# RNC attendee: 'This is how we feed animals.' **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 29, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071 "2012-08-29T20:51:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/221 "2012-09-06T14:11:33Z")
No worries, mate. We all need a little grace extended, from time to time. Hope you enjoy the new job. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/222 "2012-09-06T15:16:39Z")
Best of luck with your new job and may Og have mercy on your daughters. Everyone knows the Big Wheel could have Squirrel Girl’s number any day of the week. Back on topic: at least none of us throw peanuts! Edit: Seriously, who throws a peanut? ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/223 "2012-09-06T15:24:35Z")
I’ll take that, Alex, for $100: Who are drunken idiots holding nothing but peanuts? ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/224 "2012-09-06T15:57:38Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Edit: Seriously, who throws a peanut? Drunks. They’ll throw whatever is at hand. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/225 "2012-09-06T16:10:02Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Seriously, who throws a peanut? Elephants. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/226 "2012-09-06T17:01:53Z")
Them Peanut Throwers Lookit them peanut throwers, ain’t they grand? Throwin’ them peanuts, (they’re the only thing on hand) Chuckin’ them salted ones or covered still in shells aimin’ at minorities or _something_, who can tell? Yeah, I apologize already… ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/227 "2012-09-06T20:41:27Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Them Peanut Throwers > Lookit them peanut throwers, > ain’t they grand? > Throwin’ them peanuts, > (they’re the only thing on hand) > > Chuckin’ them salted ones > or covered still in shells > aimin’ at minorities > or _something_, who can tell? > > Yeah, I apologize already… No need. It was awesome. I just want to say that even if many here are not aware of “Ham’s Children” as an excuse to justify slavery, there is a very small minority of the country that still live by this biblical racist idea of why dark skinned people are dark, and why the white man is superior. It’s disgusting, perverted, horrific, but it is what it is. We can’t forget that guy David Duke who ran for President not all that long ago. When these two old men resorted to their actions I had that sinking feeling they would at least be in sympathy with the KKK, if not part of them. Let’s not kid ourselves into thinking they don’t exist, or wouldn’t be attracted by the far right platform espoused at the RNC. Heck, the Morman church did not allow blacks into the fold until 1978, and no one has a plausible explanation as to why. Is this some lefty paranoid weird ass thinking? Maybe. But I’m convinced they were not just some yahoos, but were jackasses with a purpose. ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/228 "2012-09-06T21:00:09Z")
Some Coffee Table reading [http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/white-supremacist.html](http://www.civilrights.org/publications/hatecrimes/white-supremacist.html) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/229 "2012-09-07T00:11:08Z")
A shout out to Mason Williams? I’m back to liking you, **Truman**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/230 "2012-09-07T01:26:54Z")
> [@Andiethewestie](#): > > Let’s not kid ourselves into thinking they don’t exist, or wouldn’t be attracted by the far right platform espoused at the RNC. Of course they exist, and gravitate to Republicans. Doesn’t make yelling “this is how we feed animals” a definitive racist statement. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/231 "2012-09-07T02:08:17Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Of course they exist, and gravitate to Republicans. Doesn’t make yelling “this is how we feed animals” a definitive racist statement. Down! ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/232 "2012-09-07T02:15:38Z")
Andie, I always knew that racist Christians found justification (read: rationalization) in the Bible, I appreciate knowing more about it. Fighting ignorance, and all that. I guess I was hesitent to dive into the specifics, content to leave it to “the Devil can cite scripture when it suits his purpose”. (It does go something like that, right?🙂 Dropzone, I love Mason Williams, especially the albums “Handmade” and one that features Classical Gas. He also wrote several “books”, which you may be aware of. For those who are not, some contained doggeral verse in the meter I was copying (although his are much funnier), and another book which was an exhaustive study of what happens when you throw a typewriter out the window of a speeding car into the Arizona desert. One of a kind, that man (of course, he also wrote and performed on the Smothers Brothers TV shows). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/233 "2012-09-07T02:23:00Z")
Fucking animals “How do you like them peanuts?” Heard from mongrel dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/234 "2012-09-07T02:31:42Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > Down! Just want to contextualize something else.. last week a Latina Republican was shouted down at her own convention, the chair had to come out and ask the delegates to let her speak ? The problem? She was from Puerto Rico https://www.youtube.com/embed/vr5kMguEqi8?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=UUcHowvBGTN2Lpd0prCoYoLQ ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/235 "2012-09-07T04:06:39Z")
Didn’t we conclude in another thread that she was just a victim of of going onstage too soon after the Ron Paul delegates got screwed? That they were still yelling at Priebus, not her? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/236 "2012-09-07T09:08:30Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Didn’t we conclude in another thread that she was just a victim of of going onstage too soon after the Ron Paul delegates got screwed? That they were still yelling at Priebus, not her? That was the story from the RNC folk, yes. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/237 "2012-09-07T09:16:31Z")
While we’re discussing verse: Nuts! Hot nuts! Anybody here wanna buy my nuts? Selling nuts, hot nuts I’ve got nuts for sale Ah, they tell me your nuts is mighty small Best to have small nuts than no nuts at all Selling nuts, hot nuts, You buy 'em from the peanut man Look what you can get cheap! Only five cents boys! Nice and brown, too! Everybody’s crazy about my nuts! I think the Republican Convention would be better off without the nuts, but Gary Johnson would get lonely. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/238 "2012-09-07T13:43:58Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Didn’t we conclude in another thread that she was just a victim of of going onstage too soon after the Ron Paul delegates got screwed? That they were still yelling at Priebus, not her? No, it MUST be that they hate Latinas. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/239 "2012-09-07T13:45:01Z")
> [@Andiethewestie](#): > > Just want to contextualize something else.. last week a Latina Republican was shouted down at her own convention, the chair had to come out and ask the delegates to let her speak ? The problem? She was from Puerto Rico > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5kMguEqi8&list=UUcHowvBGTN2Lpd0prCoYoLQ&index=9&feature=plcp](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5kMguEqi8&list=UUcHowvBGTN2Lpd0prCoYoLQ&index=9&feature=plcp) Thanks for speaking out against shouting down people in discussions. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071/240 "2012-09-07T14:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > We’ve received an overwhelming response to this blog post, which was written from the convention floor on Tuesday. As the post states, I saw delegates chanting “U.S.A.!” and silencing Puerto Rican committee chair Zoraida Fonelladas, who was trying to speak. It appeared to me and to those around me that the chant was being directed at her. Since the post was published, the Republican National Committee has stated that the chant had to do with a protest by Ron Paul supporters, and “not the Puerto Rico National Committeewoman.” I also received a letter from one of the delegates who said he was among those who started the chant. He confirmed that it was directed exclusively at Ron Paul supporters who were trying to drown out the proceedings with chants of “Point of order,” and that the “U.S.A.!”s had spread from there. “The fact that the USA chant happened while the lady from Puerto Rico was being introduced was just bad luck,” he wrote, “and had nothing to do with her.” He added that the intent was simply to “drown out the two obnoxious delegates” who were seated near him. I take him at his word, and thank him for contacting me personally to clarify the moment.—Jack Hitt [http://harpers.org/archive/2012/08/hbc-90008805](http://harpers.org/archive/2012/08/hbc-90008805) So it wasn’t racism? How can this be? When you see something that looks racist on the GOP convention floor, it must be racist! No need to ask for more information! I learned it on this thread. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rnc-attendee-this-is-how-we-feed-animals/633071.md?page=13)