All I can say is wow. I think I winced the entire time I watched this video. This guy was fired right after it aired. The Daily Show is a political comedy show. You have to wonder if this man understood that.
Video link here
Snippets of the interview:
Quote:
A Buncombe County Republican precinct chairman has been asked to resign after making "offensive" comments on the Daily Show.
Buncombe GOP chairman Henry Mitchell said Don Yelton officially stepped down from his position today.
In a segment that aired Wednesday night, Yelton blasted "lazy black people that wants the government to give them everything," one of a slew of racially inflammatory comments he made in the interview.
Mitchell called the remarks "offensive, uniformed, and unacceptable of any member within the Republican Party."
"Let me make it very clear, Mr. Yelton's comments do not reflect the belief or feelings of Buncombe republicans, nor do they mirror any core principle that our party is founded upon," Mitchell said in a press release. "This mentality will not be supported or propagated within our party."
According to the release, this isn't the first time Yelton has clashed with local party leadership.
"Yelton was recently reprimanded and removed from his position as a precinct chair in Buncombe County for a period of time in 2012 through 2013 and was then reelected to precinct chair by 2 votes (his wife and himself) at the 2013 convention placing him back on the Buncombe County Executive Committee," said the statement, also noting that Yelton neither sought nor got approval to speak on behalf of the GOP.
The state party leadership also issued a statement calling for Yelton's resignation.
Yelton told the Asheville Citizen-Times Thursday that he stands by his comments.
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Comments quotes:
6. "The law is gonna kick the Democrats in the butt."
5. "Matter of fact, one of my best friends is black."
4. "When I was a young man, you didn't call a black a black, you called him a negro."
3. "I had a picture one time of Obama sittin' on a stump as a witch doctor and I posted that on Facebook. I was making fun of the white half of Obama, not the black half."
2. "If [the law] hurts the whites so be it. If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it."
1. "Now you have a black person using the term n***** this and n***** that and it's okay for them to do it."
Mandvi, rendered nearly speechless, responds, "You know that we can hear you, right?"
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Email from the NC GOP firing this guy:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Daniel Keylin
(919) 828-6423
Daniel.Keylin@ncgop.org
October 24, 2013
NCGOP Demands Don Yelton's Resignation
Raleigh, NC – Following outrageous and intolerant comments by Buncombe County precinct chair Don Yelton on the Daily Show last night, North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope called for his immediate resignation:
“The North Carolina Republican Party finds the comments made by Mr. Yelton to be completely inappropriate and highly offensive.
“I have asked for Mr. Yelton’s resignation as the precinct chairman of the Buncombe County Republican Party. If Mr. Yelton declines to resign, the NCGOP will immediately initiate the process to remove him from his position.
“I would like to make it very clear that Mr. Yelton does not speak for either the Buncombe County Republican Party or the North Carolina Republican Party. And contrary to reports, Mr. Yelton is not a member of the NCGOP Executive Committee.”
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NC GOPer (Precinct Captain) fired after giving an interview on the Daily Show (yes this is a real interview)
