Hillary campaign promotes blogger who has repeatedly called Michelle Obama a “blow job queen”

[SEVERAL UPDATES BELOW—INCLUDING ONE ADDED 6/6]

I was recently alerted to the fact that the commenters at Hillary is 44 were referring to Donna Brazile as “brillohead.” I went to check it out (it was true), but I ended up stumbling upon something even more offensive:

pulchritude Says:
April 7th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

Is blow job queen Michelle Hussein Obama still really proud of her country, or does Barack Hussein have to win another primary for blow job queen Michelle Hussein Obama to love her country again?

I was shocked that not one person called him on that comment, so I poked around Hillary is 44 a bit more to see what else he had posted and how active he was on the site.  As it turns out, very active.  And also very, very enraged by Michelle Obama (I’ve bolded the most egregious text):

pulchritude Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

Now I understand Michelle Obama’s crassness and her unfounded sense of entitlement.

I quote:

From these bleak generalities, Obama moves into specific complaints. Used to be, she will say, that you could count on a decent education in the neighborhood. But now there are all these charter schools and magnet schools that you have to “finagle” to get into. (Obama herself attended a magnet school, but never mind.) Health care is out of reach (“Let me tell you, don’t get sick in America”), pensions are disappearing, college is too expensive, and even if you can figure out a way to go to college you won’t be able to recoup the cost of the degree in many of the professions for which you needed it in the first place. “You’re looking at a young couple that’s just a few years out of debt,” Obama said. “See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn’t have trust funds. I’m still waiting for Barack’s trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s’posed to be a relative or something. Give us something here!”

www.newyorker.com/...

A house purchased with Rezko cash and a salary increase she received as a result of her husband’s ability to secure earmarks for her employer, a job wth a WAL-MART affiliate as a result of her husband’s status as Senator, a full-time maid, piano lessons for your overfacilitated daughters and all the other perquisites of one’s status of wife of US Senator, and this woman still believes we should “give her something?” Michelle, American society is not a welfare program, and you actually have to earn your way. Take your sense of entitlement somewhere else, skank.

pulchritude Says:
March 16th, 2008 at 7:41 pm

merrimack,

and michelle’s salary could not be tripled if the uninsured was not filched by the organization for whom her husband attempted to secure tax dollars that would ultimately fund the mansion they could not afford.

MICHELLE OBAMA IS A WELFARE QUEEN. “GIVE US SOMETHING HERE.”

pulchritude Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:09 am

i despise michelle obama. am i allowed to insult her here?

Get ready…

pulchritude Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:34 am

mj,

blow job queen michelle hussein obama is a welfare queen who believes everything should be handed to her.

i quote the new yorker:

“You’re looking at a young couple that’s just a few years out of debt,” Obama said. “See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn’t have trust funds. I’m still waiting for Barack’s trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s’posed to be a relative or something. Give us something here!”

www.newyorker.com/...

Give you something? You have a full-time maid, a salary over $300,000, a mansion Rezko helped you finance, and you want us to give you something? You have a personal trainer you visit four times a week, and your family only consumes organic food, and you believe complete strangers should GIVE you something? Take it somewhere else, honey. i am not a welfare program.

and the presidency is not a government handout, skank. you were handed your job at the university of chicago hospitals, and you were handed your raise as a result of your husbands ability to obtain earmarks for your employer, but i will not just hand you my vote, you indolent welfare queen. and yes, i understand you were allowed to sit on the board of tree house foods, a wal-mart affiliate, as a result of your husband’s position of us senator, but you will receive no handouts, government or otherwise from me, michelle hussein. go suck on something else, for i am not a welfare program.

The hits keep on coming and we’re still in the same thread…

pulchritude Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:36 am

if blow job queen michelle obama needs someone to GIVE HER SOMETHING, then she can go hunt for some rezko cash.

pulchritude Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:37 am

i feel much better.

how is everyone?

Horrified.  Shocked.  Disgusted. You done?

Nope, I guess not…

pulchritude Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:43 am

yes, the university of chicago hospitals is seriously corrupt. and michelle obama is out of touch. discussing trust funds with voters in south carolina, asking them to give her something? take it to rezko, skank; at least he will hand you a wad of rezko cash.

pulchritude Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:46 am

and blow job queen/welfare queen michelle hussein obama has the appearance of a drag queen in this video, where she claims hillary clinton cannot run the white house as a result of bill clinton’s philandering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc

at least hillary can buy her own house, michelle. hillary did not have to beg for rezko cash. and she discusses role models in this video. welfare queens seeking handouts are not roll models, michelle hussein. take it to someone who will buy your bankrupt rhetoric, skank, for i am not a government program that exists to GIVE YOU SOMETHING.

And then I found a post from yesterday on Hillary is 44 where someone asked “pulch” if one of his posts was being featured on one of Hillary Clinton’s official campaign sites:

pulchritude Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

mj,

yes, my diary on North Carolina and NCAskMe.com is available at the Hillary Hub.

www.hillaryhub.com

it is also available at noquarter.

noquarterusa.net/blog/...

I did not mention it earlier, as I thought it was a weak essay. But I guess you and others enjoyed it.

Sure enough, there was his MyDD diary featured at HillaryHub, an official campaign site “[p]aid for by Hillary Clinton for President,” credited to the other alias he uses when he blogs or comments on the web, truthteller2007:

HillaryHub

(Full screen capture available here)

On the Blogs

Puerto Rico Poll: Hillary Ahead by 13
Talk Left (Jeralyn) | April 10, 2008
Send to a friend >

Hillary Is Receptive and Responsive to North Carolina Voters
MyDDD [sic] (truthteller2007) | April 8, 2008
Send to a friend >

In addition, truthteller2007’s MyDD diary was highlighted on Hillary Clinton’s main official campaign site in their daily “HUBdate" press release:

HillaryClinton.com HUBdate

NCAskMe.com: Volunteers across the state today will gather to answer more than 6,000 questions that have been submitted since the launch of NCAskMe.com last Friday. Said one voter, “Hillary is not only prepared to listen; she is prepared to offer real solutions to the real problems experienced by real people.” Read more.

Now keep in mind, this isn’t supporter-generated content on HillaryHub or in the HUBdate press releases, these entries are compiled by a member or members of the campaign staff and the sites where the content is hosted are paid for by Hillary Clinton for President.  And if you wanted to make the argument that there’s no way the Clinton staffer or staffers responsible could have known truthteller2007 had repeatedly referred to Michelle Obama as a “blow job queen” because he was using a different alias on Hillary is 44, let’s take a look at two comments made by truthteller2007 on MyDD, the same site Hillary’s staff linked to:

Example #1:

Re: Chicago Tribune: Rezko/Obama not sitting in a (1.50 / 2)

At least blow job queen Michelle Hussein Obama has the mansion she purchased with Rezko cash and with the salary increase she received as a result of earmarks Barack Obama submitted on behalf of The University of Chicago hospitals.

by truthteller2007 on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 06:50:44 PM EST

Example #2:

Re: Shocking TUCC membership! (0.40 / 10)

Blow job queen Michelle Hussein Obama is also a member of TUCC, and what motivates that gold digger is Rezko cash and the salary increases she obtains as a result of Barack Hussein Obama’s ability to earmark money on behalf of her employer, The University of Chicago Hospitals.

by truthteller2007 on Sat Mar 15, 2008 at 11:55:17 PM EST

Some of Hillary’s online supporters recently accused the Obama campaign of sanctioning and/or organizing the event where radio host Randi Rhodes made offensive comments about Clinton and even went so far as to claim it was a fundraiser for Obama, accusations which were patently false. Now we have a clear and irrefutable example of Clinton’s campaign staff actively promoting the work of a blogger who has repeatedly referred to Michelle Obama as a “blow job queen” (among other things).  I’d say Hillary Clinton or, at the very least, Clinton Campaign Internet Director Peter Daou should publicly condemn the comments made by truthteller2007/pulchritude and extend a profound apology to Michelle Obama for promoting the writings of a man who described their opponent’s wife in such unacceptably vile and sexist terms.

UPDATE (9:56AM): Since there’s a little confusion about it, HillaryIs44.org is not an official Clinton campaign site. HillaryClinton.com and HillaryHub.com are official Hillary Clinton for President web sites. And, yes, I’m 100% positive truthteller2007/pulchritude is male.

UPDATE (10:17AM): I added thumbnails of the HillaryClinton.com and HillaryHub.com screen grabs to the post to make it flow better.  Also, fyi, I have screen grabs of every highlighted comment, but I won’t put those online unless necessary.

UPDATE (11:51am): The Clinton campaign has removed all links and content referencing truthteller2007’s MyDD diary from both HillaryHub.com and HillaryClinton.com.

UPDATE (12:00PM): When I went looking for a Google cache of the HUBdate press release, I found this (scroll to bottom). The HUBdate press release spotlighting truthteller2007’s diary is attributed to none other than Clinton Communication Director Howard Wolfson in this blog entry and the reference to truthteller’s diary in Wolfson’s post has been scrubbed on the live site as well.

UPDATE (4/13 7:10PM): Both MyDD and No Quarter have deleted the “Hillary Is Receptive and Responsive to North Carolina Voters” posts from their blogs (cached versions available here and here).  Somewhat odd in that the content of the post wasn’t the issue, just the author, but both sites don’t appear to have banned truthteller2007 nor have they deleted any of his “blow job queen” comments since my post. In addition, Charlotte 4 Hillary, a loose-knit group of Hillary supporters in Charlotte, has scrubbed every reference to the real identity of truthteller2007/pulchritude from their blog (which he linked to regularly, including in the “Hillary Is Receptive” post).  Apparently another blog “outed” him by posting his full name and email address.  I knew who he was on Friday (Charlotte 4 Hillary left quite a breadcrumb trail), but didn’t feel outing him was warranted regardless of his behavior. Mama done raised me right.

UPDATE (6/6): Since this post is getting a lot of traffic again out of the blue, let’s all take a look at some more recent examples of racism from Hillary’s hard-line supporters and, in one instance, “a top member of Clinton’s organization.”

Posted by Kevin K. on 04/10/08 at 11:25 PM • Permalink

Shockingly disgusting. I just don’t get where some of these Hillary supporters are coming from with their hateful comments towards the Obamas. It’s the kind of idiocy you expect from Republicans but it’s shameful to hear it from people you probably agree with on most issues. I just don’t get what they are on about. To call her all of those names is disgusting. But it’s also insane to me that they take her comment about being proud about America out of context. Such BS.

Comment by Barack Obama 2008 & 2012 on 04/11/08 at 01:56 AM

Hah! Excellent job.
Truthteller2007 is a frequent commenter (And i’m pretty sure has had a number of entries posted) at No Quarter.

I’ve not seen him refer to Michelle as a “BJ queen” at NQ, though there is certainly a very (un)healthy dose of anti Michelle commentary from the lot of them, mostly revolving around similar notions of power hungry golddigger begging for hand outs from the welfare state.

Which is weird considering the majority of NQ’s posters and commenter’s tirelessly squawk about how their the most feministy bunch of feminist feminists that feminism has ever seen.

I love it when the pinch of salt you need to take with these loonies. turns into a fistful.

Great post!

d.

Comment by douglas on 04/11/08 at 02:10 AM

Thanks, d.

Actually, he did call her a blow job queen twice in the comments at No Quarter, but to their credit it looks like they deleted one of the instances (still in Google search but not on the site). I figured I had enough ammo w/out referencing those.

Comment by Kevin K. on 04/11/08 at 02:14 AM

Fucking hypocrite. Play the misogynist card and then call Michelle Obama the worst names in the book. Bastards.

Hey, go to Taylor Marsh. She’s “out of the office” and her “fans” are guest blogging through the weekend.

Comment by Cali Tejano on 04/11/08 at 03:29 AM

That is beyond low and very deranged.  Clinton’s people don’t vet the author’s of posts before they link to them?  That’s pretty silly.  It didn’t take me very long to find truthteller’s post: Michelle Obama: “Give Us Something Here”. That’s a quick read into the psyche of the person behind the post.

It’s also odd how angry and mean he got over what was obviously a joke on her part ("Give us something here").

Comment by Sheila on 04/11/08 at 06:06 AM

What incredibly vile comments. Did you email the HRC campaign and clue them in? Maybe we all should?

Comment by Betty Cracker on 04/11/08 at 09:37 AM

The gentlemen at somethingawful have been investigating the racism of general craziness of Hillary is 44 for months now.

Comment by Spacegirlart on 04/11/08 at 10:21 AM

Hillary is 44: The most effective weapon against Hillary Clinton this campaign cycle

Comment by Andrew on 04/11/08 at 11:17 AM

I love that the Hillaryis44 people constantly harp on the sexism of Obama and his supporters, yet use language like this.

It’s not only offensive, it’s extremely tacky and hypocritical.

The same way in which, if Obama and Clinton’s positions were exactly reversed in this race you likely wouldn’t hear a peep out of them about Florida and Michigan.

The amount of venom and hatred I’ve seen on Hillaryis44 is disgusting, one poster even stating that she wanted to drop a bomb on NBC basically because she disagreed with what the presenter was saying. And again - no one stopping her to say that that kind of talk is just wrong.

Comment by PW on 04/11/08 at 12:51 PM

Thanks for doing the legwork on this, excellent catch. I imagine that the Clinton campaign is going to find themselves in the position of having to rely on more and more of these hateful people as their base of support as the campaign spirals downwards. Not an enviable position.

Hillaryis44.org posters: thanks for your work sinking the Clinton campaign. Your hypocrisy - claiming to be feminists while calling someone a “blowjob queen” - is repulsive. There’s actually a poster there that pulled the Phelps card screaming about “freedom of expression\” in defense of the brillohead comments - their exact quote was “I will NOT be bound by cultural sensitivity that is not mine when discussing different ethnicities”. Republicans in disguise, and they don’t hide the fact that they’ll vote completely against their own interests when they proudly proclaim they’ll pull the level for McCain if Clinton doesn’t get the nod.

Comment by S on 04/11/08 at 02:47 PM

Nice work uncovering this stuff!  I sent you an e-mail on a diff topic, btw.

Comment by Ripley on 04/11/08 at 02:49 PM

Kevin,

Thanks again for your leg work on this. You deserve a cold one, at minimum, for a job well done.

Comment by Cali Tejano on 04/11/08 at 09:28 PM

That guy sounds like a friendly fella’, eh? I’m not sure it’s fair to expect Hillary Clinton’s campaign to vet the comments of every poster they highlight on certain web sites. Even if he is well known in the pro-Hillary online community. That’s a non-starter and not worth anyone’s energy, in my opinion.

What’s somewhat fascinating is the type of vitriol coming from the Clinton camp. To me that seems to be a definite difference between the campaigns. Not that Obama supporters say nothing but nice things about Clinton, but the viciousness is not quite there.

Comment by jack fate on 04/13/08 at 11:05 AM

You will not ever see me use profane language or gutter Obama innuendo, but - the earmarks and Rezko cash about Obama is accurate and the naive Obama supporter is prime for foolish herd mentality. 

For Christ sake - everyone in their right mind wants a NEW direction and change from the current misguided and selfish GOP politics - but anyone foolish enough to trust another politician (Obama), who merely says in manufactured eloquent speech tirades - trust me I am much different… with absolutely no specifics forwarded on their different ideas and leadership ability is absolutely nuts!!! Nuts - Nuts - Nuts !

That is Obama’s campaign in a NUTSHELL… no specifics - because young and naive political new comers hoodwinked by Obama’s grandiose use of words doesn’t know how to differentiate Obama’s facts from political fiction (reality), and don’t even bother looking in non-biased sources. God help the stupidos.

Too bad for America about to go off the cliff again with Obama, as 51 Million stupid Americans did with George Bush.  Way too bad- so sad!

Comment by Dangling Wrangler on 04/13/08 at 02:19 PM

"God help the stupidos.”

That was my favorite Zappa album.

Comment by Kevin K. on 04/13/08 at 03:06 PM

Not certain, but I think your guy paid a visit to Atrios’s place last Saturday. Look for queerrevoltion.

Comment by Not Atrios on 04/13/08 at 08:53 PM

This is from last night at NoQuarter
———————————————————— —
Comment by Blow Job Queen Michelle Hussein Obama | 2008-06-05 02:32:31
Ghetto queen
Look that up at the Urban Dictionary

Comment by Blow Job Queen Michelle Hussein Obama | 2008-06-05 01:37:05
Y’all owe me da Prezidency. My man may have cheated and lied, and that bitch Hillary may have won the vote, but we play by different roolz. Now shut up and line up behind me. This is about me, not you.
——————————————————–

And this is from a site that claims Hillary lost the primary because of all the rampant sexism out there. In addition, you have any number of regular commenters who define themselves as older white women and who are just not going to put up with being treated as second-class citizens anymore.

Nice, huh?

Comment by cbear on 06/05/08 at 06:50 PM

So wait, “blow job queen” is meant perjoratively?

C’mon, that’s a Republican talking.

Comment by borehole on 06/05/08 at 10:17 PM
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