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‘All the things are racist’! RNC chair spanked soundly for calling self-deportation idea ‘racist’; Update: Priebus was misquoted, said ‘it hurts us’

Posted at 11:03 am on August 16, 2013 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments

[Editor’s note: Two reporters and Reince Priebus now dispute that the RNC chair called self-deportation “racist.” Business Insider has issued a correction and now reports Priebus said, “It hurts us.” Please read the update at the end of this post. The original post remains below.]

If this Business Insider report is correct, here’s your daily dose of “leadership” from the Republican establishment:

In condemning Rep. Steve King’s incendiary comments on immigration, RNC chairman Reince Priebus swept in his party’s presidential nominee, saying that talk of “self-deportation” was “horrific” and even “racist.”
…

“Using the word ‘self-deportation’ — it’s a horrific comment to make,” Priebus said, in a forceful rebuke. “I don’t think it has anything to do with our party. When someone makes those comments, obviously, it’s racist.”

“Obviously”? Oh, come on.

https://twitter.com/tahDeetz/status/368381846721417216

An open letter to RNC chairman Reince Priebus:

Is there anything left that doesn’t merit an entry in the Handbook of Racial Code Words?

Here’s an obviously racist idea:

Update:

And now a different story emerges. The RNC and two reporters say Priebus did not use the term “racist.”

So, Business Insider transcribed “hurts us” as “racist”?

Business Insider has added a correction to its story.

Correction, 12:26 p.m. ET: An original version of this story said that Reince Priebus referred to Mitt Romney’s comments as “racist.” He said it “hurts us.” Business Insider regrets the error.

While we’re glad Priebus didn’t call self-deportation “racist,” it appears no one is disputing that he called it “horrific.” And that’s still a big problem.

Update:

Brett LoGiurato, author of the Business Insider piece, has issued a mea culpa on Twitter:

  • Patriot

    No comment. Because, well, you know . . . . .

    • IMPEACH_BOBO

      I think Romney’s self deport idea could actually work, turn off the FREE GOVERNMENT CHEESE ( our tax dollars ) & these PARASITES will go home on their own because at least if they stay in mexico they don’t have to worry about being arrested for being there ILLEGALLY !!!! If these PARASITES stay here in America they could end up in jail & they would NOT get that FREE GOVERNMENT CHEESE either !!!!! This one act alone would be enough for them to go home on their own !!!!!! Now of course this can NOT happen until President BOBO is out of office since BOBO has given these PARASITES the idea they have every right here ( they DO NOT, especially on our tax dollars ) since the day he took office !!!!!

      You all understand that WE THE PEOPLE spent over 150 BILLION dollars on ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVADERS social services last year alone of our tax dollars, thats INSANE !!!!!!! If these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVADERS would put as much effort into mexico as they do to get here ILLEGALLY they would have a nice mexico to live in !!!!!

      • chewydog

        “at least if they stay in mexico they don’t have to worry about being arrested for being there ILLEGALLY”

        I don’t think they worry too much about that now, with all the sanctuary cities and states.

      • Diane Crouse

        You are correct and we need our Representatives to have the guts and Statesmenship to say this kind of stuff. They need to stop fearing the PC police and stand for the American people and our sovereignty. The leftist progressive Marxist do not believe in nor care about our sovereignty and they sure as heck do not care about “We the People”. Oh, by the way, if these illegals do not go home and we have to put them in our jails, we still have to pay for them with our tax dollars. .

    • IMPEACH_BOBO

      I think Romney’s self deport idea could actually work, turn off the FREE GOVERNMENT CHEESE ( our tax dollars ) & these PARASITES will go home on their own because at least if they stay in mexico they don’t have to worry about being arrested for being there ILLEGALLY !!!! If these PARASITES stay here in America they could end up in jail & they would NOT get that FREE GOVERNMENT CHEESE either !!!!! This one act alone would be enough for them to go home on their own !!!!!! Now of course this can NOT happen until President BOBO is out of office since BOBO has given these PARASITES the idea they have every right here ( they DO NOT, especially on our tax dollars ) since the day he took office !!!!!

      You all understand that WE THE PEOPLE spent over 150 BILLION dollars on ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVADERS social services last year alone of our tax dollars, thats INSANE !!!!!!! If these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVADERS would put as much effort into mexico as they do to get here ILLEGALLY they would have a nice mexico to live in !!!!!

  • MNWoman

    Regardless of what happened before or after the election, I still think Romney would have made a good president. He was fighting an uphill battle last election. Between questionable voting, lapdog media and low information voters, I think he did the best he could. Add to that, the current RNC chair is proving to be useless.

    Romney is a man of good character and I would have been proud to call him my president.

    • ceemack

      Agreed. He wouldn’t have been an ideal President by any stretch of the imagination, but he would have been light-years ahead of what we have now.

      I hope all the conservatives who stayed home in a snit last November, letting Obama win, are happy with what we’ve got now.

      • Guest

        :)

    • Zach Smith

      Clearly, he was a qualified executive, and would have been a perfectly fine president. Several orders of magnitude better than what we have with Obama.

  • Clete Torres

    Go home Reince. You’re drunk.

    And incredibly stupid.

    If this is the best and brightest of the GOP, we are in deadly serious trouble.

    • BorderLine Guy

      Screw that! We don’t want him here in WI! He had one decent election cycle as state chair.

  • JoeMyGodNYC

    Ah. Tea People infighting. So satisfying….

    • RLEE

      How so you dumb ass? Reince is not part of the tea party!!!!!!!

    • Republicanvet

      Try to keep up idiot. It’s clear the Tea Party is not a part of the GOP.

      By the way, how is that in-fighting leftist battle going with Weiner and Filner?

      • Diane Crouse

        The leftist progressives can just ignore evil when it rears it’s ugly head because there are no rules for them. Do what ever feels good you know?

    • http://extremesplash.wordpress.com/ Ben Bollman

      Kind of like black feminists calling white feminists racist?

      • NRPax

        Or liberal women ignoring Filner because he’s been such a valuable member of the party.

    • KhadijahMuhammad

      Reince? Tea Party? You don’t know too much, do you?

    • Keith

      At least they are not dying to a tune of 1, 500 soldiers and counting in Obamas “good war” in Afghanistan. Oh that’s right that war isn’t even going on to morons like you. Still satisfied you ignorant jack ass?

      • Diane Crouse

        Oh and how about the unconstitutional interventions in; Libya, Egypt and Syria that the “O” is doing?

    • ceemack

      Ah. LIberals displaying their utter ignorance. So satisfying…

      • QueenB

        Not really satisfying considering it is displayed so often, I’ve built up a tolerance.

    • Marcy Cook

      Ah Joe…still grasping at straws I see…and you still don’t get it. I kinda feel bad for you.

      • Clete Torres

        Why? It’s self-inflicted stupidity.

    • Clete Torres

      Rinse = GOP, junior. Do try to keep up.

  • Republicanvet

    Oy. So thousands of illegal aliens self-deporting every year, then coming back are racist?
    Illegal aliens self deporting when being pursued for crimes are racist?
    Can the nitwits in the establishment GOP get any dumber?

  • Republicanvet

    It’s this kind of abject stupidity by the GOP that allows a rodeo clown to be crucified by the left for exercising hid First Amendment rights.

  • cupsmom

    Repubs should take a lesson from the Dems. as god awful as most Dems are- as people and as a group-they rarely if ever bad mouth their own. Its like a family-in public you’re a team-but behind closed doors the gloves come off.

  • http://extremesplash.wordpress.com/ Ben Bollman

    This is exactly what I have been talking about, the only thing different between GOP leadership like Priebus and the Dems is the letter behind their name. We need to get these people out of the party because they are destroying any conservatism left in the GOP. I hate this mentality that we have to shut up about it because they are on ‘our side’. When they stab us in the back in the press and vote with Democrats then they are not on our side. Actions are more important to me than a letter ‘R’.

  • sigh

    Fire this loser right now.

  • KhadijahMuhammad

    What a moron.

    “Self-deportation” is the logical objective of strong enforcement of immigration laws in the workplace. It’s goal is insure that illegal immigrants are forced to work in the underground economy, which then begs the question of why come here in the first place.

    Nothing “racist” about enforcing laws.

    • Texan357

      They’ll just call the law itself racist. I’m sure they already have. I mean, there’s actually a phrase “hate facts” which puts the stamp of “racist” on data like statistics about crime.

      • Clete Torres

        Look how they feel about the black crime stats.

  • lazypadawan

    WTF is wrong with this party? Debbie Wasserman Schultz can’t even be buggered to order Filthy Filner to resign but this loser decides to throw his candidate under the bus and call him a racist?
    That’s it. Time to form the Tea Party of America and leave these idiots in the dust.

    • chewydog

      Something. I quit the R party after the last election. Told them the obvious reasons and that I would return when they grew a spine. Shockingly, no response.
      If people quit in droves, maybe they would wake up.

      • Stephen L. Hall

        It is not sufficient to quit one of the two major parties . . . unless you are prepared to replace it. The Republicans replaced the Whigs. Are you ready to petition for the national acceptance of the Tea Party, the Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party to get on the State and National Ballots?

        Or, you can seek to replace inept R party leadership with competent ones. Either is a viable option, but not a mere abandonment of the process.

        • RosiesSeeingRed

          I just sent my Party Unaffiliate form in, literally after reading this article. I’ve been considering it since the 2012 primaries, and this actually made me put it in the mail today. That’s not to say I won’t vote for the only viable candidate opposing the democrats in an election, but I do want to send a message to the GOP that we’ve had enough of their spinelessness and succumbing to the left’s Alinsky-style accusations of racism and everything else they accuse the right of. I went to the RNC website and let them know Reince’s comment was the last straw. I suggested they get him a copy of “Rules for Radicals: Defeated” because God knows he needs it!

        • chewydog

          “you can seek to replace inept R party leadership with competent ones. Either is a viable option, but not a mere abandonment of the process.”

          Right…Republicans can’t even get rid of whiny Boehner as House Speaker, let alone the rest of the elite establishment.

          • Stephen L. Hall

            So, I take it you are for the first option of creating a viable replacement party? Personally, I had thought that the time was ripe for the Democrats to implode and separate.

          • chewydog

            Yes, door #1, as I believe the party has slipped past the point of no return.
            I too had thought the dems would implode. I mean, who in their right mind would vote for one…

  • NCRelite

    that’s what we get for having someone named Reince Princess as the party chair

  • WhoMeToo

    HEY! ==> .@Reince Please #SelfDeport back to ==>YouSuckistan. Oh… Wait.

  • Cyborg3K

    You know, for about five minutes there, with all the talk about the debates, Reincey-boy almost started to sound like a man. But I guess that’s all over with now. Back to brown-nosing the ‘rats and rinos in the country club set as usual.

  • SpaceRacer423

    In what way is the concept of “self-deportation” racist?
    How can it be racist to say people who came here illegally shouldn’t be able to get a job and certainly shouldn’t get tax payer funds?
    How does this a&&hole still have a job with the RNC?
    Dear GOP, THIS is why you fail.

  • ceemack

    I left the GOP after their last cave-in on illegal immigration in 2007.

    Since then I’ve been resistant to the idea of a third party, thinking that a) it would lead to electoral dominance for the Democrats and b) that there was still hope for the Republican party.

    But Priebus and others in the GOP establishment make it clear that there is no hope for the GOP. It’s time for conservatives to create a third party, and for the Republican party to go the way of the Whigs.

  • Bigfoot Steve

    Hmm…I wonder if the thousands of Americans who were murdered by illegal aliens on 9/11 would think it’s racist and horrific?

  • Texan357

    “Horrific?” I get the feeling that if this Romulan were to witness a murder, he’d die outright just from seeing it. Also:

    “@chuck_dizzle
    You pander to ineligible voters while calling your base racist. No wonder you lost to the worst President ever. Twice. @gop @Reince”

    This. Exactly this; every word of it.

  • Zach Smith

    “I didn’t leave the Republican party, the Republican Party left me.”

    A cliché, yet completely appropriate.

  • Steve_J

    Is he being paid by the DNC?

  • Marcy Cook

    Racist? Can someone give me the definition of racist? I know I’ve heard this over and over and over but somehow I lost the meaning of the word. It seems like everything is racist…I could call a potato racist for all the word means now.

    • Clete Torres

      Racist: noun. 1. Used by American Liberals to smear Conservatives and their statements when said statement destroys Liberal propaganda, particularly when Conservative uses fact to destroy Liberal propaganda.
      2. A Liberal knee-jerk response to losing an argument with a Conservative.
      3. Originally used to point out animus toward another racial group. Overuse by hucksters (see: 0bama, Sharpton, Jackson, Rangel, Waters, et al) has rendered this term nearly devoid of meaning in present-day America.

  • URGR82

    Idiot “self deportation” is a way to ask people to respect the laws. Were busy trying to have people keep the law. They are busy inventing new ways to call people racist.

  • Beth Larsen

    There have definitely been things I’ve liked about Reince in the past, but this act of demonizing Romney a year (or so) after the fact is ridiculous. He sounds like a democrat, and you can’t out-democrat the democrats. It’s a desperate move, and stuff like this is going to make us losers in the next election if the GOP doesn’t stop running around panicked to rediscover themselves.

  • chewydog

    Did he mean the phrase as a noun or a verb?

  • capisce

    Repeat a lie often enough… and when even the people you’re lying about repeat it for you – priceless!
    The GOP has met the enemy and it is them.

  • Jesse Garrett

    Whaaat??? “Self Deportation” means you recognize you have broken the law, and instead of going thru “catch & release” or trial, you voluntarily leave the country. “Racism” refers to a discrimination based on some consistent DNA difference actually unrecognized by science, i.e. “race.” A difference in national origin is NOT a difference in race. Telling African-Americans to “return” to Africa because of their ancestry IS racist. Telling Guatemalans to return to Guatemala because they did not LEGALLY enter the U.S. is NOT racist. It’s the law.

  • RosiesSeeingRed

    They’re having a field day over there at MSNBC on this. Poor things think just because we’re mad at the GOP it means it’ll help them. This only fuels my desire to support the fearless candidates who are not afraid to speak their mind and fight back… the candidates they are most afraid of.

  • Republicanvet

    I don’t give s d@mn if he claims he was misquoted, what he said or claims to have said is just as bad. It’s that attitude that ignores the victims of illegal alien crime.

  • http://www.theretiredbabyboomer.net/ Dave

    I get the feeling the GOP is about to not only abandon its base, but make the USA a one-party system due to their own incompetence. All in the name of illegal aliens.

  • pdigaudio

    I think he did call it “racist” and is now just walking it back. Reince is a disgrace and an embarrassment.

  • TJ

    A lie goes around the world and becomes truth when the real Truth is still in bed.

  • Walknot

    Priebus is a complete boob; self-deportation was/is part of the GOP platform during the 2012 elections…

  • sigh

    Update and so called correction doesn’t matter. Fire the idiot.

  • Jake Wilde

    The problem with Republicans is that they are not much better than the criminals (dems) that they collude with. The people are caught in the middle and liberty goes out the window with these power hungry popinjays. They keep us locked in a perpetual battle and we lose out as citizens when they take more control or expand government in any way.

  • Dexter Alarius

    Reince Priebus as RNC Chair is horrific! Sarah, please take the reins!

    • HWarrior13

      Be gone liberal troll

    • HWarrior13

      Be gone liberal troll

  • michael s

    Today is August 16 or as Michele Bachmann would say Happy birthday Elvis Presley. By the way keep up the infighting .

    • SophieRo3

      How’s Obama’s vacay going on the Gulf of Mexico? /

    • Dragomance

      Only reason the Right have fights is because we have principles and actual values.Something that couldn’t be said about Leftists.

  • SophieRo3

    From Prof Jacobson at Legal Insurrection:

    I was wondering how the RNC Chair could make such a comment since the
    policy was in the GOP 2012 Platform and the term used by Mitt Romney.

    So I contacted the RNC press office before turning my post live, and
    the press office confirmed by email that the quote was “accurate.”
    (added) Here was my email to the RNC’s press contact at 8:55 a.m.:

    Can you confirm that the following quote attributed to Reince Preibus in Business Insider is accurate:

    “Using the word ‘self-deportation’ — it’s a horrific comment to make,” Priebus said, in a forceful rebuke. “I don’t think it has anything to do with our party. When someone makes those comments, obviously, it’s racist.”

    If so, was there any context in which it was said which would change
    the apparent assertion that the term “self-deportation” is “racist”?

    Please respond as soon as possible as I am writing about this.

    After no response for a couple of hours, I wrote again and got this response at 11:03:

    ‘Hi William – that’s accurate.’

    http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/08/big-oops-business-insider-says-reince-preibus-did-not-say-self-deportation-racist/

  • Love of Country

    Sure, Reince ….. sovereign borders are racist. Are you kidding me right now? I really can’t even stand all of your feckless stupidity …. you’ve really gotta go and the sooner the better!

  • Magnifico

    Hey fellow cracka, we’re CONSTANTLY having to defend ourselves against those sorts of BS accusations. Mind not adding to it, FFS???!!!

  • Benjamin Johnson

    Repubican idea: Lose. Reince. Repeat.

  • GaryTheBrave

    Why is it that GOP sycophants (I’m looking at you Hannity) always claim that voting third party always hands the election to the Democrats, yet the Dems never have that same concern for voters who vote for, say, the Green Party?

    Because the GOP is weak. The Party cannot rely even on its base. The undecided voter is automatically assumed to find the best deal on the other side. It is also assumed that people on the dole now will always want to be there.

    I believe there are plenty of Americans who remember what life was like during the Reagan and Bush years. They remember the economic growth, the predictability of government regulations, the assured environment to start a business. I recall reading of people being let go from a job and taking their severance package to start new businesses. I don’t see that anymore.

    I believe there are more people who want to return to an America like that than there are Regressives and RINO’s combined. It is long past time that true conservative Republicans and true Democrats take back their respective parties. I personally date the loss of both parties to the fringes when Clinton came into office though the seeds were planted when the Democrats smelled Nixon’s blood.

    As an aside, I think the split vote scare is how Boehner retained the Speakership. He probably took anyone aside who was thinking of challenging him and threatened that if the challenger took enough votes away then Pelosi would be voted in as Speaker.

    • Stephen L. Hall

      “Why is it that GOP . . . always claim that voting third party always hands the election to the Democrats, yet the Dems never have that same concern for voters who vote for, say, the Green Party?”

      Because the leaders of the Dems are further left than their party, people vowing to vote Green pulls the party further left, towards the leaders. The leaders of the Reps are further left than their party, people voting Libertarian would pull the party further right, away from the leaders.

      • GaryTheBrave

        ^^^ This makes sense.

      • GaryTheBrave

        ^^^ This makes sense.

    • Stephen L. Hall

      “Why is it that GOP . . . always claim that voting third party always hands the election to the Democrats, yet the Dems never have that same concern for voters who vote for, say, the Green Party?”

      Because the leaders of the Dems are further left than their party, people vowing to vote Green pulls the party further left, towards the leaders. The leaders of the Reps are further left than their party, people voting Libertarian would pull the party further right, away from the leaders.

    • fireandreamitchell

      Well said. And 100% right about Vanity Hannity.

  • fireandreamitchell

    I don’t care if he was misquoted. RInse has to go. I’m sick of the big business pandering RINOs who are willing to sell this country out for cheaper labor.

  • ee1774

    Why would it be racist?
    is Reince saying that all illegals are dark-skinned?

  • Diane Crouse

    Hey, BrettLoGiurato, how is it that you can say you screwed up and that you are disappointed in yourself and then say it was an honest mistake? I don’t get that. You either knew what you were writing like I do right now, or you were writing off of someone else’s talking points to deliberately defame someone. Really sir, which is it?

  • kim

    Personally, I think the 185 morons who’ve been running the GOP need to retire quietly. Personally, I am sick to death of their Rino, wishy, washy, namby, pamby candidates and their attacks on conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists and tea partiers.
    We don’t need the left wing hate machine and their media whores as enemies, we have the GOP doing their job for them

  • Judy Taylor

    Too late, Brett. The damage has been done and it’s considerable because the error gets repeated ad nauseum and the correction not so much. Sheme on you: The knee pad media even HEARS selectively.

  • Magnifico

    Have you been drinking?

  • Magnifico

    Have you been drinking?

  • HWarrior13

    Sure, why not….that still does not make you less of a liberal troll now does it?

  • HWarrior13

    Sure, why not….that still does not make you less of a liberal troll now does it?

  • Magnifico

    You’re living proof that the right has idiots, too.