Shameful Jackass of the Year Award Nominee
This week’s nominee for the inaugural 2008 Shameful Jackass of the Year Award is Diane Fedele, president of Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated. She sent the image below, via newsletter, to the members of her GOP women’s group.
She sent it. In a newsletter. That image. Barack Obama. On food stamps. With watermelon, fried chicken, Kool Aid, and ribs.
No. Really.
Then she, you know, apoligized “to anyone who was offended:”
The group’s president, Diane Fedele, said she plans to send an apology letter to her members and to apologize at the club’s meeting next week. She said she simply wanted to deride a comment Obama made over the summer about how as an African-American he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
“It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don’t want to go into it any further,” Fedele said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn’t my attempt.”
Fedele said she got the illustration in a number of chain e-mails and decided to reprint it for her members in the Trumpeter newsletter because she was offended that Obama would draw attention to his own race. She declined to say who sent her the e-mails with the illustration [italics added].
The woman who sent out that image finds Barack Obama offensive when it comes to the question of race.
I just don’t know what to say, except this: Diane Fedele, you are the first nominee for the SJOYA.
Good luck!
(p.s. - thank goodness she is apologizing “to her members.” To her members!)
