Scott Walker's Warrant from God

Candidates running for political office claiming mandate from supernatural-religious forces typically are not widely found in classical liberal America outside of the Bible Belt and rural sectors of the states.

Scott Walker is an outlier, a product of segregationist white suburbia of the greater Milwaukee urban region and its toxic racial politics (Mal Contends) (MacGillis, The New Republic).

An authoritarian and vindictive lifelong politician, Walker's claim of the Almighty's blessing ought to alarm Americans. Racism and God do not equate with a pluralistic America.

Check out Scott Walker tells supporters: ‘I am certain’ my 2016 presidential run ‘is God’s plan for me,’ (Dolan, Raw Story). [Originally reported in RightWingWatch by Peter Montgomery.]

This is a 10-alarm fire.

Housing Apartheid Blasted—Segregation, Racism Produced Scott Walker

The New York Times has an editorial implying not much has changed in the last five decades in the dedication of white American racists perpetrating segregated housing.

Worth noting is Wisconsin's Scott Walker is a political product of the virulent racism of the greater Milwaukee urban region, as GOP appeals to racism accelerate. (MacGillis, TNR) (Mal Contends)

As a lifelong resident of Wisconsin, I would alert readers a race riot this summer is a distinct possibility, as Milwaukee police remain a largely Republican and vile brand, and white Republican  hate radio and Scott Walker drum up racist taunts almost daily.

Notes the Times:

[R]age and unrest was thoroughly explained five decades ago by President Lyndon Johnson’s National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission. The commission’s report was released in 1968 — the year that the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. touched off riots in 125 cities — and contains the most candid indictment of racism and segregation seen in such a document, before or since.

The commission told white Americans what black citizens already knew: that the country was 'moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.' It linked the devastating riots that consumed Detroit and Newark in 1967 to residential segregation that had been sustained and made worse by federal policies that concentrated poor black citizens in ghettos. It also said that discrimination and segregation had become a threat to 'the future of every American.'

Could be a really fun summer in Milwaukee this year, but residents contacted say the possibility of violence against white racists as openly racist whites inflame the region is just assumed a part of living in the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee Hate Radio, Segregation and Scott Walker Exposed

In the lede for The New Republic cover piece entitled, The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker, Milwaukee hate radio personality, Mark Belling is featured in this fact-laden piece that Republicans fear and loathe more than even a young, black man walking down the street.

Alec MacGillis' piece is supported with facts, data and analysis that presents to the nation the greater Milwaukee urban segregation and race baiting that have been the bain of Wisconsin politics for decades.

Another one of the hate radio stars featured in the piece is Charlie Sykes who retorts that MacGillis simply wrote a hit piece, a "heavy stew of urban legend, reheated unionista talking points, cherry-picked anecdotes and the usual journalistic hackery."

Alright, following is one ingredient featured from the heavy stew of urban legend that Sykes implied never actually happened in which Belling mocks Wisconsin's first African-American member of Congress, Gwen Moore: "Gwen Moore simply occupies a seat. A very large seat. ... The woman is so fat and out of shape, she literally can’t get to the floor to vote anymore. ... It’s time to vote and here’s Gwen: ‘I’m out of breath! Blew-ee, blew-ee!’ (Here Belling affected the exertions of an overweight black woman.)" Typical Belling, make up your own mind if it's toxic and racist.

White Wisconsin Racists Prefer the Term, 'Articulate Conservative'

Scott Walker on cover of The New Republic

Update: Comment from one jbkburack in The New Republic (TNR): "To TNR and its fans, we out here are all flyover yahoos. They think we will not call them out and they can get away with total garbage like this, but we have called them out, and you can be sure Scott Walker will a lot more yet before he's done."

Scott Walker calling someone out more often? Maybe at his next unscripted town hall meeting, the fact that Scott Walker refuses such events of no relevancy to Wisconsin Republicans.
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White Wisconsin reacts to Alec MacGillis' The New Republic piece on Scott Walker and racism with disbelief and denial

MacGillis has reported on racism in the greater Milwaukee urban area, in Scott Walker's campaign, in Milwaukee hate radio, all furthered by massive infusions of Koch and other rightwing money.

Republicans are shocked to the point of disbelief. Actually, they deny the facts or insipid accusations.

Dan O'Donnell of WISN sets everyone straight: "This stupidity is as inaccurate as it is insipid. Walker won in 2010 because he presented a clearer and more articulate conservative message in the primary and then relatively easily defeated Tom Barrett in the general election because of widespread distaste for liberalism as it existed under eight years of Governor Doyle and a little over a year of President Obama (and his stunningly unpopular health care reform)."

MacGillis, damn east coast type, coming over to our side of the country and telling everyone that Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha counties are racist and segregated from Milwaukee.

Charlie Sykes of White Wisconsin offers this reaction at WTMJ:

"As hit jobs go, this is pretty run-of-the-mill, except for its length and the fact that it is the cover story of the once-prestigious New Republic:  The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker: A journey through the poisonous, racially divided world that produced a Republican star."

The unsubtlety of the headline pretty much gives you the feel for this over-the-top and meandering trip through the fever swamps of anti-Walkerism.  Suffice it to say that writer Alec MacGillis establishes that he has frequented every anti-Walker website and twitter feed... and has fed deeply. His article is a heavy stew of urban legend, reheated unionista talking points, cherry-picked anecdotes and the usual journalistic hackery."

Well, I'm glad that's cleared up. For a moment I had thought that attacks on voting rights and racist jokes, and attacks on the city of Milwaukee are per se racist acts.

One thing Sykes knows is how to be subtle when discussing them.

MacGillis also implies Scott Walker can't think on his feet. From the white perspective, I guess MacGillis missed all those unscripted town hall question-and-answer sessions.

On the other hand the fact that Scott Walker refuses unscripted town hall question-and-answer sessions might suggest something about the candidate chosen by God to lead Wisconsin, America, who knows where Walker can go with his articulate conservative message.

GOP Mouthpiece Is Dependable Racist Transmitter on Milwaukee Radio

Charlie Sykes and hate radio are on the air for Scott Walker.

Pretty ugly.

Who believes that the GOP is going to change, and how?

Moral persuasion. The logic of an argument.

Will the Catholic Church hierarchy, the GOP's ally, come out and condemn hate radio in a sustained campaign.

I would not wager upon this project being launched anytime soon.

Desperate GOP: Block the Black and Brown from Voting

Andrew Goodman - Murdered in 1964 for
standing up for voting rights of our black brothers
Born  Andrew Goodman

(1943-11-23) November 23, 1943
New York City
Died June 21, 1964 (1964-06-21) (aged 20)
Mississippi, U.S.
Cause of death   Murder
Ethnicity   Jewish

Minorities are actually voting in the Wisconsin recall elections!!!

Early absentee voting in Milwaukee foreshadows a heavy turn-out in Milwaukee County.

And the GOP is already busily at work trying to discredit the recall election against Scott Walker and gin up hatred towards Milwaukee African-Americans.

The nerve of minorities for voting!

See Cognitive Dissidence.

Hatemonger, Charlie Sykes:

"If this election turns out to be neck-and-neck; if it turns out to be decided, let's say Tom Barrett were to win this election by, say, 7,000 votes, I can tell you right now: There is not a single conservative, not a single Republican in the state of Wisconsin that would think that was a legitimate election, that it was not stolen. ...

On fellow hatemonger, RNC chair Reince Priebus:

The chairman of the Republican National Committee said Wednesday GOP candidates have to perform 1 or 2 percentage points better than they otherwise would to overcome voter fraud -- claiming that voter fraud is far more pervasive than what official reports have shown.



Ralph McGill (1898-1969)

Writing on the front page of the Atlanta Constitution in 1958: "You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe."."
- Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution, Oct. 13, 1958
McGill won the Pulitzer Prize for a furious column denouncing the 1958 bombing of a Jewish Temple. The journalist, who had covered the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938, linked the bombings of the 1950s-60s to the racial hatred of the South’s white leaders. History is repeated today, as GOP leaders denounce blacks and Latins' voting as "fraud," as hate crimes rise with the approval of the Republican Party.

GOP: Accountability and Rule of Law Are Wrong

Justice David Prosser (Republican)

Even as the GOP files to recall Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar), as is their right, Charlie Sykes and the Republicans scream and try to vilify anything that threantens their political power: Voters, Recalls, unions, the Wisconsin Judicial Commission, judges protecting voting rights, and on and on.

What's surreal, is the point Sykes and the GOP are making by using the oddest vehicle, a physically abusive conservative activist supreme court justice: David Prosser.

By John Peterson

The [segment below] perfectly reflects the conservative campaign to vilify everything Democratic, everything liberal, everything not ideologically compatible. I hope you have time to listen to it. The underlying message is clear; liberals are trying to take away the conservative vote.

This is the marginalization of American citizens who are not conservative. We are the other. We are the takers of their votes through our recall system. We are the takers of everything they think they own, like the moral high ground, the courts, their odd interpretation of freedom and liberty spelled out in the constitution.



Talk radio propagandists Charlie Sykes tries like hell to discredit liberals everyday. And he's working from a growing enemies list, like the newly targeted Wisconsin Judicial Commission.

The message you'll hear from Sykes is not just how bad liberals are, but how conservatives are the only ones that can be trusted to administer the law. Over and over Sykes basically hits on one theme; liberals will do anything to take away the power of their VOTE, a threat that is now right up there with taking away God and guns.

Rightwing Radio Takes off on Pedro Colón

You can tell a lot about a political candidate by the enemies he or she makes.

In Pedro Colón's (D-Milwaukee) run for the Milwaukee City Attorney’s race, Colón has gained the enmity of the usual suspects on rightwing radio.

Both Charlie Sykes and Mark Belling ripped into Colón Monday though not offering any argument against his candidacy.

Of course, Colón who lists among his supporters the Milwaukee DA, the City’s legislative caucus, and US Rep. Gwen Moore, also gets an occasional hit from those upset by his successful advocacy of a sexual harassment victim. The nerve of that Colón!

And Colón is campaigning for the City Attorney’s office advocating that he would work with other officials to flush out the law protecting Milwaukee citizens so that citizens would be better served by the actions of their government and the police. What nerve this uppity Hispanic has!

The naysayers are unpersuasive.

Reads the Shepard-Express endorsement:

Colon’s ideas would take the city attorney’s office into the 21st century by working with other levels of government, especially on reducing crime and nuisance properties; training police officers to respect the rights of citizens while making arrests; fighting to fix the school choice funding flaw, which currently penalizes city taxpayers; finding fair solutions for residents who have had their driver’s licenses taken away; and personally advocating for the city when important lawsuits arise.

Amen to Colón's efforts to make government serve the people it is supposed to serve.

Coexist Icon and Charlie Sykes

Xoff at UppityWisconsin notes a flap over dueling Coexist icons, one of which provokes many and is deemed inflammatory (it is). The piece is worth linking to as it links to a couple of interesting perspectives (I posted the lead-in below).

Republican radio's Charles Sykes has stepped in it big time, calling the hateful work (above-right) 'pure genius.'

Milwaukee's ecumenical Interfaith Council begs to differ. Jim Rowen summarizes thoughtfully on the national Daily Kos blog, and Mike Plaistad weighs in with, "Sykes bravely fights coexistence."

Here's my take at MAL Contends: I find the god concept intellectually lazy; a coping out of grappling with the great and mysterious questions on the nature of human knowledge and the universe.

And I never have been anything but critical of organized religion, a tradition of anti-thought usually based on fear, dogma and bigotry.

But since near the inception of this blog, I have displayed the Coexist icon (above-left) as it connotes a respect for anyone to explore in any manner he or she deems fitting, and a commitment to peace.

As for the inflammatory icon and Sykes' description of it as "pure genius;" silly, but so be it. DRAWING THE LINE by Charlie Sykes
; COEXIST REACTION: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE JUST PLAIN SILLY, by Charlie Sykes

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