# 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:** 2
**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, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/21 "2013-10-24T23:56:43Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > 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? Apparently it is free, but the conditions on it make it somewhat circular; No-Fee ID Card Program Begins January 2014 Starting January 1, 2014, the Division of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing no fee ID Cards to be used for voting. Proof of age, identity, North Carolina residence, and verification of voter registration will be required. So in order to GET the free ID, you have to prove that you are who you say you are, that you live in NC -and- that you’re registered to vote. Which means that if you have no current ID and aren’t registered to vote, FUCK YOU, you aren’t going to get one. Awesome job on that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/22 "2013-10-24T23:58:25Z")
To use a a colloquialism of the youtube age, on first viewing I was convinced this was fake and gay. Especially the huge pause when he was asked whether he was racist. Had to edited. The black friend? Too pat. Aasif giving the look to the camera? Come on! The only thing missing was some cutesy reference to watermelon. Suicide by television? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/23 "2013-10-25T00:13:54Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. The biggest news here is that there are two Republicans in Buncombe County. (That’s Asheville, recently named [3rd best town in America for hippies](http://blog.estately.com/2013/07/17-best-u-s-cities-for-hippies/).) ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/24 "2013-10-25T00:36:44Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Apparently it is free, but the conditions on it make it somewhat circular; > > No-Fee ID Card Program Begins January 2014 > Starting January 1, 2014, the Division of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing no fee ID Cards to be used for voting. Proof of age, identity, North Carolina residence, and verification of voter registration will be required. > > So in order to GET the free ID, you have to prove that you are who you say you are, that you live in NC -and- that you’re registered to vote. > > Which means that if you have no current ID and aren’t registered to vote, FUCK YOU, you aren’t going to get one. > > Awesome job on that. :rolleyes: I’m wondering about that “to be used for voting” in that description. Does that mean that it would be different from the one I got, and possibly not valid for other purposes? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/25 "2013-10-25T01:49:44Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > The biggest news here is that there are two Republicans in Buncombe County. (That’s Asheville, recently named [3rd best town in America for hippies](http://blog.estately.com/2013/07/17-best-u-s-cities-for-hippies/).) Yes and no. Like a lot of towns like ours, the city is overwhelmingly liberal, but the county is much more conservative. Don Yelton has been a gadfly and a jackass for as long as I’ve lived here. He’s an attention whore of the most contemptible sort, which is why he went on the Daily Show, and probably part of why he was so outrageous: he knew what would get him some national coverage, and he’s too much of an attention whore to care that people are laughing at him as long as they’re paying attention to him. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/26 "2013-10-25T01:50:04Z")
If you eliminate every single iota of racism, you’d lose some of the (tragi-) comedy. The sad thing is, that if you transcribed the rest, you could post it here under some (all) of our conservative posters’ names and it would be indistinguishable from their justification for voter supression. Okay, maybe take out the ‘stick it to the democrat’ bit too, just to be sure it applies to all conservative participants, but that’s about it. It’s for the integrity of the system! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/27 "2013-10-25T02:09:55Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Apparently it is free, but the conditions on it make it somewhat circular; > > No-Fee ID Card Program Begins January 2014 > Starting January 1, 2014, the Division of Motor Vehicles will begin issuing no fee ID Cards to be used for voting. Proof of age, identity, North Carolina residence, and verification of voter registration will be required. > > So in order to GET the free ID, you have to prove that you are who you say you are, that you live in NC -and- that you’re registered to vote. > > Which means that if you have no current ID and aren’t registered to vote, FUCK YOU, you aren’t going to get one. > > Awesome job on that. :rolleyes: But, can’t you register to vote at the DMV? ---
**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 25, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/28 "2013-10-25T02:34:57Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > So in order to GET the free ID, you have to prove that you are who you say you are, that you live in NC -and- that you’re registered to vote. > > Which means that if you have no current ID and aren’t registered to vote, FUCK YOU, you aren’t going to get one. > > Awesome job on that. A grandfather clause as it were. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/29 "2013-10-25T02:59:15Z")
Sorry. Thought I was in CS. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/30 "2013-10-25T03:21:02Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > 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??? Probably because they talk like that all the time among themselves; it’s how they _normally_ act, when the public isn’t watching. It’s the best explanation I have for why Republicans have such a habit of blurting out these ridiculously bigoted statements; they sometimes forget themselves and talk in public like they do in private. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/31 "2013-10-25T03:33:37Z")
Not that the stuff he said by himself wasn’t offensive, but I thought it was common shtick that the Daily Show interviews are cut to be funny. Making interviewees look awkward and silly is what it’s all about. ---
**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 25, 2013, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/32 "2013-10-25T04:56:45Z")
I’d be willing to bet that the Daily Show doesn’t do as much selective editing as a typical news magazine show on Fox. ---
**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 25, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/33 "2013-10-25T05:11:35Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > The biggest news here is that there are two Republicans in Buncombe County. And the other one’s _worse_? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/34 "2013-10-25T06:35:17Z")
That’s his black friend. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/35 "2013-10-25T14:41:34Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Yes and no. Like a lot of towns like ours, the city is overwhelmingly liberal, but the county is much more conservative. Don Yelton has been a gadfly and a jackass for as long as I’ve lived here. He’s an attention whore of the most contemptible sort, which is why he went on the Daily Show, and probably part of why he was so outrageous: he knew what would get him some national coverage, and he’s too much of an attention whore to care that people are laughing at him as long as they’re paying attention to him. Interesting. Can you give us a sense of how this is covered/discussed locally? He was stunning in his approach; it seemed like he thought he was playing the game better… ---
**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 25, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/36 "2013-10-25T14:46:51Z")
He probably did think he was playing the game better. But he thought he was playing chess while actually playing tic-tac-toe while the Daily Show guys were playing checkers. This douchenozzle obviously doesn’t watch any news but Fox News and has no friends who watch anything else, either. He probably didn’t understand the Daily Show schtick except as “that show all dem libruls watch”. No wonder he willingly jammed his foot firmly in his mouth. When you spend your entire life in an echo chamber, you forget there actually are other voices. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/37 "2013-10-25T14:56:31Z")
I was struck by how much his argument sounded like **bricker’s**. Bricker doesn’t reveal the same obvious racism, of course, but he focuses on the “integrity” of the process and argues that a rate of in person voter fraud on the order of 2 out of 60,000 could sway an election. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/38 "2013-10-25T16:39:22Z")
When these people claim their best friends are black, why does no one ever say “What’s his name?” and “Quickly, what is his name?” Not that I think even if it was true it makes someone less racist, but I doubt that 99.9% of these racists with “best friends who are black” are telling the truth. I’d love to see one stammer on video to come up with a name and then follow up and find the supposed black person. But that would require a responsible media that doesn’t just report each side’s bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/39 "2013-10-25T16:42:06Z")
I wonder if his guys booted him because of his racist remarks or because of what he revealed about the voter fraud stuff: oopsie! I also liked his remark afterwards about “The questions were such that the answers can be played with.” Yeah, he never said anything even remotely racist; those punks at _TDS_ must have edited Mr. “I’ve Been Called a Bigot Before” to make him look racist. :dubious: It’s the kind of thing that Sarah Palin would use as an excuse. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/40 "2013-10-25T16:48:41Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > When these people claim their best friends are black, why does no one ever say “What’s his name?” and “Quickly, what is his name?” To quote Chris Rock, “all of my white friends have exactly one black friend”. It would be funny if it was all the same guy for the entire GOP. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161.md?page=3)