end with the phrase: “He is white.” (Unless it’s a woman. Then I would say: “She is white.”) For example:
Melissa Foley (@melfoley) is the new media program director for Netroots Foundation. Prior to joining the team, she worked as a senior member of the online communications team at Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection and as director of marketing and operations for a web-based social enterprise. Melissa holds a master’s from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s from UC San Diego. She lives with her husband in San Mateo, CA. She is white.
Or:
Nolan Treadway (@nolan ) serves as political and logistics director. Nolan has years of experience in progressive politics and online organizing. Previously, he was an online organizer for the Democratic National Committee and interned in new media for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Nolan holds a bachelor’s in business from Michigan State University and a master’s in public policy from American University. He resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Joan. They are both white.
Complete the following phrase: the Netroots Nation staff is whiter than . . .
Whiter than Elmer’s Glue on copier paper.
JD (1cc290) — 6/18/2013 @ 6:45 pmWhiter than a marshmallow topped with whipped cream.
Soaked in bleach.
Patterico (9c670f) — 6/18/2013 @ 6:46 pmWhiter than Crissy Mathews’ neighborhood
JD (1cc290) — 6/18/2013 @ 6:48 pmWhiter than George Hamilton’s teeth
JD (1cc290) — 6/18/2013 @ 6:49 pmWhiter than Sweden. In January. In a whiteout blizzard.
JD (1cc290) — 6/18/2013 @ 6:50 pmWhiter than Conan O’Brien.
Patterico (9c670f) — 6/18/2013 @ 6:51 pmThey’re about as white as this New Mexican woman who works for Rio Arriba County government who is getting a free (county-paid) trip to NetRoots as it will ‘help her with her job.’
The corruption is sickening!
http://politicalfireball.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/rio-arriba-county-new-mexico-sends-employees-to-progressive-conference-using-taxpayer-funds/
PolitixFireball (b27d48) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:09 pmWhiter than white
PC14 (2f8051) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:09 pmNot to forget that this woman (Lauren Reichelt) is also vice-chair of her county Democrat party and is a self-proclaimed community (communisty) organizer who writes for…The Daily Kos!
PolitixFireball (b27d48) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:10 pmWhiter than a shade of pale.
sybilll (2fd05b) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:11 pmuhhh, who or what is a netroots nation?
Speaking of being white, I heard a clip on the radio of some professor at UPenn (in what I don’t know) saying that the reason why repubs/conservatives are against abortion is because they are afraid of demographic shifts with not enough white babies being born.
I kid you not, that is what she said.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:14 pmMy jaw doesn’t drop anymore since it was wired shut when it fractured after falling to the ground one too many times.
some of my best friends are white but it doesn’t bother me
plus Edward Snowden is white and he’s just the nicest guy ever
happyfeet (c60db2) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:14 pmWhiter than an albino vampire with anemia.
What do I win?
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:15 pmI think was Harris Perry, I thought she was at Princeton, Joan Walsh seemed to have the same idea,
narciso (3fec35) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:17 pmnarciso, I couldn’t formulate an opinion that obtuse if I tried.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:22 pmSorry it was Michael Dyson, on Bashir, Shirley they didn’t forget Gosnell so soon,
narciso (3fec35) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:23 pm“Sorry it was Michael Dyson, on Bashir, Shirley they didn’t forget Gosnell so soon,”
Dyson is weapons grade stooopid.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:32 pmThe Netroots Nation staff is as white as the Buzzfeed staff and whiter than a Tea Party rally.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:37 pm.
Gazzer (0a6f16) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:45 pmWhiter than a ghost being audited by Obama’s IRS.
peedoffamerican (ee1de0) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:56 pmWhiter than the crowd at the 1940 Democratic National Convention!
peedoffamerican (ee1de0) — 6/18/2013 @ 7:58 pmWhiter than…
the cushy SF/Bay Area neighborhood that’s home to people like the leftwing California state legislator who wants the homeless to have full legal sway (eg, the right to urinate and defecate wherever and whenever), except — as James O’Keefe illustrated — when it comes to such liberals’ own happy little niche in the world.
Mark (bb0274) — 6/18/2013 @ 8:23 pmI located the Facebook pages for the top three profiles above and browsed through their friends lists. Roughly 95-98% of their Facebook friends are as lily-white as they are.
aunursa (7014a8) — 6/18/2013 @ 8:48 pmThe infuriating thing about lefty white people is they are pretty much, well, white. They want to help black people because they are white as if black people need help because of their skin color.
The vast majority of the left are racists not because they are white, but because they think that black people need their lily-white asses to help them.
Honestly, how can anyone assume that any minority can only succeed with the white man’s help?
That is an insult to people in general.
I really, really dislike left-wing racists.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 6/18/2013 @ 8:51 pmThey’re whiter than the writing staff at Breitbart, for one thing.
Steven Den Beste (99cfa1) — 6/18/2013 @ 8:51 pmWhiter than Robert Byrd’s local Klan rally.
JVW (23867e) — 6/18/2013 @ 8:56 pmWhiter than Vanilla Ice flipping real estate.
Leviticus (2c236c) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:01 pmIt’s a thing. Check it out.
Leviticus (2c236c) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:02 pmThe dude’s name is “Raven”? Seriously?
That’s just gay.
Leviticus (2c236c) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:03 pmI denounce myself.
Leviticus (2c236c) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:03 pmWhiter than the next white Hollywood director making a movie about the evil of being white.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:04 pmWhiter than Vanilla Ice flipping real estate.
Well done, Leviticus.
JVW (23867e) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:08 pmAnd there is such diversity of viewpoint, well he was against SOPA but otherwise;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raven-brooks/
narciso (3fec35) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:08 pmWhiter than a HuffPo contributor in a Casper costume in a field of snow in Antarctica.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:12 pmAs white as the Massachusetts Cherokee.
PatAZ (bf8b98) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:12 pmSuch innovative turn of thought;
http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_21887448/carolyn-dulchinos-electric-cars-bring-charging-stations
It’s like blanc mange with vanilla sprinkles.
narciso (3fec35) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:14 pmAs white as a Heat fan in the stands wearing a white T-shirt.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:15 pmAs white as a Heat fan in the stands wearing a white T-shirt.
As white as a luxury suite at any NBA game.
JVW (23867e) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:17 pmI really, really dislike left-wing racists.
I re-post the following in their honor:
Mark (bb0274) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:21 pmI saw a couple of hipster beards. Does that count for something?
AZ Bob (c11d35) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:24 pmMy sister used to attend Netroots. She is white, as in red hair and freckles.
She believes things like “The only reason republicans don’t want to pay more taxes is that they don’t want to help poor brown people.” She also hears a lot of dog whistles.
Whiter than DQ soft serve ice cream, and nowhere near as appealing.
LibraryGryffon (1996ab) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:25 pmAnd you know nothing like props to a 9/11 denialist;
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/11/1130433/-If-You-Donate-to-the-Netroots-Nation-Auction-Obama-Will-Gain-Another-Point-in-Ohio
narciso (3fec35) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:31 pmWhiter than Justin Bieber
I worked with an old man who used to say: whiter than Santa’s ass.. I denounce the memory
SteveG (794291) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:32 pmAs white as the white idiots in Minnesota who elected Jesse Ventura governor and followed up with an unfunny SNL writer to the U.S. Senate and consider Garrison Keillor as some sort of “Old Scout” to lecture the rest of us on race relations while the state has less than six percent of an African-American population.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:33 pmNow that’s white.
Tanny O'Haley (f5fbfe) — 6/18/2013 @ 9:42 pmRaven Brooks is one of those gay names what’s every bit as gay if you switch it around to where the last name comes first
that’s very impressive
happyfeet (8ce051) — 6/18/2013 @ 10:11 pmWhiter than Vanna and Betty drinking milk in a blizzard whilst ironing KKK costumes and listening to the Beatles White album and dresses as angels.
Gazzer (0a6f16) — 6/18/2013 @ 10:31 pmthat’s whiter than patriotism even
happyfeet (8ce051) — 6/18/2013 @ 10:39 pmWhiter than every white lie told by President Per Se.
BuilderDoug (9b8831) — 6/18/2013 @ 11:08 pmAs white as the staff of JTMP
E.PWJ (6140f6) — 6/19/2013 @ 12:01 amWhiter than an Obama election campaign brain trust.
Gerald A (b44a50) — 6/19/2013 @ 2:25 amAs white as Johnny Winter.
mg (31009b) — 6/19/2013 @ 2:26 amwhiter than the weather underground…
E.PWJ (6140f6) — 6/19/2013 @ 2:29 amwhiter than the whitewater defendants
E.PWJ (6140f6) — 6/19/2013 @ 2:30 amWhiter than this
peedoffamerican (c1890a) — 6/19/2013 @ 2:56 amhttp://reallybadboss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/WeShallOvercome79.jpg
Whiter than Robert Byrd’s Kleagle gown.
Ed from SFV (6382f3) — 6/19/2013 @ 5:12 amWhiter than the Edmonton Oilers.
Bugg (b32862) — 6/19/2013 @ 5:57 amBut not as white as the editorial/opinion staff of the New York Times.
Bugg (b32862) — 6/19/2013 @ 5:58 amWhiter than an astrophysicists’ convention.
nk (875f57) — 6/19/2013 @ 6:02 amWhiter than a Nobel laureate in neuroscience.
nk (875f57) — 6/19/2013 @ 6:18 amWhiter than the veneers on a Disney Princess.
Sarahw (b0e533) — 6/19/2013 @ 6:46 amWhiter than its Board of Directors
Kman (5576bf) — 6/19/2013 @ 6:59 amWhiter than the six white stripes and fifty stars on Old Glory.
Pious Agnostic (c45233) — 6/19/2013 @ 7:07 amComment by Pious Agnostic (c45233) — 6/19/2013 @ 7:07 am
Thank you.
nk (875f57) — 6/19/2013 @ 7:09 amI actually know that guy. I used to argue politics with him on a debate forum. He is a true believer — he started “buy blue” back during the ’08 campaign.
Whiter than a rice sammich with mayo on Wonder bread.
carlitos (49ef9f) — 6/19/2013 @ 7:16 amThe Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office.
Icy (d4f1da) — 6/19/2013 @ 7:37 amRaven Brooks is a name that is so gay that it is likely the product of straight people wanting to free their as yet unborn child from the constraints of society.
Meanwhile, my gay friends are named, Gary, Robert, Dan, Dwight, Michael, Scott and John. Very gay. Two hairstylists, two garden designers, a rose garden designer, a candle shop owner, a floral designer, and a home designer.
In contrast, Raven Brooks sounds like the stage name of a guy whose San Fernando Valley career involves getting a 60mm sphincter enhancement. His regular job is probably a waiter or a valet parking attendant and you will only rarely see him sitting down. Oh, And he eats food like a pelican.
SteveG (794291) — 6/19/2013 @ 8:28 amHis career is in shambles and his only hope for stardom was to hang out at the airport and hope Senator Craig dropped by…
Whiter than an Illinois Nazi rally.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 6/19/2013 @ 8:48 amR.I.P. Slim Whitman
nk (875f57) — 6/19/2013 @ 9:35 amA pox upon thee, PatAZ (@35). You stole my thunder.
You’re right, I should have checked in earlier, but time, tide and horse barns await no man.
Yes, RIP Slim. 🙁
gramps (13e453) — 6/19/2013 @ 10:16 amFor those of substantial years: “Whiter than Roy Rogers’ horse “Trigger” after a walk through a car wash.”
Ray Van Dune (11a38f) — 6/19/2013 @ 12:04 pmWhiter than the Republican electorate. Whiter than the anti-amnesty advocates. 😆
White: it’s the new diversity!
The snarky Dana (3e4784) — 6/19/2013 @ 12:41 pmC’mon everyone, let’s hold our fire until we can see the whites of the Netroots’ lies.
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 6/19/2013 @ 12:43 pmThe Nutroots, try as they might
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 6/19/2013 @ 12:44 pmCouldn’t find anyone not white
To headline their do
As they try to woo
Some people away from the right.
Please call Amanda Marcotte
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 6/19/2013 @ 12:48 pmShe’ll end this so racist plot!
The left that we know,
Racist? Hell no!
She’ll fix Nutroots on the spot!
poor chrissy matthews
elissa (c7f92a) — 6/19/2013 @ 12:57 pmcan’t believe his eyes that those
netroots are racists
You people just hate the Netroots because they’re
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:06 pmblackbrownyellowredwhite !so it appears that
elissa (c7f92a) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:06 pmthe nutroots staff motto is
no blacks need apply
It seems Nutroots are all white
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:13 pmCan blacks forgive this great slight?
For libs they sure can
They’ll vote Dem again!
Left racism they’ll never fight!
There was a group called Nutroots
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:16 pmThe diversity horn they did toot
Then the pictures came out
The diversity they tout?
Looks like they gave that the boot!
Blacks at this year’s Nutroots?
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:22 pmGuess they did not give a hoot!
They just don’t care
‘Bout whitey’s hot air
When their ‘hoods all look like Beirut!
Raven Brooks got a thrill up his white leg !
Elephant Stone (6a6f37) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:25 pmELBERT GUILLORY explains why he switched parties to become a Republican. Youtube.
Transcript available here.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:31 pmComment by papertiger (c2d6da) — 6/19/2013 @ 1:31 pm
Every so often we are given reason to be hopeful.
MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 6/19/2013 @ 3:54 pmThank you Mr. Guillory, and thanks p.t. for bringing it to our attention.
Markey(D) smears opponent in MA Senate Race – and yes, I know that labeling him a “D”, and noting that he smeared his opponent, is a bit redundant.
But, as this news item shows, Markey is using the same smear technique used by Reid and Obama on Romney in last year’s campaign,
askeptic (b8ab92) — 6/19/2013 @ 4:04 pmby hinting that Gomez’ unreleased client list must indicate illegality.
Well, why not, it worked before, it will probably work again.
Whiter than puss eating maggots. Oops can’t be because they are puss eating maggots.
dunce (15d7dc) — 6/19/2013 @ 5:29 pm“Markey(D) smears opponent in MA Senate Race”
askeptic – Markey apparently had several less than stellar moments in last night’s debate, but they may be too little, too late.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 6/19/2013 @ 5:36 pmIt was the Republicans in Congress who authored the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments giving former slaves citizenship, voting rights, and due process of law.
I admit (and embarrassingly) that my ignorance of America history was such that when people said that Republicans were the party of Lincoln — implying that the crudeness of bigotry was a tradition of the Democrat Party — I wondered if they were applying overly ancient history to the trends a few generations later. Then I became acquainted with the details of the administration of Woodrow Wilson and Jim Crow laws, which succeeded my previous awareness of the shockingly racist comments and behavior of Harry Truman, certainly in private, or semi-private.
A few years later, meaning just a few months ago, I read for the first time about the bigotry of his predecessor, Franklin Roosevelt, and that truly was a “a-ha!” moment for me.
I knew liberalism could easily corrupt the soul, but I underestimated just how bad it truly could be or was.
Mark (fa6d93) — 6/19/2013 @ 6:18 pmNetRoots are so white, the roll up their windows when they drive through a Swedish neighborhood.
rudytbone (ff3de4) — 6/19/2013 @ 9:38 pmWhiter than the crowd at a hockey game.
peedoffamerican (a84075) — 6/20/2013 @ 2:07 amMeanwhile, my gay friends are named, Gary, Robert, Dan, Dwight, Michael, Scott and John.
Comment by SteveG (794291) — 6/19/2013 @ 8:28 am
Steve, you either know only seven gays or you were in the Navy like you’ve been claiming. Which is it?
nk (875f57) — 6/20/2013 @ 7:04 amWhiter than Lindsey Lohan’s nostrils after a three-day bender.
Semper Why (c8cf70) — 6/20/2013 @ 9:04 amWhiter than “Hi Ho Silver, Away!”
PatAZ (bf8b98) — 6/20/2013 @ 10:27 amNow do you see what you started, Patterico?
nk (875f57) — 6/20/2013 @ 4:23 pmHuman flesh sold in the market?
Sammy Finkelman (d22d64) — 6/20/2013 @ 4:43 pmwhiter than Pat Boone’s Hanes…
Colonel Haiku (3f24c8) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:03 pmwhiter than an albino polar bear…
Colonel Haiku (3f24c8) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:06 pmwhiter than Robert Byrd’s Klan sheets…
Colonel Haiku (3f24c8) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:11 pmI report you decide, Sammy. But I think it’s cheese.
nk (875f57) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:16 pmpasty liberals
Colonel Haiku (3f24c8) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:18 pmself-anointed enlightened ones
keep searching for clue
teh netroots nation
Colonel Haiku (3f24c8) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:21 pmbetcha couldn’t force needle
up one pasty ass
netroots nation what a state yer in
Colonel Haiku (3f24c8) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:32 pmnot bright, so deficient in melanin
get on yer soapboxes
have a bagel, try teh loxes
this sucks so I think I must try again
We are accused of lacking diversity,
nk (875f57) — 6/20/2013 @ 5:32 pmEven though we help those in adversity.
How can we tell our accusers,
That we want to keep our computers,
That’s why we eschew a certain minority?
Whiter than the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
W. J. J. Hoge (9c4b9d) — 6/21/2013 @ 7:13 amThe L.A. progressives have noticed, although they fail to link to you. They have their own “predominantly white” Netroots photo.
Kevin M (bf8ad7) — 6/22/2013 @ 7:50 pm