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If they stopped for a minute and actually listened to the stupid shit that come out of their mouths...

SPOOF: Sarah Palin's Irish cousin disowns her

By GottaLaff

We were so punk'd!

Niall O'Dowd of The Irish Central has commented that Irish Central was taken in by a spoof.

Original post:

The original Irish Central' article seems to have been scrubbed, but here is what Democratic Underground managed to salvage:

Sarah Palin has one living Irish relative – and he wants nothing to do with her.

Neither does CPAC.

Reverend Simon Lathrop is a Church of Ireland pastor living in the midlands of Ireland, and recently Palin campaigners have contacted the cleric seeking to enlist his support for her future endeavors. Lathrop, however, dislikes his cousin's politics and is rather embarrassed by his link to Palin. In the past he has even attended anti-American rallies, according to newsfromireland.com.

"In the last few months, I have been inundated with calls from genealogists who said they were acting on behalf of an American family trying to trace their roots,” Lathrop told the site.

“The intensity of it got me curious and when I probed further I discovered that the people who are searching were connected to the Palin campaign.

"They told me that they were trying to establish some Irish credentials for her in the build up to the campaign, but I have told them that I have no interest in being used as some sort of electoral pawn.”

Apparently the Irish are a lot sharper than the Tea Tantrumers and many Rushpublics. They won't be played for fools, and they haven't even met her yet.

As I mentioned, the full article is no longer available. Wonder who got to 'em?

Here's a little more via PalinQuestions:

Lathrop does not intend to help his relative achieve her political ambitions.

Lathrop went on to tell the newspaper, "I wish the lady all the luck in the world, but if she is in favor of hunting and shooting and warmongering, then I for one will not be welcoming her and will not be encouraging the Irish to vote for her if she runs in 2012," he said.

Lathrop is gracious, however, and is willing to have tea with Palin.

Ouch.

Well, you know what they say: You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your relatives.

But you sure can quit 'em. It must run in the family.

I feel a new Spurny McJilted Facebook post coming on....

President Obama and Scott Brown are 10th cousins

By GottaLaff



I saw this earlier on MSNBC. Bush and Cheney, now Brown. That's some lineage:

Genealogists have found that President Obama and newly-elected Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) are 10th cousins.

Boston Herald: "The New England Historic Genealogical Society says Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown's mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass."

VIDEO: Some of Gramm-pa McCain's black relatives support Obama

By GottaLaff

Guess who's not coming to dinner... because of "scheduling conflicts":

This video is from CNN's Newsroom, broadcast October 20, 2008

Gramm-pa Sidney, you really need to be more social:

In the rural Teoc community of Carroll County, Miss., where the ancestors of Sen. John McCain owned enslaved Africans on a plantation, black, white and mixed-race family members unite every two years for their Coming Home Reunion, on the land where the plantation operated.

Some of McCain’s black family members say they are not sure exactly where they fall on the family tree, but they do know this: They are either descendants of the McCain family slaves, or of children the McCains fathered with their slaves.

White and black members of the McCain family have met on the plantation several times over the last 15 years, but one invited guest has been conspicuously absent: Sen. John Sidney McCain.

Wouldn't you think that someone with black family members would refrain from encouraging racist campaigning? Just a thought.

“Why he hasn’t come is anybody’s guess,” said Charles McCain Jr., 60, a distant cousin of John McCain who is black. “I think the best I can come up with, is that he doesn’t have time, or he has just distanced himself, or it doesn’t mean that much to him.”

Other relatives are not as generous.

Lillie McCain, 56, another distant cousin of John McCain who is black, said the Republican presidential nominee is trying to hide his past, and refuses to accept the family’s history.

“After hearing him in 2000 claim his family never owned slaves, I sent him an email,” she recalled. “I told him no matter how much he denies it, it will not make it untrue, and he should accept this and embrace it.”

She said the senator never responded to her email.

Sure he did. She just didn't realize it would be in the form of a robocall.

Although Charles is uncertain who will get his vote for president, several of John McCain’s black and white relatives are supporting his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama.

How very un-"pro-American" of them.

The McCain campaign did not respond to repeated questions about John McCain’s black relatives, or about his relatives of both races who support Obama. Pablo Carrillo, a media liaison with the McCain campaign, said the senator was aware of his African-American relatives, but asked the reporter to put his questions into writing, and that someone would get back to him.

After the reporter sent questions in writing, and made repeated follow-up phone calls, neither Sen. McCain nor anyone else from the campaign responded.

Why, one might think Gramm-pa is distancing himself from his very own family members, because they're, you know... ::whispering:: "black":

In addition to distancing himself from his black family members, John McCain has taken several positions on issues that have put him at odds with members of the larger black community.

While running for the Republican Party nomination in 2000, he sided with protesters who were calling for the rebel battle flag to be removed from the South Carolina statehouse, only to alter that position later.

"Some view it as a symbol of slavery. Others view it as a symbol of heritage,” John McCain said of the flag. "Personally, I see the battle flag as a symbol of heritage. I have ancestors who have fought for the Confederacy, none of whom owned slaves. I believe they fought honorably.’’

I've seen more evolved thinking in an aviary.

After he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, McCain voted against the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday in 1983. When he arrived in the U.S. Senate in 1986, he joined North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms in opposing the holiday again, and voted in 1994 to cut funding to the commission that marketed it.

John McCain also aligned himself with former Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham.

Mecham was the governor in McCain’s home state of Arizona from January 1987 to April 1988, when he was impeached and removed from office for campaign finance violations. As a state senator and governor, Mecham publicly used racial slurs against black people and other minorities. He was also a member of the John Birch Society, which opposes civil rights legislation. In 1986, Mecham campaigned for governor on a promise to rescind the state’s recognition of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, which he did in 1987.

What an honorable guy. His honorable campaign, his honorable supporters, and his honorable running mate reflect his honorableness. As you can tell, I'm holding my tongue.

“He is denying his black and white relatives in Teoc,” said Joyce McCain, 54. “I think he may not want the country to know his family’s full history, but times have changed and we need to move on, and that’s why I’m supporting Obama.”

Now that's a McCain we can believe in.