# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/41 "2013-10-25T16:58:01Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > But that would require a responsible media that doesn’t just report each side’s bullshit. Actually I think they correctly think its not worth their time. “Some of my best friends are black” has become such a cliche of racism that no further evidence is required. Also most articulate racists these days know this and will provide the name of a token conservative black as part of the original statement. “How can you call me racist when I was a staunch supporter of Michael Steele’s senate campaign.” However to all but the most sympathetic ears this comes across about the same as “Some of my best friends are black” ---
**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, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/42 "2013-10-25T17:11:31Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > But, can’t you register to vote at the DMV? If I’m remembering correctly, when I moved down to NC and went to the DMV to get an ID card (to replace my Illinois one) I was either told that I would also be registered to vote or asked if I wanted to do so. I know that I never had to fill out a separate voter registration form. When I moved and had to get a new ID card, my voter registration was automatically changed to my new address. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/43 "2013-10-25T17:21:18Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > 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. One of the things I saw was his claim that TDS could have made him look much worse. I think some of this does go to what Der Trihs points out above. If someone lives in a bubble and talks this way all the time, it can be hard to filter it. It can be hard to filter obscenities, for example, if you’re suddenly around kids or get a new job where that matters, etc. If you’re kinda stupid to start with, then spend all your time around people who agree with you, yeah, you’re going to say things like this and think you come off pretty good. And he probably doesn’t think he’s a racist because if you don’t want to kill black people it can’t be racism. ---
**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, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/44 "2013-10-25T17:31:22Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Actually I think they correctly think its not worth their time. “Some of my best friends are black” has become such a cliche of racism that no further evidence is required. Also most articulate racists these days know this and will provide the name of a token conservative black as part of the original statement. > > “How can you call me racist when I was a staunch supporter of Michael Steele’s senate campaign.” However to all but the most sympathetic ears this comes across about the same as “Some of my best friends are black” I like to watch them squirm. Also, there are plenty of SDMB conservatives who I don’t think are truly racist but defend the dog whistle blaring and dancing around what any reasonable non-conservative can hear as racism… I think the plausible deniability allows non-racist conservative apologists to not have to look deeper at who they support and how those policies might affect minorities. Also, people just shouldn’t be allowed to spew unchecked bullshit on programs that are supposed to be informative, on principal IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/45 "2013-10-25T17:35:59Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > I was struck by how much his argument sounded like **bricker’s**. I’m pretty sure there were many folks on this board who had the exact same thought. > [@a35362](#): > > 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 wonder how many times these types have to be busted on what bullshit the whole “integrity of the process” line is before they give up on this crap. I suppose it would help if the majority of the public in such areas actually noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/46 "2013-10-25T17:38:48Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Actually I think they correctly think its not worth their time. “Some of my best friends are black” has become such a cliche of racism that no further evidence is required. As [RationalWik](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Friend_argument)i puts it; > [@](#): > > It is one of the easiest ways to try to worm out of accusations of prejudice. The thinking is that someone cannot be prejudiced if they have friends of that demographic; if they had a real prejudice against a full group, then none of them would be okay to hang around. In a rather absurd example, someone can cite a specific example that excuses their general behaviour, for example “how can I be a misogynist, I love my mother”. While this line of reasoning might be true for someone who genuinely doesn’t have a general prejudice, it isn’t a good argument to prove it - and it certainly doesn’t absolve someone who actually does hold such a belief. The underlying fallacy is that one single point of data, this one “friend”, completely overrides any other bits of evidence we have to assess someone’s views. This is simply not valid reasoning. ---
**Author:** ![RedSwinglineOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@RedSwinglineOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedSwinglineOne)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/47 "2013-10-25T17:41:51Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > 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. It is. And in a 2 hour interview, it wouldn’t be difficult to cut any interview in a way to make the person look stupid or confused, but they seem to only do that in a way that accentuates what the person is saying. Yelton said what he said and he’s not backing down. > [@](#): > > Yelton resigned on Thursday, but was unrepentant in an interview with the Asheville, N.C., Citizen-Times. “There’s nothing I said that I would take back. So be it,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/48 "2013-10-25T18:17:49Z")
On one hand, I’m glad he resigned and some GOPers are distancing themselves from him On the other hand…wow, these people still exist and walk among us and are so cavalier about their attitudes towards minorities and Democrats!? I’d say its unbelievable but there are worse things in that other thread about stupid Republican ideas that overshoot this guy by a mile. This guy’s racist, but we knew that already, his big mistake was to admit it and not walk it back ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/49 "2013-10-25T19:38:10Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > 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. The Romney video probably being the prime example. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/50 "2013-10-25T19:40:32Z")
When the Stewart TDS started, they could get away with a lot since most people never heard of them. Now half their interviews involve the correspondents making themselves look like idiots. I worried how they would find people to be patsies like in the old days. Now we know - just visit your Tea Party HQ or talk to a southern Republican low level official. ---
**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 25, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/51 "2013-10-25T20:03:15Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > 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. [It probably is.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_West_(politician)) ---
**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, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/52 "2013-10-25T21:59:08Z")
> [@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/).) Buncombe: [Origin of the word “bunkum.”](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bunkum) ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/53 "2013-10-26T10:06:15Z")
Wait! Yelton’s not finished yet: [Racist Republican Still Racist After Resignation, Still Dropping The N-Word | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/don-yelton-racist_n_4164763.html) ---
**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 26, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/54 "2013-10-26T12:41:33Z")
I wouldn’t bet a huge amount on it, but I’d bet five bucks that his best black friend is [HK Edgerton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._K._Edgerton). ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/55 "2013-10-26T14:23:52Z")
{checks date. Is not April 1st} ??? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/56 "2013-10-26T15:05:14Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > 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. I came really close to attending the Texas Democratic state convention once because the precinct chair - a judge of all things - was such a dipshit. When we caucused to see who’d go, he started _telling_ people how to vote so he could attend but his son would be alternate. This started a minor revolt, and one guy turned to me and asked if I wanted to go. I said “sure”, and by god I almost came in first. Which probably would have been the first and only time a Jesse Jackson delegate was ever sent from North Dallas. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/57 "2013-10-26T17:24:59Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Wait! Yelton’s not finished yet: [Racist Republican Still Racist After Resignation, Still Dropping The N-Word | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/don-yelton-racist_n_4164763.html) Ah, he’s just bitching about “n-word privileges,” nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/58 "2013-10-26T18:06:44Z")
Republicans’ privilege to use the n-word is suppressed, so they suppress the right to vote. Fair trade, right? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/59 "2013-10-26T18:27:21Z")
Well, we could take a vote on that question! Oh, wait, maybe not… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161/60 "2013-10-26T19:25:36Z")
> [@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. It’s Ann Coulter in male drag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oblivious-gop-official-on-last-nights-daily-show/672161.md?page=4)