DISQUS

The Washington Independent: Tancredo, Buchanan Bruised by Racist ‘Karate Chop’

  • Tom Levenson · 6 months ago
    "It’s just that liberals tend to be very unforgiving about things of this kind.”

    Let's see: illicit sex vs. race-hatred motivated assault.

    I wonder why Mr. Taylor finds the distinction between the two categories of behavior so hard to grasp.

    I will not say the word; as Newt has said in a mirror-image context, you read; you decide.
  • Chaya · 6 months ago
    Clobbering a black woman and calling her a nigger is compared by right-wing freaks to Bill Clinton having an affair?

    Totally skewed morals.
  • gmorris · 6 months ago
    You're a plague.
  • katchat · 6 months ago
    Yeah, those faces on Mt. Rushmore aren't even supposed to be up there, trespassers!

    So what about Sotomayer, I know if I ever was nominated for the Supreme Court I would bring the knowledge and life experiences of the indigenous people of this country to my rulings. After all, who in the history of Supreme Court judges have been Natives' peers when making rulings concerning our treaty rights? Americans tend to have short term memory where Native people are concerned.
  • myerman · 6 months ago
    Well Mr. Pinkerton, there were Latinos within the modern borders of the USA even before the people whose faces are on Rushmore were ever born. So whatever.
  • malghani · 6 months ago
    When ever some thing goes wrong for republicans; blame it on Alcohol.

    Mark Foley Pedophilia? NO, alcohol problems.

    Pastor Ted Haggard, Prostitute and Meth problems? No, alcohol problems.


    Where is responsibility that they are always talking about?

    Republicans are only good at talking out of their A$$.
  • Professor Tracey · 6 months ago
    Too bad, Epstein hasn't decided to "kick" being a racist. And he was 24 years old in 2007, he was no longer a "college student" and being drunk is no excuse for striking people or dropping the "N" word. And he has NOT learned anything, because he has yet to apologize in the open and the fact that he willing went along with the event being held back from the public for two years speaks volumes. Further, he has been caught making racist statements under photos on his facebook page. This dude has issues and he should not be allowed to attend anyone's law school.
  • Lagirl · 6 months ago
    You are right on target. These racists are now upset that someonen has exposed something that happened in 2007, and they still dredge up Judge Sotomayer's remarks from 2002. What a bunch of pathetic hypocrites.
  • scurvybro · 6 months ago
    If Epstein had a drinking problem and has kicked it, good for him. If he has bipolar depression and now controls it with medication, hooray.

    But what does any of that have to do with his racist utterances and writings? Is the suggestion that his alcoholism and bipolar disease caused him to express these ideas, and now that he has these conditions managed, he no longer has racist attitudes?

    Uh-huh. And Dubya kept us safe.
  • karela · 6 months ago
    Alcohol doesn't make you a racist, it just loosens up your inhibitions so that you feel free enough to express those thoughts by hitting a black woman on the sidewalk in George Town and calling her the "n" word. Now that he isn't drinking and he's had his public s-p-a-n-k-i-n-g, he doesn't express his hatred in public anymore. That doesn't mean that he's changed inside. He was very welcomed by the far right and they knew what he was. He felt comfortable and accepted over there in the far right whacko land and the point is that we all know that now. This isn't about Epstein. It's about the Tancredos and Buchanans who made him feel so welcome, accepted and agreed with.
  • hrh · 6 months ago
    "Alcohol doesn't make you a racist, it just loosens up your inhibitions so that you feel free enough to express those thoughts......." Hmmmm, why did Mel Gibson immediately came to mind?
  • tjdj314 · 6 months ago
    Scurvybro, you hit the nail squarely on the head. The attitudes are definitely still there.
  • Fran · 6 months ago
    LIBERALS tend to be unforgiving???? HA!
  • dave · 6 months ago
    "of THAT SORT OF THING" I would think that EVERYONE has a problem forgiving racist pigs.
  • Nardwilly · 6 months ago
    Liberals tend to be forgiving.

    You conservatives forgave G. Gordon Liddy, a convicted felon. Conservatives forgave Vitter for using whores and prostitutes. You forgave Newt for cheating on two wives. Check the dates. Bob Dole chetaed on his first wife with then younger Elizabeth. Limbaugh is a convicted drug abuser. Morris is not a liberal, and liberals were never mad at Clinton for Lewinsky.
  • RightDownTheMiddle · 6 months ago
    I've had too much to drink before on many occassions and never once called anyone such a foul word. Blaming alcohol for being a racist is lame. Super lame.
  • Jasper · 6 months ago
    Wasn't he a member of "Young Racists for McCain?" He's kind of homely. No wonder he's such a frustrated little twerp.
  • Snarkus Epstein · 6 months ago
    Hint to Taylor: Dick Morris hasn't lived down his $150/hour hooker. He wasn't welcomed back into the fold. He's in your fold now.
  • dave · 6 months ago
    Surely you're refering to the drug addled gas bag's fat folds.
  • thecivvie · 6 months ago
    A karate chop to the system changed everything?
  • FVG · 6 months ago
    Concerning the Update at the bottom of the article - conservative writer Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch may be a total dweeb, but I doubt he would be associated with this organization. Never heard of Richard Spencer.
  • Prof Lawrence T Smugbottom PhD · 6 months ago
    I would also like to add that Filip Dewinter is Belgian, as opposed to Begian. Obtaining the services of an editor may be in order.
  • Bob Smith · 6 months ago
    Scream the lie. Whisper the retraction.
  • S Lee · 6 months ago
    lol, that's funny. Instead of "Robert Spencer" insert "Charles Johnson" - 2 peas in a pod.
  • cjk002 · 6 months ago
    I find it a little odd that Jim Pinkerton would say that his reaction to Sotomayor's 'wise latina' remark was to think "tell that to the people whose faces are on mount Rushmore" considering that 2 of those faces were partly responsible for allowing slavery and the 3/5ths rule into our constitution. I would argue that had there been a few 'wise Latinas' at the constitutional convention, then we would never have encoded racial discrimination into the document in the first place.
  • Joe · 6 months ago
    The thing I find hilarious about Pinkerton's comment is the fact that women didn't even have rights when our leaders on Mt. Rushmore ruled. And I don't think they were many hispanics on American soil at the time unless they were slaves or indentured servants. The quote just makes him look like the bigoted idiot he is.
  • Andrew · 6 months ago
    "race conscious conservative magazine"?? Please. Call it what it is. This is a euphemism, like "enhanced interrogation".
  • Wendy · 6 months ago
    “My immediate reaction to Sotomayor’s ‘wise Latina’ comment was ‘tell that to the people whose faces are on Mount Rushmore. They were pretty wise and they weren’t Latina females."

    And he really can't find anything wrong with that statement? As if anything but a white male would be on Rushmore? And until fairly recently, nothing but white males on the Supreme Court. His ignorance of the history of prejudice against people of color in this country is quite amazing and he is obviously quite unaware that those white men on Mount Rushmore is a reflection of that..
  • GuyBertram · 6 months ago
    Karl Rove just called again and Loser Tancredo and his Loser assistant Marcus Epstein are FAIR GAME.

    Dick Morris is STILL a disgrace, even more so as BillO'Reilly's DEMOCRAP, and so is David Diapers Vitters, Newt Gingrich, Liddy AND Little Bill Clinton for getting caught.
  • Multi-racial America · 6 months ago
    It may be worth pointing out - which this article doesn't - that the kid comes from a bi-racial background, with Korean and Jewish parents. Talk about self-hatred. This kid is acting out fantasies of racial supremacy to make up for being part of two minority groups - Asians and Jews - who have always have had a very ambivalent reception in mainstream WASP America, but are also touted as "model minorities." Looks like this kid picked up a bit too much white supremacist ideology and is hoping that if he hits black people from time to time, no one will notice that he's part of multi-racial America himself.
  • royola · 6 months ago
    I lived with Marcus Epstein for a year, during that time he never exhibited the kind of behavior one would associate with a bipolar disorder. As to his drinking Marcus definitely over imbibed but it was social drinking that often led to over consumption not the self medication that one might expect to see in an individual suffering from a bipolar disorder. And also not the drinking behavior one would expect from an alcoholic.
  • Paul · 6 months ago
    A 16 year old black kid does something, Bay Buchanan wants him in jail for life. A 24 year old friend of hers does this, "forgive him!"

    Why doesn't Mr. Epstein show his true contrition by doing something meaningful, like volunteer for the U.S. Army & head for Afghanistan?
  • karela · 6 months ago
    Yeah, those pesky people who vote democratic----in droves----tend to think that calling, the most experienced federal judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court in a hundred years a racist, is somehow not a good thing to do. The republican party is so out of touch with America outside of the deep south that they think if they send their non elected minions to do the wet and dirty work of calling Sotomayer a racist that people won't figure out that it's a ploy. Elected republicans, for the most part, would certainly do this too if they thought it would work for them. Mitch McConnell looked pretty silly claiming that he was so busy governing a small body of republican senators that he had no time to say that it was a bad thing for Limbaugh and Gingrich to use the dirty words in reference to a well respected and long time federal judge. Get real Mitch. That may play in Dixie, but you're not in Dixie and the whole country is listening. 2010 is coming and you're shrinking, shrinking, shrinking. I don't think the republican party noticed, but a large majority of those minorities they so dislike are voting democratic. After this they should expect an even larger shift.
  • Conservatoire · 6 months ago
    Bay Buchanan is full of s**t. The right always pulls out the "shouldn't people be given a second chance?" meme whenever it is convenient, but if it is someone they object to like Bill Clinton, Bill Ayers, or anyone else who did something wrong a long time ago, they must be forever punished and made an example of.

    Republicans sicken me.
  • DR · 6 months ago
    "immigration restrictionist": WOW! talk about P.C. talk... Right up there with "vertically challenged" and "erectile dysfunction". The proper term, people, is RACIST. Period.
  • soso08 · 6 months ago
    It's not hard to forgive sexual misadventures by consenting adults, even those on the right. It is the relentless debasing of the debate about important issues by name calling and denigrating a person's intelligence because of their last name that is abhorent and unforgiveable, by any decent person's standards, left or right. When these extremists begin to feel the slap of disapproval from all decent Americans, perhaps the people who are provided a platform to spew this hate speech will either be denied a national platform or excoriated for using it thusly.
  • KDee · 6 months ago
    Do they have rehab for racists?
  • gmorris · 6 months ago
    Yup. Its when their children marry one of "them" and they meet their grandchildren.
  • Lagirl · 6 months ago
    I don't why anyone would be surprised at this guy. Look who his mentors are and who he pals around with. Tancredo and Pat Buchanan. These guys are two of the most disgusting and vile racists in America. Pat needs to be asked about this the next time he debates Lawrence O'Donnell or Bob Shrum on MSNBC.
  • jvill · 6 months ago
    The Mel Gibson Defense.

    Gotta love it.
  • Logic&Reason · 6 months ago
    "... It’s just that liberals tend to be very unforgiving about things of this kind.” ... hmmm I guess Mr. Epstein's friends either never learned about the slavery period that is associate with the n- word, or the kind of insult that the word brings... how would Mr. Epstein feel if someone call him a nasty nickname just because of his last name? Will he be as forgiving? Just hearing the response from Mr. Epstein's friend shows that they are doing all of this apologetic stuff for PR purposes, he is not truly sorry...
  • elaygee · 6 months ago
    Epstein's ancestors are rolling in their graves over how far from his roots he has moved. If they were'nt already dead, they'd die if shame.
  • E Joyce · 6 months ago
    “I hope he can live it down,” said Taylor of American Renaissance. “I would have thought Dick Morris would never live down his $150 an hour hooker. I would never have thought Bill Clinton would live down what happened between him and Monica Lewinsky. In the end, those people were welcomed back into the fold. It’s just that liberals tend to be very unforgiving about things of this kind.”
    The notion that sexual indiscretions are even close to proactive racism that is barely kept under control by not drinking are equal in the mind of Taylor speaks volumes about the deep seated prejudice ingrained in the character of these people and they see nothing else through the prism with which they view politics, policy and people.
  • SqueakyRat · 6 months ago
    Does this Taylor character really believe that screwing a hooker or getting a blow job are comparable to attacking someone in the street and screaming racial epithets at her?
  • lvdragonlady · 6 months ago
    Anyone who has ever over indulged knows that alcohol always brings out the truth in any person.
    Sure, people can change BUT the fact that he still associates with groups with questionable qualities shows that he has not changed at all.
  • Brannon · 6 months ago
    > For Epstein’s friends, this aspect of the Supreme Court debate has simply been surprising and sad. “I hope he can live it down,” said Taylor of American Renaissance. “I would have thought Dick Morris would never live down his $150 an hour hooker. I would never have thought Bill Clinton would live down what happened between him and Monica Lewinsky. In the end, those people were welcomed back into the fold. It’s just that liberals tend to be very unforgiving about things of this kind.”

    Oh right, because consensual sex is just as bad as violent racism.
  • Target · 6 months ago
    Amazing. Simply amazing.

    What is even more amazing is that many in the Republican party believe people like this are blazing the path to regain political power.
  • christopher · 6 months ago
    Repubs???? Take your meds !!! heeeee heeeeeee
  • sparky09 · 6 months ago
    As part of his sentence, maybe the woman he slapped should be able to knock him upside the head with the AA Big Book...
  • carl · 6 months ago
    Bipolar my ass!
  • Chico_Brisbane · 6 months ago
    I'm so sick of Pat Buchanan that I've stopped watching Hardball and Morning Joe. I hop that Rachel Maddow and Olbemann stay clear of him or I'll stop watching MSNBC entirely,
  • S Lee · 6 months ago
    "Republicans sicken me." -- posted by Conservatoire

    Republicans don't sicken me, but Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, does.

    Ditto Charles Johnson of "Little Green Bigotballs."
  • Gern · 6 months ago
    If only those damned liberals would just let the right spew their hate, racism, obfuscation, and missinformation without interferring (you know, those typical liberal tactics), we wouldn't be having these discussions. This poor, young, maligned, soft-assed son-of-a-bitch doesn't hate black people anymore. Get over it. Just because he pens hate speech for others doesn't mean HE hates minorities. He just feels better when they're not around, or at least out of the majority. Why do liberals hate America?
  • JP · 6 months ago
    GOP = HATE & BIGOTRY
    Always has been. Always will be.
  • Elagins · 6 months ago
    How ironic and disgusting that Epstein espouses the same kind of intolerance that probably drove his great-grandparents to leave Eastern Europe in search of more tolerance here. Shame on you, Epstein!
    -- Another Jew
  • GenX · 6 months ago
    What's the big deal, alcohol is poison.
    And it should be illegal along with tobacco.
    And I'm sure he said nig'ga' as opposed to 'ger'.'

    Right wingers aren't the 'only' source of political evil.
    We're actually all getting screwed.
    You guys are our heart, but we are the voice of caution, the 'brakes' if you will.
    And a country filled with the majority of either of us would be hell.

    And you think that it will only be the blue-collared workers who get usurped from unabated immigration, think again.
    Our elites just want a ever growing army of consumers and tax payers, and flooding the work force is to simply depresses wages.
    Look at how the older h1b1 visa workers get thrown on the scrapheap when they become too old and expensive.
    Do you think they care about you and your expensive educations? Right.

    And Jared Taylor would have brought up the sexual indiscretions as an examples of lack of self control, but I suppose as the outcomes were pleasure V pain, you guys don't see the harm.
    But it did hurt some things, that you obviousily care nothing about.
    Nothing matters, anything goes, hate the haters=means you are good. Hooray!
    Enjoy your future and you better learn Chinese and/or Spanish.
  • gmorris · 6 months ago
    And I'm sure he said nig'ga' as opposed to 'ger'.'

    Oh, right because thats sooo much better. You're an idiot. He better be happy he was able to WALK away from that one.
  • GenX · 6 months ago
    "Sticks and stones'.
    Hey wait a minute I thought name calling was the problem in the first place.
    It's ok when you do it, alright if you say so.
    My people find the name 'idiot' racially offensive, so I suppose that makes you a 'hate criminal'.
    You better hand in your resignation by Monday morning please.
    Or perhaps you're just implying that the n-word spelt with the 'gga', is a African American lie.
    Well that's not nice.
    So can a white person say it that way too, or not because it's just 'their word'?
    You Liberals have so many confusing one-sided racial rules,
    please "can't we all just get along".
  • 24AheadDotCom · 6 months ago
    Epstein certainly sounds like someone who made a mistake and should have found another job.

    However, the question becomes, "why is TWI so ardently following this story? Are they reporters, or are they something else?"

    Then, you realize who funds this pseudo-paper: Soros and Rockefeller. Groups funded especially by the former constantly support massive illegal activity. Whyever could that be?

    Wait! Could it be that Soros sees illegal aliens as a power base for him or the Democratic Party (basically the same thing) and is using this case to smear his opponents?

    Could it be that Dave Weigel is just a hack? (Hint: your answer is at that link).

    Could it be that those Soros-funded groups realize that their arguments don't hold water and are just trying to achieve their ends through highlighting stupid things people have done while drunk?

    I think we have the answer.
  • catherine · 6 months ago
    amazing how they expect people to 'forgive' but they never do. they never stop. they hate and hate and wonder why people hate them back. bay has botoxed what little humanity she has away.
  • longnow · 6 months ago
    Let's see if I can lower myself to Epstein's, um, level
    of 5'5" or is it 5'3" of functioning. It's the little guys who
    you have to watch & it's guys who have been accused of
    racism in the past like Buchanan, Gingrich, Tancredo, Limbaugh
    who are jumping on Judge Sotomayor. Her comment, when read
    in it's entirety are NOT anywhere near racist. That term in connection
    with the judge is basically for people who can't & won't read & depend
    on conservative talkers to tell them what today's talking & thinking
    points are acceptable. I don't depend on any one point of reference.
  • Jonna Mackin · 6 months ago
    How long will MSNBC retain Pat Buchanan as a commentator? Not long, I hope.
  • dds · 6 months ago
    Daryl Jenkins is himself a frightening, race-baiter ....look at the website of One People's Project and the hate it spews...they are anarchists who follow around and stalk those who publicly oppose illegal immigration.....he's been in Lakewood, NJ, he''s harrassed lawmakers in Harrisburg, PA, he's harrassed Joey Vento and others as well...me thinks One People's Project works undercover for the ACLU, the SPLC and makes its life mission to smear anyone who disagrees with the open-borders agenda.
  • dds · 6 months ago
    One People's Project has published phone numbers, home addresses and workplace addresses of some individuals.
    On July 28, 2007, blogger Robb Pearson sponsored a rally to support a plan by the mayor of Morristown, New Jersey to deputize law enforcement officials to enforce immigration laws. A notice on the One People's Project website called the event an "anti-immigrant rally", although Pearson described it as a rally against illegal immigration. During the rally, counter-demonstrators chanted while rally participants sang the United States national anthem. At the end of the rally, two of Pearson's supporters were attacked by counter-demonstrators. After the rally, the One People's Project website included the following statement: "[w]e don't think anyone is going to lose any sleep over people chanting during the anti-immigrant side's salute to the flag, Nazis getting slapped around a bit or the pain Robb Pearson & Co. feel over being called racist all the time.
  • kruboy44 · 6 months ago
    Pat Buchana, Tom Tancerdo, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of conservative America are losing the debate as well as crediblity. Their vision of this country will not suceed because their ideals are simply outdated. If these people ideals had any traction there would not had been a Micheal Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Jackie Robertson and the rest of the great African-American ballers. They would have fought to keep the NBA,NFL and MLB from intergration, that would have been a huge lost for this country. Thank God we have rational and progresive white Americans that see beyond the color line. Thank God the Union won the civil war and the defeat of the confederacy was the defeat of ultra conservatism.
  • A. Fuchs · 6 months ago
    " It’s typical of the other side and it’s an ungentlemanly way to conduct politics.”

    Wow, is that rich. Gentlemen do not attack women, for any reason, nor do they defend nasty little racist twerps who do attack women.

    Do these people not hear themselves talk? Not only do they appear, after all, not to believe in "personal responsibility" for themselves (only for others), but they also appear to be politically tone deaf and very, very childish.

    There is no excuse for that Epstein has done, either for the crime he committed or the lies and incitement he has spread for years. His career is now ruined, and he'll become a sort of minor David Duke figure on the far, far right, I'm sure. That's rich, though -- a half Jewish, half Korean white nationalist. Pathetic.
  • cdmsr · 6 months ago
    Kevin Deanna said, “It’s unfortunate that he’s getting hit from this now, years after he stopped doing this kind of thing.”

    Bay Buchanan said, “This is something that happened two years ago that Marcus has paid a price for. Are people allowed a second chance in this life when they realize their mistakes and their errors? I think so.”

    Not to be a stickler, but won't the date have to reach July 7, 2009 before the plural "years" can be correctly used?

    Epstein committed a hate crime, a racially-motivated verbal and physical assault. He verbally abused and struck an apparent stranger because she was black. He has not paid for this crime: he has barely had a slap on the wrist. This needs to be referred to the Justice Department to see if undue influence was used to keep this cretin out of jail. He should have at least been placed in custody for psychological evaluation.
  • samasapienza · 6 months ago
    Democrats get off your arses and slap those Republicans down for their folly. They cry about the financial burden to our country. Where were their financial laments to support the lying war in Iraq. Whenever it's time to serve the citizenry then come the cries of financial hardship from the Republicans, tell our lame democrat health care leaders, it's time to slap back.
  • Donny · 5 months ago
    Jared Taylor shows his sickening hypocrisy. He is always condemning blacks for committing violent crimes. But he refuses to condemn Epstein's violent behaviour.
  • GuyBertram · 5 months ago
    Are we going to get an update before or after Marcus's July 8 courtdate?
    Thanks!