Geraldine Ferraro swallowed her dog whistle

What a nincompoop. If you haven’t been following Geraldine Ferraro’s stink trail of verbal diarrhea, here’s how it started:

“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” [Ferraro] continued. “And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”

And then she followed it up with this [via a good update at Daily Kos]:

“Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let’s address reality and the problems we’re facing in this world, you’re accused of being racist, so you have to shut up,” Ferraro said. “Racism works in two different directions. I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?”

Then she let loose with this [via TPM]:

And then, unfuckingbelievably, she took her jabbering, bug-eyed freakshow onto Good Morning America this morning (video link) where you could tell Diane Sawyer was ready to force meds into Ferraro’s mouth using the ol’ hold-the-nose trick. Feel the burn (YouTube embed added):

If Hillary can’t manage Ferraro (according to Geraldine, Clinton hasn’t talked to her yet) and do something as simple as keep that trainwreck from rolling onto the fucking set of Good Morning America, I can’t wait to see how she’ll handle Ahmadinejad. Ready from day one, my ass.

MORE: Geraldine Ferraro unleashed the froth on John Gibson’s radio show last night. Wow, just wow. You know you’re out of control when you’re a Dem and Gibson is trying to talk you off of the ledge.

Ferraro Sample Quote:

I have to tell you, when my grandparents came here, they came from Italy—a lot of Italians were dark-skinned.  If you want to know about racism, they could talk to you a little about it. It wasn’t as bad as it was with blacks, no doubt about it, but they were treated awfully.

As someone who’s half-Italian, let me just say, “Dear god, what a meatball.”

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/12/08 at 07:50 AM • Permalink

Ferraro’s statement is very much like Chris Matthews’ comment that Hillary Clinton is where she is because her husband messed around. That statement generated a lot of outrage from the Clinton camp and also from people who are generally fed up with sexist media coverage—including Obama supporters like you and me. This is the same old shit in a different package. But strangely enough, I don’t see hardcore HillShills rushing to denounce it…

That top freeze frame of Ferraro pretty much says it all. It would be only slightly better if there was a bird flying out of her mouth.

Half Italian?  You are retarded what the fuck does that mean?  Your great great grandpa came here in 1492 and you think you know what first generation immigrants went thru, yes it is true Italians weren’t treated anywhere near as bad as blacks but don’t forget they were put in interment camps during WWII

Do I really have to explain to you what half Italian means? Somehow, I don’t think I’m the retarded one here. 

And, yes, you are correct about the internment camps during WWII, but I believe the amount of Italians rounded up and put in camps was in the hundreds. It was nothing on the level of internment the Japanese were subject to and certainly not even close to what African Americans endured long before WWII.

And too long after WWII as well.

Ferraro is a dumbass and is just playing the victim card as she has probably been programmed to do by the Clinton camp.  Because Hillary is suuuch a victim.  Puleeez!