Secret Service Investigates Obama Impeachment/Lynching Leaflet

Posted by | October 21, 2014 22:16 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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With mere weeks to go in the U.S. Senate race in North Carolina between Sen. Kay Hagan (D) and Thom Tillis (R), things have gotten very ugly in Fayetteville, where cars at a predominantly black church were papered with leaflets featuring a photograph of a lynching, accompanied by a threat of impeachment against President Obama. The leaflet says, “Kay Hagan Doesn’t Win! Obama’s Impeachment Will Begin!”

Beneath that text, the flyer reads “Not endorsed by any candidate. Paid for by Concerned Citizens of Cumberland County.” The background photograph is from the 1920 lynching of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie in Duluth, Minnesota.

Fayetteville Observer reporter Paul Woolverton tweeted a photo of the flyer yesterday, along with what I thought was a pretty major assumption:

At least one other reporter, from WRAL in Raleigh, agreed that the provenance of the flyer wasn’t really all that obvious. The thing looks as much like a racist iteration of actual GOP threats to impeach President Obama as anything else. Woolverton explained his assumption:

Of course, the flyer is designed in such a way that if it were distributed on cars at a white church, it would definitely be seen as an appeal to racism, not an appeal to rescue Barack Obama, and at least one attendee of the church didn’t see it that way either…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

22 responses to Secret Service Investigates Obama Impeachment/Lynching Leaflet

  1. tracey marie October 21st, 2014 at 22:26

    Voter intimidation no matter who made it

    • rg9rts October 22nd, 2014 at 03:49

      You know…did you get message on aa story?

  2. tracey marie October 21st, 2014 at 22:26

    Voter intimidation no matter who made it

    • rg9rts October 22nd, 2014 at 03:49

      You know…did you get message on aa story?

  3. tiredoftea October 21st, 2014 at 22:27

    Ahh, yes. The sweet fruits of a post racial country!

    • red-diaper-baby 1942 October 22nd, 2014 at 01:16

      Or perhaps the “strange fruit” of a “post-racial” country.

  4. tiredoftea October 21st, 2014 at 22:27

    Ahh, yes. The sweet fruits of a post racial country!

    • red-diaper-baby 1942 October 22nd, 2014 at 01:16

      Or perhaps the “strange fruit” of a “post-racial” country.

  5. StoneyCurtisll October 21st, 2014 at 22:30

    And they say “racism is over cause we got a black president”…
    yeah right..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

  6. StoneyCurtisll October 21st, 2014 at 22:30

    And they say “racism is over cause we got a black president”…
    yeah right..
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

  7. whatthe46 October 21st, 2014 at 22:39

    check the damn paper for prints, excluding those members of the church. no doubt those idiots didn’t wear any gloves. how fk’n pissy of these parasites. i find the flyer to be both an intimidation and a threat.

  8. whatthe46 October 21st, 2014 at 22:39

    check the damn paper for prints, excluding those members of the church. no doubt those idiots didn’t wear any gloves. how fk’n pissy of these parasites. i find the flyer to be both an intimidation and a threat.

  9. KB723 October 21st, 2014 at 22:59

    Laterz….
    http://youtu.be/Bw0MBr0Y5x0

  10. KB723 October 21st, 2014 at 22:59

    Laterz….
    http://youtu.be/Bw0MBr0Y5x0

  11. rg9rts October 22nd, 2014 at 03:50

    How to win an election the NEW INCLUSIVE GOPEE style

  12. rg9rts October 22nd, 2014 at 03:50

    How to win an election the NEW INCLUSIVE GOPEE style

  13. fahvel October 22nd, 2014 at 04:36

    there are some very sick and sad folks in your country

    • m2old4bs October 22nd, 2014 at 06:49

      yup, sadly so

    • Hirightnow October 22nd, 2014 at 08:06

      We call it “American Exceptionalism”…

  14. fahvel October 22nd, 2014 at 04:36

    there are some very sick and sad folks in your country

    • m2old4bs October 22nd, 2014 at 06:49

      yup, sadly so

    • Hirightnow October 22nd, 2014 at 08:06

      We call it “American Exceptionalism”…

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