# Oblivious GOP official on last night's Daily Show **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 24, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161 "2013-10-24T21:12:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/1 "2013-10-24T21:12:06Z")
Even Aasif Mandvi couldn’t hide how shocked he was. Anyway for those who missed it, Don Yelton, a GOP precinct chair in North Carolina, made some pretty inflammatory remarks during a Daily Show interview last night. In addition to complaining about “lazy blacks” and how blacks can use the n-word (except he didn’t use the term “the n-word,” he just came right out and said it), he also basically admitted the main raison d’etre for the voter ID law recently passed in North Carolina was “to kick Democrats in the butt.” Oh, and just to be clear he wasn’t racist, he also said one of his best friends is black. > **[Even The Daily Show Was Shocked by This Racist GOP Leader's Responses](https://www.gawker.com/even-the-daily-show-was-shocked-by-this-racist-gop-lead-1451400551)** > > The Daily Show's "field reporters" have dealt with a fair amount of hilariously oblivious responses from interviewees over the years, but on last night's show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi appeared to have been caught off-guard by just how hilariously... ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/2 "2013-10-24T21:26:56Z")
I hope we get a chance to follow up with that black friend in the near future. Oh wait - he just stepped down from his position. > [@](#): > > Update 5:05 p.m.: Don Yelton has resigned his post as precinct chairman effective immediately. > > Buncombe GOP Chairman Henry Mitchell called Yelton’s comments on The Daily Show “offensive, uniformed and unacceptable of any member within the Republican Party,” and called on him to step down. > > The state’s GOP leadership issued a similar call for his resignation, which he reportedly tendered this afternoon. Still this is my favorite part of that article: > [@](#): > > “You know that we can hear you, right?” asks a visibly nonplussed Mandvi. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/3 "2013-10-24T21:28:54Z")
Uh, you can’t, sorry. He’s, like, Canadian, and really hot too. And he totally exists, guys, come on. ---
**Author:** ![cornopean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cornopean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornopean)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/4 "2013-10-24T21:29:46Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Even Aasif Mandvi couldn’t hide how shocked he was. > > Anyway for those who missed it, Don Yelton, a GOP precinct chair in North Carolina, made some pretty inflammatory remarks during a Daily Show interview last night. > > In addition to complaining about “lazy blacks” and how blacks can use the n-word (except he didn’t use the term “the n-word,” he just came right out and said it), he also basically admitted the main raison d’etre for the voter ID law recently passed in North Carolina was “to kick Democrats in the butt.” > > Oh, and just to be clear he wasn’t racist, he also said one of his best friends is black. > > [http://gawker.com/even-the-daily-show-was-shocked-by-this-racist-gop-lead-1451400551](http://gawker.com/even-the-daily-show-was-shocked-by-this-racist-gop-lead-1451400551) I sort of agree with you. I think black should be left out of it. We should focus on lazy people and how the govt makes them even lazier and more dependent. But race is a non-existent category. What is race? does anyone know? I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/5 "2013-10-24T21:30:12Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Oh, and just to be clear he wasn’t racist, he also said one of his best friends is black. The best part (or at least the part that had me bent over laughing) was when he started hard at Mandvi trying to figure out if he was black or Hispanic or “Muslim” or “other”. When he settled on “black”, I ran out of breath. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/6 "2013-10-24T21:32:50Z")
What he meant was that one of his best friends was NAMED ‘Black’. Billy Joe-Bob Black, in case you need to know. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/7 "2013-10-24T21:35:46Z")
> [@cornopean](#): > > I sort of agree with you. I think black should be left out of it. We should focus on lazy people and how the govt makes them even lazier and more dependent. But race is a non-existent category. What is race? does anyone know? I don’t. The Daily Show piece, and the interview, concerned the law recently enacted in NC requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID at the polls. I am happy to hear you are against this blatant effort to make people more dependent on government. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/8 "2013-10-24T21:44:48Z")
I was even happier the asshat admitted the voter ID law was meant to stick it to the Democrats rather than prevent voter fraud. I can’t believe he hasn’t learned how to speak in code at his age. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/9 "2013-10-24T21:58:19Z")
**cornopean** , just so you know - voting turns you gay. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/10 "2013-10-24T22:00:24Z")
I thought better of my comment. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/11 "2013-10-24T22:50:41Z")
> [@cornopean](#): > > I sort of agree with you. I think black should be (drowns out the rest with “Trollololololololoolo”) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/12 "2013-10-24T22:55:46Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > I was even happier the asshat **admitted the voter ID law was meant to stick it to the Democrats** rather than prevent voter fraud. > > I can’t believe he hasn’t learned how to speak in code at his age. I can’t believe he hasn’t learned to shut the fuck up. But I’m glad to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/13 "2013-10-24T23:11:27Z")
> [@cornopean](#): > > I sort of agree with you. I think black should be left out of it. We should focus on lazy people and how the govt makes them even lazier and more dependent. But race is a non-existent category. What is race? does anyone know? I don’t. So the new guiding principle is it’s wrong to disenfranchise black voters because of their race. But it’s okay to disenfranchise black voters for non-racial reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/14 "2013-10-24T23:26:05Z")
Yeah. For a “non-existent category,” it sure matters a lot to conservative people in power (and a lot not in power). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/15 "2013-10-24T23:29:00Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I can’t believe he hasn’t learned to shut the fuck up. > But I’m glad to see it. I couldn’t fucking believe what I was seeing. It’s one thing to be dumb enough to think it. How can a person who rose to a position of importance be dumb enough to \*say \*it??? ---
**Author:** ![sylmar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sylmar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sylmar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/16 "2013-10-24T23:37:31Z")
> [@cornopean](#): > > I sort of agree with you. I think black should be left out of it. We should focus on lazy people and how the govt makes them even lazier and more dependent. But race is a non-existent category. What is race? does anyone know? I don’t. ROFLMAO Cornpone buddy, you really need to go on the Daily Show. You know… As sort of an encore to Mr. Yelten. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/17 "2013-10-24T23:42:29Z")
You haven’t participated in much local politics, have you? Precinct chair is not a position of importance, nor is it one you rise to. It’s one you get because of the three people from your precinct to show up at the party meeting, the other two said they were busy before you managed to. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/18 "2013-10-24T23:47:57Z")
In addition to all the obvious drivel he was saying, as has already been pointed out, at one point he said something about people who were too lazy to go down to the DMV and get a “free ID card”. When I moved down to NC I had to pay for my state ID card, and last year I had to pay to get it renewed. Has the DMV been scamming me? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/19 "2013-10-24T23:49:25Z")
The first segment (on Jim Cramer/JP Morgan) was breathtakingly brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/20 "2013-10-24T23:50:37Z")
A racist in the GOP? Shocking! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161.md?page=2)