Dozens and Dozens of Black People
Charlie Webster, Chair of the Maine Republican Party:
In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out….
I’m not politically correct and maybe I shouldn’t have said these voters were black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that’s sleazy.
As a Democrat, let me say how much I love this version of the Republican Party. Can I suggest a prominent speaking role for Webster at the 2016 Republican National Convention?
Craigo:
November 15th, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Never thought I’d have a reason to post this.
Todd:
November 15th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Is this a Stephen King story? Mysterious black people from the woods terrorize a Maine town and its local Chamber of Commerce. An uneasy peace, forged in a distant past, collapsed when the woods-people decided to start exercising their franchise. Will there be enough time to drive them back into the forest before the Congressional mid-terms?
(Tom Selleck to star in a made-for-cable mini-series)
joe from Lowell:
November 15th, 2012 at 5:54 pm
Why do I have the Thriller video flashing through my brain?
A-somethin’ evil’s lurking in the dark!
Craigo:
November 15th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
He used the “I have a black friend” defense! not only that, he plays basketball with the guy! I’ve damned near got bingo already.
Murc:
November 15th, 2012 at 5:56 pm
This clown is a state party chair?
The best part of his rant is how cheerfully non-specific it is. Name names, Mister Webster. “Some parts” of “rural” Maine. What counties? What precincts? There are literally dozens of reporters (not to mention folks in law enforcement) who would love a confirmed story of massive voter fraud. That would be a sexy story, you’d be in the news for weeks. It could hobble Obama permanently if his campaign were involved.
So c’mon. Share details.
tonycpsu:
November 15th, 2012 at 5:56 pm
The Stephen Colbert “black friend” segment pretty much writes itself.
Kyle Huckins:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
David Duke is ashamed of this party right now.
ploeg:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:07 pm
The urban vote apparently extends much farther than we previously thought.
Julia Grey:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
I’m sorry, but I CANNOT stop laughing.
Keaaukane:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
I have a Black girlfriend in Canada is also an acceptable defense.
zombie rotten mcdonald (unashamed Knack fan):
November 15th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Well, Morgan Freeman played an evil military leader in “Dreamcatcher”. Will that do?
zombie rotten mcdonald (unashamed Knack fan):
November 15th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
“I’m not racist, but….”
M. Bouffant:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
The only right-wing site that memeorandum shows as linking to this is Stupidest Man Jim Hoft’s, where all his commenters believe this to be true.
Incontinentia Buttocks:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
According to the US census there are thousands of black people in rural Maine. [h/t University of Oklahoma's Keith Gaddie for posting this to FB]
CD:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
+1
Bart:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
And they’re all yelling, “Where the white women at?”
zombie rotten mcdonald (unashamed Knack fan):
November 15th, 2012 at 6:47 pm
….scaring the bejabbers out of people like Charlie Webster.
grouchomarxist:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Charlie has The Shunning.
Hogan:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
Binders full of women, and dozens and dozens of black people. Get me something for gays and Latinos, and I’ll write the ads myself.
Hogan:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
“…I’m totally racist.”
Rick Massimo:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
A single white person who went to vote and found someone had already voted using his name would be a start.
DOZENS OF VOTES.
Rick Massimo:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
WOW have I had it with people saying “I’m not politically correct” like they’re a) bragging or b) playing the victim.
Brandon C.:
November 15th, 2012 at 6:59 pm
+1
This meme needs to spread.
Bill Murray:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
you have to throw in a “you wouldn’t know her” or that you met her at summer camp
joe from Lowell:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
Don’t laugh, Bill. I got to fourth base with her.
Fourth!
Bill Murray:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
see I thought he was just restating he was a Republican
Malaclypse:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
According to the US census
Would that be the Census conducted under Obama? I heard ACORN ran the whole thing.
Pestilence:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Not to his wife it isn’t
Warren Terra:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Given that the only time state party officials make the news it’s for something humiliating (and I think it’s basically GOP state part officials, but maybe my information sources are biased), it seems to me that they’d do better to abolish the executive positions associated with the state parties.
John:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Perhaps, although it depends what you mean by “rural Maine.”
According to the census, there are 15,707 Black people in Maine. But of those, 4,684 live in Portland and 3,174 in Lewiston, which would not qualify as “rural Maine” by any definition. So that leaves only 7,849 in the rest of the state. Another 3,208 live in other substantial towns that probably wouldn’t qualify as “rural” by Maine standards. So that leaves only 4,641 living in rural Maine. And only a certain percentage of those would be eligible to vote – so maybe 3,000? I guess that’s still “thousands,” but not very many thousands.
Still enough for dozens of Black people to be voting in rural Maine, of course.
DrDick:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
I have to say that this is an awesomely well orchestrated voter fraud operation given that they actually got dozens! of black people up to the Maine woods to vote illegally. That might almost swing a county commissioner race in rural eastern Montana.
meese:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
“I’m not politically correct…”
GAAAAAAAAA! (sticks fingers in ears) Lalalalalalalala! I can’t hear whatever you’re about to say…..
Malaclypse:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Look, you laugh, but it was not just doxens of black people. ‘Where did this Chinese man come from? We don’t have any Chinese people here. Where did they come from?’
ChiComs. In Maine. Wake up, White Sheeple!
Some Guy:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:20 pm
This is the same Maine Republican Party who’s plan to win the US Senate seat was to attack their opponent for having played World of Warcraft.
She plays an ORC ROGUE!! OOOOooooooo!!
“Junior Varsity” might be to strong a phrase to describe their league. Is there a ‘Freshman Reserve’ league?
LosGatosCA:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
But he is fucking moron, so he has that going for him.
LosGatosCA:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Last pick on the flag football intramural team at Webster Middle School.
rea:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Obama carried Maine by 107,000 votes, so there would have to be more than 107,000 of these black voters bussed in to affect the outcome. There would have been long lines of busses full of black voters backed up on the freeways at the borders.
And just think how many black voters Obama must have bussed into California to win there!
Pestilence:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
The perfect VP nominee
Malaclypse:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
By 2016, “I have a black friend” will mean he can’t win the primary.
DocAmazing:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Is it too late to toss in a Maine Coon Hound joke?
McAllen:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
What people think they’re saying when they say “I’m not politically correct”: “I don’t kowtow to the establishment and its rules, man!”
What they’re actually saying: “I’m about to say something a white southern sheriff might have said 60 years ago”
Linnaeus:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:53 pm
Hm, I don’t see how Romney could have lost because everyone I know voted for him.
Gone2Ground:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
I would love to ask this subgenius why the Obama campaign bussed dozens of black people to swing the state that is notably white. White enough, in fact, to engender some pretty high dudgeoun outta the white guys when they saw all the blahs….
I mean, if there was deliberate action by the Dems, doesn’t it seem logical they would have bussed in, oh, I don’t know, white people?
Warren Terra:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
Wasn’t that a House seat?
Gone2Ground:
November 15th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
I know, I’m assuming that logic is even in this guy’s neighborhood.
Some Guy:
November 15th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
No, but it was STATE Senate, not US. Soooo.. half credit?
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-11-07/news/34977496_1_warcraft-social-worker-and-democrat-hobby
Sharon:
November 15th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
No, it’s pretty much, “I’m proud of being rude to people!”
Ken:
November 15th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Peggy? Is that you?
N__B:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:04 pm
“some of my closest friends are.”
N__B:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
You shouldn’t use that phrase: http://xkcd.com/1013/
NonyNony:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
You have to apply the “idiot-to-English” translator to his statement:
Translation: This one guy told me …
Translation: … he saw two black people …
Translation: … on Fox New on election day. I think they were Black Panthers in Philadelphia or something.
Translation: I don’t think everybody has a right to vote.
Translation: I am a racist moron with my head stuck so far up my ass I can taste my spleen.
JoyfulA:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
One of my reasons for liking political canvassing is encountering people I didn’t know were around. In the suburban-exurban areas I’ve been living in lately, I’m likely to naturally encounter only those next door and across the street, and I’m much happier knowing blacks, Hispanics, and Asians are nearby. Then again, other voters might be surprised to see a half-veiled woman next in line.
NonyNony:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
“Nobody in town knows
anyone who’s blacklogic!”NonyNony:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
He’s an idiot and he’s projecting how he would commit voter fraud if he had a legion of devoted followers who were ensorcelled to his will via Stalinist Mind Control Techniques.
His plan would be stupid, so the plan he projects onto Obama is also stupid.
Anonymous:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:19 pm
I can confirm that there were no black residents in LA county prior to November 6, 2012. Stolen!!1!
NonyNony:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:19 pm
I thought it was “Hey everybody! Look at me! I’m an asshole! Did you hear me? I SAID I’M A GIANT ASSHOLE!”
NonyNony:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
But what if we really do want to wake the sheeple and start the sheepocalypse?
Anna in PDX:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
So, logically…
Nathan of Perth:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Suddenly, black people!
EVERYWHERE!
Substance McGravitas:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
ADVISOR: Look, we’ve got this in the bag. We know where to tip the election, we’ve got the buses, and we’ve got a bunch of nice fresh-faced college kids to tip the iffy districts.
OBAMA: No. Scratch the kids. I want everyone to KNOW where the vote is coming from. Get me Kenya.
mark f:
November 15th, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Dear god it’s worse than he realized.
Hogan:
November 15th, 2012 at 10:01 pm
Oh my no.
Visitor:
November 15th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
1. Thanks for bringing the facts!
2. Not disputing your main (oops) point, but — have you ever been to Lewiston? It’s kinda big for a rural town, so you’d have to maybe blink three times in a row to miss it… (note that there are some nice restaurants right by the river, worth a stop)
Bill Murray:
November 15th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
I don’t know, Ekalaka has over 300 people
Bill Murray:
November 15th, 2012 at 10:52 pm
That is the curse of projection
N__B:
November 15th, 2012 at 11:12 pm
Then, per W. Allen, you should stock up on Woolite.
Pestilence:
November 16th, 2012 at 1:07 am
win
Pestilence:
November 16th, 2012 at 1:10 am
no it’s Medoc
mch:
November 16th, 2012 at 1:26 am
Same here for canvassing. You learn so much about your own (or nearby) neighborhoods and communities. Even when nobody seems to be home! The houses, yards, a thousand details add up to insights. Someone should collect canvassers’ stories! (No, I take that back, let’s not reify and novelize it all.)
Like the way a few black people may be living in a struggling, working class, very white neighborhood. Or, to leave aside canvassing…. In the church I attended for many years here in rural New England I met all kinds of people I never would have known otherwise, including black folks (several of whom could trace their ancestors to the earliest days of this town, btw) whom I have NEVER seen (in my town of 6,000) outside of church. Including at the voting place (we have just one). So, as a middle class white person in this small NE town, I (and my children, born here) could have gone all my life unaware of their existence, much less their deep roots in this town (greatly deeper than my own), but for going to this particular church. Depends on the chances of your life whether you’d recognize all sorts of people at the polls, even in a small NE town.
An interesting thing about small v. big town. Brooklyn may still be the biggest little town in America. Truly little towns can be surprisingly big, if big means variety and lots of unknown.
John:
November 16th, 2012 at 2:58 am
Oh, no question. The lack of any details to the story, and the fact that it makes no sense on its face – if Democrats were trying to steal elections, why would they send Black people to rural Maine – indicate that this guy is a moron.
But it really is true that there are very, very few Black people in rural Maine.
IM:
November 16th, 2012 at 3:14 am
Did she win?
JoyfulA:
November 16th, 2012 at 3:24 am
Yes.
JoyfulA:
November 16th, 2012 at 3:28 am
I do have to admit I’m not a very efficient canvasser. If people are inclined to chat, I sit with them on the front step and talk. The world is interesting.
Walt:
November 16th, 2012 at 5:33 am
This isn’t fair. His black Canadian girlfriend was there, and would totally back him up, but she’s back home in Saskatchewan, where they don’t have phones.
ajay:
November 16th, 2012 at 6:57 am
I mean, if there was deliberate action by the Dems, doesn’t it seem logical they would have bussed in, oh, I don’t know, white people?
But there aren’t any white people who vote Democrat. Except maybe a few college professors, a couple of hippies, Alec Baldwin and Teh Gays.
olexicon:
November 16th, 2012 at 9:44 am
Hey I’m from Saskatchewan and we do have phones
Uncle Kvetch:
November 16th, 2012 at 10:08 am
“Hey everybody! Look at me! I’m an asshole! Did you hear me? I SAID I’M A GIANT ASSHOLE!”
Thank you, Ms. Coulter, you’ve made your point. Now please sit down.
DrDick:
November 16th, 2012 at 10:13 am
Yeah, but the county only has a bout 900 voting age people, so 3-4 dozen people might be enough to swing a close race. Again, I did say “might almost“
Halloween Jack:
November 16th, 2012 at 10:25 am
Even King (who has hardly ever met an Magical Negro that he didn’t like) has had African-Americans of the non-magical variety in his books set in Maine–Mike Hanlon in IT, for example.
Halloween Jack:
November 16th, 2012 at 10:29 am
I’m wondering why he didn’t just ask his “friend” about this.
Lee Rudolph:
November 16th, 2012 at 10:44 am
In some places in rural Maine, there are dozens, dozens of syllogisms.
But not in his neighborhood.
kg:
November 16th, 2012 at 10:57 am
Why that’s 8,917 dozen! Plausible!
Gone2Ground:
November 16th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Are those anything like the Agenda 21 Mind Control Techniques? ‘Cause I want to know before I go to my next City Council meeting if they’re gonna try to mind control me. I heard on Glenn Beck that that’s Obama’s new secret plan.
S_noe:
November 16th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
“Slutty coeds” is funnier.
RedSquareBear:
November 16th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
With the centralization of the parties (and the state party’s lack of any sort of identity as things-in-themselves) it surprises me too.
But there would be a huge first mover penalty, “Robble robble robble, taking their marching orders from Worshington Dee Cee, robble robble robble!”.
(And, for once, I will actually say that both sides would be equally guilty of that.)
RedSquareBear:
November 16th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Curses! Another victory for the Horde!
RedSquareBear:
November 16th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
You can’t get there from here.
STH:
November 16th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
But what about the slut vote, bought with free contraceptives?
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE SLUTS?!?!
STH:
November 16th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
My favorite part of it is the “investigation” he’s going to conduct with his own money into this obvious voter fraud.
Wasn’t O.J. Simpson going to “investigate” who killed his wife?
anonymous:
November 16th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
“I even let him use my bathroom!”
mch:
November 16th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Yes. And the dogs. I’ve wondered how many votes (people who actually got out to vote) I may have won for Elizabeth Warren because I’m not afraid of dogs, respect and/but want to love all dogs, even pit bulls.
Cody:
November 21st, 2012 at 11:25 am
I just assumed “Charlie Webster” was Stephen Colbert’s new stage name.